In this issue/Dans ce numero Money Problems p.4 More H.G. Stuff p.6 S.C.R. Break-In p.4 Puzzles p.7 Merry Widow p.5 The Back Page p.8 Books p.5 Classifieds p.7 Le premier journal etudiant de I'U niversite York Glendon's Student Weekly College. Glendon • College Ie 18 janvier 1988 Pro Tem2 EDITORIAL Going Cold Turkey Did you survive last month's holiday dinners? Well, pettiness that lie outside the gate of Bayview and get ready! Here comes another dish - cold turkey. Lawrence, can we not take one more little step to As Glendonites have now heard, the campus is confirm that? Say that we stub out another habit that entering the first phase of a near-ban on cigarette too, reflects those other-worldly stresses we try to combustion next month. It will mean that by Sep­ forget in this quiet academic Eden? tember, only private staff offices and student resi­ I say we try. Je dis: Faisons-Ie! dence bedrooms (doors closed, thank you) will be able Raymond Cheng to harbour smokers. In case you may forget what a smoker is - they light up tobacco sticks and exhale flame, smoke, soot and ashes for their own pleasure. Until recently, many thought some of us non-smokers would like it too. Subsequently, the attitude of society is changing. Those who smoke are considerately asking others if they do not mind in advance. Similarly, those who abstain from tobacco will ask politely ceux qui fument de cesser - et c'est fait! The Glendon campus, for students and staff, may be a commuting or a live-in experience. Some live on campus; others work here; many more come to study here. Those who live here will have the choice of whether to permit lighting up in their own personal space. Those who work can continue their periodic cigarette breaks in private. Where does it leave the commuting students? No one has suggested that it will be comfortable to sneak a puff outdoors on a sunny, frigid winter day. Yet to an impartial observer, the signs indicating smoking and non-smoking areas are not always readable through the lazy haze. The cafeteria, which I avoid except to stick my nose past the door to locate a friend, is very smoky. The high walls and limited ven­ tilation conspire to keep some oxygen-lovers away. --The hallways flicker with puffs of students on the WHAT WAS 11IAT o~ L.INf? "JDN'r~;r£1H£ .,,~....' hourly breaks between classes. Contrast that with a huge inhaled bre.ath of the fresh outdoor magic of . In the wordsoftheimmortaIDebbieManger:" You knowI Paradise - umm... our campus. love you, Honeeees!!" If as many of us view Glendon as a learning site Tara temporarily whisking us from the distractions and Yeah Right. Cover Photo by Chris Reed ED. 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I'auteur et non pas necessairemenl celui de Pro Tern FORUM ... Squirrels, 1968, 1988 and Corporate Concentration of theNew Age Other Attitudes hy John Sullivan the (once regulated) airline hy Carey Nieuwhof an attitude, an approach, still Cynicism and disillusionment Canadian corporations have industry. Within these groups, So Time runs a cover story hard to define, but definitely are tempered by the belief that significantly increased their the t980's have demonstrated and it's supposed to make you present. action soon - change within the concentration of power within that the control of economic think, right? Well, Time ran a It's lookingat the world through next decade - can usher in a the 1975 to 1985 period. A freedom will tighten once the cover story recently about 1968 different eyes, philosophically, new age. We should not simply recent Statistics Canada report elite move forward to the top. - the year when student dis­ 'rather than practically, looking be preparing for the big fall. indicates that the top 25 com­ Perhaps one of the more content crystallized into a na­ at things in a larger context Coming to terms with 1968, panies in Canada increased difficult aspects to judge is the tional agenda. The year Bobby than immediate need. Looking even in Time magazine, may their share of the country's labour movement. One of two Kennedy and Martin Luther at things more critically, shun­ not be such a bad thing, total assets by 4.3%, profit possibilities will occur: the King were lost to bullets. The ning traditional Western arro­ although it may sicken the increase by 9.3% and sales labour movement will become year the White Album was gance, realizing innocence is purists ofthat decade. Itdoesn't increase by 2.4%. Canadian a "player" at the table of 25, released. The year of the Tet lost, and continually fine-tuning have to necessarily cheapen economists are reasoning these one that has aligned with the offensive in Vietnam. It is ironic our perspective are all things what happened. It can be taken increases by the influx of ac­ corporations rather that a role in itself that the magazine that this new spirit seems to be as a sign that some elements ()f quisitions amongst the "Top of opposition; or the egalitar­ ran a tribute to the Statue of embodying. The emphasis is society may be ready to slide . 500" companies and therefore ian society will reject labour Liberty a year and a half ago shifting from the individuai to out of the complacency and creating an elite who are in principles while rejecting so­ can give similar coverage to a the community. This may be arrogance which have been so control at the top. cialism and equality. year in which many ofthe high­ partially due to a rejection of recently resurgent. Something The effects ofconcentration The individual in the year lighted activists would have current mainstream material­ is changing. The new refine­ of power will not become an 2000 will most definitely be burned the Statue of Liberty ism, and partially a realization ments in attitude, if they are to issue until well into the t990's. greatly affected by the narrow­ given the chance. But Time's that we can't go on fooling our­ take a more concrete form in However, the building process ing of economic power.