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The Cord Weekly The tie that binds since J 926 LAUGHING IT UP BEER BONGS AND FIREWORKS Air Farce comedian to grace Student and community worlds PAGE 18 homecoming stage ... collide PAGE 12 ... Volume 47 Issue 6 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20.2006 www.cordweekly.com THE END OF AN ERA: LAURIER LOSES ITS HAWK File Photo/Sydney He 11 and FLOOR HAWKY - Thousands of students are protesting the disappearance of the hawk in the Fred Nichols Campus Centre hallway. For more see page 16 in Student Life. Dawson College a lot likeLaurier Montreal shootings could have happened here school and university. CEGEP is free education two or Sydney Helland lasting three years, offering either uni- versity preparatory tracks or ca- ANDREA STUART reer tracks, the latter of which are ENGAGED ALUMNUS Act much like the courses Ontario Privacy big offers in its community colleges. Senseless acts of violence are Laurier's admissions office rec- much more difficult to rationalize ognizes CEGEP credits beyond when close to first first they happen home, year as equivalent to year especially when they happen in a courses completed at an Ontario inconvenience used to call home. place you university. has been Laurier It eerie hearing na- and Dawson have a lot tional news services describe a in common. Dawson has a popu- the lation of class gunman walking through about 10,000 students, Protecting students'identities may change environment, says prof atrium and of between 16 and20 cafeteria, hallways generally years Dawson College, Montreal, the old, and a dense urban campus school which the I attended previous to Wil- boxed in by streets on four sides. LAURA CARLSON information." visions, changes way and CORD both and students frid Laurier University, shooting Clubs, athletics a vibrant stu- NEWS But it's causing major inconve- professors able to conduct themselves students dent are tremendous- niences in the classroom. "In or- are indiscriminately. community of school shoot- in a "The act News ly active. to do our job, university setting. reports Laurier has been brought under der for [professors] that informa- in the United States are much While I was a have know what students' ensures [personal ings post-secondary a provincial privacy act, leaving we to to easier rationalize student in Montreal I never knew Cameron. "If tion] can't be given everybody to away, point- several students and faculty in- names are," says when don't want it out to lenient laws and their of harass- is our else ing gun any weapons, gangs, convenienced. New constraints [the privacy law] impairing you but to Laurier's new ment, violence or crimi- to do we'll have there," explains cowboy shoot-'em-up history; bullying, mean students have the right to ability our job, Officer, John Metcalfe. this is Canada and this was my nal activity on at school, and their be Privacy going - ev- exempted." keep names private on school. I do not believe this was because 2006, WLU To guarantee such protection, erything from attendance forms Effective June 10, have the I can the areas of of naive sense of under the Freedom students right to keep clearly picture any security. to marks postings. was brbught from others. Dawson where students shot I felt safe at Dawson Act. their names were always Dr. of Information and Privacy private Gregory Cameron, a com- has However, Metcalfe clarifies that early afternoon last Wednesday which, unfortunately, I cannot al- this legislation munication studies professor at Although in Waterloo about Laurier. I remem- "students can give us permis- as vividly as my peers ways say in for over 18 years, Laurier, recognizes the implica- been place it." Laurier's ber that at Daw- but can also withhold can picture dining hall, security guards universities have never sion, tion this legislation has on his Ontario the This prohibits university library or classrooms. son had a tangible presence in He that been to fully comply job. agrees "government required Dawson is an English CEGEP, employees can't be the vehicle until now. - PAGE 23 - SEE PRIVACY, PAGE 2 which in Quebec is between high SEE DAWSON, act outlines several by which other people would get The pro- News 2 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20,2006 ■ THE CORD WEEKLY The Cord Weekly - The tie that binds since 1926 - phone: (519) 884-1970 ext. 3564 fax: (519) 883-0873 email: [email protected] The Cord Weekly 75 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20,2006 VOLUME 47 ISSUE 6 Next Issue: September27 QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Searedthe ol'bag" - Anthzony Ferguson CONTRIBUTORS Jamie Ncogebauer Carrie McNabb Heather Hamilton Carlson Parry Sohi Dru Jeffries Laura Richard Hillier Kevin Andrew Ashley Jang Mark D. Hopkins AndreaBaliisia JenniferO'Neill Adrian Ma Sara Casselman WLUSP STAFF Production Assistants janet i Jnscmann Vacant Copy Editing Manager Caitlin Henderson Copy Editors Liz Funduk Heather Olaveson Kristy MacDonald Ariel Kroon Kale Boehmer Mallory O'Brien Meredith Barrett Jordan Ostapchuk GiselaPeters Katie Klein Photo Manager Sydney Helland Online Production Manager Kathy Matte IT Manager Graham Wyatt Distribution Manager Needed WLUSP ADMINISTRATION President Fraser McCracken VP: Advertising Angela Foster Sydney Helland VP:Brantford Paige Desmond Chair of the Board KerenGottfried PRIVACY POLICE - Don't expect to find your assignments on your own as Tara-elyse Dawe, second-year Languages and Literature, does above. Vice Chair Arthur Wong Board of Directors Rafiq Andani Penny Shearer ADVERTISING Act withholds should be names All advertising inquiries directed to VP: Advertising Angela Foster at 884-0710, ext. 3560 or [email protected] - FROM PRIVACY, COVER dents to pick up assignments. in a university setting. "A univer- Spence. "It has been implement- It is also recommended that sity is a community of learners. ed at colleges in Ontario and COLOPHON administration and staff, with- profs refer to students by their You come to university not to be universities in other provinces The Cord Weekly is the officialstudent of newspaper out consent, to publicly display first names, and professors and anonymous, but to explore your for years, and it's just natural for theWilfrid Laurier University community. documents that contain tutorial leaders is any a cannot ask stu- identity. [The Act] not a perfect [Ontario] universities to follow." Started in 1926 as the College Cord, The Cord Weekly is an student's name. dents to sign an attendance sheet fit with this." Spence explains why it's taken editorially independent newspaper published by Wilfrid Lauriert Student Publications, Waterloo, University a As a result, a list of individu- with both first and last name. Bob Spence, from the provin- so long for Ontario universities corporation withoutshare capital. WLUSP is governed by its board of directors. als who have OSAP available for While the university is still cial office of General Informa- to be brought under the Act. "Al- can't be students into what tion pickup posted, looking exactly it can and Privacy Commission, though requests have been sub- wlujgJv can't find other students on the and can't do, Metcalfe states explains that Anne Cavouchkian, mitted in the past, therehas been and e-mail the feature that "we've identified that Commissioner of On- a of and directoiy things Privacy long process rejections Opinions expressed within The Cord are those of the author on CT and do not to look classmates Web aren't Like all tario, has been for this he necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board. up good practices. pushing appeals," suggests. The Cord, WLUSP WLU or CanWeb Printing Inc. is in how has been disabled. laws, there an evolution legislation to be put into effect at All content appearing in Die Cord bears the copyright Professors it's expressly of their creator(s) and may not be used without are also not allowed applied." universities inOntario for several written consent. to marks, nor are Metcalfe also that post they per- expresses now. See PAGE 22 for editorial reaction to this story The Cord years is created using Macintosh computers running OS X.2 using Adobe Creative Suite 2 mitted (InDesign, Photoshop, to create a pile for stu- the act can be difficult to uphold "The act is not new," stresses Acrobat, Distiller and Illustrator) and Quark Xpress 6.1. Canon Rebel XT 8.0 megapixel digital cameras are used for principal photography. The Cord Weekly is a proud member ofthe Ontario Press Council since 2006. O PP Any unsatisfied complaints can be sent to the Council [email protected]. -Illir WLU assured in wake of Dawson The Cord's circulation for a normalWednesday issue is 7,000 copies and enjoys a readership of over 10,000. are Cord subscription rates $20.00 per term for addresses within Canada. And Dawson always seemed Dr. Bob Rosehart, president of The Cord Weekly is a proud member g Admin would "get together to find out what of the Canadian Press (CUP), University safe, says Stuart. "I felt there was WLU, is satisfied with the in since 2004. plan a [security] presence definitely," place. "You can till you're we're to face of a prepare Campus Plus is The Cord's nationaladvertising going do" in shooting spree agency. she notes. "More so than here." blue in the face, but you can nev- "As a music I'm in O CAMPUS PIUS student, the er say for certain that it wouldn't MIKE BROWN to to [their] con- speak, express building often very late at night," happen," he acknowledges. NEWS EDITOR cern, but in casual conversation Stuart. "I explains can count on Given the unpredictable nature Preamble to The Cord Constitution and [there's] obvi- one the number of anecdotally, finger times of such unstable individuals as faith with The Cord will keep its news readers by presenting Last Dawson a lot of reaction and and expressions of opinions Wednesday, College ously re- I've seen a in that Gill, comprehensively, accurately security guard quick reaction is paramount, and fairly.