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FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1964 NIGHT EDITOR: EDWARD HERSTEIN
WCC Should Press
For Liberalization
THE WOMEN'S Conference Committee's campus. A man who is 18 years old and
recent rule-change recommendations a sophomore can live anywhere he wants,
to the Office of Student Affairs did not but women who are 20 years old and jun-
include junior key privileges or apartment iors have to live within the residence
permission even though 60 per cent of hall system and under a University-im-
the residence hall women favored these posed curfew.
changes in a poll last fall. The WCC un- If one is to accept the standards of the
dertook a responsible project by polling administration, a man after his freshman
University women on their attitudes to- year is automatically responsible enough
ward restrictions; but it has not lived up for apartment living. However, until wom-
to the responsibility of reflecting their en become seniors they are obviously not
views in these two major areas. responsible enough for apartments, or
"Junior apartment permission would be even to come in any later than midnight
ineffective because the housing contracts on weekdays.
(those already signed for the fall) could BUT THE ADMINISTRATION has no
not be broken," Assembly President Char- grounds for assuming that male stu-
lene Hager commented in explaining the dents are any more responsible than
rationale for not recommending this women. Strong leadership-the kind the
change to the OSA. But why not take the WCC failed to exercise-is necessary to
action now to benefit next year's juniors? fight for the choice-of-residence, which
Miss Hager's reasoning lacks substance is denied to most women students but
and in no way justifies a refusal to make granted to most men. Surely, with the
the recommendation to the OSA. proper leadership to organize them, the 60
wilogiiblin te per cent who believe in junior apartments
administration won't be ncould be a powerful activist force in
tend Juniors apartment permission in the pushing for these rights.
near future, the WCC still should have "Protection" of female students has
acted on the desires of its constituency been delicately advanced by female mem-
and submitted this proposal. bers of OSA as a good reason for a con-
tinuing double standard. But they couldn't
THE WOC seems to be conforming to a be so unsophisticated not to see that an
ers Mostr ae to bel eveatden e- enforced residence hall situation presents
ers."in Mo see utobeliethropoaIstu a greater problem: protecting women
lobbying groups submit proposals which from themselves. Certainly, having a
are unacceptable to the administration, coiteen gettig -inlathming a
'choice between getting in at midight and
they will lose potential power and respect not getting in at all doesn't change peo-
as lobbying groups. ple's basic motivation. '
The naivete and poor logic of this con-p
tention can be illustrated by the mere IT SEEMS OBVIOUS that any important,
definition of lobby: if a group proposes I
liberalizationsinwmnsrlsilre
only what the administration will accept, sult in some bad publicity for the Uni-
then it cannot beelobbytig. it reprend versity. But the WCC must realize that it
senting the administration's interest and is granted the power to speak for the in-
Seude pragmatic approach terest of women students, not for the Uni-
Such a deluded andversity Public Relations Office, or not
is especially destructive to students' right n s yswik t
,necessarily in ways which will keep the
of expression when applied to women's group in the good graces of the admin-
rules and last semester's survey. If there istrationt
is any student problem which requires Hopefully next year's WCC will be more
concern beyond one's own class year and oe to ex tyeirsts C fwome
f 1 i prone to express the interests of women
forthright principles instead of apologetic on this campus as defined by the women
hesitation, it is the crude double standard themselves.
for freedom of choice in housing on this-MARILYN KORAL
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QUEBEC:
Separatist Movement
Presents Crisis
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Keeping Campus Voting Fair
THE LIAISON:
Mr. & Miss Average
Marjorie Brahms, Associate Editorial Director
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SOCIAL SCIENTISTS say there is no
such animal as the average man. But it
strikes me that on this campus there is:
the crew-cut, madras-faced, political sci-
ence-English major who wants to be a
teacher-lawyer when it grows up.
Living in Markley-apartment, it is in-
terested in bridge, is a member of the
middle-upper class and will. probably
achieve a master's degree, two cars, one
house in a nice suburb and 2.8 children.
For the sake of argument, let's see what
it is like.
MR. UNDERGRADUATE Average Stu-
dent, struggling to keep his B-C plus
average, spends a great deal of time dog-
gedly attempting to conquer his books. He
camps out at the UGLI, home-away-from-
home for sorors, fraters and aspirants to
that status as well as a few more serious
students.
If he is a graduate student, he frequents
that palace of doom, the General Library.
Eventually, moss and cobwebs will creep
around his carrell and cover his horn-
rimmed glasses. Average Graduate Stu-
dent, scorning petty campus politics and
other frivolities, gets paler and thinner
with every year of working on his PhD,
marries and has a family, and turns in a
100 page thesis which gets published.
Meanwhile, Average Undergraduate
fights to keep up with his homework and
complete his language requirement. He
talks politics, has a steady girl and, all in
Editorial Staff
RONALD WILTON, Editor
DAVID MARCUS GERALD STORCH
all, is intelligent, dull and self-concerned.
He is too busy to vote in the SGC election,
feels Council "can't do anything for me"
and doesn't know that the Office of Stu-
dent Affairs, which sets the curfew for
his girl-friend, no longer has a dean of
men and women.
THAT, OF COURSE, is a black and white
picture. The grey areas reveal a much1
more complex situation.
Mr. and Miss Average Student are un-
der a great deal of pressure. Academic
achievement-too often meaning a de-
cent grade-is the key to success after
graduation. But the pressure to do well at
college begins long before the student
reaches here. Parents, who want their
children to do better than they did, be-j
gin the indoctrination early. And the Uni-
versity becomes the first step in the train-j
ing program for junior executives.I
With the grade point as his goal, the
student may be hampered in his pursuit
of an education. A difficult course, for
example, will. be sacrificed for one less
interesting but easier. Furthermore, the
student feels pressured to decide early
about his career; and, thanks to his dot-
ing parents' concern, he feels obliged to
choose a field which will insure him a
respectable salary. Freshman to senior
year may be no more than a path head-
ing to graduate school or business; hesi-
tation and vacillation are discourag-
ed: they slow up the progress toward suc-
cess.
SELF-CONCERN becomes the only rea-
sonable course of action when one is
faced with societal pressure such as this.
SGC, student activities, social movements,
non-functional courses, all must be con-
ciri .rnA ii ,.rfl -ic ir +t a +1.rl acr+ t
To the Editor:
I PARTICIPATED in the election
of last Tuesday as a poll worker.
When I volunteered to work for an
hour at the polls I was given a let-
ter explaining my duties. When I
reported for work, I was also in-
structed in my duties. According
to our procedure, each student
would give us his ID card to re-
ceive his ballots. When he handed
the ballots back to us, they had a
hole punched through them before
they were put into the ballot box.
At the same time, we punched a
hole in the registration certificate
of each ID card and returned it
to the voter.
Therefore, it was imp1ossibie for
someone to vote twice in the elec-
tiov Since Each ballot was a dif-
ferent color, it would have been
fairly hard for someone to vote
twice, especially since the votes are
folded inside each other to be
punched and two ballots would be
seen when the ballots were count-
ed.
IT SEEMED to me that we vol-
unteers were doing a fairly good
job, even though we had not re-
ceived intensive training in our
work. However, The Daily seems
to have disagreed with me and
went out of its way to prove this
on Tuesday. Staff members in
search of irregularities in the vot-
ing procedure were at all the poll-
ing places; one stood behind me
for at least 20 minutes watching
for mistakes.
Now as many people know, sev-
eral thousand SGC ballots were
stolen the night before the elec-
tion and it is possible that The
Daily was out to prevent them
from being used. If they had taken
the trouble to ask, they would have
found that those ballots were
numbered and would not be count-
ed if found. I was happy though
to see that someone took enough
of an interest in campus affairs
to make sure that the election was
run fairly. It seems to me that
such people were not from The
Daily however.
I WOULD rather guess that they
were the students who volunteered
to take an hour or two out of the
day to help out. The election sys-
tem is a good one and will be
difficult to improve if The Daily
advocates this. If, on the other
hand, they are saying that the
poll workers are not trustworthy
and should be watched by some-
one other than the election offi-
cials and the poll captains, then I
would like them to tell me who is
qualified.
I would imagine that The Daily
would include its staff in the list
of these people. Therefore, I would
like to ask The Daily, why didn't
your staff members sign up to be
poll workers and try to help the
election to become a success rath-
er than act as people looking for
errors and cheating in it.
I would think that this would be
a much more fitting activity for
The Daily than that which they
were engaged in on Election Day.
-Bruce Chudacoff, '66
telling or influencing students- If THE Arab lands felt that
whom to vote for. Israel's position was as "morally
At one poll, a Daily reporter-voter and ethically correct" as their
was urged to vote against Cazziebth
Russell; at another, to vote No in own, this would certainly be the
the Union referendum; at others, basis for negotiation and ulti-
was given information on candi- mately for peace in the Middle
dates' stands, although the inter- East. Unfortunately, in their own
pretations seemed to be fair. l ra a led
At most places, however, poll frla thndsabpopnda htemiastlle
workers would not'say anythingo for one thing only: extermination
candidates or the campaign, and so of Israel at all costs.
I would agree that the election was All facts have become subservi-
probably a fair one.) rrGj to this theme andrall distor-
- G.S. tions and injustices are thereby
Congratulations ... rationalize
Despite tha Arab propaganda ef-
To the Editor: fort the facts of the past 40 years
I SHOULD like to offer my con- are still available (at least in the
gratulations to the eight candi- West). Given these facts it is dif-
dates elected to Student Govern- ficult to see how Mr. Bacharach
ment Council, and to express my has arrived at the conclusion that
confidence that the Council this there are "equally valid" sides in
semester will be one of the most this controversy.
concerned and effective in many buT ignorigare t o sides tnice
years. both sides will only encourage
In electing candidates of such both riesion.
outstandingly high caliber as Bar- f* rter*ggressions.*
ry Bluestone, Carl Cohen, Euge NEVERTHEESS, Israel has re-
WonanrDan Lebedeff to the pael displayed its willingness
first four seats, University students to forget past injustice and to ne-
have assured themselves of a dy- etinagoonjfsthcornd sk
namic and volatile Council which te in th Ar t
will work in their interests as o whomfsturefTeo ofrenations,
past Councils have failed to do. to w fo satisfaction ofe more
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important than the present or the
BECAUSE of this election, and future, demand Israel's extermin-
because of ex-officio SGC mem- ation as a precondition to nego-
bers like Larry Lossing, students tiations.
can be assured of an era of pro- I submit to Mr. Bacharach that
gressive student government, with negotiation is this situation is dif-
little or no fear that the "Mickey ficult. It is for the Arab lands to
Mouse" of past Councils could recognize Israel's "unassailable
possibly continue, moral argument"-her right to
I musthowever, disagree with. exist. This is the first step to
Mr. Bluestone's post-election re- peace. The others will follow.
mark that neither he nor any -Joseph Eigner
other candidate had received a Departmenof
mandate from the voters. The first Deoogartment isof
mandet~eeft c ddate 1 SBiological Chemistry
four elected candidates all re-
ceived a mandate-to sweep from H
SGC the stagnation and purpose- Hong Kong...
lessness of recent Council leader- To the Editor:
ship, and thus to carry out the P-c
comendbleeffrtsproose in ERHAPS WE can accept Jeff
commendable efforts proposed in Greenfield's observations of
their platforms, the Hong Kong students ("Colony
I am confident that the first Lives in Constant Fear of Red
four elected members, whether or Takeover," Feb. 25) but I, for one,
not Council decides to change the cannot see his rationale.
structure of student government, One gets the idea that these
will do far more than simply heed- students refrain from any political
ing this mandate. The election of activities or aspirations because of
Messrs. Bluestone and Won, and the imminent danger of an attack
especially of Miss Lebedeff and from Red China. If this is the
Mr. Cohen, is the beginning of case, these students are certainly
The Liberal Hour at the Univer- more naive than most students.
sity. The existence of Hong Kong as a
Such an hour has been desper- free port is in the best interests
ately needed for months, and the of Red China. It is a chief source
election of vigorous advocates of of Western currency. There are
change is proof that students pre- lucrative Red Chinese business in-
fer them to inept do-nothings and terests in Hong Kong. Every day,
all-out reactionaries. More im- Hong Kong buys valuable water
portant to this writer, it is proof from Red China. The economic
that students prefer these articu- assets are, indeed, numerous.
late liberals to liberals who betray The relations between the col-
their principles to run as wishy- onial government and Red China
washy, fence-straddling moder- are not as bad as Greenfield im-
ates.Bplies. Every Chinese New Year,
-Ronald Buck Martinez, '66 Hong Kong families are permitted
to enter China for the traditional
Israel . .. visit with the relatives.
To te Edtor.* * *
To the Editor: THE CHINESE, for 14 years,
MUST disagree fundamentally have had the opportunity to take
with the views expressed by Mr. Hong Kong, and they haven't done
Bacharach in his recent letter. it yet. There appears to be noth-
From the early 1920's to today, ing which would cause the Com-
first the Jewish settler in Pale r imnists t ohanner their minds-
(EDITOR'S NOTE: "The Moder-
ator," a national student magazine,
recently sent a team of reporters
to Canada to cover the French
problem.)
Collegiate Press Service
MONTREAL.-A public building
was being dedicated. Inside
the building the expected pomp
and pageantry were on hand, the
speeches and testimonials
rambling on. Outside the building,
the pageantry was even more pro-
nounced. There, youth was the or-
der of the day and soon began to
outshine the fashionable glitter
within.
Evidently a very different dedi-
cation was taking place on the
inside. The trappings were differ-
ent and even the language spoken
-latinate and sprinkled full of
slang-clashed discordantly with
the measured Anglo-Saxon tones
echoing within. Furthermore, the
voices outside spoke the language
of defiance.
It was a full-scale-demonstra-
tion, in fact. Outside, in the pub-
lic square, hundreds of young men
and women were shouting their
disapproval of the building and its
occupants. But not for long. The
police made short order of it. Five
hundred policemen, mostly on
horseback, invaded the square and
dispersed' the stubborn, but for-
tunately agile, demonstrators. The
official ceremonies c o n c 1u d e d
without incident.
IT ALL happened here in Que-
bec. The time-November, 1962.
The demonstration is typical, and
what is more, symptomatic. It is
especially symptomatic, in fact,
when regarded through the eyes.
of two young men who attended
the demonstration. One is English
Canadian, the other French - a
Quebecois. Each has a different,
equally biased, view of the event.
"Every beard in Montreal was
there, Black leather jackets, mo-
torcycle boots-the works." The
English Canadian clearly has no
sympathy for the others who filled
the square that November day.
The Quebecois disagrees. He and
his friends were in the square, he
says, to protest against what they
thought to be an unjust social sit-
uation. The new building he main-
tains was not to be made public
at all. Instead it was to be re-
served in effect for the sole use
of the rich English-Canadian class
in Montreal
THE PROVINCE is in revolt.
The cultural center which he feels
does not serve his community is
only one of his many felt griev-
ances, some of which are econ-
omic, some political, some cultural,
and some a combination of all
three. Mostlybecause of his griev-
ances, the young French. Canadian
feels like a Quebecois first, and a
Canadian second.
No nation expects to clie The
six million Fiepch Canadians, 85
per cent living in Quebec, consider
themselves in some senses a na-
tion. As such they have two al-
ternatives before IY1em: On one
hand, as the young Quebecois sug-
gast. they could decide that the
only way to ;,dive their problems
is to secede I~ .in Cenad. Other-
wise they co' id choose tc give up
to a certain a. er theil languag
and culture i.n return for increased
benefits from the Canadian Gov-
ernment.
No nation expects to osv: a limb,
eithee. The twelve milion English-
speaking Canadians who live al-
most exclusively in the nine other
Provinces are coming to under-
stand thergravity of the situation
and, through their government,
are trying to cope with it. Like the
young Anglo-Saxon Canadian at
the Montreal demonstration, these
Canadians don't think rabble
rousing or the extreme - seces-
sion-will get the French Cana-
dians very far. They prefer to
have both sides in the dispute
work toward bi-culturalism. To
that end the Canadian federal
government has established a
Royal Commission on Bicultural-
ism to explore the problem and
recommend ways in which French
and English Canadians can live as'
equals.
* * *
THE problems which the Com-
mission must face squarely are
staggering. Perhaps the best way
to see these problems is to exam-
ine French Canadian grievances
and the demands made by those
who choose to secede, those who
comprise the Separatist Move-
ment.
The key problems that French
Canadians face are: lack of suffi-
cient industrial growth (and the
attendant growth of a managerial
class); a minority language and
minority culture which hinders
the process of industrialization;
the domination of politics, educa-
tion, and the culture by the Catho-
lic Church; an outmoded educa-
tion system which does not provide
for enough essential skills related
to economic growth.
* * *
TODAY, though Canada is offi-
cially bi-lingual, English is the
language of business and public
affairs. If a French-Canadian
t-.ono +n T0-fnat.a in th AIT1rl
amined separately from the other.
Education in Quebec has for two
centuries been run by the Catholic
Church. The Church School Com-
missions have always emphasized
the humanities. As a result, edu-
cated French-Canadians have
been better prepared to enter law,
medicine or the ministry, than
politics, business or science and
technology.
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TWO reasons have been pro-
posed for this emphasis on hu-
manities: Some explain it as the
natural result of Catholic empha-
sis on saving the soul rather than
on saving the world; others, and
these include the Separatists,
claim that the Catholic clergy re-
ceived their sovereignty over poli-
tics and education in Quebec from
the British in 1763. In return, the
story goes, the clergy agreed to
keep French-Canadians Intellec-
tually backward and emotionally
pacified.
Since 1959, however, the hold of
the clergy over politics and educa
tion has weakened. Before that
time the Church was closely impli-
cated in the corrupt practices of
the Quebec provincial government
of Maurice Duplessis During the
50's, Duplessis refused millions of
dollars in federal aid to education
in the name of nationalism.
When he died in 1959, liberals
like Rene Levesque came out of
hiding and worked with the new
Lesage government to initiate re-
forms. Millions of dollars extorted
from the federal government by
thinly veiled threats of Separatism
are now being plowed directly into
education.
THE sudden increase in support
for education has had immediate
effects beyond the classroom. Edu-
cated Quebecois are being turned
out in far greater numbers.
These young education French-
Canadians form the backbone of
the Separatist Movement. Accord-
ing t'o a recent survey published
in "Macleans"magazine, 13 per
cent of all French-Canadians are
avowed Separatists; among uni-
versity students the figure rises
to 25 per cent-and this figure ap
pears to understate the case.
These secession-minded students
are united by their nationalism
and are growing increasingly
closer on details. In fact, more and
more student Separatist chapters
are affiliating themselves with the
views of the Rassemblement pour
l'Independance Nationale, a party
founded by Marcel Chaput in 1961.
The RIN today holds no elective
offices in Federal or Provincial
governments. But its program is
clearly defined: If it were voted
into power in Quebec tomorrow, it
would secede from Canada on the
day after and continue with the
nationalization of industries; lib-
eraliztaion of government, state
control over financing education
and other equally centralized mea-
sures.
CURRENTLY, the foremost hot-
bed of Separatism lies in and
around the University of Montreal.
Run by the Catholic clergy, the
University is the scene of in-fight-
ing between French-Canadian
students and the government
authorities. Campaigns by stu-
dents sparked by caricatures in
the school paper, "ThedLatin
Quarter," have precipitated the
imminent resignation of the
priest-rector. He will be replaced
soon by a secular educator.
THE position of the young gen-
eration in French-Canadianduni
versities is best exemplified by
their new leader, Bernard Landry.
President of the newly formed
Union of Quebec Students, Landry
is an outspoken advocate of Sep-
aratism; "We are fifty years be-
hind on every subect you can
imagine," he says, "yet Ottawa
(the seat of Canadian Federal
government) will not recognize
the existence of an underdeveloped
region."
Landry touches on the heart of
the matter--the English Canadi-
ans will not recognize French-
Canada and the French-Canadian
problem is unique. Furthermore,
the chances of their coming to rec-
ognize what needs to be done is
slim.
The University of Ottawa illus-
trates the situation perfectly: it
is an immense no-man's land in
which French confront English
daily-42 per cent of the enroll-
ment is French-Canadian, 48 per
cent English. There, student after
student admits that he simply
cannot understand the other side's
point of view, just as the two ob-
servers of the demonstration in
front of the new culture building
could not see the same event from
the same angle.
DESPITE such seemingly insur-
mountable difficulties, a.road oth-
er than immediate Separatism
must be taken. The gradualist
views of Gabriel Gascon provide
a view of Separatism which ap-
pears to have some merit. The
hard facts are that Quebec could
not possibly go it alone right now:
it has nowhere near enough
Frenh-sera +aphmrs admit-
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