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The Cord (November 11, 2009) The tie that binds Wilfrid Laurier University since 1926 Volume 50, Issue 13 Wednesday. November 11. 2009 thecord.ca Names of missing soldiers from the First World War litter gravesites throughout Western France. This image has now become juxtaposed with the politics of war in the 21st century. How does Remembrance Day resonate today? In Depth, page 10 Women's soccer team falls in bronze medal game was disappointing:' performed some late game hero- Despite goals from Julia Marchese KEVIN CAMPBELL Entering the final four to urn a­ ics to send the game into overtime, and Krista Cellucci, the Gee-Gees STAFF WRITER ment, hosted by York University, the scoring in the 81st minute of regula­ would take the bronze by a painfully - ------ We were expecting Hawks were looking to defend their tion, tying the game at one. familiar score of 3-2. '' An outstanding season by the Wil­ OUA title and had to play without But the Gaels proved to be too Following the theme of the week­ more. We had high frid Laurier Golden Hawks' women's star midfielder Alyssa Lagonia, who much in the extra frames as they end, the game concluded in dra­ soccer team culminated with disap­ was called up to train with Canada's pulled out to a 3-1lead. matic fashion as regulation and expectations for pointment and heartbreak on the national team. Forward Sarah Houghton brought overtime solved nothing; the game weekend. The Queen's Gaels crushed any the Hawks closer with a goal in the needed to be decided by penalty ourselves this season so The squad finished fourth place hopes of a Laurier championship second overtime period, but that kicks. in the Ontario University Athlet­ with a 3-2 overtime victory on Sat­ would be as close as the purple and In the free-shot festivities, Lau­ it was disappointing:' ics {OUA) playoffs, after losing the urday afternoon in the semi-finals. gold would come. rel Fougere was the hero for Ottawa, bronze medal game 3-2 in penalty Kelli Chamberlain had a standout The Gaels went on to lose in the as she buried a shot past Laurier - Heather Malizia, midfielder kicks to the Ottawa Gee-Gees. game for the Gaels, scoring twice, finals to the York Lions. goalkeeper Tristin Vogel in the sixth "We were expecting more;• said including once in the last minute The next day, the dismayed round of kicks. stand -out Hawks midfielder Heath­ of the first extra frame, to send the Hawks fought for the bronze medal "It was sad because there are a er Mali2ia. "We had high expecta­ Gaels to the championship game. against a powerful Gee-Gees squad tions for ourselves this season so it Hawks' veteran Tania Pedron in a rematch oflastyear's finals. Sports, page 17 Inside Hawks' season over A remarkable feat Elizabeth May visits KW Bringing back the mo The Golden Hawks' men's football Director of Cairo Time Ruba Leader of the Green Party speaks Seven Laurier students have team was eliminated from the Nadda talks with The Cord about at the University ofWaterloo tossed the razor for Movember, an OUA playoffs on Saturday after succeeding in the Canadian film about the upcoming Copenhagen international campaign that aims losing 26-16 to the Western industry and the challenges of her Conference and the importance of to raise funds and awareness for Mustangs. latest project. a Canadian commitment. prostate cancer. Sports, page 20 Arts, page 9 National. page 5 Features, page 12 2 • EDITOR'S PAGE The Cord • Wednesday. November 11. 2009 Editor's choice News ....................... -3 In Depth .................... 10 Editor's choice Veteran journalist visits Local ....................... -4 Feature ..................... 12 Your own personal self-help hook National .................... -5 Life ........................ 13 Waterloo International ................ 6 Opinion ....................14 thecord .ca/life International, page 6 Arts ........................ 8 Sports ...................... 17 Editor-in-Chief Laura Carlson • [email protected] This week in quotes From the archives Vocal Cord What does 5years Remembrance Day K-os plays at Thrret There's no place for Canadian artist K-os played to a full Turret, showing Laurier a different side mean to you? of mainstream hip-hop. He played songs from his then new album,Joyfol ''opinion in newscasts:' Rebellion, Wu-Tang inspired beats, Bob Marley covers and Pink Floyd's '1\n­ other Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2". Printed Nov. 10, 2004 -Journalist Henry Champ, speaking about how news should be delivered. 25years Students take landlord to court A group of 40 students, two-thirds of which were from Laurier, banded to­ gether to take their landlord to court regarding his attempt to escape a loop­ hole in the Landlord Tenants Act. The students sued the landlord as a test "It's a day that doesn't to see whether or not they were technically tenants and protected under the get as much respect as it act. The landlord was charging pro-rated rent and had increased it more than six per cent over the course of a year. He stated that the students living should." in the building were merely boarders and not technically tenants. -John Collaton PrintedNov.15, 1984 Third-year history 50 years Student council inefficient It's somewhat an In 1959, the University of Waterloo students' council clashed with the stu­ dent president. The council was made up of students solely from the facul­ ''environmental issue the ties of science and engineering, yet the president was an arts student, en­ rolled in Waterloo University College, which was separate from the univer­ way drowning is a water sity. Discrepancies were constantly arising as to what exactly the students' . , council was responsible for and who they represented, since the University ISSUe. of Waterloo and Waterloo University College (which still had obligations to "It's a day to remember Western) were two separate entities. people who fought for Printed Nov. 13, 1959 us .... We should take the -Elizabeth May. leader ofthe Green Party ofCanada, on the need to time to think about how lower green house gas emissions. lucky we are." -Emily Silvester First-year global studies "Feminism to me made me see that those problems that I had thought of as personal problems were really social problems:' -Soci_al ~C~J!is~ Marggret Randell, explaiT!ing what embracing feminism did for her. "Did you say 'Up the Wing-Wang?~ ~ : . ·- ~ • · - - _ - CBC' Radio personality Jonathan Goldstein, responding to a question asked by a UW student at the Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications' PULSE journalism conference. "Canadian soldiers fought "Being born in Canada is like winning the lottery:• a battle that wasn't really -Cathy McLellan, Kitchener-Waterloo Green Party representative, on the importance of theirs ... but it's through this international aid. we gained our moral sense of independence." "Long gone a1:e _the days that we can ignore what's going on in other parts of -Jacob Dawe theworla:· -Andrew Telegdi.former liberal MP for_Kitchener-Waterloo, regarding the importance Third-year sociology ofCanada's role in the international community. "It was just a matter of constantly jumping through hoops trying to figure out how to get through our day without being shut down. It was just crazy, I can't believe we were able to pull it off, I really can't:' -Canadian.filmmaker Ruba Nadda, who became the.first North American to make an entire movie in the city ofCairo, Egypt. "So many people fought and died for this country... CORRECTION we need to respect what In the Nov. 4 article entitled "Furthering science or exploiting nature;' it was they did." stated that Laurier houses mice and wistar rats, which is untrue. The article -Anthony Defilippis said that the university has hooded rats; in actuality they are long-evans Second-year psychology hooded rats. It was also stated that Laurier offers dissection simulation, NICK LACHANCE PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER when it only offers some forms of computer simulation. Additionally, the ar­ by ticle states that in the past rats were subjected to injection, but this practice Compiled Jennifer Bisson still occurs. To clarifY, a transcardial perfusion only takes place when the rat Photo of the week Photos by Nick Lachance is unconscience and a professor is always present. A student quoted in the A real hawk was recently spotted around the Laurier campus. article, Laura Tomkins, is actually a fourth-year psychology student and not Unfortunately, its presence was of little luck to Laurier's athletic in third-year biology. Tomkins has only witnessed the death of one rat, not teams this past weekend. Men's football and women's soccer lost thecord.ca many. The Cord apologizes for these errors. important playoff games ending both of teams' seasons. 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