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The reorganization drive at.WLU is continuing. Another: resignation a&i two more apfioinI&e.nix were announced this week. . . ‘, Dr. Herman Overgaard’has re_____________-__~--_-pa& . 3 questi0n.s ~----------------f---‘signed as director of the busin&s and econdmics school to teat! fulltime. Unanswered
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c&iiues: His 1s the third, administrative resignation since the consultant firm .of Booz, Allen and Hamilton recently made an oral report to a closed meeting of WLU’s board of governors. The firm is investigating the university’s present operations and its course for the future. -President William J.Villaumeand Dean Lloyd schaus both resigned In the second move, the executive
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amdttee of the WLU board set up a new post--academic vice-president and d&n of arts and science. Dr, Frank C. Peters, was named to the dual post in an acting capacity. Only last week the board had announced Peters would replace Schaus to act as dean of Waterloo University College, the arts and science division of WLU. “The new post will bring imrne-
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diate responsibility for all academic programs, undergraduate and graduate, under the supervision of an academic leader,” said acting president Dr. Henry Endress. Prof. Glenn Carroll, associate professor pf business administration, was named acting director of the business school to replace Overgaard, Dr. Peters praised Carroll as an
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able teacher who commands the respect of faculty and students. “He is well known in the world of commerce and industry as a capable and aggressive leader,,’ he said, Endress said Carroll is an effective administrator able to develop his associates into a working team. More reorganizational steps for bettey-qer ation are under study by Booz, Allen and Hamilton.
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Most 6f the 40 students living at ,W+%~loo Towers decided yesterday tc fight the eviction notices $iey received Monday. The notices ordea the students to vacate the premises within 72 hours. A. N.Abraham,presidentofHeboto Management Services inToronto, the management firm responsible for- the building, said, “This is a war--a war against obscenity and malicious damage.” All students living in the apartment, 137 University Avenue West, are sitting tight. ‘We’ve got a legitimate lease and we haven’t broken it id any way,” said ,one. All unmarried students living in the gpartment building received the ----__--__-----------Writing on the wall page 3 __-_-_-___-----------same letter, which said their rooms “had ‘been found in a disorderly ‘and dirty condition,” and that manand evidence agement had “reports concerning disturbances in the building which are in breach of your terms of occupation of these prellliSeS*"
“We will definitely press “criminal charge-s against every student who has not moved out of the building within 72 hours”, said a Miss Green of Heboto Manages Services, which manages the building for private investors. She was reluctant to give her name when the firm was contacted. Abraham backed this up in a later call with, “If you think I’m kidding just try me--you or anybody elsel” Steve Ireland, president of the Federation of Students, has told all those involved in a letEer, “The Federation will give hundred-percent support in the event you decide to oppose the landlord.” Ireland and the student tenants of Wates-loo Towers are presently meeting with theF ederation’s legal counsel. Orlin Wood, a member of the Federation’s legal firm, McGibbon, Harper and Haney, has advised students that the letter they received is not a legal document, and should be ignored. The Federation has offered to bear all costs incurred by legal action if students fight the eviction
notices. Ireland &so said yesterday that the Federation would provide temporary accommodation if necessary. Two days before the curreut crisis broke, Mike Sheppard, former Federation president, was appointed by Council to look into..ather. cases of landlords discriminating against students and .try ~0 fight them through the courts. The building itself is unfinished, Hallways are uncarpeted with bare walls. Apartment units ontheupper floors are still under construction. Some tenants complained that during the last rainstorm water came in through the walls. And although the front door has a remote-control lock, the back door cannot be closed. Rent is $153.50 a month--‘for what you pay, you-re getting noth% ” said a student tenant. The Heboto firm manages Faterloo Towers for private investors. -Abraham stated, “This is the worst example of malicious damage we’ve ever seen. We have p& perty right inCabbagetown,the slum area of downtown Toronto, where there’s more respectfor property.” He said his charges arise from obscenities continually being placed on hallways, stairways and the elevators, as well as numerous milkboxes being broken and fire equipment being stolen. Someapartments have been holding all-night parti&. Once or twice a month fire alarms go off in the middle of the night, especially annoying tenants ,with children. “How does he know it’s us-?” asked one student. “There could be some pervert coming in the back doors--they’re swollen by thewater and you can’t close them. The Satan’s Choice motorcycle gang was trying to break in a couple of weeks ago.” A braham was adamant in his stand-- ‘“You11 never convince me that teachers and adults would write that sort of jazz on the walls. Perhaps the .student representatives should gb and visit that building and then hang their heads in shame.” hstin Streatch, the building superintendent , feels that the problem is that in the past occupants have not beal screened. “I’ve had sin-& lar buildings,” he said . “I’ve had good students--a lot of them--and
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I’ve had students I’ve had to evict. I’m not in for the students. If a man a hundred years old comes in, I’m not going to take his money the same day. He’s going to bescreened the same as you are.” This screening process involves checking with previous landlords, employers and the university in the case of students, Streatchsaid.Personal impressions also play a part. Streatch said he has had 23 years’ experience superintending and managing apartments, including Surrey Place on Frederick Street in Kitchever. In reference to the obscenities, Streatch stated, “I’m taking them off every day.” But he admitted he has never been able to catch anyone doing it.
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Mike Waye, a WUC student living in a Waterloo Towers suite for the summer, said, “There are some morons in the world and they%e been writing the big word on the elevators and walls.” Tenants said they have seen delivery boys and nd&borhood children playing in the halls and elevators. Don Kerr, a married graduatestudent in design at U of W, who did not receive a letter, stated, “Twice I went to scrub the elevator because it was just too much. I’mconvinced most of the writing and damage was done by friends of people living here. For awhile this was the popular place for all kinds of kids to come after the dance looking for parties .*’ A U of W faculty member living
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in the apartment building since September commented, “There have been good student tenants--perhaps one or two apartments would quAi= fy. There’s just plain lack Of respect for other people in the building.‘, “We were going to finish it up right away ,” said superintendent’ Streatch , who took over May 25, “but I couldn@t see spending another dollar until we get it cleaned up. I recommended eviction of two or three tenants to Mr. Abraham.” Carpets and wallpaper for the halls are ready, but are not being installed yet. Summing it up, Streatch said, “I’ve had to clean up buildings before. We’ve got to clean this one up too, even if it means throwing everybody out .‘*
Watedoo getsioptical tronsplont us U of T library uproots school Waterloo goes in&he optometry business this fall, literally transplanting the College ,of Optometry from Toronto to Wateiloo. Discussions have been going on for some time between the univer-. sity and the. college, the only English-speaking optometry school in CaIlada, The move was precipitated at this time because the University of Toronto requires the Street site of present St. George &e collegefor a new $42 million inter-university research library. Details of the transfer were announ& today in a joint statement
from the College of Optometrists (the college’s governing body (and the university. The change makes optometry an integral part of a university for the first time in Canada and heralds several major changs in t@ teaching of the science, The College of Optometry of Ontario, which has operated as an independent professional school since 1925, will cease to exist following the changeover to the University of Waterloo, At Waterloo, the college will become a School of Optometry . within he faculty of science. Within a few years the new school
could assume the status of a separate faculty with graduate programs, research activities and its .o wn building. It will probably have to use rented space the first year. The optometry course at Water. loo will be five years after grade13 instead of the present four. Graduates will receive an OD (doctor of optometry9 degree. The changeover has received the approval of the department of university affairs so that Waterloo will receive regular operating grants for optometry studies. The College of Optometry has
long been hampered by shortage of space and money resulting in inadequate numbers of graduates to match the population increases in the province and theincreasingneed, 78 students in years 2, 3 and 4 of the present program will come to Waterloo in September--and they may run into residence problems. Prof. William Scott, provost for student affairs, said he thought the university had some responsibility to help the students, since they are getting only three months’ notice about the move and. had no say in it. “I’d guess they’re both happy
and unhappy about it,,’ he said. Scott said he hoped the transplanted students would enter wholeheartedly into University of Waterloo life, including full membership in the Federation of Students. Federation president Steve Ireland said the relation between the F eder ation and the optometry school will depend on how the school is fitted into the university structure. Asked if the Federation planned to assist the 78 optometry students in finding housing on such short notice, Ireland said, “Oh, they canlive in Waterloo Towers of course?
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