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Ignore this toilet at Indonesian oppres- all costs __sioncontiaiL£s Page 22 CORD THEWEEKLY Wednesday November 14, 2001 Laurier's Official Student Newspaper • Volume 42 • Issue 14 3 News 8 Opinion 11 International 14 Feature 16 Entertainment 19 Sports 22 Student Life 24 Business 27 Classifieds Hawkschampionship defend Wilbur McLean the intensity defensively. That would change when SMU subbed This wasn't supposed to happen. in Paul Pipards, who minutes after A team that is playing without checking in, scored on a volley their goalkeeper, one of the best in from 30 yards out. Canada, isn't supposed to win. Though both teams aggressive- A team that is playing on the ly pursued filling the net, neither home turf of what is believed to be team was able to do so, leaving the the best team in Canada isn't sup- game tied at 3. A penalty shootout posed to come away with the gold was held for tie-breaking purposes, medal. which SMU took by a score of 5-3. A team that, just last week, That result put the Hawks' played possibly their worst game of backs up against the wall, as the the year isn't supposed to repeat as loss in the penalty shootout meant National Champions. WLU would have to defeat But Laurier's men's soccer Universite du Quebec a Trois- Rivieres by a total of two goals, while scoring a minimum of three Laurier 2, ÜBC 1 LAIDLAW goals, a difficult task indeed. That task became even harder team did it anyway. when a mere three minutes into A season filled with a wondrous JEREMY the game, UQTR's Valery Jean- number of ups and downs culmi- The men's soccer team, seen here before the final, repeated as national champions. Coach MacLean's call for Louis Besse found himself all alone a prayer (above, right) was apparently answered. nated in the Hawks' second con- facing Doski and he easily put it secutive national championship The Hawks' magical weekend from 15 yards out, netted the goal. goal from the left wing, again put- past the WLU keeper. making them the first Laurier team began on Friday against St. Mary's, The ball slipped through the hands ting WLU at a deficit. The Hawks immediately to ever perform such a feat. labeled the team to beat, and the of keeper Kordo Doski, who was Again the Hawks retaliated, this changed their formation, putting The CI championship tourna- squad with the CIS player of the given the tough task of filling the time behind the foot of Kenny an extra striker up front in an ment, which took place in Halifax year, coach of the year and first shoes of the under-20 National team Nutt, who pounded in the ball after attempt to gain the offence needed this past weekend, played out team all-Canadian goalkeeper. keeper, Pieter Meuleman, who broke a rebound from a Niki Budalic to score three goals. much like the season for the The game was a rematch of last his leg in the OUA quarterfinals. shot. It took a while, but the team Golden Hawks. year's gold medal match, which However, moments later, at the Budalic concluded the torrid eventually responded, tying the The team found themselves WLU won in dramatic fashion, 2-1 20 minute mark, rookie Sean half of scoring with a goal of his game in the 42nd minute, when down by a goal three different on penalty kicks. Wigger tied the score with a low own, placing Laurier up 3-2 at the Steve Cox lobbed the ball over the times in the tournament but on The day was cold and wet, which shot that found its way past keeper, half and seeing the Huskies con- goalie's head. UQTR's attempt to each occasion was able to over- created uncomfortable conditions Carlos Lourerio, who had conced- cede more goals in one half than clear the ball was unsuccessful, come the deficit, paralleling the on the St. Mary's turf. SMU began ed only two goals the entire year. they had the entire season. knotting the game at one goal each squad's ability to defeat the odds quickly, scoring in the 15th minute. But again, only five minutes The second half settled things at half. repeatedly throughout the year. Matt Boutlon, who shot the ball later, CIS MVP Mesut Mert scored a down, as both teams stepped up Continued on page 21 Laurier demoted by Maclean's ties surveyed has improved. Laurier's place- Class size end operating budget cost ment remained in the top 25 schools, with rankings improving in the "Highest Quality" WLU two spots in rankings and "Most Innovative" categories. As a Martin Kuebler result, WLU's ranking in the "Best Overall" funding has to be taken into consideration category rose from 20th to 17th place. Maclean's 11th annual university rankings, when viewing the results of the Maclean's In addition to the positive public opin- which were released this past Monday, survey. ion, Laurier also scored high marks in "the revealed that Wilfrid Laurier University has "I think that | current] funding levels are proportion (of first year students) with 75% dropped from last year's fifth place standing starting to hurt our ranking," said Rosehart, or higher (entrance marks)" and "scholar- to seventh place overall. "however, the good news is that we ships and bursaries (percentage of budget) WLU was evaluated, along with 20 other remained in the top five in the reputation categories," placing first and second, respec- universities, in the "Primarily category," tively, In fact, many of Laurier's rankings in Undergraduate" division, a category that The reputation category, in which the the "Primarily Undergraduate" division focuses on schools with a relatively small magazine surveyed high-school guidance either rose or remained the same when com- number of graduate programs. Ranked counsellors, university officials, heads of pared to last year's survey. ahead of Laurier were, in order from first to organizations, CEOs, and recruiters at cor- In order to improve Laurier's overall sixth place: Mount Allison, St. Francis Xavier, porations across Canada, revealed that This is the third Maclean on the cover. You placement in its division, Rosehart believes find the other two... Trent, Acadia, Winnipeg and Bishop's. Laurier is still considered among the top there are certain areas on which the univer- Laurier's decline comes after two years schools in the country, even if its reputation Mount Allison, followed by Laurier in fourth sity should focus. at fifth place. The slip can be attributed, in has been somewhat tarnished. WLU placed place. The ranking was a drop from last "We need to work on our library fund- part, to the class size and operating budget fifth in the "Leaders of Tomorrow" subcate- year's result, which saw Laurier consistently ing," said Rosehart, "and in the longer rankings. In both these categories, Laurier gory and remained in third place in "Most ranked third in the reputation categories. scheme of things, we need to work on our ranked in nearly last place. Innovative," and "Highest Quality." Schools Although Laurier's division ranking has class sizes." WLU President, Dr. Bob Rosehart, with the best overall rankings are, in order slipped since last year, the university's Continued on page 6 believes that the decrease in educational from first to third: Acadia, Ryerson, and national reputation among the 47 universi- 4HKT&W7| Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications — s 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario ["I 7| T If "V (519) 884-0710 ext. 3564 (Office) IyU I J (519) 883-0873 (Fax) W www.ClubLaurier.ca publications ) www.WLUSP.com Fellow Laurier Students and Administration: As per the financial deficiencies incurred by the former Vice President: Finance of Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications (Dharmesh Makwana), the WLUSP Board of Directors is releasing this statement to the general population of Laurier. This is a brief overview detailing the WLUSP deficiency for the 2000 - 2001 fiscal year. The items that will be highlighted in this overview are decrease in revenue, the additional expenses incurred, and most importantly the internal controls being developed to prevent this situation from happening in the future. A major area of revenue deficiency pertains to the Keystone. The actual production of the yearbook itself was executed exactly as planned. Financial problems stemmed from the former VP Finance's negligent management of this project. The Keystone's national advertising revenue was lower than it should have been because several ads that were supposed to appear in the Keystone did not. WLUSP did receive the money from our advertisers, yet since certain ads did not run, we could not account for those particular ads as revenue in the fiscal year. The ads amounted to $ 6,440.00, net total of tax, and they are expected to run instead in this year's Phone Cord (upcoming publication consisting of student and staff phone numbers). It was the responsibility of the former VP: Finance to make sure that all the advertising was being sent to our Keystone publishers. Had this been done on a consis- tent basis, such a problem would have been identified and rectified. Therefore the revenue from the missed Keystone ads will be included this year to make up for the lack of inclusion last year. Furthermore, a number of cheques became stale-dated last year. The majority of these cheques were for Keystone yearbook sales. All the stale- dated cheques were mailed back with an explanation of the situation. Of these cheques, 149 were not returned, which means that WLUSP lost an addi- tional $4,456.07 of revenue.