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by E. Gardner

On Monday October 8th at

8:30 pun C.B. McPherson pro-

fessor of Political Economy at the university of Toronto, gene a guest lecture in the Duffy Amphitheatre. His lec- ture came under the title "Can Property Survive Demo? cracy." ‘ Richard Gool introduced thPherson's before a crowd of about one hundred people as a revolutionary activist, contrary to his reputation as a Political Theorist. He

.gave grounds for such an in-.

troduction by mentioning vari .ious political activities MacPherson had engaged himr self. Gool mentioned the MacPherson Report which had a profound influence in re- volutionising the Educa- tional structure in the To- ronto at“.

‘MacPherson's imdiate response after the introduc- tion was that he did not know ‘how revolutionary he was un- ;til he came here. "Perhaps," 7he~iaid, "could it be that ithings 1eek revolutionary 1here, that don't look so re- ‘velutienary in Toronto?"

MacPherson then began a two hourelecture. MacPher- son went through the trouble 'of tracing the concepts of property and democracy from ancient Greeks to contempor- ary concepts. l'le optimistic ally projected that people _ will develope a much broad- er concept of property which would include things such as conjugal affection, honor, respect, and personal things of the body, along with the right to have some control ,of what is to be produced by the means of production .and also, a more equitable share of what will be pro- duced.

MacPherson's lengthy pre- sentation ended by saying :that property will survive ~democracy and he stated why he thought it would._ Mr.

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~ Gool asked the audience if .there were any questions or dilPutes on what the guest lecture had to say. only tw° PGPPIC had asked ques- tiona.

The reason for such little reaction could be that Mac- Pherson’s lecture was primar- ily within a theoretical va- cuum» When he was asked to compare his nice rosy theory of how things to come will be so much better with the

'nitty critty reality of to- day, MacPherson admitted that perhaps he was too op- timistic.

Perhaps, rather than per! cieving society as tumbling -down to it's utter destruce 'tion, more political theoré ists and political activists should adopt MacPherson3s poaitivistic and optimistic attitude; thus preventing the disastrous decaying of .humanity. For those who are interested in MacPherson's lecture, it is on tape which . is available at the Audio- Visual department in the Duffy Amphitheatre.

What Did You Think of c. B. MacPherson'a Lecture?

’ Andy Leuty: "I thought it was very bor-

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0n the weekend of nov.5-Z the Atlantic Region of the Canadian University Press held its annual conference in Halifax, Nova Scotiaglhos hosted by the Saint Mary's ‘Journal.

There were representatives from eight universities in (the Maritimes as well as two

memders of C.H,P.'§ head

Bloyce McLellan: "It was boring as old f---*"§

Lorraine MacDonald:

"He made some very good points about getting a-

way frem the capitalistic ownership thing. He wasn't a very interesting speaker".

,Sam Evens:

"What MacPherson had to say was very important because he talked about basic values that need to be changed. However, be repeated himself quite often and he could have said what he had to say in a lot less time".

‘Don Grey:

"He knew what he was talk- ing about but he was extreme- ly boring. I didn't like his monotone voice".

Gary Higgins:

'"I found that I had to force~

myself to listen to him. If he had not all the credits ' behind him, I would not have listened to him. Perhaps I didn't get that much out of him because I didn't have any background of his pre- vious worksfl. ' '

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office attending the confer! ence. Five members of the Cadre staff were in attend dance, and it was felt that the conference was a great rading post of ideas on run- ing a newspaper.

One of the highlights of the conference was the semin er held with Harris Sullivan a prominent Halifax journalist and broadcaster. Mr.Sullivan admitted that large ceroraté ions and business :irms have a great deal of say on what is being published or printed in commercial newspapers.

This control is achieved by the threat of withdrawl of advertising, and results in controvercial issues either being glossed over or kept secret from the reading public.

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