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Carleton convocation Saturday, May 27, 1972 Page 17 Universities warned to adjust to changing government attitudes -7 A The Saturday Citizen it i 5.. I 1 I mechanical engineering graduate, while mathematics and physics student John Lindeyer captured the Chancellor's Medal. Marilyn Huebncr won the university medal in the humanities, John Lawrence captured the award for science and Michael Blake-Knox won for search, the backbone of superior teaching in the universities." The 2Vi-hour ceremony was highlighted by the presentation of three honorary doctor of law degrees. One went to M. J.

Coldwell. founding member and long-time leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Mr. Coldwell, still spry at 84, left for Toronto after the convocation, where he was to receive another honorary degree today, and deliver the convocation address at York University. The other honorary degrees went to Msgr.

Louis-Albert Vachon, rector of Laval University and Mr. Dunton. The Governor-General's Medal was won by Steen Andersen Sjolander, a 1 -Safe eESS? lk "Si I' 1 7 ys- Kir" i 1 ril lit 3 I (J -y-fc-- By Don Butler Citizen tft writer Universities must make adjustments from "the former period of headlong expansion to one of consolidation," the retiring president of Carleton University told the school's graduating class Friday. "Government has become concerned with the cost of the expansion about which it had been so enthusiastic," Davidson Dunton told about 850 graduates. "It maintains its former 'open-door policy' but raises the cost of the admission ticket tuition fees to get through the door." Mr.

Dunton said that a "chief danger" is that the government, "swinging too sharply from enthusiasm to constraint might damage developments that have been remarkably good." But he added that he didn't think the danger of that happening was too great because of the "immense importance of universities to society." Mr. Dunton's warning about the changing attitude of the Ontario government to higher education was echoed by W. H. J. Nesbitt, dean of the faculty of science.

Mr. Nesbitt told the graduates that since the publication of the draft report of the Wright Commission on post-secondary education, "the universities in Ontario have been forced into the very difficult position of trying to justify their way of life." "But what I think we resent most is the insinuation that universities have been insensitive to the needs of society and that they have not been willing to modify their methods of educating ithe youth of the nation." Mr. Nesbitt argued that there can be "no compromise" on what he called three basic principles universities must maintain their right to say "who shall be taught, who shall do the teaching and what shall be taught." "If we examine these in detail, we can see certain signs that the government of Ontario is trying to erode even these," he charged. Mr. Nesbitt said the combination of increased tuition fees imposed by the Ontario government and its reduction of the grant portion of awards has "essentially eliminated a section of the populace that should have university places available to it." He said the Wright report proposed that funds for education and research be separated, a concept which he warned could "spell the doom of re- A Ml l' Coolican's wife majors in religion Canadian tvisli t-f enrolled in ago and marks had peak until "I was work harder" training by fall.

And "I'll go Cream of graduating class Medal winners, left to right front row, Michael Blake-Knox, engineering, Marilyn Huebener, English, John Lawrence, malhenialic-s; hack row left, John Lindeyer, nialheniatics and physics, and Sten Andersen Sjolander who won the Governor-General's Medal. Top student slow starter her interest, so she switched. Mrs. Coolican got her degree in three years like most arts students, but she did it just a little differently. She took four credits during the summer and an additional lJ2 over the winter session for each of the three years.

She credits her husband with influencing her to enrol at Carleton and get a degree. Now that the long haul is over, Mrs. Coolican has mixed feelings. "I used to call it my self-inflicted torture but I enjoyed it when it was over." You've been warned don't try to get away writh any inaccurate recitations from the Talmud around Jean Coolican. The wife of regional chairman Denis Coolican was among the record 1,376 graduates who received degrees from Carleton University in three ceremonies this week.

Mrs. Coolican earned a bachelor of arts diploma with a major in religion. She originally enrolled in an English program "to give me some direction in the things I was reading." But religion began to capture Steen Andersen Sjolander, this year's winner of the Governor-General's Medal has compiled one of the highest averages in the history of Carleton University. "I had a grade point average of 12," said 23-year-old Mr. Sjolander which translates into a straight A-plus average.

The mechanical engineering graduate was an easy winner of the medal, awarded to the student standing at the head of his graduating class. Sensational marks came gradually to Mr. Sjolander. He spent two years at the University of British Columbia science before coming to Carleton three years switching to second-year engineering. While his been good prior to the transfer, they didn't entering the engineering program.

more interested in engineering, so I began to he said. Sjolander, of 1319 Cahill plans to further his entering the masters program at Carleton this after that? for my PhD," he says firmly. 1 eopie power pwtr- drntummtr-i-nrf- A ran Citizens9 groups have come and gone before in Ottawa. Today, they are surfacing again, as politicians become more interested in ivhat the man in the street thinks. Citizen staff ivriter Eleanor Dunn examines the current state of participatory democracy in Ottaiva-Carlelon.

Code governing multi-national companies sought Panelists expressed the feeling that municipal councils respond to the best organized pressures, usually business groups and merchants' associations. While there is evidence that community groups are on the increase, there is reason to believe it may be a fleeting thing. The panel suggested community groups usually are organized to pressure the municipal council over a specific problem. When the problem disappears, so do the groups, unless they are involved in organizing recreation for neighborhood youngsters. An example: in the early 1960s, as Ottawa expanded to the south-east, a variety of community groups sprang up.

The Elmvale Acres Community Association was the first. Expansion of Urbandale forced a name change it became the Elmvale-Urbandale Community Association. There were community associations in Hawthrone Meadows, Ridgemont, and Riverview Park. Burst of interest Initially, the people were concerned about such problems as sidewalks, street lighting, the paving of St. Laurent Boulevard, improvement of recreational facilities and tree planting.

There was one big burst of interest over AZ-64 the city's first over-all zoning bylaw resulting in the formation of the Council of Community Associations of Southeast Ottawa, a brainchild of Aid. Don Kay. Today, the council doesn't exist, and the community associations devote themselves to promoting Little League baseball and Cradle League hockey. All the parks have been developed, there is a community centre and an indoor swimming pool at Canterbury Park, most people have paid off their local improvements. St.

Laurent Boulevard has been paved, the city has planted trees, and outside of sporadic protests against public housing, calm By Eleanor Dunn Citizen staff writer Citizen power. Participatory democracy. Catch-phrases or meaningful concepts in today's society? There have always been citizens' groups and ratepayers' associations, but recently these organizaiions have begun to attract more attention. Politicians, especially at the municipal level, are becoming more interested in what the man in the street has to say about decisions that may affect not only his future, but the future cf his neighborhood. Two examples are two surveys on public opinion one on Highway 417 and the other on the regional master plan published in Ottawa newspapers.

They were something new. People, ordinary people, were being asked to express themselves. Unfortunately, few did. Only two per cent of Ottawa-Carleton citizens responded to the regional master plan questionnaire. Earlier this month, a panel on transportation was held at the University of Ottawa.

It was billed as an "opportunity to inform the public of transportation alternatives available for this urban region." Nepean has instituted a program called "Communitycations," in an attempt to increase citizen participation in municipal affairs. Action Sandy Hill There's Action Sandy Hill, working closely with city planners on the development of the Sandy Hiil area. There's Action Mechanicsville, working with the community renewal department. And there's a new organization, the Federation of Citizens' Associations, which perhaps reflects increased public interest in community inv olvement and self-help action. There was a panel on community involvement at tJie-Federation of Mayors and Municipalities annual convention in Quebec City this week.

has descended and middle-class values prevail. A recent publication of the provincial department of community and social services lists 32 community groups in Ottawa, two in Gloucester and seven in Nepean. How many of those are actually operative? The publication doesn't say, but the Neighborhood Improvement Committee in Dalhousie Ward certainly is. A new community interest is seen in the older areas of the city the Glebe, Sandy Hill, Centre Town and Mechanicsville where residents are concerned about increased high-rise development, traffic patterns, and urban renewal Little League In suburbia, where a well-manicured lawn is a major status symbol, Little I-eague baseball reigns supreme. Community renewal director Peter Burns says that is not so unusuaL His department works with community groups to a limited extent and he is familiar with the phenomena.

"Ratepayers' associations form because they want to fight something specific, like a zoning change. At the next annual meeting probably only five people show up. They die out and iise up again when some other issue comes up," he says. He agrees that in some instances community groups are voices crying in the wilderness. "Some suggest they should be able to get grants of money, from where they don't say, so they could hire planners, do their own research and put forward proposals.

"Municipal councils are used to studying proposals rather than generating ideas, and if they had proposals from a community group they could study in light of a proposal they'have received from a developer, the results might be better. Community groups most advanced non-communist countries in its 23-nation membership, and come to "mutually agreed and reciprocally imposed standards." In the energy field, Canada had divergent interests from the United States whose representative painted a dire picture of the oil shortage to be faced by the U.S. by 1980. Turner was satisfied that the broader, long-term interest of Canada as supplying country had been accommodated in the final mandate for the OECD study to be undertaken. The analysis will include energy demand, natural resource availability and accessibility, technological innovation and protection of the environment.

Nuclear energy as well as od fuelled production will be assessed. The OECD's new guilding principles for environmental policy adopt the "polluter-pays principle." It is an efficiency principle, which lays down that the cost resulting from, the implementation of anti-pollution measures should be allocated in such a way that the scarcity of natural resources will be reflected in the price structure. It means that those costs should bj borne by the polluter in most cases, by the producer who may of course raise his prices to the consumer accordingly. The principle holds, therefore, that subsidies to the producer to adopt anti-pollution devices or methods should be avoided. In general, OECD member countries, while acknowledging different requirements as between countries, have agreed that all members require "more stringent anti-pollution Peter Burns usually go to council to oppose some developer's proposal, but they haven't any of their own." Then again, says Mr.

Burns, politicians are quite aware that the delegation from the community group or ratepayers' association may represent no greater cross-section of opinion than that held by those in the delegation. "The average elected person knows he's there because the people voted for him. He represents them. There is a tendency to look on those who come in and complain as being those wrho voted against him. "We're close to the citizens' committee in Lower Town and the Council of Public Housing Tenants.

They are vocal groups, but the turnout to meetings is small. We're not kidding ourselves that we're talking to the representatives of 3,000 tenant families, but what else do you do. You can't talk to the 3,000 families individually." Mr. Burns contends that many who take on executive offices in community groups do so because they enjoy the power of manipulation. Action Mechanicsville is an example of one of the emerging community groups.

The community renewal department went to the community last year to find out, among other things, if the area was a good place in which to live, what the problems were and what solutions would do the most good with the least inconvenience to the residents. It is different from Action Sandy Hill, in that many of the Mechanicsville residents are elderly and the average income is low. Many senior public servants and their families, on the other hand, are involved in Action Sandy HilL By Tim Creery Southam News Services PARIS Canadian Finance Minister Turner told a news conference here Friday that he hopes the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development can move soon toward development of a code governing multinational corporations. The minister was speaking at the end of the annual three-day OECD ministerial meeting here. The ministers launched a study of long-term energy problems, which are of special interest to Canada, and adopted a set of "guiding principles" for environmental policy in member countries.

It was a Canadaian initiative undertaken three years ago by Jean-Luc Pepin, minister of industry, trade and commerce, that launched the OECD on studies of the role of the multi-national corporate giants in international trade and investment flows. Turner urged continuance of the work at this week's meeting. OECD secretary-general Emiie Van Lennep said that the issues are now ready for discussion by member governments. Canada's permanent representative of the OECD, J. R.

McKinney. says tho multi-nationals "are going to be a major topic at fairly high levels in the OECD over the next couple of years." Turner told reporters that any international code for the multi-nationals should include provisions for disclosure of information, participation by nationals of each country 'included in a multi-national corporation and conforming with national economic policies. The objective would be to study the problems in OECD, which groups the.