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The Cord Weekly The CordThe tie that binds since 1926 Weekly SO, YOU SAY YOU WANT A NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION? After the most sinful night of the year, people tend to set their most ambitiously angelic lifestyle resolutions. Our Features Editor takes the top ten New Year's resolutions and gives her sage-like opinion on what must be done to see them to completion ... FEATURES, PAGES 14-15 Volume 46 Issue 18 THURSDAY JANUARY 12, www.cordwFeKly.com Weinberg, McCracken seek WLUSP presidency ADRIAN MA will towards WLUSP, and believes News Editor there is a lot of potential in Laurier's student media. Zack Weinberg is currently work- "1 realize that if The Cord would ing on The Gentleman's Guide to want to, they can get people to lis- Getting Elected At Laurier. ten," said Weinberg. "They really Weinberg, author of the contro- do have a wide range of coverage, versial Cord article "The but I think we can represent the Jordan Jocius Gentleman's Guide to Getting Laid student population a little better." EYES ON THE PRIZE - Kicthener-Waterloo MP Andrew Telegdi makes his case for re-election as challengers (from at Laurier", is competing against If elected as WLUSP president, left) Pauline Richards (Green Party), Amjer Mandur (Conservative) and Edwin Laryea (NDP) look on. Fraser McCracken to be the next Weinberg aims to resurrect adver- President and CEO ofWilfridLaurier tising relations with WLUSU. He Student Publications (WLUSP). wants to encourage readership, The election takes place on and feels that can be accom- Monday, January 16 at 7:00 pm in plished if a wide diversity of writ- the Senate and Board Chamber. Any ers are pulled from Laurier's stu- student that pays WLUSP fees is eli- dent body, which he described as MP hopefuls take gible to vote. "a huge, untapped resource." Running "It's [student media] an area I have against Weinberg is McCracken, expertise in," said Weinberg, who currently serves WLUSP as VP: Finance and aim at Telegdi adding that he wants to "give back the Students' to Laurier." Union as a direc- tor. He believes With the Liberals sagging in the polls, the four-time incumbent MP of Kitchener- "It's [Student media] an area I that the key to improving Student have expertise in," said Weinberg, Pubs is to address the corpora- Waterloo went on the offensive at Laurier's all-candidates debate adding that he wants to "give back tion's bookkeeping needs and to to Laurier." seek out experienced profession- Weinberg and his article gener- als to act as board members. DAN POLISCHUK didate Ajmer Mandur scoffed at form. "When you take care of peo- ated tremendous attention when He also wants to maintain News Editor Telegdi when the Liberal suggest- ple, people will take care of pros- it was published back on Sept. 21. WLUSP's dedication to journalistic ed Tory gun control policy would perity," he explained. The piece divided the student ethics by promising that editorial With the federal debates over and be as non-existent as America's. However, the large crowd saved body, inciting disdain from many content will continue to be unin- less than two weeks to go before Getting quite emotional, Telegdi their loudest applause for Green students who found the writing fluenced by Pubs admin. Jan. 23, the Canadian election bat- further compared the policies Party candidate Pauline Richards' while others argued tleground moved to Laurier on Stephen Harper's Conservative stance on same-sex marriage. She misogynistic, - Please see WLUSP page 4 like for Weinberg's right to free speech. Tuesday afternoon. Party with those of George W. stated the words that seemed Despite all the negative media With the Grits floundering in Bush's Republican regime. what most students wanted to > Editorial reaction to this story on PAGE 6 attention he's received this year, recent polls, the pressure of a hear: "We cele- > Student reaction in VOCAL CORD, PAGE 3 Weinberg said he harbours no ill- horse-race election has trickled From his opening remarks, Telegdi brate diversity in down to the candidates of all forms." Kitchener-Waterloo, even more so was immediately on the defensive, Aside from the on incumbent Andrew Telegdi. national debt and Having served the region for reiterating that he has "never issues surround- four consecutive terms, Telegdi ing foreign aid, the and the Liberal party came under stopped fighting for issues that most frank (and fire often during the debate held humorous) com- for the benefit of Laurier students affect students." ment of the after- in the Senate and Board Chamber. noon came from From his opening remarks, "We are not the Americans," Marxist-Leninist candidate Julian Telegdi was immediately on the Telegdi stated emphatically. Ichim to prove his connectedness defensive reiterating that he has Mandur defended the claim by to the community. "never stopped fighting for the stating that his party will simply "Honestly, I'm thrown in jail for issues that affect students." focus more on stiffer sentences so some of what I do," he said, gaug- He continued to urge voters to that those who do use guns illegal- ing his passion for political look at his political past to see ly cannot get to them in the future. change. what he has accomplished during Another key topic that came While declaring a clear 'winner' his time in parliament. under scrutiny was the health care of the debate would be a futile This did not phase the other system and the increasing length endeavor, one fact remains bla- four candidates as they continual- of wait times. tantly true: it's going to be a fight ly questioned the rationale behind NDP candidate Edwin Laryea to the finish. File Photos Liberal decision-making. made the strongest statement At one point, Conservative can- when expounding his party's plat- the RUNNING MEN - Zack Weinberg (left) and Fraser McCracken. 2 THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 2006 News TheCordWeekly Daily Planet host discovers Waterloo ARLA LATTO-HALL served a 13-year stint as host of Copy Editing Manager CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks. A book falling between the gen- In the tradition of expressionism, res of philosophy and psychology, renowned artist Van Gogh said, Theatre of the Mind is an accessi- "One may have a blazing hearth in ble read and one highly relevant in one's soul and yet no one ever this age of information. The book comes to sit by it. Passersby see offers no conclusions for its read- only a wisp of smoke rising from ers, but does relate scientific find- the chimney and continue on ings and conveys the mystery of their way." consciousness. Yet just as others fail to recog- It is common knowledge that nize the true nature of one's soul, our minds are never aware of the conscious mind, too, is an out- everything our senses continually sider to the brain and not entirely take in, yet no one has determined aware of everything it holds, as why we focus on what we do and one of Canada's best-known pop- why we're able to command infor- ular scientists came to Waterloo to mation to emerge from our explain. unconscious and into awareness. Waterloo Collegiate Institute Ingram's oft-repeated examples welcomed Jay Ingram into its address the mundane: learning to auditorium last Wednesday, where play the piano, driving, remem- he delivered a lecture titled "Are bering the artist of a song, even you Conscious?" This follows up one's awareness of sitting on a the October 2005 publication of chair. Contributed Photo his latest book, Theatre of the Consciousness, Ingram propos- Mind: Raising the Curtain on es, is "all the stuff that goes on in PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS? - Jay Ingram, Discovery Channel personality and recent author, held an open lec- Consciousness. your head that you're aware of." ture in conjunction with the Perimeter Institute about the ins and outs of human conciousness. The hardworking Ingram is also Scientists, however, have had the host of the Discovery trouble determining the relation- accurately trace the relationship consciousness remains subjective. > Channel's Daily Planet, a weekly ship between brain activity and between neurons transmitting As such, it has been primarily the For the complete interview with Joy contributor to the Toronto Star, consciousness. Since technology information and having the sub- domain of psychologists. Ingram, check out www.cordweekly.com the author of nine books and has has not sufficiently advanced to ject conscious of it, the study of B?®t- --»Ifß ■ The Corp Weekly| News THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 2006 3 VOCAL CORD What do you think about Zack Weinberg's bid for the WLUSP Presidency? "That makes me giggle. More power to him." - Josh Smyth Second-Year Poli Sci & Economics Jordan Jocius TONIGHT'S TOP STORY - CTV News correspondant Lisa LaFlamme makes a stop at Laurier's campus to gain perspective after the last English debate. WLU is located in the heart of a critical riding for this year's federal election. Lights, camera, activism "If he's president, I'd only assume he'd let more articles like that be printed." CTV News' Lisa LaFlamme reports Monday's election debate from Laurier, the centre of a 'critical riding' - Kalen Herrmann-Mowling ADRIAN MA ing Iraq. She's also a native of people are more attentive to poli- Laurier's Dean of Arts and polit- First-Year Computer Science News Editor Kitchener, and put forward the tics. ical scientist David Docherty has idea to report from Laurier. "TV cameras usually go to a bar appeared on CTV with LaFlamme "This is where all the magic hap- "[Area code] 519 is a very critical and people aren't even listening," in the past and was encouraged by pens," says Kevin, a videotape edi- riding," says LaFlamme.
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