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by Mike Kennedy Y Canadian University Please include a brief
’ oon es ey ot These penne VERS Aer Press willbelaunching resume, recent photo-
of ‘’The Other Press*’. Last — apathetic. ional f , h tadd
Comm ent week’s corner. had as a This same paper is on the ~ anationalfour-colour graph, present address

campus magazine and telephone number,

~ (200,000 circulation) in with forwarding address -
the fall of 1980, that will if applicable. Material
be distributed through __ will be returned only if
member newspapers. accompanied by self-

addressed stamped

Writers, photographers envelope.
and illustrators are
invited to submit Material
samples of their work, should
sketches, ideas and be sent
outlines for consider- to:
ation by the editorial
board. es

question, ‘‘did you attend verge of dismemberment as
Woodstock2’’ The not at all a direct. . result of an
Apathy is running ram- surprising response to the apathetic student popula-:
ext iS — ee ques‘ion was unanimous _ tion who really do not feel
While this apathetic condi: No’. Thestatement of the That = fyay have.” any
tion may just be a sign of corner fomrias week. es fie dindents This disin-
: the times, it still exists and simply that the Woodstock terest has Bak started to
has afflicted an alarmingly 8€neration Is dead, or if not infect the staff of the paper
tarde “portion cof the DC, ceaa at least no longer in Mind ae - eo
ge po - attendance at our post in you, t e tact that the
student body. secondary institutions. paper is short staffed and

No where has this been must go through endless
better exemplified, than in Woodstock, as. refer to pascle each week just to put

the lack of response to two itof course, was notmerely the paper out does

 

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rather extreme ‘‘Right
Wing’’ letters to the
editors. Even though the
underlying theme of the
two letters was quite
sound, they were both

many ‘vogue socialists’
around the campus. (Un-
less, of course, we are to
admit that ‘‘vogue socia-
lists’* can neither read nor
write).

On the same page as the
|most recent of the two
letters—Mikey hates So-
cialism—was the ‘Other

a gathering or a concert,
but was a mode of thinking,
a willingness to express
opinions rightly or wrongly,
the culmination of a
generation of people who

the Woodstock generation
who started up ‘’THE

OTHER PRESS“*’ some four
years ago. People who
weren’t content to remain
part of the administration’s
propaganda machine.

contribute to the overall
feeling of helplessness
displayed bythe staff.
While the paper does not
need the long-hair, rock n’

can ‘‘The Other - Press’’

(DC’s only true. student
paper) continue to operate.

 
   
   

 

 

 

CONFIDENTIAL TO PINK
FLOYD

Better a controlled thought
than no thought at all.

 

   

The National
sy Campus

roll folkie of the late sixties, :
presented in sych a _ cared and weren't too lazy _ it does need the people who = Se
dogmatic manner that they to do something about that care and are willing to 126 York Street -
should have inspired at which they cared about. contribute. Only in this way ‘Ottawa. Ontatio
least one rebuttal from the It was the like of those of :

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