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the muse V^ VOLUME 21, No. 2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1970 ST. JOHN'S 10 cents off campus V Boat may be barred from Culture Centre By DAVE McCURDY hain of events which followed the arrests and convictions of three people who settled in an abandoned mity on the South Coast could in the banning of Lukey's Boat and Culture Centre. contacted a number of peopk concerned with the incident, and the 18-month sentences handed the and the choice of language by the Boat came under it one time or another. irre hassle all started when young people out of a group of ejght who had settled in an abandoned in Little Bay West, near Harbour arrested, tried for break, and theft, and sentenced to 18 Siscoe's Savages? The policing of soc-hops and other happenings in the Thomson Student be taken away from campus nd placed in the hands of a e student security corps now ;cruited by the CSU. : societies were paid $100 per to police the dances, sitting on the eisking students who looked like might be carrying weapons and ng illicit booze down the TSC Johns. set-up didn't work out so well unci! claims changes are necessary. CSU President, Bill Bishop said, "Thomson Centre employees found themselves confiscating more beer :he people policing the soc-hops than from students attending them." a security corps (a recruitment m page fifteen of today's paper) will have 30 members and 20 of a ill work at each event, maintaining in float. i! be paid $5 a night and as ■es of the CSU can be fired ' been decided yet how the ill be chosen or what ire necessary but according will be done within a week eng the recruitment is CSU n Dave Siscoe who will . corp when it is formed. ents have already expressed mining, Siscoe said. ps (Siscoe wants to call ulars) is not the first eablished at Memorial. i one Harvey Taylor similar contingent to patrol it his group who wore white proclaiming their status — use of difficulty recruiting s", they were called at nut "Siscoe's Savages" for the months. All this happened last week, with relatively little press coverage. However, last Friday night at the Arts and Culture Centre, Noel Dinn, drummer of Lukey's Boat, who were playing^ in concert at the time, interrupted the show to inform the audience of the incident. He deplored the heavy sentences — and was encouraging the audience to participate in any forthcoming protests when organist Nels Boland broke in. In slightly less polite language, Boland blasted the authorities for perpetrating such an act, and then proceeded to crap on the audience for "sitting on their asses" and doing nothing about it. He was in the process of lambasting the spectators when most of them left. Boland's outburst succeeded in opening the floodgates for publicity on the matter, but it may have gotten the band in a bit of a jam. John Perlin, director of the Arts and Culture Centre, was not too impressed with the language used, and said that future applications to book the Boat in the centre "would have to be considered in light of the circumstances surrounding Friday night's incident." However, he denied, an Evening Telegram report published Sept. 22 that he had banned the group from the Centre. At the same time, G.A. Frecker, Minister of Provincial Affairs, reputed to have made a statement on CJON radio Sept. 22 branding the action of Boat organist Boland "anarchy", made no mention of this when questioned by the MUSE. He said that he had told a reporter over the telephone that he thought the language was "not fit and proper" for a public place; however, he told the MUSE that he would have no objection to the group's playing in the Centre again provided they promised to "mind their tongues" The trouble at Little Bay West was reported to have started when Liberal Reform chief John Crosbie complained to the authorities about the presence of the young people in the community. Crosbie later branded these reports "utter bullshit", saying that he merely received a complaint by telephone from a resident of Little Bay West and passed it on to the Department of Community and Social Development. Crosbie did not know whether the owner of the abandoned house had actually complained. All he knew was that the complaint had been made. He called the 18-month sentences "very extreme". He said the usual pro cue dure in such matters would be a "lecture and a suspended sentence", he also said that continual use of the term "hippies" by the local media in describing the three people is unfortunate, because so many people are prejudiced by the term. The MUSE also contacted Z.W. Sametz, deputy minister of Community and Social Development, to whom Crosbie relayed the complaint. Sametz, after considerable prodding, admitted that by the time he found out about it and told the director of resettlement, the arrests had already been made, and thus his department had had nothing to do with it. Sametz said his sympathy lies with the homeowners. "They must have some assurance that their homes will not be broken into while they are in another community waiting to reuse their old homes on a seasonal basis." He said, he assumes the law had been properly carried out, and said that in view of the crime (break, entry and theft is liable to a maxium of 14 years), the sentences were actually quite light. Meanwhile, the three so-called "hippies" are appealing the sentence. Profs to blame for high prices The inflated prices of books at the university book-store can not be attributed to the way the store is run and is in large measure the fault of faculty members who do not order books early enough. At least that's the verdict of a CSU Committee which investigated the operation during the summer. The bookstore is actually being run along the same lines as most-co-operative student book-stores and is not ripping a fat profit off students by jacking prices at the beginning of term, CSU president Bill Bishop said at the Sept. 17 council meeting. "The pricing policies are the same as those in any student co-operative and the only expenses considered are the purchase price, transportation costs and the salaries of employees," Bishop said. Auxiliary expenses such as heating, lights and rental are not included when book prices are being determined. The principal reason why prices have to be hiked is the fact that faculty members always wait until late August and early September before ordering books for their courses, necessitating air express shipment. Another problem, Bishop explained, is that the book-store is often left with a large inventory of books it can't sell because of text revisions and new textbook requirements for courses. "I am satisfied that the store is being run as well as possible." One important change in the book-store operation this year is that security has been drastically tightened, all but eliminating the traditional black-market for books. The days of book-napping have ended. This year security is so tight there that it is virtually impossible to steal anything. Last year bookstore manager Francis X. Doyle admitted that security measures were loose but today the seering eyes of security foil any attempt to lift a high-priced textbook. Tightened security in the university bookstore didn't hinder this kleptomanic co-ed from hoisting a copy of Kant's "The Moral Law". It has, however, all but done away with the book black market this year and the squeeze of sky-high bookstore prices has become even tighter. The photo is actually a burlesque of a scene that commonly occured in former years ... and is happening occasionally this year.
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Description | The Muse, Vol. 21, No. 02 (September 25, 1970) |
Language | Eng |
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Transcript | the muse V^ VOLUME 21, No. 2 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,1970 ST. JOHN'S 10 cents off campus V Boat may be barred from Culture Centre By DAVE McCURDY hain of events which followed the arrests and convictions of three people who settled in an abandoned mity on the South Coast could in the banning of Lukey's Boat and Culture Centre. contacted a number of peopk concerned with the incident, and the 18-month sentences handed the and the choice of language by the Boat came under it one time or another. irre hassle all started when young people out of a group of ejght who had settled in an abandoned in Little Bay West, near Harbour arrested, tried for break, and theft, and sentenced to 18 Siscoe's Savages? The policing of soc-hops and other happenings in the Thomson Student be taken away from campus nd placed in the hands of a e student security corps now ;cruited by the CSU. : societies were paid $100 per to police the dances, sitting on the eisking students who looked like might be carrying weapons and ng illicit booze down the TSC Johns. set-up didn't work out so well unci! claims changes are necessary. CSU President, Bill Bishop said, "Thomson Centre employees found themselves confiscating more beer :he people policing the soc-hops than from students attending them." a security corps (a recruitment m page fifteen of today's paper) will have 30 members and 20 of a ill work at each event, maintaining in float. i! be paid $5 a night and as ■es of the CSU can be fired ' been decided yet how the ill be chosen or what ire necessary but according will be done within a week eng the recruitment is CSU n Dave Siscoe who will . corp when it is formed. ents have already expressed mining, Siscoe said. ps (Siscoe wants to call ulars) is not the first eablished at Memorial. i one Harvey Taylor similar contingent to patrol it his group who wore white proclaiming their status — use of difficulty recruiting s", they were called at nut "Siscoe's Savages" for the months. All this happened last week, with relatively little press coverage. However, last Friday night at the Arts and Culture Centre, Noel Dinn, drummer of Lukey's Boat, who were playing^ in concert at the time, interrupted the show to inform the audience of the incident. He deplored the heavy sentences — and was encouraging the audience to participate in any forthcoming protests when organist Nels Boland broke in. In slightly less polite language, Boland blasted the authorities for perpetrating such an act, and then proceeded to crap on the audience for "sitting on their asses" and doing nothing about it. He was in the process of lambasting the spectators when most of them left. Boland's outburst succeeded in opening the floodgates for publicity on the matter, but it may have gotten the band in a bit of a jam. John Perlin, director of the Arts and Culture Centre, was not too impressed with the language used, and said that future applications to book the Boat in the centre "would have to be considered in light of the circumstances surrounding Friday night's incident." However, he denied, an Evening Telegram report published Sept. 22 that he had banned the group from the Centre. At the same time, G.A. Frecker, Minister of Provincial Affairs, reputed to have made a statement on CJON radio Sept. 22 branding the action of Boat organist Boland "anarchy", made no mention of this when questioned by the MUSE. He said that he had told a reporter over the telephone that he thought the language was "not fit and proper" for a public place; however, he told the MUSE that he would have no objection to the group's playing in the Centre again provided they promised to "mind their tongues" The trouble at Little Bay West was reported to have started when Liberal Reform chief John Crosbie complained to the authorities about the presence of the young people in the community. Crosbie later branded these reports "utter bullshit", saying that he merely received a complaint by telephone from a resident of Little Bay West and passed it on to the Department of Community and Social Development. Crosbie did not know whether the owner of the abandoned house had actually complained. All he knew was that the complaint had been made. He called the 18-month sentences "very extreme". He said the usual pro cue dure in such matters would be a "lecture and a suspended sentence", he also said that continual use of the term "hippies" by the local media in describing the three people is unfortunate, because so many people are prejudiced by the term. The MUSE also contacted Z.W. Sametz, deputy minister of Community and Social Development, to whom Crosbie relayed the complaint. Sametz, after considerable prodding, admitted that by the time he found out about it and told the director of resettlement, the arrests had already been made, and thus his department had had nothing to do with it. Sametz said his sympathy lies with the homeowners. "They must have some assurance that their homes will not be broken into while they are in another community waiting to reuse their old homes on a seasonal basis." He said, he assumes the law had been properly carried out, and said that in view of the crime (break, entry and theft is liable to a maxium of 14 years), the sentences were actually quite light. Meanwhile, the three so-called "hippies" are appealing the sentence. Profs to blame for high prices The inflated prices of books at the university book-store can not be attributed to the way the store is run and is in large measure the fault of faculty members who do not order books early enough. At least that's the verdict of a CSU Committee which investigated the operation during the summer. The bookstore is actually being run along the same lines as most-co-operative student book-stores and is not ripping a fat profit off students by jacking prices at the beginning of term, CSU president Bill Bishop said at the Sept. 17 council meeting. "The pricing policies are the same as those in any student co-operative and the only expenses considered are the purchase price, transportation costs and the salaries of employees," Bishop said. Auxiliary expenses such as heating, lights and rental are not included when book prices are being determined. The principal reason why prices have to be hiked is the fact that faculty members always wait until late August and early September before ordering books for their courses, necessitating air express shipment. Another problem, Bishop explained, is that the book-store is often left with a large inventory of books it can't sell because of text revisions and new textbook requirements for courses. "I am satisfied that the store is being run as well as possible." One important change in the book-store operation this year is that security has been drastically tightened, all but eliminating the traditional black-market for books. The days of book-napping have ended. This year security is so tight there that it is virtually impossible to steal anything. Last year bookstore manager Francis X. Doyle admitted that security measures were loose but today the seering eyes of security foil any attempt to lift a high-priced textbook. Tightened security in the university bookstore didn't hinder this kleptomanic co-ed from hoisting a copy of Kant's "The Moral Law". It has, however, all but done away with the book black market this year and the squeeze of sky-high bookstore prices has become even tighter. The photo is actually a burlesque of a scene that commonly occured in former years ... and is happening occasionally this year. |
Date created | 2012-01-10 |