THE CORD A WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY STUDENT PUBLICATION VOLUME XXXIII ISSUE 14 NOVEMBER 19 1992 Second Cup gets Champions. the support of over 3000 staff and students few weeks. The current total of Lianne Jewitt by has signatures on both petitions The Second Cup, favoured reached over 3000. and among students, faculty, When asked to comment on staff alike is scheduled to be re- the petitions, Rayner said that he as of December 11, 1992; placed "hasn't seen the petitions." Rayner a petition is being circulated in also said that "we'll consider the or them response to this aspects action. (the petitions)". Director of Exactly what Personnel and The current number will be consider- Administrative ed is uncertain, as Services, Earl Rayner clearly of on signatures states Rayner, said the that the Second reason for re- Cup was of the given a "one placement both petitions has year Second Cup is trial basis", and that it is "costing the decision for their dismissal us too much reached over 3000. "made money to havfc it was this there." Rayner past September." The Lady Soccer Hanks wwn—i the iliwnto, McMaater, St. Mary's, and McQIII, added, "the return It was the Second title. and return to Laurlor aHh the National Cluaipto—tUp - ■ I D<lfc gTOarGO If®** VVGRMfI to the university is hardly cover- Cup's one year anniversary on ing our costs." campus. Rayner has not mentioned WLU student confesses Quite clearly, coffee and hot what will be the replacing popu- chocolate drinkers, and cookie lar coffee cart, but concerned coffee drinkers fear it to in bomb threat campus and muffin eaters' main concern calling will be a university-run establish- with the pending absence of the ment Second Cup is the lack of quality "I think it's terrorism, and certainly deserving of Dean of Student's Pat Brethour secretary, that awaits if a university run ser- by charges," said Fred Nichols, Dean of Students. But, of Kendra Young said the Second vice takes its place. the Dean added, the student's situation did not The mystery of who was responsible for last Cup, "they have quality coffee." merit laid. If there is a chance that anoth- charges being of Monday's bomb threats — which closed the uni- Young is also the co-ordinator establishment will be er quality for -- has been solved. Sort of. a fac- versity a day The man will be undergoing physical and petition circulating among considered, petition signers ulty and staff in favour of keeping say A male Laurier student has confessed to making psychiatric tests. they may not feel so hard done by the Second Cup on campus. calls, of which said there were two threatening one "Hopefully, we can avoid criminal charges, and Another petition organized by because, after all, as Young said, "bombs" in the But the is not university. university deal with this on campus," he said. "I two WLU students has also been just want a good cup of cof- details of his releasing the man's name, or any con- The student had been the Dean fee". trying to contact collecting signatures over the past fession. for a number of days. Nichols, however, was in by He was one of three suspects questioned INSIDE West Virginia, on a retreat with the Students' WLU Security about the bomb threats. Union. told we "At that time [Saturday night], he was Chief of Unable to contact Nichols, the student went to had conclusive evidence," said John Baal, Marsden's office instead. were pending Security. "He was told that charges against him." On Tuesday morning, Nichols, Marsden and in On Monday morning, the man turned himself Jim Wilgar, Associate VP: Institutional Projects, to Lorna Marsden, president of Wilfrid Laurier. metto decide what discipline would be applied. The man has teen suspended from the univer- Nichols met with the student shortly after, and He sity indefinitely, and is not allowed on campus. informed him of his suspension. Nichols said that the uni- will also be writing a "letter of apology to additional details concerning the bomb threats will News versity community". No criminal charges have been be available before the end of the fall semester. laid, however. "This is a gets ripped .page 3 very, very serious Regina up. matter and we are taking it very seriously," said Marsden. "It's quite obvious this individual is Sports filled with remorse." Marsden said that she had Hawkey Hawks split set......page 11 received numerous letters from various members of the university community expressing "concern" Entertainment about the bomb scare of Novem- ber 9. Bracula d1e5........................p3ge17 The university's emergency protocol, designed to deal with like the bomb is incidents scare, Comment due out by the end of this week. "Let's hope we never have to Tories cook Canada............page 25 use this," Marsden said. "But it'll Confusion after bomb threat. Photo; ShoßSon Pago. be there." 2 Advertisement THE CORD win wu tttm iukd? •i A good night out ran just about At NlcGinnis tako tho shirt off your back. and more. landing you expect more get seafood Much more cnicken, pasta, steakf ribs, students and gouimet burgers. 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Construction at 202 Regina began in August, proposed new Science and Academics building is in in late the reason for the relocation. but the actual work commenced earnest A for this new Science was for- September. The renovations are slated to be com- plan building mulated in when the a pleted sometime in February. 1988, government accepted Street will now be a Laurier that was submitted to the Ontario The new Regina building proposal the office of and Universities. two story complex, greatly increasing Ministry Colleges ' of the 40,000 foot former "Back when times were said Ron Dupuis space square factory. good," of Physical Plant and Planning, "the government would ask us for list a of things we would like to do. Every university was asked." Dupuis added that when the government investigated Laurier's bid, "they found that we had only 65 percent of our space entitlement." That prompted the Ministry of Colleges and Univer- sities to accept the bid. The Ministry found the money through a .fledgling pro- called The gram jobsOntario. pro- created in order to in- gram was vest "in capital projects through- out Ontario and create new jobs," as Colleges and Universities Min- ister Richard Allan stated in his press release of July 7, 1992. Allan added that, "expanding and facilities for improving Although this man is working on the foundation the science and technology is one of building will soon have two stories. the of A major thrusts," job- loader scoops trash on the site of the 202 Regina St. sOntario, which explains their Photo: Jackie Kriekle renovations. Photo: Sheldon Page contribution to the project. JobsOntario "will invest 14.6 million dollars" in tuition fees is directed into the operating budget, which the to of uni- the plan, as stated a July 7, 1992 press release. oversees day day operation the be Week is here "Wilfrid Laurier was also making a significant versity. 202 Legal capital contribution of $3.7 million,"it added. The building at Regina Street was pur- Dupuis said that the construction at 202 Regina chased in 1989. One half of it was renovated, with MORTON DOUG work in 1990. That WLU by itself will cost two to two and half million dol- ending gave approxi- The Cord feet of office lars. He estimates that Laurier's contribution to that mately 20,000 more square space. the whole aspect of the plan will be 500,000 dollars. By 1991, building was operative, included dis- Today is the last day of Legal Resource week which in There is however, no correlation between this ending, "the first stage development," said booths, and to inform students of the law and to plays, speakers initiative, its costs and the recent hike in tuition. Dupuis. The current development, to accommodate in in law. generate more interest careers in the As was reported May 27, 1992 issue of a second floor, is the second stage in the plan. Resource feels the need to Dominic Gingras, Legal Director that the Cord, "Tuition [rose] by an average of seven Dupuis also said the renovations and con- "make students of Laurier more aware of their legal rights and obliga- percent" for the 1992/1993 school year. struction will be very helpful to the university com- tions." "There two types of spending," Dupuis said, "an munity. staffed To accomplish this there was a free legal booth Monday, and The for operating [a] capital budget." money "With the government funding to satisfy the by resource councillors. noted that the Landlord and legal Gingras the construction, he continued, came out of the need for a new Science and in the cap- Building, process Tenant and the of Act was a major concern for the students topic ital budget of preparing for that, we'll find more usable space," many of questions.