The Cord WeeklyThe tie that binds since 1926 TALKING SHOP IN KW STRIKE IMMINENT? The Cord takes you across town to the Without progress in part-time prof talks, ... top indie clothes stores PAGES 14-15 WLU could see a strike ... PAGE 3 Volume 48 Issue 24 WEDNESDAY MARCH 5,2008 www.cordweekly.com Colin LeFevre beat out Ross Fraser by 97 votes, President finally ending the long race for WLUSU president LAURA CARLSON upper side," he added. NEWS EDITOR With only 11.01 percent of the undergraduate student body cast- With Colin LeFevre claiming victo- ing their vote for a second time, ry as Wilfrid Laurier University Stu- compared to the 19.14 percent that dents' Union (WLUSU) president hit the polls on the original Febru- LeFevre for the upcoming year, one of the ary 7 election day, LeFevre wasn't most contentious, scrutinized and fazed that essentially only 5.76 per- publicized elections in the Union's cent of the student body voted him history has finally come to a close. into the presidency. Receiving 751 of the 1435 votes "It was the second election, there cast (53.4 percent) in last Thursday's was much less interest, but it's a run-off election, LeFevre managed win," said LeFevre. to beat out fellow candidate Ross "[I have] a mandate and I'm go- Fraser by 97 votes. ing to go through with everything I "It's just amazing," said LeFevre promised," he continued. on his feelings regarding his new- With the 2007 elections finally found presidency, minutes after coming to a close, Stover also ex- hearing the results. pressed his feelings of "relief" fol- "I've worked my butt off for what, lowing all of the WLUSU election- six weeks now? And it finally came related drama. to a win." This included the decision of the Describing his feelings on get- Appellate Committee to disqualify ting the win as "cautiously optimis- presidential candidate Brian Pu- tic" in an interview just prior to the nambolam for accumulating too announcement, LeFevre said he many election fines, and the deci- didn't know what to expect when sion of the WLUSU Board of Direc- Chief Returning Officer (CRO) tors (BOD) to hold are-election be- Craig Stover took to the stage to an- tween Fraser and LeFevre instead nounce the very slim voting mar- of naming the second-place candi- gin, in a moderately busy Wilf's. date as the WLUSU president after "It was so close," said LeFevre. the votes were originally counted. SYDNEY HELLAND "I've never seen an election so close •URPRISE! - An elated Colin LeFevre responds to the results being announced at Wilfs Pub last Thursday. at this school. I was praying on the - SEE PRESIDENT, PAGE 2 Golden Hawks take fifth straight OUA title Prolific women's hockey program seeks national title in Ottawa this weekend LAUREN MILLET their usually impeccable defense the second intermission, because I SPORTS EDITOR seemed to be scrambling to chase thought the second period was one the Blues around the ice. ofour best periods ofthe year," said Last weekend, the Wilfrid Lau- "They like to come out hard, Head Coach Rick Osborne. "We rier Golden Hawks stamped their and we like to take time with our thought that if we could just kick it domination on the sport of hockey passes," said assistant captain and up a notch, we would be able to do as the ladies took home their fifth player of the game Andrea Bevan. it in the third period." consecutive OUA championship. "We weren't doing that, we were And they never panicked; the The Hawks downed the University just firing it. We needed to adjust Hawks stepped out onto the ice of Toronto Varsity Blues in the first and get into the open ice and pass ready to take control, and put the two games of the best-of-three se- to the open people." game away for good. ries, to complete an undefeated run The Hawks came onto the ice for "We really focused on controlled through the provincial playoffs. the second period and immedi- emotions," said assistant captain Before travelling to Toronto to ately started taking more shots on Lauren Barch. "We could see they put the Blues away 1-0, the Hawks net. The Blues responded with their were getting tired and we just kept took the first game 2-1 at home. own attacks, and after catching the pushing." The first period saw the Varsity WLU defense off guard, finally put Their strategy worked, because in Blues come out strong and hit WLU one past goalie Liz Knox with a with seven minutes remaining rookie hard; they were hungry for a victory hard shot to the top-right corner. the period, forward Kayley a pass Ash- on the road. After losing only one At the buzzer, the Hawks found Powers received from McMillin and fired a shot past away game all year to these same themselves down 1-0, despite out- ley Lockhart to Hawks, the possibility of an upset shooting the Blues 13-6 for the pe- Blues goalie Stephanie game. HELLAND was great. riod, and in need of a little more tie the SYDNEY - The Golden Hawks their win against Toronto. The Hawks responded with shaky control of the game. PILE UP celebrate 1-0 - HOCKEY, PAGE 13 Play and inconsistent passing, and "There wasn't a lot of anxiety at SEE 2 .News WEDNESDAY MARCH 5,2008 ■ THE CORD WEEKLY The Cord Weekly - Vie tie that binds since 1926- phone: (519) 884-1970 ext. 3564 fax:(519)883-0873 LeFevre email: [email protected] The Cord Weekly 75 UniversityAvenue West Waterloo, Ontario into N2L 3C5 already WEDNESDAY MARCH 5, 2008 VOLUME 48 ISSUE 24 Next Issue: March 12 his newrole QUOTE OF THE WEEK "The Pope is a fuckin' douchebag, eh?" FROM ELECTION, COVER ing to Laurier next year, as Fraser - Graphics Editor Julie Marion on the Catholic church's decision to move St. Patrick's Day to March 15 is planning on taking a year off to because ofa religous holiday. "It's going to be weird not hav- work, he hopes to continue his ac- ing to deal with it," said Stover. ademic studies the following year. WORD OF THE WEEK Stover also added that though He had originally applied to Lollygagging - To waste timeby putteringaimlessly; dawdle,as in thosewhich take a long time to respond to it "felt really nice" to announce a school in the United States to com- requests made of them. winner to an anxious crowd, it was plete a masters program in higher CONTRIBUTORS difficult for him to do. education and student affairs. Rosie Aiello Alison Grenkie Jennifer Kae "In this case, I feel bad be- However, he had to delay his ac- Len Bail Daniel Joseph YousufSajjad Romer Bautisia AmeliaLockhart MaraSilvestri ceptance a year because of the Priyam Bhargava Heather MacDonald MattSkube cause you have to tell one per- for Michelle Caldaroni David McClelland Ryan Stewart Robin Collum StephanieMcEnery Wade Thompson son, who worked really hard, that re-election. Kimberly Elworthy lamie Neugebauer Geetha Thuralrajah Linda Givetash Dave Poleck Rebecca Vasluianu their dream didn't come true," he For the rest of his time at WLU, explained. Fraser is looking forward to focus- WLUSP STAFF "But at the same time, you're ing on his current commitments dream at the - which Copy Editing Manager Caitlin Henderson telling one person that their school include his Copy Editors Ariel Kroon did come true. It's tough," he management position as VP: Mar- Meredith Barret Marissa Newfeld Emily Slofstra added. keting for WLUSU and his position Heather Olaveson Kendra Howard Miriam Cunningham Maintaining strong composure as a don in King Street Residence. Gina Macdonald I'm IT Manager Bryan Willey after the results were announced, "On the plus side, really ex- Distribution Manager Nicole Laouataris Fraser expressed his "disappoint- cited that I actually can get back to Production Assistant Christine Parent - ment" in the situation though he my current job ... [and] really fo- RYAN STEWART went on to say how proud he was cus on my first-year students," said WLUSP ADMINISTRATION of the work that his volunteers put Fraser. HUG IT OUT - LeFevre embraces Ross Fraser after the presidential President Keren Gottfried both on the other is results were finally announced at Wilfs last Thursday night. VP: Advertising Angela Foster in over campaigning periods. LeFevre, hand, VP: Brantford Dan Schell "I couldn't be prouder, though, getting right into the responsibili- Chair of the Board Colin LeFevre Vice Chair Rafiq Andani of the way we ran our campaign," ties that come with the role of Stu- results were announced. Trevor Mayoh was also hired as Board ofDirectors Ryan Clubb Rachel Crawford said Fraser. dent Union president. These include Andrew Blake as VP: Univeristy Affairs, a position "We always had people telling With the delay in results caus- VP: Student Services, Laura Sheri- that has been elected up until this ADVERTISING us to do things differently, but this ing him to assume the position dan as VP: Student Activities, Jack- year, but is now hired as the result is the that we wanted to run it, three weeks after ie Donald as of the switch to a All advertising inquiriesshould be directed to way past presidents VP: Marketing, Shady Union's policy VP: Advertising AngelaFoster at how I wanted to run it and that's have been able to, LeFevre has al- Husein asVP: Finance and Admin- governance model. 884-0710, ext. 3560 [email protected] how we did it - so I'm very proud," ready had to complete hiring ofhis istration, Dan Preston as VP: Hu- he added.