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volleyball: the Women's CORD best start ever weekly page 13 Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario Thursday, November 29, 1984 Volume 25, Number 12 Robbery to be debated Inside Brain by Bruce Arculus Two authors of the controversial book The Great Brain Robbery., will be appearing at Wilfrid Laurier to participate in a discussion entitled "Here to attack or be This ain't no party! attacked". A new poi-bca! oar:y, Thy The authors, David J. Bercuson of the University of Humanist Party, was here at Calgary, Robert Bothwell of the University of Toronto, Laurier to try and elicit interest and J. L Granatstein ofYork University, contend in their and involvement Their timin; book that Canadian universities passed through a was bad; nobody showed up fo? g Utopian period during the 1940s and 19505, and that we the event.i must return to these times immediately if universities are ■i to be Scived from ruin. s Universities, according to the authors, promoted a "democratization" that led to a deterioration in Keepine in tune \ educational standards. Dr. Toivo Miljan, political science professor at WL.U, o-:> I Radio ■ wm \ will be rrioderacng the upcoming discussion. He bo; people's nv A survey is v 112 commented that rather than offering frivolous courses taken in at- otternc-; -:o gaum j like black studies and women's studies, we (the support amor >31! & o lent body. j universities) should be emphasizing philosophy, page i literature, and so on." Miljan said, "We (the universities) should get rid of students who shouldn't be here in the first place." Towards that goal, Miljan recommends the Toddler time abolishment of the general bachelor program. Most reviewers have condemned the book as badly The Universities Infant-Toddler researched and self-serving, for it calls for more control Day-care Group is working to over the universities by the academics. The authors have establish a daycare centre forthe over 35 years of teaching experience in universities. two universities in Waterloo, They The authors freely admit that their work is polemic, ask that we all complete a survey sen/ing as a discussion paper. to determine the need for one, Miljan agreed with this assessment. "1 would give it a and the eventual planning of its C-minus if it was handed in as an intellectual essay; it establishment. would be a failure at the PhD level. But it is a polemic 5 page intended to create discussion and controversy. !t serves its purpose (in that regard)," Miljan said. Skinny Jim Miljan also said that the authors were "gadflies, going around stinging their colleagues. These guys are having Local crowd-pleaser Skinny a ball going around stringing their colleagues along. Jim and the Wildcat Strike They want to stir up the academic community to think worked the crowd last week atthe about what the hell they're doing. We don't think about Kent into a frenzy with their show. why we're doing what we're doing." The band, composed of Laurier The forum will take place on Monday, December 3rd students, is in high demand lately. Hit me! Photo by Karim Vtrani in the Turret It is co-sponsored by the Centre on Foreign we see them at the Turret in Will Blackjack players huddle card in an effort to win enough play Policy and Federalism, based at the two Waterloo tiie around table future? to end universities, and the WLU bookstore. Copies of the book, 9 money bid on prizes at the of the night. The first-ever Casino night page was a success and had good attendance. All proceeds went to the which normally sells for $12.95, will be available at a ten Development Fund. percent discount for autographing. Caught in Cotton The Coronet is not the place you'd normally look for blues music, but the James Cotton Band provided an excellent show for the patrons. Alcohol ads influence society page 9 by Gavin Morcom and Liz Jefferson aphrodisiac, genera! pick-me-up, moderate drinking habits and public The severity of the problem Gryphons take Cup and a mandator/ part of any awareness. among Canadian university students "This is my first time giving a celebration Since advertising for responsible has been made clear this fall. Last The G ueiph Gryphons lecture in a bar," laughed Dr. Jear Advertisers are not the sole root of drinking is only one-tenth of the week, a Laurentian University captured the Vanier Cup last, Kilboume. Kilboume was in the the problem, said Kilboume. She budgets for breweries and distilleries, student was killed on the way back to Saturday in Toronto. This is the Turret, one of two Laurier pubs, also blames society for encouraging Kilboume would like to see the school after an afternoon of first time that Gueiph has ever November 20 to present a lecture on drinking. "Our society does not help legislation passed that would drinking in Sudbury. Both he and the taken the top nonours in the effect of alcohol advertisements; the alcoholic but. glorifies those who guarantee equai advertising space driver were intoxicated at the time of Canadian university football on the consumer. abuse alcohol," she said. for ads that promote responsible the accident. Earlier in the fall, a page 14 Kilboume is a media analyst, writer Her most disturbing accusation drinking. University of Saskatchewan student and creator of award-winning films-- was that advertisers encourage Some students at the seminar was killed at a floor party on campus. such as Killing (Js Softly—a movie abuse of their product because criticized Kilboume for selecting ads Shawn Reinicke died after falling Hawkeys stSi first about the degradation of women in moderate drinking does not that would only prove her point. seven storeys down a garbage chute. After two weekend games, the advertising and Calling the Shots—a generate enough profit. The Another member of the audience On September 16, University of $1 Laurier hockey team managed to film version of her lecture on alcohol companies spend about billion a commented that the tactics she was Guelph student Wouter Van Stralen retain their lead over the rest of awareness. year convincing people that if a little complaining of were also used to sell was killed by an impaired driver the OCJAA by winning both The main problem with alcohol alcohol is fun, a lot of alcohol is a lot toothpaste and softdrinks. being chased by police. matches. advertising, says Kilboume, is the more fun. As proof of this disturbing Kilboume responded that the ads A frosh party held for Ryerson page 13 improper social attitudes towards fact, Kilboume argued, "!f al! adults were selected from all media and students on a boat in Lake Ontario drinking they foster. Her comments drank only two drinks per day, every were representative of the problem led to the death of 17-year-old Jeff about advertising directed at the day, the profits of the distilling and with alcohol advertising and that the McNarsh in September. Police said university-aged crowd were brewing companies would decline whole point of her seminar was that that McNarsh drowned because the particularly damning. 40%." companies were selling a product effects of alcohol and dnjgs rrsade it Kilboume asserts that advertisers Kilboume is not a prohibitionist that is potentially dangerous to impossible for him to swim to safety. This is the iast issue of are spending disproportionately but sees a need to reveal the effects consumers as if it were as harmless In Canada, an alcohol-related the Cord for 1984. See large amounts of money on the of alcohol abuse and the myths as toothpaste. accident occurs on average ever/17 by the advertisements. She you in January. college market and are encouraging fostered To clarify the dangers of alcohol minutes and results in 57 deaths students to drink by portraying warns that banning the ads is not a and its abuse, Kilboume pointed out each week. drinking as an adolescent rite of magic cure; education about alcohol that over 10% of Americans have a passage, confidence builder, is also important to encourage drinking problem. 2 Thursday, November 29, 1984, THE CORD WEEKLY ■ flp| Oh boy, new GrizzlyBeer is Here at home, Grizzly Beer You can encounter a Grizzly here, It's a smooth, refreshing- conies in a big brown bottle in all your local beer stores, tasting beer we've been and goes at regular beer It's one roaring good beer, selling with such success in prices. Get your paws on Grizzly. the United States. some soon. Aroaring good beer. niw—■■—»■"w'"nmi"■■i ■ »i—mi i—n■i'l—mi ■<'yaßwniim.- mm mww—■■—i———m—i-— i_i—i u_u—ll WE"©3KIfWEEKLY Thursday, November 29, J'JM 3 news |fcThe Razor Edge fjL Men's & Women's Hairstyling Humanist party interests none Men $7.00 Women $7.50 M * Complete with Blow Dry by Andrea Cole The party is based on five proposes effective "options" as the Laurier students may not have principles which it feels to be of most concrete political expression of noticed, but a new political party was concern to society today. These freedom. Monday - Closed on campus last Friday. The newly- principles are: The Humanist movement started Tuesday-Friday - 8:30-6:00 Party came to the Active years bom Humanist I. non-violence. The party is fifteen ago in Argentina, ft Saturday - 8:00-3:30 university to help start a Humanist governed by non-violent actions and rapidly spread to about 40 countries Association. wants to end the violence of in Europe and South America.