FEBRUARY 14, 1991 Other WLUSU Election Over Jeff Bowden Takes the VP: Student Affairs Race
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PERHAPS FOR SOME, BUT SEASONED STUDENTS TAKE READING WEEK LITERALLY AND USE THIS VALUABLE TIME TO GET CAUGHT UP . BUT EVEN THESE TWO KNOW WHEN TO QUIT: AFTER SIXTEEN HOURS STRAIGHT NOTICE HOW EACH STUDY PARTNER RESORTS TO THE OLD "FAKE BOREDOM AND/OR FATIGUE" TRICK IN ORDER TO GRACIOUSLY ALLOW THE OTHER AN OPPORTUNITY TO STOP HAVING SO MUCH FUN . ANYONE FOR A COUPLE OF COLD ONES? MOLSON CANADIAN , THAT IS? WHAT BEER'S ALL ABOUT 0 ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR: TIM SULLIVAN THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1991 other WLUSU election over Jeff Bowden takes the VP: Student Affairs race ·1111 Sullivan The Cord Morris: 455; Debbie Brooks: Bhatti was VP Finance for Silver, John Smith, Caroline 393; Karen Geiswein: 390; Jen two years and on the BOD before Jones and Torres are all new to LAURIER STUDENTS went to nifer Marr: 380; Joel Silver: that. Craft, Morehouse, Morris, the functioning of WLUSU. die polls last Tuesday to elect 368; Sally Norris: 344; John and Brooks are the only in Two referendum motions 11ew representatives for student Smith: 336; Caroline Jones: cumbents to the BOD. Geiswein, were put to the electorate involv aovemmcnt. 333; Chris Cornwall: 332; Tim Marr, and Crowder are all on the ing a re-wording of WLUSU by The turnout was heavy, ac Crowder: 303 and Ian Torres: First Year Council. Norris was in laws 14 and 12. Respectfully, the cording to Chief Returning Of 300. volved in the Student Activities votes were 510 yes and 191 no icer Amy Jarek. "I am quite Unsuccessful were candidates department in first term, while votes, and 614 yes and 169 no Uppy with [the turnout] consid Ted Smith with 296, Mike Ras Sue Jones was employed as a votes. One hundred and fifty-five ering there was no President to with 288, and Barry Moulsdale Games Room attendant and is on ballots were spoiled on the elect," Jarek noted. with 271. the Board of Student Activities. referendum question. Compared to last year's When asked why there were anout of 26% of eligible stu so many "no" votes on a simple IS, with four presidential can by-law referendum, Jarek noted didales on the ballot, this year's that one student said '"there in a year the president was should be more positions created, claimed was good, Jarek not taken away.'" The by-law declared. changes affected the position of Of about 5000 eligible, 943 Executive Vice-President, which ,lleJiots were cast. will be abolished as of May 1, \\ is expected that quorum 1991. as reached about 3:00 pm. Bat J arek remarked that some kiting opened at 8;30 and lasted election violations did take place. ti17:30. Tim Brown, Sue Jones, Silver, Students voted for a Vice Cornwall, Geiswein, Craft, ident: Student Affairs, who Brooks and Ras were guilty of uld be responsible for Legal not removing all campaign props Prez Stue urccs, BACCHUS, Campus from the campus by the required . .Fading out Apri bs, Opcrauon Outreach, and time of 5:30 on Friday. Pic: Chico Galvez cty and Equality, among other CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 1gs. The candidates were Jeff den and Tim Brown. Bow •• defeated Brown by 102 by receiving 474 of 943 wo Laurzer s cast. The remaining 97 hal arc likely spoiled, but Jarek il not have official figures on ~led VP ballots. Also on the ballot were 18 students killed Clldidales for 15 Board of Direc positions. The following are Stephen Dieter and Fraser Kirby The Cord results of the BOD elections. TRAGEDY struck the Laurier campus this past weekend 'l'llere were 943 ballots cast with spoiled ballots. when two students died Sunday afternoon in a tragic Sbafeeq Bhatti received the head-on collision two kilometers north of Clifford, au votes with 638. Christina Ontario. Cnrt: 591; Sue Jones: 504; USU President-acclaim Nick Jimenez addressed Nancy Steffler, 21, and Heather Dwinnell, also 21, lrnda Morehouse and Brad Torque Room patrons during the open forum. Pic: Chico Galvez were both third year honours History students who died as a result of injuries sustained when the car both were driv ing in collided with a pick-up truck. • The driver of the truck, Karen Lantz, and her two chil mpostum on war dren are still in hospital in serious condition. Nancy and In addition to the Monday and Wednesday Heather were declared dead on arrival in hospital. Special to The Cord presentations, the organizers said that they hope to The accident occured at 2:37 pm Sunday during a sponsor debates and other special events. snow squall. Nancy was driving her car southbound on AS PART of Wilfrid Laurier University's efforts The focus of the symposium is not just "the" Grey County Road #10. The roads in Grey County have 11 inform and educate, a special symposium on war war in the Middle East, but war in general, and re been worse than normal, according to Heather's high will be held until the end of classes. lated topics like aggression and peace-making. The purpose of the symposium is to inform the The presentations are being made by several school principal, Bill Prudham, and several accidents about some aspect of war, and provide WLU professors and a few outside experts on a have occured in the area this winter as a result. 6cussion about it. It is being organized by mem number of diverse topics. Some of the topics are: Laurier's Dean of Students, Fred Nichols, called the mof the faculty and students. "A Nineteenth Century Catholic View of Islam", collision "a freak and unfortunate accident. Just one of The symposium will occur in the form of noon "Political Implications of the Persian Gulf Con those terrible things". Dean Nichols spoke with both Dr sessions every Monday and Wednesday from flict", "Environmental Consequences of the War", Felruary 25 until April 3 and is open to all mem "Ritualization, Aggression, and War", "Peace families and expressed sympathies on behalf of the entire of the WLU and Kitchener-Waterloo com Keeping, Peace-Building", "Feminism, War, and Laurier community. He attended both funerals on Wed lllllity. The sessions are from 12:30 pm to 1:30pm Peace", and "Terrorism as an Interpretive Concept". nesday. room 4-205 of the Central Teaching Building, A full schedule of events and more information The families would appreciate any donations being Ill will include a 20 minute lecture and a 30 is available from Ron Grimes of the WLU Religion made in the names of their daughters to be given to a lliuute discussion period on a given topic. and Culture department. charity of the donators' preference. No more peelers at Laurier Fraser Kirby The Cord Apparently, several strippers This latest appearance prompted public areas of the university are hiring these 'Strip-A-Gram'. have gotten nearly naked in vari a student to write a letter urging not licensed for such events. services obviously are not ous places on campus, including the university to call a halt to this The policy states that the events fended by them. The Torque Room, a class room, "unacceptable" behavior. are punishable on a summary The DAC's policy also and on January 24, a female strip The problem was brought to the conviction, meaning a fine or a that such activity will be per peeled down to a g-string in Dean's Advisory Council (DAC). jail term. with severely." Dean the Dinin Hall. Dean of Students, Fred Nichols, According to Waterloo Regional urges anyone witnessing th~ stated, "I realize that this is meant Police, the activity is only illegal of thing to call his office tx to be a funny, pranky thing but it if someone complains that they Security office, whom he is not acceptable to all people." found it offensive. Then it falls asked to be flrm with Men breaking The council drafted a policy under the Nudity and Indecent this issue. which stresses that some mem Act legislation of the Criminal Nichols stated that "I'm bers of the Laurier community Code. The police get very few prude, but we have to send a into women's are offended by strippers and that complaints because most people sage that this is unacceptable.' residence Peter Maj and Tim Sullivan The Cord WOMEN IN Clara Conrad Hall have recently been threatened by a possible breach in residence security. A man from Little House apparently had access to the women's dorm with the use of his own key. The man was flned by the Head Resident of Conrad and asked not to do it again. According to Mike Belanger, Director of Housing, the problem was detected in the fall, and the locks were checked by the lock smiths then hired.