The Dossier as Hornet's Nest

THREE REVIEWS OF MATHEWS AND STEELE The Struggle for Canadian Universities. Professors Robin Mathews and James Steele of Carleton University have compiled a dossier of material relating to the recent controversy they precipitated when they raised the question of the increasing num­ber of non-Canadians teaching at Canadian universities. This material is conveniently assembled in this volume under the rather dramatic and certainly value-laden title, The Struggle for Canadian Universities, but the title should not deter any reader, for within these pages is expounded a problem which is of fundamental importance to the future of Canadian higher education. Professors Mathews and Steele have assembled those documents which they feel present both sides of the story, and thus they include letters and statements which in many cases are violently opposed to their own views. For this they are to be commended; however, the authors' viewpoint is stated over and over until the reader knows beforehand what their answer will be to a particular dissenting view­point. If this was an intentional ploy used to refute opposing views, the authors have succeeded in making their own views seem the stronger. Still, the authors have put together a book that enables the individual reader to come to his own conclusions

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