CORD THEWEEKLY ...Thursday, October 19, 1989 Wilfrid Laurier University Volume 30, Number 8 DAY OF SHAME The Cord Weekly 2 Thursday October 19,1989 I Hear Ye, Hear Ye poetry reading by CORD WEEKLY STEVEN SCOBIE of OCTOBER 19,1989 Victoria b.c VOLUME 30, NUMBER 8 Governor General EDITOR-IN-CHIEF.. .Chris Starkey OCTOBER 24 * * * Awards Winner NEWS EDITOR...Jonathan Stover Library ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR...Caroline Baskerville Rooml2B discussion to NEWS CONTRIBUTORS follow in Ann Lazarevic, Bill Needle, Bill Casey, Mike v. Bodegom, 3:00 p.m.... _.... Angie Karl, Dublin Garred Coyne, Jill Cleaver English Lounge * * * COMMENT PAGES CONTRIBUTORS Sponsored by the Bookstore and the Concourse JJt. Artinger, Stephan Latour, Leah Young, Steve Burke in cooperation with the English Dept Mark Hand, Chris Starkey, Liza Sardi, Gord Hocking * * * FEATURES EDITOR...Elizabeth Chen a. 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Required Copyright cry I.D. this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the Editor-in-Chief. cold 3 n The Cord Weekly 3 Thursday October 19,1989 "Tfere is no sued thing as a morat or an immoraC Book. (Booths are zvett zvritten, or badCy zvritten. That is atC." - Oscar Jonathan MichaeCStover, tyzvs Editor The NEWS Carotine Hasf&rvitte, Associate 9{stus 'Editor No "bitch session" on housing bylaws MICHAEL v.BODEGOM Cord Weekly Although it never became a full-fledged "bitch session," as one Waterloo resident put it, the Waterloo city council information meet- ing on October 11 heard its share of complaints along with many sug- gestions on the controversial topic of student housing. The meeting was held because the previous bylaws ~ which regu- lated student housing by preventing more than five unrelated people from living together - were declared discriminatory by the provincial government and thus rendered illegal. Approximately 75 students, home-owners and politicians listened People drinking beer. People wearing funny hats. farmer's picnic -- it's Oktoberfest at the Turret! to city planner Rob Deyman lament the demise of the discriminatory People being obnoxious. No, it isn't the annual pig And gosh, but was it fun! (Bernie Parent Photo) bylaws "that were in our [city planning department's] opinion work- ing relatively well." Deyman also presented some of the options council has now to attempt to keep students in check. These include limiting the number of people in a house under the regulations, and increasing bylaw enfor- Cord news section screws age of 18, increased parking up cement in other relevant areas. Following Deyman's presentation the floor was opened for sug- JONATHAN STOVER production day, and that it isn't selves. gestions and comments. The Vice-presidents in charge of university From the Editor's Desk the editor's job to check over the I don't think people should be affairs for both WLUSU and the University of Waterloo Federation On the bright side, the Cord stories for authenticity except in told what questions to ask. of Students presented council with the opinions of students on the news section did set a record last extreme cases —especially in the Newswriting teaches itself if the matter. week. case of Cord section editors, who writer has any brains. That's why The student representatives said that they believed that the old Unfortunately, it wasn't a put in 30 hours a week in jobs most news writers worth a damn bylaws should be destroyed and that the problems with student hous- good one -- two stories by the that pay $750 for eight months shouldn't be able to look at their ing might better be resolved through mediation and the enforcement same reporter contained major and take loads off your grade first few stories without wincing of other bylaws such as parking and noise bylaws. They said that misquotations, ones which basi- point average. If I was supposed at their badness. Sometimes you most students were socially responsible and should have, as Laurier cally amounted to putting words to do that, I might as well write get burned, and the responsibility VP: University Affairs Stuart Lewis put it, the "right to live where into the mouths of the people he all the stories in the news section is mine when that happens no they want to live." was supposedly quoting. That's myself. matter what the circumstances. Another point raised by the student representatives and echoed by the worst thing that can happen in But I won't pull a Michael But if you can't put trust in many others at the meeting is the problem of absentee landlords. Such a news story, because the whole Wilson, because those are all your reporters to do their best, landlords are often at the root of student housing problems, both point of a news story is that it's rationalizations that people who you're not much of an editor. Lewis and others believe, as such landlords often feel little obligation supposed to tell the truth. Not he, weasel away from responsibility My most sincere apologies to to the student or the neighbourhood. whether inadvertently or other- make. Generally, the philosophy both Donald Baker and Dr. Joyce of Dr. John McMenemy « a WLU professor and long-time resident wise. the news section is to allow Lorimer. I may be more pissed of Waterloo - said that he was afraid of the "growing slums in One of the stories involved reporters to have the responsibili- off about the whole thing than ei- Waterloo." McMenemy blamed, among others, university adminis- the October 2 Senate meeting at ty to make the stories good them- ther of you. tration for not regarding housing problems when setting enrollment which WLU VP: Academic figures. Dr. McMenemy also said that he thought that landlords, stu- Donald Baker made a surprise dents, and politicians were responsible for many of the problems of mention of the university's pro- student housing. posed faculty of education. A number of other area residents complained of living near Baker mentioned the fact that student-occupied houses and living with rowdy parties and run-down negotiations were currently going plan? on New yards, which tend to lower near-by property values. between the university, other Council will continue accepting ideas and comments as they move universities and the Ontario toward the formal public meeting on October 23, when it is expected Council on University Affairs on SPECIAL TO THE CORD According to a survey just compiled by to make some decisions on the matter. the subject of corridor funding for WLUSU, Wilfrid Laurier Ontario universities. Somehow, University students favour changes to the existing Student Health the reporter in question managed Plan. — to mix this into discussion of the With 400 surveys going out to students, 48 surveys were not rr HOW TO USE A ongoing faculty negotiations, returned.