THE CORD WEEKLY Volume 30, Number 6 Thursday September 28,1989 Wilfrid Laurier University METAL DETECTOR! Yet another nasty student-type ■?< was apprehended by WLU Security this' past week with the sin of unmitigable ; taking offmvithmfew additions to AillM cutlery collection. Maybe you haven't noticed but 'the utensils in the Torque Room have switched from metal to plastic this fall See story on page 9. ALSO INSIDE * | Faculty/administration talks...page 3 Jean Chretien...page 4 Bill Needle...page 9 Razorbacks come to Turret...page 18 Football Hawks down Western...page 23 The Cord Weekly 2 Thursday September 28,1989 CORDWEEKLY LET OUR HOUSE BE YOUR HOUSE SEPTEMBER 28,1989 VOLUME 30, NUMBER 6 ;' "IN-SHOP BREWING & WINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF...Chris Starkey MAKING AT LESS THAN COST OF NEWS EDlTOR...Jonathan Stover 1/2 THE ASSOCIATENEWS EDlTOR...vacant COMMERCIAL BRANDS". NEWS CONTRIBUTORS / Michael V. 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The Cord Weekly is printed at Ric- Web Press in beautiful Ontario. ter Brantford, Toronto, Ontario The Cord Weekly is published twice each summer and weekly duringthe fall and winter aca- Editorial the editorial board and of the Uni- demic terms. opinions are approved by are independent MSG 2C2 versity, the Student Union, and Student Publications. The Cord Weekly is a proud and active - member of the Canadian University Press. Copyright © 1989 by WLU Student Publications, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5. No part of this be without the ofthe Editor-in-Chief. publicationmay reproduced permission The Cord Weekly news 3 Thursday September 28,1989 Waterloo readies illegal by-law to wield against students MICHAEL v.BODEGOM Cord Weekly maintenance) were to be enforced adequately there Blatantly violating provincial legislation, the would be fewer problems. of Waterloo has City yet to remove its controversial WLUSU Vice-president: University Affairs exclusionary housing bylaw from thebooks. Stuart Lewis said that the bylaw actively breaks The bylaw, which students have law. Lewis noted that university long provincial it is "up to us [the sheer fought as discrimination, prevents more than students] to bring it to light." He said that the Plan- five unrelated people from sharing a house that has ning Department's report is full of violations of designated as a single-family dwelling. In place for rights and that a real problem to be addressed is that the struck when years, bylaw was officially down of the absentee landlord who often simply exploits the made amendments to the students and adds provincial government no value to a neighbourhood. Act in 1989. Those amendments Planning February Mike Belanger, WLU Housing Director, said from the distinction of that prevent municipalities using in light of present housing conditions the bylaw "related/unrelated" in the oc- have bylaws regarding "doesn't a lot of impact right now" on student of cupancy dwellings. housing. With a present surplus of 300 to 400 beds It has been a between local constant struggle in Waterloo for students, Belanger said that aboli- homeowners - who have supported tion of the shift traditionally bylaw may the locational patterns such exclusionary measures as a means to prevent of students, but is unlikely to increase quality hous- "ghetto-izing" the neighbourhood - and WLU and ing. University of Waterloo students, who view the law stated Belanger that merely throwing out pres- as discriminatory, immoral, and now illegal. ent will the legislation open road for unscrupulous On Monday the Waterloo city council received who want speculators only to make money and are a from the Department which out- not to report Planning likely care about the students or the neigh- lined some and of action bour. It would possible options routes become, he noted, a matter of "qual- available the The to council. report suggests ity, not quantity." However, Belanger explained the there be sustaining status quo through legally and ethi- may some value in the bylaw. He said that schemes." cally questionable "zoning 10-15 students living in a home built for five "can One such option, the "Age Approach," limits be a problem." the number of in people a residence over the age of Member of Waterloo city council Blake Hull eighteen to five. The admits that this option said that the issue is still in report "up the air" right now. be and to constitutional said may discriminatory open Hull that he wanted to act in a way that deals challenge, but still deems it a of ac- feasible plan fairly with the students, but does not disrupt "stable Jean Chretien made a well-received visit to Wilfrid Laurier University tion. neighbourhoods." for about 45 minutes from a last Friday, answering questions large "I can't believe even they'd suggest that," To discuss the bylaw and the Planning Depart- from a of well- crowd in room P1025. Here he accepts a gift group WLUSU President A 1 Strathdee said of the ment's "Age report, city council has planned a public in- wishers. Chretien, with the Liberal leadership race looming, promised Approach." Strathdee said that he believes that the formation meeting at 7:30 p.m. on October 11 at the one of the that he was a man for the 21st century, and not party's past. issue is one of "safe affordable housing, housing." Waterloo Collegiate Institute. There will be a for- He also vowed to return to Laurier when the race begins in earnest. (Tim He also noted that if the was struck illegal bylaw mal at 7:30 on October 23 in Sullivan Photo) public meeting p.m. down and other (See story on page 4) bylaws (i.e. parking, property the Council Chambers. Will Laurier avoid a faculty strike? CHRIS STARKEY time the Muncaster of Social WLUFA chief towards settlement of and Dean negotiator executive picked the team, which Cord Weekly document. Work Shankar have been Lorimer Yelaja Doug (History) is joined was ratified at a WLUFA mem- Rumours of an impending As of September 18, 13 of the relieved of their duties on the by Arnold Frenzel and Mort-Nel- bership meeting. WLU strike have been 34 articles team since the of faculty had been tentatively beginning nego- son (Business and Economics), floating around since the Since tiations. Muncaster's loss Steve Stack Laurier's faculty members campus agreed upon. it is the first espe- (Math), Mary Ann have been without a contract fall term began, but both adminis- contract for the new union, Wick- cially has created "an enormous Field (Biology) and John McCal- tation and renewal since 1987.