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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. ' ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     blue—m 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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