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The Cord Weekly (October 23, 1986) theCORDweekly Inside Monte Kwinter 5 Fotheringham 15 Football—Do or Die 19 Volume 27 Wilfrid Laurier Number 9 University, Waterloo Thursday, October 23, 1986 $8000 system installed in Turret Eric By Beyer damaged by smoking in the DJ booth. Lee also told of an incident Last six custom- Thursday new last year in which a person displeased made speakers arrived for the with the music threw beer into the Turret. The price-tag for the JBL booth from Dave said a cup. Sokol speakers, Audio Pro 1200 and Amp, the variety nights in the pub were the BSS crossover was $8254. also tough on the speakers due to The new equipment replaces the complex live sounds pounding speakers bought in January, 1985 through them. for This included $8223. price tag Lynn Kurtz, WLUSU Vice-Pres- and an eight speakers equalizer. ident: Finance, denied that staff Samboard Technical According to incompetence had caused the 1985 Director Brian and Samboard Lee, speakers to burn out. She did see a Manager Dave Sokol, the old need to "keep an eye on things", and speakers were to blow going very stated the present system should soon. There were complaints about last least five at years. sound distortion. Wilfrid Laurier The Turret speakers needed fre- Students'Union Business University quent replacement due to the 1981 Manager John Karr said the purchase of Cerwin Vega speakers, speakers played too loud at the which were not big enough and tables and not loud on the enough needed frequent repair. Lee com- dance floor. mented the installation of the smaller Karr said more research was done system was a "cost consideration. in the 1986 purchasing speakers Probably to do with fitting in the than in previous "I don't know years. budget. It was a boob decision." how much expertise but they have, The purchase of the new system three or four proposals were brought was quickly approved at the Sept- he said. Since forth," any decisions ember 19 board meeting. to purchase sizeable items are made by the WLUSU Board of Directors, Roll out the barrel. Onkle Hans looks on in amazement as the first in Laurier's keg is tapped a committee was formed to supervise Senate is Oktoberfest celebrations. Cord Scott McDiarmid. photo by the decisionand make a proposal to the board. To buy the system, WLUSU reluctant consulted a firm called Acoustics Steep student debt load Output Incorporated, which installed the sound system for a well-known to release music bar in Kitchener. Company representatives visited the Turret, defaults and submitted a loan stereo final may cause proposal. exam WLUSU accepted the "Small JBL System", and managed to bargain By Don Minato and 1984. versifies. the price downfrom $9565 to $8254. policy Press The reason for the difference Canadian University In the last five and half a years a Ontario students face an between the two is British average provinces considerable of amount money was Liz Jefferson debt load for debt load of between Columbia's Social Credit By The average a "between six govern- spent on audio equipment for of British Columbia and seven thousand dollars," said ment discontinued student grants in University Samboard, the student-run DJ In their May 15 general meeting, student graduating this year is Earl Faulkner, Liaison Officer for 1984, while Ontario's gives both service, and new speakers for the Wilfrid Laurier University Senate $15,000, an increase of $12,000 since the Ministry of Colleges and Uni- grants and loans. Turret. During this of time period theacademic B.C. student who borrows changed appeal guide- Any about 20 new speakers were pur- lines for students, and then voted the maximum amount for a four- chased and other equipment inc- not to publicize some of the changes faces a debt load of year program 4 luding turntables, 4 amplifiers, a in the university course calendar. about $32,000, including interest mixing board, and a crossover. WLUSU will This fall Laurier students received not payments. Student aid critics say The total cost for the audio notices in the mail from the WLU rising debt loads prompt stu- may equipment, including the speakers, Registrar's office, stating the new dents to default on their loans. New is about $27,000. This cost estimate time limit of academic appeals. Now Democrat post-secondary education court does not include repairs, and the ruling both graduate and appeal Lome Nicholsen undergraduate critic said the rate subsequent audio rentals to students have five weeks to appeal of defaulting loans is a "time bomb" compensate for items being fixed. their marks, rather than three for the Socred government. By Liz Jefferson istration. An incident of theft was excluded months. "Students are going into personal Judge Carter's October 2 decision from the cost estimate, in which two Senate also the rules bankruptcy under the current changed The Wilfrid Laurier University against the Union's right to name speakers ($472) were stolen in the students seeing their final It's a to regarding end the system. major deterrent of Students' Union decided on its next the building did not matter, summer 1984, from Willison exams after marking. The change people who want an education," step in the naming of the Student said Thompson. "The judge's affi- Lounge. in said Nicholsen. was intended to aid students Union defined for The of Building during an emergency davit management us. amount money spent by Business or two-term courses, who board meeting on October 16. He said we couldn't name the WLUSU on speaker equipment in need to know about aca- Pauline Awards possible Tom chair of the because it's of Delion, Student the last five has been Macßride, building not part years a subject demic problems while there is still of Officer at Wilfrid Laurier University of Finance and Building committee, management." The ownership controversy. Two reasons given time left in the to said, "students course remedy the felt the has been but here, on theaverage, for these reported committee the building settled, expenditures were the them. are about ten to fifteen thousand be the actual of the building is installation of judge's ruling should not ap- naming an improper system Student senator Peter Nosalik said OPA. dollars in debt to the government pealed, but informed the board that not specifically covered in the and the abuse of equipment by staff several business after professors comp- if it The OPA will not be thrown graduating." and clients. was made a priority, an appeal open lained about the new at The maximum regulation At the October 19 amount an Ontario Lee knew the Turret was financially feasible. to re-negotiation. system was the summer meeting, saying it was student can borrow from the board WLUSU the abused. "DJ's in Bryan Leßlanc, chair of meeting, president gov- being past years unfair to them because they would over four an ernment a period is Commission Services and Review Brian Thompson moved that ad- year were not as responsible as they be flooded with to final around requests see formed examine $21,500, said Delion. committee, said the board had to hoc committee be to should have been; as a result they exams. The senate members then Delion said for the the OPA from the board's year of 1986- overdrove the consider their successors when pers- equipment leading to voted not to publicize the change in 1987, the interest rate for Canada inherited and forward recommen- making the decision. "We pective to costly repairs (and) more money the WLU Course Calendar. Student is "We'll look the OPA Loans 10.3 cent, than it from — it's dations. at per was for a past administration spent necessary ren- "The drain time while the on personnel their thenif warranted Ontario Student Loan rate he said. He added "bothered" fight, not ours," he said. internally firsthand tals," it would be incredible even if only 10 is set The he said. at one per cent above prime and consensus of the five standing set up a negotiating body," him, despite people knowing cent of people wanted to see rate. per described this exam- about it word of committees was to leave the judge- Thompson by mouth, no one their said Nosalik. The Tim exams," ination of the OPA terms as the Stutt, Communications Dir- ment and concentrate on the spoke up. registrar's office staff would then in WLUSU's ector at the Ontario Federation of Operations Procedures Agreement, logical next step Specifically, the problem was the face the chore of finding specific which dictates the terms binding on speakers were played too loudly and Continued 3 on page Continued the the student union and the admin- on page 3 tape heads of the VCR's were 7 Continued on page THE CORD WEEKLY 2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1986 the CORD weekly October 23,1986 Volume 27, Number 9 WLU Student Publications Editor-in-Chief Matt Johnston NEWS Editor Sarah Hayward Associate Liz Jefferson Contributors Eric Beyer Jeff Giovinazzo Alex Greer Tony Karg Chris McCue Don Minato Audrey Ramsay FEATURES Co-Ordinator Heather McAsh Tickets $4.00 in advance Contributor Zoltan Horcsok ENTERTAINMENT $5.00 at the door Come Jam to Hot Calypso & Editor Anne-Marie Tymec Available at Ruby's & Reggae Contributors J. David Black fa Barbados' Hohener CarolineMacdonald Waterloo 1nn.475 King N. Douglas Steve McLean Sharon Reedyk Best Band Julia Richards 884-0220 SPORTS Editor Rob Furlong Contributors Chris Fischer Serge Grenier Sally Lichtenberg rr*Wft[f^ Chris Starkey L I—' DESIGN AND LAYOUT —l Production Manager Bruce Arculus I I Assistant Heather Lemon Assistant Nancy Ward Systems Technician Chris Little Copy Editors Doris Docs MichaelWert Contributors Steve Giustizia Cori Ferguson Christine Foisy Anna Muselius Lyn Saungikar PHOTOGRAPHY Manager Scott McDiarmid Technician Andrea Cole Graphic Arts David Wilmering For students who foresee a career in research, the Summer Research Scholarships Contributor Peter will provide research experience with leading Canadian scientific investigators in one Dyck Brenda Grimes of the fields listed below.
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