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Weekly The Cord iinds since 1926 TURRET HEATS UP YOUNG AND DOE-EYED O-Week acts provide mediocre Ajax natives win Shinerama bid for ... performance PAGE 20 Cord interview ... PAGE 12 Volume 47 Issue 5 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13,2006 www.iordweekly.com Hawks fall off perch DAN POLISCHUK that it hasn't done in almost two included 12 straight wins and 22 Gee-Gees' dominating defensive in shutting down any of their early SPORTS EDITOR full seasons: lost. consecutive victories against OUA performance in the second half of drives. Three field goals by kicker And aside from the fact that the opponents, it also forced Laurier the Hawks' home opener. Chris Mamo were all WLU could In front of 2,090fans at University 29-19 defeat, at the hands of the off its perch as the top team in the The visitors found themselves counter with, though, in another Stadium this past Saturday, Lauri- visiting Ottawa Gee-Gees, shat- province. down 9-3 at the break thanks to er's football team did something tered a streak of victories that This fact was punctuated by the the Hawks' own energetic effort - SEE DEFEAT, PAGE 6 Shane Porter HITTING A WALL - WLU receiver Andy Baechler can't find any room to maneuvre through the Ottawa defenders, which frustrated the Hawk offence throughout Saturday's homeopener. UW arrests raise Social work finally settled Faculty relocates to Kitchener's downtown core MIKE BROWN after years of shuffling between WLU concerns NEWS EDITOR the seminary, Peters building, and the Aird building. Last Thursday, while undergrads "It's been the Faculty of So- Laurier groups under scrutiny after terrorism link continued to get used to life in cial Work's vision to have its own Waterloo, a smaller crop of elder space on the main campus and, ARLA LATTO-HALL United States in late August and Laurier students settled into their being as land-locked as we are, INTERNATIONAL EDITOR are charged with "conspiring to new digs one city over. that didn't seem to be fruitful af- provide material support and re- The Lyle S. Hallman faculty of ter a few attempts," explained direc- Following the recent arrest of sources to a foreign terrorist or- social work officially opened to Michele Breault, associate revived location tor university three University ofWaterloo grad- ganization and related offenses," 300 students at a of development downtown - within the "This uates and one UW undergraduate after being allegedly caught trying in Kitchener the for- faculty. came up mer St. School on as an It wasn't really in late August by a jointRCMP-FBI to buy firearms from an under- Contributed Photo Jerome's High opportunity. - Kitchener out." task force, both Laurier's interna- cover FBI agent in NewYork state. A SPIRALLING EVENT Water Duke St., just behind sought a the Indeed, the faculty moving tional co-op policies and financial The United States Department of too Suresh' is led away from City Hall. Though administra- He is one the downtown seems to tracking within Campus Clubs Justice claims that the firearms Kitchener courthouse. tion raves about the new building, to have of four UW students that allegedly some have come under scrutiny. they are in ways just pleased supported the Tamil Tigers. have to SEE FSW, PAGE The four were arrested in the - SEE AUDIT, PAGE 10 to somewhere call home 2 2 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2006 ■ THE CORD WEEKLY News The Cord Weekly - Thelie that binds since 1926 ~ phone: (519) 884-1970 ext. 3564 fax: (519) 883-0873 email: [email protected] The Cord Weekly Classes underway 75 UniversityAvenue West Waterloo, Ontario N2L3CS The new faculty of WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 13,2006 VOLUME 47 ISSUE 5 social work has finally Next Issue: September 20 gained its own facility QUOTE OF THE WEEK off campus "So I could actuallyget off to Dylan!" - An excited JoeTurcotte, referencing Kate Blanchett playing the decrepit old singer-songwriter inan upcoming movie CONTRIBUTORS - FROM FSW, COVER Ashley Rose Mark D. Hopkins Jessica Peter Ashley Jang Lauren Millet YusufFaqiri Laura Carlson Mark Adamson Mary Erskine Sumeet Verma Parry Sohi Keren Gottfried Kitchener mayor Carl Zehr as Don Morgenson LennaTitizian Shane Porter Nick Boyd excited as anyone. At a brief cer- emony where he received an WLUSP STAFF artist's sketch of the renovated Production Assistants Janet Linsemann building from Dr. Lesley Cooper, Vacant Vacant the new dean of social work, Zehr Copy Editing Manager Caitlin Henderson Copy Editors Diana Paul described the faculty as a "key Heather Olaveson pillar" of the knowledge cluster Laura Henderson the City of Kitchener is seeking Photo Manager Sydney Helland to cultivate, one that will also in- Online Production Manager Kathy Matte ITManager Graham Wyatt clude the University ofWaterloo's Distribution Manager Needed Health Sciences campus, which moves to the downtown next WLUSP ADMINISTRATION year. President Fraser McCracken The longtime Kitchener mayor VP: Advertising Angela Foster VP: Branttord Paige Desmond added his confidence that the Chair of theBoard Keren Gottfried Vice Chair Arthur Wong university presence would play Board ot Directors Rafiq Andani a key role in revitalizing a down- Penny Shearer town that most students avoid at all costs. SydneyHelland ADVERTISING But these aspiring social work- SUPERSATELLITE - Mayor Carl Zehr and Dr. Lesley Cooper hold a rendition of the new Kitchener campus. All advertising inquiries should be directed to ers do anything but avoid the VP: Advertising Angela Foster at 884-0710, ext. 3560 or [email protected] downtown. Dr. Carol Stalker, who graduat- seven generations healing cen- Cooper was quick to dismiss from the main campus," he ex- ed from Laurier's MSW program tre, an adult learning centre and this concern, however. "We're plained. "It allows me to integrate COLOPHON in the mid-70s and is now an as- a soup kitchen for the homeless, making arrangements to connect more with my fellow colleagues The Cord Weeklyis the official student newspaperof sociate professor, explains the air added Cooper. the services and our students," and not get so overwhelmed with theWilfrid Laurier Universitycommunity. of excitement about the Kitchen- The faculty's 128 new students she assured, citing among other everything going on." , i: Started in 1926 as the College Cord, The Cord Weeklyis an er location. had the chance to see these things the impressive library lo- Classes are now underway for editorially independent newspaper published by Wilfrid Lauriert University Student Publications, Waterloo, a "Since social work is a profes- buildings, among other parts of cated directly at the St. the school's 128 new students, corporation without share capital. WLUSP is governed by its Jerome's board of directors. sion that deals closely with the the downtown core, on a walk- campus. a crop which includes five PhD . liuflerflßffßßME community, it seemed like a very ing tour as part oforientation last And, as her colleague Breault students and an inaugural class good fit," she notes. "Our prox- Thursday. noted, when you move from a lo- of 18 for the school's innovative will!?©3SB!fpUb»C3tiOflSy imity to some of the agencies in And what the students saw on cation that's 10,000 squarefeet to one-year MSW aboriginal field of Opinions expressed within TheCord are those of the author and donot necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board, downtown Kitchener will facili- this day left them by and large one four times that size, the ben- study program. The Cord, WLUSRWLU or CanWeb Printing Inc. tate more collaboration and per- very impressed, though a few efits far outweigh the costs. Anyone wishing to see what All content appearing in The Cord bears the copyright expressly of their creator(s) and may not be used without haps more partnership around voiced concerns regarding ac- Raj Shinde, a London native WLU's newest is all about written consent campus both teaching and research." cess to student services, given new to the master of social work is invited to a public open house The Cord is created using Macintosh computers running OS X.2 using Adobe CreativeSuite 2 (InDesign, Photoshop, Those agencies include a drop- the distance from Laurier's main at Acrobat, Distiller and Illustrator) and Quark Xpress 6.1. program, agreed. "I, for one, like 3:45 pm on Thursday, Septem- Canon Rebel XT 8.0 megapixel digital cameras are used for in centre for a principal photography. aboriginal people, campus. the intimate feel of being away ber 28. The Cord Weeklyis a proud member of the jjjJHglk Ontario Press Council since 2006. 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One of the biggest and most cen- ing backwards a The staff of TheCord shallupholdall commonly held ethical in such proj- conventions of journalism. When an error of omission or of tral buildings on campus, the Dr.