The Cord Weekly (September 27, 1990)
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A WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY STUDENT PUBLICATION VOLUME XXXI ISSUE 6 SEPTEMBER 27, 1990 thecord A lifetime's wait at Wilf's. NEWS: Is there an evil, mur- SCENE: Rik Emmett spills the derous lift for the handicapped beans about his new solo career wreaking havoc in the Library? in an exclusive interview. page 3 j page 23 FEATURE: Read and learn about j SPORTS: Hawks lanced by Wind- plight the of the children. so** page j vase2S | 2 the cord. Thursday September 27, 1990 We're lookingfor people who lookat this glassand say: "There's gotta be other glasses of water." We need people capable of going Andersen Consulting offers you Professional Education in St. Charles, beyond half-full or half-empty the chance to work on a variety Illinois, is just one measure of our thinking. People who see subtleties. ofprojects—with clients in a wide commitment. We train you for a Who are quite franklybored by easy range of industries. career—not justa job. answers and off-the-shelfsolutions. 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By then you've invested trainingas a continuingprocess. & . millinnp ARTHUR ANDERSEN CQ, S C. too, much. And our $123-million Centerar,tar#«,for we ,rom here" c where S° Graduating Business Students! Don't forget to come to our Information Session Thurs. Oct. 4th - 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. PMC the cord er 27. 1990 Library lift disables the disabled Lift or ramp? Halie Cotnam The Cord IT IS rumoured that the wheel chair lift in the library is defective. In fact, the lift, located in the basement across from the boardroom, is in proper working condition. It's safe.... as long as it is used properly and according to instructions. Therein lies the problem. The lift requires a somewhat complicated series of steps to be fol lowed in order to function at all. "Complicated", in this case, means that it took two campus police officers, two library higher-ups, and over half an hour to get it going when demonstrated for the Cord. The lift is designed to be used only with assistance of certain senior members of the Library's circulation department. This proce dure was implemented for the safety of the physically challenged people using the lift, but is a limiting factor in terms of independent accessibility. Anyone wishing to use the lift to travel between the library and the Central Teaching Building via the underground passageway is restricted to doing so during hours in which there are sufficient staff on duty to allow one of the designated operators to leave the circula tion desk and assist with the lift. The person who needs to use the lift must call up to the circulation desk using an intercom system and request help. This is fme, except that the intercom is often broken, leaving a physically challenged per son stranded at the bottom until they could recruit someone to go up stairs and inform an operator that their assistance was required. $55,000 system is virtually obsolete, and it's hard to find anyone capable of using it In addition, it can sometimes take over fifteen minutes for a busy library assistant to fmd time to come down and operate the lift. Besides the complexity of the system, lack of use has lead to un This is the lift in the bowels of the library. It doesn't work so hot. familiarity with the lift, leaving the virtually obsolete $55,000 system Photo: Tom Szeibel to become nearly useless, since it is hard to fmd anyone capable of operating it. With these problems in mind. Andrew Bergzi, Wilfrid Laurier University Vice-President of Finance and Construction recently agreed to consider several recommendations concerning the lift The first recommendation is to post extremely straight-forward. Education in universities step-by-step instructions by the base of the lift to aid the operators. The second is to hold a simple refresher course for these operators each September to refamiliarize them with its use, insuring that they are comfortable with and competent in operating the system. Lastly, it was Subject of commission recommended that the University look into the possibility of replacing the lift with a ramp to allow physical!) challenged people by the Association of Universities sities". Tim Sullivan The Cord more freedom and independence. and Colleges of Canada. will be It is argued that Canada will WLU Special Needs Co-Ordinator Judy Bruyn is spear-heading The Commission of Inquiry on headed by Dr. Stuart Smith. need a better competitive position the effort to make Laurier 100% physically accessible. A functioning Canadian University Education Smith has had a distinguished in the world of business, econom library lift or ramp is an important part of tis effort. This goal is still a begins hearings in Quebec next career in medicine and politics. ics, and science and technology. long way from being met month. The commission, set up He was the leader of the Ontario The university system, then, Liberal Party prior to David would have to handle these chal Peterson. Smith has also been a lenges, and produce students professor at McMaster Univer which may provide Canada an sity, and has published many edge in these fields. Tl:iJS LIFT renown works in the fields of The commission visit nine cities psychiatry. across Canada. The commission Smith heads The hearings will be held from u!;) tt· .. ·•t~.---.. ·~~p· ·. R··•;·•·· .· ... o···· ·.···\· .t·.·· l:r .oED.•·.·. ··. ··•···•• ·• will look into the University sys October 17 until its conclusion, tem in Canada, and among other December 5, 1990. The commis things, will report on ways to bet sion will be receiving submis ·~ ii ~Jt 'l'H:E GI~.t\fER.OSIT·Y ter improve the educational sys sions in Toronto on November 22 tem as it pertains to the university and23. level. Requests to appear before the CJF TJIE The the commission will be commission must be received two looking at the actual education weeks before the date of quality of universities. Smith said presentation. Each presentation ~ P BJ('K Ei#l, FO t J~ D~~T IO "we are going to focus on an should be no longer than ten aspect of universities which are minutes, and a discussion for usually taken for granted ... (we twenty minutes is planned after It was nice of them to provide it, but we'd rather have a ramp anyway, thanks. will) look at education in univer- wards. ' ,Y - the cord I 4 NEWS Thursday September 27,• 1990 I People in your neighbourhood: the D.A.C. The quintessential article on the Dean's Advisory Council Young D.A.C. before this, it probably likes to avoid using drastic Leah CordThe means that you've never been in possible. ARE YOU unfamiliar with the measures wherever In- trouble or had any major prob- stead, likes to function acronym D.A.C.? If so you are the group lems at the university. positive He feels they unaware of a very positive and in- in ways. The Council meets every Fri- not to stu- fluential organization on are there condemn campus. day at 2:30 in Dean Nichols' of- D.A.C. stands for the Dean's dents, but rather to ensure an ac- fice, during which time they take conduct; Advisory Council. It is a judicial ceptable code of they up the weekly security reports, ensure the respect and rights body recognized under the Stu- deal with behavioral incidents, dents' Union's by-laws, consist- which students of the university disputes, or appeals, and oc- ing of seven Wilfrid Laurier Uni- community deserve. versity students and the Dean of casionally bring in various Nichols also mentioned that Students Fred Nichols. These resource people, such as WLU the group has a very strict rule eight people work together to President John Weir or police of- about confidentiality: anything ensure, among other things, a ficers, to discuss students' social that is discussed, or any names mentioned during their meetings healthy social environment for all interaction both as members of students. the university and the com- do not go beyond his office door. The Council was established munity. He believes that this policy con- in 1969 by then WLUSU Presi- Students' behavioral incidents tributed to the protection of dent Bill Ballard, who felt that are dealt with according to the everyone involved, and allows the complete there should be a forum to deal severity of the incident and the group freedom of with problems concerning student frequency of the involved indi- thought and discussion. behavior. It receives its mandate vidual's charges. First time of- Beth Kennedy, Chairperson of from the Students' Union, but the fenders usually get off with a this year's D.A.C., admits that judging peers a difficult University trusts the D.A.C.