The Canadian JewiA News. Friday, June 6, 1975 • Page 9
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By Sheldon Klrshiier Staff Reporter
TORONTO —
Jack Eisner, former secretary-general of the Canadian Union of Jewish Students, has charged thie' Canadian Jewish' .:Xonr gress with, atteniptirig. to stifle student autonomy in this country fqllowiiig the CJC decision to decentralize CUJS.
Eisner, whose official term of offence en(ted in May. alleged in an inter' I view that CJC;.which has funded CUJS since its founding four- years agOi cut off its^iiinds because "they were' trying to diminate the structure through which student autonomy has existed on a national Jever'Sinc^ 1971.
"Congress wants direct control over university programming-" in Canada," he added. .
CUJS is an umbrella organization .with some 3.500 members scattered across 26 Canadian carh-piises. It is a communication link between Jewish student groups in Canada,
and a national.and regional co-ordinator_ of programs. It is also a forum ' for political and cultural thought and the voice through which students can express themselves on the national level.
Despite the action taken by Congress. Eisner says he has no intention of resigning from student affairs. Thanks to private and public donations, he plans to run what essenr tially will be a rival student group for as long as it is financially" feasible, threatening to split the Canadian Jewish student - movement into several factions. . -
The decision to restructure CUJS was taken in Toronto at a meeting ^pril 23 attended by Eisner, CUJS' former field worker Sarah Kravitz: Steve Ain, CJC assistant national director; David Sadowski. CJC past director of youth services; Steve Taylor, present director of youth services, and Gordon Mar-aniz. chairman of CUJS' advisory committee.
According to an inter-
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office information memo from CJC National Executive Director Alan Rose, .-the decision to decentralize CUJS was prompted by the need "to provide better services at. lower, cost."
Maraiitz. who played a key Vole in the decision, said CJC conducted an evaluation of CUJS and decided that, in spite of its good programming, "the cost of delivering services was getting'out of line.
"You can't run a national organization out , of a national office and do it'effectively," said Mar-ahtz. .
Sadowski admitted that "Eisner ran a good student program but said he was guilty of administrative mismanagement and fiscal irresponsibility. : He tempered his remarks by saying that Eisner's • manoeuverability was limr ited because Congress did not provide CUJS *ith sufficient funds.
The issue that precipi-' ■fated the decentralization of CUJS,. and Eisner's subsequent removal from office, was the manner in which fie handled the $32,500 annual budget. He was criticized for having spent approximately $10.000 from January to March 'of this year, and of having given himself and Kravitz a unilateral 10% cost of living increase in salary.
Eisner's explanation for the first accusation is that Student activity normally is most hectic during these * months.
The director of youth services, Taylor, disagreeing with Sadowski and Eisner over why CUJS \vas decentralized, maintains
that the real issue was distribution rather than mismanagement of funds. He said that , smaller campuses "Nvon't be left out in the coid" and that CJC is now in the midst of establishing national regional youth committees to replace CUJS.
According to" Marantz. CUJS's national steering committee and CJC will CQhfer sometime in June, to create a new Canadian student organization based on regional programs. He said every.' function performed by CUJS will be retained and student input will.not diminiish.
In^ spite of what has happened. Eisner intends to operate what in effect, will be a rival to Congress' CUJS.
"We're going to continue, and people in the community have told us they are willing- to fund us." he said. .J
Eisner says he has rieceived a number of jsrivate contributions from sources who wish to remain . anonymous;
$4,000 firom the federal Secretary of State department and $1,750 from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York City. The latter sum represents a repaid debt, while the grant from Ottawa is for a national resources catalogue of the Canadian Jewish commu- ^ nity. The catalogue will detail all Jewish organizations, services, professional resource jjeople and "Jewish publications in the country.
Eisner says his runaway group will also continue to publish its own magazine, Shirayim, and act. as a "funnel for information" for Jewish students in Canada. He said the Bloor YMHA may agree to, allow hini to occupy the CUJS office as long as he can pay the rent.
Eisner, a 1971 graduate of Simon Eraser University and a long time activist in Jewish student affairs, vows to run,the splinter group "until we've, passed the crisis point." ,
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