Committee Meets

BANDERSNATCH

Interoal Affairs

Ron Doyle

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Montreal, the fifth largestmarket for California grapes, hasbeen targeted as a key city for apublicity campaign, financed bygrowers, to sell grapes. Much helpis needed to prevent Montreal frombeing lIsed as a dumping groundfor California grapes. If you canhelp, c0I1tact Deborah Miller, UFWrep, at the PAPT, 695-7791, local 35,or Jim Christie in Laird 222.

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DOll1inion PiclceffedAbout 300 supporters of the

United Farm Workers Unionpicketed the Dominion Store onRachel and St. Denis, Friday,October 25th. Dominion continuesto sell boycotted grapes and let­tuce. The picketers were lead byUFW vice-president DoloresHuerta, who visited Montreal lastweekend to generate support forthe boycott of U.S. grapes andlettuce.. The boycott has been organized

to convince California growers torecognize the United FarmWorkers Union as the represen· ,tative of farm workers in thatstate. Under contracts with theUFW, workers obtain basic' rightssuch as toilets and hand-washingfacilities in the field, fresh drinkingwater with individual paper cups,protection from misuse ofdangerous pesticides, and an endto child labour., Dolores Huerta addressed a rally

at St. Louis de France Churchfollowing the picketing. She noted,as an indication of the ef­fectiveness of the grape boycott,that California grape grownershave twice as many grapes in coldstorage now than they did last yearat this time.

has voted to'set aside $1,000 for this inform the feeder-schools of theaim. disappointments and delights of

Student Association chairman JAC. The committee agreed itCathy Datte is investigating the 'could not devote its full time to theregistration foul-up. It was agreed project but several membersto examine the recommendations expressed interest in working withof a report by Academic Advisor, the animators.John Adamonis. Centennial Centre was also a topic

Celia Gillman gave a report on of conversation. The committeethe CO-8AC meeting attended by feels JAC students are beingherself and S.A. members Mike ripped-off by MAC. The S.A. paysMurphy and Ron Doyle. CO-8AC is them an exorbitant $10,000 a yearthe student government of Dawson for the use of cafeteria, lounge andCollege. The meeting at Dawson's bar-disco. Also, inequity was seenViger Campus was quite in- in the bookstore deal. Profits areteresting. CO-8AC is still in its split 50-50, yet JAC students buyinceptive sta~e and is somewhat almost five times the amount MACdisorganized. Apathy at Dawson is does.a major problem, even more so Finally, the role of Studentthan at JAC. Services was discussed. Several

However, the campus itself is students felt that Kirby Breithauptsuperb. The renovated building was not fulfilling his respon­boasts wall-to-wall carpeting and sibilities as head of S.S. Too muchnumerous objets d;art. time is spent on red tape, too little

Miloche Barutciski offered to on solving students' problems.discuss a Host Team-proposal with Time and place of next com­the two newly-hired animators. mittee meeting will be announcedHost Team is a project whereby in Daily Info. /students plan visits and tours to

The Internal-External AffairsCommittee has two main purposes.First, it analyzes and assesses themany issues which affect JohnAbbott students. Secondly, ithandles relations with other'colleges and outside organizations.

The committee is composed ofchairman Ron Doyle, CeliaGillman, Bryan Dube, RobertFrazer and Roshan Khan. At itsfirst meeting on November 1st,several topics were presented anddiscussed. '

Celia Gillman was appointed tolook into campus planning. TheStudent Association plans to have astrong voice in any alterations toSte. Anne's campus. The com­mittee . will not allow in­discriminate razing of greenspaces or demolition of certainlandmarks.

Miloche Barutciski described hisplans for a wine and cheese partyfor Arts and Letters students. Hisgoal is to build a sense of com­munity within each academicdiscipline in the college. The S.A.

KooI·Aid Radio service to resume

First bash held

If you're not yet familiar withKool-Aid and what it does, read on,because it's got a lot to do with youand your needs as a member of theJAC student community.

The purpose of Kool-Aid, ac­cording to its head, Rick Donald, is"social animation for students",which in practical terms means an

Thursday, the 31st of October,John Abbott had its first dance ofthe '74-'75 year. ,

Despite some minor incidents, itwas quite a successful evening.

The group was a little late instarting but that was all rightbecause it gave you time to see allthe freaks running around.Although there didn't seem to be asmany costumes as last year, thosethat were there really used theirimaginations and came up withsome bizarre results.

When the group came on, itdidn't take long for the dance floorto fill up. They played some goodrock and roll with a few slow songsthrown in here and there. Themusic of "Billy Cream and theTeenage Dream" has definitelytaken a turn for the better. Theyplayed a good variety of tastes inmusic and the crowd seemedpleased with what they heard.

This has got to have been one ofKool-Aid's more successful ven­tures in this school. The bouncerswere inconspicuously located all

employment, housing and referralservice for students, as well asinitiation of student projects.

Kool-Aid is in its second year ofoperation and within the firstmonth of this year, Rick, his eightparaprofessional animators (paid$100 per semester), and ten tofifteen volunteers had established

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over the place and they did theirjob well.

I understand that this bash wasan experiment for bigger andbetter things in the future.Hopefully, the people from Kool­Aid will have learned a few thingsfrom this bash and the next one willbe better.

The only negative things you cansay about the evening are that theband wasn't advertised on theposters and that they started late.

Perhaps plastic cups on the same.lines as the beer cups could be usedat the bar to make it a bit safer towalk around. When glasses ac­cumulate on a table, someone isbound to knock one off.

A table also could be set up nearthe end of the evening for coffee. Itcould be just the thing the drivercould use under his belt before hegets behind the wheel of the car togo home. With a few improvementsto the system, I think we can lookforward to an enjoyable year.

Dave Cooke

John Abbott' can expect a newimproved radio station to beginbroadcasting some time this week.

The station, which broadcasts inKirkland, has been shut down forfive weeks. It was closed down sothat a console could be installed.Originally it was to be closed for aweek, but it ended up taking fiveweeks due to technical problems.

The station will soon be broad­casting at the Mac campusbecause of a special phone hook-upwhich will be installed this month.The immediate plans call for theradio to be broadcast in CentennialCenter.

This setup was arranged by theStudent Association in response toa petition signed by several hun­dred students, demanding a radiostation on the Mac campus.

The radio station, located in K­20, is currently undergoing somephysical' renovations. They aredividing their office into twostudios. One is the main studiowhere most of the live shows willoriginate. The console (controlpanel) is located there.

The other studio will be the NewsDesk, and a recording studio.There they will prepare specials,including a regular program byKirkland Kool-Aid. They also planto inaugurate newscasts; theirmaterial will be provided by CFOXand Broadcast News.

Other improvements will occurin the near future. The station'smusic has up until now been fromprivate record collections. Now,one of their sponsors, DiscusRecords, will be supplying thestation with a library at the rate often records a week.

In order to supplement their

meagre budget (given to them by'the'Student Association), they willbegin to broadcast advertisementsbut they will limit them to fewerthan six per hour, less than the

·norm for FM radio.The station plans to fill the

Kirkland campus with their softrock sound, but there will probablybe the usual complaints about thenoise level. In an effort to lessenthe complaints, they plan to installnew and better speakers in theKirkland cafeteria.

The station is constantly a source9f complaints, both by studentswho don't like the programmingand by staff who don't like the levelof sound. However, Mike Stewart,president of the club claims thatpeople don't complain to him.

People wishing to join the stationwill find it difficult to get a spotscheduled on the air, but there maybe some opened next semesterwhen the timetable is modified.

Bruce White