The Cord Weekly
Inside This Issue News 3 Opinion 8 Student Life 10 Feature 12 Sports 14 Entertainment 18 Brain Candy 22 Classifieds 23 "The tie that binds since 1926" VOLUME XXXVII • ISSUE FOURTEEN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1996 theWEEKLY Cord WLU Student Publications WLUSU named in OUSA lawsuit MELANIE SEAL the appropriate channels," said that OUSA laid a frivolous, vexatious Cord News Lynn , explaining that a liability suit lawsuit against me," is the focus "The Students' Union has been falls under Laurier s insurance cov- Lehrer's suit. named in a general liability suit as erage. "I will act based on what the WLUSU is named in the suit the result of an affiliation with insurance company solicitor asks of because of its association with OUSA," Joel Lynn, president of me." OUSA. "Laurier is involved because Wilfrid Laurier University Students' When asked if he was concerned they are on the steering committee Union, said at a Students' Union about the lawsuit, Burns replied, for OUSA," Lehrer said. Board meeting on November 7. "No, not at all. Not only is it improp- In the Statement of Claim, Andy Bratu Lehrer is suing for erly done, we know we're in the Laurier's role in the lawsuit is $500,000 and his legal costs. Ofthat, right, and he's in the wrong... The explained. "The plaintiff claims that $40,000 is listed as general dam- accusations he made were so outra- the student associations, alliances, ages, another $40,000 is classified geous. Obviously, we're going about unions, and federations which make as special damages, and $60,000 is this in a methodical way - we take up OUSA, namely the Association of claimed as punitive, aggravated, this matter seriously.
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