THE CORD A WILFRID LAURIER STUDENT PUBLICATION VOLUME XXXIII ISSUE 27 MARCH 25 1993 "Full Bloom", a painting by Teri Hranka, winner of this year's Fine Arts Studio Award, is showing in the Gallery as part of the student/staff show. pic : Chris Skalkos THE CORD Thursday. March 25. 199.1 2 Advertisement _ : 5 ° ERT ■brfLfe * KELmE§ *^ : '. i P" Diving for Abortion School is dollars experience France page 5 page 9 page 10 : News: NEWS EDITOR INGRID NIELSEN NEWS EDITOR SHELDON PAGE ASSOCIATE Forum deals with cutbacks Virginia Parker Cord News for the senate to be a successful representative body of students' Laurier's current course cuts concerns. This idea was echoed in along with several other issues most of the other candidates' plat- were discussed at the open fo- forms. rum for the upcoming student Wayne Gingrich was the first senate elections in the Concourse to suggest that the four main stu- this past Thursday. dent government bodies (senate, Nine of theten candidates were SPBOD, Board of Governors, in attendance to discuss academic WLUSUBOD) work together un- issues ranging from course cuts dera Planning and Priorities Com- and class sizes to different ways to mittee that wouldpresenta unified make the senate more approach- voice to Laurier President Dr. able for students. Lorna Marsden. This was a popu- The candidates also discussed lar idea with the other senator such issues as funding concerns, hopefuls as well. Terry Grogan (see story last issue) Pruyn Haskins also suggested and the proposed Arts and Science that the elected senators keep regu- Building. lar weekly office hours to increase Also included in the forum their availability to the students. was a chance for the two newest There was a general sense (acclaimed) members of the Board among the candidates of the im- of Governors, Sean Taylor and portance of guarding Laurier's Dave Bigioni, to speak on the is- reputation of smaller classes and sues that concern their positions. lower professor to studentratios to Candidates discuss the issues before facing the hoards. Pic: Sheldon Page A concern that many senate ensure that the quality of educa- candidates brought up was the fact tion offered would be worth the dustries be encouraged. probably wouldn't happen during should still be in the election, their that many students were unsure as tuition paid for it. The issue of whether or not a recession. responses were varied. to what the function of the senate The dominant issue for most funding from the private industry The recent Terry Grogan Barnes, Gingrich, Haskins, actually was. of the candidates was the recent sector should be accepted by Lau- 'scandal' also attracted the atten- Curran, McKeeand Ken McGuffin The senate is the highest aca- course cuts. rier was debated at length until a tion of the candidates. all agreed that Grogan had a right demic body on campus. The stu- One solution to halting fur- few of the forum's spectators Grogan was fined by the elec- to be in the election, dentrepresentatives voice the con- ther course cuts came from Tim pointed out that funding was not a tion council for reading other can- Susan Griffin and Sydney cerns of the students that they rep- Barnes who suggested that the part of the concerns of the student didates' platforms that were stored Pereira did not, however, see the resent. administration take a ten percent senate. in the Cord computer files. He situation thatway. Susan explained Barbara Curran suggested in cut in the same way that other Funding problems are, in fact, was given a chance to explain his that Laurier did not need "some- her platform that a booth be set up corporations do during difficult issues that concern the Board of side of the story and apologize to one who would do that on [the] in the Concourse where students economic times. Directors. the entire student body for making senate". could meet with a student senator To solve the financial prob- Newly acclaimed director "a mistake". Students will be able to vote to voice opinions and discuss is- lems that are causing the course Sean Taylor explained that while When the question was asked for up to eight of the ten candi- sues. She explained that "visibil- cuts, Andrew McKee suggested the ideaof attempting to getcorpo- of the other candidates as to dates. Elections continue until ity and communication are key" that investments from private in- rate donations was a good one, it whether they thought that Grogan Saturday. MBA students win award Bonnie Redekop Cord News University of Ottawa. The task involved the develop- ness Professor and Director of the Lesley Crompton said, "with four Kevin Burns was an alternate ment of an innovative product that Research Centre for Management very strong, opinionated members, team member, and went through is used for cardiovascular diag- of Advanced Technology/Opera- a group leader doesn't work." Four Laurier MBA students won the preparation process but didnot nostic treatment and intervention. tions, acted as facilitator. Williston said each team mem- a national technology case com- participate in the competition. The students had five hours In orderto compete in Ottawa, ber won $250, Corel software, a petition on March 13. Williston said, "it's the first to analyze and make written rec- the students had to qualify in a sweatshirt, medallion, "and a pat Lesley Crompton, Dan Laurier MB A victory of this type." ommendations. They were given preliminary round. Their task was on the back from Professor Noori." Pringle, Robert Tong, and Darryl The competition was spon- an additional 30 minutes to pre- to make recommendations on a Williston said Noori was "in- Williston came out on top in the sored by the Business and Engi- pare a 20 minute presentation. case involving the development of strumental in our success." The competition, which was held at the neering Development Association. Dr. Hamid Noori, WLU Busi- image-processing software. trophy that the team won is being In the preliminary round, the kept in the office of the Dean of students had five hours to analyse Business. and complete the assignment and Noori said the students uti- Birth control referendum fax it to Ottawa. lized "a perfect balance of techni- Noori said that last year a team cal/non-technical perspectives of of Laurier students placed first in business" and that they "commit- the preliminary round, but didn't ted few mistakes." win the second round. This year's Noori said he had no doubts team repeated last year's prelimi- that the Laurier students were nary win and went on to win the qualified to win any competition. second round. "They werea very committed team Other competing teams also and they set a very high goal for had access to preparatory courses, themselves," he said. which is something that was not Noori said he'd like to see available to the Laurier team. more Laurier participation in these A prestigious group judged kinds of competitions, as they pro- the competition. Included were vide Business and Engineering professionals from Air Canada, students with business perspec- Northern Telecom, Newbridge, tives and technical/non-technical Defense Ministry,and several oth- knowledge. ers. Noori said that a pool of engi- The Laurier team then divided neering and business students is the tasks into individual responsi- ideal for this kind of competition. bilities according to the strengths The team had to include at least and weaknesses of the members. one student from each discipline. THE CORD 4 News Thursday, March 25, 1993 American style university Jim Boyce Cord News arship and The Fraser Institute. to study other cultures as alterna- dices of other cultures. He cited norant of their own past, he said, He is the author ofIlliberal Educa- tives. The problem with this rea- the Koran as an example and said citing students who had learned tion: The Politics of Race and Sex soning, he said, was that many of that it embraces male superiority. about Malcolm X from Spike Lee's "(TheAdministration'sattempts on Campus (1991), and former the cultures being studied were He also cited his own experiences movie and were excited because at] taking on The Review is like editor of the infamous Dartmouth themselves oppressive. Further- in India, where he lived until the they had never before heard of wrestling with a pig. Not only Review. He discussed the present more, the books that are selected age of 17, and noted the existence "Malcolm the Tenth." does everyone get dirty, but the state in American universities. as representative of a specific cul- of the caste system and the poor Liberal learning, D'Souza pig likes it." — Dinesh D'Souza Efforts to include "non-West- ture are more representative of the treatment of women. said, gets past the notions of race Dinesh D'Souza was the key- ern" texts in university reading political views of the university D' Souza called what was hap- and culture.For instance, he stated note speaker at the "University in lists, D'Souza said, were based on professor who chooses them. pening in American universities that ifhe took Martin Luther King Jeopardy" Conference held in To- the assumption by campus activ- D'Souza said mostclassic non- "bogus multiculturalism", since as his hero, King's idea could be ronto last Friday by The Society ists that Western Civilization is Western texts are far from politi- the books selected donot represent traced back to ideas such as those For Academic Freedom and Schol- oppressive and that it is necessary cally correct and show the preju- the "real version" of cultures but, of Ghandi and Thoreau, two peo- instead, cater to a political agenda.