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News 3 the International 6 Opinion 7 Feature 10 Sports 12 Entertainment 15 Classifieds 18 NSK 19 cord "The tie that binds since 1926" VOLUME XXXVI • ISSUE TWENTY FIVE • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6,1996 WLU Student Publications Programs to be prioritized - however, insti- SABRINA SACCOCCIO of students enrolled. the budget cuts any tution business Cord News A proposal for the allocation of or submitted the The Executive of the Strategic priorities will be to going through last Committee tough times will Planning Committee proposed Strategic Planning the before mid-April. inevitably suf- week that the programs in of Faculty ofArts and Science be divid- Ron Grimes, professor fer. has "If this ed into "first priority" and "second Religion and Culture, begun a the The priority" classifications. petition to protest proposal. proposal "first" and is Protests to this motion have sur- two-tiered system of imple- faced because the plan would desig- "second" priority programs will be ment- morale of it nate half of Laurier's departmental devastating to the stu- ed, These dents, staff, and he said. will be programs as "secondary." faculty, would lose full and "It's like some of done tactful- programs part- starving your would children that the others Read stated. time faculty, or collaborate so can stay ly," said. will with departments in other post-sec- alive," Grimes "You just can't No student be ondary institutions. do that." prevented Grimes that the Under the new plan, first priority proposed budget from continuing from losses be distributed to the entire in in programs would be protected a program of at WLU. the middle of ? significant long-term budget cuts. scope programs The Executive Committee members Weakening some units of the system degree; who devised the plan believe that will only put stress on the those as a whole, he certain programs, especially University's viability traditionally specific to WLU, declared. the Laurier's deserve protection from declining For past five years, support. academic departments have equally Arthur Read, Dean of Arts and shared a lack of government fund- Science and Chair of the Executive ing. However, these cuts have been Committee, stressed that this pro- minimal: 1-3% per year - in com- posal is still in the planning stage. parison to 1996/97, where funds instead, substantial will be slashed 6%. Before any change by special mea- v each academic "Cuts this are to sures will be occurs, department huge going v at WLU has been asked to complete affect the flagship programs at devised. Moreover, Read the Read said. "Some said WLU will be of a questionnaire. hopes WLU," programs Read, one who will the responses should determine which with limited enrollment may have to the universities in Ontario proposal. from and show departments are most in need of bear the brunt a little more." fare best in the face of the budget "Who would want a degree Students faculty can resources, howpopular specific pro- Read said the designers of the cuts. a university in which half of the their support by signing petitions available in the and Culture grams are, the degree of their tradi- proposal realize that morale at the Grimes, however, urged all stu- departments were publicly stigma- Religion tional tized second heasked. Offices. curriculum, and the number University would be lost in light of dents, staff, and faculty to vote down as priority?" Department Trying to cope with paralysis A Laurier student offers some insight into his daily struggle BILL GOFF new insight and I would like to describe the hope with which this kick in the head. chair than I am hanging on to this Cord opinion share with of the This another seems to some you. inspires me. One main rea- brings me to yet planet. "Sitting" imply Three and half I sort of comfort choice. a years ago, was Although my immediate reaction sons I am writing this article is in misunderstanding. "Rehabilitation" some or involved in accident is sort sound little dra- car which to criticize the problems I now hopes of raising this of aware- has become an empty word for peo- "Confined" may a resulted in and the need remind but beleive it be much my paralysis, experience, I to myself ness. ple to use when talking about some- matic I to a loss of a best friend. There that also do The were no not so long ago I was Before the accident I would have thing they not understand. more accurate description. Paralysis drugs, alcohol, or other vehicles of these difficulties. This disabilities of kind is and any unaware chosen death over paralysis, but notion that any an indescribably complete involved. 1 do not article is for when with the Although remem- not meant as a plea something like this actually will somehow be all right personal injury. ber the accident unofficial is it meant absurd. Since the I have also myself, sympathy, nor to place happens, you can amaze yourself by proper rehabilitation is accident, recorded the blame wish to offer hos- that older police reports car or guilt, I simply doing things that you never thought While in rehab at a spinal cord noticed people (especially a hill, end treat has cresting flipping over end, some insight into my new perspec- you were capable of. More recently, pital in Toronto, the purpose of my people) me as if my injury and six times into a ditch. tive. of life not affected motor frictions rolling acceptance what has happened stay was to learn howto live in a only my The driver (more of also an acquain- One of the most obvious miscon- has become more of an issue. I have wheelchair. There is no dealing with but has rendered me an idiot. tance than a friend at the time who know of the ceptions some people seem to have been told many time that this accep- life in a wheelchair, coping is what I For those of you the accident) thrown clear and and is failure Bricker she won't let was a to recognize me as an tance is supposed to be the first part do everyday in this chair. It gets no cleaning lady, broke his friend actual winter arm, my was person, separate from my of the process that everybody goes easier, and the pain never goes me leave the building in the caught in the sunroof and killed chair. As be without out- easily as someone may through. My opinion of this process away. telling me how cold it is instantly, and I was thrown into a described to as tall, short, black or closely mirrors the respect I have for The loss I have experienced is side and how I ought put on a tree. white, I have become scarf. "nice" to simply a 'per- the people in the pyschological reinforced every day when I am She is even enough Since there were no other vehi- in true done son a wheelchair'. This is a aspect of my 'rehabilitation'. able to see how simple life used to make sure my jacket is up cles involved, and since I can't but enough statement, it is this Throughout my stay in hospital, be in everyone around me. Again, I tight. the remember accident, the of situation which the most here specific acceptance my pyschologists kept reinforcing the do not wish any sympathy, but For part, people of the cause accident is unknown. to It idea that would be makes want to have weD. seems perpetuate my problem any feelings per- sometimes it me treated me exceptionally This means the driver not can be seems as if beleive I and all hear the In about I people that am fectly 'average', they were scream when I of all just every regard, really charged with offense (he is with and I any content my situation, simply too quick to point out all the prob- pathetic apathy and self pity going enjoy the school environment presently applying to be a police offi- forward to better wheel- lems I around feel that I fit in. looking a was experiencing. Essentially, on me. am happy to Maybe cer). Having now life I the I'll experienced chair. Although realize a cure or I was told how perfectly I fit into the There is also the general notion sometime in future pass you both in and of out a wheelchair, I of kind "road to that wheelchair. street won't improvement any may be a step by step recovery" I am "sitting" in my on the and you even feel I have some gained decade I can not - I notice. Thatwould be cool. important or more away, process about as comforting as a am no more sitting in my wheel- really Building I Literacy in the Community 1 (_ej-j-er> March 19 & 20 • 9 - 4 am pm Beside Freedom of Speech. (Or drop books off in the Cord office.) it's thai time of the year again TURRET in the have alot store for you Lettermait's/ t( Women's Soccer Tickets are available at the Centre Spot Usual GREAT time, I Sf| Pc«tricic's Day Party NEWS "Fireside chat" with new WLUSU President and Vice President "I'm there's Both and dis- WLUSU. experience will get the new mem- very happy, though a lot Lynn Raptis were to be done in about the 31% voter turn "We have seventeen weeks until bers up to speed." of work my depart- appointed to three "The ment," he said. out, on February 26, although both we ask the board approve a Raptis agreed.

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