Toronto Students Visit Cambridge

Thirty University of Toronto students will arrive in Cambridge Thursday to return the controversy provoking visit paid to Toronto in late November by a group of Harvard students.

The Harvard delegation, sponsored by the HUC on the Harvard-Toronto Exchange Program, draw heavy criticism, in the Toronto newspaper for a lack of knowledge about Canada. One Harvard student was quoted in The Varsity as saying, "We're a powerful country. Why should be worry about you?"

The article went on to say, "Most of the Harvard students agreed that the Canadian situation does not affect them immediately, and they, therefore, are not too interested in it." One Radcliffe student, the article added, had brought along some library books about Canada, but did not read them. Another Cliffe was reported to have said that she had not read the "boring" assigned material on Canada in one of her courses.

A discussion about the Quebec separatist movement failed to get off the ground because Harvard students knew so little about the issue, the article complained.

Michael F. Nigro '66, financial chairman of the Harvard group defended the Harvard students yesterday by saying, "I admit we don't know everything about, Canada, but we went there to learn. To accuse us of not knowing when we got there is unfair."

Nigro added that while American and Canadian students differed on some issues personal contacts in Toronto were friendly and disagreements "were on the intellectual level."

The Canadian students will be in Cambridge from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon. During their stay there will be a panel dischasion concerning student rights and responsibilities and the Free Speech Movement. Dean Monro, Daniel C. Goldfarb '66, chairman of the HUC, and Paul Seabury, visiting professor from Berkeley, will be on the panel.