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Dayton Daily News

“My husband and | would like to buy a porterhouse steak.”

Reinstate faculty says Brock sit-in

By MARK SYDNEY

ST. CATHARINES — Ontario Premier Bill Davis would not win a popularity contest among students at Brock University here, now occupying the 13th floor of the administration build- ing. Nor is he popular any- where else on the campus, as students and faculty alike pro- test the cutting back of at least 20 teaching positions on the fa- culty for the next academic year.

What is at stake here, accord- ing to university people, is the quality of education, not only at Brock, but throughout the pro- vince. The main culprits are Bill Davis and Co. who seems to be extending themselves to the ut- most to destroy what sutdents and faculty say is at Brock a unique educational experience.

Word seeped through to the Student Union last weekend that termination notices had been sent to a number of faculty members. A shortage of funds in Brock’s operating budget be- cause of provincial cutbacks was cited. And approximately 10% of present teaching posts would be affected — temporarily or ~ permanently deleted.

Quality Education

Brock is not one of the better known campuses in the province —all of eight years old, a small student body, and relatively few outside-the- area students. Yet it had built up, in these few

Annie Buller Guralnick

Annie Buller Guralnick, veteran Communist, died in Toronto on January 19. Tribute to Annie are presented on page 10.

years, a reputation for quality education of which most stu- dents there are proud. Most teaching done in small seminars, a low student-faculty ratio, a lot of young teachers, all rare to most other universities, made the place somewhat idyllic.

To a lot of students it seemed so good that the first Davis wedge into the quality of educa- tion was generally ignored. The fee strike against the $100 in- crease in undergraduate tuition fees sparked by the Ontario Federation of Students won few, if any adherents. One of the people explained: ‘So we’re pay- ing a hundred dollars more’, went the general feeling around here, ‘but look what we’re getting’ ”.

They soon found out.

When the news of faculty cutbacks broke, the bubble burst. Brock was going to be just like anywhere else. The “emerging unitversity’ had emerged.

Faculty-Student Unity

In two days the entire campus was mobilized to do battle with Bill Davis. The Student Union called a general meeting to de- cide what to do. A resolution was passed calling on the admin- istration to rescind the termina- tion notices for sixteen faculty members affected, and to assure the university that no further attempts would be made to cut back any area of staff or courses.

And it was also decided to oc- cupy the 13th floor until de- mands have been met.

The factulty was asked to sup- port the students by holding dis- cussions on the situation instead of regular teaching classes. They did. A number of workshops— “tremendous, you should have come earlier,” said the people to whom I spoke — on general dis- cussion of the views on the cut- backs, university finances and grants, what the cutbacks mean to several university depart- ments, and alternatives to the present situation, etc. were held with the help of the faculty.

I managed to find myself at a

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NIXON FORCED TO SIGN!

World peace forces, and the heroic people of Vietnam, have won resounding victory in the first stage of building a stable peace in South-East Asia.

President Nixon announced Tuesday evening, Jan. 23, a ceasefire (effective Jan. 27) to end the war which forever dishonors these years of U.S. history: Rhee 9

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WASHINGTON — Even as Vietnam marchers were leaving this city the capital was still reverberating with the echoes of the giant “March Against Death” Saturday when 100,000 sup- porters of peace marched up Consti-

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Pierre Berton told some 500 persons gathered Jan. 18 in To- ronto’s massive Metropolitan United Church in opposition to the Vietnam war, that protest is the only thing that works. The animated crowd put his words into action, following the meeting with an impressive candlelight parade through the downtown streets.

To people who ask, “Why protest? You can’t win;” and “Why protest now? There is a ceasefire around the corner,” Mr. Berton replied:

“Well, I'd like to reply to both those groups of people. First of all, on the ceasefire, I’ve heard that song before — year after year,

“I must tell you that on two previous occasions, I didn’t take part in mass meetings of this sort because I felt that there was a ceasefire around the cor- ner, and that it would jeopardize it to mount a protest.

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Ceasefire or no Ceasefire . — “Whether or not there’s a ceasefire, there’s an awful lot to be said still. But protest as a whole .. . does it. And the whole experience in the past 10 years says to me that it’s the only thing that works. By that oe non-violent protest of Ind we are i i oe are taking part in “But,” the keynote speaker pointed out, “we protest to- night, not just the war in Viet- nam; and the real Purpose of the protest, this and other pro- tests, isn’t just to stop the Viet- nam war, it’s to prevent any future military ventures of this kind. “T am convinced,” he said “that protests of this kind, whatever they have done with the Vietnam crisis, have made it very difficult, if not impos- sible, for a future American president to embark on gunboat diplomacy which belongs to the days of Queen Victoria. That is finished; it’s done with! Brewin Sees Results The meeting, chaired by On- tario Federation. of Labor pre- sident,.. Dave. Archer, -was, called

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officl fay Nixon inaugural Saturday welll still discussing the great prote ag march in the corridors of Wie Capitol today. Fifteen of 90 teen members of the Congres Black caucus had absenl@n themselves from the inaugul@dc Only Rep. Charles Diggs, Dem’S crat from Michigan, was pee ent. Outstripping in numbers aly spirit the well-heeled crowd # President Nixon’s inauguratl® less than a mile away, the f protesters marched for alm three hours, 15 abreast, fr0® the Lincoln Memorial to Washington Monument. : A frigid wind off the Potamle River billowed the red, gre™ yellow and purple banners © the marchers like giant S4™ Overhead floated huge helium balloons.

Fight for the Living Death marchers, shrouded black gowns, their faces p# ed white, led the processi® with signs _ that declat “Mylai”, “An Loc”, “Bach ™ Hospital”, “Africa”, “Jacke, State”, “Kent State”, names | places where thousands h®@ died since President Nixon '®

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whose meetings with gov@™ ment and opposition spokesi™ in Ottawa on Jan, 3 resulted i the unprecedented House || Commons resolution deplot t U.S. bombing of Vietnam@, cities. (This resolution has Si” been credited by Andrew Bre E in of the NDP, interviewed da ing a Hanoi visit, with conv: ing authorities in the Demott tic Republic of Vietnam a Canada should be part of an peace-keeping force sent

Vietnam.)

Mr. Archer read messages d support from labor councils Ph Toronto, Hamilton, Barrie, t, Thomas and Windsor. Anotlt, from the U.S. People’s Coalit for Peace and Justice ure Canadians to “exert all press on Nixon to sign,” and “qnsl safety of Saigon prisoners.”

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