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MAY 21, 1987 Hp = Mm Volume 28, Number 1, Thursday May 21,1987 the Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo CORD McDiarmid Scott by photos Cord THE CORD 2 THURSDAY, MAY 21,1987 the CORD ••••*"• . ••• ••• . •:: • ••' • *. •/..:••• May 21,1987 :• Volume 28, Number 1 Editor-in-Chief R. A. Furlong NEWS Editor Erika Sajnovic Associate Eric Beyer ■BSilliiSl Contributor Brian Thompson FEATURES Coordinator position vacant ENTERTAINMENT Editor Kirk Nielsen Contributors Don Ambridge Steve Howard William Penny SPORTS Editor Chris Starkey Contributor Rob Mann DESIGN AND ASSEMBLY Production Manager Cori Ferguson Assistants position vacant position vacant Systems Technician position vacant Copy Editors Wendy Beaton .. position vacant Congratulations Contributor Matt Johnston Graduates PHOTOGRAPHY Manager Andrea Cole Technician Paul Mitchell Graphic Arts Debbie Hurst Contributors lan Dollar Eric Beyer Peter Dyck Scott McDiarmid ADVERTISING Manager David C. Mcintosh Classifieds position vacant Sales Representatives Bernard J. Calford Production Crystal Parks National Advertising Campus Plus (416) 481-7283 r : lM|jjji CIRCULATION AND FILING |E j| iJl^n I Manager position vacant Eight-month, 24-issue Cord subscription rates are: $20.00 for addresses within Canada and $25.00 outside the country. Co- op students may subscribe at the rate of $9.00 per four-month work term. STUDENT PUBLICATIONS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President David Wilmering Directors Craig Cass Sarah Hayward Tony Karg The Cord welcomes all comments, criticisms and suggestions from its readers. Letters to the Editor must be typed, double-spaced and submittea by Monday noon the week of publication. All letters must bear the author's full name, telephone and student number. Letters are subject to editing for length. The Cord reserves the right to withhold any submission or advertising its staff considers racist, sexist, homophobic, libellous or in bad taste. The Cord offices are located on the 2nd floor of the Student Union Building at WilfridLaurier University. Telephone 884-2990 or 884-2991. The Cord is printed at Fairway Press, Kitchener TheCord is published weekly during thefall and winteracademic terms. Editorial opinions are approved by the editorial board and are independent of the University, WLUSU and Student Publications. The Cord is a member of the Canadian University Press news cooperative. Copyright ©1987 by WLU Student Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. No part of this publication may be reproduced without permission of the Editor-in-Chief. THE CORD NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 21.1987 3 Non-smoking policy: Laurier to become smoke-free By Eric Beyer trative Services, in consultation with buildings smoke-free, and pollution- should not have the right to smoke only to be known as "Ann" said she other senior administrators. free. in their offices, because "that is part was upset with the decision. Ann Slowly, but inevitably, Wilfrid Rayner said there was no govern- According to both Rayner and of the university." According to said she wondered where the book- — 1988, Laurier University is becoming ment directive forcing the school to Fischer, the school excluding the Rayner, starting January 1, store will get the money from the smoke-free. begin an extensive ban on smoking. Student Union Building (SUB) — is smoking will be banned in Laurier lost sales that the administration On May 1 Laurier's bookstore The policy was an "in-house de- to be totally smoke-free by January offices. had usually put back into the school. stopped selling all tobacco products. cision." 1, 1988. Fischer said it does not The administration is not in agree- Ann said during the last few days of cigarette The store had until July 1 to dis- Paul Fischer, manager of the make much sense for WLU to have ment with WLUSU's non-existent sales customers were By continue tobacco sales, as decided! bookstore, said the move correlates a smoke-free policy and simultan- smoking policy within the SUB. buying the discounted unpopular must a brands as popular ones ran upon by Earl Rayner, Laurier's with the recently invoked govern- eously sell cigarettes in the book- August, McMullin submit the out. The Ann said the Director of Personnel and Adminis- ment policy to make all civil servant store. report to senior administrators. in coming school The Laurier administration, and report will include the following year the bookstore will be looking at not the students, owns the SUB, but points: a request for more details various promotional schemes to students, through WLUSU, inde- concerning the smoking bylaws the regain the lost sales. pendently administer it. Therefore, university will enact; the pros and Fischer said that $40 000 to $50 WLU students' union is under no cons of making Laurier smoke-free; 000 "sounds like a fair amount of obligation to enact the same non- whether there will be designated money," but there is only a 10 to 15 smoking policies within that building. smoking areas in the SUB, and, if so, percent profit margin. Tobacco According to Dave McMullin, where the areas will be located. products only make significant WLUSU's Vice-President: Univer- McMullin said about ten people profit when there is a high turnover, sity Affairs, the lone cigarette will get copies of his report, including which according to Fischer, there machine in the SUB — and presently Dr. John Weir, President of WLU, usually was. the only place at Laurier in which and Fred Nichols, Dean of Students. cigarettes can be purchased — will McMullin said a smoking area, be in operation for a while. similar in concept to the Niobe Despite being a non-smoker him- lounge, would be set aside, if the self McMullin does not choose sides SUB became smoke-free. in the smoking area debate. "If they The decision to end cigarette sales take all the smoking areas away at the bookstore carried a backlash. from the students it is infringing on Gross sales from tobacco products their right to smoke, because it is in the bookstore amounts to be- not against the law to smoke ... We tween $40,000 and $50,000 annually. have an office of Safety and Equality Cigarette sales amounted to 60 — we must keep smokers equal." percent of the total confectionary McMullin said that if smoking is intake. banned at Laurier then professors A bookstore worker, who wished Board of Governors welcome changes By Sajnovic Erika and allowance for a 3 per cent standard, they will not automatically advised amendments approved by of the Investment Committee. This increase or a 3 per cent decrease in receive the increase in funding. the Board. committee would review and submit 14, On April Dr. John Weir, student enrollment without penalty "This will make the system less Weir announced that an auditor to the auditors recommendations Laurier President of Wilfrid Uni- translated in loss of funding. accountable to enrollment," said committee would be set up to assist for approval. versity, presented a new funding Weir. in the auditing process. The mem- A motion was introduced to formula to the Board of Governors If a university falls below the 3 per add Weir also said that the allocation bers would include: the Chair and 10 faculty members to 1987-88 (BOG). This formula will be appli- cent set standard, then they will lose the system will now be changed for Vice-Chair of the BOG, the Presi- Facutly of WLU, raising the number cable to all Ontario universities. accordingly. if a university However, grants also to steer away from dent of WLU, the Chairman to 263 from 253 The new system involves a base of the authorized faculty rises above the 3 per cent set reliance on enrolment. Finance Committee and the Chair members. "It is not the total money received, but the share of the total moneys in the grant that counts." Old WLUSU the It was also announced that at the exits Martens wins By Erika Sajnovic May 31 Spring Convocation, two needs to be re-done." Director and President-elect Dave Canadians will receive honorary Residue discussion from the pill Bussiere, stated the question of teacher-of-the-year doctorates from the university. Jack had the controversy, which McClelland, referendum lawyers' bill had first gone to the By Canada's best-know major issue at from Erika Sajnovic book publisher whorecentlyretired, been the Laurier Operations Management Board and February to April, dominated the and Peggie Sampson, who has made the Finance and Budgeting Board Professor Victor Martens, Associate Professor of Music at Wilfrid final meeting of the 1986-87 Wilfrid a magnificent contribution to music- and they both agreed it was "not a Laurier University, and a faculty member since has been named Laurier University Studnets' Union 1969, making campus across . good move." Wilfrid Laurier University's Outstanding-Teacher-of-the-Year. on and Board held April 12. Other items Canada will be the recipents of the Bussiere continued that it was the Martens was by university at included a new telephone selected a committee which looked honorary degrees. debated responsibility of President nominations put forward by students, graduates, faculty and adminis- system for the WLUSU offices and Weir also reviewed some faculty Thompson and Andrew Reid, the trators. the choice ofa student candidate for appointments and reappointments Executive Vice-President, to consult "I was very surprised and shocked," said Martens. "I have gone WLU Board of Governor Represent- which will take effect as of May 1, with lawyers in this situation. through a of reactions." ative. host 1987. Leßlanc replied by questioning Martens said he knew nothing about the award until the time at which In part of the financial report of the validity of the lawyer's state- (Dr. Weir) congratulations. Lynn Kurtz, the President approached him with Additionally, he recommended Vice-President: ments regarding By-law 4, section Dr.
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