Inside This Issue News 3 Opinion 7 Student Life 8 Feature 10 Sports 12 Entertainment 15 Classifieds 18 Brain Candy 19 "The tie that binds since 1926" VOLUME XXXVII • ISSUE ELEVEN • WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1996 the Cord WEEKLY WLU Student Publications "Horse" shocks with reality Toronto playwright expounds a contemporary view LYNCH oflife on the streets STERLING SARAH SIGURDSSON not. Cord Entertainment Cassey and Lou, the plays centra] charac- PICTURE: to a and ters, are forced to endure a nightmarish "We have attempted take tangle pull it into a knot. What you are about to see is a sequence of events at the hands of a brutal sloppy knot," said Ned Dickens in his intro- police force and an ignorant public. Without duction before the play/workshop. so much as a glance into their side of the Horse, shown Friday evening at Laurier's story, Cassey and Lou are automatically seen Theatre Auditorium, is a behind-the-scenes as the party of guilt. The events are present- look at a workshop in progress. ed in such a profound way that it becomes Horse takes a look at life on the streets of hard to ignore the messages that the play Toronto. It examines the hardships forced delivers. upon street kids by corrupted officers and the Horse is emotionally powerful because it influence that the police force has over the plays on society's ignorance of poverty. The views of today's society. The audience was script enables the audience to not only face forced to confront the brutal reality of life as poverty but to accept and understand it. seen through the eyes of those suffering The enjoyment of Horse lies behind the through life without a home, family, or approach of each individual. You must let the respect. script into you heart and mind and accept it When looking at the entire package, the for what it is: a play on the brutality of real set was essential in getting across the idea of life. a script. At first glance, one becomes lost in A script alone could not achieve anything the vision of a homeless person who is so des- without good actors to perform it. The actors olate diey must rely on ripped newspaper involved in Friday nights performance were and potato chip bags in order to keep even so believable that it became possible to ignore remotely warm. the fact that they were reading lines. Horse forces one to think: it breaks down What the audience felt at the end of tlie barriers between those who are sheltered Horse, was likely a life affirming change in from life's true hardships and those who are thought and an acceptance of self and others. Stop the bleeding! Losing streak hits three with loss to Guelph GREG CHOWNYK unable to get in the end zone. Scott Wally Gabler took over. A 21 yard ond possession of the half, vert was good and the Hawks were Cord Sports O'Hara attempted a 39 yard field completion to Adam Sherriff-Scott McDonald hit WR Brian McClure on nowright back in the game. Like the old saying goes, when it goal, but was off and had to settle set up a 1 yard pass to Jason Stoter an 80 yard pass and run play that The Gryphons managed a single rains it pours. That perhaps is the for the single. that was good for six points. The ended with McClure finding the on their next drive as a 34 yard only way to describe the fortunes of The Laurier misfortune really ensuing convert put Guelph up 10-1 endzone. McDonald hit McClure Stringer field goal was wide left and the Golden Hawk football squad began on their next drive when the and that is how the half ended. along the sideline, who turned up Grant conceded the point. over the last three weeks. Hawks commited their first of three Knowing that their backs were field and cut into the middle. Great With a little less than two min- Heading into Saturday's contest turnovers. McDonald hooked up truly up against the wall, the Hawks blocks by Andy Bacon and Corey utes remaining in the quarter, with at Guelph, the Hawks were riding a with Zach Treanor for what would came out a little more upbeat to Grant allowed McClure to speed the Hawks pinned deep in their end, two game losing streak and in dan- have been a twenty four yard gain start the second half. On their sec- down field for the major. The con- Continued on page 13 ger of missing the playoffs for the only to have Treanor fumble the ball first time in seven years. Clearly the as he was being tackled. The pressure was on to win, however Gryphons recovered, but just like UCMCCI the Hawks tailspin continued as they the Hawks were unable to punch it came up on the short end of a 13-10 in for the major. A 32 yard Krystian score. Stringer field goal did put the KAADI/"\KI "We played decent [on offense], Gryphons up 3-1. IDC- but we didn't capitalize. The offense Laurier's offense continued to Dim only scored eight points and that's struggle as they were forced to punt just not good enough," said Laurier on their next three possessions. On head coach Rick Zmich. the third one, the Hawks were once The cold weather and wet field again haunted by the now infamous conditions made for a slow start to long snapping trouble. Punter the game as it took awhile for both Jarret Luke readied himself, but sides to get the kinks out. 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