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The Cord Weekly Football starts off on a good Popular professor passes away cleat Page 23 Page 5 Volume 44 Issue 4 Thursday September 4, 2003 www.clublaurier.ca Good Matt Good Bleeding Titan Red 'Secret' 0-Week performer fails to wow first-years despite playing a solid set and dispensing a few veiled insults in their general direction CHRIS CLEMENS cert event. After the usual vast majority leaned noncha- Entertainment Editor dose of hype-up speeches lantly on the stage barricade and automatonical cheering or stood impassively with Amidst the chaos sweeping acts were liberally applied to their arms crossed, A select through campus on the susceptible minds, students few nodded their heads in wing's of thousands of frosh rushed the stage in anticipa- time to the relatively hard- students and their overbear- tion for the entertainment's hitting tunes and general ing* parents, rumours of the opening act... applause increased at the night's big concert act circu- ...and were surprised to end of each subsequent lated. Those in the know come face to face with rela- song". generally remained smugly tive unknowns The As for the band, the word tight-lipped while others Miniatures. A six-piece alt- that immediately comes to cajoled and took guesses. rock band operating under mind is "nondescript". None Finger Eleven and Sum4l the standard formulas of the of their ten or so songs were were the subject of popular genre. The Miniatures made particularly memorable. Of speculation and a deluded an admirable effort on stage particular hilarity was the few harboured hopes that against innumerable odds. tambourine/bongo/air-horn breakout pop-reggae artist No longer the centre of player, who rocked out hard- Sean Paul would make an attention, Icebreakers futile- er than a twelve-year-old girl appearance. ly bounced around and at a Simple Plan show. Matt Benassi Word eventually leaked danced along to the music Although his presence was Red Head Ice, Rich Kawamoto, leads the Red Titans in the cheer to the general populace, and under the influence of what justified by sheer visual off on Wiilison Field. The Red Titans won the cheer off. For more a massive collection of fresh- ever chemical compound entertainment value alone, it frosh week coverage see pages 3, 16, 17 and 18. faces and volunteers gath- powers their inexhaustible frequently seemed as ered in the Waterloo Rec energy source. The frosh Centre for opening cere- weren't having it. Clearly {continued on page 26) monies and the O-Week con- tired and unimpressed, the New underage policy Fall election called for on-campus bars Privatized education expected to be Double cohort leads to limits of 80 and 40 underagers among the election issues THOMAS THOMPSON loans, grants and funding'. allowed in Turret and Wilf's, respectively Special Projects Editor Doherty stated that under the current system post-sec- WILBUR MCLEAN underagers in campus bars of underage patrons who After a summer stalling to ondary institutions are in Editor-in-Chief to reflect the increase in can frequent The Turret to the anticipation of the people direct competition with each underage students this fall. 80 and Wilfs to 40. of Ontario fall election for other and this creates a sys- The Wilfrid Laurier Effective immediately, According to WLUSU the province of" Ontario is tem of inequality. One exam- University Students' Union the WLUSU Board of President, Dan Herman, now official. On Tuesday ple she provided was the have altered their previous- Directors have passed a these numbers were arrived Premier Ernie Eaves called Ontario Student ly open policy regarding polic, reducing the number at by applying* the number for the election that will take Opportunity Trust Fund of underage students cur- place on October 2nd. that was created to assist rently attending Laurier as The election is expected universities in providing a percentage of the entire to be very intense as the both grants for students in finan- student body (14%) to the the Liberals and New cial need. The University of capacity of The Turret and Democratic Party both try to Toronto received a signifi- Wilfs, respectively. That ouster the Progressive cant portion of this funding produced the numbers of 80 Conservatives from the yet it only has 16% of the and 40. majority they have held in province's OSAP students. "We needed, to find a mid- Queen's Park for the last Doherty said that one of dle ground because of the eight years. With several the main reasons that post- demographic change," said calamities in this past year secondary education is not Herman. "You have to fig- such as the SARS outbreak, getting much attention is ure out the best way to cre- last month's power failure that each interest such as ate a fair system and we feel and the perception of a healthcare or public educa- this is it." quickly eroding public infra- tion is currently focused on A document produced by structure. there is no doubt their own interests. "All the Alcohol and Gaming in many people's opinions three major parties (PCs, Commission of Ontario that this election will have a Liberals and NDP) can have encouraged Ontario univer- profound affect upon the student friendly party plat- sities to change protocol future of Ontario. As stu- forms," Doherty said, fur- regarding access to bars. dents, with all the issues ther elaborating that it is up Laurier's General surrounding the election, to their policy makers and to Manager, Dan Dawson, who there is strong motivation to students to lobby them. met with a representative of question where we lay with- There are also plans for the AGCO in May said, in the priorities and plat- an election campaign being "[The AGCO] expect you to forms of each of the political undertaken by WLUSU. The cross every't* and dot every parties. plan includes providing stu- They want to see you go Meighan Doherty, Vice dents with information above and beyond what President: University Affairs about each party's platform they're looking for" in for WLUSU, mentioned that and either establishing- a terms of an underage policy. post secondary education polling station on campus or Herman insisted that has not been an important providing a shuttle service. this move was not financial- issue so far in this campaign The District Returning ly motivated, despite the and it is not getting the Officer has not set up office that Matt Benassi fact underagers can't attention that it deserves. yet according to Doherty purchase alcohol. not This important question is, however, "We really need to re-evalu- and arrangements will bird is flipping the bird. The ate be made later on this whether or of the system," Doherty until not he's age and can join his fellow frozen friends said referring to the finan- week. in the Turret (continued on page six) cial situation associated with — 5 ~i 0 1 i 1 | 1 in1 n H I i skii iir#rjai® uii § r*j-~ • j lt.i vm 3 I 1 d r®i KM KM ■11 iilL» ■ r.ii * J 11 ~1 1 8 M ■iiML r H IV IiXUMMMBM I Ii ■HHHHnHHHnHHI I 1 I | Keystone 1 1 | Graduates Editor j | Sports Editors 3 I Councils Editors I 1 1 | Cord -1- | ] prJSSSnu Bluprint Magazine I | j Opinion Columnists Production Manager | j Restaurant Reviewer Selection Editors | | Writers Columnist I I — I i \ 7 i I \ i I \ \ / I\ l . l | y/ j j j Indirect Departments] j \ Clublaurier.ca j \ Layout Editor I S Marketing Team Member / Production Assistants - HTML HR Team Memeber \ or Graphic Design IT Team Member \ \ Distribution Team Memeber \ Matt writers I Finance Clerk / \ '"SZers I| I I \ Columnists | | I \ Forum Moderators | j I \ j | Direct Departmental Administration j | Copy Editor Director, WLUSP Board of Directors | | Photographers | I Ad Production Assistants I Ii I I I I ' | j I Applications can be found in the WLUSP office | jj (3rd Floor of the Fred Nichols Campus Centre) j jj All applications are due Friday September 19 at noon. | j Any questions please email [email protected] or call 884-0710 X 3564 j | i Thursday September 4,2003 News 3 Shine on you, crazy Frosh Matt Good and largest ever on-campus party highlight first three days of the double cohort's Orientation Week COLIN DUFFETT and Shinerama coordinator eral remarks about the con- News Editor Shawn Robbie. Robbie intro- tent of Orientation Week. duced the present first year Good made the claim that The whistle blowing outside students to Cystic Fibrosis, Frosh Week was "fucked up", my bedroom window herald- one of the main reasons for and made a comparison ed the beginning- of yet the weeklong activities. between Orientation Week another Orientation Week. As per usual, the opening and the cult activities that Like past Labour days, ceremonies was full of colour were associated with the throng's of new Lanrier stu- coated cheering, led by the Jonestown mass suicides. dents from across Ontario eight Head Icebreakers that When asked for his and beyond came to Waterloo helped organize the week. thoughts on Good's com- with their luggage, comput- The cheering stopped as the ments Herman smiled and ers and parents in toe. opening ceremonies ended said he wasn't aware that After moving in, unpack- and the stage was prepared those comments had been down to a at made. Rich ing and sitting for The Miniatures. It was Head Icebreaker Matt Benassi good ol' chat with the this point that first year stu- Kawamoto commented, "it's Life staff, the dents slowly drifted towards tough to please everyone.