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March is the month when I have to pay for all the February tsirthAy presents of the women in my family. There wen once [our of them. all born in the last week of March. The Romans knew about it. Julius Caesar was warned by a blind soothsayer. "Beware the Ides of March." He didn't, and a gang of his follow-sena tors (probably Progressive-Conserve tives) daggerod him to death. Keep your head up. Joe Clark. as well as your eye on the ball Puck" the pole, the pole freeze in) the lingand nothing freeze to the hook. But this is Canadian spring, remember? And. of course. it comes just before April. in which. if you have not succumbed to the March winds, you will to the April winds (showers my foot), I've been out fishing in April and had my hands freeze to It is the month when mud and slush rule Supreme, when you go out without your overcoat and a cutting wind gives you pneumonia, when the bitterest Ices of winter (and they're some bitter) have to be drunk, March is the most maligned month in Canada. and with [wad reason. You can start on somewhere in brilliant sunshine. and come home in a towering blizzard Ottawa must be stopped. To pull the plug on quality education and jobs in our community, and in all of Canada, would be a grave mistake. These institutions are too important to the future of Waterloo and the entire nation. Hundreds of people ai'e erriploytred locally at nu}: pd,iidiJon- dary institutions. Thousands of students graduate from these schools each year. The federal government should not be permitted to go ahead with its one-sided changes. Instead, we support a proposal made recently by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, which suggested that the current agreement be extended for two years. In this way, all involved wouid have time to comprehen- sively study and intelligently negotiate a new agreement. The current federal-provincial agreement on transfer payments is due to expire March 31, and Ottawa is delivering ultimatums in its attempt to change the five-year old agreement unilaterally. And adding insult to injury, Ottawa is planning to implement the cutbacks without discussion, without negotia- tion. Through Allen MacEachen's ill-advised November budget, Ottawa proposes to cut back transfer payments a whopping $4 billion over the next five years. The effects of these cutback could be devasting in our community, which boasts two universities and a community college campus. Now, about to aggravate provincially-inflicted wounds. the federal government threatens to drastically cut its provin- cial transfer payments which provide major funding to the post-secondary and health care fields. - Funding for post-secondary education in Canada is in a state of flux. Here in Ontario colleges and universities have been left to cope with provincial underfunding the last several years. P505 8 -- WATERLOO QHRO'vHCLE, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24, 1982 Ottawa's threat to pull the plug published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway 80.8., Kitchener, Ont. The month of March thtatqtrtoo (Liner-ck: on“ as loo-led on 2nd Root ol the o w Sports mm opposite Valence Sou-n Pmmg on “no Show 01 In VII-term Sou-n: Open MomMrtoFrt0nr900nmtotr pm address correspondence to Waterloo "mo, 92 King SlSoulh. Waterloo. (htt ' tetephone 886 atotr March is a time when teachers enjoy being truckers. and everybody else in dulges their inborn hatred of anthers Cause of this is the "March Break." A week's holiday. It used to be the Easter Holidays. and nobody minded much. You can't really knock Easter. We don't suicide much, We Just do other equally insane things: buy something we can'l afford; start an affair; go skiing in a blizzard; buy a snowmobile and break a leg trying it out; have heart attacks while trying to sweep a stone across ice into a little circle; fly off to Jamaica or Hawaii and get mugged on the main street. March. of course. includes the equinox. March 21, when the days are supposed to begin getting longer than the nights And about time. We southern Canadians are not Inuit or Greenlanders We can't cope with six months of long nights and short days. All that sex Feb I wonder what was going on in June all those yi-ars ago" I don't care a fig for astrology. but I have a glimmering of belief when I look at the Pisces. born late Feb They are up-anddowners. temperamental. semi tive, all mixed up, erary. That is a pretty accurate description of my wife. daughter, aunt. and late motherrin-law. Publisher Manager: Editor: established 1854 Paul Winkler Bill Karges Karla Wheeler I TCAQE‘ 'sis' iliJlti,'i'ii say; I " 3il?h;llii Wig? ". tlirii P""', l9ll/iiii'7ifis!! .\\\‘3 ti!r IRI (-3? . A; U?, kfgéifiatgg Yes. I'm creeping up on the most insidious. and totally damaging of the black marks that Much puts up on the calendar. and in our national psyche: The Rooney-man In Ottawa. Lucky Is he/she who has an ordinary job. income detached at the source. Fill out a We older teachers hate the villains just as much as the general public does. We have raised our income to the point where we can't afford a holiday. because of the finance minister, We have raised our" children to the point where a typical March Break consists of going and seeing them, and our grandchildren. and usually forking out some financial assistance somewhere during the break Break comes to mean broke. And the fault is shared by students, who fly away to Florida or California, or a week in London or Paris. apparently having dug about a thousand bucks out of a snowbank Hut the doctor or lawyer or plumber, or TV repairman who blew a couple of weeks in Spain back in January is furious about the March Break. This is chiefly the fault of young teachers. who, with mortgages. young children, and other albatrosses, go winging off, existentially. to Barbados or Bahamas or New Orleans /""" l BILL SMILEY This year. it's a nightmare. Nobody seems to know which taxes that monk. Markachen, is going to enforce or welsh on. To add an extra bit of “dilution. there's talk of a teachers' strike in our area. No wonder April ist is April Fool's Day March Break. March broke. And the same to you. Last year. the Feds took more than one dollar out of every tour I made. Closer to two dollars, Add to that gas tax. sales tax, municipal taxes, and all my bad habits, and there was barely enough to put bread on the table. The latter condition moans hours and hours of poring over murky income tax "information" forms Filling in this. rubbing out that. starting all over again when an extra ts pops out of the garbage bag, swearing at your mate because you'w made an error in arithmetic, sending off a cheque to a computer. and waiting, in tear and trembling. tor the letter that tells you that you owe another $674. and doesn't tell you why, Woe is hv/ivtu. who has a htrsiness, a second source- of income, a working wife/husband. kids at school or a tendency to larceny, simple form. send it in, thumb your nose and get on with living _'%'Nssss,