This letter is concerned with a letter | received from the Dean one afternoon when | arrived home dead tired after a harrowing day at school. His letter (the Dean’s) was con- cerned about my attendance and tardiness at school (paint- ing dept.). Then he questioned my scholastic attitude toward my education at Emily Carr. In brief, | was told to ‘do my job, to attend lectures and not to skip out. In other words, to do my job as a student. | ask myself, how can a man ask me to do my job without even looking at my attendance record? Not to mention the following situations that come under his jurisdiction which | don’t think he is fulfilling: 1—Tremendous over-crowding in the painting department, especially second year. 2—A leaky roof in the painting department. 3—A downright filthy drawing room. When were the floors washed there last? 4—What about the attendance record of teachers and teachers’ assistants? Sincerely R. Kuz We have received a letter from the Dean concerning the acquisition of new spaces for students in the Van Horne Building, which is next to Murchies across from the main college. These include: 1. a large studio for photographers, 2. a small studio for the new Experimental Printmaking Course, : 3.a room for sculpture, 4. a room for Interdisciplinary Studies. The Dean hopes the sculpture and Interdisciplinary rooms can be used to offer students the opportunity to have some time and space for personal development, and hopes “people will get together to decide on a booking system for these rooms”. Shortly, he hopes, the college will have acquired space for painters on the second floor at Water Street. He is particularly concerned with people in their final year who want to work on a large scale or work serially, etc. Feedback: the transfer of part of the output of an qctive: circuit or device back to the input 2ither as an unwanted effect or in an intentional use, as to reduce distortion or a process in which the factors that produce a result are themselves modified, corrected, strengthened, etc., by that result. This brings to mind what is the intent of the ‘X’. Quite simply, it is a vehicle to explore the print media as art form. The ‘X’ becomes an artistic movement, a kinetic aesthetic involvement, a turning of paper in space, perhaps with a ceremonial twist to it disjointed by time and place. Some may have their sensibilities offended in our conti- nual X-definition of proportion and spatial dynamics. We ourselves find our senses of proportion sometimes, perhaps floating on an island of calm in a moat of white space, perhaps lost in a frenzied sea of columns marching closely shoulder to shoulder. : This is a continuing X-ploration. Gerry Kelly s if By the way back issues of ‘X’ are available at our new office overlooking the pitt, for those of you who are eager to keep your X-collection complete. Now! Your chance to make a mark Now! in life. Submit your ideas for a new title for the X. Drop it off at any X box. Anything considered! The winner has his idea published in the X. Runner up gets to run up to Granville Island. Now! The Office of the ‘X’ Letters to the editors Attention: Michael Lawlor and Gerry Kelly, co-editors. Last issue of ‘X’ you posed the question: “‘Is the Student Society executive working for the students or for the director of student services?” First of all | must tell you of a revision to item 5 of Tom Kowall’s September 25th memo: time sheets are to reflect “regular participation”’ in the Society, not “adequate participation.” This is not a matter of semantics. Mr. Kowall does not judge the quality or content of our activity, rather the quantity, in assigning 4 credits per term for the work of each executive member. Now, in a situation where we must “‘buck the director of student services” then it will be a matter of who has the best argument, who understands most com- pletely the parts of the issue at hand. A naive proposition at best, you say? Avoiding the reality that the college administration might in the long run (if it were a semester of serious conflicts) re-define what it means by this agreement? Item 5 states also that 4 hours per week toward Society activities is expected. The reality is that executive members are involved in upwards of 10 hours per week, some of us much more than that. In actuality then there is no basis for the College to act unilaterally against executive members, no matter what position we may take on an issue. The more subtle question perhaps is: what is the effect of this relation with the college on our orientation, and does it alter out attitudes towards what we experience as students. The both of you should continue to attend Society meetings to report on who's working for whom, and tell us better ways to approach the present difficulties. By the way, are you the same editors who are going to talk about Imagination and. Fancy, discuss how neuroses can be disguised as good teaching, interpret what the Dean means when he says, “now, boys, this is off the record,” and critique the Director of Student Services for occasionally throwing a few students to the lions? — Gordon-Moore Editor’s Comment: Re the last line. | don’t know, ARE we? Gerry Kelly Editors response. Not a question of semantics, he says. Oxford defines semantic as ‘relating to signification or meaning’. Change the word and the meaning changes. The Director of Student Services, and please note that | am referring to the Office, not the individual who at the pre- sent time represents that office, is still in the position of rewarding students who are theoretically representing students. | appreciate the revision in terms, but still feel that the power to award these credits should be vested in the student body. Under Item 7 of this article, ‘The Society may designate up to four (4) individuals to receive credit in any one semester.’ Item 5 should be eliminated. On grounds of bureaucratic pettifogging, | think Items 3 and 4, relating to time sheets, should also be eliminated. While | do not feel that Tom Kowall, as the present Direc- tor of Student Services, would abuse the spirit of this memo, one must remember the lesson that Germany learned when it tried to define the office of Chancellor with reference to the individuals who held that office before Hitler. Michael Christopher LAWLOR Open Letter to Dennis Rickett Dennis Rickett — Do you realize that your policy of demanding a student's identification card as security for equipment endangers that student’s rights as a student. While you hold the card that student may not be able to borrow equipment from other parts of the school, may have difficulty taking a book from the library, may not be able to receive discount prices for the symphony, or for art materials purchased at Maxwell’s Artists Supply, and so on. Surely you could simply maintain a list with the student’s number on it, or do you want the incon- venience of using ‘school equipment’ to be so great that no one will? Micheal Christopher LAWLOR Articles for ‘X’ can be dropped in any ‘X’ box, handed in at the main office on Dunsmuir Street, or brought to the *X’ office in the Helen Pitt Gallery. ‘This letter is concerned with a letter | received from the Dean one afternoon when | arrived home dead tired after a harrowing day at school. His letter (the Dean's) was con cerned about my attendance and tardiness at school (paint: ing dept.). Then he questioned my scholastic attitude ‘toward my education at Emily Carr. In brief, | was told to ‘do my job, to attend lectures and not to skip out. In other words, to do my job asa student, | ask myself, how can a man ask me to do my job without even looking at my attendance record? Not to mention the following situations that come under his jurisdiction hich | don’t think he is fulfilling: 1—Tremendous over-crowding in the painting department, especially second year. 2-A leaky roof in the painting department. 3A downright filthy drawing room. When were the floors washed there last? ‘4-What about the attendance record of teachers and ‘twachers’ assistants? Sincerely R. Kuz We have received a letter from the Dean concerning the acquisition of new spaces for students in the Van Horne Building, which is next to Murchies across from the main college. These include: 1a large studio for photographers, 2, a small studio for the new Experimental Printmaking Course, 3. room for sculpture, 4, room for Interdisciplinary Studies ‘The Dean hopes the sculpture and Interdisciplinary rooms can be used to offer students the opportunity to have some ‘time and space for personal development, and hopes “people will got together to decide on a booking system for these rooms". Shortly, he hopes, the college will hhave acquired space for painters on the second floor at Water Street. He is particularly concerned with people in their final year who want to work on a large scale or work serially, etc. Feedback: the transfer of part of the output of an active ircult or device back to the input sither as an unwanted effect or in an intentional use, es to reduce distortion or a ‘process in which the factors that produce a result are themselves modified, corrected, strengthened, etc., by that result This brings t0 mind what Is the intent of the ‘X’. Quite simply, It is a vehicle to explore the print media as art form. The 'X’ becomes an artistic movement, a kinetic ‘esthetic Involvement, a turning of paper in space, perhaps with a ceremonial twist to it disjonted by time and place. Some may have their sensibilities offended in our conti- ‘nual X-definition of proportion and spatial dynamics. We ‘ourselves find our senses of proportion sometimes, perhaps floating on an island of calm ina moat of white space, ‘perhaps lost In a frenzied sea of columns marching closely ‘Shoulder to shoulder, This ta continuing X-ploration, Gerry Kelly fe ae By the way back issues of ‘X’ are ‘wailable at our new office overlooking the pitt, for those of you who are eager to keep your X-collection complete. Now! Now! Now! Your chance to make a mark in life. Submit your ideas for a new title for the Anything considered! The winner has his idea published in the X. Runner up gets to run up to Granville Island. The Office of the ‘X Letters to the editors ‘Attention: Michael Lawlor and Gerry Kelly, co-editors Last issue of °X’ you posed the question: “Is the Student Society executive working for the students or for the director of student services?” First of all 1 must tell you of a revisidn to item 5 of Tom Kowall’s September 25th ‘memo: time sheets are to reflect “regular participation” in the Society, not “adequate participation.” This is not @ matter of semantics. Mr. Kowall does not judge the ‘quality or content of our activity, rather the quantity, in assigning 4 credits per term for the work of each executive member. Now, in a situation where we must “buck the director of student services” then it will be a matter of ‘who has the best argument, who understands most com: pletely the parts of the issue at hand. A naive proposition at best, you say? Avoiding the reality that the college ‘administration might in the long run (if it were a semester Of serious conflicts) re-define what it means by this ‘agreement? Item 5 states also that 4 hours per week toward Society activities is expected. The reality is ‘that executive members are involved in upwards of 10 hours per week, some of us much more than that. In actuality then there is no basis for the College to act, Unilaterally against executive members, no matter what position we may take on an issue. ‘The more subtle question perhaps is: what isthe effect of this relation with the college on our orientation, and does it alter out attitudes towards what we experience as students. The both of you should continue to attend Society meetings to report on who's working for whom, ‘and tellus better ways to approach the present difficulties. By the way, are you the same editors who are going to ‘talk about Imagination and Fancy, discuss how neuroses ean be disguised as good teaching, interpret what the Dean means when he says, “now, boys, this is off the record,” and critique the Director of Student Services for ‘occasionally throwing a few students to the lions? = Gordon-Moore Editor's Comment: Re the last line. | don’t know, ARE we? Gerry Kelly Editors response. Not @ question of somantis, he says. Oxtord defines semantic as ‘relating to signification or ‘meaning’. Change the word and the meaning changes. The Director of Student Services, and please note that I am referring to the Office, not the individual who at the pre- sent time represents that office, is still in the position of rewarding students who are theoretically representing students. | appreciate the revision in terms, but still feel that the power to award these credits should be vested in the student body. Under Item 7 of thisarticle, The Society ‘may designate up to four (4) individuals to receive credit in any one semester.’ Item 5 should be eliminated. On grounds of bureaucratic pettifogging, | think Items 3 and 4, relating to time sheets, should also be eliminated. Vihile | do not feel that Tom Kowall, as the present Direc: tor of Student Services, would abuse the spirit of this ‘memo, one must remember the lesson that Germany learned when it tried to define the office of Chancellor with reference to the individuals who held that office before Hitler. ‘Michael Christopher LAWLOR Open Letter to Dennis Rickett Dennis Rickett — Do you realize that your policy of demanding a student's identification card as security for ‘equipment endangers that student's rights as a student. While you hold the card that student may not be able to borrow equipment from other parts of the school, may have difficulty taking a book from the library, may not bbe able to receive discount prices for the symphony, or for art materials purchased at Maxwell's Artists Supply, and so on. Surely you could simply maintain a list with the student's number on it, or do you want the incon- venience of using ‘school equipment’ to be so great that ‘70 one will? ‘Micheal Christopher LAWLOR Articles for *X can be dropped in any "X’ box, handed in at the main office on Dunsmuir Street, or brought to the ‘xr office in the Helen Pitt Gallery.