Attack of the undead What would you do if zombies invaded Laurier? Features, page 12-13
THE Getting creative for Halloween Life, page 15
The tie that binds Wilfrid Laurier University since 1926 Volume 54, Issue 12
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Fr!nge takes hiatus
Break up for debate
CRISTINA ALMUDEVAR
MARISSA EVANS
ARTS EDITOR
CAMPUS NEWS EDITOR
Students who wish to gain film and theatre experience at Laurier may have to look elsewhere this year. Last year, it was announced on Fr!nge’s Facebook page that the weekend-long play and short film festival would be cancelled that year due to lack of content. As stated in the Facebook post back in January, the producers of Fr!nge felt that they could not give their audiences the level of quality that Fr!nge felt they deserved. As well, with the lack of content, the running time of the festival would have not been up to Fr!nge standards. The last Fr!nge festival at Laurier was in January of 2012. However, in an interview with The Cord, it was revealed that Fr!nge will be taking a year-long hiatus. This is the first time since its incarnation in the 1980’s the Fr!nge has gone on hiatus. “We are on a hiatus, a chosen hiatus. We chose not to put the festival on this year … we didn’t feel that we wouldn’t have been able to offer any amount of ‘bang’ for a student’s buck,” revealed Luke Dotto, current producer of Fr!nge. In the hiatus, Fr!nge hopes to begin the transition period by finding a new group of producers and reformatting the programming from
On Nov. 11, a proposal for fall reading days will be presented to the academic planning committee, a sub-committee of Senate at Wilfrid Laurier University. From there, it will move on to the Senate meeting on Nov. 26 before the final decision is made to pass the document and implementation can begin for fall 2014. Chris Walker, a student senator, has been working on the proposal in collaboration with Annie Constantinescu and Stephen Franchetto from the Students’ Union. Walker explained that his role has been facilitating consultation on the university side, while Constantinescu and Franchetto have been engaging with students. “There’s two sides of it, but with the collaboration efforts we are able to cover as much ground as possible,” said Constantinescu, Students’ Union president and CEO. The concept of fall reading days was first conceived in 2011 and has been considered by fall reading days committees since then, but to no fruition. “It’s taken these past couple of years to get Laurier to a point where they’re much more on board with the proposal and they see the value of what it’s trying to get at- one that is focused on academic success through addressing mental health,” said Walker. Over the past two years alone, five universities in Ontario have implemented fall reading days. “Being realistic, Laurier was falling behind,” said Franchetto, vice president of student affairs at the Students’ Union. “At the point where it was last discussed, not too many schools actually had fall reading days implemented. But now we’re at 11.” As part of the consultation, the proposal has been presented to all faculty divisional councils. The Students’ Union has spoken with Orientation Week (O-Week) volunteers and executives, put out a survey and hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit on the topic of fall reading days all in an effort to gather
Event will not see 2013 showing
Arts, page 16
Fall break to be proposed to senate
Responding to assault News, page 3
HEATHER DAVIDSON PHOTOGRAPHY MANAGER
Recent incidents around Laurier and UW prompt an increase in discussion and patrol about assault.
Inside Soccer Hawks move on Women’s soccer heads to the final four while the men’s team falters to the York Lions Sports, page 20
Thugli takes over Starlight Ottawa DJ played a set at Starlight last week to a crowd of EDM enthusiasts Arts, page 17
Campus, page 4