The Cord WeeklyThe tie that binds since 1926 PUB CRAWL FEARING FROSH Week one of six in a series about Joe Turcotte journeys to the heart ... Waterloo's bar scene PAGE 14 of WLU culture ... PAGES 16-17 Volume 48 Issue 5 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 www.cordweekly.com Hawks spear the Lancers Brent Rohrer ON THE OFFENSIVE - Third-year quarterback lan Noble credited his offensive line for his 25 of 29, 385-yard, two touchdown performance in Saturday night's 48-17 romp over Windsor. them this year," added third-year Cameron and Alex Torrie, who had After two field goals from kicker Laurier avenges last season's loss to Windsor and quarterback lan Noble. 34 each. Chris Mamo of 36 and 13yards re- Noble put forth a dazzling offen- The Hawks opened with a fumble spectively, theLancers finally made improves to 2-0 on the season sive display, completing 25 of 29 on their first carry of the game, as it to the end zone to cut the Hawks passes, and scorching the Windsor the Lancers recovered and ran it lead to 13-10 going into the dress- LAUREN MILLET a 48-17 win on their home field on secondary for 385 yards, including into field goal range. The defense ing rooms. SPORTS EDITOR Saturday. two touchdowns. He completed 15 was able to hold them to simply "They beat us last year, so we "We played a big game against a passes in a row before being taken that, as Windsor went up 3-0 with- had a lot to prove," said Luciani. Under the stadium lights at Knight- good football team," said Manager off to rest in thefourth quarter. in the first two minutes. Towards "We needed to come out of the gate Newbrough field, the Wilfrid Lauri- of Football Operations and Head Running back Ryan Lynch broke the end of the first quarter, Noble fast, which is something we haven't er Golden Hawks looked to avenge Coach Gary Jeffries. "That's when the Laurier record for most carries stepped and completed a 25-yard been able to do in the past against their 2006 loss to the Windsor we're at our best, when the game is in a game with 36, rushing for 147 pass to receiver Dante Luciani in this team." Lancers. And revenge they got, as on the line." yards with three touchdowns. The the end zone to put the Hawks up the Hawks pounded the Lancers to "We had a score to settle with previous record was held by Nick 7-3. And theynever looked back. - SEE HAWKS, PAGE 8 Crackdown on noise Student sexually By-law and regional police dishing out $300 fines to noisy students assaulted on campus DAN POLISCHUK Clerici is living on Ezra Ave. for the ing instruction as to what they NEWS EDITOR second year in a row. With three should do differently next time. Laurier becomes one of several universities in other neighbours also getting tick- According to Bryan Larkin, Ex- Officer the Waterloo sexual assault the week Having returned from her summer eted, she admits there definitely is ecutive of Ontario to report a in past is vacation just this past week, along a new level of officer presence on Regional Police, this part of released later that - this semester, LAURA CARLSON night. with hundreds of other Laurier the street whether it's by-law or the force's effort, NEWS EDITOR Waterloo Police still students, Ashley Clerici received Regional Police. to "send a powerful message that Regional a certain level of [behavir- have no leads as to who therespon- one harsh welcoming. "We felt like we were all being there's Disturbing assaults have been oc- sible was. Like numerous inhabitants in scammed," she said, adding that, oual] expectation." party traditional methods at university campuses "At this point, we are still looking the housing area surrounding having spoken with other neigh- "Often, of curring a ... have not nec- across the province, and Laurier for a suspect and essentially that's WLU, Clerici was a victim of the bours along the street, approxi- giving warning So not absent from those af- where [the case] sits at the present revamped by-law noise enforce- mately $3,000 worth of fines have essarily been successful. really, has been it becomes a balance of educa- fected by sexual violence against time," said Olaf Heinzel, the public ment set out by the City of Water- been handed out. tion, community awareness and women. affairs coordinator for theWaterloo loo. And if one $300 ticket was not Dave Kutner, a fifth-year applied enforcement," saidLarkin. In the quad area of the on-cam- Regional Police. enough, receiving her second just economics student, is in the same as a ticket recipi- "We have extra resources in the pus frosh party last Tuesday, an The victim described her as- two days later certainly still has boat with Clerici of fo- female saulter as a male of approximately her fuming. ent. With "a really small party" go- city Waterloo, particularly eighteen-year-old first-year cusing at university issues. What was touched just 18 years of age, with short hair and "I almost think we were taken ing on in his backyard that same inappropriately those officers are is trying after 11 pm. After reporting the possibly being of Hispanic or East advantage of," she explained of week, Kutner was given a fine with doing whatsoever." to seek out locations where there incident to campus safety and se- Indian descent. having to now pay $600 worth of "no explanation com- curity, the victim was taken to St. fines. "That was our biggest of not receiv- SEE FINES, PAGE 5 Mary's hospital for treatment and SEE ASSAULT, PAGE 4 As a third-year biology student, plaint," said Kutner 2 News WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12,2007 ■ THE CORD WEEKLY The Cord Weekly - 7he tie thatbinds since 1926 - phone: (519) 884-1970 ext. 3564 fax:(519)883-0873 email: [email protected] back Belize Weekly SOS in The Cord 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario After being forced to evacuate last month thanks to Hurricane Dean, Laurier student Greg Overholt N2L 3C5 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2007 returns to Belize to finish his humanitarian project - and is met with another hurricane VOLUME 48 ISSUE 5 Next Issue: September 19 LAURA CARLSON QUOTE OFTHE WEEK NEWS EDITOR "Ummm ... could you close your legs a little bit?" Greg Overholt, founder and ex- - A&E Editor Paul Alviz addressing StudentLife Editor ecutive director of WLU's School Ashley Jang. Yeah, it's a tight-knitcrew. of Business and Economics (SBE) club Students Offering Support WORD OF THE WEEK (SOS), has finally accomplished Crass - Withoutrefinement, delicacy or sensitivity. what he set out to do over a year ago: improve the educational facil- ities for a village located in Belize. CONTRIBUTORS After Hurricane Dean forced Overholt and 19 other Laurier stu- Jeremy Carnegie Allie Maxted Kelsey Rose Yusef Faquiri Carrie McNabb Vivek Sarma Matt Given Kelly Moore Riley Taylor dents to evacuate the country on Oaniel Joseph Don Morgenson Sarah Topple David Karp Kari Pritchard Esther Wheaton an emergency flight days before their humanitarian project was WLUSP STAFF complete in late August, Overholt was able to return to San Ignacio Copy Editing Manager Caitlin Henderson Copy Editors Ariel Kroon and finish renovations to a local Marissa Neufeld Heather Olaveson school house. Meredith Barnett this IT Manager Bryan Willey "It's been over ayear of proj- Distribution Manager Nicole Laouataris ect and it's going to feel so good to know, personally, that these kids WLUSP ADMINISTRATION have this [facility] now - I'm not just assuming that they received President Keren Gottfried VP: Advertising Angela Foster everything," Overholt told The Cord VP: Brantford Dan Sche|| Chair of the Board Colin LeFevre in a phone interview from the site Vice Chair Rafuq Andam Board of Directors inBelize. Ryan c|ut)b Rachel Crawford The project itselfincluded build- ing a bathroom and wash station, ADVERTISING renovating the teacher's house, putting up a wall to divide class- All advertising inquiries should be directed to VP: Advertising Angela Foster at rooms and installing electricity in 884-0710, ext. 3560 [email protected] the elementary school. However, Overholt's return to COLOPHON the country did not go as smoothly The Cord Weekly is the official student newspaper of as anticipated, as Hurricane Fe- the Wilfrid Laurler University community. lix threatened to strike the same Started in 1926 as the College Cord, The Cord Weekly is an area Dean was expected to hit just editorially independent newspaper published by Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications, Waterloo, a weeks prior. corporation without share capital. WLUSP is governed by its board of directors. When news of the second hur- _ IWlinmiJurifrTHjffl ricane reached Overholt, he was WIUKU) again torn with the decision of ; how he was going to respond to Opinions expressed within The Cord are those ofthe authorand the possibility of a natural disaster do not necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board, The Cord, WLUSP, WLU or CanWeb Printing Inc. hitting the area he was residing in. All content appearing in The Cord bears the copyright expressly in same position of their creator(s) and may not be used without written '"I'm the exact consent. that I was in last time, so what the Contributed Photo The Cord is created using Macintosh computers running OS X.2 (InDesign, hell am I going to do?"' Overholt using Adobe Creative Suite 2 Photoshop, Acrobat, A - Greg founder and executvie director of Students Support (SOS), Distiller and Illustrator).