_ ■ ■ Feature... Sports Entertainment Hate Men's Interview literature Basketball with 6 on the | #g loses to 11 M treble •! £* Internet AW Brock A 4# charger iv the "The tie that binds since 1926" Wednesday, January 21,1998 Will StudentPublications Cord VOLUME XXXVIII • ISSUE NINETEEN Boogin' down at the Turret An apology to members of the community Due to an inexcusable oversight in While an apology will never the WLUSP advertising depart- erase the hurt that this ad has ment, the last edition of The Cord inflicted, we are taking active steps carried an advertisement for the to ensure this never happens Committee for Open Debate on the again. Holocaust, directed by Bradley WLUSP is currently developing Smith. a policy that will modify the adver- Smith is a well-known tising department's screening Holocaust denier and his adver- process. tisement should never have The Cord is working to ensure appeared in the pages of The that other Canadian university and Cord. To challenge the undeniable college newspapers are made fact that over six million Jews aware of this particular ad's exis- were murdered during World War tence. Two is incorrigible. It goes against We intend to have the money everything this paper ana its staff from this paid advertisement believe in. donated to a Holocaust education However, as Editor-in-Chief, it organization. is ultimately mv responsibility to The Cord is committed to ensure that hate literature is not defending human rights and the printed in The Cord. I apologize for truth. the serious breach of trust this Katherine M. Harding advertisement represents. Editor-in-Chief Rae visits WLU KRISTINA E.M. SPENCE students for a chance to enhance Cord News their political knowledge and expe- Former Ontario Premier Bob Rae rience. spoke at the opening ceremonies of The three day conference Laurier s second annual Model First incorporated the events of an actual Ministers' Conference last Friday First Ministers' Conference, com- afternoon. plete with individual position Rae welcomed the delegates to papers, a media scrum, and a MARTYN the conference and entertained the structured conference agenda. crowd. "Now that I've retired, I am PSA President Mike Zsala, LUKE speaking to you as a recovering explained how the students pre- politician. It's just like being an alco- pared for the conference and why PHOTO: holic - it's hard to stay clean," Rae Laurier chose to establish a tradi- said. Amid the laughter and jokes at tion ofsuch conferences. Break out the polyester and bell bottoms; The Travolta's played to a sold out crowd at the Turret Mike Harris' expense, Rae reflected "The delegates did their own Saturday night. The event was organized by the BSA (Board of Student Activities). on his experience as premier and research on their positions so that inspired the delegates with his opti- they could represent a particular mism. province or political body. The The conference, organized by group discussions will concern the Political Science Association Canadian identity and the reforma- . evaluated . There isn't WLUSUpresident (PSA), worked around the obstacles tion of the Senate the of First JAMES MUIR al organization, and leadership style organization was felt to be sound, of the mail strike, ice storm, and much out there in way at Cord News were examined. The objectives out- but it was felt that Wong "should get meningitis scare to bring together Ministers' Conferences other uni- The results of the Students' Union lined in the president's campaign more directly versities. presidential performance review mandate were reviewed and their involved in con- /highland Continued • See Rae pg. 4 were made public this week. success was assessed. flicts." PORTRAIT STUDIO WLUSU President, Stewart Comments in the evaluation Wong recog- Inside Wong was evaluated by randomly were generally positive, but con- nized this as a Grad Photos selected members of the university cerns were raised over the Strategic concern saying,, Opinion 6 was noth- » administration, board of directors, Planning Committee's survey "there ScMscialww mm W w m WBm International 9 full-time and general volunteer stalf process, the Union's layout of their ing really surpris- Bxlo Two 2x3 i.n the evalua- MMlOm 5x7 Six Feature 10 in December of 1997. Cord page, the President's ideologi- ing For Only Their comments were synthe- cal autonomy from the administra- tion, but the Student Life 12 sized into a helpful and favourable tion, and the use of feedback pur- Operations Sports 14 critique of the Students' Union suant to Wilfs quality/service con- Management Entertainment... 16 leader. trol cards. 3RI 744 . 5553 Arts 19 Wong's performance, manageri- The president's managerial Continued pg. 5 J Classifieds 20 I ill &&k ■ m '?\ fcstfflKJSS? ffSjjfflF HfIMH ||||t||K: WHB||£^r S&Swl SSIi iMIiF I It 4n& |jjg| j f^f^ SB WM^^B Hps ft, ■ft ft ■■ ft ft ft VH K II ft ft «|. n SSIF « y.-' $&$ Bk |||jj& ■ WWMk B*r "™i ™ . Ul^hl Hlj|[|n FRIDAYS 102.1 THE EDGE M.C. DANGER BOY DJ. CHRIS PACK Charity Casino Friday January 23 Saturday January 24 FREE with admission FRIDAY & SATURDAY FREE BEFORE 10:00 l 3 41 MARS LAND DRIVE WATERLOO 886-773 0^ | CORD NEWS News Bites The line behind the machine New, smaller meal plan CIBC rep. says one ATM is all we need A $50 meal plan Ls now available for students who find the $300 BETH MULLEN on the bank machines in recent meal plan too much. The new Cord News years, one machine was removed plan, already available for faculty If you have ever walked by Wilfs on and the remaining machine relocat- and staff, became effective a Wednesday night you may have ed to a busier, more active location January 5, 1998. Students wishing noticed the 10 minute line-up for the in the school. to purchase the new plan will still only bank machine on campus. She made it clear that it is the be required to pay the appropriate A complaint among Laurier stu- bank itself that regulates the num- to. dents is that the single bank ber of machines put into a particular machine is not meeting the needs of location. its numerous users. lippert notes the busiest time for Turn in your Often confronted with a message the bank machine this year was declaring that the machine is "out of during the month of September. It condoms funds" or "out of service," many stu- reached 14,382 transactions. AnseD Personal Products of New dents feel that an additional She receives only the monthly Jersey has Issued a recall of 900 machine might be useful. transaction rate from the CIBC, lots of Lifestyles, Prime, and As recently as last year, two despite her requests for both the Contempo condoms with spermi- machines serviced the WLU popula- daily and the hourly activity rates. cide lubricant. The condoms in tion. Joan Carther, a representative Lifestyles Spermicide Lubricated "Having one bank machine in from the CIBC Bank in Waterloo, lot # 9411042300, 11/97; the busiest spot on campus is just an said there are a number of factors, Lifestyles Extra Strength with inconvenience," says Fiona Bassett, such as location, accessibility, and Spermicide lot # 9502037900, a second year Communication building codes that influence the 02/98; and Lifestyles Extra Studies student, "especially when installation of a second bank Strength with Spermicide lot # the one that we do have always machine. 9610302100, 11/99 have been breaks down when you need it rrhere is a mandatory minimum found to deteriorate before the most." standard of 15,000 transactions per WILLIAMS end of their shelf-life. The recall "Sometimes, it seems like all we day before a proposal for a second amounts to roughly 57 million do at WLU is line up," says another machine is considered - a detail condoms. frustrated second year co-op stu- which seems to be undisclosed to STEPHEN dent. any WLU representative. This crite- Dan Allan, CIBC Community ria must be met to ensure that the PHOTO: Manager, said that there are already bank machine pays for itself at a Convert your There can be only one! No, not a single sword weilding immortal more requests than there are bank particular location. at the end of time, but the bank machine. Venda card machines available and valid needs If this requirement is met, and a are being met as quickly as possible. proposal is submitted and accepted, The University of Waterloo Linda Lippert, Manager of Retail a contract could be drawn up fee of a significant sum of money turiity to do business with the school Graphics department is convert- Operations for the Students' Union, between WilfridLaurier and CIBC. becomes an issue for WLU. could only offer one machine due to ing all its campus self-serve explains that due to the low activity In this case, said Carther, a rental Every bank that had the oppor- the low transaction rates. copiers to tako WATCARDS, The WATCARD, unlike the old Venda Card, is not available to non-UW students. As of January sth, 1998, Lose the ice or pay the price Laurier students will no longer be able to use their old Waterloo KRISTINA E. M. SPENCE "If the students do the shoveling, year. Roughly half of the houses it has accumulated a bit." Venda cards. If a student has Cord News the students should charge a fee," with uncleared sidewalks and Crawford says the city will give money left on their old card they It's snowing. It's windy. It's cold. It's says Verbanac. "It's work, it's labor.