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Tuesday Oct. 20 - Dik Visser Classical Guitarist 8 pm Sub Upper Lounge

Wednesday Oct. 21 - 12:30 PM Noon Hour Concertwith the BOZO BROS. - free “5 PM - Pub open till midnite. Dik Visser,one of the < Thursday Oct: 22 - Fr& SOCHop in Upper Lounge world’s foremost Classical at 8 PM till midnite.

and Guitarist’s, Friday Oct. 23 - WCIA Soccer Tournament all Weekend - Pub opens 5PM will perform in theS.U.B. Cabaret starts at 9 PM “Basketball game UVIC gym 8:30 PM Alumni vs Vikings Upper Lounge Halftime ClAFX vs Students Council

At 8 P.M. Saturday October 23 - Beer and beef barbecue beginning at NOON in Sub.Proceeds to United Red Feather appeal. Monday and Tuesday, --First annual “Bed Races” around ring road at 2 PM. Clubs participating as well as Alumni and teams from October 19 and 20th otheruniversities.

Admission is 50c for students, $1.00 general. --Cartoons will be shown all day beginning at NOON in Clubs Rooms A & B Don’t Miss This Opportunity To --FROSH DANCEAT CRAIGDARROCH COMMONS BLOCK (9 pm tolam) with SCHILOCK. Tickets $3.50 couple. Hear This Highly Talented Artist Thursday, Oct6ber 15, 1970 Page 3-

,. w Gestalt.workshops planned for course

= council helps pay

AMs Expeditionary Forces landing off Godthaab

UVic force fares well in battle

. .Upon learning that thereis still Greenland today issued a com- ‘ General Armour has just gone an interest in the Greenland war munique from his headquarters north to ths US.air base at Thule on campus, our Special in a bar at the Godthaab docks. with the intention of spiking the c “War is damn good fun,” he Coke machines there with thirty- Correspondent flew to Greenland grinned, fondling hisMauser, overproof rum. We hope to incite to interviewGeneral John Kirkbysaidprofessional “By using a variety of “especially with the Tuborg beer the resultingdrunkards to use therapists from Cowichan Lake techniquesincluding U.S. firepower to take over the who have been trained by the-late psychodrama, the therapist feeds northwestern coast andthen to do Dr. F.S. Perk of the Gestalt back to the person howhe is something typically silly like Institute of Canada will be at the m,”he said. fighting a glacier andlosing.This workshops. will leave the resulting territory He said onetherapist will work Kirkby said videotapes of the an easy preyfor AMs forces. I’m with a group of 15 students in sessians will be available for the peoplewhose financialsupport six months without king a shot. staying h-ere to make the local each of four workshops. He said executivecouncil,the The flag now flies over women into staunchallies of we rely on. AMs the therapists will ask for $30 a representativeassembly and 800,OOO square milesof prime ice ours. They’re figuring that if the personfor their fees. Sixty anyane else interested in viewing and snow.” rest of the AMs soldiery is as students, he said, would pay a them. Godthaab.GREENLAND Upon being asked to describe good as what they’ve been getting total of $1,800. He called the sessions an (SHU) General John Bentley of the AMs flag, Bentley ordered recently, that they’ll welcome the “Students will pay a part of “experiment in radical education theUvic AMS forces in anotherTuborg and said, “It boys with open arms...which that but not all. We are applying for the individual.” varies from place to place and reminds me ...how’s the on- for the balance from the student “lhe student council and R.A. timeto time but right now it campus recruitingcoming? We council,” he said. will view this to see if it is wor- ELECTION portrays a wrung-out dishrag need all the men we can get for Kirkby said the workshops will thwhile to set this up on a per- dripping onto an expanded SUB. the big uprising inwhich we’ll be about 15 hours spaced evenly manent basis,” he said. Kirkby We feel that this isan appropriate takeover the west coasthere. over three days on a weekend. said he is looking for a casual RESULTS symbol and hope that the AMS in Send some of those campus He described gestalt therapyas informal setting on campus for Angie Esposito overanthe Victoria will soon adopt it as its revolutionaries if you can find an awareness therapy. the workshops. opposition to lead the polls in the own.” any; this1give ’emsomething to “The object of this therapy is He told the executive council he Senateelection last week. General Bentley wm’ton to gettheir teeth into. Today for the person to become aware of Esposito’s victory was never in describefuture plans for the Greenland, tomorrow theworld ! his existence in the world. That is hopes to see the workshops eventually become a permanent doubtonce ballot counting AMS expenditionaryforces: The AMs will justify itself yet.” surprisingly difficult to achieve. started. He garnered a total of 551 “It is possible that in course institution on the campus. the votes, in the low (18 percent) of participatingthesein Studentcouncil president turnout election. workshops, studentsmay havean Robat McDougall was appointed The contest for the second FREE experience of freedom. mat by comcil to be limn between Senate seat was hard fought all experience is unforgettable. the council and workshops. the way. Three close running candidatesresulted in several ballotrecounts, with victory SOC HOP finally going to Dave Harris with Education Faculty 296 .votes,one more than Al 8 P.M. THURSDAY OCT. 22 Murcloch and 16 more than Keith Gibbj. confused about rule changes Results of the Representative SUB UPPER LOUNGE Assemblyelections are as Proposed rule changes in theFaculty of Educationhave follows : prospectiveteachers worrying, and straight answers fromthe 1st Year Rep. Assembly: 1. Peter Faculty are hard to come by. Cruise 423 (X),2. Cathie McGhee The not yet official changes require students planning to transfer 420 (:X),3. Russ Keziere 385 (X), into the Education Faculty theon secondary program,two areas of 4. Laura Anderson 369 (X),5. Sports menu: competence (a mapr and a minor) plus Geography 101, a Fine Dale Kuster 307. Arts course,two English courses, a Math courseanda lab science. 2nd Year Rep. Assembly: 1. Ron Not fulfilling these requirements, one student decided to go into Usher 442 (X), 2. Alastair Friday, Oct. 16: elementary education instead.For this, he needed to have seventy Murcloch 420 (X),3. JeffArndt Hockey - Vikings vs. Stockers, Esquimalt, 8 p.m. hours teaching experience so he went to see an advisor in the 357 (X),4. Brad Zink 345 (X),5. Faculty. The student was advisedthat ne could teach three or four Tye Lewis 319 (X), 6. Roger hours a week during the year to pick up the seventy hours ex- Painter 291 (X),7. TimKilgore Saturday, Oct. 17: perience The next person he talked to was the man supervising 270. Soccer - Norsemen vs. student teaching.He informed the student thatin order to fulfil the 3rd & 4th Year R. Assembly: 1. teaching hours requirement, he must teach at Christmas or for Lynne Brassington 497 (X),2. Saanich Pen., Heywood, 2:15. three weeks in May. Three or four hours a week is not acceptable. Chuck Ode11 383 (X),3. Mike Rugby - BCIT vs. Jutes, Vancouver, 1 :15 The supervisor went on to say that the student might not be able Donison 376 (X),4. Pat Dunae 373 (X),5. Ian Broome 339 (X),6. to be placed in a school in May, since priority goes to those who are Cross B.C. team Vancouver. already in the Education Faculty.This is the double bind situation Jim Haskell 297 (X),7. Trevor Country - trials, that exists for many students in their fiial year before taking Barnacle 284. Rugby - Norsemen vs Vikings, Gordon Head, 2:30. teacher training. Acclamations:Grade Class Presrdent - Tom Newell. Ac- Sunday, Oct. 18: tivities Coordinator- Bert Weiss. Soccer - Roadrunners Vikings, Rose IntramuralSports Chairman - vs. 2:15. MARTLET STAFF LindaFlavelle. Campus No meeting tonight. Development Chairman - Nigel Note - Women’s Field Hockey team travels bo Banks. First year rep. - Michael Calgary for WCIAA tournament. . We’ll meet Monday 7.30 p.m. instead. Eckford (% term). year rep. - I 1Cindy Brand (1% term). Page 4, Thursday, October 15, 1970

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There is a place for every man, and every man “Right then, we draft the rugby team and sent them on a full in his place. scale snowball attack on the U.S.A.F. Base at ’Ihule ... Draft - Ken Ito the studentunion and send them on someother similar suicide mission ...” On the other hand:

Mhe.1 shiL 1s worth something, most political candidates will be born without rectum. - Nosmo King power to make decisions of real Kraft cheesed effect. Severalthings have been Distressed Oncc again the Martlet editorial board proves itself mentionedto gradstudents as Dear Sir: Dear Sir: clairvoyant. Out of eighteen people elected to positions ‘realissues’ concern: G.S.S. Congratulations to Dave Harris of I found Mr. Crizzle’s letter on council andSenate last week, thk boardstated obligatory membership and fees, andAngie Esposito on their (Oct. 8) distressing. I should like interdepartmentalcom- unilaterally before the ballots were counted who would acquisition of the twolonely ask Mr. Crizzle if he consifers munication,and two reading to win. We picked sixteen of the eighteen, were one vote studentsenate seats. After the himself “some kind of self- in the library. away from picking a seventeenth,and missed the election Mr. Esposito revealed rooms the appointedlegislator of public that he read the University’s Act Theseissues seem trivial eighteenth hy sixteenvotes. Praiseworthy political compared with actions taken on morality”. punditry, without a doubt. and discovered the Catch 22 section on Senate Membership othercampuses: organizing co- There isno reason in the world which more or less states thatfor operative bookstores, initiating a why those studentswho rejoice in free universitysystem with Of course, with usually only seven candidates for six every additional member of the obscenityshould feel free to Senate there must be a member creditcourses formed by impose it on therest of the seats, or five for four seats, it’s hard to go wrong. The electedfrom Joint Faculties to students themselves, and freeing student body. They are perfectly odds become betterwhen you figure thatonly about 900 help balance up to status quo. I dormitory residentsfrom free,in the nameof “freedom” to people will vote on any given day. (If election day had wonder what this discovery will unreasonableregulations, to find allthe printed obscenity they not beenraining, the turnout would have beeneven do toMr. Esposito’s resolve to get mention a few. A student senate want -on newstands, where they poorer,since students would have no doubtgone morestudent membership on can put together things the will look for it anyway. Senate. students want more effectively; They are not free, and I hope yachting or golfing rather than put up with the misan- the action may only be a well- thropes who regularly do theirthing by sitting on polls). Anyway, Mr. Esposito has a they never will be, to deface with plan to try and set up a Student written proposalwith details graffitithe buildingswe all Senator’s office in the SUB, and worked out in advance which is pay to maintain, to use daily on thisI think I couldsupport subsequentlyvetoed by the ourselves, to look at andap- It seems evident that the nineteen per cent turnout him. Thequestion is where to university president -however,in preciate (1 do appreciate them was only reached. because of guilt feelings thrust uDon the Senators? thesecases action maystill be with theircleanliness and un- students huddling inside the buildings to get out of the One possible suggestion is that taken. If a bill is passed in a scarred paint, thank you). student senate with a large I rain by the pollsitters, who had nothing better to do. they share the AMS president’s office, since the goodRobert is student body backing,recon- Out of cowardice I have until seldom there. Another one would sideration of the veto can be now merited aposition among the According to a recent Martlet survey, most students be to let the Senators setup shop strongly urged or forced. unresisting,silent majority. intuitively grasp the futilityof voting forcandidates who in studentthe council’s As things stand now, any effort Right now 1 stand to denounce have neverso much as read the daily newspaperwithout recreational area. made if feeble and divided. The anyvariety of thismoral and moving their lips. But it’s hard to stand near a poll One thing is certain and that is resultisvirtually no student aesthetic uglification. Bringon that the AMS should give these power . the paint pails! without voting whenyou constantly heardyourself being Jacquelyn Nelson, June Field badgeredbythe fellow travellers of the AMS budding senators a ram pasture from which they can proclaimthe Psychology. Arts 4. bureaucracy who garner browniepoints by baiting doctrines theywill doubtlessly innocent students with taunts of “apathetic Education acquire as they find their ways student”. through the Senate labyrinth. Maybethe Martlet could provide them withtwo balls of Badger - (noun) Grey coated strong jawed nocturnal stringeach for the purpose of hibernatingplantigrade quadruped between weasels linking up thepresent un- and bears. connection between students and a0 DictionaryConciseOxford- the the administration. AVE, R. Kraft Speaking of badgers, Angie Espositiogot himself Ex-student elected by a thunderous majority, thereby assuring a Senator. little bit of colour at Senate meetings, unless he loses either his voice or his gall. Angela,as the Martlet staff fondly refers to him, is a Gaglardi like figure of the Divide and down-home sort who pulls no punches when waffling in debate. conqwer Dear Sir: Apathy at UVic?Why, when The otherelected candidate is DaveHarris, best most campuses are in turmoil? known forhis portrayal of a lechein Joan Mason- If apathyis a problem, the Hurley’s stage production ‘Playand By Play”. Daveis difference may be that we don’t certain to ease into his roleon Senate with a minimum haveseparate,a autonomous of rehearsal. He’ll be studying under a master. student governing body. with the Thursday,October 15, 1970 Page 5

There anis order in the himself, as an inevitable part of universe which some call chaos his manhood, to be killed and to and of whichscientists are die innocent, when a word would beginningto understand the have set him free and a gesture simpler parts. This order,pat- crushed the world like a ball of tern, fitness, rightness is what I paper. And yet his greatestcross as a Christiancall God.Man - thirtyyears of existential being neither of matter nor humanness - was over, and the purely of this order of matter, is final pain but a release. Having confused and unfree -to be free realized his fuller experience of he must become natural, a part of my problems, I comprehended this order in unity with God. At mysmallness. In laughing I thispoint he becomes per- cried. manently a part of the wind and It is impossible to justify Christ the stars, companion to the through logic - logic is a tool of The beauty of the seashell and the man which should be used but not sound of the surf. allowed to limit. Havingbeen Real heavy Christianity is like myself a die-hard skeptic until SUBterranean Talk a continuous good trip.- I freaked my conversion, I know your out the other night and found the reaction - and I realize that I samerelease with no artificial cannot quote scriptureat you Talk talk talk talk talk is all that evergoes on in the SUB. Talk FRIAR’S aidsand no withdrawal. After andexpect you suddenly to alk talk talk talk talk talk talk it’s all a question (they say) of walking up Pandorastreet believe me. I can only relate to priorities”: community involvement or SUB expansion ... and so trying, because I was unusually your my experiences and my alk talk talktalk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talkso on and lonely, to fit myself into the night convictions, andpray thatthe nd so for th... world. I sat down under a tree in truth will come to you. Christ is Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talktalktalk talk Mavis Green because itwas right unprovable - you either know Ilk! Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talktalky talk talk talk . CORNER todo. I had complaining to a him or you just don’t understand. 3lk. Talk talk talk! friend I call Jesus that my life Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk will somebody please demon- was hard because I could never The Jesus People’sArmy trate some leadership ability and show these talkative students I seem to be close to people or to knows where it’s at - unity with ow they can have SUB expansion and community involvement. the Order - never a participator, God’s order and true freedom - how them how they can do all the things students want to do and always anobserver. Instead of through the love and example of et away from all this rhetorical hocus-pocus about “priorities”. telling methat I was lucky to Christ. Remember a few parts of ‘alk, talk talk, this means you R.A. have such blessings as I had, he my experience - Just, Jesus is +++ touched me with his sorrow and not a stuffy person and would be compassion. uncomfortable in .many I saw a people some years ago “modern”churches. He iswas %e Ghost of Christmas to Come who had lost the way tobe free. In the kind of man who laughs their vague social memories of deeply and fully, really enjoys At midnight, 01’ Papa Wright strode out totime machine perched being part of the Order of life in the heights of joy and the lvisibly on the central quad at UVic. world, they were, in theirdark depths of sadness, and knows all Cough, sputter, ppchug, snort, snark, went the spinning interio- Robert moments,alone and unhappy. the moments of-tender sensibility ynamic revulsion motors as he pressed the tendava start button. Thenthere came tothem and busy abstraction. He was I is “Timeis out of joint,”mused he, seating himselfin the someone who knew fully - as no one of us - a worker and a lechanism’s cockpit. man can ever know - whatit scholar - real. He knows our “My work is done; I’ve got them all Jousting with the Corollaries meant to be free in God. And be half-free natures and our year- f Ambiguity, and student political progress has been successfully consented tobe chained in a ningsto fuse into unity and obbled,” thought the clever 01’ philosopher, a post-socratic smile McDOUGALL man’s body for thirtyyears to happiness. Second, remember ierging with the littlecrowsfeet around his eyes. teach us the way back to unity. that he is around you at all times HUFF, PUFF, a cloud of magical blue smoke curled up around Knowing with great longing that - he’s theorder in the entire is Formosan sandals, and a flash of violetlight momentarily he couldfree himself at any time, world and not just the pattern in trobed forth into the cool Victorian atmosphere. he stayed on - bondsbeing so the stained glass- and you don’t 01’ Papa Wright silently Merged with the Ages from whence he much more agonizingthen our have to try to find him. Only be ame, and so, too, the Wic Rebellion ...bye, bye, Sweet Prince, the own for the full certain and im- willing not to disbelieve, and he loble Bird of the Pear Tree has won. mediate memory of freedom. will come to where you are and Ducunt fata volentem, nolentem trahunt. And then the ultimaterejection make you part of the sky and the (Seefinal paragraph in Spengler’s Decline of the West) of cloying rationality - allowing sea.

The photography is excellent, the edit.ing is tight and sharp, the downward mobility as a kind of inverse snobbery and play at getting script is human, the actingflawless, is and it all addsup to a polished, close to the real “people.” competent production. In that respectFive Easy Pieces is a brilliant success.The So what else canyou expect from a commercially produced film in characterization andacting by Jack Nicholsonin thecentralrole 1970. establish a perfect representationof a prize Grade-A asshole. Five Easy Pieces, thefilm that was partially shot in Victoria, is all There he is, for you to identify with. He’s sensitive (all musicians FIVE of the above. It’s a smooth, wellcrafted movie. are sensitive),intelligent (all classical musicians are intelligent ), and That alone doesn’t make it worth the kind of rave reviews it has been has thebearing of breeding (all classical pianists are wellhred). But getting. Technical excellence is an expected standard these daysin all he’s givenup that intellectual academic horse-shit (noargument but the best of the pseudo-underground commercial flicks. there) to become a real person who works with his hands, drinks beer When you start measuring by yardsticks other than technical ex- and fucks a lot. EASY The de-humanized, once-removed self. cellence, Five Easy Piecesdoesn’t slack up to anything more than a comfortable, well-done film. And the movie does a truly classy jobof establishingall that. If only And in some ways it stinks. the movie did it with a sense of humour it would move from being a Dead, and well-beaten, horse tends to make one gag a little after good movieto a truly extraordinary movie. Instead it takes itself with about the fourth serving. all thedeadly seriousnessofa white liberal guilt complex. P I ECES Local critic Denis Poelzer described the film as being the equivalent The message is the same one again. Downward mobility is where of “a guy dropping in for a coffee and telling you about the last six it’s at. Sameold trip as the movies of the mirtiesexcept in reverse. months of his life. And you can get behind it you know, because parts Upward mobility. Horizontal mobility. Status quo-ism. of it are pretty funny. Downward mobility meansstarting somewhere, anywhere, and “That trip about the toast,man, thathappens to me every day. And winding up worse off than when you started. Martyred --doesit really those two dykesthat hepicks up - can’t yo~ujust see the guy drinking matter by whom, red-necks, society or yourself. The oppositeof guilt 8 his coffee andsaying: ‘Yeah, wel. there I was with thesetwo is a martyr complex. dykes... ’ .” And the message is always the same. Inside your head or outside - review But when you’ve had to listen to the same story threeother times in your head -- it’s all shit. the lastcoupleof months it starts to pill a bit. It’s like being completely bummed out thinking the atomic war First we had Wyatt in Easy Rider -- a message from the freak might happen any minute and confiding in somebody who replies: camp -- hip millionaire to dead bike bum in five easy plastic steps. A “Man,youthinkit’sgoingtobethateasy.” man who went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere None of this is to say Five EasyPieces isn’t a well-done movie. It is because he was carrying it around in t:ishead all the time. superbly done, sort of like icing ona cake that’s been eaten three times The word from the world of the slightly retarded and emotionally already. crippled came to us from the moutt: of that babe among Midnight you canonly dress up a cliche in so many ways. Cowboys, Joe Buck. “I meen, if someone had told me aheadof time it was just about a AndthenthetwogreasygoofsinGoin’DowntheRoad... classical pianist who screwed up his family by going to be an oil Steve Hume The variations on the themeget thin and fail to satisfy after you’ve worker I most likely wouldn’t have seen it. worn them for awhile. “But I have paidfour bucks to see a lot worse,” says Poelzer. Unfortunately, however glib and slick a production it is, Five Easy Many people willprobably attend to see if they get a breath-taking Pieces is just another of those variations. view of the Empress.Be warned, no such luck. TheHillside Autocourt, Oh, there are differences to be sure, for instance a new class to the Mill Bay ferry and a couple of local eccentrics who are perfectly exploit -- the bleeding heart white liberal intellectuals who practice cast in their roles are all you‘ll get a look at. 'L

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HREE WITCHES gathered round a fire.stirring cauldron. fourth arrives Scout Sisters, Sisters. comradely.clan, - fT Come close together in a band. AII - Double, Double toil and trouble For you knowit's our tradition I Fires bum and cauldron bubble To spread false rumorwithout inhibition. Hecate - What news. mygloating friend. The witches, we witches have struck again, . . The word is out, i know not where, Hurled invectives, cast magic charms. But its not our lot to really care. Pursue our taskof disruptive harms. A plot's afoot,but I'm not sure. But never mind if our source's impure All We'll bring to bear for all to see, Someone told sister. what's-her-name. An ancient. long feared prophecy. If I seem vague, please hold your blame. That therewill come some timeto pass Anyway, don't mind a lot. A world of freedom without class. If there's no basis to the plot, But ages now's been misconstrued, They say in all mythology, Until twas rescued by us ragged few Rumor is woman, so let it be. Cause men. those beasts. have madeconfused And so I think.. . . Thc real basis why we're abused. They've long pretended that the basis of class Hecate Sister, Sistercut the shit, Isn't determined by what's-up-front-of-your-ass Before we hurl you in the pit, Rut we through darkly visions see. Can't you see we pant and prate, Through all their logical chicanery. For news of gossip. our favorate plate, rhat Man. yes Man. the titless creep. So cruel of you to keep us waiting, Has made us sow. while they do reap. Instead of our curiosity sating. The evidence. the truthis all aroundus. That theirtyranny is boundless. Scout Okay, alrightI'll make mypoint For don't thev like us on our backs. Although my days talking has sored my joint. When thev make theirlewd attacks, It seemstwo men, those fiendish beings. What greater mark of our oppression Attempt ourfine nonsense to glean, Than to be forced in the bottom position. Some spark of truth. some iirmfoundation But we through revolutionary insight. To seek the basis of womens liberation. Haw raIscvJ a call to relentless fight. Our claim thatour whole lotshits To free oursclvcs from chains andfetters. Though it's getting better sincewe freed ourtits. Wc want equality. or bvtter. And though it seems thaton my caper. I haven't really read the paper 2nd witch thbetter still. since we are quite hip. Well rest assured itcan do muchharm. That often like this his member cloth slip, This prying and polking intoour magic charm, Expose the grand vacuity 3rd witch So better seek a radical solution Of our newly-founded society. Take our pleasurein involution, Hecate We mustprepare for another bout, All b'OHCI.: IIIM TO LIE UPONHIS BACK We have to movebefore its out, SIT ON HIS THING WHILEIN THE WRACH! But tell me Sister,for we should know, The names of these two alleyed foe. Hecate Oh brilliant.brilliant my fine witches A great insight you cackling bitches. scout You knowthem well my frowing hag, Only a woman's intuition For battlewith them's no new bag, Could make such work of that false tradition One's straight andleu!, and accent funny, Historical Materialism. that c-hauvinlstplot. One short and fat though he's lost his tummy. To keep us bmnd to our sad lot. In fact you should remember well, The GPA that's gone to hell, Rut what. my hags. may we expect, Through our most recent machinations: If the tyrantman. does not accept. Our public letters and imputations, Our special plan Cor revolution Your noble plot we'll not forget The only wav to resolution Though one responded with a threat. Of our oppressed historic state You sitting back well out of sight. When wego to takea mate Engineered a dreadful fight, And though you held the guiding whip 1 st witch Oh hear not. fear not. tis no matter. T'was not your throat thathe ded grip. For we haw magic words to batter, Ilestrov their brains. theirlogic fine. Hecate Alas alas I knowhim well Hex them all with verbal sign. Ancient grudges in my heart did swell They cower. cringe.and won't resist For times ago. anorgan new. Our favorite slogan. "malt chauvlnist". That journal ot his. I tried to screw. He wanted it to have direction. 2nd witch Surclv such ;I magic c.hanl. To rouse us all to insurrection. If wc.shout. ;tnd rave and rant. Falsc plan that goal of communism. Will bring to Irult our salcl position I did opt for pluralism. rnovcmcnt of nlost Intvnsc. stdilion. I fought quite hard and tried like hell. To fuck him good. but it didn't work so well. 3rd wltch For those stup~dspcvlbound rlitm. 1 thought at firs! we could out yell him. Have long stood speechlrss bt4orv the, hen. Khen that failed we tried to expel1 him. h'ho cut through rcason in br;rvcu ;~ssault. Hut the mother-fucker could not be moved. Wlth baragcof words she woulcl no1 h;1uIt :I formidable opponent he certainlv proved. J 1 st witch And if loud enough our accusations. Far be it for me to admit I'man ass. Well bring their brains to quiet scdation. .'Revenge'' is my motto. not "let it pass". That we might move without a httch 1 thought I bided well my time. Bring off our coup without a stitch. I'm so fuckin mad its hard to rime. Women's lib has given fine excuse 2nd witch And when. or if. thev rouse from stupor To pay him back forhis just abuse. And see they've made a real blooper. He's such an easy target these days. We will by them. be well assured. He's kind of crude not refined in his ways. Achieved our goal. be quite secured. Wreck confusion all throughout the land. You know he is of lower birth. And bring to victory this ragged band. Those foreign kind are not of much worth. His hair is short, his dress is neat. 3rd witch And even if the state survives. He hasn't Fatted around his seat. So what. we want to do our jive. And so its easy to sayforthright . A vicious plot that communism. ?\lthough the evidence is out of sight We prefer our anarchism. He's an academic on the make Shout and yell and do ourthing Though of course its we that have the cake. Amidst destruction. have ourfling. As for theothgr. I helped to plot. k MI Too long our mindless babbling To put himin his present loL Has been repressed from rattling That wife of his though I never trusted None other thai~ dinnerthe table, She was toopretty, and her brain encrusted. But out in Public we were not able, With all that bourgeois chauvinist shit. We'll wrech revenge on the brutishheal She crossed her legswhen she did sit, Who would not let us squawk and squeal. Her eyes made up, her dress to bright. Beyond the confines of our home But still I think I provoked a fight. But nowalas thestreets we roam. Twixt him andher, by saying bold. How such an alliance she could uphold, 1st witch Holdon my comrades, I see a bitch, I said she couldn't be consecrated Here comes another sister"itch Among the truly liberated. Back from patrol, with perked ears, I said I spoke for me and twig Let's question her towhat she hears. We thought her spouse a chauvinist pig.

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I’m not quite surewhat intervened, Between the splitand my venting spleen, But overjoyed1 was to hear, That won sometrouble did appear.

1st I witch Oh eneineer of subtle trouble Oh mahelous hag with bleeched stubble, Your cunning work behindthe scenes, Your feminine ways we all must glean, Gossip, cackle, rumor spread Great inventions of the womans head. But tis true thatwe did make A rather unexpected mistake For now it seemsthey both agree. That assholes one and all are we. . Hecate Pay no mindto minor losses We seek our friendsin other sources Pray upon trivial frustrations Play up the faultsof particular situations , 1 Complexities is not our lot I We make short shriftof the Gordian knot Like Alexander, no allusion intended With outstretched arm, his swordextended The intricate patternhe did cleave Rather than try thepuzzle to unweave So with us.concatenations Our bullshit words, world mutilated We cut in two for all to see The real foundation of our misery Ym and Yand, profound insight Though dialectics we doslight Makes no difference tis trueor nay We’ve got a movement underway We almost managed with fine success To fuck up the strike afterfall recess Talking, yaking for three straightweeks This band did little in the streets And if a man got up to speak To movea crowd to fighting peak We eyed him well our ears were open And measured everyword twas spoken And if suspicion crossed our minds That he was secretly of their kind We screamed and yelled, his grave would dig Calling him “male chauvinist pig”.

All Oh noble words, oh glorious deeds, These fine achievementsour courage feeds. Who cares for long-range dry solutions We must havefun in Revolutions And what’s more fun, what makes us squeal, Than chance some scandal to reveal, A lovers quarrel,a month that’s missed The public exposure of a chauvinist. It gives great pleasure to keep record, When in our meetings when we get bored, * With all this talk of bourgeoisie, - The other men our sisters see: “He’sa bastard,” “he’s quite cute” “I hear he is quitebig to boot” ‘This one fucks but oncea week” “That one wears his BVD’s to sleep” We also talk of last fashions And try to squelch gross deviations Keep the standardsof our dress And all bright colors we do repress We will berate a fickle sister. Whose mode of dress portends disaster You know it is the custome here To come to meetings sans brassiere.

Wlrches begm to dance round fire. yelling chauvmst pig and other tnvecltves Scene ends

Epdogue Mornmg Brother and slster stop by spot. many footprmts,amulets. broken stfcks and dytng embers

Well my comrade what’s this we find Fading fossils of a dying kind Witches tracks, though now quite faded The big commotion is now abated Let’s be thankful it ended soon It was a trend that portended ruin The realissues for transcended The comicantics they intended NOT ONLY are women’s liberationists subject to attack from men Family burdens quite a lot . who prefer the traditional male-female roles be maintained. but they But hardly, I think, a chauvinist plot are also subject to attack from their fellows on theleft, often mem- The bourgeoisie were glad to see bers of the same political organizations. This s,3tire was written af- Conflicts anddisunity ter just such an altercation, when female co;workers with the radi- If all therage and loud invective cal publication Tdos were criticised for their piart in spending more Leave the beast quite undissected Then givenpiecemeal particulardemands timecreating differences between sexes than in eliminatjng atti. Leave ruling class with quite free hands ficial sex barriers to ‘class consioapnps&:.d,Te&s’# a p&#ie$ The familyplan can be replaced in Leave corporate pockets with fortunes laced .^ Free women from domestic work Hide the trapthat’s in the work Pit cheap labor,under grave condition For an economy in eronic stagnation Bring competition in the land Between the woman and workingman. Old antics, pranks in newdisguise Please don’t really be surprised That when youtake your bullshit stance Like any fuck you’llget kicked inthe pants. Page 8, Thursday, October 15, 1970

Survival Day demonstration planned

Day Committee, consisting of supporting the proposed marine marine park. FisheriesMinister, representativesfrom various park willbee circulated. In ad- Jack Davis has stated that he Victoria environmental groups dition tothis, letters have already would definitely veto any attempt under the chairmanship of Mrs. been sent to all the MLAs, asking at oil drilling in Georgia Strait. Kathleen Ruff, of the Voice of their view of the issue. Most of the opposition seems to Women. Mrs. Ruff hopesthat the comefrom the provincial As a matter of convenience the demonstration will be successful government. Oil companiesare demonstration willbe held on in forcing the governmentto take alreadymaking explorations in Sat., Oct. 17 instead of national a definite stand. Georgia Strait. Survival Day set for Oct. 14. The federal and B.C. provincial Participants,carrying placards governments are still quarrelling B.C. minesminister, Richter, and dressed in various costumes overthe jurisdiction of the statedthat theprovincial depicting the various aspects of straits. The matter was taken to government will decide whether pollution will marchfrom Cen- the Supreme Court, which ruled or not to allow oil drilling in the tennial Square to the Parliament in favour of the federal govern- strait "when thetime comes". Buildings. ment.The B.C. government Yet in a way the B.C. government LlZA RATES OSCAR!'? Kurt Horn, leader of the SPEC refuses to accept the verdict. has already given its go-ahead. -Ann Gu.wino, DAILY NECVS group in Duncanand other On the whole, thefederal After accepting the money that speakers willbe heard by the governmenthas reacted fairly the oil companiesmust pay Parliament Buildings. Petitions favourably to theproposed before they are permitted to "NOT TO BE MISSED!'@ undertakeexplorations, the --William Wolf, CI!E M.4GAZlNE government wouldbe acting in McPHERSON LIBRARY bad faith to refuse the companies "HUMOROUS, AFFECTIONATE, to drill should oil be found. Richterconsiders marinea ENDEARING AND YENDER !" park to be "useless", anda "METROMEDIA RADIO NEWS ANNOUNCEMENTS benefit only to scuba diver dealers by increasingtheir "LIZA MINNELLI, BRILklANT !" business. He claimsthat the "Lis Smith, COSMQPOLITAN greatest pollutant in thearea, OCTOBER 1970 raw sewage, is already being taken care ofby the provincial EXTENSION - LISTENING ROOM SERVICE HOURS government. In a recent symposiumat UBC, Monday - Thursday 7p.m. - 10p.m. Jacques Cousteau, a well-known oceanographer,stated that the NEW REGULATION industries along the coasts of the Strait of Georgia are among the A non-refundable peanlty charge will be added to greatest pollutors in the world. each overdue replacement charge. Thepulp and paper mills, especially,dump atremendous amount of toxic matter into the water. If a marine park is not established and things continue as now, there will be no wildlife left in Georgia Strait u) years from now. Cousteau envisons a Georgia HOMECOMING DANCE Strait marine park as the first of a chain of marineparks ex- AN OTTO PREMlNOeR FILM tending down the western coast of theNorth Americancon- tinent. CRAIGDARROCHCOLLEGE He considers the preservation kza mmnelliken howard of marine life to be a critical issue. 30percent of all sea life has robert moore iames coco been destroyed in the last 20 thompson years. Lay fred Williamson SAT.OCT. 24 - 9P.M. - 1 I1M. If the proposal of a marine park $he seegerWhh,oid devil time is accepted,it will be established on the same lines as the national parks: for recreational purposes and to preserve the wildlife. $3.50 Couple. Semi-Formal. Bar Provided. Everyone in favour of a marine park in Georgia Strait is urged by Tickets on Sale Monday SUB Office. Mrs. Ruff to come to Centennial Square on Sat.,Oct. 17 at 2 o.clockand participate in the rally. Thursday,October 15, 1970 Page 9

by Bob Coulter

Iburday. 013.15 Sunday, Oct. 1) Wedmeday, oet. 21 GRAD CLASS “FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS’ DEBATING CLUB General meet- of the entire 1871 grad class “For Whom the Bell Tolls” will be &own in The DebatingClcb meets in Cle. 108 at 1230. in EUiot at 12.30. bileclUat8pm.ThefllmstaraGeryCooper and Ingrid Bergman and is adopted from the OUTDOORS CLUB ENVIRONMENT 100 AND BIOIAGY novel by Em& Hemhgway. Tickets at 1Oc The Outdoors Clubmeets in Clel106 at 12:SO. DEPARTMENT SEMINAR for College members and Soe for others. Get C r. Walter Bogan, Digrtor for Sdantidr’ your tickets atthe Lensdowne General PUB Institute for Public Information, New York, Office. The ]Pub opens tonite at 5:00. speals on “Crisb in the hvironment: The Social responsibility of Scientists”. Monday. Oct. 19 NOON HOUR CONCERT ONTOLOGY CLUB CLASSICAL GUITAR Born Bros. play in the Sub Upper Lounge at TheOntology club presents “Have you Dik Bisser plays Classical Guitar in the Sub 12:30. Heard the Good News yet?” Mac 108,12:30. Upper hunge at 8 p.m. UVic students 5Oc, Tape and Discussion. General $1.00. CZECH STRING QUARTET The Czech String Quartet play in Mac. 144 at le I SATURDAY My.oet. CHEM. SEMINAR 8 p.m. SAILING CLUB W. Razzell. from MacMillanBloedel. The Sailing Club meets in Cle. 108 at 12:30. Teah on “Chemistry of Pulp and Paper Discuesion of crew for the regatta. Roc-”. in Ell. 160 at 4:30 p.m. Ihur:gday. 013.22 SOC HOP NITES PLAYBOY BUNNY BASH ’Ihere is a Free Soc Hop in The Sub Upper w/ The ’8th Annual Playboy Bunny Bash “WHO’S AFRAID OF Y,RGINIA WOLF?” Lounge at 8 p.m. presented by Craigdarroch Collegewith ‘Who’s Afraid of VirgmlaWolf?” will be “Shylock” will be held tonite in the Com- shown in Mac. 144 at 7% for the benefit of mons Block from 930 to 1:00 p.m. Semi- first year English students. Students 5Oc formal, (2.00 per couple. Licensed. drinks 5 others $1.00. for (2.00. CAREERS IN CRISIS MUSIC? AT NOON RoderickHaig-Brown, known con- Lea lhimnig presents a Jazz concert at 1230 servationist and chancellor of the university, FENCING CLUB in Mac. 144. will give the second talk in the “Careers in The IJVic Fencing Club meets every Wed- Crisis” series. He will speak on careers in nesday, 8.00 p.m. in P. Hut. No previous ICE HOCKEY “Conservation and Pollution” at 1230in Ell. experience needed in order to pin. I The Vikings vs. stackersat 8:00 p.m. at )~JAMPOTV( 167. Esquimalt Arena. Poll attendent required for Oct. 28, 1970 PUB Referendum Please leave name at Sub CONCERT The Pub starts tonite at 5:00. Office. State name, time, and poll location, There Ir 8 FJLEE EDllca with Frendlyn (SUY, Library, Commons Block) Pace at nrm in the Sub Upper Lounge. Tucrd.y. w. 20 THE JUDAIC TRADITION Essays typed 25c page. Paper supplied. PUB Liberal Arts 305 and the Department of Eli& Phone 477-4403. The Pub starts at 5:00. invite you to a lecture by Dr. M. Steinburg (U.B.C.) in Ell. 168 at 1:30. Mythof Man Room & board for 2 girls. Single rooms, Saturday. Oct. 17. series No. 6. walking distance $95. Available Oct. 14. WIC AUTO SPORTS CLUB Phone 477- The WASC presents the “Sasquatch Night CHINESE CLUB Rallye” today. The rallye is about 100 miles The Chinese Club meets in the Lansdowne FOR SALE and 3% hours long. Flegistration is at 6:30 Semlnar Room at 12:30 p.m. Complete set of golf clubs, plus cart and bag. SUB LOWER LOUNGE - ONLY 50‘ p.m. in Elliot Lbt No. 1: start is 7:30 p.m. Also tmwling ball and bag. Will see1 or trade Entry fee is $1.50 for members and $2.00 for for portable typewriter ingood condition. non members. No special equipment is BIOLOGY CLUB Ph. 658-5789. needed, just bring a watch and a plastic TheBiology Club presents “WestCoast Coawna for sealing the watch. Indian Ethnobotany” byNancy Tumer in 1956AustinA90;6cylinder.Oneowner. $150. Ell. 167 at 1230. Ph. evenings 382-6429. MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN DikVISSER Mandrake the Magician gives one show in 1968 farout together M.G.Midget red, 1 Anyone Interested in the SubUpper Lounge at 8:30 p.m. Ad- Dik Disser plays Classical Guitar in the Sub owner car, phone 592-7664 betwe& 6 : 7 mission SOe for Wic students and $1.00 Upper lounge at 8 p.m. weekdays and weekends. General . A FREE TRIP TO NOTICE TO CANADA STUDENT OTTAWA LOAN RECIPIENTS and

Underthe Canada Student Loan Act (S.C. 1964) it isthe student’s who is willing to put up with responsibility to notify the bank each year that he she is still a full-time student, in order to retaininterestfree status.This is done by: A LOT OF 1. Contacting the bank involved and obtaining a Schedule2.

2. Taking the Schedule 2 to the Financial Aid Office, Hut M, and verifying DUMB QUESTIONS that youare enrolled in a minimumof 12 units.

3. Returningthe Schedule 2 ,to thebank involvedwell before Friday, should contact the SUB office November 27, 1970. before If you have any questions regarding this procedure,or ,any other questions regarding Canada Sudent Loans, contact the FinancialAid Officer, Hut M. Wednesday, October 2 1

~~~ ~ NOTICE CTV is sponsoring an PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR undergraduate quiz program AND FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER QualifyingExaminations will be held onCampus: called DATE: Tuesday,October 20, 1970. VNIVERSITY TIME: Doors open at 6:30 PM, Examcommences at 7:OO pm. CHALLENGE” PLACE: Room 168, Elliot Building and we need a team of 4 to play an , .:., ,& . . ., .1,“ 1) All interested students are remindedthat there are Public no exemptions.for advanceddegrees permittedin Eastern University on Novermber 15 this competition. Of 2) Additional information available at Campus Canada Placement Centre. ANY TAKERS? Page 10, Thursday, October 15, 1910

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Martlet: Mr. Meat, I believe you’re doing a tour Canada and the States in order to acquaint people with the true nature of the pig. Pigmenius:Certainly, 1ad.North America must be the only place in the world where the kids com- pliment the police by calling them “pigs”. I don’t object to that, yet these same kids seem to think ,that they’reinsulting a policeman when they call him pig. a M: I’ve always thought of pgs as pretty repulsive animals myself,but I guess you would knowmore about than I do. P: I should think so”1’ve kept pigs for years now. I know a lot of people think they’re unintelligent beasts. But not so long ago, one of my men was trying to give ashot to an old sow and she wasn’t having any of it. He got pretty pissed off and started moving about so’s he couldcome in for thekill. She just waited ‘till he was in the right placethen plowed him into a pile of shit that she’d placed there for that purpose. M : That could’ve been enoughto make aperson give up pig-farming. P: That guy’s still learning.You just don’t mess aroundwith an animal thesize of a thin Volkswagen. But theydon’t get angryvery often. Mostly youget madat them andthey just playaroundwithyou so you get madder andthey play around some more. Thatold sow I wastalking about was just havin’ a bit of fun-what could be more amusing than a hiredhand sitting in a pile of map? M: Well, if I was the hired hand . . . . O.K., I’ll take your word for it that pigs are wily animals but I can’t see that it’s any reasonto like them. They’re very dirty,aren’t they? P: Sure, they like wallowing in the mud but they appreciate acooling blast from afire hose just as PLACE YOU much. Dirty?Let me tell you abut Los Angeles-pty beer cans and smog-it’s enough to make A WHERE CAN even a muddy pig look lily-white. And I really don’t understand why people call acop a pig. Because GET (IT) TOGETHER in my experience, pigs stand for everything thatkids here hold upas good. M: How do you mean? DINNER 6 TO 9 / DANCING 9 TO 2 P:Well, for start,a pigshit makes a primefertilizer for growing dope in . . . . M: 1’11 remember that come next spring. NIGHTLY EXCEPT SUNDAY P: . . . . and as we all know, growing dope is becoming pretty popular in America, especially since ...... f ... .. WE WILL HELP Operation Intercept. Also, those pigs really enjoy having a good time. Besides their usual practicesof YOU AND YOUR DATE wallowing and playing the fool with hired hands, there’snothing they enjoy more than a little frolic in the moonlight. Y’know they’re naturallyfunky animals and it’s quite a sightto see all those animals GET IT (A GOOD TIME) digging some strangesilent beat and flipping their rear ends in the air. In fact, they got more sense of DURING OCTOBER rhythm than the averagewhite boy. A herd of swine would really getthings moving at arock festival, SIMPLY PRESENT YOUR I.D. I’m sure. CARD WITkDlNNER BILL - M: (pompously) But today’s generation don’t spend all their time enjoying themselves. They have THE LION’S DEN WILL more seriousaims in life-like changing theworld we live in. PICK UP HALF THE TAB! P: Oh yeah, it’s really amusing to see the Now Generation yelling and heaving bricks-like some obscure tribal ritualy‘know. But theymake much noise about their half-assed revolution. Now my OFFER VALID TO OCT%IDQ - so pigs millaround and grunt a when bit I check them at night, but they’repretty quiet. Yet when I turn VI MON. THRU THURS. ONLY c my flashlight on one of them, he grins evilly at me and his eyes sparkle and I know I’ve got a revolution onmy hands if I stay there any longer-they’rebasically revolutionary animals,pigs are. M :So in conclusion, we may saythat pigs are animprovement on humans in some ways? BANDS SUPER-FI GREAT FOOD P: They’re animprovementon most humans, that’sfor sure, and I thii the pigs know it. When one of them grins at me in that crazyway of theirs, it’s as if he’s just letting us humans think that we run the THE RED LION MOTOR INN t 3300 DOUGLAS ST. t 385-3366 ’J show. Maybe the revolution will come someday,but it’ll come froman unexpected quarter, if you’ll pardon the expression.

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MARTIN BALSAM; RICHARO BENJAMIN; ARTHUR CARFUNKEL; JACK CILFORO; BUCK HENRY; BOB NEWHART; ANTHONY PERKINS; PMlUPREMISS; , MARTIN SHEEN; JONVMCHT& ORSON WELL[$ ASOREEOLE. SCREENPUYBY BUCKHENRY PROWCEO BY JOHHCALLEY & MARTINRANSOHOFF Page 12, Thursday, October 15, 1970 Objectivity: The myth that is*destroyingjournalism

The North American press is under attack from the Tbere is nothinnew about theseconcepts. “balance”, a presentationpro and conthat lends itself left, the right and the harassed middle.It needs reform Newspapers no less %!an universities, mustbe s&n as’ to mathematical analysis: that is, alwaystry to get the and knows it, but nothing less thanprofound structural instrumentsof either social change or,stagnation.The other sideof the story,even just for a couple of lines. changeswill make a qualitative differencesufficient to mpean press has known this for a long time. Le It is a puzzle why reporters continue to insist that insure the survivalof newspapers as credible agents of Monde, widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest objectivity, or balance, is the key to the good pur- information about the society in which they operate. newspapers, is described by the Paris correspondentof nalistic life,but one explanation maybe that it permits Structuralchanges areimperative because the the New York Times: a kind of psychological anonymity. A reporter need not reforms now most often proposed do nothing except “Unlike the American practice, thereis no copy desk reveal what sort of person he is, uncover his biases. increase thsexi ing fantastic level of journalistic self- and no division of function between copy editing and More important, by clinging to the myth that he is consciousness./x ewspaper managements and editors reporting. Ekch staff memberis a “journalist” in indeed being as objective as humanly possible, he can already get together frequently to discuss the short- chargeof a specialty.He may cover a story directlyor evade personal responsibilityfor his work; he isoniy a comingsof their daily efforts; newspaper men already rewrite or edit the news agencyreports on his subject. technician of the news. Advocacy, m.the other hand, deliver scathing critiques of their profession. Department chiefs check headlines and make space openly admitted,requires an exposure of self,a For example, the monthly Journalism Review was allotments but do not change copy.” willingness to undergo scrutiny, and a commitmentto initiated recently by Chicago journalists who had been As a rule, in European purnalism, thereis no clear excellence that seems very demanding. unable to print the stories or make the reforms they line between reporting and opinion. felt were necessary to thewellbeing of their dailies.On “We are proud,”said an editor, “not of our ob- Some reporters are thus afriad of advocacy. Those see no reason to the national level, a new Washington journal, Straus jectivity but of our independence.” The assumption is who don’t feel strongly about things take sides.Others correctly perceivethat they lack the Editor’s Report has been formed tomonitor the press. that the readerknows the viewpoint of the reporterand competence to be advocacy reporters, that theyreally The press today is one of the least trusted of the expects it to be reflected in his copy. country’s national institutions. Le Monde makes itself credible by rejectingthe do not know their “beat”. A reporter cannot express However, all attempts thus far to accommodate myth of objectivity. It exposes all its biases to the his convictions about, say, education dess he has made himself an experton the problemsof schools and newspapers to the needs of society have failed and all reader, who automaticallylearns the security of the theories of learning. the evaluations haveto be turned out to be indexes of reading “news” that isplaced in a readily identifiable failure rather than progresstoward some satisfactory context. Monde journalists -the best in the world It followsthat theopportunity to becomean advocate Le would causeresponsive reporters to acquire the result. Criticism that doesnot lead to structural - have established their reputations over time on a change is simply an exercise in reformist frustration, newspaper that has given them their heads. backgroundnecessary to acquitthemselves creditably. The informed reporter would make himself and theeffect has been that the presstoday is one of the Readers take issue with Monde Journalists, not Le known as competent to act in new professional leasttrusted of thecountry’s national institutions, with Le Monde, and do not feel that they are being his public or private, propagandized by anobjective automation. The capacity,thus raisingthe general level of the profession. Those who saw the advocacy role an Rightwing critics complain that the papers un- context of the news becomes as important as the news as opportunity to dispense propaganda would be exposed Sdermine confidence in democraticinstitutions by itself - indeed the one can never really be divorced as soon as the public judgedtheir work against the striking at the government. The left insists that, by from the other - journalist and reader engage in a progress of events. adhering to socalled balanced reporting they in fact realtionship similar to that of actor and audience. stabilize the worst features of an inequitable system. The refusal of newspapers to consider Le Monde’s Many newspapers would maintain that they already The confused middle is rapidly losing its faith in the methods is a kind of mistrust of the public that claims permit reportersto become advocates - usually on or ability of the daily press to sustain the image of im- management knows best what readers need or want. opposite theeditorial page, but occasionally in the partiality that newspaper managements- not readers Hollywood and TV magnates hold similar views. In the news sections. However, management inevitably insist - have demanded. press, however, the fact is that many reporters try to that these contributions be identified as “columns” or It thus becomesobvious that the presswill not begin make editorial points between the lines of their ob- “news analysis”. In the absence of a systematic at- to cope with its credibility problem until newspaper jectivity,thus inserting surreptituously what they tempt to orient either the thepublic or reporters to the managements acknowledge that mystifying standard, should be writing candidly. uses of advocacy journalism, thesefew columns have “objectivity” cannot be adequately defined or Says oneex-Newsweek man: “If you wantedto done nothing to increase the credibility rating of the achieved that in fact it is pernicious to the society as express anopinion, there wasno problem. Insofar as I profession. well as to the institutionsof journalism. This neutrality recallthe techniques, you invented a quote and Themarket for objective “facts” hasbeen saturated is demanded by newspaper administratorsand editors, ascribedit to somebody ... made up a person if by TV, as newspapermanagements wellknow. concerned that the news content remain under tight necegary. It’s very devious, of course, but it’sa Newspapersmust provide something morethan a control; there is no evidence that it serves a public substitute merely for doing the sensible thing which statistical expansion of the eleven o’clock news, but no interest. would have been to write a first-personstory in the first amount of reform discussion will produce a new At a timewhen people are becoming politically more place. Newspaper men are always finding ways to get product; the conditions must change. This requires aware,a newspaper loses credibility when readers around whatever inhibitions thereare to personal structural innovation, a radical transformation of the believethemselves to be manipulatedand journalism.” daily newspaper into a social participant, not a mere propagandized on behalf of those who dominated the But the trouble with using a subterfuge - however observer. political economy. It makes no difference how they much it may clarifythe point of a story -is that it still Neutrality is conceivably only a political vacuum identify those powers, or whether their evaluations is leaves the reader wondering how objective the news and nothing is more political than a newspaper. The right or stems from the widening circle of paranoia story is, how responsiblethe reporter is, what his .public knows this andwithholds its belief from journals that is endemic to a highly centralized society. biases may be. that venerate objectivity. A commitment to the notion of objectivity has in The notion still prevails among reporters that they The key element in journalism, as in all writing and effect becomea sign of manipulation, whether should strive to be as objective as possible. It has a all art, is risk, sometimes personal risk. Newspapers newspaper managements likeit or not, and theway to nice, clearcut ring to it, but nobody has been able to will never be “ready” for personal journalism, for the deal with it is to admit that the editorial function is tell them how to approach that elusive goal,much less major changes, for a role in the events around them, inherently biased, thatreporters haveopinions of their what it really means. Most reporters and newspapers until reporters and editors are willing to stick their own and that newspapers,like other large institutions, fall backon the idea that the propersolution is a kind of necks out.$30 are mlitical entities.

;ORDON UGHTFOOT POLL SITTERS REQUIRED

Oct. 28, 10 1970 Referendum 16, 17 & 18

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