Volume 16, Number 16 the Cord Weekly Thursday, February 12, 1976 WLUSU rounding up the year's business by Jack Williams significantly change existing prac- The Board of Directors of tices. WLUSU met on Monday night to Position descriptions of the vari- discuss several items. ous WLSU student positions were Thefirstitem discussed discussed next. Many ofthem had was sev- approved eral policies covering the opera- been at the previous tions of meeting. One position description, the Turret. The Lounge that Policy Committee recommended of Treasurer, was amended to decrease the amount policies on Special ofHonouraria Admissions, paid $450 Admission Booking from to $350 effective Passes, the February 26. Mike Turret for special Strong, speak- events, services ing on behalf of the amendment and products offered, prices and ar- staff. gued that "the amount.of time needed to fulfill the job of Treas- urer not The Admission policy changes does exceed that of the existing policy on advance tickets. other officers who only get paid $350". The passed. Under the new ruling, only motion WLU Several position students may purchase advance descriptions for tickets the Board of Student Activities on Tuesday, the first day of were also considered. Oneof sales. U of W and must them, others wait marketing Services Coordinator, until Wednesday to purchase their caused acircular discussion. It was tickets; however, a WLU students argued that the position was un- may buy up to three non-WLU tic- necessary because each organiza- kets on Tuesday. tion in the BSA is capable of handl- ing own The Special Admission its advertising and that a Passes central position only create policy also changed existing prac- would more problems. It was decided that tices. The number of special ad- the position of mission passes Marketing Services For the most part the Directors are looking forward the doody pic which allow free Coordinator of the to end of a long year. admission for the card holder a BSA would be and terminated 26. - guesthave been cutfrom 18tofour. effective February These passes will now be issued The last meeting of the present only to the President, Vice- Board ofDirectors is scheduled for Student support Monday, February at6p.m. needed President, Secretary, Director of 23rd in the Library Boardroom. Judging Student and Band Co- by plication. Activities from the antics in A.R. Nusca Supporting Laurier's arguments persuasive but ordinator. meetings overthe looking past year, itpromises to be afitting Things are up at Radio position is Steve Moss, a member .. .impressive lists and persuasive days, quote The remaining policies did not climax to the year end. Laurier these or to the ofthe cable division of CRTC who arguments do not change govern- immortal words of Program Man- will be taking the case before the ment rulings. Numbers do. Pre- newly ager Steve Publicover, "There is a appointed chairman Harry sently,the onlyfaction not support- light in the tunnel (?)" Since Boyle, and his Executive Commit- ing the station's case is (no small Giesbrecht appointed January 13, 1976 Radio' Laurier's tee. IfMoss's efforts are successful wonder)the studentpopulation. So broadcasting has been limited to this could resultin a reversal of the we're going to give you another on-campus outlets, having been CRTC decision. Also voicing their second chance (this being the 'short-circuited' from the Grand support are local liberal MP Jim third). To date a grand total ofone River Cable System as a result ofa Breithaupt, a former WLU letter has been received and it was CRTC ruling. In compliance with graduate and member oftheLuthe- writtenby a studentfrom U. ofW, the new ruling Radio Laurier "has ran Seminary Board of Governors; Okay, okay maybe you didn't submitted an application for its University President Dr. Frank notice any of the previous articles, own FM air wave. Peters; representatives of the after all they appeared in a bad Throughout the past few weeks Grand River Cable System, as well spot.. .the front page. All of this the Cord has printed a number of as local radio stations. SAC Presi- notwithstanding, Station Manager updates requesting written support dent Blair Hansen (along with his Dave Gilchrist is willing to absolve from the student/faculty popula- legal stalwarts) continue their out- the guilty parties of the heinous tion as well as interested members standing efforts on behalf ofRadio crime in return for a signed, of the off-campus listening com- Laurier's cause. hand-written (scrawled, scratched munity, and to date quite an impre- or otherwise typed) letter of sup- ssive list backs Radio Laurier's ap- The lists are impressive and the port. COU opposes tuition hikes TORONTO (CUP)—In the wake cause some members found it tion costs for the Ontario Govern- of the government-sponsored "confusing". Some disagreed with ment. Increases in government McKeough-Henderson report' on the tuition hike recommendations, funding have consistently de- special programme spending cal- said Trent University President creased in the last three years. ling for a 65 percent tuitionhike. A Thomas Nind, who called the re- "Our conclusion is that the ar- special committee ofthe Council of port "cynical and unrealistic." gument that the benefit of univer- Ontario Universities (COU) has re- Ontario Federation of Students sity education is both private and commended "more modest" in- executive member, Murray Mis- public is valid. Equity in paying the creases up to 25 per cent. kin, said a 25 per cent hike would cost therefore calls for a sharing of But additional adjustments limit university accessibility to the costby the student and the pub- should be considered ifrequired to "those in the middle and upper in- lic", the Guindon report states. take account of rising costs, reads come brackets." Despite noting elsewhere that sev- the report of the special cpmmittee, Committee member and York eral western European countries chaired by University of Ottawa University President lan H. Mac- have either nominal tuition fees or Rector, Roger Guindon. Donald claimed the all-loan scheme none at all. The Guindon report follows the "does not necessarily imply any The Guindon committee, which McKeough-Henderson report en- additional hardship." also includes representatives from dorsing an all-loans no-grant stu- "It depends on the attitude of the universities of Toronto, West- people toward borrowing", he Miss Tamara Giesbrecht, the theaffairs of ourCompany which dent aid plan for Ontario and the ern, McMaster, Carleton and institution of a "special bursaries" rationalized. Laurentian, made headlines in the only woman chief financial of- is responsible to so many The report programme stu- also recommends student press last when ficer of a university in Canada, women as policyowners and be- for low-income to set March a dents. universities be allowed their draft of its report was leaked. has been elected to the Board of neficiaries," Mr. Suttie said. own tuition fees, currently regu- Directors of The Equitable Life Miss Giesbrecht, a Kitch- Currently the Ontario Student lated by government per capita The detailed draft voiced accep- Insurance Company of Canada. ener-Waterloo resident, began Awards Programme (OSAP) in- grants which pay a portion of the tance ofthegovernment's Mr. T.R. Suttie, President of her career as office manager and cludes a loan-grantration. The loan institution's cost of educating each measures and proposed tuition The Equitable Life, announced administrative assistant to the portion was raised to $1000 from student. Thecommittee argues that hikes, larger class sizes, reductions that the Board of Directors secretary-general of the $800 by the province's Ministry of government grants should not de- in faculty and faculty salaries, and elected Miss Giesbrecht to fill a Kitchener-Waterloo YMC. Colleges and Universities last crease but that a greater portion of the elimination of low-enrolment vacancy on the Board at the She joined the financial de- month. future cost increases be borne by courses. Company's annual meeting on partment of Wilfrid Laurier Uni- The Guindon Committee jus- students, and recommends the per The COU is an advisory body to Monday. versity, Waterloo, in 1960, was tifies its all-loan proposal by re- capita grants become independent the Ministry ofColleges and Uni- "Miss Giesbrecht is Vice- made business manager in 1961, commending a "contingency re- of fee income. versities, the Ontario Council on President and Controller of Wil- comptroller in 1964 and Vice- payment plan", by which students The report contrasts its tuition University Affairs (itself a body frid Laurier University and her President-Controller in 1967. whose income did not sufficiently hike proposal to the McKeough advising the Ministry onthe alloca- experience in this capacity will Miss Giesbrecht is a member rise after graduation would be for- report's alternate suggestion ofre- tion of university funds) and indi- be of great value in the delibera- of the Council ofOntario Finance given their loans. ducing university staffby 2,700 and vidual institutions. Among its tions of the Board. It isan added Officers and a former member of However, the COU sent the increasing the student/faculty ra- members are the presidents of advantage that she will bring a the Ontario Council on Univer- Guindon report back to the com- tion to 16:1 from 13:1, as a method Ontario's 15 publicly-funded uni- woman's voice to discussions of sity Affairs. mittee forfurther consideration be- ofreducing