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' Ca,amari 299 dreaded Mushrooms 1.99 Dull AHA DnilNAh buy Ullu Brunei! j Nachos&Cheese 2.99 Escargot 2.99 I _ _ ■ , Mozzarella Sticks 1.99 Shrimp 2.99 , Get one Brunch Heehlx itniiU npg HH 4 p.m. to midnight - - 25$ I Hm i Sun, Mon, Tues Wings not only the biggest, but the best! ea. yv HK I Wed. - All you can eat Pasta, Salad & Garlic I3read $7.99 Thurs. - Two Fajitas for one low price. E3eef or chicken $13.99 Exp. Dec. 5/93 | y NEWS Phones not BOG's prob acknowledging that the students "did receive. Stephen also brought to not follow protocol." the attention of the other Board The Board Of Governors will members that Laurier ranked fif- not address the current phone fiasco teenth to twentieth in funding. at their meetings unless all other op- On the positive side of tions have been exhausted. However, Stephen's presentation, Laurier had all hope is not lost. Sean Taylor dis- the second highest entrance grades, cussed the problem with Ron Craig, and ranked high in class size. Vice President of Finance and Ad- Lorna Marsden, WLU Presi- ministration. Students will now be dent, said that David Cooke, On- included on the committee the ad- tario's Minister of Education and ministration has established to Training, has asked the Ontario analyze the phone problem. Council of University Affairs "The admin got a kick in the (OCUA) to review funding to uni- pants," Taylor said later. Before the versities. OCUA is a government- meeting, Craig was not aware of how appointed committee representing serious the students were about the taxpayers. It decides how govern- problem, despite the refund given to ment funds should be divided be- students by the administration. "I tween the different universities. think $25 was a stupid token show," Cooke asked the Council to Taylor said. focus on accessibility to universi- Director of Institutional Rela- ties, the role of teaching, and rela- tions ArthurStephen took centre stage tionsbetween universitiesandcol- for a time to show a slide presenta- leges. The Council will be debat- tion on Maclean's Magazine "A ing these issues over the next year. Taylor and Craig taking pic: Steve Doak messages Measure Of Excellence" issue re- The Laurier administration will J.P. BURLOCK. problem solved. However, in a problem, LornaMarsden offered leased on November 15. prepare a presentation with stu- Cord News general consensus by the Board, to release a report on the phones Laurier finished sixth, at the dentsandothergroupson behalfof There were some very important which deals mainly in setting to the Board, prompting member lower end of the range Stephen had WLU to make at one of the Coun- matters discussed at the November policy, the situation has not been Stephen Taylor to say "1 would predicted, cil's open hearings. Suggestions 30 Board of Governors meeting. sufficiently addressed by the ad- prefer the Board does not get "Our predictions were that Lau- made by the Council will probably The Board was forced to dis- ministration. involved in administrative mat- rier would finish fourth, fifth, or sixth be implemented for the 1995- 96 cuss the issue of the new phone As Board member David Pady ters, I do not even want a report (In the Primarily Undergraduate cat- school year. system, which concerns all on- cam- was quickto point out: "The phones at this time." egory)". "It's going to have a major pus residents. Each Board member are an administrative matter, not a Student Council President Stephen continued with an in- impact on how funding is allo- received a memo from students policy matter...l don't think the Sean Taylor promptly apologized depth analysis of the report, explain- cated," both in the short and long explaining the shortfalls of the sys- Board can deal with individual forthe student movement to bring ing that Ontario ranked marginally range, Marsden said. "This will tem and the difficulty the students policy matters." . the phone problem to the atten- worse overall than other provinces change the role of universities in have faced while trying to get the After some discussion of the tion of the Board of Governors, due to the funding Ontario schools Ontario." Credit where credit's due SARAH EVANS monitoring universities and the law or t he I ivelihoods of writ- fident there a final agreement will be is to include only ten per cent of Canadian University Press copyshops near campuses across ers and publishers. One second- reached in the near future, Brown one chapter and to charge four OTTAWA — That lOcent photo- the country. She pointed out that year music student said he had said. She explained that the agree- cents a page as a royalty fee going copy could cost you a lot more than they also employ private investiga- no qualms about copying entire ment should include limited photo- to CANCOPY. The shop added you bargained for —$25,000 more tors as required to gather evidence textbooks or music books, hav- copying rights for students and staff that it will not copy anything from to be exact. for RCMP use in their investiga- ing already done it the past. An- and with further negotiation, there publishers whose permission they Copyright infringement is tions. other second-year biochemistry may be the possibility of reproduc- do not have. something many students are un- Evidence gathered is used student said he had not only cop- ing other technologies such as soft- White explained that univer- concerned with, but it is a problem when civil action is taken against ied entire texts, but also soft- ware, though students may have to sity professors are a unique case that writers, publishers and univer- the parties infringing the Act. ware. pay a tariff. for copyright. Some professors are sities across Canada are trying to If convicted in federal court, "I think [photocopying] is Richard Greene, chief librarian members of CANCOPY through combat through education, aware- an individual can receive a $25,000 done on such a minute scale that at the University of Ottawa, said he is their publishers or individually, but ness and accountability. fine and/orsix months in jail. Cur- they don't even notice it. I think enthusiastic about the prospect of an many are not. The lack of sales for In the interest of its members, rently, there are several civil cases those companies make so much agreement. Campus libraries have professors' works, because of pho- CANCOPY, a nationwide organi- being pursued by CANCOPY in money that they can afford that posted notices concerning the act tocopying, might lead to a decrease zation representing hundreds of the Toronto area as well as an loss," the biochemistry student above all photocopying machines, in market demand and a reduction Canadian publishersandthousands RCMP investigation in the Ottawa said. he said, adding that though the li- in income for them, she said. of Canadian and foreign writers, is area. Universities are also work- brary refuses any responsibility con- Still, others disagreed. Greene actively pursuing organizations and "Illegal photocopying is dam- ing together to protect themselves cerning the violation of the Act, en- said he believes professors would institutions who break the Federal aging writers and publishers across from liability. The Association forcement of the act is next to impos- not object to students using their Copyright Act, said Lucy White, Canada. The end result is that there of Universities and Colleges of sible. work even if it was copied adding compliance manager of will be no more publishingof text- Canada iscurrently negotiatinga "As a librarian, I have a feeling that citations are just as important CANCOPY. books... Students who continue to licensing agreement with they went a little too far with this law. as sales. Right now, it covers artistic, buy textbooks will carry a heavier CANCOPY in the interests of There is too much protection and not Brown concurred saying, "We literary and visual works as well as and heavier burden because of the degree granting institutions enough access," he said. believe that a lot of professors wish computer programs, but additional students who photocopy textbooks. across Canada, said Sally Brown, One area copyshop said it was their works to be easily accessed." legislation is set to go into effect What you are buying with a text- vice president of external rela- informed by CANCOPY of the Fed- "I would care if someone cop- next year. book is the information inside it. tions at AUCC. eral Copyright Act and was granted ied it to make themselves money. According to White, That's the value of the textbook," Dialogue between the two licences to copy CANCOPY materi- That I object to. Don't use my work CANCOPY's responsibilities in- White said. parties started informally four als. However, since it has also al- to make a living," said David clude educating people about the On the other hand, students years ago and has progressed to ready been warned by the RCMP, it Clarke, an adjunct professor in the Act and actively enforcing it by seem to have little or no regard for a stage where the AUCC is con- has strict guidelines.