A WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY STUDENT PUBLICATION THE CORD VOLUMEXXXIII ISSUE 4 THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1992 Special Orientation Week Photo Feature Pages 18 and 19 2 — THE CORD —Advertisement tommtay, Upt——r 10, IMS 15 DRAFT BRANDS ' LARGEST IMPORTED _ ftf% BEER SELECTION MW) J| ,M » •AA 2 BIG SCREEN SATELLITE TV's #V LIVE NFL FOOTBALL /jy SUNDAYS & MONDAY NIGHTS , KITCHEN OPEN 'TIL 2:30 AM / FRI & SAT. GAMES ROOM / POOL TABLE SHUTTLE BUS DONT DRINK & DRIVE BRUNCH $.20 WINGS AND;™ TCY 60 11-3PM $.20 PEEL N' EAT C ™ C^|^R°°K K HAWKS $9.95 SHRIMP HEX NIGHT GO! TdancSCEK Breast Elected FYC Bored Watch Commentary quashed returns page 4 page 7 page 10 News: : NEWS EDITOR SHELDON PAGE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR INGRID NIELSEN Seagram to sell alcohol INGRID NIELSEN Craft. The Cord Alcohol sold at Wilf's and the Turret has been dealt with by Stu- The university administration dent's Union, and in return has plans to be handle alcohol sales accounted for 80 percent of their at Seagram Stadium despite the revenue. Should an infraction of present operating agreement. the license occur at Seagram The agreement normally gives Stadium, both Wilfs and the Tur- ihe Students' Union control over ret will lose their licenses. campus alcohol. At the first football game of Seagram Stadium was pur- the season on September 12, al- chased by the university as of cohol sales will be run under a July Ist. The stadium is to be special occasion permit, The Stu- considered off campus, said Dr. dents' Union will temporarily Donald Baker VP Academic. provide their trained staff to serve The administration does not and distribute the alcohol, and all feel that the stadium falls under revenue generated will be turned ihe operating agreement of 1977, over to the university. which gave the Students' Union Laurier administrators will be the exclusive right to sell alcohol making a presentation to the Stu- and the university the right to sell dents' Union Board of Directors food. dealing with Seagram issues af- Baker is quick to point out fecting the students on September that the school is in the process of 18. The Board members will have having all aspects of the stadium It's not the Dome, but you will be able to buy beer here. File photo. the opportunity to question issues and the operating agreement such as the sale of alcohol and checked by their lawyers. -1977 does not automatically dic- deliberation about each specific sity liquor license, which covers student employment. When asked what sort of pro- tate and apply to plans in the fu- situation," said Baker. Wilf's and the Turret, as well as The students are being asked tection the students have with ture. Students' Union president Seagram Stadium. to put forth a donation of regards to the sale of alcohol in "It is a matter of deliberate Christina Craft said that it is more "It was thought to be easier to 5150,000 by the University for future years and in future plans of choice if these agreements apply. than an issue of sales and revenue have all alcohol sales handled un- the stadium. A referendum on this the expansion, Baker responded We do not apply [the agreement] derived from Seagram Stadium. It der one license and be one decision is likely to take place, that one agreement derived in willy-nilly without thought and is more the matter of the univer- group's one responsibility,"-says but the date has not been set. Self defence fouled up PAT BRETHOUR The courses were advertised The Cord by the Students' Union as The WLU Students' Union has "Women's Self Defense Ses- canceled self-defense courses sions". The syllabus drawn up by for women, claiming the Pete Nevin, outlining the self- courses are exclusionary, and defense sessions, is titled "WLU violate the Union's bylaws. Women's Self-Defense", and ex- A July 25 meeting of the plicitly states that the course is Board of Directors voted to can- solely devoted to women. cel the courses. Dave Bigioni, a Stangret says that the course member of the Board of Directors was advertised as "Women's tried to enroll in the class, and Self-Defense" so women would was told that he could not. The feel comfortable signing up for it. Board then deemed the course However, she says, there was discriminatory and shut the an "understanding" that men classes down, before the third of would be able to take the course. three sessions took place. The Nevin contends that no such courses had been running since agreement was made. October 1991. "It was only mentioned to me "The Students' Union's main when the Board of Directors purpose is to represent our mem- thing blew apart," he said. "The bers," said Alexandra Stangret, actual mandate had never been VP: University Affairs. "There's mentioned to me." a bylaw we've got to obey, bylaw Nevin said he didn't have 13 which states that the Students' enough time to teach both Union can't support or offer any women's and men's self-defense kind of services that discriminate courses, but would have been on any basis." willing to make arrangements "By offering this course, not with other instructors. allowing male students to enroll "It was never asked, but in this course and not offering an- maybe I should have thought of other alternative we are in fact it,"he said. "I never knew that it discriminating. was a problem." "The instructor, originally as Over 100 female students terms of his agreement with us at took the course in the fall of the beginning of the summer, 1991. Fifteen women took the agreed that the focus would winter sessions. remain on ihe self-defense, and Self defence for women only? No one seems to know. Pile photo The courses had been offered that males would be allowed to since October 1991, at a cost of enroll in the course if they chose hired to teach women's self- "And then [there was] the "They made a gross inter- 525, with S5 being donated to a to, would be available to men, defense courses, and only that. agreement with Alex [that the pretation of the equality bylaw, women's shelter. and that's the understanding that "The course has been taught course] was to be taught exclu- and canceled the third class be- The Students' Union will be we went by as the courses exclusively to women in the sively to women. She came up cause of it." holding self-defense courses started," said Stangret. past," said Nevin. "I've had some against some controversy with the Nevin wasn't given the op- again in the fall. Dates have not Pete Nevin, the instructor for controversy in people not under- Students' Union over the equality portunity to present his case at the been set for the new sessions, and the courses, says that he was standing what the course is about. issue. Board of Directors meeting. an instructor has not been hired. THE CORD 4 News Thmadax Wwtof 10, lMtt Breasts and employment JIM BOYCE only pari of her breast but not the portunity in the workplace. As the designated groups" Thus, a question is: fair for whom? News Commentary nipple was exposed? What if a NDP government has presented it woman who refused to fill out the This is the same question that What do topless women and mother was nursing a baby? What employment equity would better survey because she thinks it is women have been asking about employment equity have in if a shirtless, flat-chested woman be described as preferential wrong to ask questions about sex, the laws on obscenity and their common? Both have been de- was standing beside an shirtless, hiring. The goals and timetables race and disabilities would be own breasts. For whom do the fended recently as a means of overweight man with larger outlined in the legislation are just counted as a white male. So laws promote equality? increasing equality for women. breasts? another way of saying that a per- would a women who forgot to fill Fortunately, these women are What is important to realize, These questions all sought to son's gender will be taken into in a survey, did not feel like it, or supporting the idea that laws however, is the different con- discover what makes a woman's consideration during the hiring deliberately wanted to be counted should be consistent for both men cepts of justice embodied in breasts "obscene" in comparison process. as a white male. Notably, such a and women unlike the NDP each case. to those of a man. That women and white men recommendation is to operate un- which would made a mockery of Those who support the right It is this idea that defines the should be treated unequally is der an "employment equity" plan this ideal with its employment of a woman to bare her breasts in sense of justice upheld in rallies blatantly proposed by pro- with equity meaning "fair". The equity legislation. New Union Budget JOHN McHUTCHION The Cord The Wilfrid Laurier University Students' Union is projecting a budget surplus of over $47,000 for the 1992/93 school year. This is down considerably from last year's net revenue of $108,222. The Students' Union generates revenue from a variety of sources, such as student fees, the operation of student bars and entertainment facilities. This year Student Activities Council (SAC) fees and Student Union Building (SUB) fees, which are included with tuition, are 551.00 and $38.80, respectively, per full-time undergraduate student.