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A WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY STUDENT PUBLICATION VOLUME XXXI ISSUE 7 THURSDAY OCTOBER 4,1990 thecord Drive home and dig in. NEWS: Students getting ripped BUSINESS: On-Campus Recruit- off. Co-op is not what it's all ing is coming. Are you prepared? cracked up to be. page 11 page 3 SCENE: Gum gum or Flavour FEATURE: The Oka stand-off is Flav? Public Enemy play the over. Where do we go from here? Twist. page 16 page 19 SPORTS: Football Hawks endure Homecoming loss. page 27 ATTENTION GRADUATING STUDENTS STUDENTS HELPING STUDENTS Summer Jobs! Did you know thai Career Services handled EMPLOYER INFORMATION SESSIONS I approximately 300 summer job openings last year? Did you know that employers such as: Bell Canada. Dow Chemical A number of organizations arrange Information sessions *'TWIB Petro-C a ..ada, National Defence and the on campus prior to their application deadline as part of the National Research Council have already on-campus recruiting program. It is Important to attend summer jnisKiiinsfw 1991 the company. As well, representatives often note atten- by Career .. j'tfPjPI s,op Sewices and ask about dance. To date, the following organization have arranged ißll summer job opportunities. - - - Thurs., Oct. 4 5:30 7:00 p.m. - PMC PllbMC SGTViCG WARNER-LAMBERT Kevin Caldwell. Caroline Snell. Carolyn King. Tim Lanp - - Fri., Oct. 5 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. - PMC (Front) Donna Gaffnev. Margie Muirhead. Vicki Sejgner EX3ITIS CP RAIL - Oct - - - Wed.. 10 1:00 2:30 p.m. PMC w ROYAL BANK - a- Wed., Oct 10 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. - PMC WELCOME AUDIT officer (PM) E LO) nestle enterprises 1990-91 Student Career Assistants %oreig^seTv - Mon.. Oct. 15- 10:00- 11:30 p.m. - PMC F ice^ purchasing officer TORONTO BANK DOMINION RECEPTION Student Career Assistants are volunteers from all academic disciplines who function as support staff EXAMS - - - in the Career Services Centre for three hours . -, Mori., Oct. - a week duringthe academic year. They also plan and 15 p.m. - o-oOum oration- * 2:30 4:00 PMC Q n , am, 1 TR A implement special projects designed to help students with their career-related needs. During the • Location. 1.0.A MUTUAL GROUP I year they will become familiar with On-CampusRecruiting, the Alumni Referral Service, and the I career counselling services. As well, they will be involved in many special events offered by Career "" -TllP«;lues., Ortwet. It)lfi Z.OVJ - 4-fin m - DA/TO Please sien ut) in Career Services infliraiina 4.UU p.m. PMC Services, such as Career Fair, Arts & Science Career Information Night and Summer Job Pair. For . ' E MONITOR COMPANY information about being a future Student Career Assistant ask at the Career Services Centre for a intention to write exam and to learn the ___ „ _ Student Career Assistaant brochure. ~ • . - - - locatlon of exam Wed., Oct 17 1:00 2:30 p.m. - PMC - wed., "w™,. - pmc I CONFUSED ABOUT YOUR PROCTER & GAMBLE FUTURE? =====^== - - - Wed., Oct 24 1:00 3:00 p.m. - PMC Why not drop in to the ■HHHH M.B.A. FAIR? Employers always provide food and refreshments at these sessions. Tuesday, October 23, 1990 Between 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Centre There will be additional employer information session „. scheduled by organizations so do keep In touch with I /if'% CONSIDERING A CAREER IN TEACHING? THEN WHY NOT ATTEND A If TEACHER EDUCATION HSH SEMINAR!?!? W Speak with Representatives from: CtObCr 16 U.S. and n™: l2:»2-30 Canadian, European Universities Place: Theatre Auditorium Ottawa * Leam about admission requirements Date:r> ii,.Wednesday,j October 17 Lakehead Tune: 12:30-2:30 Queen's Place: Theatre Auditorium Windsor • c . - - western Obtain information in an informal setting " DON' T LEAVE YOUR FUTURE TO CHANCE! Sociofnmj Y 'C JT 1 / ) and 7[j 1 \ vb—ill 112 'jji' /" i~ /ti /112 $Inthropolom Majors Carter Services M —' L Sponsored by t 3 I "" .11. 11 1 m 1&"~ '1/(11)1 Monday, , , If I mm October 22, 1990 Put your degree to work ! Careers for Psychology Majors . 5.3Q 5.39 p >m . Monday, October 29, 1990 Careers In „ _ s:3o - 6:30 p.m. Government Room 4 205 Thursday, October 11th, 1990 Come and discover what recent graduates \ v from Anthropology & Sociology are doing, Come and discover what you can do I*oo-2*30 and learn about the skills you possess! _ / »th degree! V/ rV7 J f=- w your psychology \\Jbl FvJ Room 5-205 Put your degree to work IN THE NEWS... News Editor: Mark Hand Associate News Editor: Tim Sullivan Thursday, October 4,1990 "Battlefield" Child care on Bricker St. turning into imminent new residence for WLU Sue Bailey Cord The Carolyn Gruske The Cord AT THE moment it might something a look like THE CREATION of a child care system pitted, battlefield, on for the debris-strewn but work the Laurier community is finally underway. Kathy new Bricker Street student residence is progressing Dowling's to was: right reaction this "thank God it has smoothly and on schedule. finally started." "We've just started work on what will the be Dowling undergraduate representative to games room," de Craemar, supervisor is an said Noel the Associate Vice-President's Ad Hoc Committee and representative of the general contractor, Gil- on Child Care. The organization's mandate is to vesy. "The elevator pits have also been completed." a child care facility for fac- All this has been done in the scant four weeks "establish self sufficient staff and students of Wilfrid Laurier Univer- since digging first began, and things are quickly ulty, sity." moving along. If the weather continues to cooperate committee, April, currently the bricking process will soon begin. The formed last is "So far the good weather has really helped us keep examining their options about possible styles of day things on track," said electrical foreman, Peter This is no man's land, where only the bravest of con- care organization. According to Jan Basso, the Bergen. "As work progresses, weather conditions struction workers dare to tread. Oops, how did this Chairperson of the Committee, the possibilities in- an facility, having a facil- will have more of an effect because the mortar picture get in here? This was supposed to be a picture clude having on-campus ity in proximity to the campus run by an out- washes away." of but...oh close construction, well. This is actually a...0h side contractor, or obtaining guaranteed spots for The true start of Autumn with its frigid mornings hell, you know what it is! and early evenings is also expected to slow things WLU users at existing day care facilities. down marginally. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 So far the biggest hassles for those working on the project have been lack of space and, (imagine the odds), lack of parking. Due to the latter problem, several workers from out of town were parking Co-op programme along Bricker Avenue, unaware of the strictly en- flawed forced 3-hour time limit. Several tickets prompted portunity to gain 'real-life' work experience along with their the general contractor to approach Ron Dupuis, Carolyn Gruske The Cord studies. While this option appears to give the students the director of Physical Plant and Planning. scholastic THERE are many reasons why students choose to best of all possible choices, the programme has features of which "A temporary solution may be the leveling of some attend Laurier, but one of its main selling points is potential students should be aware. land on-site," said Dupuis. "At 202 Regina Street its highly praised Business programme. An integral John Thompson, Director of Co-operative Education explains that there were also a few spaces that the students part of the enticement is its co-op component the co-op program accepts 200 Business students and between 20 and weren't lining up for, so they've been set aside." But how many would apply if they knew that they their second year of studies. Speaking of parking shortages, though the new 30 Economics students in might not get job placements through the co-op de- selected by a process of application and interview, residence will house up to 300 students, only 76 of These students are partment? and will, once the programme is completed, graduate a term later than CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 The co-op elective gives students an op- an average four year student, will receive an extra degree, and will have three terms of work experience. In order to enable the students to better compete for jobs, the co- op programme runs seminars on preparing resum6s and handling in- terviews. These are seen to be key areas of the programme, because it is the opinion of Mr. Thompson that students have few skills in these areas. Thompson feels that "it is not often you have to sit there, dressed up and do an interview for a job," and that most students get their sum- mer and part-time jobs through friends of the family. He also believes that students often "underestimate their experi- ences" when compiling their resum6s; the resume workshops help them develop "resume content relative to themselves, their age, and their geographical location." While the cornerstone of the co-op programme is its tie into the job market, students are not guaranteed a position. Jobs are listed on a board and students are required to submit resum6s to potential employers. There is no guarantee that a student will be interviewed by a par- ticular employer, nor is there a guarantee that a job in a specific field or geographical location will be available.