In later elaborating on his interpretation of hazing, Hill gave the example of having The University Council on Student Life established a committee last year to inves tigate this area
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freshman orientation
By Wayne Forbes and Peter Shaw
A lively debate centered around the events of the Freshman Month program highlighted the
Students’ Association Council meeting on Friday afternoon It was one of the few times this year
when Council members disagreed on an issue
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First issue headlines at McGill, Montreal, Laval students' news papers headline with the role of Students' Associations in univer sity reform and education Briefly, here is what was said:
McGill
“Student demand reform in educational structures” reads the first page hesdline of the McGILL DAILY External Affairs Vice- President Mark Wilson is agitating for changes in teaching me thods and course content He claims that “formal schooling is the systematic prevention of education.” The ultimate solution Wilson proposes is the abolition of the lecture system
“People involved with fresh
men orientation have a nar
row view of making the stu
dent feel part of the univer
sity,” said Donald Rosengaum,
supplement editor of the ge
orgian, and an observer.
This opinion was the pro
duct of a statement made by
Arts President Barry Hill sug
gesting the institution of a
hazing program to combat
the “apathy” of freshmen stu
dents and Georgians in ge
neral
Hill clarified his statement
by proposing that hazing would
place the freshman in a po
sition inferior to upperclass
men There would be a peri
od of transition before the fres-
man attained full status in the
university life
By hazing, Hill did not mean
physical hazing In other words,
no physical strain would be
fall the student Rather the
hazing would take the form of
“good-natured fun”
In later elaborating on his
interpretation of hazing, Hill
gave the example of having
The University Council on
Student Life established a
committee last year to inves
tigate this area of concern
The committee established
at the outset the following
definition for co-curricular
activities: “They shall include
those activities by students in
societies and organizations of
any name if their activity has
a direct relationship with aca
demic knowledge in any form,
or incorporates material that
would normally be the concern
of a university in its educa
tional process.”
The final report of the com
mittee states that the education
provided by the university is
far from ideal as the majority
of students attend to be “taught”
that is to amass the required
credits for a degree, rather than
to “learn" in the purest and
traditional sense of the word
In an interview with Jeff
Chipman, Students’ Association
President, he indicated that
Co-Curricular Programmes we
re the best thing that could
the student wear a beanie and
do minor tasks for uppercalss- men such as carrying a tray
to the conveyor belt in the cafeteria
“Students suffering from any physical defects would not
be subjected to physical stress, said Hill “Hazing would not take on a physical aspect such
as running up stairs.”
In opposing the notion of bazing, Mr Rosenbaum stated that it would only reinforce the impotence felt in high schools since the student is forced to perform in a zom
bie-like manner, without com
prehension, without interest, and without profitable result
Aaron Caplan, Chairman
of the Freshman Month Com
mittee, admitted that he was wrong in treating freshmen
as adults and addressing them
as ladies and gentlemen and class of ’71 “Perhaps,” he said, “frosh” is the best word”
Mr Caplan said that he is now in favour of “mental ha
zing” By this he meant em
barrassing the freshmen into
by Estelle S E L L E R
happen to this campus “Here
is where students really get involved in their courses.”
“There is even a possibili
ty that there would be no clas
ses scheduled on a day like Wednesday, for instance, and instead field trips in every course, or small seminars would
be scheduled
“Such programmes would be planned by the administrati
ve staff, the faculty and the students, cooperatively,” he added
Asked what was being plan
ned for this year, Mr Chipman stated that the programme might be started with merely
a few specific projects this year The next meeting of the University Council on Student Life will take place within the next two weeks and results beyond the discussion stage should emerge
“Education seems to evolve
in cycles, ” he said, knowledge was first generated by scholars seated in small groups dialo
gues; later, the large classroom
action As an example, he sug
gested that freshmen be en
couraged to participation sho- eshineramas by upperclassmen, telling them, “Hey, frosh, you’
re going out to shine!” Men
tal hazing, he suggested, went Freshmen would be forced
to wear beanies or buttons and this would be easily identi
fied by upperclassmen
However, Mr Caplan made
it plainly clear that he is com
pletely opposed to physical hazing or anything that could harm the student
The present program of freshmen orientation, said Caplan, is basically good, but that he had used the wrong approach with the students
Jeff Chipman, president of the Students’ Association, stated that council is disappoin
ted at the lack of enthusiam with which the present program was received
He noted that although Mr
Caplan’s program was poten
tially good, the whole area of freshmen orientation must be investigated
seemed both useful and effec
tive; now, there is a return to the small group.”
LITERARY CO-CURRICS
This year one of the new, and perhaps most influential,
will be the Literary Society
Although Sir George has al
ways had a high proportion
of English Major and honour students, as well as those in
terested inwriting creatively, there has never been any suc
cessful, or operative body that could co-ordinate activities relating to literature
One of the “founders” of this society, Roger Harring
ton, the vice-president, who has organized a program of poetry readings, under the di
rection of Michael Freedman, and drama under Ellen Gautsci,
as well as student dialogues (debates) which he hopes that Prof Brune will assist in, in relation to her own “dialogues
in depth” Most of these areas,
C o n t ’ d on pa ge 2
I nterviewed,McGillStudents’
Society President Peter Smith said in the McGill DAILY that students had something
to contribute to university government Smith, a third year Ph.D (economics) stu
dent, pointed out that Wil
liam Pitt was prime Minister
at 21
The McGill DAILY, also carried a story about Past Pre
sident of the Canadian Union
of Students Doug Ward Des
cribed as a key architect of the CUS program for univer
sity reform, Ward advocated student representation in Uni
versity government as a pre
lude to change in university education
University of Montreal
The first two issues of LE
QU ARTIER LATIN are over
whelmingly concerned with the problem of university edu
cation The first issue asks
“L’universite c’est quoi? The second puts the question of the second French language university badly needed in Montreal
Jean Dore, president of the AGEUM, interviewed by LE
QU ARTIER LATIN, indica
ted that the executive has a new policy The first priori
ty this year will be acasemic and pedagogical problems
This priority will be translated
by devoting the greatest part
of the budget and of human resources to a Course Evalu
ation Guide for all faculties
The ultimate goal of the AGEUM is a transformation
of University education In the light of this policy, cocur- ricular and extra-currucular activities are considered se
condary to curricular affairs
The most important student problem is education
LAVAL
AGEL President Pierre Jolin said in an interview with
LE CARABIN that the first priority was education in all its aspects To undertake this, Jolin believes, the role and structure of the AGEL must
be put back into question The isolation between exe cutive and membership will
be broken down through a three-pronged campaign In general meetings of the asso ciation, through LE CARABIN and with a dynamic and open- minded executive, Jolin wants
to strengthen the role of stu dents in AGEL decisions Recently, LE CARABIN pointed out elsewhere, Pierre April resigned when faced by
a non-confidence motion from his five vice-presidents They believed April, elected Pre sident last spring, to be incom petent in handling the AGEL pre sidency
Quebec universities are ac tively engaged in university reform The problem of edu cation as it affects students
is the problem of their repre sentative student associations
In all cases, association exe cutive want to serve student needs and want to reform the association to bring them closer
to students
No longer do the associa tion executives feel omniscient
I n a first stage shown by Laval, the executive is vigorously reas sessing the existence of their association
A second stage of develop ment is shown by the ABEUM
It is conducting a university- wide course evaluation guide
to examine the educational problem This is a result of their professed priority as a
whose members have a need
of an improved educational system
McGill published its first Course Guide last year and stands at a third stage They are actively engaged in uni versity reform
Students’ Society executive there are pressing the Admi nistration on the basis of pro blems pointed through the Course Guide Already they have obtained a result in re form Professor Donald Kings bury is conducting a yearlong Course Design Project Re lieved of other teaching duties, Kingsbury is designing from scratch an introductory a- thematics course
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SIR G E O R G E WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
V O L U M E X X X I NO T U E S D A Y , S E P T E M B E R 26, 1967 3 C E N T S
Co-curricular Programming
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expecting the poetry, are still
in their formative stage The faculty advisor to this society will be Howard Fink
Mr Harrington said that they also plan to sponsor- a series
of lectures that will be related
to the English programme of the university on areas that would not be covered in the strict academic sense Some
of these will be on the Judaic influence upon English classi
cal writers, by Rabbi Rosner:
the Russian character in lite-iHaKSSBJWBE
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rature by Mrs Sidorow of the Russian Department, and a si milar lecture on the French influences by Prof Jordan The aims of this Society are to provide Sir George stu dents with access to related subjects concerning literatu
re to allow them to meet both faculty and other students in formally who have similar in terests, and also to eventually enter all fields pertaining to both literary criticism and crea tive writing at Sir George
EVENING CO-CURRICS
“This programme will either make us or break us”, said Eila Borren, Secretary-Trea- surer of the Co-Curricular Activities Committee of the Evening Students Association This year the whole ESA pro gramme is centered around o- rientation to co-currieular pro gramming
Approximately five seminars are planned for the coming year This number may e increased as a result of en thusiasm displayed at the Co- Curricular Clubs Nite
The Clubs Nite will be held
on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week, at 7.30 p.m in room 639 of the Henry
F Hall Building “The pur pose of these two evenings,” the Committee reports” is to bring together all evening
( C o n t ’ d to p a g e 12)
RED CROSS
IS ALWAYS THERE
withYOURhelp
Georgiantics
b y MARTY CHARNEY WEDNESDAY SEPT 27 GEORGIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOSHIP: There will be an open
meeting of all those interested and desiring to know and serve the Lord The meeting will take place in H-413 at 1:05 P.M
S.G.W.U LITERARY SOCIETY: has an outline of programs
planned and permanent executives are to be elected to this society All students in any faculty with any interest in Literature, Drama
or Poetry should attend this meeting in H-635 between 1-1:55 P.M
THURSDAY SEPT 28 CERCLE FRANCAIS: The first general meeting will be held
in H-920 at 1:15 P.M
FRIDAY SEPT 29 N.D.P.: The first general meeting will be held to discuss the
year's events All those posts vacated during this summer will be open for elections All are welcome and the Executive must at tend! It's in H-415 between 1-2:00 P.M
S.G.W.U LITERARY SOCIETY: Two renowned Georgians,
Michael Harris and John Mitchell, will present their poetry in the -first of “The Younger Poets" series organized by Michael Freed man All those owning two quarters should be in the Hall Building Basement Theatre from 8:00 to 10:30 P.M
The Students’ Association announces that the following positions are open for ratification:
Preventative Clinics Chairman Chief Returning Officer All applicants are requested to contact the Student Re ceptionist on the third floor of the Hall Building for further information.
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Co-ops:
a solution to student housing problems
OTTAW A (CUP)- Univer
sities across Canada, beset
with a heavy influx of students,
are only with great difficulty
able to find adequate funds to
provide adequate teaching staff
increase classroom space, aug
ment library collections, install
labs, and to provide other pu
rely academic needs to adjust
to the increased demands of a
population bent on educating
its young
The universities’ meager
resources can barely stretch
to provide them with the means
to get an education It cannot
stretch to the point where the
students will have the services
which complement union buil
dings, dining facilities, and,
most critical this year, housing
The above items draw a low
priority in university construc
tion But add to this the gene
ral housing shortage in Canada
at the present time, particular
ly as the population shifts from
the rural to the urban base, and
the situation becomes critical
Over the past summer all
available housing in many cen
tres was filled by people shif
ting from rural areas This Sep
tember undergraduate students
returned to university to find
apartments and rooms were
simply not available for them
University residences had been
booked solid since early August
U niversity officials recognize
the problem, but there is little
they can do Most universities
prepare off-campus housing re
gistries, but these are stop
gap measures at best, and in
some cases have led to all kinds
of abuse by both students and
administration
A long-term solution advoca
ted by some is student co-ope
rative living Co-ops have seve
ral advantages:
Students living in co-opera
tives require up to 25 per cent
less space than those living in
apartments, rooms or universi
ty residences If a dwelling
suitable for a family of five is
turned into a co-op, up to eight
students can move in to the sa
me space very comfortably
Co-ops do not require finan- i
cing in their initial stages, from
either the university or the
government If a house rents
for $150 monthly and utilities
cost another $50 monthly eight
students paying $40 per month
rent to realize a considerable
saving over residence fees, in
most cases amounting to 25 per
cent They buy and cook their
own food in common, which
cuts down dining room overhead
costs
Even if a student co-opera
tive association gets involved
in buying and building residen
ces the university assumes no part of the financial burden
Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation provides approved co-operative residences with loans for 90 per cent of the cost of building, on a 50 year mortgage
This makes it possible for the co-operating students to realize a saving over residen
ces even while they are making mortgage payments through slightly higher than cost month
ly room and board
Co-operative residences are invariably cheaper to design,
to build and to maintain
They are cheaper to design because they are generally spar
tan in construction and fur
nishing, and completely devoid
of the frills usually built into university residences
They are cheaper to build because contractors habitually
‘up’ their prices if they know government is paying the shot, either directly or indirectly
They are cheaper to maintain because all maintenance, clea
ning kitchen work, administra
tion, and discipline is done by the students themselves
Because of the favourable financial conditions under which co-ops operate there is really no limit to their pos
sible expansion The example
of the W aterloo Co-operative Residences Incorporated is typical of the speed and effi
ciency with which co-op hou
sing can be set up on any cam
It all began at the Universi
ty of W aterloo in 1964 when several students recognized the need for new rental student housing Within six months
a handful of students rented two houses near the campus accomodating 33 students
Within a year W aterloo Co
operative Residences was set
up to operate seven houses with 90 students At this point they also began construction
of Hammarskjold House, a four-storey building designed specifically for student co-ope
rative living It was 90 per cent financed through CMHC, and the WCRI talked the con
tractor into re-investing his profit on the project to make
up the remaining 10 per cent
Hammarskjold House beca
me the first residence in North America to be built by students
It opened for business in April
1966, just two years after the first co-operative residence was set up at Waterloo
At present the WCRI owns
two houses in addition to Ham
marskjold House, rents ten others, and accomodates 130 students, men and women at
tending university ( But this does not end the story of the growth of their co-operative They are at pre
sent awaiting approval of a complex of buildings which will provide self-contained a- partments for married students and several four-storey towers for unmarried students
There is no particular reason why W aterloo was able to set
up such a strong and imagina
tive co-operative program in such a short time It was simply
a case of students willing to take the initiative and willing
to seek out the right kind of advice
The W aterloo story could well have happened on any campus in Canada The possibi
lity is there It remains to be exploited
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Hazing daze
Freshman Month, though it is not yet over, has already
been deemed a failure — by its chairman, the Students’ As
sociation, and the Freshmen them selves The film and va
riety show were poorly attended The Day Out had to be
cancelled And the Shoeshinerama fell considerably short
of expectations.
In the painful process of re-examining their objectives
for this annual dilemna, the Students’ Association finds it
self once again floundering desperately to understand what
is happening Arts Faculty President Barry Hill has re
commended instituting a program o f!‘hazing” where ‘Frosh’
would have to wear beanies and go through a low-keyed ini
tiation program Executive Vice-President Sherry Rubinstein
explained that Freshmen do not respond to intellectual pro
gramming, while Freshman Month Chairman Aaron Caplan
lamented the lack of response by the students for social
programming All, it seem s, are suffering from a very narrow
perspective
The orientation of young people from a high school sy s
tem of education to the university, involves a great deal
more than a few dances, variety shows, and seminars It is
a change from a system of tight control, regimented d isci
pline, and narrow, curricular programming It must begin to
undo the damage of twelve long years of sitting at desks,
dealing with material that has little to do with the real
world, playing a passive role and passing exams three ti
mes a year Is it any wonder that students arrive at univer
sity unresponsive, uncreative, and scared? They are numb
from having been kept on ice for so long.
Freshman Orientation must begin in the high schools
This is the opportunity to awaken students to the possibi
lities of involving them selves creatively in university life
and of stimulating social consciousness It is for these rea
sons that UGEQ (Union Generale des Etudiants du Quebec)
will be expanding into the secondary schools next year Al
so, the georgian will be publishing four editions of a High
School Supplement this year, which should provoke some
interest.
But where is our SA? Why does it continue to talk down
to Freshmen with high-school level programs, when people
have been talking down to them all their liv es Why is it
McGill that always takes the initiative in organizing Mont
real high school student councils, debating tournaments
and seminars?
We strongly urge that the SA re-direct its efforts by get
ting into the high schools and stimulating interest and
consciousness The first step would be to establish a Pre-
University Affairs Committee, which could establish lines
of communication with high school student representatives
Programmes could be planned where university and high
school students could really get together and exchange
ideas and d iscuss university affairs Thus, orientation will
have been achieved in a meaningful way long before the
students actually become Freshmen We feel that this sort
of endeavour will prove a great deal more fruitful than the
frustrating, shortsighted affair that we have witnessed this
year.
M e m b e r s o f C U P a n d P E N
The georgian is an editorially autonomous newspaper published by the
Publications board of the Students' Association of Sir Georges Williamsby the P ~ ~
The officBuilding, _ Telephone 842-6461, Telex no 01-26383 The Advertising Office is located in
and M orris Rosenfeld, advertising representatives.
MANAGING BOARD Editor-in-chief Frank D BraytonManaging Editor Howard E Arfin
Business Manager Howard B Hoppenheim
News E ditor ; Allan Hilton
Supplement Editor Donald Rosenbaum
DEPARTMENT HEADS
Copy Editor, E s te lle G eller; Desk Editor, A lan S Z w e ig ; A s s t
N ew s E ditor, Mona F orrest; R esearch C h ief, L e o n Pressm an; Art
D irector, D avid St L o u is; Sports Editor, M ike T a y lo r.
t h e w i n d s o f c h a n g e d o n ’ t b l o w p a s t t h i s d o o r a s t h e s a m e o l d
t u n e i s p l u n c k e d o u t w h i l e w e l i s t e n t o t h e b i r d s t w i t t e r i n g t h e i r
e a r l y m o r n i n g s o n g s i t d o e s n ’ t m a k e t h e j o b e a s i e r a s w e h e a d
i n t o t h e 4 8 h o u r s t r e t c h w i t h l e c t u r e h o u r s s t i l l t o c o m e t h e
b e e r i s g o o d a n d t h e p i z z a ’ s l o u s y b u t t h e b e s t i s y e t t o c o m e f o r
t h e p a p e r w i l l m a k e t h e g r a n d e n t r a n c e s i x h o u r s l a t e m i n u s t h e
p h o t o s a n d t h e f r e s h f r e s h e t t e s s o i t w i l l b e b l a c k T u e s d a y w i t h
t h e p i c t u r e s g o n e
g e o r g i a n t rip e ?
Editor, the georgian:
Being a freshman here and also slightly freshrr I somehow feel that I can comment on the validity of your newspa
per Is it a newspaper? We all know the answer to that No,
of course not Of course, I do realize that the other univer
sity’s paper is pure tripe, but
I cannot see why we should try to follow their line of achie
vement and standards
Most of your newspaper is padded space, and is definitely square and “unhip" That is not to say that a few of your so-called writers do not try
to appear “groovy", but that is all they do In other words, I believe your newspaper is for the most part completely out
of touch with the student si
tuation It has turned its back
on the student body because
it lacks the ability or know
how to make “news” No piece
of information or event is ever really earth-shattering and would go unnoticed except for the perceptive eye of an inte- r rested jourrtalist
Your newspaper does have
a grudging advantage and an unfair one at that It is free and there is no competition;
thus it does not really matter what you print, as long as there
is money to keep it stuttering along from year to year This
is a university newspaper and thus the events of the school make up the real news If you fail to see the basic point, then
it is obvious that the georgian
is really a thinly-disguised ma
gazine, printed inexpensively for the sole purpose of “gla
mour-struck” writers, whose only real desire is to see their name and their “masterpiece"
in print the easy way
In conclusion then, your staff should realize that the newspaper is not a vehicle for future imitations of Leonard Cohen or it is a place for long- winded political or social dis
cussion on events which are really superfluous and insult
ing to the general knowledge and intelligence of the readers
People do read, you know, outside of university circles
The ideal of your newspaper should be to “cover” the news
of our circle because that is what is important to us, as stu
dents Who is the georgian
anyway, People And what do people want to read about?
The immediate issues around them, within confines of the particular strata I would like
to feel some involvement in university life and somehow
the georgian has missed the
point
Glenarthur Harding
Inflation
Editor, the georgian:
Rather than make this let
ter one of protest I will sim
ply -state my case; the conclu
sions to be drawn by my fellow students
On Monday, September 18,
1967 I made my first visit to the Bookstore currently loca
ted in Birks Hall of the Nor
ris Building The purpose of this visit was to sell a book for which I had no further
use The book entitled “Sur
vey of Social Science” by Ma
rion B Smith is currently being sold in the Bookstore for ap
proximately $9.00
Although my copy was in perfect condition, I received less than 1/2 price for it, the paltry sum of $4.25 This is not the cause of my disenchant
ment, however, as my own stupidity is to blame
Tod§y (September 19th) I again passed the Bookstore and out of interest decided to check
on my former book,
on my former book To my surprise I found it priced at
$7.40
Two minutes of simple ma
thematics will show this mark-up
to be one of slightly less than 75%
What kind of horseshit is this??? t
Kevin Wilmut
Ed Note:
AH students with similar grie
vances should detail them in
a letter addressed to the Stu
dents’ Association Bookstore
Investigation Committee Let ters can be left with the Stu dent Receptionist on the third floor of the Hall Building or
in the offices of the georgian
on the mezzanine for forward ing.
F aux pas
Dear Kultur Editor,
I wish to object to a definite faux pas made by the staff of the Georgian Film Festival in their annual issue of announ cements Namely I wish to ob ject to their labelling Hercu les Unchained as the worst film ever made “Hercules Unchained” is not the worst film ever made Close com petition obviously comes from such epics as “The Bible” and
“Muscle Beach Party”
I, who possess the intestinal fortitude to sit through such
as “Wherewolf In the Girls’ Doim” was unable to*sit through
a complete filming of the Fu- nicello Follies It wasn’t the plot, ot cast, ot script that got
me Such things one becomes ac-customedto when one listens
to Frosh talking in the halls
W hat truely a effected me a- bout this, film was,, lovely An nette herseii i kept wishing dolts would step up and stud her, or something Like in that greatest of all Stag Films - “Sl- onzo, Stag of the North”
Steve Goldberg
View
by Bob Payette
Few people have reacted to the issues per se brought up in this column Personalities, not issues, are the substances of matters political in the intel
lectual wasteland that Sir Geor
ge happens to be Unfortunate but true
Eager to use their knowledge
of psychology, campus analysts are only too eager to impute motives Sir George needs political analysts not psychoa
nalysts Deal with issues, man!
When Council is presented with a so-called rational, logi
cal, low-key brief on reorien
tation, it does nothing When Council is faced with a sarcas
tic, rhetorical newspaper co
lumn, it still does nothing The whole point though, is that students, not Council members, really count
Council talks about what they call apathy and lack of communication But what has the Establishment actually said to students? It is silent
Worse still, the Establishment resents a minority view on what they have carried out Speak
up Establishment! If others are as you say, not constructive, show what constructive actions you are taking
The purpose of this column
is to present an alternative
a student-oriented program based on the philosophy of student syndicalism Howe ver the point had to be made first about the unfortunate situation
A very basic premise of stu dent syndicalism is that the membership at large matter Only it matters
When a thousand Georgians have been convinced that they need an objectively prepared course evaluation guide, then there will be no need to con vince a Council
Students have the problems; students also have the ulti mate solution, the vote The point must be made that the
re are problems, that votes can represent student opinion about the issues and people who want to resolve the issues
By the way, why has the Es tablishment not printed out the forthcoming by-elections for Clubs Commissioner and Science Students’ Association President, two of the eleven voting Council seats Only
if there is due warning will non-Establishment candidates
be able to build support and formulate a student-issue plat form
See you next issue
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is the final issue”
Students can be radicalized when confronting authority In creasingly, the power elite in America is growing intolerant as it lacks the ability to cope with protest.
In terview :
"Control
by Frank BRAYTON
Students for a Democratic
Society is an organization in
the United States which repre
sents more than any other
group the thinking and philo
sophies of the New Left There
are about 200 chapters of SDS
spread throughout the US and
the organization has grown
steadily since its founding in
1962 at Port Huron Michigan
Its primary objectives are
outlined in this excerpt from
the founding manifesto, The
Port Huron Statement: We
seek the establishment of a
democracy of individual par
ticipation governed by two
central aims: That the indi
vidual share in those social
dec isions determining the
quality and direction of his
life; that society be organized
to encourage independence in
me n and provide the media
for their common participa
tion
T wo national organizers for
SD S were in Montreal last week
for the purposes of research
and discussion of SDS poli-
cie s with local activists
G reg Calvert of the SDS
New York office and Dee Ja
cobsen, National Draft Resis
tance Co-ordinator based in
the Chicago office discussed
a wide-range of topics and
the ir feelings on specific is
sue s are as follows:
Student Representation
A true student voice in the
running of universities will
not be achieved through re
presentation on various com
mittees as many universities
are now establishing Commit
tee s are devices of the admi
nistration and are used to pre
vent students from gaining
ulti mate control
B ut student representatives
sitt ing on committees do serve
a useful function because they
becom e disenchanted and la
ter demand true representa
tion They are led to a rea
lization of their impotence and
apathy follows
T hose sitting on the Board
of Governors of universities
are business men who are only
interested in seeing that there
is an adequate number of gra
duates to fill positions in the
management of large corpora
tions in order that the present
corporate structures will pre
vail in the future They are
moulding students to fit their
image of what a person should
be and what functions he should
perform But this will not con
tinue as more students opt
out of their society and can
envision a better one in which
values are altered from those
of the present production ori
ented society
That is why these mana
gement executives and govern
ment bureaucrats cannot tole
rate dissent, because they can sense a danger to their own way of life As a consequence they try to impose their autho
rity on students but this will not be tolerated much longer
Already there is a massive movement of resistance deve
loping in the United States
The Draft
Resistance of the draft is one manifestation of student confrontation with authority
Although the movement is relatively small in terms of numbers, it is significant be
cause it is the first resistance
of this type since World War 11
It represents a direct confron
tation with the corporate and military power elite in America
Some of the methods em
ployed in resistance are re
fusal to sign the loyalty oath (which results in a six month delay while the FBI investi
gates to determine if he has been connected with any com
munist organization) and try
ing to get classified as a cons
cientious objector
SDS does not place much value on a CO classification because one still has to serve
in some non-combattant way that contributes to the total war effort and the opportunity for confronting authority is lost Besides, only 300 out of every 10,000 applicants is clas
sified as a CO
Draft resistors are not en
couraged by SDS to come to Canada, again because the opportunity for confrontation
is lost and there never will be
a mass migration to Canada
This alternative is draft dodg
ing rather than resistance and will never be a long-range so
lution to the draft problem
Only about five per cent of the population really like to kill and injure people but the others are the ones with whom Only by developing a large-scale resistance will the power elite realize that they
do not have support for the war People can be radicali
zed through struggle, once they have experienced coercion
Student Government
Individuals who are now involved in student govern
ment leave the university pre
pared to maximize their posi
tions and will inherit the reins
of power The National Stu
dents Association (NSA) repre
sents this more than any other group
The recent revelation that the CIA was providing funds
to the NSA proves that the power elite is using student rhetoric to sell the product
Where will NSA executives be
in ten years? Probably in some management or government bureaucratic position
The NSA is run from the top and its very structure, that
of small cliques, precludes it
effecting any significant change
Its member groups just do not have any voice in the formula-' tion of NSA policy What the
US needs now is a national student union to represent real people on real campuses involved in real struggles
Pressure has to be organized
on university campuses, but
in new ways so that change can be brought about in the academic community Apa
thy, as such, does not exist among university students
Rather, non-participation re
sults from the unconscious recognition that institutions
do not really represent them
Consequently, what you de
mand is control Control is the final issue and all other issues are used to bring this about
Campus Newspapers
Students have little or no control over their own educa
tion and as a result experience
a sense of alienation, either consciously or unconsciously
Newspaper editors must be
come sensitive to the under
currents of alienation on cam
pus and establish an editorial policy that reflects it Campus issues must be related to this central problem
But newspapers are one aspect of the control of peo
ple's lifes What people read affects their daily activities and habits It is one aspect of the volume of material that people internalize daily News
papers are usually useless when
it comes to effecting signifi
cant social change because people participate in press campaigns passively Issues
raised by campus newspapers are experienced second-hand
by the students It is more important that these people become involved in resisting authority themselves which is the purpose of campus organiz
ing In the long run, this is a more effective way of achiev
ing social reform
The power structures of universities and of society are constantly involved in the subtle control of individuals
W henever this power struc
ture reveals itself, you radi
calize Organizers must involve the individual in resistance
of this control
Society, today, is incredibly authoritarian It can probably
be best described as “benevo
lent fascism" Hippies can
be very effective in forcing the power structure to reveal this authoritarianism because it cannot cope with hippies
Such programs held at some American universities as “Gen
tle Thursday” force the con
trolling powers to reveal their weakness in this respect They become intolerant and use force to repress such acts by the students they are trying
to mould
American Empire
W e are witnessing the end
of a chapter in American his tory, that of the American Empire A new one is being written now that make take twenty years to complete This is evident from the number of forces working against the American social structure as it presently exists Among them are such forces
as the urban guerilla warfare, Vietnam, the recent Organiza tion of Latin American States Conference in Havana and the latent fascism that exists in the US
The US government has recently contracted several large corporations to employ computers in the production
of model programs that will enable them to cope with stu dent radicalism Despite the S75 million that is being used for this purpose the' whole thing will prove useless, be cause the models are being built on inaccurate informa tion The minds of the men feeding information into the computers are structured in such a way that will not enable them to grasp the concepts behind the new radicalism They may be brilliant men, but they are just not capable
of understanding the motives
of the New Left
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L a s t year, Revenue $66,000, Expenditure $83,000, Deficit $17,000
Auditors give ve ry qualified statement of cash position
Many programs to be cut back sharply this year
About $10,000 of this y e a r’s money for last ye a r’ s program
No decision made by Council so far on 67-68 budgets
Student’s Association
In bad financial position
Last year’s performance
Large deficit $17,000, wipes out accumulated surplus Auditors cannot make a financial statement
only a cash statement These and other remarks point out to poor procedures and poor performan
ce for the 1966-1967 financial year
Under treasurer Tony Char- to spend cash receipts directly
for additional unauthorized programs
FINANCIAL STATEMENT '66-67
We have examined the statement of financial position of the Stu dents’ Association of Sir George Williams University as at May 31,1967 and related statements of revenue and expenditure for the year ended on that date and have obtained all the information and explanations we have required Our examination included a gene ral review of the accounting procedures and such tests of accoun ting records and other supporting evidence as we considered ne cessary in the circumstances.
Our examination of cash receipts, because of their nature, was limited to comparisons of recorded receipts with the bank depo sits.
In our opinion, the accompanying statement of financial posi tion and related statements of revenue and expenditure present fairly the cash position of the Association as/at May 31, 1967 and the recorder cash transactions for the year ended on that date.
S T U D E N T S ’S A S S O C I A T I O N O F SIR G E O R G E W IL LIA M S U N I V E R S I T Y
STATEM ENT OF F IN A N C IA L POSITION
AS AT MAY 31, 1967
ron, the Student’s Association
had an $17,000 deficit This
amount only represents part
of the deficit for last year As
the Student's Association ope
rates on a cash basis, not all
of last years bills were paid
then
The $15,000 accumulated o-
ver many years was complete
ly wiped out Charron, third
treasurer for 66-67 took over
in late October but could not
revamp internal control system
in time last year Expenses
could not be controlled and a
flood of unpaid bills came in
during March
Cash receipts were not all
verified because of the lack
of control It was possible
last year for club executives
The auditor’s statement re
fers to cash position not to financial position The latter condition would be needed for a clean bill of health The cash position does not indica
te accounts payable, that is unpaid bills The statement indicates $2000 of unpaid bills but the 67-68 budget indicates another $8500 for 66-67 bills.- This includes the 66-67 Garnet
The auditors statement does not include the key phrases
“according to accepted accoun
ting standards” This omission implies that the Student’s As
sociation does not use these standard accounting standards
The great gap in accounting procedures is internal control
Budgets are not prepared in standard form Expenditures are not controlled before they are made Cash receipts are not necessarily complete be
cause tickets are not comple
tely controlled
The auditor’s statement does not show all the figures For instance, for the W inter Car
nival, only the net excess ex
penditure is shown In fact total expenditure was about S18,000 and revenue from tic
kets about $16,000 lebving
a $1,700 deficit The Film So
ciety total revenue and expen
diture are not shown either
The question remains, What will happen this year?
Prospect for this year by Bob Payette
Higher administrative costs take over half of budget $10,000 to cover last years’ expenditure
Treasurer wants to crackdown Many programs to be cut in half, some entirely No word from Coun
cil on Final budget
there will be changes in these amounts
Under treasurer Bob Simco,
the Students' Association faces
many problems Financial pro
cedure has been revised to so
me extent The problem howe
ver lies not so much the rules
as with their enforcement
New faces, same problems
and same ways, we hope not
as it would mean virtual ban
kruptcy
Preliminary budget request
presented at summer conferen
ce in June ask for $112,000
Revenues are forecast to be
$70,500; this is $15 from 4700
students
Many programs will be cut
back entirely or have to be re
financed Most of the $70,500
will go to administration costs
of the georgian, UGEQ fees,
the 66-67 G arnet yearbook and
last year’s unpaid bills In fact
the requests for these items
gobble up the entire budget
and then some $71,200
In fact this amount is pessi
mistic because there will be
very substantial cuts The ad
ministrative costs may be cut
as much as $10,000 down to
$31,500 UGEQ fees will be
about $7000 The cost for the
66-67 yearbook, THE GAR
NET are estimated at $6000
and last year's unpaid bills
account for $4500 Possibly
THE GEORGIAN original
ly requested $12,300 over and above the $20,000 of adverti
sing revenue But a new prin
ter and other cuts have trim
med this amount by " 5000
Here we are left with $15,000
to be allocated to other pro
grams and requests for about
$35,000
Nobody knows yet whether there is $15,000 left - this fi
gure is probably optimistic
This figure does not take into account a contingency fund budgeted at $4000 for late new programs and unforeseen difficulties
The next big question is pos
sible profit and losses by major events For example, Carnival
is supposed to break even on
a $20,000 budget financed by ticket sales and publicity
If Carnival makes money, there can be more activities
If Carnival flops badly, then the Students’ Association faces cirtual bankruptcy The same thing can happen in other ac
tivities
The requests for $35,000 from faculty associations and clubs are well padded but cuts
will be made
The more important problem
is not cutting fat but whether the programs suggested should
be financed by Council in the first place
There is wide support, for instance, to completely cut support of the three political clubs who asked $2000 in all
The Liberal Club requested
$1300, the PC’s $780, and the NDP’s $130
W hat is the underlying phi
losophy which these budgets reflect? Programs seem to ap
peal to special interest groups whose activities are essentially recreational in nature There may be educational overtones but the essence is recreation
The budget requests of really educational activities are al
most absent What happens to Course Evaluation Guide, to research on the bookstore,
on library facilities?
Little is public now except last June’s preliminary budget requests Only when Council
as a whole has decided to exa
mine Treasury Board prelimi
nary work will the whole pic
ture come out Where is the Students’ Association money going? To recreational activi
ties or to educational char- ge?Council will soon tell
GENERAL ACCOUNT DEFICIT
Excess of expenditure (revenue)
BUILDING FUND SURPLUS
Less: Advance from Sir George Williams University to be applied against
STATEM ENT OF REVENUE AND EXPEND ITU R E FOR TH E YEAR ENDED MAY 31, 1967
REVENUE
EXPENDITURE Office and administrative —
EXCESS OF EXPENDITURE (REVENUE)
Note: Approximately $6,500 of telephone charges during the year have been absorbed by Sir George Williams University.
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES ON STUDENTS’ A C T IV IT IE S
FACULTY ASSOCIATIONS
CONFERENCES
Cont’d to page 12
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The Vietnamese Election Farce
Tran Van Dinh, 44, fought against the French during the Re
sistance War He later joined the South Vietnamese foreign
service and has served in served in several Asian and Latin
American countries His last post was Charge d’Affairs and
Acting Ambassador of South Vietnam to the United Statea
At present he lives in Washington, D.C where he is correspon
dent for the Saigon Post He sqys, however, that his dispatches
are rarely published, as they are usually censored by the Saigon
government
Washingotn (CUP-CPS) - Po
litics in South Vietnam in re
cent years have always had
elements of a tragi-comedy
of a tragi-comedy
As the main theme of the
play is “democracy”, the inte
rested audience “American”,
the actors have to wear a mask
to suit the purpose The mask
is "elections” Balloting would
take place, over 80 per cent
of the people would vote Was
hington would call it a success
until the stage collapses lea
ving dead bodies and broken
furniture on the scene
For the seventh time (two
Presidential elections in 1955
and 1961; four legislature elec
tions in 1956, 1959, 1963, 1966)
since Vietnam was divided tem
porarily by the 1954 Geneva
agreements, the tired people
of South Vietnam went to the
polls On September 3, from
7 a.m to 4p.m., 83 per cent
of the 5, 853,251 voters procee
ded to 8,824 polling places to
cast their votes to elect a pres
ident, a vice-president and
b y
T R A N V A N D I N H
C o l l e g i a t e P r e s s S e r v i c e
60 senators The number of
registered voters had jumped
from 5,553,251 in one month
to the present 5,853,251
“We are prolific in Vietnam,
but not that prolific,” said
Tran Van Huong, a civilian
candidate who finished fourth
Replied General Nguyen Van
Thieu, the head of state and
military candidate; with a tou
ching candor: “Some soldiers
have been given two voting
cards
The voter was given first
eleven ballots, one for each pre
sidential ticket (two names,
president and vice-president,
one symbol) then 48 other
ballots, one for each, senato
rial slate (10 names on each)
He had gone over 502 names
(22 presidential, 480senatorial)
scrutinied 59 symbols (eleven
scrutinized 59 symbols (ele
ven for presidential, 48 for
senatorial) He hardly could
be that fast reader, but he did
not care He looked at the fa
miliar policeman who will be
around in his locality long af
ter the election day
General Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
the chief of police, often cal
led The 'Saigon Himmler, had
declared on August 22: “Na
tional policemen would be sta
tioned inside and outside booths
all over the country As the national police are the people
in closest contact with the lowest echelon, there will be police telling them where to vote, how to vote, and when
to vote.” (Saigon Post, August
23, 1967.) The Vietnamese voter is a captive voter: the police stam
ped his registration card and anyone subsequently searched (a routine in South Vietnam) and found without the election day stamp on his card will be
in danger of automatic clas
sification as a Viet Cong and subjected to prison or death
On the eve of the election day, two dailies in Saigon, the Than Chung (Sacred Bell) and Sang (Light) were closed Three weeks earlier, another daily the Dan Chung (people was shut down All these despite the fact that officially cen
sorship was abolished and the Constitution guarantees the freedom of the press
Declared General Thieu when asked about the closure
of the newspapers: “Even in
a democracy, one has the right
to suppress newspapers that aid one’s enemies.”
Echoed Chief of Police Loan:
'Democracy is fine for the politicians, but me, I favour national discipline.” (Washing
ton Post, September 3, 1967.) General Ky much earlier had been more specific on “demo
cracy” and had stated that he
“might respond militarily if
a civilian whose policies he disagreed with won the elec
tion “In any democratic coun
try, you have the right to disa
gree with the views of others”
(New York Times, May 14, 1967) And on July 27, 1967, General Ky repeated “If any opposition ticket in South Vietnam’s presidential elec
tions should win by trickery,
we will overthrow it.”
W ho else in South Vietnam could use tricks but the junta itselfVGeneral Ky’s threat came
at the time when at his ins
tigation, a “military commit
tee” was formed to serve as
a kitchen cabinet for the new military government if the Thi- eu-Ky ticket wins In the most unlikely case of its ticket lo
sing, the committee would serve to over throw the civili
an elected as President
All these unnecessary pre
cautions and threats were ta
ken and made even when pos
sible competitors were exclu
ded in advance from the race:
General Duong Van Minh (Big Minh) former chief of sta
te and Dr Au Truong Thanh,
For the seventh-time since 1954 five and a half million South Vietnamese peasants cast ballots in this year’s meaningless elec
tions.
former Minister of Economy and Finance who planned to run on a peace platform, were banned from running
So the Stage was all set for the September 3 show Was
hington put the final touch by sending a 22-man Presiden
tial mission guided by former Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who had openly favo
red military regimes in South Vietnam The mission mem
bers, feted by Saigon govern
ment and the U.S Embassy, escorted by government agents communicating with people by government interpreters, tou
red half a dozen polling stations (8.824 in all) has passed its ver
dict': good show “Good, or
derly, wholesome,” Ambassa-The results of the elections:
83 percent-of the people voted (exactly as predicted by the U.S Embassy in Saigon) The Thieu-Ky military ticket won
by 35 per cent of the votes
Already seven o u t' of ten ci
vilian candidates lodged pro
test of fraud with the Cons
tituent Assembly which will have until October 2 to cer
tify the validity of the elec
tions Dr Phan Khac Suu, the civilian candidate who finis
hed third and who is also the chairman of the Constituent Assembly complained that
in many, many areas, his wor
kers had estimated the turno
ver at only 10 per cent Lots
of complaints to come but
it is not going to change the situation anyway
O ne surprise (to W ashington):
a Saigon Lawyer, Mr Tru
ong Dinh Dzu who campai
gned on the platform of pea
ce and anti-military junta in the clearest terms possible, finished second with 17 per cent of the votes
Why were Washington and the U.S mission in Saigon surprised? If there is any indi
cation at all of the mood and desire of the Vietnemese peo
ple, it is their obvious con
cern abour war and about the corrupted dictatorship
of the military
Of all the eleven candidates, only one advocated war Even General Thieu talked about peace and negotiations But the Vietamese have no voice
in this war Lamented colum
nist Joseph Kraft from Saigon:
“But as long as Saigon (read: the U.S military establish ment in Saigon) thinks vic tory, it is very hard for Was hington to move toward set tlement And thus the present outlook despite the new setting created by the new elections, remains barren.”
Washington and Saigon do not think only victory but they expect “representative, demo*- cratic government" to emer
ge even with the old cast But the September 3 elections is only the first act of the show More to come There will be
in the coming weeks a deadly struggle between General Thieu, No 1 and Vice-Air Marshall Ky, the No 2 who will try harder Ky is not going to
be a figurehead as a vice-pre sident who should give up both the Premiership and Air Com mand with the profits and powers provided by these two finctions But Thieu, cunning and less talkative, may strike first
There will be organized opposition which logically will join the Buddhists who are pre paring for their coming strug gle against the illegal unjust Buddhist Charter imposed on them by the junta on July 18 This important development will be the subject of another article
In the final act of the show, There will be a lone actor; the U.S and its suffocating military might against a back ground of dead bodies and bur ned villages of a deserted Viet nam
Local Protest Action Grows
The anti-war protest movement in North America continues
to grow as more groups take a definite stand and the credibility gap in the US widens
L’Union Generate des Etudiants du Quebec has maintained an anti-war position for some time and has participated in several demonstrations since 1965
This year UGEQ will be continuing its efforts by educating stu dents about the war and has made arrangements to bring three members of the National Liberation Front to Quebec for a three week tour They will be speaking at several member universities including Sir George during the course of their visit
Although Sir George students are members of UGEQ, the Stu dents' Association has taken no stand on the war as yet but Coun cil has formed a committee to investigate the attitudes of students here and presumably will be formulating a position when the com mittee has made its recommendations
Various Sir George faculty members this summer signed their names to an endorsement of UN Secretary-General U Thant’s proposal for a peace settlement in Vietnam and bought advertis ing space in local newspapers to publicize their stand Similar advertisments have appeared regularly in The New York Times
In addition, Sir George does have a Committee to End the War
in Vietnam which participates in and co-sponsors demonstrations along with similar groups from other Montreal Universities This year demonstrations are being planned for October 21 in conjunction with a march on Washington in the United States, and on November 17 The International Union of Students is spon soring the world-wide student strike on November 17 in solidarity with the struggle of the Vietnamese people UGEQ will act as co ordinators for this action in the Province of Quebec
Meanwhile, the Canadian Union of Students also took an anti war stand at its annual congress held earlier this month It called for a cessation of American bombing and for the Canadian govern ment to openly urge American withdrawal
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Economies: a simple answer to housing
Ottawa (CUP) The econo
mics of co-operatives are sur
prisingly simple and encourag
ing to anyone contemplating
such a project
A one-house co-operative for
instance, can be set up in a
matter of weeks, with little
initial capital
Most houses, independent
or members of a student co
operative association, are ren
ted If a four room house rents
for $150.00 per month and if
it can accommodate eight to
ten students it is likely to be
an ideal house for a co-op
The first step in setting one
up would involve a meeting of
eight or more people willing
to live in the co-op for a full year, or who will promise to find someone to take their place if they decide to leave before the year is up
At this stage you might also set out your philosophy and organize some kind of admi
nistrative structure in order
to prepare for the move into the co-op
The next task is to negotiate
a lease with the landlord For
a starting co-op this would likely be for one year only
Once you’ve moved into the co-op you must decide on fags,
on cost-per-person for food (paid monthly and you must establish definite agreements
The Co-Op Philosophy
Ottawa (CUP) - The first co-op is recorded to have been
started in Rockhalen, England, by several weavers who felt
that they were being fleeced by local retail stores handling
their dry goods To defend their common economic inte
rest they pooled their savings to set up their own store, sell
ing their goods in direct competition with the established ret
ail stores
Co-ops have changed a great deal since this initial start
They wave certain institutionalized rules They have a phi
losophy But they still retain their basic characteristic a
system by which they can successfully defy the contemporary
economic system, which, when analysed, is found to be an
economic and social system as well
Some say co-operatism is the middle way between capi
talism and communism, two economic systems based on ow
nership The capitalist system is based on individual owner
ship, and communi sm , the alternative, is based on collective
ownership Neither of these systems exists in a co-operative
house
The Student co-op is the middle way between these two
extremes because it is owned and operated by the consumer
A co-op member owns (or shares ownership with others)
his co-op only during the time he is using it When he ceases
to use its services as a consumer, his condition as owner
ceases
To put the above in more concrete terms a student shares
the owner ship of his co-op residence when he lives in it, pay
ing his way and doing his fags But when he ceases to avail
himself of its services and no longer does fags, he no longer
acts as an owner of the co-op
Included in the phenomenon of ownership is the respon
sibility to govern Student housing co-ops adhere to the prin
ciples of “one man, one vote”, “Direct democracy”, and “O-
pen membership” This last principle is important to note in
order to combat the argument that fraternity residences are
essentially co-ops This is not the case
The above principles are the essence of a co-op But the
degree to which it fulfills other requirements dictates the
quality of a co-op Direct or participatory democracy per
tains not only to the structure of the house government It
affects interpersonal relationships whithin the co-op It is
a community, in harmony not because it conforms to one
philosophy or another, but because it is recognized that
within certain limits conformity should not be unwillingly
forced upon anyone’s soul
This point became contentious at the CUS co-op seminar
held at W aterloo University under the sponsorship of the
Co-operative Insurance Services Group earlier this month
The seminar was unstructured in itself, and the consensus
of the delegates seemed to be that the co-op should retain
their purity by de-emphasizing the importance of adminis
trative and legislative structures in favour of pure anarchy,
or something approaching it
The advocates of anarchism argued that pure co-opera
tion should not require these structures to attain discipline -
right-thinking students should automatically be aware of
their responsibilities in this area without the need for “law
and order" structures which typify western society
The debate is academic The form of government, its
structure and it strength, depends to a large measure upon
the character of the co-operators If they can manage and
anarchy, this is fine On the other hand, the majority would
find a modified democracy, with certain modified sanctions
on all members, more suitable.
on the distribution of unfor- seen debts For example if the Hydro bill triples because students refuse to turn off the lights, all students must share this additional expense equally
You now have a co-op, in the physical sense But your main problem now will be the establishing of the spirit of
co-operation upon which the co-op as an economic unit de
pends
A co-op is an economic unit mainly because services are not provided to the tenants to the same extent as one expects
in an apartment block If the halls are unclean you have no janitor who will clean it up
for you If your neighbor is noisy during study time you cannot appeal to the landlord.
Regardless how functional the administrative process in the co-op is, the co-op as an economic unit is doomed to failure unless the co-operative spirit is maintained
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