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«‘_s _ Published every Thursday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€" # . Waterloo Record Ltd. 30 Queen St., N., Kitchener Ontarip.Address corâ€" respondence to Waterioo Square Waterioo Ont. Telephone 744â€"6364. Supporters of compulsory fees may compare them to taxes paid by all citizens. But the comparison is a poor one. Most taxes go for such essentials as schools and roads. Alâ€" though some serve specialâ€"interest groups, the amount is really quite small. Most students, on the other hand, could do without the majority of the projects which their extraâ€" curricular fees support. * in the hands of the activistsâ€"and today the activists are leftists. Leftists, of course, are convinced they speak for ‘"‘the people‘"‘ and, therefore, for the common good. The result is that every student must pay for something he may or may not believe in. If he‘s impressionable, he may even be paying for his own brainâ€"washing. If he‘s not, he may just be contributing to the depletion of our forest resourcâ€" Should not a student be able to register his disapproval or even disinterest in an activity by withholding his finanâ€" cial support as well as his presence? The activists are great for "doing their own thing."" But they seem reluctant to give others the same opportunity. It is obvious just from the work involved in these activâ€" ities that at least some students find them worthwhile. It is also obvious, of course, that many students couldn‘t care less. It‘s a matter of interest: To some, a football game is an important part of the college experience, while others couldn‘t care less. Unfortunately, it is a common failingâ€"and certainly not just on university campusesâ€"to believe that what is good for us is good for everyone. A good example of this fallacy is the university press. Student newspapers are generally It is here that professors have stepped into the local squabble. They feel they shouldn‘t have to withold marks as a collection lever. It isn‘t just that they don‘t want to the scapegoatâ€"they think the whole system is wrong. Stuâ€" dent officials have accused the professors of interfering in student activities and told them to mind their own business, but isn‘t the withholding of marks very much the profesâ€" sors‘ business? _ Mr. Hellyer has chosen a judicious time to announce his new political action group. He felt that the prime minister was allowing unemployment to get out of hand in the fight against inflation, but his alternative of wage and price conâ€" trols may be just as unpalatable to many voters. Mr. Trudeau has a penchant for travel. And like any othâ€" er tourist, he may some day find that leaving the stove on while he‘s away can take the good out of a trip. These activities, as worthwile as they may or may not be, areâ€"or should beâ€"subordinate to the main purpose of attending university. It therefore seems wrong that colâ€" lection of the compulsory fees is enforced through the withâ€" holding of academic marks. (The collection system is also used for other unpaid fees such as accommodation fees, campus traffic fines and library fines.) Student organizations insist that, without compulsory fees they simply can‘t function. They use their funds for â€" such activities as a sports program and a great variety of other extraâ€"curricular activities, student newspapers, and moreâ€"orâ€"less worthy causes, such as the university building fund. Some of these involve a great many students, some only a handful. . _ Prime Minister Trudeau is out of the country and his Liberal party once again faces a crisisâ€"this time the reâ€" signation of Paul Hellyer. Which is cause and which is effect, or whether it is pure concidence, we don‘t know. These fees are compulsory for all students on most camâ€" puses. They got that way through a student referendum, alâ€" though in some cases the vote turnout apparently has not been high. It may even be argued that, since the entire stuâ€" dent body chariges regularly, a new vote should be held evâ€" ery four or five years. . A squabble that has embroiled many university campusâ€" esâ€"including close to homeâ€"off and on for some time now involves student activities fees. & The entire system calls for a full examination. . . . the mice will play Compulsory fees *‘"ga *4 _ _ ESsTABLISHED 1854 â€" SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Canada : one year $8 ; in United States and Foreign countries: one year $10 Philomena Rutherford, editor . 4P N im C n hi ifi We saw a new twist the other day to the old hitchhiking dodge by which a girl stands at the curb until she succeeds in thumbing down a motorist, at which time she is joined by her male comâ€" panion who has tucked himself out of sight until a ride is secured. There is certainly no dearth of bright young people in this counâ€" try, even if one bases that opinion on nothing more substantial than the ideas submitted by students seeking grants through the Opâ€" portunities for Youth program. The challenge was taken up by 13,000 individual student groups, not all of whom qualified, more‘s the pity. 8 ing tours in caves and subterâ€" ranean tunnels in Quebec; Vanâ€" couver students who are organiâ€" zing everything from a mop squad to clean apartments and houses, a drivers‘ fleet for the city morâ€" gue, and a boarding home for horses; and a group of Manitoâ€" bans who have organized a theatre company to present live theatre in the provinces‘ rural areas. Other students across Canada have come up with projects rangâ€" ing from tranisplanting wild goats from one wilderness area to aâ€" nother to a project for surveying the problems of baby battering. Newfoundland students have undertaken to lay out a hiking trail along a craggy stretch of their province‘s shoreline while students in Saskatchewan are planning a Yellow Bike Club through which they will collect, repair and reassemble old biâ€" cycles, paint them yellow and leave them along the curbs in Saskatoon for anyone who has a mind to use them. Anyone wantâ€" ing to cross town may pick up a yellow bike, ride to his destinaâ€" tion and leave it for use by the next person so inclined. It all adds up to loads of ideas and initiative in our young people and a willingness to put them into practice. It bodes well for the future. Maybe it all proves what those who really know and unâ€" derstand young people have been saying all along: For every one or two who wants to bum there are 98 more who are the makings of firstâ€"rate citizens‘ Camera buffs will be especially interested in an art exhibition currently on display in the auditoâ€" rium of the Waterloo Public Liâ€" brary. Entitled Photography in This time the girl hitchhiker was thumbing a ride on Bridgeâ€" port Road while her little dog was playing dead in the tall grass at her feet. Among those who did was a town planning student from Montâ€" real who aims to conduct spelunkâ€" Philomena Rutherford‘s Bits and Pieces hy . GUESS WWO‘S BEEN SUSFETED T0 6OOUCR: | * /4 cA MD SET MUPpP? _ h '; Sixâ€"yearâ€"old Anna Dilmetz was treated at the Kâ€"W Hospital and released following injuries receivâ€" ed when she was struck by a car near her home. Mr. and Mrs. George Lackenâ€" bauer have received word that their son Oscar arrived safely in New York from England. He reâ€" turned to America after making his second flight to England. 20 YEA RS AGO May 20 The arena commission has apâ€" New hymnals were used in First United Church last Sunday. The book contains 629 hymns and 100 metrical psalms. This is the first time in its 10â€" year history the local council was so honored. In addition to these laurels, the local group was recipient of the secondâ€"place award for the best printed newsletter among memâ€" ber councils. Stan Waurechen is the current bulletin editor. Dave Deppisch is grand knight. Nineteenâ€"yearâ€"old> Susan Merâ€" tens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Mertens, 200 Cedarbrae Hundreds of Twin City people attended the Kâ€"W Hospital Nurses graduating ceremonies at which prizes were awarded to Vera Hanâ€" nahson, general proficiency, Maâ€" bel Wright, operating room and surgical technique, and Olive Mcâ€" Arthur, proficiency in obstetrics. Waterloo was declared the top council of about 250 in Ontario for its involvement in charitable and community work, activities with youth, the variety of its programs and speakers‘ panels and its interâ€" nal fraternal work. The Waterloo council of the Knights of Columbus walked off with top honors and a runnersâ€"up award at the Knights Ontario State 68th annual convention at Niagara Falls, Ont., on the weekâ€" 30 YEARS AGO May 23 Adult book circulation in the public library was 3,400 in April, librarian E.B. Roos told the board this week. 40 YEARS AGO May 28 Canada it features 150 blackâ€"andâ€" white prints of dayâ€"toâ€"day events captured through the lenses of tion continues until June 15. Files of Yesteryear 10 YEARS AGO May 25 Norwegianâ€"born Henry A. sen, a retired RCMP superintendâ€" ent who skippered the patrol schooner St. Roch on the expediâ€" tion that discovered the Northâ€" west Passage, received an honâ€" orary doctor of laws degree from Waterloo Lutheran University. Scott Hudspeth, 4, received bruises to his head and legs when his grandfather‘s car, in which he was a passenger, was in collision with another vehicle. Extra policemen were stationâ€" ed at King and Erb Streets this week following information that a bank holdup was planned in the area. ‘"The thugs wouldn‘t think of going ahead with a robbery with policemen around,"" said Polâ€" ice Chief Lloyd Otto. Except for the addition of sidewalk and fence, the Waterl Lions Memorial swimming virtually completed. The O6ffi opening is planned for July 6 coincide with the start of the Lions Carnival. The Waterloo girl, a former Waterloo collegiate. columnist for The Chronicle, hopes to be home by June 3 in time to take up summer employment in the editorial office at the Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo Record. She has already seen more of the world than most 19â€"yearâ€"olds During her high school days she visited Europe and Asia with 50 other Kâ€"W students opr‘a Ship‘s School Association tou:[ Both girls are students at Carleâ€" ton University in Ottawa, where Susan is taking an honors English course and Ingrid is enrolled in a journalism program. pointed Bun Cooke of Kirkland Lake manager of the arena effecâ€" tive June 1 to replace Gordon Gies who resigned several weeks ago. A week ago she and Ingrid Ludâ€" chen of Niagara Falls, Ont., boarded a train at Union station in Toronto en route to Amherts, N.S., from where they will take the ferry to Prince Edward Island. Once there, they will tour the province on bicycles, carrying their gear in haversacks on their backs. They hope to find accomâ€" modation in church hostels which operate in the province. dian students who have taken up the challenge to get to know their country â€" only Susan is opting to do it with bike power. Ave., Waterloo, is among Cafiaâ€"