theCORD a publication laurier studentwilfrid sports feature Those Blues were wearing Logging in the INSIDE suede shoes! Ciayoquot Sound. Pg- 9 , pg. 14 entertainment cover photo: by Virginia Parker LnewsReferendum answer Bart is as Protesting at the EMBRACE is YES. bad as ever. rally in Kitchener. Pg- 3 Pg. 20 uMIoH I CONCOURSE I I NEXT WEEK. I JH/S WE.&K: I CG^U~ I I I | I discount n I I IzzZFOR IHAHKiGWm WeeK£ND I m I I -MdNDyn) PUT WILL I NEEDS 6 VOLUNTEERS I I P£ RESUMING REGULAR HOlKi I TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZER I I 0N TtlE^DA\ OCT. 12TH I WITH THE SPECIAL I I EVENTS, TNCLUDTNG I THE FASHION SHOW. I AVAILABLE I II TIRtD Or BAD s>tlvVlCt7 Ifj arno I INOMINATIONS FOR SERVICES I ** I I 2 STUDENTS - ADVISORY COUNCIL ON ■ I I 1 STUDENT - FOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE I - I I 2 STUDENTS PARKING COMMITTEE ■ I I 4 STUDENTS - BOOKSTORE COMMITTEE ■ I I 3 STUDENTS - STADIUM COMMITTEE ■ I I WLUSU offices or at 884-1360 I I NEWS Campus Clubs recruit cents. There will be special movie MARK HEASLEY nights in the Turret, a Holy Grail Cord News Scavenger Hunt, Wine/Cheese/ Believe it or not, there is a campus Spam socials, Winterfest teams, club out there for you. You may get acquainted nights with our think you're the only one with hopefully soon-to-be-formed breth- your problem/neurosis, but there ren at UW, and co-ordinated events are others out there just like you with any other club that will have and the odds are that they' ve formed us. Contact: John Huculiak 725- their own club. 5120. There is a record high of 49 The Philosophy Club will be clubs that you, as a WLU student/ going transcendental and taking faculty/alumni can join. Just this field trips into alternative forms of year there are nine new clubs : consciousness at odd intervals, The Religion and Culture So- while simultaneously offering help ciety will experience multi- in Philosophy courses and discuss- culturalism and religions by ac- ing/debating whatever they find tively holding events like a Native vaguely amusing. Contact: Gerrard Canadian Festival and Middle McGeachy 884-3736 Eastern Festival, Pub Nights with The Lacrosse Club will help the Musician's Network, and field you to sharpen your skills and let trips visiting various temples in you physically take out your frus- Toronto. They also offer a bibliog- trations on another human being raphy file for Religion & Culture without fear of getting charged courses. Their first meeting will with assault. Contact Kevin be today at 5:30 p.m. at Loose Mitchell-Gill 747-9511. ...Wouldn't you like to be a joiner too? pic: Harvey Luong Change Louie's. Contact: Rob The Indian Students Associa- Lawrie 578-5703. tion is another new face to campus for both experts and those who Contact: Lisa Amyot 885-3534. a more complete list, check out- The Monty Python Apprecia- clubs this year, offering unique just worked their way out of The Badminton Club will be side the Campus Clubs Office on tion Club will be providing a safe multicultural experiences to any- training wheels. Contact: playing badminton. Surprise. There the far side ofthe 24 hr. TV lounge. outlet for those with uncontrolla- one interested. Contact: Bawa Stephan Gleis 745-6271. will probably be tournaments and Or better yet, pay a visit to ble urges to walk silly, clap coco- Noorayaz 884-1970 ext. 5552 The Biology Club will be skills development. Contact Catherine Phillips, Campus Club nuts together whilerunning about, The cycling club is back again having special seminars, help Jonathan Winter 884-1970 ext Coordinator. Her office is right or do really bad imitations of after falling apart last year. They in Bio classes, and do-it-your- 5552. next to the WLUSU office on the sketches with terrible English ac- will be organizing tours and tips, self videos in gene splicing. These are just the new clubs, for second floor. Zoning changes impact studenthousing near Universities June, a delegation of homeowners asked for the City to step in and number of dwellings converted to — establish a minimum buffer/ MARK HEASLEY from Batavia Place have taken to hold off issuing any permits for multi-unit dwellings, the number of landscaped area between any park- Cord News the field to protect the integrity of additions to lodging houses un- rented dwellings, general deteriora- ing area and the backyards of In almost every university town their neighbourhood as well as til this issue was resolved. tion of the area, predominance/ Batavia Place you'll find a student ghetto. The their property values. One ofthe spokespeople pro- concentration of students, noise/be- — permit front yard parking along neighbourhood may not be exactly The area in question consists testing this increase in student havioural problems ofstudents, sub- east side of Lester Street scenic and there's usually loud of the east side of Lester Street, as housing was John Weir. He was standard property maintenance, rear — prohibit Lodging Houses (more music coming from somewhere at well as the west sides of Batavia the President of WLU before yard parking, drainage problems, than 3 people renting single unit) night. Place and Sunview Street. A group Lorna Marsden took over last and the possible construction of a along east Lester Street But not in Waterloo. of 25 residents of Batavia PI. sent summer. He was unavailable for triplex. The City Council had an in- WLU and UW students are two spokespeople to Waterloo City comment on this issue. At the heart of the matter is a formal public meeting on the mat- spread out all over and many resi- Council this past June 21 to let Formally, the Batavia Place fear of 'monster houses' — con- ter on September 27 to hear what dents are thankful for it. But this their position be known. They residents' concerns included the verted duplex and triplex boarding resident and non-resident owners houses packing in 10 to 15 students had to say. Most of the Batavia — springing up in the area, creating Place residents stated that they a lot of noise and basically ruining wanted the 'SRI' zoning (de- the neighbourhood. scribed above) and were greatly Are these fears unfounded? Not concerned with the number of Referendum exactly. An application was filed houses for rent, and the way that with the City to look into converting they felt their neighbourhood was suffering from it. Also com- Question: I favour the enhancement of student life at WLU through improvements of the 318 Lester St. into a triplex. But at the same time, 318 Lester is cur- menting were owners of some of following: i) the Student Union Building Expansion Project, ii) a Scholarship and Bursary rently the only duplex and would the lodging houses on Lester Street, Fund and, iii) the Library and Computing Services (information access In order to projects). become the only triplex in the area. who stated thatrezoning and buffer accomplish these improvements, I favour the fee assessment for a Student Capital Fund After these neighbours brought zones would be of no benefit, and commencing May 1, 1994, on a non-refundable per student per term basis according to the their concerns to the City, Greg that they had received no com- following schedule: 1994-$21.00; 1995-$23.80; 1996-$26.11; 1997-$27.94; 1998-$29.06; Romanick, Director of Planning for plaints about their student ten- - 1999 $30.63; 2000 - $32.27; 2001 - $34.03; 2002 - $35.87. Waterloo, and his staff took over. ants. They came back with many alterna- One owner agreed that con- RESULTS: QUORUM; tive zoning options: trols are necessary and the City BALLOTS NEEDED FOR 527 — SRI zoning would allow only should be more involved through smaller lodging houses (4-5 per- enforcement. Another said the TOTAL BALLOTS CAST: 1106 sons) subject to a 75 metre minimum oversupply is contingent to quality distance between them along east of housing. VOTES FOR: 791 side of Lester And of the people who actu- — GR2A zoning would allow ally live in the 'study area' in duplexes to be converted to triplexes question? When showed the list only (no additions/expansions) sub- of Batavia Residents' Concerns, ject to 75 metre distance require- students living in the area said that Results on I 1 ments on east Lester Street Continued page 4 4 NEWS THE CORD Thursday, October 7, 1993 EMBRACE racial equality JENN THORNE in K-W on October 3. Speaker's Corner in Kitchener, Cord News Ahluwalia, who is a chairper- ended at Kitchener Collegiate In- "Wc need to make Canada more son for the K-W Race Relations stitute (KCI) with arally forracial colourful, everyone here is hu- Committee, helped sponsor the harmony. man." These words, said by anti-racism march. The march was The rally included multi-cul- Shakuntala Ahluwalia, embodied also sponsored by the Mount Zion turally inspired bands and was at- the attitudes and hopes of the Lutheran Church. tended by many guest speakers. EMBRACE march that was held The march, which began at Rabbi David Levy was asked to come and speak. Levy said, "Hope of the future lies within the hands Residents v. Students of the teenage participants who Continued from page 3 Romanick and his staff will will be making a difference" . some of the complaints were "un- expound on what they have heard Reverend Claudine Carlson of warranted" and "should be kind of and will present a Response Paper the Mount Zion Lutheran Church expected if you're living this close - Final Report to the public and was prompted to get involved after to the universities".