theCORDWEEKLy Terry Pursell New WLUSU Arts Director Congratula tions! Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario Thursday, October 6, 1983 Volume 24, Number 5 WLUSU meets with Weir Inside Library ramp still possible Critic raps Bette by Chuck Kirkham Liberal education critic Sean The Wilfrid Laurier StudentUnion Conway says the provincial has in set plans motion to see that government has been "grossly the physically handicapped students derelict" in its university at Laurier receive better accessibility funding. to the library. page 4 WLUSU, on the recommendation of Vice President-Secretary, Dave is into scheme Photo feature Docherty, looking a thatwould the StudentUnion see pay for the installation of in a ramp the Handy tips on how can you tunnel that leads into the library from improve the quality of your the Peters Building. The Operations photographs. Management Board (OMB), the WLUSU executive, has asked 8 page Physical Plant and Planning to look into the cost of the ramp. This ramp would ease access to Brides Blushing the library for the handicapped. It would enable the handicapped to reach the service elevator that goes With their Mick Jagger look- as far down as the basement. alike gone, the Blushing Brides At the present time that elevator is have a new sound. only a service elevator and used only by the library staff. The entrance to page 13 the lift is placed in a library storage room that runs off the tunnel. Any work done by the Student Union Powder Blues would need the approval and co-operation of the university's administration. The library is not In great the Powder style, Blues financed by the Student Union and band charmed their audience at the would have university to approve the Coronet last Tuesday. any construction plans for the building. 14 would page Docherty like the university and the library to make the elevator in the basement readily accessible to the disabled student at the same Hawks number 1! time. This ramp would have the handicapped student travel through The Hawks are ranked first in the Arts Building into the basement the Canadian football rankings of the Peters Building and follow that after defeated the York tunnel to the they connecting passage that leads Yeomen by the score of 34-24 to the library from the last weekend. Central Teaching Building. Preventing progress presently along this route is the small set of stairs page 17 just before the Board room. The Photo Karim Virani by would proposed ramp open access The Wilfrid Laurier University Student Onion proposed to the administration that these stairs the they ramp to Reading Room as well. under the library for the WLCISCJ handicapped. is hoping to get support from the administration for their Beginning this week Docherty plan. The two have parties just started discussion. hopes to begin discussion with the school's president, Dr. John Weir. Easton-McCarney lecture User fees will end medicare: Begin by Mike Strathdee the introduction of fees in fall user that country as care "cheaters" may hurt those who between fees will to The threat which user fees pose to family evidence that user lead a crisis in categories. will lead to the rise medicare. that budgets of private Begin says misuse, rather than abuse, is a for those who afford it the the of with the health in insurance can and Begin opposes implementation any type problem care system Canada. of of for which she refers She alluded the end medicare in Canada, according to the means test medicare, to as briefly to need, in some cases, to Hon. Monique Begin, Minister of National "putting Canadians into little boxes." She added redirect people to less expensive points of entry Health that "...each time have like into the She did elaborate and Welfare. you a system that, you system. not, however, for Proofreading Speaking to a capacity audience in P1025- miss some people." or provide any concrete proposals helping to 1027 of WLXJ's Peters Building last Thursday Begin says that the dignity of many thousands bring this about. Workshop evening, Begin delivered the tenthannual Easton- of Canadians (whom she termed as "working Begin said that popular slogans about abusers of Students McCamey Memorial lecture. Her topic, Current poor") excludes them from categories. The the health care system are both dangerous and interested in helping Issues in Social have been more question of how government can dealwith people misleading. She attacked neoconservatism proofread articles for The Cord Welfare, might Medicare. who don'tfit into established is "enemies" for are appropriately entitled Current Issues in neatly categories a wanting to dismantle the welfare invited to attend an informal troublesome for She that without Begin devotedher speech almost entirely to an one Begin. worries so- state offering anything to replace it. introductory workshop on emotional defenceof Canada's medicare system called "safety nets" designed to protect the Begin claimed that surveys of all ten provinces Thursday October 6 at 7:00 poor do not in fact exist. also that show that a of and an attack on those enemies whomshe sees She says majority Canadians are opposed to p.m. and on Thursday October many existence. fall "between extra billing and are 13 at 10:00 as threatening medicare's Begin groups (eg. handicapped people) supportive of universal, a.m.. 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