The Cord Weekly (October 1, 1987)
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Athletics slimmed down the team was not was a total decision was also one of two years, simply surprise." teams. The tennis team had 26 men developing By Brad Lyon to the best of .lis know- The man in the centre of the for the Laurier athletes. told; and, try out five positions on last equality among the still hrs to be WLU athletics had two ledge, team yet controversy is Newbrough, whose year's team, and the ski team, which formerly Recent cuts in the WLU Athletic officially informed of ? decision that has been also had levels of awards for athletes to judgement questionned doubles as a campus club, a have left several department budget took tb<> third week of the obtain: letters and small letters. place during for cutting these sports from large contingent as well. large teams without athletic varsity WLU But the all May. slate of athletics. He defended According to Newbrough, who at present awards are or OUAA status for the funding Tennis the tearr. representative seeming lack of communication makes the final budgetary decisions, equal in value. Newbrough simply 1987 seasons of upcoming Wrestling, Remco Daal echoed Crocker's between the and felt that it for administration the teams were cut for varying was not appropriate Men's Women's Cross- Tennis, whether athletes. "I how I'd tell in week comments b> questioning don't know reasons. With respect to the tennis players participating a two and Men's and Country Women's and the Athle'jc Department, these people (the team representa- team, Newbrough emphasized that season to receive awards equal in Skiing. Rich Athletic Director tives). The came down stature to those received football especially budget on it was simply a matter of getting by What angers the athletes involved, informed the third who Newbruugh, employed week of May and 1 don't more for the athletic dollar. "We or basketball players compete though, is not the fact that the teams know how to in touch with for than two months. decision-making techniques. get spent over $800 for only five or six more were cut, but the manner in which it to "No on On Ski Team According Daal, player them." people in a two-week period." the other hand, the was done. the team consulted two teams the was axed because of was regarding The hurt most by But Newbrough was also quick to continuing According to Rob Crocker, who budget cutting measures or possible budget cuts in terms of members point out that the decision was far continued on has been captain of the Ski Team for page 3 alternatives in The cut involved are the sponsorship. tennis and ski from strictly a monetary one. The Laurier Volume 28, Number 6, Thurs. Oct. 1,1987 Wilfrid University, Waterloo theCORD Faculty and staff agree on increases By John Trus President of Planning, Finance and across the board salary increase for said Earl Rayner, Director of Theramifications ofnot increasing Information Services and member the of the university. An Personnel. "Our increases in the the salaries demands is a faculty ... are to faculty of of the to the Dr. After more than two months administration negotiating additional $393,079 was approved bottom line of increases in potentially detrimental. Said said for merit non-contract operation, contracts team, that, "Normally we agree provide discretionary community." Krech, "You have got to be relative for for faculty, staff, and administration (upon a contract) by July 1, but this increases and other adjustments The total package will result in a with other Ontario universities, or a 10, lasted a little the The hikes are the will be going were ratified on September by time it longer, simply faculty." salary "professor's minimum salary being lot of good profs the Wilfrid Laurier University Board due to faculty negotiations." determined for faculty employees $46,235, and a lecturer's minimum elsewhere where they can get more 1 deans. The 4.2% of Governors. Negotiations between July and by the department salary being $23,183." money." increases increase with the extra merit secretarial and technical Though operating without a new September 10, ccntred around a The salary are imple- along Clerical, increase. for the entire to the a 4.7% contract, "Strike action was never salary mented university increases, are parallel staff were given larger There including unionized increases in the cost of living, as well to raise them to current contemplated during that time," said is currently no impasse faculty, staff (not increase the should and The staff to "maintain to market levels. However, Jan Basso, Dr. Michael Krech, Chairman of resolution procedure, an staff), administration. as equity provide Committee. fail be reached. Dr. and administration receive their fairness with the other universities," Faculty Compensation agreement to continued on page 3 Berczi "The association raises from the university's operating said Berczi. The previous year-long contracts said, faculty the had ended June 30. is interested in instituting some kind budget, with merit component but has by the admini- The faculty is a legal bargaining of arbitration policy, nothing being judged upper The President's salary is association, not a certified union; been seriously proposed." Negotia- stration. the were at an regarding determined by University's therefore, they cannot legally strike. tions impasse Touching portrait in 0.8% Board of Governors. The faculty members were not an approximate salary we or their "In to judge salary level, danger of losing their jobs difference. order of a look at each employees salaries in the non-contract stasis As stated in September 14press group of Vice- "The board approved a 4.2% within the market they belong to," period. Dr. Andrew Berczi, release, tragic figure By Janet Smith "I wish it were," Carole Jerome remarked when her biography The Man in the Mirror was accidently sighted as being fiction. On September 23, before a small but intense audience in the Paul Martin Centre, stood a woman who had personally experienced the Iranian revolution and who knew some of the key political figures involved. Jerome spoke openly about her involvement in the Middle East during the Iranian revolution and of her intimate relationship with foreign minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. Ghotbzadeh was convicted of treason in and executed Iran after a lifelong dedicationto the political revolution. For of his life he of Khomeini. most was a great supporter Ayatollah It was her love for Ghotbzadeh and Iran that compelled Carole to write her book The Man in the Mirror. She wished to portray the story from the inside of Iran, and offer an alternative prespective to the North American media Jerome coverage. said that the revolution as depicted in Western Media was inaccurate in it's presentation of the events in Iran. said that her Jerome book "offers suggestions as to whois whoin the revolution"and believes it should be received as a 'warning'. "Things are far more than she said. complex they may seem", Today in Iran "culture is being systematically destroyed by the Ayatollah Khomeini," Jerome said. Of Ghotbzadeh, she added, "In the end he accepted that he had helped to create a monster (Khomeini). He in Iran stayed to try and change things. He never tried to escape the country. He went to his death knowingly". Following the death of Ghotbzadeh, and the near loss of her own life, Jerome returned collect and assemble the of to Europe to many pieces her story, including the fall out between Ghotbzadeh and the Ayatolloh. Jerome is a native of Toronto. She received a degree in English Literature and Philosophy from the University of Toronto and has extensive experience in the field of journalism. Her articles have appeared inMacleans magazine, The Middle East,The Times, and The Internationalist. She has worked as a bureauproducer for CBC in Paris, freelance producer for CTV's W5, documentary reporter for CBC's The Journal, and as a reporter for the The National. With her book completed, Jerome said she needs time to rest and cold 25 to 'Take Back the Night'. This and turned out on a September evening protest to a little while with her confidante-her horse. Children, women, men j plans spend personal received wider has been in existence for several but has recently Her against rape and sexual assault years, present project is a documentary on horsemanship which she considers break recognition in Waterloo. a light before returning to the hectic pace of political ! 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