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Let‘s hope the sometime is sooner than needs be proven by "statistics." _ n mm c Pss o meaoceskkL l 29 P _ | _ 8 o ne .. . 1( APRRmasemoaBtk *| 5 w w mmay 1 | : ToPpibnbmBall w«w I _ . j |. mWwE . . Hhhs Afbsoon o. es en i g 2 . ies ntlers pniition of secusate ank Aalr i cotths 22 k * P PBz _ l i lanink .. mm â€" J3 . e . e 4 . P & i:,,":’ Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY You see, everyone involved with the sorry situation at University and Hazel is right. What‘s bizarre is that several rights have combined to make a wrong. And so the WLU group (to say nothing of its predecessors) was well within its rights to plug away at the Region, attempting to show that statistics don‘t tell the entire story, that they are often the regretful aftermath of the story and needn‘t be so. But, in asking the Region to study a reduction of speed to 40 km/h, the students were asking for an ineffectual solution, aimost impossible toâ€"enforce on a fourâ€"lane road. Right bark, wrong tree. A letter from Waterloo Regional Police chief Harold Basse opposing the reduction was warranted as well, if somewhat convoluted in its reasoning. Citing a fatality caused by a similar reduction last year, Basse correctly concluded the site in its current condition should not be encouraged as a midâ€"block crossing point. For several years now, WLU student officials have rightly tried to bring awareness to the definitely dangerous situation which exists. Namely, that both pedestrian and vehicular traffic at the site pose hazardous situations. ' Cars, trucks, buses everything short of allâ€"terrain vehicles stop, start, pull out, turn right, turn left, slow down, pick up passengers, drop off passengers, yield to the right and so on. Then there are university students crossing to classes, going home from classes, high school students from WCI making their way to and fro, elementary school students doing the same. And committee chairman Marjorie Carroll is correct on two counts, first in her opposition to a pedestrian walk as a possible alternative, and second, in commenting that the Engineering committee was lacking in its response to the concerned students. So here‘s the box score. There‘s an undeniable problem at the university‘s Hazel St. entrance, both in vehicular and pedestrian terms. The university, especially its student body, has recognized the need to step up safety measures. The powers to be continue to hedge on possible solutions. A recent rejection by Waterloo Region‘s engineering committee of a Wilfrid Laurier University Student Union request to lower the speed limit on University Ave. in front of the school has bizarre implications. The Engineering committee, for its part, was correct in calling the request "unrealistic,‘"‘ despite the fact its stance is reportedly an aboutâ€"face from the favorable reaction it gave WLU‘s initial submission. What solution do we suggest? That as a show of good intent, WLU establish and reâ€"construct the Hazel St. site as the main entrance to the university. It should eliminate the entrance to Clara Conrad women‘s residence off the fourâ€"lane thoroughfare and instead, bleed an entrance to the Conrad lot to the left of the new entrance. State St., peculiar orphan at best, could be sealed just above University and traffic from State merged with Hazel St. traffic at University, leaving not four, but two points of entry. And then, Engineering could wrap up the entire project with a big bow â€" by installing traffic lights that should have been there long ago â€" and undeniably will be there sometime in the future. Do it â€" C ai \. published every Wednesday by Fairway Press,: a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner 225 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. matmel address correspondence to Waterioo office: 45 Erb St. E., Waterloo, Ont. N2J 1L7, telephone 886â€"2830 g wmcmmmnm.mmmm.mmaux i building . %mwmy% ::':20 52&'9...!"'.‘“ 9 FEBRUARY 20, 1985 Publisher: Paul Winkler Manager: Bill Karges Editor: Rick Campbell established 1854 â€"â€"It is written SOME, people, much too refined to indulge in pornographic books or blue movies, get their voyeuristic kicks from reading the ‘"Personal" columns of the newspapers. Never do I read the classified ads, selling everything from houses and cars to bodies. I haven‘t time. And besides, they‘re all the same. Whether it‘s a car, a house, or a body, it‘s the greatest buy of the century. Many of them carry the same message: ‘"Must be seen." Not me. I ain‘t refined. By the time I‘ve skimmed the front page, been bored by the pompous editorials, I‘m through with the paper. It is strictly for wrapping garbage in. Well, I strayed. Yes, I wandered. The other day, looking through the ads for teachers in the hope that 1 could find my daughter‘s address in Moosonee (she hasn‘t written us in over three weeks and I have a piercing picture of her and the grandboys stumbling around. the tundra looking for the place), I staggered, by some mischance, onto the ‘"Personal" column. No wonder those warpies read it, the people who leave the room, nose in air, when someone mentions sex, or tells a funny, slightly offâ€"color joke. It‘s a kaleideoscope of sex, sin, silliness and sickness to warm the heart of any peeker through others‘ windows. I read with at first amusement, then amazeâ€" ment, and then a bit of shock, though I am fairly unshockable. This appeared in ‘"Canada‘s National Newspaâ€" per‘‘, which maintains a lofty moral tone on most of its other pages. _ o It was like looking under the rug in a highly moral dowager‘s house, while she is out getting tea, and finding a lot of dirt under it. â€" First under suspicion are the items under ‘‘*Massage.‘" Some of them are innocuous enough, but what about this one: ‘"No appointâ€" ment needed. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 7 days a week." With a woman‘s name and phone number. But that is kid stuff, only mildly titillating, compared with the sick, arrogant, lonely, blunt, noâ€"holds barred medicine that comes under the heading: Companions Wanted. This is where the real meat of the ‘"‘Personal Column" is, and i imagine an inveterate reader skips the masâ€" seuses and the fortune tellers quickly, and gets down to peering into private lives. When I was in the weekly newspaper business, there was the occasional pathetic guy who wouild "‘I‘ve always gotten feedback from my customers that they wanted imperial measurements dominant â€" that they found the metric too confusing."‘ How personal Bill Smiley Syndicated columnist Mr. Grocer owner Jim Meorris on the federal government‘s recent measures policy. "I am a lovely, loving femaie, 33, divorced and a writer, who is also tolerant, perceptive, idealistic, offâ€"beat, romantic, cerebral and a Cancer, looking for an honest, stable relaâ€" tionship. I am looking for a man...(and a list of adjectives like hers). Someone with a calm exterior, but brimming with hidden fires and worlds to explore. Under 50 and over five feet seven inches." That‘s what gets me. After the great build up, the blunt facts. If you were fiftyâ€"one and fiveâ€"six, you‘d miss out on this fantastic woman. ‘Intriguing. Blonde young lady seeks wealthy man for daytime affair.‘‘ That‘s the shortest and most honest of the bunch. She probably works It was pathetic because we knew the guy. He was 53, ugly. His farm was sixty acres, mostly secondâ€"secondâ€"growth bush and pasture. His ‘"‘stock" consisted of two pigs, four chickens, and three mangy cows. His "house" was a shack without plumbing, heated by a potâ€"bellied stove. He never received an answer, but would come in once a week for two months, asking for the mail from Box 220B. & "Gentleman, 48, business owner, lives in new apt. seeks charming, attractive lady to share his life with." No mention of marriage. ‘‘*Sophisticated gentleman, creative type, seeks the pleasure of sensuous woman 30â€"45. If an exciting affair with an appreciative male is your style, send snapshot and phone no. to..." He could be 80. But it‘s not all men. ‘"Lady, 55, R.C., wishes to meet gent up to 60.‘ If you‘re sixtyâ€"one you‘re out, but you could be twentyâ€"one. ‘"One wild and crazy guy wishes to meet one wild and crazy gal who loves dancing and camping and would like to share a serious relationship." On a dance floor? In a tent? come in to the office and place an ad: *‘Successful young farmer, good farm, stock, house, seeks partner interested in matrimony. Write Box 220B." *‘*Professional man, married, midâ€"thirties, seeks married woman for afternoon or evening meetings." How would you like to be his wife? ‘‘Middleâ€"aged business man seeks younger male companion.‘‘ Well. But these city slickers are a lot more subtle and tough. I‘ll give you a few examples that curdled me a bit. The egos are fantastic. â€"SEE PAGE 3