The Cord WeeklyThe tie that binds since 1926 TOP TRUMPS ATTACK OF THE MAK How to play your cards right and stay out Jonathan Mak talks to The Cord about of trouble at Laurier... PAGES 20-21 his game Everyday Shooter... PAGE 35 Volume 49 Issue 4 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1,2008 www.cordweekly.com Pool Dec. until open 31 SYDNEY HELLAND Laurier has delayed the university pool's closure to allow community groups more time to raise funds significant effect on both commu- nity groups and school users. for its repair; it's now up to those groups to raise the funds that would keep the pool from closing According to Peter Tiidus, chair of the kinesiology department, several courses in the department JEREMY TREMBLAY that the pool is safe to keep open beresponsible for raising funds. Max Blouw, the school's priorities will be directly affected, includ- NEWS EDITOR on a day-to-day basis over the com- "It will be up to the community for capital funding lie elsewhere. ing a course on swim coaching, an ing months, though Jim Butler, VP: [to raise funds] if they want to use "We are constantly looking for aquatic fitness class and several Wilfrid Laurier University has offi- Finance for WLU, cautions that the it,"he said. government funding for various labs. cially announced that its aging pool pool could be closed on short no- "Otherwise, it will be a different capital needs," Blouw explained, "We have booked some time will now remain open until Decem- tice before December 31 should the type of pool if do we put one in. "but our priority has been student over in the Rec Centre instead," ber 31. facility become unsafe. We're into a campus planning pro- needs and classroom needs. We explained Tiidus, "but that's fairly The move was made to give The cost of extending the life of cess right now... and that's going to have a long list of deferred mainte- expensive and we'd prefer not to do community groups, who were left the pool lies anywhere from $1.5 take about a year. We're just in the nance that is on our radar screen. that. ... As for the labs and things scrambling to find alternate facili- million for a solution that will last throws of hiring a consultant right The pool is one element of that but we would run in there, I don'tknow ties when in June the original date five years to $20 million to replace now. We'll probably wait until we it is a lower priority." how we're going replace them; we of closure was set as August 31, the pool. have a campus plan officially ap- He cited renovations to Arts IEI haven't crossed that bridge yet." more time to raise funds to extend Laurier is working with commu- proved before we make any move and classrooms in St. Michael's the life ofthe facility. nity groups to plan for repairs, but on a pool," he explained. campus as WLU's current priority. Consulting engineers have said Butler stresses that Laurier will not According to WLU's President The pool's potential closure had - SEE POOL, PAGE 11 WLUSU website final cost around $100,000 status as a student, but the system noted, would "engage students and The new Students' Union website, to be completed by January 5, may would be configured so that each create a virtual dialogue between studentcould only vote once. them and WLUSU." include an election module to allow for online voting by students As well, he noted that there The Students' Union is even toy- would be measures to ensure pri- ing with the idea of a Facebook-type REBECCA VASLUIANU below the budgeted $165,000. pletion by January 5, 2009 and, vacy during voting times and, in the application, included internally on NEWS EDITOR "I think it'll probably come in with a new and improved website, service agreement, WLUSU would the website where students could under $100,000. Where it'll come in Champagne revealed some of the make sure the website was secure interact with one another. The Wilfrid Laurier University Stu- under that I can't be sure, but that's new things WLUSU plans to experi- enough to handle many people us- "You name it. Anything thatyou dent's Union (WLUSU) has settled the way it's looking right now," said ment with. ing it at the same time. can do on the Internet we want to on a supplier for its new website Champagne. "One of the bigger ones is the "We would anticipate higher try and have on the website," said and has gone into initial negotia- "We have the full 'out of the box' elections module because the Stu- traffic at certain times of the year, Champagne. tions to create a final contract. software package, which is available dents' Union is slowly trying to go so that might be one of the times Until the new website is built, Negotiations began on August 26 for about $60,000 with full custom towards a more environmental sys- we would prepare with more band- Champagne explained that he and and, depending on the package of design in terms of graphic design tem, so we want to have a paperless with to secure the site," Champagne VP: Marketing Jackie McDonald features WLUSU selects, the final and it goes to the higher end of that election," he said. stated. have been working to ensure that pricetag may vary. project which is full customization. Champagne explained that the Another feature WLUSU wants the old website is kept current, According to Phil Champagne, I think that came out to $150,000," election module would have a fea- to try out is incorporating videos, clean and free ofredundancy. Marketing and Communications he explained. ture where students could put in blogs and photographs of an enter- Manager, the final number will be The website is targeted for com- their student number to prove their taining nature, which, Champagne MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1,2008 ■ THE CORD WEEKLY 2 News The Cord Weekly - The tie that binds since 1926~ phone: (519) 884-1970 ext. 3564 fax:(519)883-0873 Summer, summarized email: [email protected] The Cord Weekly 75 University Avenue West missed over the summer, visit CordWeekly.com Waterloo, Ontario For these highlighted stories and others you've N2L 3C5 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2008 VOLUME 49 ISSUE 4 MAY 2008 Next Issue: September 10 QUOTE OF THE WEEK "It's actually kind of karma." - Editor-in-Chief Alex Hayter, on stealing a chocolatebar Student accused of from a pair of girls as they were arguing in front ofa vending machine. terrorism Students may Laurier staff and peers still joinWLUSA Lord of the Sims No re-zoning WORD OF THE WEEK support Suresh Sriskan- Laurier students al- Maxis co-founder City council votes Onerous - Representing a great burden or difficulty. darajah despite claims by lowed legal representa- speaks on campus against re-zoning "stu the U.S. tion over unionization dent slums" CONTRIBUTORS AlexCybulski Paula Millar Alison Schofield Anne Donahue Andrea Millet Mara Silvestri Linda Givetash Don Morgenson Josh Smyth Heather Hamilton Shagun Randhawa Alanna Wallace Luciani Trevor Loughborough Trevor Scheidel Greg Whitfield BigWLUSU Baxter leads Maxwell's BOD budget Canada's athletes drafted music $31,575.87 bud- Director ofLaurier Athletics Receiver Dante New venue opened WLUSP STAFF get approved will go to the FISU games in Luciani goes to beside King St. by the Board of February Eskimos Residence Copy Editing Manager Meredith Barrett Copy Editors Emily Slofstra Directors Ariel Kroon IT Manager Kayleigh Leßlanc Distribution Manager Nicole Weber JUNE 2008 WLUSP ADMINISTRATION President Greg Sacks Economist gets Elite journalists VP: Advertising Angela Foster VP: Brantford Holly Gibson Underagers barred national attention speak at CIGI Chair of the Board Bryn Ossington Sue Horton pro- Four famous Vice Chair Janice Lee from the Turret Double-rooms Board of Directors Brendan McGill Underagers will not be WLU over-enrolls for third poses cure to correspondents at Luay Salmon allowed in on bar nights year in a row malnutrition roundtable ADVERTISING All advertising inquiries should be directed to VP: AdvertisingAngela Foster at 884-0710, ext. 3560 [email protected] COLOPHON $165,000 Chancellor Pollock Intramurals awarded VG Cats let loose WLUSU website Electrohome founder in- Athletics department Internet cartoonist The Cord Weekly is the official student newspaper of BOD stalled WLU acknowledged for 07/08 talks to The Cord theWilfrid Laurier Universitycommunity. approves large in position budget for new site programming Started in 1926 as the College Cord, Vie Cord Weekly is an editorially independent newspaper published by Wilfrid Laurier University Student Publications, Waterloo, a corporation without share capital. 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