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The tie that binds Wilfrid Laurier University since 1926 Volume 53, Issue 5
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Stumbling out of the gate Football team starts season 0-2 shelby blacKley SportS edItor
Two games. Only two touchdowns. No wins. Something is wrong here. The Wilfrid Laurier University men’s football team may need a miracle just to make the playoffs — something that hasn’t been a problem in almost ten years — after losing their first two games of their eight-game season. After being shut out 19-0 by the Toronto Varsity Blues last week, the Hawks came home to host the No. 6 Queen’s Gaels last weekend hoping to improve the faltered offence. But had no luck. Laurier only managed to produce two touchdowns against Queen’s, losing 42-16 and dropping to 0-2 on the season. “It’s honestly something that we should be getting every single drive we’re on the field because that’s what offence is supposed to do,” fourthyear receiver Alex Anthony said after Saturday’s game. “We’re supposed to score and we’ve got two touchdowns the past two weeks, which is not good enough.” The Hawks went six and a half quarters without a touchdown before Anthony found the endzone midway through the third quarter on Saturday, when the Gaels were already leading
29-2. Alex Sanchez scored the second touchdown, but didn’t connect until there was a minute left in the game. The Hawks’ offence just hasn’t shown up. And in the unpredictable OUA, they know that can be lethal. “We’re still making too many errors,” head coach Gary Jeffries said. “You can’t win in this league with the mistakes that we’re making.” It’s not that the Hawks didn’t compete. The defence held Toronto to a very low-scoring game, and it took Queen’s until halfway through the second quarter to really break free, aided by some of the mistakes Jeffries mentioned. “It was an even football game until, you know, we turned it over and gave up a big one,” Jeffries said. “And next think you know, it got away from us. “The defence, they play hard. They play hard.” “Defence is playing awesome and offence just has to step it up,” Anthony said. “That’s all it is.” Laurier quarterback Travis Eman only had nine completed passes out of 21 attempts, while his Queen’s counterpart Billy McPhee went 22 of 28 for 333 yards and two touchdowns. Toronto quarterback Richard Quittenton completed 16 of 25 passes against Kate turner photography manager
Sports, page 25
New dining hall draws criticism Students lash out against recentlyimplemented changes to Fresh Food co. elizabeth dicesare campuS neWS edItor
Kitchener-Waterloo goes orange K-W Byelection, page 8
Inside Surviving roommates
Page on mental health
Tips and tricks for dealing with the people you live with during your university career
Former Barenaked Lady Steven Page provides motivational talk regarding stigma of mental illness
Life, page 16
Arts, page 20
While the official opening of Wilfrid Laurier University’s new dining hall has shown a large improvement with the quality of food being served, as well a large expansion on the number of food stations, it has left many upper-year students both upset and angry with the renovations, specifically with the new rules put in place surrounding the use of the space. Concerns over new pricing have also come up, as students, staff and faculty without a meal plan must pay an entrance fee before even going into the dining hall. The prices change depending on the time of day, with breakfast costing $8.00, lunch at $12.00 and dinner for $14.50, which many students have stated on social media sites is too high of a cost. In order for the new dining hall to properly function within its all-youcare-to-eat meal plan system, a new wall was erected along the confines of the space to ensure that students who don’t pay for the buffet cannot enter. This wall has drastically changed the physical appearance of the dining hall: it has gone from an open to a confined space that only certain students are allowed to enter. “It goes against what Laurier sells
itself to be as this kind of close-knit community, and then all of a sudden you set up a system where you start segregating people and it’s not a close-knit community at all,” stated Eric Reis, a fourth-year WLU student. “I thought it was just an abomination.” Reis continued and told The Cord that his biggest issue with the new system was in fact the construction. To him, the wall symbolizes a much larger issue, where upper-year students are being denied access to a space that they should be allowed to utilize. “It seems like they have set up arbitrary restrictions on people who just want to walk around in [and use] a place they have been for years, unless they pay,” he continued. “To put up high walls and [in doing so] suggest that the students will steal, and then to fence them in like that, as if they’re cattle … in a way you’re de-humanizing them.” Brendan O’Driscoll, another fourth-year student, echoed Reis’s concerns regarding the new lack of space. “It’s sort of restricting, especially we already pay tuition and extra fees to use the Laurier campus facilities, so it’s like you’re paying a second Campus, page 4