Campus
Centre,
University Waterloo,
Room
I40
of Waterloo On&o, N2L
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888-4048 Friday, September 24,1993 Volume 16, Number 10 ISSN 07067380
Inside news
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U. of T. CXJSA referendum no more, CampusFest mess, book tax fight, co-op to go online A
tWorum
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Paranoia returns from the depths, yellow helmets good, CampusFest bad
features
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Computer chess explained, WPIRG information
sports
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more
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Football dumps York; men’s soccer wins twice; field hockey thrice; NHL preview
arts
24-33
Skydiggers at Fed, 54:40, Rymes With Orange, UW theatre, Qui’Ju at Princess, Doughboys interview
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Contribution
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Chris Aidworth, Sam Appleby, Sandy Atwal, Dawn Brenner, Julie Brown, Sherry Carter, Edson Castilho, May+era CQazan, Cheryl Costello, Ken “Earl Wayne” Craig, Sandie Edwards, Carol Ferguson, Dave Fisher, lain Grant, Kieran Green, Maya Harris, Peter Hoflich, Greg Hood-Morris, Angela Mulholland, John Hymers, Greg Krafchick, Tasha Lackman, Jack Lefcourt, Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Sharon Little, Dava McKay, Pat Meriihan, Nicholas Mew, Greg Newton, Rich Nichol, Daryl Novak, Jill O’Hagan, Kathryn Peet, Kat M. Piro, Sameh E. Rehan, Mike Thomson, Dave Thomson, Janet Tseng, Radomir Zak. Imprint is the official student newspaper of the University of Waterloo. It is an editorially independent newspaper published by Imprini Publications, Waterloo, a corporation withoul share capital. Imprint isamemberof the Ontaric Community Newspaper, Association (OCNA) imprint is published every Friday during the fall and winter terms and every second Friday during the spring teh-m. tmprint reserves the right tc screen, edit, and refuse advertising.
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OUSA referendum postponed at -UT by Ken Imprint
Byson
lie Interest Research Group of Toronto (OPIRG-T), the large amount of opposition to OUSA at UofT
stuff
After recently calling a referendum on membership in the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), the University of Toronto Student’s Administrative Council (SAC) has decided not only to postpone the referendum, but also to temporarily suspend their OUSA membership. While the pending referendum had been much anticipated by various anti-OUSAfactions at Uoff, SAC now feels that policy differences between SAC and OUSA must be
worked out before the referendum is held. Problems arose between SAC and OUSA in August when SAC complained about their under-represent&ion on the OUSA general assembly, which is run on a representation by population model. While SAC was paying fees commensurate with their population, they felt under-represented on the assembly because of that body’s maximum delegate ceiling. ff UofT’s membership was tieighted to the same scale as the other member schools, they would have more delegates on the general assembly than allowed for by the ceiling. SAC President Ed de Gale
says this is not acceptable to UofT. “OUSA has proved itself to be a rem&ably dynamic and progressive student lobby group,” de Gale said. “But we’re (SAC) not willing to marginalize our representation within any group.” SAC would rather not have made the decision to postpone the referendum, but felt pressured by time constraints to deal with the representation problem first, said de Gale. OUSA’s opposition at UofT, however, doesn’t believe the representation issue to be the real reason for the referendum postponement. According to the Ontario Pub-
forced
SAC to cancel the referen-
dum.
“The student
government the referendum
has
because they knew they were going to circumvented
lose it,” said OPIRG-T coordinator Andrea Calver. The “no” campaign was well organized, with committees on all three campuses, says Calver, who believes the representation issue to be a front allowing SAC to cancel the referendum. “lrregardless of procedural questions, we should still go to referendum and solve the OUSA problem once and for all,” she said. Ed de Gale doesn’t see the antiOUSA factions at Uoff as a threat, however, calling them a.“vocal minority.” “The dissenters on this campus are primarily made up of OFSers who no longer have and OFS to adhere to,” he said, referring to the former Ontario Federation of Students, whose tuition policy had been demanding zero tuition.
de Gale dismissed
CampusFest isn’t just tree tampons. Above, trained stuntpersons demonstrate latest automobile air-bug technology.
Camrwsfest plea&s, irks
the allega-
tions of circumventing the referendum and called his opposition “a highly ideologically entrenched group of mourners for OFS.” Regardless of their differences, both SAC and OPIRG-T believe UofT will rejoinOUSAwithin weeks, after the representation issue has been dealt with. For now, SAC plans to deal with OUSA as a separate entity and the referendum wili not be held. OUSA will settle with UofT soon, says Calver, and “Uoff wil! be back in OUSA having circumvented a referendum process.” While the planned referendum will not occur, de Gale says there will be a referendum on OUSA at UofT in the future. The next possible date for the referendum would be in March of I 994.
by NutaZie Omska Imprint stm Campus
Fest arrived Septemof Waterloo to station itself for two days just outside the campus centre, This is the third year UW has received Campus Fest, which tours across Canada and will be visiting a total of twenty campuses this year. “This service is one that’s pleased the students, that has brought a lot of students together in one area and has generated publicity for our clubs day,” commented Vice President, Operations and Finance George \lan Nooten. “It lets students realize that
ber 22 at the University
there are thing5 going on arwnd campus.”
on
When confronted with the fact that a complaint had been filed about his speech material, Mickoski exclaimed, “I’ve been on for fifteen minutes!” “I’m very surprised, everything I usually da Is very well received,” he ‘said and directed Imprint to Campus Fest manager Nick Kazzun.
Campbell blames deficit for higher /. tuition Kim Campbell was cdmpefled to respond to some probing questions from a group of high school students in Owen Sound last Tuesday at the Bayshore Community Centre. Some of those who attended did not feel that Campbell responded to their queries adequately. Campbell chose to address the issues of skills development and edu-
cation
with the young crowd
who
had gathered to hear her spegk. Planj’ of those present will have reached voting age by the October 25 election date. But the Prime Minister soon
found
herself fielding some basic regarding her fiscal poli-
questions
7”
cies.
bg Angela Mulfwlland special to Impritat
“You talked about how important training is, but with the raising of university tuition fees by 40 per cent and the cut of government grants, how do you expect us to get to university and get the better training we need?,” asked high school student Carrie Carscadden, as quoted in The &be and Mail, September 22. While the increase in tuition was not a decision made by the federal government, the Ontario government claims that it has been forced to raise fees due to a reduc-
complete h&r university studies without the help of student loans. But Campbell insists that loans are not a long-term solution EO the problem of increasing post secondary costs: reducing the deficit is, as she has insisted throughout her term as Prime Minister and during her present campaign. Without the need to pay interest on the debt, the federal government would have more funds for education, Campbell claims. She then went on at length to explain about programs for financial
tion
transfers
in federal
funding.
The Prime Minister responded by reminding the group of her preelection promise to raise the limits of the Canada Student Loan program. Campbell admitted that she herself would not have been able to
to
the
prwhces,
while insisting that a reduction
However a few areas of controversy have occurred around Campus Fest. One former UW student who encountered Campus Fest was not pleased with what he heard from the loudspeakers. “I wandered by [Campus Festj and thought that the guy [Campus Fest staff member MC Howdy Mickoski] standing on the Federation of Students box out there was not very funny, and neither did anybody else apparently.” complained Ralph Fit. “He was being crude and saying things that were offensive, that might have been put up with ten years ago but not now. Nobody was laughing and there were a few groans,” said Fit.
all
the
of the
deficit is the only true solution. Student Carscadden later told reporters that she did not believe that Kim Campbell responded to her question satisfactorily.
“It
won’t
happen
again,”
Kazzun said later. When Imprint confronted Fed event’s, coordinator Dave McDougall
about
the complaints
he
said-there are advantages and disadvantages to Campus Fest. “Currently we [the Feds] are trying to maximize pros and minimize cons,” said McDougall. “The pros are, students get free stuff and the cons are the amount of recyclable material and garbage that are created.” The Federation had to pay Campus Fest organizers, Market
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