CORD THEWEEKLY University VolumeFeb. Thursday Number29,9, 19 1989 WilfridLaurier Future looks bleak for students

TORONTO (CUP) — The University of Toronto's president has released his blueprint for the future of Ontario's post secondary schools, and the provincial minister of colleges and universities isn't too thrilled. Lyn McLeod says she has "some very real concerns" with admin- istrator George Connell's call for increased specialization among Ontario's universities.

Under Connell's scheme ~ revealed in the January 12 edition of

the Globe and Mail -- the University of for example, known for its agricultural program, would receive funding for those courses only. No other school would get money for an agriculture-related cur- riculum—and none would be expected to offer any such classes. "I'm concerned that the direction that Dr. Connell is proposing puts less emphasis on accessibility," McLeod said at a news confer- ence. She said implementing such a system would take "an unprece- dented intervention on the part of the ministry," and McLeod has "some personal doubts about big changes" in Ontario's post- secondary education system. During the hour-long interview session, organized by the Ontario Federation of Students, McLeod praised the provincial Liberal government's performance in funding universities, said Ontario stu- dent loans will increase 7.5 per cent to reflect recent tuition fee in- creases, and claimed that allowing universities to set their own tuition fee levels is "not something we are considering". "The only ministry to receive greater funding (this year) was health," she said. But Connell said while the provincial Grits deserved some credit for advances in their first term, their recent record is spotty. "I think that the record of the Liberal government was quite promising until the new surge of enrollment hit us. (But now) we're paying quite a high price for our efforts" to accommodate the enroll- ment bulge caused by the abolition of Ontario's grade 13. McLeod and Connell also differ over the way universities should be funded. McLeod said targeted funding, where the government gives uni- versities money that can only be spent on specific projects—such as provincial centres of excellence—is a good idea. But Connell said universities want to control how they spend their cash. "At a given level of funding universities would very likely prefer to have total control. Designated funding is quite troublesome when up and away against the Warriors Waterloo'n. Unfortunately the Golden Basketball Hawks there is such a profound lack of base funding." Up, of went up one less than they had to in the first installation of the annual renewal of the City of But she cautioned that not all partnerships are good. McLeod said time Waterloo basketball clash, The Hawks lost by one on a last second some programs might give universities terms that are too restrictive. university measly point basket by the Warriors. Here, Danny Deep (20) and Nino Miksic watch helplessly as the Warriors convert "I have a real concern that that could be happening at the federal level a lay-up the second half. Cord Photo by Allen. (with the federal government's centres of excellence)," she said. in Jamie INSIDE Tories chop Challenge '89 cash NEWS

O - OTTAWA (CUP) With 24 "He's trading off one group of school level." "The principle of the cutback An analysis of the invasion on hours notice to student lobby youth for another...showing a fla- Statistics Canada pegs unem- is worse than the monetary value East Timor.../4 groups and opposition critics, the grant disregard...a real lack of in- ployment for 1988 at 7.8 per cent. of the cutback," said CFS execu- federal government slashed funds tegrity," said James Tate, deputy The jobless rate for those be- tive officer Todd Smith. New Scholarship for WX.U.../5 for a post-secondary summer chair of the Canadian Federation tween the ages of 20 and 24 is Smith said the group knew employment r\ program and chan- of Students. considerably higher at 11.2 per there would be departmental cut- to high job c) neled it school crea- "Certainly he's made this cent. That number is 25.2 for backs but hoped Charest could SCENE tion. trade-off/whether he's expecting Newfoundland and 18 per cent in save his portfolio from budget The Tories announced an the youth movement to turn in on New Brunswick—the two pro- cuts. A simple, poignant film plays the itself and start competing for vinces with separate agreements. overall increase in the Challenge "The key was, Princess.../17 funds," said Tate. "For him to And unemployment among 15 to would the min- '89 program January 27, but re- ister be able to win play off the two groups...is 19-year-olds is 13.2per cent his case for an directed it, and then some, to high increase," said Smith. "But in school The result is a despicable." Tate said the cutbacks will SPORTS students. fact, we have an $8 million cut." loss of $8 million worth of sum- Budget constraints forced a force students further into debt. The youth ministry has no mer jobs for university and col- decision over who would benefit The average gross income Hawkey Hawks creamed Water- budget of its own, depending on lege students. from the job money, said youth from the Challenge program last loo Warriors.../21 from a cross of /"~X ministry communications director summer was $2,193, according to money section Minister Jean Charest's ministries to fund its Youth Micheline Cette. CFS. University students in Can- programs. announcement included $31.3 ada are paying over $6,000 for FEATURE "Our data indicates that the Charest kept his Secretary of / million allotted to New Bruns- one year of schooling. State for Youth portfolio in ' unemployment level highest the wick and Newfoundland for spe- was "The shift to (high school stu- amongst high federal government's January 30 Election candidates speak.../24- cial five-year employment pro- school students dents and drop outs) obscures the going to school," cabinet shuffle. 26 grams for youths making the back said Cette. purpose of the program," said transition from school to "Canada still has a relatively Tony Macerollo, press secretary "Jean Charest has no sense of Sweet words for V.D. Day..714- work—negotiated last fall. Tak- high level of high school drop to Liberal MP John Manley. the needs of university and col- ing this into account, spending is outs. The government has to ad- "They're two separate questions lege students," said Tate. "It's actually down by $12.3 million dress the reality that you have altogether...neither one has been regrettable Charest has been left from last year's $180 million. high unemployment at the high reconciled." in (the portfolio)." The Cord Weekly 2 Thursday, February 9,1989

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GUELPH (CUP)- Student leaders across Ontario parents of "Group A" students are expected to con- are calling for major structural reforms to the pro- tribute a certain amount using a complicated for- vince's loans and grants system. mula. Students are also expected to contribute to The current system has not changed since 1978. their education. An inflated home value will in- The key motion put forth by the Ontario Feder- crease the parents' expected contribution, no matter ation of Students (OFS) at their winter general what their income level truly is. meeting was to abolish the value of the family Jan Donio, General Manager of the Students home as a determinant for grant and loan eligibility. Awards Branch, Ministry of Colleges and Univer- Joan McNeil, a researcher for OFS, said the cur- sities, said the ministry will probably follow OFS' rent market value of a house may be unrealistically advice. high due to inflation. By considering the house as "At this point in time, we are seriously consider- an asset on the OSAP application form, it looks like ing removing thatrequirement," she said. the parents are better off than they may be. Other motions included: * Making provisions for funding disabled or "This has effectively limited the of eligibility a physically disadvantaged students. Currently, no large number of people," said McNeil. "This has consideration is given to extra costs of medical bills parental also made the contribution unrealistically or special equipment which disabled students may high." Ontario is the only province where the value incur. of the family home is included in loan and grant as- * Increasing OSAP's personal living al- sessment lowance. Students now get $111 per week, an the current Under OSAP system, students are amount which McNeil calls "abysmal". OFS divided into two groups based their on dependency estimates the real cost for a single living "Group student status. A" students have been out of high away from home is $206.45 per week. school for less than 4 years or haven't worked for 24 months and/or are single. "Group B" students * Trying to resolve the problem of parents have the opposite qualities. who refuse to kick in their expected contribu- Based on the total value of their assets, the tion. Concordia scientists battle PCBs MONTREAL (CUP) - A group chemicals. being done," Roy said. of Concordia University scientists "In principle everything Hydro has already destroyed say they have discovered a safe seems to be working very well, PCBs in one million litres of and cheap way of destroying the but we have to get in the actual mineral oil in transformers using toxic PCBs found in oil so that it products that are being used by substances as can be recycled. Hydro-Quebec," such metallic firms such as sodium. Anderson said. "We have yet to "The key to our process is that complete the work on samples of The scientists have done con- we do it under mild conditions," the nature that they use trans- sulting work with New Lite, a Cooper in said research vice-rector formers." chemical research firm in Langford, explaining that the Langford said Concordia is London, Ontario, which is devel- three scientists have been able to oping a way of removing PCBs destroy PCBs, or polychlorinated applying for a research patent and from water. biphyenyls, at temperatures under is negotiating a grant with Hydro- 100 degrees centigrade—around Quebec. New Lite general manager water's boiling point. Hydro environment vice- Mike Robertson said five com- The scientists have dis- president Louis Philippe Roy said panies in Canada, including integrated PCBs in miniscule the utility is interested in the Con- Ontario Hydro, already destroy amounts of oil using a mixture of cordia research but added the uni- PCBs with metallic sodium, nitric and sulphuric acid while versity has not yet demonstrated which explodes when mixed with heating the toxic chemical com- the method can work on a large water. pound with microwaves. After scale. "What is different about what the chemical reaction, the PCBs "It's a chemical reaction Concordia is doing is that their disappear—leaving the oil un- which has worked on a laboratory approach is a whole lot safer," contaminated. scale but it has to be tested on a Robertson said. "There's nothing The most widely used method larger scale and this is far from to blow up." of destroying PCBs is by burning them at 1,200 degrees centigrade. But Langford said the incinera- tion method is costly, destroys WATSHOP gets go-ahead PCB-laced oil, and is potentially dangerous. PCBs can cause liver and By Cord Staff reproductive disorders and are Soviets come to Waterloo suspected of causing cancer. A possible solution to the housing situation in Waterloo may be They were widely used as a imminent. By Vladimir Bronstein coolant in electrical equipment The Student Housing Task Force of the City of Waterloo has until 1977, when the federal given its approval to a proposal which would see the city hire a full- A centre for Soviet studies will be jointly established by Wilfrid government banned them after time employee to mediate landlord-tenant disputes. The Waterloo Laurier University and the University of Waterloo. The centre will be fears were raised about potential Student Housing Outreach Programme, or WATSHOP, will go to created with the aid of a $225,000 grant from the Department of Na- health hazards. City Council for approval in the near future. tional Defence. Environment Canada docu- "WATSHOP will concentrate on neighbourhood liaison and com- The grant will be used to set up a visiting professorship in Soviet ments released in early Septem- munity mediation," said Jill Archer, WLUSU VP: University Affairs. strategic studies, including research assistance for the position. A dif- ber list 2,500 PCB storage sites in "We want to have mechanisms which will bring people together to ferent topic and visiting professor will be chosen each year. the country—including major solve their problems in a legitimate forum. Currently, problems are Both universities will place representatives on the executive com- deposits at Carleton University dealt with in a very adversarial manner." mittee which will manage the centre. As well, a different director will and the universities of Lethbridge While the name of WATSHOP is student oriented, the pro- be selected each year from the faculty of the two universities. Dr. and Toronto. gramme is available to all residents and landlords in the city. John Jaworsky of the University of Waterloo political science depart- There is only one PCB in- A city employee will be hired to coordinate the programme. This ment will be the director of the centre for the 1989-90 school year. cinerator in Canada: it is in Al- job will involve taking and acting upon complaints, setting up media- Meetings are already underway to decide upon the topic and the visit- berta and refuses shipments from tion arrangements where necessary, as well as spreading information ing professor for this year. outside the province. about the various city by-laws which affect tenants and landlords. Dr. George Urbaniak of WLU will be the director in the 1990-91 One of the scientists working Coupled with WATSHOP, there will be a commitment to better year. The centre will be run each year at the university of the director. on the project, associate biology by-law enforcement and an increased number of fire inspections. Besides research, the centre will host faculty seminars, offer professor Perry Anderson, said "I'm hoping that WATSHOP will, in time, be able to help reduce courses and promote publishing on the subject. At the end of each they may be able to remove PCBs the number of by-law infractions," said Archer, "but better housing is visiting professor's term, a conference will be held on that year's re- from electrical transformers a cooperative effort between landlords, tenants and the city. WAT- search. without destroying the equip- SHOP is not a panacea but merely a first step towards pro-active The grant, to be paid over a three-year period, was made available ment. He said the process, called change in the current situation." through the Department of National Defense's Military and Strategic photo-mineralization, can also The WATSHOP director will be hired before September, pending Studies Program. work with other hazardous passage of the proposal by Waterloo City Council. The Cord Weekly 4Thursday, February 9,1989 •NEWS' Thisbrought byHolocaust Canada youto News Analysis — Crop destruction as a offered military gear ranging By Michael Wood means of starving the popular from helicopters to artillery com- resistance into submission; puters.

Canadians have, it can safely — Herding those starved into be said, a rather smug attitude to submission into urban concentra- not only ap- US, Soviet tacit support the way in which we treat the rest tion camps. ®ituation we have of the world. These tactics have resulted in to make it worse. US and Soviet support, tacit Other countries may stage the deaths of an estimated Pe have consistently or otherwise, of Indonesia's ac- coups in Chile, train death squads 200,000 people (out of a pre- rffit East Timor's right tions in East Timor has a geo- in El Salvador, invade independence population germination and even political motivation (it should not Afghanistan or sell chemical applied, what of 700,000). RJeping the issue on the really be all that surprising that in weapons to Iraq but we are, of we have Relief workers, their dealings with the Third course, above such behaviour and in granted high Ims noble endeavor we World US and Soviet interests are consistently back only the "good Timorf yf ly restricted m?en joined by the USA, often quite similar). Canada's a conception is guys". Such un- access to Hast Sa, New Zealand, Japan motivation, however, is much fortunately quite false; our reac- Timor, des mny non-aligned nations, simpler — profits. Canada is In- tion to Indonesian genocide in con ■sf the EEC and the East donesia's third largest trading East Timor illustrates this. ditions Rations have avoided of- partner (ahead even of the US) After that provocative state- as gt Indonesia by abstaining and it is clear that in some minds ment many readers will be left rKhese votes. So much for this status is worth a few hundred wondering where East Timor is Wnunist Solidarity with the thousand lives. and what is it that Indonesia has rßsed peoples of the earth". done there. ■Janadian aid given Indonesian invasion Instead of just this diplomatic sup- writing a East Timor is part of an island Port of Indonesia in its quest to letter to the editor, some 650 km northwest of Aus- inake sure the world forgets East come up and get in- tralia. Until 1975 it was a Timor, we have helped in more volved. Portuguese colony. Its people are direct ways. Since die invasion, Here, every- historically, ethnically, religious- Canadian aid to Indonesia has one's opinion on any ly and linguistically separate from soared, making Indonesia the subject is important to people Indonesia. Not until is largest non-commonwealth the of precise- in East Timor's independence drew recipient of Canadian aid. us as a staff. Even if near did Indonesia make any ly that" disagreements arise, we 1986 External Affairs demands on its territory. Yet on He notes such tactics In will fight to the death December 7th, 1975 (the date is as: backed a trade mission to sell fitting) Indonesian forces, after — Direct Military Terror, Canadian-made arms to Far East- for anyone's right to months of border raids and other with the destruction of whole vil- ern countries — including In- speak their minds. forms of destabilization, launched lages and the massacre of their in- donesia. The ten companies par- an attack on East Timor. habitants; ticipating, which included Cana- Since then, access to the — Systematic torture, rape dian Marconi, Bell Aerospace country by outsiders has been and looting; Textron and Computing Devices, APPLICATIONS Pv K /I I for the position of K and DON \ | V improved I