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Friday,
June
3, 1988
NEWS
Selling the Ranch Proviqcial Treasurer Robert Nixon placed a last minute freeze on Western’s $96 million sale and tease-back plan. The deal to sell library books, research equipment and physical assets to the private sector and then lease back over a 17 year period would have raised - $5.7 million for the university, The idea of selling off the university’s assets met with public and faculty critism,,but Western’s President George Pedersen stood firmly behind the administration’s decision. Pedersen told a full house at .Western’s senate meeting that such deals are not tax .‘+loop-holes” and that they are used by both the federal and rovincial governments. The Ontario government+ however, feels t Ke deal undermines the tax system by reducing the federa1 tax revenues from which a large portion of university funding is generated. Aa a result the government has threatened to cut funding to participating universities by the amount they net.
Double Parked Federation of Students’ President Adam Chamberlain (far right) 1~88 apkt of the official opening of the Summer Youth Employment Office on King Street in Kitchener.
’ Owners of illegal1 parked bikes on the University of Western Ontario campus wil 9 Boon find a note, an additional chain and e pad&k attached to their bieycbs. Under the-plan, sid8rs will got b fined but will have to walk to the cam us p&d or parking office to get an official- to unlock their bikes. T 1 e chaining policy is intended to encourage the use of official bicycle rgcks.
’ Lewis- ,asks WLU gracbto improve human- condition’
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by LeeBe Pemult Imprint etrff Stephen Lewis, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, and Dr. Flora Roy, chairman of the English De artment for 30 years, received R onorary doctorates Sunday at Wilfrid Laurier University’s spring convocation. Lewis, known for his “outspoken opinion end integrity” in broadcasting, aad hie memorable UN speeches, didn’t fail to impresa the convocation audience. With past pritions a8 the provincial leader of the new Democratic Party, a researcher for the &Wiat ftitemational in London, and a school teacher in Africa, he has developed and continues h.i~ rob ae a utcial democrat. Ever awere of the EM& of the oppressed in the world, Lewis entreated the graduate8 to live beyond the fundamental obligations of their new careers and liver: “1 don’t want to hector you or preach at you...about obligatione....I have merely one thing I want to convey. Often we live in
of a tillion youngsters under the A committele was established age of five every year.” at the last student council meetThe graduates deserved every ing to look into the issue of a new praise that could be “heaped student life building. The Btuupon [their). collective heada” dent life project committee is an declared Lewis. After up to five action-oriented committee years, receiving a university de- whose specific mandate is to gree ie certainly worthwhile, he present an idea of what 8tudentB stated. He only hopes the stureally want in a new building. To dents will “make it even that thh end, they will Beck the opinmuch more woflhwhile.” Their - i~lw of individual etudentrr snd The rem&&r of the tort will effort ie needed to help Create “a &dent so&ties. likely fall m-the BtUdeAtB.The mm ju8t, a more equttabh, ,a’ The only definite idee tbut hm $10 pr term fee, which 8tUChlt8 more civilized, a more humane, been pmmted forcanri&ration have been pay@ for Columbia and, ultimately, a mom peacefd 81 y&t in that, of a “Sportrplex.” finirhed in one 8OCiatly.“~ Tha facility would in&de a w)o ‘Ice Field wilk yuaf. It &8 been -ted that a Dr. Fhwa Roy, bono& as OLLG metre flat track, thrae to four rsferSndUti .ba held ut election of LaUrwS mo8t outrtanding fa- bueketb& courts, or five ten& time to tiund tha fee to add to c&y rmember~, Ied her departem&& 6r 24 badminton courts, provided b the Demeat with remarkable 4 I VraiQty Cbffit-B m&S - $manay ~t4d&CS. TbiB I; OW8V8fs de&cmti~n. .Her .department ef- ” Wee, rowing meclrinss, and wills rtudeat &&ion. fsrad COti In &lOBt We+ t tmisIng 8 tdpmnnt. tmditianal fkfkl of epecialimB- : Ye arjn proI? lem with I tion, even with o&y two fact&y. &rtepfex, mcording to Vicecihumbd%ia 8tFs88@8 how immemberi~ dir@ the iate 1~0’8.. &eai&& [IJtihw~~ty Affti) port&t it is that t&e AdminbtraRoy’s innovatiahs include bar wy .-a is &et a Sport8tioa help fund tk II~W buil&ng hunehi&of the audio-visual fa- #ax w@&d not enc~a8l the l 8 the lest twoatrt of three builddties on NUU~UB and intro&‘I#bde of 8ll BtUChts. aher in#%w8re funded by 8tUdMtB. ing etudsnts to Canadian 4BhMI8 h&Id8 a W8ibh bkillg He alIowr that the Adminirtraliterature when other Univereiaf tb PAC buil tf ing to the Cam- tion @muine!y WaStB to help but ties wert still debating its merB Cent&e: althou& nothing is that thehelp eU8t bs rubatenit8. F .naliaed, tial, not just in prinetple.
what can often be an unjust,...a deprived, and even a depraved world. It is worth taking a small chunk of your lives, it can be a week, it can be a month, it can be a year,... and devote it to attempting to improve the human condition,” Lewis asked that students ‘oin one of the non-governmenta 1 organizatione if they care about human rights. fie deaded directly: “If you care to do away with some of the atrocities that [are inflicted) on vulnerable human beings in moorsaocietiee than I care to name, then join Amnesty International” or enother organixatios, He hopes that graduates will spend time “givin of the connidemble inteliectua f ad eocial axperisace which only e univat&ycur provide, to confer BOIM leader&@ on ~SBU~~Bwhich will mean eom8thing to peuple we11 beyond the boundarier of this country.” .% Very proud of Canada.8 invol-
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