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by Rosemary Oliver = “An ad hoc committee composed of student leaders from Montreal-aréa post- secondary schools is organizing a demonstration Wednesday, April 9, in the form of a mock French class.
The demonstrators, from anglophone and francophone
institutions, will ask Quebec's ,
Minister of Cultural Affairs, Dr. Camille Laurin, for a response to the demands they presented to him last December 3.
The students, backed by
* L'Association Nationale des
(Etudiants du Québec (ANEQ) ) and the Rassemblement des Associations des Etudiants Universitaires, (RAEU)~ are demanding an amendment to Clause 39 of the French Language’ charter which will discontinue permits allowing anglophones to.work while they learn French.
“We want to sensitize people to the fact that there's still some anglos wanting to learn French and French: students
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by Carl Heine
The first anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear acci- dent was marked in Montreal last Friday with a demonstrat- lon outside of the downtown headquarters of the Canadian Atomic Commission.
Several hundred people part- icipated in the three-hour pro- test, organized by the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Resp- onsibility (CCNR).
Dr. Gordon Edwards, chairman of the CCNR, spoke out against the approaching
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ANEQ, RAEU stage demo against language law
describes as “essentially a media event."
“The idea is not to have a big demo, but to have a symbolic French class,” to prove our point,” he said. -
Anti-nukers mark Three Mile Island.
startup of the Gentilly Il reactor,
He warned that the power
plant was located in an area * with a high risk of earthquake,
about mid-way between Mont- real and Quebec City.
He also criticized the reactor because nuclear planners had
omitted a vacuum contain-
ment bullding, a standard feature on other Candus. Plan- ners are also experimenting with a high pressure emergency cooling system, which Ed- wards warned was of untested effectiveness.
April 2, 1980
Daily Sports Basketball Redmen off to Portugal eS -Redmania gets, a facellft
Afghanistan reports Imaccurate says _ returning journalist
HAMILTON (CUP) — The Amer-
_ ican and European press are
grossly exaggerating events in Afghanistan and Pakistan, says a Globe and Mail reporter who recently returned from the area.
Victor Malarek, in an in- terview with McMaster University's The Silhouette,
said a lot of stories coming out of Afghanistan since the Soviet invasion in December are simply being fabricated and that others are exaggerated. “Upon arriving in Rawalpindi,
| | walked down to get my press
accreditation through the government. When | got that, | was waiting in one of the of- fices and a couple of reporters had come in from Peshawar where the rebel encampments _are, and | started to talk to them
* about their experiences.
“One reporter laughed when | told them | had heard a lot of things had been happening. And she said, ‘A lot of things had been made up.’
"So | said, ‘What do. you mean?’ And she said, ‘You will know when you get there.’ "”
Malarek had been informed by this reporter that a lot of stories had to be “matched.” According to Malarek, ‘“mat- ching is a phrase that you hear from an editor. You see a story on page one of a newpaper and you happen to be in Ottawa or in Washington, and you get a phone call from your editor and he says. he wants that story matched.”
“You don't argue the point; you match it. It is an old tradition that should have been killed a long time ago,” he said.
Malarek was also told, “There is a lot of colorful stuff here and the cause is worth it. These goddamn Russians...
However, when Malarek had asked whether they (the news stories) were true or not, he was told that Pakistan officials were handing down a ‘lot of line.”
On his trip to Peshawar, Malarek noticed that a lot of stories were being made up. Depressed and frustrated, Malarek called his editor at The Globe and Mail saying, “It is not happening here the way | have read about it and the way | have seen it_on television. It is just not happening! | can sit here and write the most colorful stories and convince anybody,
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because it's so far away anyway. Who the hell is going to come here and check?
“Everyone here is writing it too! You can almost come up with Pulitzer Prize winning prose, if that’s what you want. But that's not what is hap- pening.’
The truth of the matter, alleges Malarek, is that “the Pakistan government press officials are trumping up stories; the rebel leaders are trumping up stories; the leaders at the camps, the refugee camps, are trumping up stories."
In other words, very little is
being challenged by the press.
The reports are being passed on as facts, not as claims or allegations.
Malarek went on to cite an example. “The first thing that happened is | would stand around and see the television crews come in, and they would be filming rebels with rifles and they would set up a meeting at » the Hezmi Islami (the governing political party) headquarters where Gulbadeen is head of that group.
"So, in comes the Australian news crews, and they shoot it over and over again, because they want the rebel leader to look really tough and mean!
“Then they start all this choreographic questioning and looking at maps. And it looks as if he is coming into a really tough area. It’s not! It’s just a little shack in the outskirts of Peshawar,” Malarek added.
“it's all a set-up,’ Malarek claims. ‘So when you look at it on television or read it in the paper, it is not what it appears to be."
However, Malarek is quick to point out that undoubtedly there is a lot of fighting in Afghanistan. “There are tanks all over the place. When | landed in Kabul, Afghanistan, four Russian transport planes
‘ arrived within a ten-minute period,
“So, l'm not trying to say that there is no fighting in
Afghanistan. What | am trying to get through is that the reporters are not allowed out of their hotel rooms (in Afghanistan) and yet they are busy working at their typewriters.”
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OTTAWA (CUP) — Two Chi-
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nese-Canadian groups have
: registered their dissatisfaction
in good faith.
“We do not consider the token gesture of CTV anywhere near a sincere and honest response to the public con- demnation against W5's ‘Campus Giveaway’ show.”
With. those words the
» Montreal branch of the Ad Hoc
à Committee Against W5 served mnotice that it would continue its attack on the television net- Fvork for airing a program on
* president of the Council of ’ Chinese-Canadians in Ontario
(CCIO), said CTV did not ad- dress the objections to the
program and wants an apology.
“more directed to the issue.” Both groups were reacting to a statement of regret, aired by W5 on March 16, which said the program “sincerely regrets any
* offence that. may have been
unintentionally given to the Chinese- Canadian com- munity.”
Ap ology insufficient says W5 ad hoc committee
The statement was made in a positive way,” he said. “| don't understand their com-
sincere regret,’’ Lumb said.
He explained that the
statement was made during the
first segment of the program, “the. equivalent of putting a
retraction on the front page ofa
newspaper.” ‘We didn't bury it,” he added. ‘We said it right up front where we have the majority of viewers.”
Lumb said CTV was not trying to “defuse” the apology as the CCIO charged. “Do-you
The W5 statement came five months after CTV broadcast “The Campus Giveaway,”’ which alleged that foreign students were taking the places of Canadians in certain university -programs. Film footage and commentary left the impression that the foreign students were overwhelmingly Chinese and ignored the fact
that many stddents shown on.
the program were actually Chinese-Canadians. Hut-
Telecommunications Com-
mission (CRTC) for a public ©
inquiry into tne show and will
{ . With the recent CTV W5 plaints.” ‘continue libel’ and defamation + = : apology, although the producer “There is no room for doubt. suits against CTV. |, 2? Says the statement was issued The statement expressed t
The committee is willing to negotiate with CTV, said Lee, but is sticking to its original demands of:
@ equal time to reply to W5 charges
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W5 has promised a follow-up
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McMaster males refuse co-ed lodgings
HAMILTON (CUP) — They like women but they don't want to live with them.
That’s the message from
Supreme court: Differential fees not discriminatory
EDMONTON (CUP) — Alberta universities and the provincial
_ government have the right to
levy higher fees for foreign students, the appellate division of the Supreme Court of Alberta ruled recently.
The appeal by the Federation of Alberta Students (FAS) charged that differential fees
Sagaris said FAS will review the decision and the pertinent legislation before deciding if any further legal action will be taken.
As well, she said FAS will increase its efforts in the political arena providing more information for students and government about the effects of differential fees.
disagree with the university’s decision to make the residence co-educational next fall.
Banners hanging from the
“ men living in a McMaster international students-that has want to make a statement Program that wi el all Sides University: residence who windows of the five story F been termed inaccurate’ and about a statement?” he asked. have thelr say. residence [often rimes lola = racist. “Iwas anxious to get the 2e ”., $ And Dr. Donald Chu, statementontheair.” Urinals for sale. Apply within
and “Would you want your daughter to live here? We don't.”
At a rally outside the building a -predominantiy male crowd cheered as student union president Ann Blackwood
‘vowed to fight the university’s
decision to make the residence co-educational next fall.
Blackwood called the move the final straw in a series of incidents in which she said the administration had. failed to
Chu said W5 host Helen In the W5 statement; are illegal and contravene: consult wit i Hutchinson’s statement was chinson admitted that the show Alberta human rights te PME ot ret ea soe a ns us like “misdirected at the statistics had incorrectly estimated that legislation: RAT tre ig ae theraepeal Magee dl à Ass a Bates elite statement did not apologize for students in Canada. She said y rigin
calling us foreign.”
“CTV has tried to defuse the importance of an apology by” not contacting us before alring the message,” he said.
Siukeong Lee, Montreal co-
ordinator of the ad hoc com- mittee, said the W5 statement was not a real apology and did not satisfy the group at all.
“After having clearly insulted
the correct figure was 58,000 according to government estimates.
But Lee said that even in.
admitting their mistake, W5 was being less than honest. He said the show referred to universities and colleges when talking about how many foreign students were in the country but the apology figure also
ported a January 1979 decision that differential fees are not discriminatory.
FAS. executive officer Lake Sagaris expressed disap- pointment at the decision,
“Differential fees don’t raise a large amount of revenue for the university and they do hurt the international students,” she sald.
“Its another: symptom of
decision.
Wright said it would take a court or judge “less prejudiced in favour of the status quo to reverse the decision.” -
He said the Supreme Court of Canada might consent to hear an appeal, and it is unlikely that the decision would be over- turned.
The
UofA’s 1,100 _ in-
ternational students now pay
male students. We can't un- derstand it and we're not going to put up withit.!!
She urged students to sign a petition and voice their protest at a student union meeting next Wednesday.
Doug Richardson, residence president, said ‘we like women. Don't get me wrong."
“But we prefer the male
* aan Soe era al away by AT TERE Ten dure how visa students are being $330 more in tuition fees per atmosphere. It has a very gently regretting the offense schools. | _ blamed for the problems in the year than Canadian sludents or strong tradition at Whidden
Hall."
that may have been given, and says it is unintentional,” Lee saying it Is unintentional,” Lee the statement.
“We say this is nelther honest nor fair. CTV must face the issues, admit all mistakes,
apologize and compensate." ~ -
But Lionel Lumb, W5 producer, said the statement was “put out in good faith.”
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Lee said that, according to the association of universities and colleges of Canada (AUCC), there are 18,000 in- ternational university students and therefore W5 had tried to minimize the gross distortions it had made,
The committee: also pointed out other errors in W5's original figures, It said that while W5
claimed a 30 per cent foreign :
student ratio at the University
- of Toronto's pharmacy faculty,
there were actually no foreign students enrolled. and that instead of W5's 400 foreign students there’ are actually a total of 85, including 66 from the US. :
Lee said the committee and
_ other groups in Canadian cities
will. continue
to press the
Canadian Radio-Television and .
educational system." \
In Memoriam
landed immigrants.
Christine Bechtel
In loving memory of our dear daughter who died accidentally on April 28, 1979,
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Last Thursday | made the most difficult political decision an anglophone canmake.
| decided to vote “yes” in the upcoming referendum on sovereignty-association.
The decision was not an easy one. Whatever the result of the referendum, my national identity will remain unrelentingly Canadian. | am a Jewish Quebecer born of anglophone parents from Manitoba and rural Quebec, and the result of a referendurh will not change my allegiance to the concept of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultured Canada.
Unfortunately, there is a large group of francophone
Quebecers who do not share my appreciation of a pan- Canadian nation.
Recent polls have shown that the majority of Québécois surveyed look towards the National Assembly, and not to Parliament for political direction. The vast majority of Quebec governments have followed nationalist progam- mes. In spite of overwhelming odds, francophone Quebecers have managed to retain their language and culture on acontinent dominated by anglophones.
According to international law, French Quebec, with its common heritage, language, history and culture must be considered as a nation with a legal right to self. determination.
If democratic institutions are to survive in Quebec, the anglophone community must recognize Quebec's national Status. This doesn't mean that they have to vote “yes", or that the Quebec “problem” will be solved following a majority ‘“yés" or ‘‘no" vote. It does mean that until Quebec is recognized as a nation effective constitutional change will be impossible.
Yet the federalist camp, at least that lead by Claude Ryan's “non” forces, has not recognized Quebec's national status. Ryan's Beige paper relegates Quebec to the same status as any other province, ignoring the present day realities of Quebec political life.
In fact, one could argue that the Beige paper is far more dangerous to federalism than the PQ's “new deal.”
Under the terms of the White paper, Ottawa's power over Canada's remaining nine provinces would not necessarily diminish. Ryan's proposal would force Ottawa to give up Important federal powers to the provinces, and not just to the Quebec Nation. :
Ultimately, the implementation of the Belge paper could destroy whatever remains of Canada's independence from the United States. Canada needs a strong central govern- ment to survive. The Beige paper would shift badly needed
Comment
Despite the fact that more than a month has passed since the service workers strike threatened to shut down McGill, Senate has yet to acknowledge the need for a clear policy outlining the rights of students in such matters.
To merely state that students as well as staff have the right to respect picket lines Is not enough, for to say otherwise would be a denial of freedom of conscience.
What Is needed Is a policy that determines how far this right extends with regard to a student's academic responsibilities, While ‘there is no denying that one must suffer the consequences of one's conscience, there are some penalties that are excessively punitive. There is, after all, more at stake than a pay cheque for the student with a social conscience. No student should have his entire academic year jeopardized simply because he refused to cross a picket line In order to take an exam or hand in a paper.
It is fortunate that, during the confusion of the last strike,
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federal powers to the provinces, and would prevent cen- tralized planning of economic development and social services.
Giving Prince Edward Island the same degree of self. determination as Quebec will not solve our constitutional problems. If federalism is to survive, it must recognize Quebec’s special status as a nation within Canada's borders.
This doesn't mean that the PQ's option is the best way to solve Canada’s constitutional impasse. It isn't, but it's the best choice available.
A “no"’ vote will be interpreted as one of two things: support for the Beige paper, or support for-the status quo, Under these circumstances, i cannot support the “no” option.
Of course, the PQ's option is not without its faults. Present PQ policy calls for Quebec to be further integrated into the U.S. economy. This policy is naive; Quebec cannot possibly hope to maintain its independence if it is economically dominated by the United States.
The PQ's industrial strategy is also questionable. At present, the government's economic plan calls for an ened to nationalization following the conclusion of the Asbestos deal. Nationalization is one of the most important tools for economic self-determination. By giving up this option, the PQ is effectively “selling out the economic rights of all
Quebecers.
Sovereignty-association is not the best available option. But my preferred option, a democratic socialist Canada, is not on the ballot. A “yes” vote will not by itself solve the problem of foreign ownership and its accompanying problems of high interest rates, extrateritoriality of
economic control, and high structural unemployment.
It will also fail to solve the problem of minority language rights within Canada’s two nations. A Bill or Rights, however, could, and should be entrenched in the con- Stitution following the conclusion oi the negotiations that would be mandated by the referendum's passage. __
The negotiation of sovereignty-association, if the referendum does pass, will be long and painful. Un- fortunately, a trip to the constitutional dentist appears to be in order; our federation has badly decayed under the regime of an obsolete BNA act. :
Voting “no” is the same as voting for the Beige Paper.
_ And a vote for the Beige paper is a vote for a weak central
government.
The “yes" option is not a cure-all. It doesn't adress. all the issues at hand.
| don't like what I'm doing. | wish there was another
option..
But there isn't, so l'm voting “yes”. Harold Koblin
Vice-Principal Pedersen accepted his responsibility as an administrator and provided some guidance to students who were unsure of their rights. In his letter of February 20, Pedersen urged that instructors take all reasonable steps to ensure that students who wished to respect picket lines not be penalized. |
While Pedersen is to be commended for his action, it is nevertheless apparent that, had there been an effective policy regarding students’ rights during a strike at the time that the service workers walked out, there would have been
no need for the “Pedersen Letter”.
What is even more distressing is that although Senate voted to endorse the “Pedersen Letter” they refused to admit that It had set any precedent. In fact the letter was only endorsed to spare Pedersen the embarrassment of being contradicted by his colleagues.
On April 9 Senate will entertain a student motion that asks that, in the event of a future strike, a letter similar to the “Pedersen Letter” be communicated to the .student body.
Judging from the general hostility that has so far
accompanied any discussion of strike activity, It is unlikely that the motion will meet with much success. Anything that sounds like future policy is just not very popular in Senate.
: | Keith Boag
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To the Dally:
As the school year draws toa close, and as volume 69 of the Daily is about to fold, | would like to make a few comments about this year’s edition.
As president of the McGill Debating Union, | would like to present the opinion of our club, and | believe our opinion is also shared by many other groups on campus. Our main com- plaint is your coverage of campus events. In the wake of the Students Society survey and the fees referendum, it is obvious that very few students know exactly what is going on under the Students Society umbrella. | must lay part of the blame for student ignorance at the Daily’s door.
‘| have no. doubt tha someone will reply, ‘‘We are agents of social change, not StudSoc reporters." It sounds ince, but the fact remains that the Daily will soon be directly student-sponsored and has even more responsibility to those students to report that which concerns them. Fillers of amusing cartoons may be entertaining, but the space could be used just as profitablty to publicise or to inform students about campus events.
The Debating Union has traditionally been slighted when it comes to coverage of debates or of speakers. When the Daily deigns to publish an article about some note-worthy appearing at McGill, very rarely do the sponsors get mentioned. The Debating Union's suc- cesses at inter-university
‘competition are to a large although
extent ignored, athletics usually gets two full pages per issue, with detailed accounts of each goal scored or each yard swum. In par-
ticular, the fact that in the past -
two months we have won prizes at the Smith College, Fordham University, Dalhousie University and Royal Military College tournaments is unknown to the majority of the student population. How else can people become aware of the activities of the Debating Union and of other groups in the same position, unless through the student press?
To make matters worse, those who are interested in attending meetings are often confused or put off by the
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Le bousillage systématique mené par les étudiants de Sciences de la gestion a empêché toute considération
de l'ordre du jour et forcé
l'ajournement sine die de l'as- semblée générale des étudiants de l'UQAM convoquée lundi par l'AGEUQAM pour discuter de la l'associa-
lon, de la tutelle en Animation
f et Recherche culturelle (ARC).
Le président d'assemblée Plerre Houde a décidé l'ajour- nement sulte à l'impossibilité de gouverner une assemblée surchauffée et d'y faire obser- ver le décorum. Après deux heures et demi de débats houleux et mouvementés, l'or- dre du jour n'avait même pas été adopté et toutes les discus- sions en étaient restées aux questions de procédures.
- Suite à la présence sur une
base presque paritaire des deux.
“camps” de l'UQAM, l'assem- blée de lundi avait vite tourné
au vinaigre, indiquant une fois ©
de plus la farouche hostilité qui
régit les rapports entre les
étudiants de sciences de la gestion et le reste de ‘a population étudiante sympa- thique à l'AGEUQAM.
À Le ASS mar
Hier cependant, 12 modules étaient toujours en grève à l'UQAM pour soutenir les diver- ses revendications adoptées en plénière inter-modulaire (PIM) et sur lesquelles l'assemblée générale souveraine devait se prononcer. .
Les quelque 1800 étudiants réunis au théâtre St-Denis, avalent d'abord élu par une faible majorité l'avocat proposé par les étudiants de gestion au poste de président d'assem- blée. Mais devant son manque flagrant de contrôle et son intention (encore inédite) d'uti- liser trois codes de procédures à la Tols et, de ce fait, ne pas respecter la tradition de
l'AGEUQAM, les étudiants ont
voté sa révocation. - Les étudiants d'administra- tion, faiblement majoritaires dans la salle, et manifestement opposés au principe même de l'AGEUQAM, ont tout entrepris pour empêcher le bon fonction- nement de l'assemblée, ap- plaudissant même à tout rom- pre quant fut annoncée la levée de celle-ci. Alléguant que l'AGEUQAM n'est pas repré- sentative, ils n'étaient même pas intéressés à discuter le contenu des propositions, visi- blement satisfaits de perturber
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Une atmosphère chauffée à blanc, des étudiants des sciences de la gestion uniquement présents
” Les ‘sciences de la gestion’’ perturbent l'assemblée : generale de l'UQAM.
l'assemblée.
Non sans quelque chauvinis- me et en laissant une amère impression d'un an- tidémocratisme le plus com- plet, ils ont scandé tout au cours de la réunion des slogans
du type ‘‘vous aurez l'AGEUQAM que nous voudrons’’ et ‘‘à bas l'AGEUQAM"".
L'assemblée générale spéci- ale avait été convoquée essen- tiellement pour adopter une
‘série de moyens d'actions
visant à accélérer le règlement des différents litiges en cours à l'UQAM. Contrairement aux dires des étudiants de gestion qui ont brandi le spectre de la grève générale et de la consé- quente fermeture de l'universi- té, les propositions de suite à la page 43
par Denis Gascon
17 associations dépar- tementales regroupant plus de 5000 étudiants ont débrayé toute le journée hier à l'Université de Montréal -pour
pour faire du grabuge, et voilà une assemblée générale importante que l'AGEUQAM doit remettre
sans avis... —
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April 2, 1980
par Denis Gascon
Ajoutant l'injure à l'insulite, l'administration de l'UQAM a fait venir l'escouade anti- émeute de la police de Montréal hier après-midi pour évacuer les quelque 100 étudiants qui occupaient les locaux du département d'Animation et de Recherche Culturelle (ARC).
Appréhendant sans doute “un soulèvement populaire”, les forces de l'ordre (sic) ont envoyé pas moins de 12 voitures et plus de 25 agents. Armés de matraques et portant des casques, les policiers ont Invité les étudiants à se retirer dans l'ordre sans quoi Ils se verraient “contraints” à utiliser la force pour les expulser. Sous le regard intimidateur des policiers, les étudiants se sont donc retirer pacifiquement, non sans qu'un caporal impatient “d'agir” ne crie aux curieux d'aller dehors ‘s'ils ne voulaient pas se faire bûcher
dire publiquement leur appui aux départements d'histoire, de psychologie et de sociologie en grève depuis près de 6 semaines et dénoncer vigoureusement l'injonction obtenue jeudi dernier par l'administration de l'institution.
Des lignes de piquetage ont été dressées par les étudiants sur tous les différents campus de l'U de M, paralysant même complètement le pavillon Lionel-Groulx où ‘siègent les sciences humaines et le
pavillon Marie-Victorin qui:
abrite entre autres les dépar- tements de psychologie, communcations et préscolaire- élémentaire,
Les étudiants ont aussi distribué des tracts a la grandeur de l'université pour faire connaître les griefs des étudiants en grève. Au nombre des départements en grève, on retrouve entre autres, ce quiest inhabituel, les facultés de médecine et de droit de mème que la plupart des dépar-
. tements en science humaines.
Le mouvement de protestation qui a connu une ampleur inédite depuis l'ob- tention par - l'administration d'une injonction temporaire interdisant toute occupation des locaux administratifs, aurait selon certaines estimations perturbé les cours de près de 10000 étudiants.
Par ailleurs un juge de la Cour Supérieure a accédé à la demande de l'administration de
l'U de M hier matin et reconduit |
l'injonction temporaire jusqu'à
L'édition française
UQAM: Au tour de l’anti-émeute !
apparaît en quelque sorte come
l'AGEUQAM que nous voulons"
encore une fois, les étudiants
et n’avise les photographes de
la presse et de l'association de ne pas prendre de photo sous peine de voir leur appareil appréhendé...
L'évènement, qui après les innombrables fins de non-rece- voir de l'administration, son refus de négocier, son inconsi- |: dération totale pour l'AGEU- QAM et le comportement fas- ciste des étudiants de gestion,
la cerise sur l'énorme “gâteau de répression” de l'UQAM, a soulevé l'ire des étudiants présents. Furleux, à bout et]. révoltés, ils ont manifesté sur la
tue St-Denis en chantant ‘a bas la répression’, “nous aurons
et en décriant la pseudo- démocratie de ‘‘l'UQAM- univerité populaire’’, “démocratie” qui, il va s'en
dire, en prend pour son rhume dans le présent conflit. Et,
ont dénoncé ces “10 ans d'utopie, 10 ans de mauvaise foi”.
: L’injonction suscite de vives protestations à l’U de M
5000 étudiants en débrayage .
mercredi prochain. L'univerité aurait bien aimé transformer cette injonction en injonction permanente. Quelque 40 étudiants ont assisté. a l'audition de la cause pendant qu'une trentaine manifestaient paisiblement devant le Palais de Justice.
‘Ltinjonction a suscité de vives protestations de la part des ‘étudiants, ceux-ci allèguant qu'elle est inutile et ne peut que détériorer l'état déjà précaire des négociations. Bien qu'ils la rejettent et continuent de ne pas assister aux cours, les étudiants ont , toutefois fait savoir qu'ils la respectent toujours pour éviter toutes représailles légales. Ils essaieront par tous les moyens légaux possibles de la faire retirer.
.‘La journée d'hier est la deuxième journée de solidarité parrainée par l'association générale (FAECUM). Le 13 mars dernier, 2000 étudiants provenant de 8 départements “avaient débrayé en appui aux trois départements en grève. Ces dernier demandent principalement une réforme de leur programme respectif et un pouvoir étudiant effectif en ce qui concerne les questions pédagogiques. En psychologie par exemple, les étudiants revendiquent: “un programme mieux défini en fonction des problèmes du milieu” et dénoncent ‘le décalaae entre la inécrie universitaire et la
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Who Will Pay For
Sovereignty- Association?
® The per capita tax yields in Quebec are lower than the National. : average, which serves as a base for the FEDERAL govern- : - ment's FINANCING. In order to finance the same expenditures that are now being made to OTTAWA, the Quebec Government A would HAVE to set HIGHER tax rates to compensate for the | | difference in the yield. | |
© Equalization payments from the Federal Government for the provincial governments’ expenditures were nearly $1.5 | 1 BILLION in 1978-79. It has grown constantly since 1967 when the payment was $269 million. The White Paper does not mention this and these contributions would disappear with sovereignty-association.
* @ The price of oil and gas has been kept down from FEDERAL energy programs and Quebec taxpayers have benefited directly from it. In 1979, the saving to Quebecers was more than $1.5 billion. This saving, of course would also disappear with sovereignty-association.
® The tax contribution of Quebecers is by far the highest in the
- country. It is 23% higher than the average of the other provinces and 26% higher than in Ontario. The White Paper mentions a great deal about. “‘the prosperous economy... and social progress”, but it is strangely silent on what it would COST and how it would be financed. |
Say Yes For Quebec Vote SN o”
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by Anita Schapiro
Students at: Macdonald
College in St. Anne de Bellevue -are McGill students, too.
But they occupy the other campus of McGill that those of us downtown don’t know much about.
Nearly 20 per cent of Mac- donald students are foreigners. And while one-third of the 1980 graduating class is fran- cophone, two-thirds of the Uis
are francophone. Altogether, there are some 900 students
enrolled at Macdonald. They
graduate with McGill degreesin |
Agriculture, Agricultural
Engineering, Food Science,
Education, and Commerce. Macdonald shares facilities
With John Abbott College, the + most
prestigious English CEGEP in the province, with its -new $7.5 million athletic center. -Dorms are also shared.
Most of the old Macdonald
= buildings, dating back to 1907,
“have been leased to John - Abbott. The majority of classes “are now held in the new Macdonald Stewart Building, -the Barton Building houses a “library of nearly 100,000 volumes and the Centennial Center is the student ‘union building.
A new pub called the Kaleigh
~— Gaelic for the gathering
place — has a capacity of 263, ample
deejay’s booth. The Harvest is Macdonald's _ bi-weekly student newspaper.
The Macdonald Journal,
covers and
published monthly, agricultural research
“development.
The students’ council is run
‘much the way McGill's is, with
the exception of the Agriculture Undergraduate's Society (AUS). The AUS - is separate—it
generates: its own funds by
asking a dollar from anyone who wants to join. However, it is bound by the council con- stitution. {
Outdoor life is an in- dispensible part of Macdonald ‘life: log-rolling and: apple- picking in autumn, ‘special winter sports when the snow is on the ground, sugaring-off and planting. in the spring. Distances between campus facilities are considerable, often more than a mile, so run or ride bicycles as part of their daily routine.
The expansive grounds that comprise Macdonald are used for recreational as well as for farming and research purposes. Each year, the Woodsman is held at the Morgan Arboretum, Macdon- ald's 540-acre tract of natural woodlands.
There are twelve events in
: Pigs and cows | on campus
‘Macdonald
the cramer er emanate ng, ax-throwing and x-country skiing are some of them. Teams come from across Eastern Canada and the US to compete. The Macdonald team took first place for 1980. .
Research goes on daily at in many special fields that relate not only to
agriculture and science, but to
ecology. Its reputation is not just known in agrarian circles; it has made the pages of the Gazette and Time Magazine. Macdonald is the home of a radar/weather observatory, the Brace Research Institute, a Game Bird Preserve, the Dairy
Herd Service Center, a Water :
Research Center, the National Reference Center ‘for
Parasitology, the Lyman En-
tomological Center, the Morgan Arboretum, and the Ecological Agricultural Project.
The Brace Institute studies wind and solar energy. The Dairy Herd Service Center serves all of Quebec and some U.S. and Ontario farmers in protein and fat/content sam- pling for dairy products. The Parasitology center offers Masters and PhD programs— some selected courses are also offered to undergraduates.
The Morgan Arboretum, where the Woodsman Com- petition is held, was set-up as ‘ta model for integrated multiple use .forestry.”’ It supports tree species from all over the world and is used to study efficient ecological use of forest resources. It also has a botanical trail, its own bird sanctuary, recreational trails, and is the site for numerous
soil, water, and forest con- servation projects. The Ar- boretum yearly produces
timber and quantities of maple syrup.
The Ecological Agricultural Project is a special resource library located on campus. Its information is accessible to the public, and seeks to raise in- ternational awareness of the possibilities of ecological food systems, in view of limited supplies of food worldwide. lt stresses the importance of ecological food systems over advanced technological systems, and is therefore particularly concerned with developing nations. The Project has taken part in international agriculture and food con- ferences, and has been widely consulted across North America: X
College Royal is an annual symposium at Macdonald on agricultural development. Macdonald graduates who spoke this year included David Hopper, Vice President of the World Bank.
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Create your own summer job
by Louise Haberl
The Canada Summer Youth Employment Program offers an alternative to the usual restaurant or factory job that awaits students each summer. - The program, funded by the federal government, aims to give post-secondary students the chance to work in an area directly related to their field of study. “The focus this year is on obtaining experience in the student's studies,” said Lise Harel, the program's Project Agent for the Montreal area.
Under last year's Young Canada Works Program, Students submitted proposals for businesses such as painting services, aid for senior citizens and photography services. The jobs. were not necessarily related to the students’ studies.
In addition to the career- oriented nature of this year’s program, students must have a sponsor for their project, such as a’ non-profit organization. This is a change from last
year's program, in which there
was. no organization § in-
New women’s group
by Kimberley Stephenson
A series of summer workshops on various aspects of feminism will
scheduled to formally open in the fall.
The : proposed centre is designed to provide feminist teaching that women involved in the centre feel this city is lacking. And because the centre's courses will not be for credit, they feel it has as much or more to offer than other institutions with women’s studies programs.
“It's been found that after the initial surge of enthusiasm people end up taking the courses as credits, and that students begin to take women’s studies to teach that subject. It also seems that students turn out to be less
- radical,’ said Yvonne Klein, an
English professor and one of
the women actively involved in
the founding of the centre. There will be a series of 10
Ta April 2,1980
launch the Centre for Feminist Culture,
workshops, all interrelated, Starting on April 16 with an introduction, followed by three workshops on creativity and body image, one one women and mental health May 13, and on May 20 and 27, “Aspects of Past and Present Feminist Theory.” The workshops conc- lude with “Women and Busi- ness” led by Montreal busi- nesswoman Jessie Taras. A final session June 10 will assess the program and estab- lish how the centre will conduct itself in the fall.
The women involved in the centre stress that the reception of the workshops will deter- mine the centre's fall activities.
“If there are 2,000 people that's one thing, if there are 20, that’s another;” said Klein.
All workshops will be con- ducted at the YWCA on: Dor- chester and are free of charge. For further information, phone 931-8731 ext. 420.
tervening between students and the government agencies that funded them.
The deadline for the sub- mission of proposals was March 28th, although this does not mean that the accepted projects are closed to in- terested students. Each project will provide a minimum of three jobs, and students can apply for positions at Canada Em- ployment Centres beginning in May.
Brent Hussey, a student at the Quebec Bar School and a former McGill student, helped. revise a directory of legal in- formation last summer as: part of a Young Canada Works Program.
Hussey was enthusiastic about the idea of a career- oriented summer job. ‘You see the practical side of your career that you don't see in school,” he said.
Hussey's project was a continuation of one started three years ago by the Federal Department of Justice. Last year it employed 18 students with various backgrounds, although most were studying
_law.
In addition to providing some practical expertise for students' careers, Hussey feels that the project has helped certain groups, in particular senior citizens, to become informed about Quebec, civil law.
Students interested in ob- taining information about the Canada Summer Youth Em- ployment Program or other summer jobs should contact the McGill Student Placement Office.
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yUD Hine? ete RE 22,
In this article the Daily looks at some of the year's most important and-or intriguing on-
campus news Stories.
RAEU and ANEQ More Important than intriÿ- ulng was the schism in early
. October between two Quebec
student groups. Quebec's all university student association (RAEU) decided to break away from ANEQ, a group of both university and CEGEP students that RAEU members felt was pursuing unrealistic policies detrimental to students.
McGill jolned and contribut- ed financially to the newly independent RAEU.
Over the year the organiza- tlon has pushed for the recogn- ition of student associations at
-the universities of Laval and
Quebec at Montreal, lobbied the provinclal government to extend the ‘period required for Quebec professionals to show
proficiency in the French lang- ~
uage, worked at establishing internal structures for the group and began a critique of the Quebec government's study of unlversity education in the province. The McGill Referendum Committee
This active committee got off the ground in September. Its aim was to be a non-partisan group promoting debate on the so-called Quebec question.
In collaboration with other -
campus groups it brought several well-known politicians to speak and sponsored debat- es.between students and prom- Inent members of the commun-
Currently the referendum committee is circulating a questionnaire to gauge student opinion : on the sovereignty- association issue, ~ Playgirl
A McGill. student became Playgirl’s first ever Canadian centrefold. Catch Burl Chester,
a blology major, in this month's ©
Playgirl.
South Africa Committee Students on this committee
decided early on in the year that
divestment was the best way to
deal with South Africa’s apart-
‘heid policies. Their report
convinced Students’ Council to vote that McGill should get Its investments out of that coun-
try. Since then the committee .
has been trying, with limited success, to convince the Board of Governors.
Its year's activities have included demonstrations out- side the Bank of Montreal, mass circulation of a petition and a Solidarity Week held In February.
Maintenance workers’ strike
Perhaps the biggest. single event of the year was the maintenance workers’ two week strike beginning in late Febru- ary. The’ main issue of the strike was” Job’ security as workers fought to hold onto thelr Jobs while McGill admin- Istrators were “planning for a
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. Looking back:
smaller university." | A strike support committee
formed during the strike and.
attracted both students and faculty members who showed their support for the strike by boycotting classes. Playboy at Sadle’s
The selling of skin magaz- ines at the Students’ Society run Sadie’s generated heat
early In the year. Foes of
sexism and censorship battled It out in the Dally letters column and at the insistence of vp internal Debbi Shapiro the
The year in review
Issue ended up at council, where it was decided the Society shouldn't be profiting from the sale of sexist mater- lals and the magazines should cease to be sold. ; Liberal McGill : Liberal McGill’s hefty advert- Ising budget generated some Investigative reporting that rev- ealed the organization was not being funded solely by Indivi- duals but rather recelving dona- tions from outside businesses. Because Liberal McGill was not technically affiliated with the
Liberal Party the issue didn't
‘ come under the jurisdiction of
provincial laws yet It revealed an important loophole in elect- lon campaign funding laws.
The story was picked up by.
local television and radio. Student evaluations of teachers Senate decided early on in the year to take student evalua- tions Into account when rec- ommending who should be receiving tenure. It later, how- ever, rejected the idea that these evaluations should all be made public and left the
decision up to the departments Involved, Elections
In a campus-wide referend- um students approved the idea of an eight dollar increase in their Students’ Society fees. They also voted to separate the Daily’s fee from the Students’ Society one in an attempt to enshrine freedom of the press.
Elected to Students’ Council next year were Todd Ducharme as president, Daniel Gaucher as vp external and Mary Loulse Prosen as vp internal.
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IMASCO IMASCO president: Business will suffer if Quebec votes yes in referendum
by Richard Goldman
The business community is acting in its own best interests in promoting the “no” vote during the ongoing referendum campaign, Imasco President and Chairperson Paul Paré told a McGill audience last Thur-
.sday.
Invited to speak by the McGill “No” Vote Committee, Paré who is also a director of the Royal Bank said that the referendum campaign “affects corporations directly because it
threatens their prospects for future growth.”
“Business must look at the consequences of a break-up of Canada and decide how to act,’ he said. “This may not be morally acceptable to some, but that is not a view we share."
Paré said he became a Supporter and spokesman for the “no” option because he “did not want to see 112 years of confederation go down the drain", and that the real choice to be made was between
ATTENTION ALL McGILL STUDENT LEADERS
if you are the 1980-81 President
Editor
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Chairperson Coordinator, or Chief Officer
of any McGill student Club
Society
Publication
Council
Committee
Association, or
Service you must register with the McGill Students’ Society by April 15, 1980 if you wish your organization to @ be able to reserve meeting and events space in the
Student Union at no cost
@ be able to book space in other campus buildings at
McGill rates
@ receive the summer edition of the McGill Student Leader Bulletin keeping you informed of issues
affecting campus groups
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@ beable to place ads in the McGill Daily at reduced
rates
@ be invited toa leadership workshop in September
@ receive a copy of the operating manual for student leaders to be published in August.
Summer registration forms are available in the Students Society General Office, Room 105 of the Student Union, "3480 McTavish Street and should be handed in to Heather McLean, Secretary, NO LATER THAN APRIL 15th, 1980, or
complete the following: - Organization Name
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If you will not be in the Montreal area during the summer of 1980, please fill in the name and summer address of one member of your organization who will be in Montreal.
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separation and renewed federalism. | Calling the BNA Act “a
document that is a little worn at the edges,’ Paré said that confederation was in need of a comprehensive review in the light of current realities, and that indications from across Canada were that the country is finally ready for real con- stitutional reform.
“We are on the threshold of a renewed federalism which will widen our horizons... My ‘no’ vote will be a vote to keep trying, to accept the new challenge rather than retreat,” he said.
“If the ‘no’ option passes, we will have the chance to begin negotiation for renewed federalism...The consensus across Canada is that to delay
negotiations would be to risk seeing our country fractured.”
Paré said he _ recognized Québec’s right to self- determination but that he felt it would be “redundant” to en- shrine it in the Canadian constitution.
“Business must look at the consequences of a break-up and decide how-to act.”
Paré condemned the ‘narrow Péquiste dream of separation”, saying there are only a “hard core” of 20 per cent who sup- port the Parti-Québécois’ sovereignty-association option while ‘another 30 or 40 per cent
are being lead down the garden path to an uncertain future." Imasco’s connections with South Africa were brought up during the question period. Imasco's largest shareholder is British American Tobacco Industries of England, ‘which has at least six fully owned subsidiaries operating in South Africa. When one student cited
Statistics concerning working
conditions prevalent in South Africa, and asked how the speaker could condone _in- volvement with such a state Paré replied: “| wish | knew as much about South Africa as you appear to do.” He said British American Tobacco is run by its own. board of directors, and that he had no involvement in the policies it establishes.
Deteriorating journalism can only improve in near future
by Brian Topp
The commercial press in quebec has nowhere to go but up, according to Gerard Le- blanc, President of the Fédéra- tion Professionelle des Journa- listes du Québec.
Speaking at the annual conf- ‘erence of the Centre for Invest- Igative Journalism (CliJ) last weekend, Leblanc sald that
journalism in the province had
deteriorated in recent years. “When | started as a journal- ist ten years ago, francophone
“Now more than 90 per cent of all private newspapers, radio stations and TV stations are chain-owned. Ken Thompson owns the most newspapers in Canada, maybe In the world. Fortunately, he won't interfere with independence. But what- ever editorial independence we have is at Thompson's and Conrad Black's pleasure.”
However, Ross concluded that the state of Canadian journalism was “itself improv-
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“I'm not complacent about the future of newspapers,” he said. _
“Market research is believed by publishers, and market research is telling them that people want lighter content. | fear the eighties will be an era of bright news and boosterism.
“We'll just have to hope that the poeple running the news- papers are going to maintain good news.”
Marc Starowicz, founding
reporters were playing a role in society. It came out in their articles that they thought there should be hospitals for poor people as well as rich people, and schools for everyone. They weren't ashamed of that,” he said.
“Then the national question became the Issue, and things changed. Reporters can't let their beliefs out anymore. That spirit of doing something in society is gone.”
In the anglophone media, speakers talked about the eff- ects of corporate concentration and. of journalism based on market research.
“In 1970, 67 per cent of all private media outlets in Canada were owned by chains,” said Alexander ross, editor of Cana- dian Business, \: /
ed”.
Ross proposed that journal- ists direct some of the money from their pension funds into ownership of their newspapers.
‘| fear the ’80s will be an era of bright news and boosterism.” EE He suggested that employee ownership would ensure the corporate concentration didn't distort newspapers.
Allen Frizell, University professor, was less
optimistic about the future of journalism in Canada.
a Carleton.
producer of CBC's “As It Happens” and “Sunday Morn- ing’, put the problem of Canadian journalism more bluntly.
“We don't know what we're talking about," he said.
The three- -day conference, attended by some 650 journal- ists, featured a number of media-related seminars. Topics included investigating provinc- ial legislatures, several semin- ars on the Quebec referendum, police reporting, television and radio journalism, energy cover- age, basic techniques, and the future of Canadian journalism.
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The conflict between the McGill Faculty Union and the McGill Association of University Teachers Is one of both ideology and practical concerns. Its result may be the onset of academic unionization at McGill much sooner than expected.
On September 28th, 1979, MFU charged the MAUT with violating the Quebec Labour Code.
The case Is based on a petition to the court to dissolve the MAUT. Among the charges entered in the province's labour court were that the MAUT has tried to help McGill: University un- dermine the activities of the MFU “by agreeing to be dominated by an em-
“People in power are all MAUT members and strongly supporting it.”
Lénine mandarin re Atesrenr entr el Sens rest mue | | ployer, McGill’ and by “acting as an
accomplice in the manoeuvers of McGill aimed at preventing the unionization of McGill employees."
The MFU charged: the MAUT with allowing itself to be favoured by the University as the ‘sole employee association to negotiate salaries of academic employees at McGill.”
The MAUT was also charged with accepting financial assistance from the
| [university in the form of-an 80 per cent
discount on internal mail, a discount which is not given to other university organizations, according to the MFU. The MAUT's alleged agreement with McGill stipulating that all faculty employees’ automatically become members of the MAUT unless they notify the association otherwise they also cited as being contrary to Quebec labour law. Under agreement dues for the MAUT are the university from the paychecks of MAUT members. The MFU charged that the administration refused to provide the
the alleged
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same service to the McGill Faculty Union.
The MFU completed the presentation
of evidence for its case on February 7th. In presenting its case, the MFU called 22 witnesses who testified before the court and were cross-examined by the MAUT and university attorneys. The university has taken part In the proceedings since it may be affected by the outcome of the trial because of a related case that is pending against it for alleged violations of the Labour Code.
The MAUT presented its evidence last Thursday and Friday. The written argument should soon be presented by the court by both parties.
The ideological conflict between the MAUT and the MFU is fairly obvious.
The MAUT was founded in the early '50s. According to vice-principal Leo Yaffe, the goals of the MAUT were “staff involvement in the operation of the university and raising the standards of employment of the academics.” At that time, the academic salaries at McGill were “absolutely disgraceful” and the contribution of the academics to the running of the University was not very important. In this sense, the MAUT was “one of the pioneers in this field, in university life in Canada,"-agcording to Yaffe.
The MAUT believes that McGill being an academic institution, it should be run by the academics. This is “collegiality.” collegiality to be a civilized way of discussion and does not unionization is necessary at McGill. Unionization will create an atmosphere of confrontation and antagonism, the
‘MAUT told the Daily in an interview last
term.
_ The MFU holds the exactly opposite view. According to its president, Allen Fenichel, ‘McGill has become lawless” and collegiality is ‘an illusion of par- ticipation.” “With unionization, we will have a clear set of rules under which staff and administration relations can
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function,” says Sid Ingerman of the
. MFU.
The MFU was founded in the late ‘60s, at a time when government budget cuts were Starting to hit Quebec universities. Since then, all other universities in Quebec except Concordia have unionized. Because of the budget cuts, faculty members at these universities saw the need to protect their job security and academic standards within their institution.
The opposition between the MAUT and MFU is therefore quite clear. While the MFU members more or less believe unionization to be inevitable, the MAUT claims that 80 per cent of faculty at McGill sees no neéd to unionize.
In court, the MFU has brought
evidence to support its claims that the
MAUT is trying to hinder them. Such evidence includes examples of harassment of some MFU executives by the administration, and Principal Johnston's well-known stand against unionization and accreditation at McGill.
The MFU also presented letters
The MFU charges that the ad- ministration refuses to pro: vide it with the same services as MAUT.
signed by MAUT executives, and stating that “MAUT is recognized by the ad- ministration as the representative of the Faculty” and that ‘‘amongst the ac- complishments of MAUT on behalf of the professional teaching staff in the last few years are’ the following:
negotiation with the administration for
salary increments.”
The MFU argues the MAUT has no right to negotiate salaries with the administration, as it is not an ac- credited union. |
For its part, MAUT counters this
?\Professors i in court over unionization
argument by explaining that it was not aware of the legal implications of certain words prior to the onset of the court case, and that these “negotiations” were only discussions and recommendations to the Board of Governors.
According to Allen Fenichel of the MFU, a certain environment is created at McGill if the MAUT is able to par- ticipate in the various university committees, with the administration, in terms of solidifying the notion that they are the recognized organization on campus.
“It puts the MFU in a very awkward position,” said Fenichel in court.
Ingerman agrees: “We find ourselves in a situation where the people in power are MAUT members and are all strongly supporting it” (the MAUT).
So far, the MFU members are satisfied with the proceedings in court. lf they win, the MAUT will be dissolved. According to Ingerman, ‘this would hopefully create conditions in which a majority of staff members would seek and obtain a collective bargaining organization.” Whether or not that
‘organization would be the MFU as such |
is not that important to Ingerman.
“All that the MFU wants is a collective agreement at McGill,” he says.‘ À
If they lose, Ingerman thinks the MFU members will keep on going with basically the same strategy. The MFU hopes the decision will be rendered in early summer.
This trial is therefore especially important for the McGill community in that it could bring about unionization at McGill much faster than observers have predicted.
In view of the proposed budget cuts and of the administration's attitude | during the recent support workers’ strike, some believe unionization Is the only way to ensure job security and to maintain the academic standards | that have given McGill its name.
by Denis Gascon Accusations of antidemoc- ratism which led to the “ourge’ of three Workers Communist Party (WCP)- sympathizers from the execu- tive of l'Association Nationale des Etudiants du Québec (ANEQ): two weeks ago were all totally. unfounded, says
dismissed secretary of exter-
nal affairs André Rémillard. ©
. “An executive which calls for seven national meetings within 10 months of power is nelther antidemocratic nor acting without consulting Its basis," he sald in a Dally interview.
- The three members, André Chabot, Jean Latraverse and Rémillard were dismissed by a 2 to 1 majority membership vote because “they suppress- ed dissident ideas, took unila-
* teral positions, did not consult
students and were putting their political line before ANEQ and student interests.”
Responding officially to the charges for the first time In two weeks, Rémillard said the executive had always acted on mandates. .
“Of course, sometimes; we
put forward orientations not
yet ratified by general assem-
blies, but that brings up the
question of the conception of democracy in ANEQ. Does
democracy mean that the
direction gives some orientat-
‘lon or that it waits passively
for general assemblies to vote mandates? | think the second one Is Impossible in practice,” sald Rémillard.
While they recognize there was an important gap between the executive and the memb- ership, the three dismissed executives sald in a letter
recently published, that they were always defending “links between ANEQ and the stud- ents”.k
They say, contrary to the -
allegations in the motion of non-confidence, they had mandates from the congress- es to support the CEGEP employees strike and law 62. The congress had given man- dates “to support the Common Front."
* Rémillard presented two methods of establishing a national direction: one which draws perspectives and esta- blishes a consensus out of
students’ Ideas to propose a
direction, and another one where the ‘executives bring up what they think Is good and seek students’ support and approval before implementing it. When asked about - the balance between the two
April 2, 1980
conceptions, Rémillard did not seem to know where to draw the line.
Rémillard feels the dismis- sal was imbued with “anti- communism" and was “a refined witch hunt”.
“Those who dismissed us did so not because we did not consult students but rather because they disagreed with our decisions,” he said.
Asked to explain why 15 Institutions voted for the mot- lon if all the accusations were unfounded, Rémillard seemed confused about whether anti- communism or a willingness to resolve ANEQ problems was the reason for the expul- sion.
In light of the fact that it was the third motion calling for the executive dismissal this year, Rémillard said the executive had made errors. He sald their
Purged ANEQ members were not anti-democrats
position on RAEU was wrong and that they should have : pushed for a strong RAEU ina strong ANEQ and gone beyond their divergences with RAEU leaders rather than criticize their “scissionist position”.
Rémillard also admitted err- ors in the “loans and bursaries struggle" and ANEQ’s lack of consideration for: any other issue,
Rémillard criticized new se- cretary-general Jacques Beaupré for some of his policies and statements.
“He refused to denounce the addition 6f a mandatory mathematics course to CEG- EP program or to present himself as the ANEQ secre- tary-general because “stud- ents were not ready for It.” This goes against ANEQ's role .
* of Information and organiza-
tion,” he sald.
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Education cutbacks:
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by Rick Boychuk
Like the driver of a car approaching a steep drop in the road the Quebec government is gingerly applying the brakes to university spending. Reluc- tant as they might be to retard the ‘rattrapage’ in education spending Quebec has pursued since 1961, it is clear the government believes social ‘ service spending must be arrested.
They are in good company: virtually every other provincial government has begun hacking away at budgets for post-secondary institutions. But in this * rush to fiscal equilibrium, some of the losers ought to be identified. In Quebec's case, historical circumstance dictates that the first victims of this
causal austerity program will be the .
‘lower classes, and more specifically, the francophone lower classes.
It seems an irony indeed to be ac- cusing the Parti Quebecois of helping to perpetuate the historical in qualities ‘that have existed between the fran- cophones and anglophones of Quebec. Yet their policy of cutbacks will do just that. The third report of the Commission d'étude sur les Universités (CEU) suggests this will be the end result of systematic university budget cuts. The report’s authors argued that despite
almost 20 years of expansion of:
Quebec's universities, la belle province is still far behind other provinces, most notably Ontario, in per capita post- educational funding. In fact, they showed that “compared to Ontario, the percentage of Quebec 18-24 year-olds with BAS and first professional diplomas has fallen off between 1971 and '76: from 4.5 per cent (compared to Ontarlo’s 5.2 per cent) in 1971 to 3.9 per cent (compared to Ontario's 7.4 per cent) in 1976."
Although part of the responsibility for this statistical shortfall can be at- tributed to demographics (a baby boom bulge in those years) history and economics are at work here as well. And to understand these social forces we must first examine the composition of Quebec’s student population and how it has changed in the last decade.
In linguistic terms, 5.29 per cent of the francophone community is presently receiving a university education as opposed to 13.48 per cent of the anglo community. The Quebec anglophone community has a higher percentage of university graduates than any other group in Canada.
In socio-economic terms the CEU report shows that although the student body now represents a wider range of social classes there are still glaring inequalities, For example they argue Statistically that children of professionals are four times more likely to end up at university than the children of farmers. They note it is the newer universities (U de Sherbrooke and
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There is but one clear conclusion one can draw from these statistics. Although the CEU authors note that 50 per cent of Quebec university students come from families with low incomes and 50 per cent have parents who only reached grade 11, the fact is that children of the lower classes are en- tering university almost in spite of the government rather than because of it. Increasingly, students are choosing to study part-time for the simple reason that they cannot afford to study full-
revealed that 48.7 per cent of Quebec Students hold down a job during the school year. The survey further shows that 33.2 per cent of full-time students and 89.1 per cent part-time students hold jobs during the school year.
Statistics regarding who receives financial ald in the form of loans and bursaries show why students are working their way through university. The CEU report says 65.6 per cent of all students in Quebec do not receive any financial aid and of those who receive aid, 11.3 per cent are given less than $500. When the aid figures are broken down by father’s occupation we see that 71.6 per cent of students whose fathers are blue or white collar workers do not receive any aid while only 49.3 per cent of the students whose fathers are middie or upper management executives do not receive government financial aid.
Students attending McGill, however, are more likely to receive financial help than students elsewhere. Besides provincial money McGill has private endowments which it dispenses to needy students in the form of loans and bursaries. McGill Student Aid director Judy Stymest says the university “gives out a considerable amount.”
“Our aid program has doubled over the last ten years. Donations have been on the rise.”
Stymest says in 1972/73 almost 2,000 McGill students were receiving money from the province. That number has not changed although the amounts being given have increased. She says that the Quebec government student aid program is one of the best in the country. But slowly cutbacks are being introduced. Stymest says the govern- ment has been increasing the size of the loan given and decreasing the amount of the bursary.
When push comes to squeeze It would be difficult to fault the Quebec government for its education funding policies during the '70s. The middie and lower classes have at least seen the inside of Quebec universities. The ylower classes, in particular, are
represented in all the schools. But their,
toe-hold is a tenuous one. By and large they are part-time students, do not receive financial aid and are fran- cophone. When the budget cuts are introduced, it will be these very students who are once again frozen out. An increase in tuition costs, a further tightening of the loans and bursaries program, a hike in residence fees (as is being proposed at U de M) or a dozen other such austerity measures could force ‘these students out of school. Considering that only 5.29 per cent of Quebec francophones are now receiving a university education (the
Canadian average is about 10 per cent)
it would seem sheer folly to introduce policies which would further reduce this figure. Yet it is happening.
“We can see the government is planning cutbacks from a report tabled in the National Assembly last May. In the report they accept as a goal for the year 2000 the level of education spending attained by Ontario in 1976" says McGill professor and Federation des associations des professeurs des universities du Québec (FAPUQ) president Jean-Louis Roy.
“The government believes that in the future a smaller population will be in- terested in going to university and they don’t want FD build institutions that will not be used.
“But the methodology they used in the study was totally demolished by the CEU. The CEU pointed out that the government was not taking into ac- count the fact that half the student body is now part-time. And they are still basing their statistics on students between the ages of 18- and 24. But this changing,” says Roy.
His sentiments are echoed by FAPUQ executive-director Rene Serge Larouche.
“The government is very prudent. The general spirit of their proposals is to base future post-secondary funding on per capita figures—like the 1976 On- tario expenditures. But the government is not saying exactly what is to be cut. They are increasing some things and cutting others—all very cleverly.
“| think there will continue to be cutbacks in higher education spending all over the occidental world because of the oil crisis. But is isn't fair for the
francophone universities. The cutbacks.
Level of education
0 to 8 years
secondary education partially completed or completed
post-secondary (CEGEP) : partially completed
post-secondary (CEGEP) graduate
university diploma total
Source: CEU report III
April 2, 1980
Unemployment rates in Quebec in 1977 by age and level of education
are beginning at a time when the
-development of Quebec's institutions
of higher education, which was begun in 1961, is not yet complete. The anglo universities in Quebec still produce far more graduates than all the fran- cophone universities.”
The CEU report is even more critical of the policy of linking university growth to economic fluctuations. The authors. argue that individuals with more education have more employment opportunities. An education offers flexibility and mobility.
The authors also scoff at the notion of declining enrollments. First, they say, Quebec has offered only a small proportion of its population a university education. There is no lack of ap- plicants. And second, entrance requirements currently in use are nota fair judge of an individual's ability. The doors could be opened wider than they presently are, they suggest. ;
The descent has begun. Government officials obviously perceive the road to be steep and a long way to the bottom. Policy prescription being offered by Quebec City is to lean heavily on the brake; to cutback education funding. In the short run it may be prudent economic management. But the long run social consequences are far more crucial. Quebec will not bankrupt itself by continuing the present level of post-secondary educational funding. To cut back cn this funding, however, would create a legacy that would long be remembered, for it is a policy that would touch the lives of many individ- uals. And specifically, it would affect the lives of those individuals who have limited opportunities in the first place.
Age 15-24 25 and all ages over 25.7% 9,5% 10.6% 18.9% 7.8% 11.9%
\ 16.5% 6.9% 11.4% 12.0% 5.5% 7.3% sa ° 3.6% 4,3% 17.8% 7.5% 10,3%
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by Heather Tisdale The school year 1979/80 saw the
Canadian university student continue —
the fight against fee increases and budget cutbacks. But what may be more important is the increase in social awareness which seemed to spread across Canadian university campuses. Cutbacks
Money was on the mind of every budget-conscious student. And with the beginning of a new decade, it does not appear that the financial situation will improve, Bill Tieleman, a CUP (Canadian University Press) staffer, wrote: “The writing was on the wall for years but only now are the full effects of continuous education funding cutbacks
‘ being felt.”
A barrage of statistics reaffirms the impression that higher education is indeed a luxury item.
For instance: ethe average
tuition at the
University of Toronto will be 16.5 per-
cent more than the present charge of $710
e some tuition fée increases at UofT next year could go as high as 53 per cent of the present charge
@ in Alberta there will be a probable lee increase of 10 per cent
@ in 1978/79 Manitoban students faced
a 20 per cent increase in tuition and this. |
year they were forced to pay an ad- ditional six per cent
e at Simon Fraser University the Board of Governors approved a 49 per cent rent increase over two years for student residences
e and at McGill the administration is
“Planning for a Smaller University."
Many universities have been forced to‘cut support staff and faculty. Foreign students may become an endangered species because all but three provinces have differential tuition fees and are charging more to foreign students.
The reaction to mounting costs and cutbacks ranged from resignation (in
more senses than one — at York
University the dean of Fine Arts resigned over cutbacks) to outright ‘protest.
The Ontario Federation of Students (OFS) was particularly active ‘in protesting increases and cutbacks. In the fall the organization launched a campaign called ‘Prescription for a higher education,” in which 40,000 post
cards were distributed to universities —
and colleges across the province and were sent In by students to the provincial government.
In February a group of U of T students occupied the office of President James Ham, and at Laurentian University. in March there was a sit-in staged by some
- 50 students. In Ontario protest of this
sort was often aimed not only at the university but at the province's Ministry of Education as well.
Protests over money have not yet. _ ended for the year. Students in Ontario . and Alberta are planning to march on.
thelr provincial legislatures.
What has made this year different from others is a general increase in awareness of the world beyond the
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confines of the campus. It would be safe to say that the average student was becoming more left-leaning in his or her attitudes.
Not that this happened overnight; this was the year that these attitudes were manifested in various forms of action.
Divestment The issue of Canadian universities’
at campuses
across Canada
investments in South Africa (either direct or indirect) was a particularly dynamic one. Student groups exerted pressure on their administrations to
, withdraw their funds from banks which
lent money to the racist regime.
A vigorous student campaign at Trent University resulted in that university’s Senate deciding to with- draw money from banks which blan-
,, April 2, 1980
was hot and what was not
tantly lent money to South Africa with the proviso that they would patronize banks that purported to be examining the issue.
Students at Dalhousie University were asked to boycott the Bank of Commerce over its South African connections. And at McGill there was significant student support for the South Africa Committee which spon- sored information sessions and presented a petition to the Board of Governors requesting divestment.
There was also support at some universities for Nicaragua's literacy campaign.
A cursory glance at university newspapers reveals a growing interest in international issues.
Engineers in trouble
Feminist consciousness manifested . itself in action against the most obvious form of campus sexism — certain engineering activities and publications.
A special committee was set up, at the University of Windsor to investigate the engineering students’ society newspaper.
Engineers at the University of British Columbia may have seen the last of their Lady Godiva ride and Red Rag newspaper. The administration was ‘ forced to defend the engineers’ ac- tivities to a human rights branch in- vestigation, at which a spokesperson said: “It would seem that at UBC racism is out but sexism is perfectly ac- ceptable.”
The issue of sexual harassment is being studied on various campuses, and will probably be more highly publicized next year.
But there is still a long way to go when this year’s National Union of Students (NUS) convention passes a declaration of the rights of the female Student. :
Nuclear power
There was universal student concern about environmental issues such as acid rain and nuclear power. Awareness of pollution begins on campus too. In September it was observed that noticeably high levels of radiation had leaked undetected into a University of British Columbia building. It was found that Concordia University's neutron generator had been leaking neutron particles into the basement of a cam- pus building since 1976.
Canadian universities are now under scrutiny for lax procedures in allowing unsafe amounts of radioactive wastes on campus.
Students are now less likely to accept injustice as they were in the heyday of ‘70s apathy. Students at the Université de Montréal are still on strike over various issues. Chinese students. are planning legal action against the CTV network for alleged distortion of facts on a show about foreign students.
Apathy at McGill University officially came to an end this winter when sup- port workers went on strike. Many students rallied to their defence via a strike support committee, and hundreds of students boycotted classes.
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On November. 26, 1961, .the
Grunenthal drug -firm= withdrew. Its popular sleeping pill containing thalidomide from the market: Before thalidomide was withdrawn, the chemical produced deformities in 6,000 infants in West Germany alone, In the two decades that’ have” passed since the thalidomide catastrophe, govern- ments in North America have monitored the drug Industry's research much more carefully. In 1973, the :Canadian government, In conjunction with the US government, published a detailed, 183- page set of drug test guidelines: Despite compliance to these new regulations, the drug industry on several occasions has. been found guilty of abuses and fraudulent prac-
tices In attempts to circumvent these ©
stringent “requirements, especially when sizeable profits are at stake.
The elaborate and expensive: drug :
testing procedure begins with: a thorough pharmacological assessment
of the drug: If the effectiveness study
gives promising results, the company
will begin testing the drug on laboratory:
animals, usually dogs and rats. |
The first test procedure determines . fhe acute toxicity of the drug, or in other.
words the amount of the drug which is lethal. ‘a
Secondly, the researchers check for sub-acute toxicity by adding the drug to
“the animals’ diet during a 90-day period
and observing any physiological changes. Some. the.animals are then killed and thoroughly examined, while
others are kept alive and put on a
normal diet, to determine whether any side. effects which appeared in the
-animals are permanent.
Over an 18-year. period, the use of the drug phenformin resulted in a significant number of fatalities in the U.S.
The third step of the procedure tests whether low dosages of the drug over long periods of time are toxic to the animal. The effects of the drug on three generations of animals ‘are studied. These three sets of experiments require
-some two years for completion and cost
an estimated $500,000. On the average only one or two per cent Of all drugs tested will pass these tests. -
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healthy human volunteers. The tests. study the kinetics of. the: interaction
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lf the new drug produces no major side effects in the patients, and if it proves more effective In alleviating the condition than other drugs already on the market, the drug company: may begin limited distribution of the drug to general practitioners. After this :côm- plex risk/benefit analysis, the drug firm finally puts the drug out onto the
‘market.
Despite these elaborate . safety precautions, unsafe drugs continue to appear on the ‘market. Last November the. National Cancer nounced that corticosteroid drugs used in the treatment of cancer and arthritis
-had been linked to a new strain of
pneumonia. In March 1978, Japanese
- courts awarded $1.1 million in damages : -to-16 people who had’ taken an anti- --diarrhetic drug called quinoform which
resulted In paralysis. The drug allegedly affected 11,000 Japanese before its ban in 1970. Ciba-Geigy, one of the phar-
maceutical Companies that marketed:
quinoform, suffered a further setback in 1977 when the American government ordered phenformin, a prescription drug used by some 385,000 diabetics, off the.
‘market. Over. an 18-year period. the
bload disorder it produced resulted in more than 100 fatalities inthe U.S. | The first reason for such failures is the danger .inherent in all drugs; the safety standards In the industry are not always to blame. Animal tests can only approximate how a drug will affect humans. Indeed, some drug's side ef. fects ‘may not manifest themselves even during the testing of humans. Car- cinogens ‘in particular may escape detection since cancer can take up to 25 years to appear. © ; -Risk/benefit analysis comes into play
at this stage to aid in deciding whether
a drug's side effects are worse than the condition it cures. An example of sucha
problem arose in May 1979 when the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) reported
. that reserpine, a drug used. to lower high blood presure, caused cancer: FDA
and NCI officials agreed that the short term benefits of the drug outweighed the possibilities that it could produce cancer. over the long term. Reserpine Is
: stillon the market; the final decision is
left to:the. consumer, as it is with birth-
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- According to Samuel Epstein of the School - of Public Health of: the University of Illinois, the drug industry has produced inadequate, biased and manipulated ‘data, and has even gone
‘as. far as*.destroying compromising ‘data. The greatest problem: is . that
almost all the risk/benefit analyses from which-regulatory decisions are made
‘are produced and interpreted by the
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industry itself or by universities and commercial laboratories under contract to industry. ;
This high degree of self-regulation has resulted in low quality-studies. In 1967, the FDA Commissioner Herbert Ley complained that “almost half of the petitions originally submitted to the Food and Drug Administration have been incomplete and, therefore, have required subsequent. supplementation, amendment, withdrawal, or denial.” :
Epstein, in his recent study “The politics of cancer,” reveals the faults In design and performance of car- cinogenicity tests:
1) premature termination of ex- periments (either intentionally or because animals are submitted to excess doses) before cancers can develop | | Li .2) inadequate monitoring of the in-: tended procedures
3) “alteration,: falsification and even destruction of records.” ss
“There are no safe drugs. There are only safe dosages.” | EN EEE
Epstein's conclusions have been verified by studies from a number of US agencies, in particular those of the Environmental Protective Agency (EPA) and the carcinogenicity panel of the Mark Commission on Pesticides. In
. 1969, this panel reviewed 17 industrially : sponsored studies on the the car- cinogenicity of DDT and concluded that
. 14 of those studies were."'so inherently ‘defective as to preclude any possible determination of carcinogenicity.”
But beyond ‘mere negligence, or the production of inadequate data, industry has also indulged in. fraudulent manipulation of data. Epstein cites the cases of the drug Dornwall, for which the Wallace and Tienan Company were found gullty of submitting false data, and the drug MER/29 for which officials of the Richardson-Merrill Company were-criminally convicted. The drug Penalba was removed from the market in 1968 after an FDA inspector. ac- cidentally discovered ‘hidden in- formation proving its lack of efficacy as
compared with its individual ingredients. | More. recently, in 1977, Industrial
Biotest Labs'of Illinois, faced with a US governmental investigation, destroyed
iles dealing with toxicological and carcinogenicity tests of thousands of federally approved products including drugs, food additives, pesticides and ‘industrial chemicals. Officials sub- sequently admitted having ordered this destruction of documents.
In response to such occurrence, governments have set out to ensure the quality control of the data used in regulation. In the US in 1977, Congress allocated $16.6 million to the FDA for this purpose. The industry has respond- ed by Increasing its testing capacities, a move that brings new fears to critics. They believe the problem of data misrepresentation. and abuse can be solved only by creating independent organizations to form what Epstein calls a “neutral buffer zone” between
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”’ states the well-known adage. Yet'in a day when massive oil spills are blackening our shores, in-
‘dustrial smokestacks are blackening our skies, and nicotine and’ tar are :
blackening our lungs, it becomes increasingly evident that man has forgotten the value of preventing health hazards before they appear. / 3 Industry has a long record of falling to take preventive safety - measures until the damage has been done. As for government, it has largely failed in its responsibility to regulate industrial safety. A Nader report on occupational disease In industry reveals that the Massachusetts government uncovered | 24,845 violations of the safety laws in 1968, an overwhelming indictment of industry's contempt for health codes. Furthermore, the state, in mockery of its own laws, assessed a mere 12 fines for these violations. The report also .
declares that in 1968 the Delaware government employed only one safety
inspector for-every 207,000 workers—a very dangerous form of tokenism
‘indeed.
At the heart of the problem lies government's heavy rellance on
retrospective curative measures as opposed to forward looking preventive
measures tq solve problems. Such policies prevent the development of foresight necessary to combat nascent dangers to the health of the society. An example of government's reluctance to take safety precautions before :
, absolutely necessary recently occurred‘in Ontario, where it was found that:
many older buildings contain large quantities of asbestos — a known car- cinogen. Instead of ordering the removal of the asbestos from all buildings, the Ontario government plans to remove it from schools only. And It com- plains that the price tag, of well under one million dollars, Is too high: The public has come to know this slipshod brand of government under the euphemistic name of “crisis management! — a system of government ' delivering exactly what It promises, management of crises, rather than their - outright prevention. ; (Se -1n"1969, a journalist discovered that 200 children inhabiting American slums die each year. of lead poisoning, caused by eating flaking paint: off
- tenement.walls, Although the discovery prompted a number of investigations Into lead toxicity, it failed to initiate any investigations into the social causes.
of these deaths. This example demonstrates government's unbalanced approach to the tackling of health hazards.
“If industry and government cannot, or refuse to cope-adequately with
public health hazards, impetus for drastic changes obviously must originate from outside these two spheres. However, to criticize government and in- dustry as the sole two groups which deal inadequately with health hazards would be to vastly underestimate the scope of the problem. The public as well is guilty of refusing to swallow mildly unpleasant medicine today to prevent tomorrow's ills. ~~ LS, |
The products of science have helped to create this unsettling trend of
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fit motive causes real problems
: public unconcern for health. In 1977, American doctors filled 120 million. prescriptions for tranquilizers and sleeping pills. As society increases its
dependence on these chemicals to relieve stress, it loses its desire to change the social institutions which created the stress in the first place. Thus, society is leaning on science as a crutch to relieve its aches and pains. in- stead of confronting the problems which are crippling it. à
A similar pattern of rellance on scientific cures has led to a lack of simple
Preventive measures from being taken against the two leading causes of
death in North America — cancer and heart disease.
Governments haye spent over $10 billion in the last two decades on ”
medical research on cancer. At the same time, the US government in 1979 spent only.$6 million on its anti-smoking campaign.’ Yet is it not common sense to fight a medical illness whose causes are largely social by taking preventive social measures? Certainly, scientific cures of cancer would be a
great boon to mankind, but.not if the scientific search for these cures jm: -pinges on the budgeting of equally valuable social programs to prevent
cancer. > : : Similarly, heart disease is a medical syndrome whose causes are largely
Social. The high-pressure, backstabbing North American way of life and a
public disdain for exercise undoubtedly account for. the fact that: heart disease is the leading cause of death in North America. Fortunately, both the public and government have started to respond to these realities — the public by growing disillusioned with the “corporate meat grinder" and the government by. Initiating public. fitness campaigns. The workability of social programs to prevent iliness is/evidenced by the great success of Par- ticipaction, which will probably one day prevent as many heart illnesses as the medical profession cures. eset ASS
It is imperative that-society does not view medical research as a
… miraculous panacea. The intrinsic value of such research should not be - underestimated, But man:can more immediately improve his chances for survival by first realizing that social problems account for many of his
illnesses, and then taking appropriate social action. |
The public must gain the motivation to stop abusing science as a con- venient crutch. It must take a stand that will force industry to concern itself more greatly with worker health, and cause government to renounce its myopic distortion of that old adage to read “an ounce of cure is worth a pound of prevention.” :
“Social‘medicine” often does not: possess the same aura of mystery and
excitement as “scientific medicine,"’ which may explain its lack of funding in :
the past. Nevertheless, it is time that society awakens to the vast potential benefits of “social medicine", since alongside “scientific medicine”, it ap- pears both relatively inexpensive and remarkably effective.
| | Julian Betts
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continued from page 19: those who test: and those whose
products are being tested. They also :
advocate laboratory and professional malprac- tice suits modelled after medical
‘malpractice sults, which are now widely
accepted. .
Whatever its effects on testing, the profit factor has undoubtedly in- fluenced the marketing side of the Industry. Critics write that the industry has created entirely new markets for its drugs where none existed before. A case in point is the. medical treatment of mental stress — in 1977 doctors filled 120 million prescriptions in the US alone for sleeping pills. and tranquilizers. |
As Henry Lennard and three other medical psychologists write: “Only to the extent that Interpersonal and other problems can be construed as medical- psychiatric problems can they be considered appropriate targets for drug treatment ... The pharmaceutical in- dustry is redefining and relabeling as
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the” widespread use of:
medical problems calling. for drug in- tervention, a wide range of human behaviours «which, in the':past, have been viewed as falling within” the bounds of the normal trials? and tribulations of existence." ‘
They condemn this “recruitment of
* more and more persons into a way of
life in which the regulation of personal and interpersonal processes is ac-
“complished through the ingestion of
drugs.” To expand these markets, the in-
dustry relles on aggressive ad cam- paigns to the public and the medical
profession. Drug companies were spending over a billion dollars a year in advertising to doctors in the late sixties, a figure that has since tremendously increased. >
Financial pressures may adversely affect the quality of research performed by the drug industry. In 1979 the FDA published a list of 2,400 inexpensive generic equivalents of ‘brand name drugs. Critics cited the industry's at-
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tempt to legally block this move as an example of ‘profits coming ‘before .the public good. However, the drug *com- panies say they opposed ‘the list because firms which sell cheap generic drugs generally have no research ex- penses to pay. Professor D.S. Ecobichon of McGill's pharmacology department says that by. marketing inexpensive drugs, these firms ad- versely affect the quality of other
_ companles' research programs:
In Canada the monitoring of drugs tests is further complicated; since most drugs sold here are imported. The Health Protection Branch does monitor imported drugs. But how well? Professor Ecobichon recounts the story of an assay he once performed on imported vitamin C. The tablets con-
tained only one quarter the amount of:
usable vitamin C that the package claimed they contained. The govern: ment had not noticed.
The Health Protection Branch can impound drugs coming into the country
for 60 days to test-them. Ecobichon says that although the branch em- ployees are “supposed to test" all in-
coming drugs, they “probably release .
the drugs unless they're suspicious.” He believes that although the branch is performing its job as well as possible, it IS “overworked,"" and consequently
-‘‘always - looking at: yesterday's
problems.”
Data _misrepresentation, combined with inadequate subsidizing of governmental inspection, have helped make the results of tests, if not totally unreliable, at least suspicious.
According to Ecobichon, one factor that can affect the safety of a drug is its “chronic abuse” -by the consumer, either intentionally or by mistake. He told the Daily: “There are no safe drugs. There are only safe dosages’... All drugs have unwanted side effects.” For this reason he believes that no amount of testing can absolutely guarantee a drug's safety. High safety standards do, however, help.
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by Harold Koblin
Have you ever gazed behind a :
drugstore counter and wonder- ed how your doctor knew which drug to prescribe? | Chances are that your docto is also bewildered about the myriad of drugs avallable to- day. According to Dr. Richard Ogilvie, Chairperson of Mc- Gill’s Department of Pharmac- - _ology and Therapeutics, educa- _ting physicians about drugs’ - .effects Is a major problem. “Ninety per cent of drugs that doctors are using now weren't avallable ten years ago. it's very difficult for them to keep up,” he sald. Normally, the first contact physicians have with a new drug Is a glossy, full colour
. advertisement In a medical
journal, or in a letter circulated by the drug company marketing > the product. , ;
Their second stage of con- tact with the new drug comes when they are. visited by a detailer—a person hired by the company to tell doctors about ‘the product.
According to most:doctors, —
the best type of detailer is a trained pharmacist. Most of them, however, possess only undergraduate science or arts degrees and receive only a short training program from
‘their company. Dr. Anne Hol- |
brooke, a clinical pharmacolo- gist at the Montreal General ‘Hospital, Is concerned about the detallers’ lack of training. “What you find with them is dhat they have a very narrow scope because they're trained by the company to sell one drug. They're aware of what ‘that one product can do, but
generally they are not aware of
the scope of the problem, of other. drugs In the field, or of
where the drug really fits in «
therapy. ; NE > “They're not a good source of information because they give a "very biased view,” she sald, To make up for lack of - Information, hospitals in many
--* of Canada’s larger centres offer
refresher and general informa- tion courses.
| The courses are usually well
attended, but there are no
Incentives to encourage doct-
ors to keep up with modern
» medical practices.
In fact, the system presently used discourages the wide- spread participation of doctors in continuing education and refresher courses.
First, doctors often become so Involved in their practices that they find it difficult to take the time.
Secondly, attending the courses Is expensive. -The tuition for the courses is tax
deductible,‘ but physicians still. “have to pay for the cost of. maintaining their practice while
“they're attending a course. … “The only thing they can
deduct Is the cost of tultion, which Is a small part of the expense, maybe $100, for a two day course, but it costs them $1,000 to take It. That's not a
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The costs Involved in bring- ing a new drug to market are tremendous. For every drug sold there are another 10 to 20 abandoned after clinical exper- Imentation, and another 100 that don’t make it past prelim- Inary trials.
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Medical Research Council (MRC), .the government body responsible for distributing re- search funds, Is losing Its
battle with Inflation. Says Holbrooke: “In practl-.
cal terms, even the grants that are being distributed are not worth as much as they were once. Pile that on top of the
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fact that Canada has always been underfunded as far as research goes and It just compounds the problem.
“This is a major problem. | don't understand how people can expect the best health care in the world and be unaware of the money It takes to bring these co-called medical mira- cles Into fact.”
Contributing to the lack of medical research funds in Canada is the fact that all of our drug’ companies are branch plants of multinational corpor- ations who tend to do their major research elsewhere.
The only major Canadian owned pharmaceutical comp- any, Connaught Laboratories of Toronto, specializes in the manufacture of Insulin and vaccine, and does not do very much advanced research.
“We in Canada have no control over what Is being researched and developed be- cause we don't have a Canadian drug Industry per se. The main offices are either in the United States or Europe and that’s
_ where the basic’ research Is
done. Ee
“It's the head offices who decide what's going to be developed and what's not. They're certainly not respond- Ing to Canadian Interests or Canadian needs,” she sald. . The multinational character of the drug Industry and the resulting competition for mar- kets has led to the development of redundant drugs. These “me-too” drugs make up most of the drugs that come onto the market, and are similar to drugs already available.
According to some doctors, some “me-too” drugs exist only so that companies can cash in on existing markets. They cost almost as much to develop as new drugs, but their existence seldom ylelds any significant medical advances.
Their redundancy, however, Is tempered by their applicabil- ity to the occasional patient who, for some reason, can't
__tolerate an existing drug.
Holbrook told the Daily: “I wouldn't say that you should only have one drug in each category. You should have a choice, but you probably don't need the myriad of choices we have now.
“From a medical point of view there probably are some compounds where the money could have been better spent elsewhere, like trying:to put money into basic research looking for significant adVan- ces In other areas. But as soon as you start talking about forcing companies to do this they complain that it’s interfer- ence with the freedom of corporations in society.”
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_ SCIENCE ISSUE
-other western + nation on research, despite recent Increases In the budget - of Research and Development, and the government is reluct- ant to provide money for basic.
_ Researchers prefer gov mone y to pri ivate
by Rosemary Mannix _
_ * Subsidizing of medical res- « earch In Canada by the private
sector is on the rise while government funding Is on the wane, Dr. Leonard Greenberg told the Daily in an interview. ‘Dr. Greenberg, an assistant
professor of experimental sur-* gery at McGill, is a member of - “Canadians for Health ‘Res- earch”, a private organization.
created to fight: cutbacks In medical research funding. “Corporate investments have been Increasing by some 20% a year In real dollars,
+ whereas government: funding.
has been going down by about the same amount,” he stated. Canada spends less than any industrialized
medical'research.
~ Most Importantly, as federal money for basic research dwindles, private agencies
weed more ait more money
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Last January, | spent a day as a medical guinea-pig. : Last November.| came across
' an ad In the Dally for medical
research volunteers. Normally | skip over the “volunteers” part of the classified section, but
the mention of an honorarium awakened my latent monetary.
desires. _ After a telephone call to the
“Into thelr own specialized.
research and keep thelr find-
ings to themselves..““A few: years ago knowledge gained
from this specialized research
, would. have been published
and-been used by someone else—products were always
traded between scientists. Now you'll find that not only do:
you not have the knowledge
because the research Is fund- : ed by a company, but you: can’t even get the product until :
they’re ready to sell it to you,” Greenberg sald. In effect, the pool of ‘scientific knowledge
will’ become more limited’ as
companies: fund their own research and refuse to publish
their findings. This practice
will become more. common, Greenberg claims, as long as governments: do not provide adequate research funds. ‘Part: of. the” government's reluctance to subsidize res- earch stems. from the notion that research must produce
immediate and concrete res-.
ults. The government, says
| SICERERE tends to view
ae level in your Dre "
| was overjoyed. For the next two days | carried an opaque
plastic jug wherever | went:
caused by the ever-present
plastic jug, the test was largely |
uneventful. -
-For the first twelve. hours was under ‘observation. Num- erous . samples. -of -my ‘blood
were taken through the cathet- ;
Montreal General Hospital, 1° er.
- discovered that the drug |
would be testing was misoniz- adole, an anti-cancer drug used to make carcinogenic cells
:more sensitive to radiation » therapy. | was told that | would be given a small dose (500°
mg.); and pald $105 for. my trouble after | had passed a comprehensive pu toot exam-
nation:
| passed the physical.
Ÿ'At7:45 a.m, on January 8, as
catheter-was placed Into my
arm. by Dr. Richard: Oglivie,
‘Chairperson of McGill's Depart- ment of Clinical Pharmacology. At 8:00, I took a small,
“Innocuous looking pill. Fifteen minutes later, a nurse gave me:
a half litre jug and: told me it was fora urine sample, “What are you, an optimist?”
_ tasked.
“its for a twelve-hour sam- ple,” she replied; “and you're going to have to carry a bottle
with you for the next forty-eight”
hours s0 we can measure HE
We.
Apparently, | wasn't In any “danger for the duration of ‘the
test; as | learned earlier that the
‘drug had already been in-use
for” several years In other countries. According to: Dr. Anne Hol-
‘brooke, the coordinator of my
test, taking an experimental drug Is no more dangerous than
, taking a prescription drug” In
one’ s own home. "Every time you take:a aria or a compound: you ‘re. being a
guinea-pig; you're using the
drug In a very uncontrolled situation. You know ‘very little
about the compound. What you. +’. do know Is what's been told to you by others, and you just” .hope for the best.
» “Buf in research studies all volunteers are placed In a very
controlled atmosphere. Also, you're: here in a unit with doctors and nurses crawling all = over. the place and watching for
any’kind of adverse effect.” Students are a good ‘source
of volunteers, | was told,
medical research as a profit- able activity. After “investing”
money, they expect immed- |
late returns, which of course are- not guaranteed. Most
great medical advances were .
the result of painstaking eff-! orts over many years, claims.
Greenberg, citing the polio vaccine’and open heart surg- .
ery as examples. Due to the” - unreliable returns from medic- +
al research, governments have developed strict controls’ on: the: nature - of the research
Un
~ because of their flexible sche- dule and ‘generally healthy
bodies. However,=tests on
> healthy. young ‘students’ can Aside from the problems -
only estimate the effects of the
‘drug on. the old and sick
patients for whom the drug is intended.
So) researchers also look for two other types of people when they are doing non-clinical.
research: people with urinary
* malfunctions and the aged. ~~ liver’ and-or :
Patients: with | kidney ‘diseases are”used:to determine whether defects in the body’s filtration system seriously’ affect the drug's
metabolism. Unfortunately for _the researchers, there aren't .many= people» with liver and ‘kidney disease.
Inthe case of older people, “they're generally already on so
many drugs that they. can’t ‘be : part of a preliminary drug *
study. We prefer patients who take as: small an amount of medication as possible,” tle
‘Holbrook. Researchers have. difficulty
attracting volunteer subjects.
One reason maybe: public
distrust of the drug industry. Says Holbrook:
mongst the, population that's
really affecting health care. It's - probably oir fault; we haven't
Informed. patients. properly-‘in
‘terms of what’ they need to —
know about drugs. It’s back- fired on us because people are
April 2, 1980
“There's an’- attitude of consumerism a-.
anlar they fund. The most widespread: meth- od of awarding grants: has
been through the peer review.
system, under the auspices of the Medical: Research Coun- cil. The council is comprised
‘of .sclentists who decide
which of thelr colleagues are most worthy of grants. Once money becomes scarce how- ever, decisions become
somewhat arbitrary because:
there are too many deserving applicants.
Scientists need funding to conduct specialized research, but Greenberg notes that their Job security is not tied to grants. A grant does -not provide a salary for the res- earch scientist: The bulk of the money - about 66% -
salaries technicians. and res-: -earch assistants, 21% is
earmarked for laboratory sup- piles, 5% for laboratory anim- als, and the remaining 8% covers travel and publication «costs,
Dr. Greenberg feels that the epublicl: would support an in-
~~
Iwasa medical guinea pig
by Harold Koblin |
getting information from jour- nals and magazines stating that drugs are bad for you and nat you shouldn't take them.
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“In principle that's: correct.
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crease in research funding - because in the long run everyone is affected by medi- cal research. He feels that it Is just a matter of making the
‘public aware of research and
scientific issues in general.
-His organization, Canadians
for Health Research is trying to arouse the public’s aware- ness. CHR Is a voluntary organization, formed in res- ponse to the cutbacks in government. funding of basic science research, and has attracted scientists and conc- erned citizens alike. CHR's main objective is to Inform the government and the public of the need for continuous supp- ort of medical research. The organization acts as a liaison between the government, the research community and the general public. By informing: all parties, CHR hopes to win support for increased res- earch funds. If present funding trends continue however, me- dical research in Canada may soon be riding on its reputat- lon alone.
the better off you are, but there are always going to be people who need to take medicine. To help those people out, to have research In general we need to: have people taking part in these research studies,” she sald.
This s science issue Was produced by:
Julian Betts (Ed.) — _ Marc Tessier-Lavigne Ann Brocklehurst
The science writers would like to thank the
following for cooperation: John Southin CCNR. : David Roy
J.J. Ecobichon
their
much appreciated
Margot Rowley Greenpeace — ‘Gail Heimann
_ Ann Brocklehurst
: Mother
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by Dermot Kelly ‘Johnny -B. Goode’ meant nothing to Johnny Rotten. He
. was’ nineteen.when he started
singing for the Sex Pistols; in 1975. By then, as far as he was concerned, rock was ‘‘crawling up its own arsehole”. There is a tape of the Pistols in 1975 doing
‘Johnny B. Goode’. After a brief -
burst of:garbled syllables, our Johnny realizes that he doesn't know the words. He shouts some gibberish, and then cries in despair, “Stop it! | hate songs like this!” Johnny Rotten was never to despair again until he left the group three’ years later, vowing to make music that was “less melodic”.
In 1976, the Pistols’ singer was an icon; punk was a new youth movement In Britain and Johnny “Rotten spoke for it when: he replaced Chuck Berry's folk tale with his own manifesto. Instead of:
Deep down In Louisiana. Close to New Orleans... It was: Don't ask us to return, ‘Cause we're not aware; | don’t pretend, ‘Cause | don’t care.
_ | don't believe illusions: - Too much Is for real.
Stop your cheap comments, ‘Cause we know what we feel.
Rotfen was as good a ban- dleader as ever there was in rock:snarling and whining, screaming and. cackling—
leaning ‘into the crossfire of ©
crashing cymbals and bone- rattling distortion. It was the devil's music guitarist Steve
.Jones and drummer Paul Cook
made, and they were spearheaded by Rotten's thoroughly bad-natured vocal attack. After the verses quoted above, Rotten is joined by. his cohorts in a chant that makes it perfectly clear how they feel about being the Idols of a new generation of rockers,
‘We're so pretty, Oh so pretty— Vacant!
It is ‘Pretty Vacant’, the first
Pistols’ single to receive air- play. Johnny spits out the last syllable, making an obscenity of it. The chorus is repeated, and then Rotten takes things a step further; “And now..." he warns, and the band screeches to a halt. And.we don't care!
The Pistols came to embrace the protest song by way. of the snottiest, most disaffected pop of the Sixties. They performed ragged, tuneless versions of The Who's ‘Substitute’ and The Monkees’ ‘Steppin’ Stone’. The first songs that they wrote themselves, then, complained bitterly, loudly and with hilarious arrogance about the
cruelty of adolescent life in suburbia. Their rock and roll was more martial than sexual: it was urban blues with about as much undulation as a jackhammer chewing up the
-pavement,
. Steve Jones had picked up a swaggering guitar style that was at once sloppy and searing from ex-New York Doll Johnny Thunders who was in London while the meteoric Pistols were gathering momentum for the dizzying punk uprising. Johnny Rotten had Inherited the salty
‘English language of playwright
Harold Pinter, Bassist Glen
Matlock had composed some.
powerful music, and: Rotten had dashed off outrageous words. Thus far it was their strongest effort. Johnny called it ‘Anarchy’, It was 1976 arid the Sex Pistols were ready to face the nation. Anarchy in-the U.K. opens with an electrifying fanfare; the band idles for a couple of bars in the wake of their entrance, revving their engines like a motorcycle gang. Johnny Rotten laughs in his inimitable way and we are off on a
‘After several ‘emerge from one-another like
Britain,
the Queen’. Samson, Johnny Rotten strains
whirlwind tour of ‘the British Isles: the council houses and the |1.R.A. However, when Rotten warns us: | Your future dream Is a shopping scheme...
It might as well be the West Island he's singing about. ‘Anarchy’ boasts two guitar breaks. “In the city!!" Johnny shrieks before the first one. Reeling into the second solo,
he hollers, ‘It's the only way to
be!l!’’ and Steve Jones rocks out like the Artful Dodger commanding a Panzer division. choruses that
battered Spitfires from a
‘dogfight, the ‘song touches some:
down with: the singer beseeching his countrymen to “Get pissed! Destroy!!"
The Pistols embarked on the second leg of their Battle of taking Buckingham Palace by storm with ‘God Save Like an acned
at the pillars of the Empire, When there’s no future, How can there be sin? We're the flowers In the dustbin;
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We're the poison In the human machine, We're the future—
Your future!
“We mean it, man!” Rotten wails three or four times with increasing intensity as the song goes on until it becomes a crazed, devastating cry for life, and, when everybody joins in for the final, gleeful chorus of
“No future!”, it really sounds
as if they've brought the whole place down upon themselves. Call it twisted patriotism or self-immolation: it’s great rock and roll.
Our story doesn't end there, however. The Sex Pistols wanted to see the worst their world had to offer, With ‘Bodies’, they got it. In this brutal and apocalyptic song, the Pistols confront the letters they have received from their Strangest and most degraded fan, a girl named Polly from Birmingham. She had had an abortion and carried the foetus around in a plastic bag. Once again, the guitar absolutely lacerates. ‘‘Bodies,"’ Rotten bawlis, his disgust unbridled, “I'm not an animal!” The band
accelerates ‘into the second verse as Rotten gives us the
gory details of the demeaning
business. ; Dragged on a table Ina factory, Illegitimate Place to be; Ina package In the lavatory,
Dying little baby screaming— Mummy! I’m not an animal! Bodies! An abortion!
Neither does Johnny sen- timentalize his identification with the undignified sacrifice: he goes on to call ita “gurgling bloody mess’. The song climaxes with a crowning burst of profanity condemning casual sex ‘and, by virtue of Rotten's telling Identification
with the wasted body, abhorring life itself. No one is spared.
With their last single,
‘Holidays in the Sun’, Johnny's odyssey takes the Pistols to the Berlin Wall. His quest is more mysterious this time, wrought with menace. “Cheap holidays in other people’s misery,’ he Snarls as the band cranks up. He seems to be a tourist in Germany. (After two-and-a-half years, it's still hard to say just what is going on in this frightening and mesmerizing record.) It’s safe to say, all the same, that any tourist in a Sex Pistols song is going to have his vacation overrun by some kind of pilgrimage. Naturally then, Johnny's holiday is a vision of hell. “I’m waiting—" he screams, holding on to the
_ beat for dear life as his stance
is almost supplanted by the bombastic power-chords, ‘at the Berlin Wall!!”’ :
Cook and Jones tell us all 'we need to know at this point. The crack of doom sounds. Barbed wire fences collapse into the inferno, The guard towers are next. ‘| wanna go over the Berlin Wall” Johnny screams as the other, Pistols surrender to the flames. The music now Is elemental and murderous. Like a pack of piranhas, the thrashing drums and guitars flay the possessed singer and the song ends abruptly with Rotten pleading, “Please don't be waiting for me...”
Well, Johnny’s still out there, waiting. He Is no saint, but he has kept his appointment. How many men can boast as much? The Pistols changed lives like mine, intensified things somehow. Even as Elvis Presley lay dead, on his face in the bathroom at Graceland and, even as they dug their own grave, the Sex Pistols awakened our generation to the great tradition of rock and roll. Once more the abyss yawned and music was made in the face of it.
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