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Knowing our past history is an important part of understanding how we got where we are today.

Canadian University Press (CUP) is the oldest national student press organization irrthe world and the oldest student organization in Canada, dating back to the 1920’s. ' ' a

In 1922 a Western Association of Canadian University Newspapers was formed with student papers from the University of Manitoba, the University of Alberta, University of British Colurribia arid the University of Saskatchewan. They primarily exchanged papers, although important stories were wired to other papers. I

After repeated urgings from the, National Federation of Canadian University Students (NFCUS)', [the predecessor to the Canadian Union of Students (CUS)] Canadian University Press was founded in Winnipeg in [‘938.

According to CUP records, former NFCUS president John H. McDonald of Mcgitt University was the ﬁrst president.

NFCUS provided ﬁnancial support during CUP’s first two years, and helped out considerably with ﬁnances during its lifetime. However, it never attempted to diminish the organization’s autonomy or its ability to distribute news as CUP members saw lit.

‘ In those days CUP was again mainly an exchange of papers. Occasionally members scirt telegrams for important stories. The organization held annual conferences, and the presidency rotated from paper to paper. The editor usually assumed the post.

Until I959, the paper exchange and telegram service continued off and on. During thc.fiftics, the president was supposed to represent CUP as a national correspondent at events and meetings. Stories wcrc telegraphed across‘the country to papers having deadlines within 24 hours, with four major relay points: Winnipeg, 'l‘oronto. Montreal and Fredericton. If a story came from the rust coast, the originating paper sent it to the Brunswickan at UNB. who their sent it to [he Daily at McGill. The Bruns would send collect telegramsto the other eastern papers and the Daily would do the same iii ()ncbcc. It also sent the story to Toronto’s Varsity, who sent it collect to the Manitoban, who again sent it collect to western papers. The Varsity sent it out to Ontario papers.

For those papers publishing more than 24 hours from the time the tclcgram it as sent out, the story would usually arrive when the originating paper arrived at various cam puscs.

Of course, problems developed as member papers fell down in their responsibilities and stories were often few and far between. Rivalries sprang/up among papers. particularly the McCill Daily and the l' of 'l'l'arsity. ()ne paper sent the other a very long telegram about a minor incident. The receiving paper tried to get its tlttillt'} back. and failing that. sent an equally long telegram back. On one occasion the entire front page of the Varsity was sent to the Itain r collect.

Editors also often didn’t realize a story Would be iniportanl to other papcrs. and new soundly chastised when their papers arrived at other campuses aird their editors discovered the slor).

During those days. as happens today. the annual conference “as the important link between papers. l’olicics‘were bashed out, criticisms made of various papers‘ actions aird technical sciirinars proiiiled hr-lp for all.

Because there was no permanent office and only oirc person pcriiiatictill) assot ialcd with the organization -- the treasurer from Queen’s University ' fees were small. In I05l. which is as far back a~ aiailablc records go. daily papers paid 3 l5 a year, seirii-wceklics l0 and weeklics and affiliates 5. The budget then “as about zone. with I‘cietittc from about 22 papers. A travel pool existed to enable at least one delegate from each paper to attend the national conference. ~'

The only executive was the president. and there was an lioiroi'.ir_\ prcsidcirt. w...in a prorriiiicnt journalist who was asked to lend his name and help to the organization. _

The fee scale was restructured iir W50 to increase payments accordiri;r to enrolment, l’ccs ranged from 75 for schools with enrolment less than I500. to 2| 5 for those \\ ith more than lﬁtltl students. this was done to allow fora pcririanenl office and full-time president in Ottawa.

The president had worked on a trial basis during the spring and fall terms of I‘IS‘J, Doug Parkinson. til‘l"s first full-time president. continued in office for “50-60. working on a budget of 5 0.250. . j

I959 was also an important )car for (1UP because the charter of the ~tur|cnt Press in llairada. now the (it I' Statement of Principles. was drafted and accepted at the national conference. The Code of |-'.t|ric.~ “as also approicd. although it was irot binding on individual members of CUP. lloth of these documents provided other national slurlcrrt press organizations with a basis for similar statements. . It was felt a national office and full-time president were iicccssari to proudc a regular news H'l‘\lt't'. pcrmancnt urchin-s. and a weekly round-up of news in addition to wires covering important stories.

Finances have. always been a problem for CUP. At the Non conference. Parkinson suggested a iiatioiral anirrial fund-raising project should be started, aimed at obtaining S 5000. In fact. an ci‘ricrgcncy fund-raising was needed to cover expenses to May 31. 196]. and member papers were urged to support CUP by donating 50 to Til if they could afford it til‘l' required the money for general expenses. including such things as a photo seriicc. aird the president’s :20 a wcck salary .

Rogrr Mc-lfce. president at the 1902 conference. had similar problems. The two t'l‘ttluitt'tltl‘ French-language papers pulled out after some discussion as to whether CUP could actually adequately serve them. The loss of revenue certainly didn‘t help til P. aird McAfec said changes would have to be made. in the entire organization if it was to snriii c. No confcrcncc report is available to find out what happened. but that cry of “we must change things or die” continued over the next few years.

CUP was financially solvent for the first time in Whit; the. news and features services expanded aird membership increased to 3| papers. ilicludiiu four associate members. However, it was a decisive year. and a Varsity-Ryersoiiian motion to abolish (it |l".~;

national off; i and full-time president was defeated. The two papers had argued that it was easier and cheaper to use daily papers and Canadian ’rcss for story leads. rather than relying on CUP, '

By 1963, the fee scale had changed again. tins Linc rising a basic charge of 3 l5() with a 3% cent levy per rc‘llﬁlfn'd Sindcm 31 “Ch Campus- CUP published the Campus Reporter. a kind of guide with topics covered 'by prominent Canadian journalists. It was sold to member papers, as well as to outside interested papers and individuals.

WATERLOO (CUP) —— A student government."

was elected at the national conference in I938. and chose a \lci'»pt'c,~itlctll and sccrctari to work with him. Parkinson

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a working body," Mo re said. “EXL’ifoiiﬁIA VOTERS TO D

'l‘hc trophy competitions, which started in llu-j for sports stories, best features, cartoons, photos arid L... published. Prominent journalists were asked to jtltlgc [ conference reports.

1965 saw the CUP Charter changed to contain as an agent of social change”, examining “issiICs that 1|... educative function which is vital to the development of 1]“. that Jim Laxer was CUP president.

Don Sellar, the next president. again raised thc‘ records had not been kept ‘for two years and the ilutlt reorganized the national office, a fund-raising program “.1.

ii At the 1966 conference. John Kelseyssnggm- accepted. 3 3700 was allotted for travel and salary, 'l'cIr-x Chevron paying for installation and three months rcrit until

The 1966 conference is remembered best for , programs and which restructured fees and added staff '1‘ to S 700 a year. Another full-time person was added to elective for the ﬁrst time. The additional person’s job it machine. . CUP papers of 1967-68 reﬂected student radica “myth”, and “faimem” was substituted for “unbiased” t with the exception of secretary (now systems manager} abolished in favour of critiques. The president’s tcrm rt news service (at S 50). And prospective membership was in

Money was not a big problem their: almost all t', for the next ﬁscal year. '

A regional field secretaries scheme was dist-m; "coming year. A western telex network was set up with papers subscribed to telex.

Peter Gzowski was CUP’s last honorary preside" comingof-age was given further evidence by talk of irlco

. ofﬁcially divided: the president was assigned bureaucralic

The Charter was changed to the Statement of ft The 1969 conference was at our Waterloo. \ Year’s Eve, Youthstrcam, the CUP national advertisirrgr while the Western Region (WRCUP) decided on a part-iii executive was adopted after much discussion on the feasib‘ just for working, but for living day-to-day. Also passctl colleges into the organization, to add to the then 53 full ill A United Church centre in Naramata, British internal workings of papers, staff democracy, male-fcunlc resolutions were initiated by member papers, at parlicipaf such work. Policies were formulated more from scminan I The three full-time regional secretaries wcrc add increase in four years. Elections were also held for the s} and elected. While fees went up, salaries went down to Sir Controversy centred on a motion to create a 3; they would have all the responsibilities of CUP full mc admittance of the alternate press members to full voting st Sexual bias was added to the Code of Ethics an to take all references to the masculine. pronoun out of the, The roles and relationships of the student an conference. Category H was introduced to allow papch members of CUP, dramatically affecting the direction oft The direction was also slightly altered when it freeing the national office staff for feature—writing and - more equitable fee scale. The travel pool arid possibly tlrc The other important resolution of l97| pro] u the two nations of Canada and Quebec. A working papcr i 7 CUP at the end of l97l has/had ()2 incmbcrsa as a iriajor problem, but new approaches to their acquisili Clll”s future is difﬁcult to predict;.il’s pan“ modern questions airy easier to answer.

ON POT LEGISLATION NOW

council that is fragmenting, The former student

ment representatives had at the beginning of their term has resulted in the resigna— tion of the University of Waterloo student president Terry Moore;

Moore resigned last

Oct. 14. He had resigned once during the summer, but returned to office shortly afterwards. This time he says he's finished with the Federation of Students for good.

Moore believed he could make the Federation really mean something to students when he was first elected to the presidency last spring, and again when he returned in the summer.

He wanted to see "a student union that would really mean something to :epople, not just a student

Wednesday (Oct. 11) effective

losing the energy and commit— president found himself

becoming a full—time bureaucrat in order to do things others would not handle. "With two, three or four people, the Federation just isn't meaningful,” he said.

The council "wasn't interested at all in any- thing but perhaps becoming stage crews for the con- certs and saw itself as a 'board of directors' that sanctioned the decision-of the executive every couple of weeks, rather than being

The study body is not to be blamed, he said. i "The students' aloffness is most likely a result of the whole university structure," he explained. But, "There comes a point at which the individual students have to

assume responsibility if they

expect the Federation will continue to respect them." Mooge sent his resigna— tion to the Oct. 11 council meeting saying "for reasons of personal sanity, I won't

be at today's COuncil meeting."

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VIETNAMESE ALL EXTERMINATED,lannounc_e the end of the [Vietnam War.

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