The Cord Weekly (March 28, 1991)
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See dealer for details. A vouy have to do is drive one. "the cord" - Laurier: the good, the bad and the ugly 4 news Thursday March 28,1991 All that is ugly about Wilfrid Laurier University ceedingly nasty there's just too turbingly like a piece of shoe- taking it out of his mouth Comment by Mark Hand person while on riculum because and your daily rounds. This is particu- damn many people in the pro- rubber in a Food Services crois- seeing it was a piece of some- larly true with a lot of WLU staff, gramme, it sort of says something sant recently. This might just be one's shoe was border-line ugly, SUPPOSED to PM be writing who seem to think they're doing ugly about the student-professor bad instead of truly ugly, but the of course, it might just have been about the part ugly of WLU here. you a favour when they process ratio. look of someone chewing and a chunk of spatula, but can we be I'll try to keep short, it but no your transcripts or give you your We found what looked dis- chewing on something, and then sure? guarantees. tax receipt or make you a club The Aird Do I really Building. sandwich, instead of just doing have to elaborate? By far the best their job. advertisement for a summer sub- I won't even mention how the And all about smoking, too let I've ever seen was the one last way staff and volunteers get year which said: "House to sub- even still, revenue is up, treated at WLUSU and WLUSP booze. But and the smok- let. Close to WLU. Aird Building Comment by Woody Von Hammer by the hired and elected officials, ing section is almost always full. That's enough not within sight." Ah, wit. although guess I just did. Per- evidence to convince me. Although it's not built yet, I I haps I'm just a little bitter about IN OLDEN times, it used to be you could go any- have some misgivings about the being hired for a full-time job and where to suck on a puff-stick, but in these days of The Bad: If you smoke, it's a real pain to have to go new Bricker Avenue residence. I then afterwards being told that it second-hand smoke and health consciousness, into Wilf's or pop outside, especially in the winter. mean, its design was approved by might just be part-time. Not ex- smoking has rapidly gone on a decline. Around That's about all the bad stuff I can think of, but the "WLU Aesthetics Com- same actly a good way to treat people, I Laurier, it shows. since according to past WLUSU President A 1 approved mittee" who the Aird should think. On campus the only place where you can legal- Strathdee "smokers have no rights", I guess it Building. I have this terrible ly smoke is in Wilf's or the Turret, or for the truly doesn't really matter anyway. "Let the dumb suspicion that the current con- Tuition and all the cor- priviledged, the faculty lounge. Of course, this bastards freeze" seems to be the popular opinion. struction phase will be prettier responding hidden costs of educa- doesn't mean that you don't see plumes of smoke than the final look. tion can get pretty ugly, too. But wafting out from under the closed doors of some The Ugly: Apart from the ugliness inside of a At the risk of harping on the for the most part, that's pretty professors' offices, but we won't mention that. The smoker's lungs, the left-over butts strewn about the ugliness of the buildings here, I'll universal as far as universities go. TV Lounge in the S.U.B. has been off limits since ground are none too pretty, especially this time of venture one more jab at the ar- But when the school Bookstore January last year, about the same time that provin- year when the snow's melted and the remains of chitecture of WLU, and I will won't sell a cassette of music re- cial legislation preventing smoking in the work- winter cancer-victims decorate our already homely corded by students unless they keep it brief. Granted all the place came into being. campus. On a nicer note, at least cleaning the mess can cut a profit, even when buildings here are hideous, but What has resulted is an interesting phenomenon up provides summer jobs for students with Physical businesses in the community are couldn't they at least pick one whereby smoking falls under all three of our focal Plant and Planning. doing it, it's rather indicative of ugly motif and stick with it? At points: the good, the bad and the ugly. At the risk of getting shut down for excessive the ugly side of capitalism in least then the uniformity of ugli- the flem-globbers from what should ideally be a service grossness, smoke-singed ness might be tolerable, as op- The Good: Non-smokers aren't forced to die of can found littering oriented place. throats which be the sidewalks posed to the variety of ugliness lung cancer. Oxygen and clean air reign supreme like tiny green landmines and sticking to the soles we have now. Class sizes, which three years once again, and second-hand smoke is no longer of your shoes making icky squelching noises when Getting away from the ar- ago were supposed to be among forced into the lungs of non-smokers. you walk might fit into the ugly category too. chitecture, one of the ugliest the smallest and most intimate in Arguably more important, Wilfs now does a Sorry, it had to be said. things around here is the way any university have somehow thriving business from smokers looking for a place And when you're up at the Turret and some people sometimes treat other bloated to ugly proportions. to give themselves a fatal illness. Of course, since a joker marches by with a cigar making you choke people. Although most people are When the history department large pack of cigarettes now costs in excess of six with the oppresiveness of the stench, it's rather ugly nice enough, once and a while drops the mandatory honours dollars (except at gas stations), smokers can only too. Not to mention the looks on your faces when I you might stumble across an ex- thesis from the required cur- afford to buy coffee instead of the more profitable do that Oooh, really ugly.