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P_AQE 6 Second Cuss Mall Registration Number 5540 “'Lraitesrt group to trot out the Charter to rehash their griovancg arf ghe §tuder_lts at Un/vers/ty of Waterloo. Despite its relative infancy, the Canadian _Charter of Rights and Freedoms is becoming a favorite son of former lost causes. Tha' -ireist is that the practice by" local landlords of charging them pro-rated rent, for example, 12 months rent for eight months tlceup_arlcy, is discriminatory. A . . Certainly it is, though for some reason a county court and Ontario court of appeal ruled overwise in 1980. It's a stinking practice, one that takes advantage of the crucial crunch on available housing in Waterloo during the school year, and one that unfairly tars an entire student population irresponsible thanks to the proverbial few bad apples. So now, under our new Charter of do's and don'ts, the UW Federation of Students with the backing of a good many other Ontario universities and colleges is taking a test case before the Ontario Supreme Court, claiming pro-rated rent violates both the Charter and the Ontario Human Rights Code. The judge has reserved his decision in the case and students everywhere are keenly awaiting the outcome. The students are deserving of sympathy and support, especially in economic times when they are fortunate to have two coins to rub together, but they are also certainly taking a huge gamble in a situation where precedent has clearly been set. For years, all students have taken the rap for the inexcusable actions of the aforementioned bad apples. Cases of wilful vandalism, incidents of rent-skipping, and protests of substandard housing receive big play in the media, and in the long run, the entire student populace ends up in hot water over it. Pro-rated rent, especially at the conveniently-located Waterloo Towers (focal point of the current brouhaha), is but one of the kicks in the teeth the many must put up with for the indiscretions of a few. True, no one is twisting anyone's arm to live there, or anywhere else that maintains the practice, but that doesn't make it right. Sadly, given the track record of Charter tiffs, the situation isn't likely to change. Because I write a syndicated column, I've been put on the hit list of some public relations outfit in New York. As a result, 1 receive a stream of garbage mail contain- ing fascinating material about some prod- uct or other that is being pushed by the PR Usually, 1 spot it right away and toss it in the round filing cabinet without even opening it. 7 7 But it is said the only causes worth fighting for-are the lost ones, and if the local students can see a flicker of light at the end of the Charter tunnel, why not pursue it? A A - Today came one of these missives and, distracted by something else, I had opened the thing and, read a paragraph or two before I realized it was just another piece of puffery. Try and " again At the least, they will be continuing to stick up for what they believe is right. And who knows, they could even break valuable new ground. For example, the re-affirmation of their status as people too, and perhaps even the quashing of the imbecilic assumption that all students are guilty until proven innocent. It was headed NEWS FROM: The Hamburg Group. For Release: immedi- ately. All press releases say the latter. Anyway, I thought it would be a pitch for MacDonalds' or a string quartet. It wasn't. It was a series of little articles about Hamburg and Germany, touting that city's great variety of attractions. -c WAIEjQO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 6. 1984 - - v -- 3...”de published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchener-Waterloo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd.S., Kitchener. Ont. Waterloo Chronbcle attics is tocmod In the Mamet. Haney and White Law Otfbct, Building (rem entrance. Upper ttoort. Parking at the (ear of the building. Open Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm address correspondence to Waterloo omce: " Erb St. E., Waterloo. Ont. NN ILT, telephone mam Such junk has about as much place in this column as an account of the origins of bee-keeping in Basutoland. And I'm sup- posed to print it free. What dummies these PR people are. However. I'd already read enough to hook me on the first article, entitled: Brewery's Wm Energy To Heat Hospi- tal. It didn't make sense at first. Why should breweries waste energy to heat a hospital, unless they're trying to make amends to all the people who wind up in hospital with cirrhosis of the liver from drinking their poison? I took another look at the heading. spotted the apostrophe. and now it made sense. A brewery will deliver heat and hot water to a hospital. As part of its brewing process, the brewery used to end up with a lot of excess heat that must be cooled before it is released into the air. Now, instead of being wasted, that heat will be channeled into the hospital where it will be Publisher: Manager: Editor: Ri Bill Smiley Syndicated columnist The Solution established 1854 er: Paul Winkler r: Bill Karges Rick Campbell a kt , 90u I TRNit (i'fi.ii,yi,) woa ‘1‘ a] . V p"TC, "We'll win because of Brian Mulroney. We won't have to win it, Brian Mulroney will lose it _ he hasn't got much to offer the country. He's just not good enough to be the leader." put to 3094 us_e. Cost of the deal, equipment and stuff, is about 400,000 marks, to be assumed by the city, The debt will be liquidated through the savings on energy that would other- wise have to be purchased. Are you listening. Labatts. Molsons et al? Instead of pouring money into sports and all these phoney ads, about as subtle as a kick In the ribs, indicating that beer-drinking will make your lite macho. full of fun and beautiful girls in skimpy swim suits, why don't you channel your heat into hospitals? Think of the free pub- licity? Ain't them Germans something, though? If they didn't start a war every so often and get clobbered, they'd own half the world, with their resourcefulness and hard work. Last time I saw Hamburg was in 1944. and it was literally hamburg. The RAF' had flrebombed it by night and the USAAF It is written kt , I COULDN'T CARE. LESS THA‘F Von CAM {WEAK FRENCH,I'M JUST TRNNa Tia FIND soMEONE. wHo cm .woax N Mame J..St,l1Pts'auN:,,,,l. Waterloo riding Liberal candldate Frank Epp on his forecast for the upcoming election. - SEE PAGE 3 had pounded it by day until it was a heap of rubble. i was a prisoner of war and saw it from a train window on my way to an interrogation centre in Frankfurt. Forty-odd years later, it has risen from the ruins like a phoenix, and is a booming city. visited by over a million travellers in I981. ”But Hamburg-Sch-tsure. I'm not going to urge my readers to go there. It was the article on heating that caught my eye. Aside from the breweries in Canada. this country has another industry that could produce enough heat so that, if " were properly channeled, we could thumb our collective noses at the Arabs. I'm talking about politics. -iarrtairchy councils produce enough hot air to heat at least one hospital within their limits. (Continued on page Mt