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Wilfrid Laurier University Bookstore (Z-'ome in and see our selection of Prentice Hall Titles available. Buy a Prentice Hall Book and enter a draw to: worth of Prentice Hall Books. the cord (excluding textbooks) Proposed code put on hold Board ofGovernors shelves administration proposal and recommends committee discussion to resolve disagreement SABRINA SACCOCCIO Students at the rally were hope- Cord News ful that their efforts would affect the The new code of conduct proposed deliberations at the Board of by the administration did not pass at Governors meeting the next day. the Board of Governor's meeting on They were right. On the morning of December 5. Instead the code was the fifth, students gathered once referred to a special committee of again to maintain a student pres- students, alumni and members of ence at the meeting. the administration for further dis- Lorna Marsden, the President of cussion. WLU, began the discussion by On December 4th at 1 pm, defending the proposed code of con- despite the bitter temperatures, over duct as a document lodged in histor- 70 students rallied to protest the ical tradition and reflecting Laurier's revised code of conduct proposed by long-standing relationship with the the WLU administration. The rally community. Marsden assured the was the first held at Laurier since board that there was nothing new in WLU students gathered to support the proposed code of conduct, and the Vietnam War. that it merely made explicit what WLUSU President Scott was implicit in the present code. STINSON McCormick addressed the crowd, The Graduate Student explaining the concerns of the Association's President, Cathy SCOTT approximately 1000 students who Conrad expressed her concern had signed petitions against the cur- about the vague wording in the rent code. Speaking for the student code. Students' Union President Scott McCormick addresses a crowd of students in the Quad on Dec. 4th as PICTURE: body, McCormick decried the code "There is a need for clarification part of the WLUSU anti-Code awareness campaign. as a violation of the students' consti- in the wording," stated Conrad. "If tutional rights. McCormick also said this is neglected the code empowers "It does not matter if this person By contrast, Conrad believed that Marsden will chair the commit- the code was so vague it could be each administration from year to had done something or not, it is the the outcome of the meeting could tee,which will be made up ofrepre- used arbitrarily year to interpret the code as it perception that they have done it have been much worse. "I have con- sentatives from the administration , Since several students were dis- desires." that counts," McCormick said. fidence in the rationality of the the GSA, WLUSU, and the 8.0.G. If ciplined by the Laurier administra- McCormick presented the views "There's no innocent until proven 8.0.G.," Conrad stated. "They won't all goes well, a new document tion after the Ezra Street Party, the of undergraduate students. "The guilty." pass anything similar to the original should be presented to the 8.0.G. by Students' Union has maintained that students do want a code of con- Members of the Board of motion; [the new code] will be a rea- the end of January. the code of conduct oversteps the duct," McCormick assured the gov- Governors were split. Some board sonable document." university's jurisdiction by regulating ernors. "However, we do not sup- members applauded the tradition the actions of students when off port this code in its principles and represented in the code, and point- campus. semantics." ed out that the proposed code is not McCormick attacked the admin- McCormick was concerned that a unique document. For example, Comments from istration for neglecting to seriously the proposed code dealt with the many corporations and societies consider the input of students. He perception of student actions by the have similar codes of conduct for pointed to the union money spent in University, the community and the their members. the BOG meeting Another board member ques- tioned the desirability of off-campus "The crucial matter is not the exact for students' actions off campus? If jurisdiction. "1 have serious con- wording but the difference of opin- we do exercise jurisdiction do we cerns with respect to the question of ion: should a student code of con- attract liability?" - Board of jurisdiction beyond campus," said duct apply to off-campus behaviour Governors member Roger Salmany Roger Salmany, a lawyer from the that is not sponsored by the univer- community. "If we don't exercise sity?" - WLU President Lorna "When parents allow their students jurisdiction can we be legally liable Marsden to come here, there's a set of for students' actions off campus? If responsibilities the university has. we do exercise jurisdiction, do we "When a student is on the front Whether we involve students or not attract liability?" page of the paper and it has WLU is not the question." -Board of Dr. Marsden seemed uncomfort- plastered all over it, it affects Governors member James able with the uncertainty. "We've Uurier's reputation. The fact that Beifogessner lived under this code for years," she the university's name comes up STINSON exclaimed. "We have legal advice means it's no longer a private indi- "As the code is presented to you we that we have jurisdiction off cam- vidual." -Board of Governors mem- don't believe it will solve anything. SCOTT pus." ber Doug Brock What will happen in a couple of The discussion ended with a years when there's a different PICTURE: motion to refer the code of conduct "If we break the law we should be administration?" - Graduate to a special committee that repre- punished by proper authority. s Association President McCormick addresses the Board of Governors at their meeting on the Stu dent December sth. sented the interests of all parties We see a problem when the univer- Cathy Conrad involved. sity's jurisdiction is leaving campus legal fees while the present code media rather than the reality of Despite the fact that the pro- and regulating activity anywhere "The Waterloo community applaud- was being negotiated with the their actions. He pointed out that posed code was rejected, we are, anytime ofthe year. It's dou- ed the actions WLU took last spring, University's administration. some of the people arrested at the McCormick left the meeting with a ble jeopardy." Students' Union and the efforts students council is After the speech McCormick led Ezra St. Party were disciplined by grim face. He was not enthusiastic President Scott McCormick working to for next year.... They the protesting students to the the administration, even though the to repeat the negotiations of the past should be given a pat on the back administrations offices on the sec- charges were later dropped by year in which he felt the needs of "If we don't exercise jurisdiction for that." - Waterloo Councillor Joan ond floor ofthe Peters building. police. the students were not addressed. [off-eampus] can we be legally liable MacKinnon News 2•Opinion 5* Features 7*Sports 13*Entertainment 16*Classifieds 19*NSK 19 tie that binds since 7926" • VOLUME- XXXVI • ISSUE SEVENTEEN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 4,19% • YVLU STUDENT PUBLICATIONS NEWS Laurier Finance first in Canada U.S. financialjournalpraises WLUresearchers KATHY CAWSEY cial journals in the world. In the study, Laurier placed first citing the work of others tend to Furthermore, if budget cuts mean Cord News "The whole university gets bene- in Canada and ninth in North favour studies using U.S. data. ÜBC professors have to teach more Maclean's may have ranked Wilfrid fits from this type of publicity," said America in the category "articles uses mostly American data ... hours, Laurier's reputation in Laurier fourth in Canada in its "pri- George Athanassakos, the Co- per faculty member," out of 661 uni- [while] our area's research makes research will suffer. "If we don't marily undergraduate" category; ordinator for the Finance Area in versities. In the second category, use of Canadian data." As a result, allow good researchers time off for however, a journal in the United the School of Business and "impact per faculty member, work done by Laurier professors is research," he said, "we're going to States placed Laurier first. And Economics. "The study found that a "Laurier came second behind ÜBC cited less frequently. lose them." that's out of all Canadian universi- university's prestige and reputation in Canada. In North America, how- Despite his area's achievement, Both the school and the students ties, not justundergraduate ones. is highly correlated with its quality ever, WLU fell to 34th place. Athanassakos is concerned about benefit from having high quality In its December issue, the ofresearch." Athanassakos explains this dis- the future. "My main concern is researchers as professors. "What Journal of Finance ranked Lauriers Laurier's Finance department's crepancy by pointing out the criteria keeping this team together," he stat- we teach [the students] is state of Finance depaitment first in Canada achievement is especially significant the journal used to discern ed. "With the increased publicity, the art," Athanassakos said. "We're and ninth in North America in because it has no PhD program. As "impact." A university's impact was many universities will try to get fac- up to date on the final findings of research productivity - beating out a result, unlike schools that do have based on the number of citations it ulty from WLU. People are bidding research, and we're not just quoting such schools as Harvard Business PhD programs, WLU faculty cannot received in articles in six top up the prices." other people's studies.

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