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PAGE 6 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 Waterloo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by Fairway Press, a division of Kitchenerâ€"Waterioo Record Ltd., owner. Publishing address 225 Fairway Rd S Address all correspondence to Waterioo office, 45 Erb St E. Waterioo, Ont N2J 117 Telephone 886â€"2830 News and Sports line 886â€"3021 Waterioo Chronicle office is located in the Haney, White law office building (rear entrance, upper floor). Parking at the rear of the building. Open Monday to Friday 9 a m to 5 p.m Manager: Bill Karges Editer: Rick Campbell â€" Display advertising: Helen Smiley, Paula Hummel, Gerry Mattice Classified advertising: Marie Kapshey Editorial: Melodee Martinuk, Mark Bryson (news); Richard O‘Brien (sports) Circulation: June Toushan, Jerry Fischer Typesetting and Composing: Fairway Press Publisher: Paul Winkler _ zmm 1 A twoâ€"member Advisory Committee on Municipal Elections has drafted a recommendation in its interim report that, if accepted, could disenfranchise thouâ€" sands of students attending schools outside their home community. In Waterloo, that kind of news makes us sit up and take notice. The proposal, forwarded by committee members Anne Johnston, a defeated Toronto mayoralty canâ€" didate in 1985, and Cornwall mayor Gerald Parisien, is shocking to say the least. Most significantly, it stipulates that nonâ€"resident civic voters must live in a community for six months immediately preceding polling day. This, of course, would leave most fall/winter term students, who return home for the summer, on the outside looking in come voting day. Other committee recommendations stack the deck even more against students. For instance, it is proposed that local elections be moved up to the fourth Monday of October, which would allow seasonal vacationers, but not students, the breathing room to vote in their summer communities. Under current legislation, Ontario residency regulations make it possible for virtually all returning students to vote in their school city in early November elections. And, if those proposals don‘t take dead aim at students, then the cruncher comes in the recommendaâ€" tion that enumeration for municipal elections take place from May 15 to June 30, when most students have returned home for the summer. And, that the revision period end Sept. 15, when students are just getting settled in to another fall semester. Well, it says here that these proposals, however interim in nature, are pure rubbish. _ o The committee reasons that, besides streamlining procedures, the recommendations would create a stronger sense of residency, and that administrative headaches would be reduced. Marvelous. No matter what anyone says, this gem has been manufactured to bulldoze the student vote, and as such, is a grand piece of irony in design. _ _ For starters, municipal elections in terms of voter turnout are laughing stocks at the best of timesâ€"â€"they rank right up there with flea markets and garage sales in overall turnout. And, at least here in Waterloo, the student vote is so correspondingly small, it is rarely if ever a factor in results. But that is no reason to prevent it from standing up to be counted. As University of Waterloo Federation of Students president Scott Forrest points out, there is a principle at stake, and that principle deals with the right of those students who wish to, and do, responsibly exercise their franchise. We live in a university environment, all of us, and many events in the past year alone in Waterloo have cried out for student input and direction. We expect students to assimilate into our neat little community, then we take away their right to have a say in how it is to be run? Does that make sense? If this committee is truly interested in fineâ€"tuning the municipal election machine, it should look for ways to encourage the student vote, not trapâ€"door it. S The proposal in its current form will take municipal election procedures back into the dark ages. It will surely promote disillusionment and conceivably lifeâ€" long election apathy in our upâ€"andâ€"coming generation. And it will rob communities such as ours all over Ontario of an intelligent and unique voice come election day. We can sum up our recommendation for this proposal in three words. Trash it. Now. Letters welcome Shameful snub : Greg Cassidy Revey as us tauo a= Coue, established 1854 I have good news for those of you contemplating teeing it up in Thursday‘s prestigious yet rainâ€" delayed Waterloo Chamber of Commerce golf tournament at Dundee. As fate would have it, yes, it appears my game has peaked too early. I fear I am no longer the threat I was to take top honors. Not because of poor design or anything like thatâ€"hey, one week ago my game was razor sharp. But then, as we all know, came the dreaded announcement that because of ahem, inclement weather, the tourney was being moved back a week. Inclement weather. I‘m sure. I practise all summer honing my skills, putting my game together piece by piece to build to the challenge of Sept. 11, the only day all year I get to play in a firstâ€"class, topâ€"notch PGAâ€"associate event. And they postpone the sucker because of inclement weather. I mean, no one can be expected to be on top of their game for 168 hours, can they? Certainly not moi. So you can imagine my anger when contacted last week about the week‘s delay. Ah, I knew it as soon as the phone rang in the office at 9:15 a.m., as I was making my 38th consecutive holeâ€"inâ€"one on the eightâ€"foot stretch of carpet on the other side of my desk. I didn‘t want to even answer it. Rick Campbell‘s foursome waits to tee off during last week‘s Waterioo Chamber of Commerce golf tournament. "Uh, if it‘s OK, I‘d like to put a classified ad in your fine publication please regarding the modest garage sale the wife and kids and I are putting on next Saturday to raise enough money so we can eat next week." ‘"Hello," I said in my gruffest of voices. "Chronicle. What the hell do you want?" _ ‘"Listen buddy, I‘ve got more important things on my mind right now than your stupid garage sale, so take a powder until tomorrow and quit tying up the lines." _I hung up, but it rang again almost immediateâ€" ly. e o o _ o â€"*"Hi Rick, this is Janice from the Chamber. Bad news, I just wanted to tell you that..." _ ‘"Aaaarrtrgh.‘‘ I sank my teeth into my forearm in despair. â€" â€" _ â€"â€"It is written ‘"Rick, are you there. I just want to pass the ‘"‘There‘s no damn way I‘m giving up. I‘m fighting it â€" doing all the lobbying I can to get some support on the board. If that doesn‘t work, I‘ll go to the public to get the decision reversed." Waterloo County Board of Education trustee John Hendry on his opposition to the approval of an affirmative action policy. â€" SEE PAGE 3 Rick Campbell Peaked out Chronicle Editor "*Cancel? Cancel? What do you mean cancel, Janice? Don‘t you know what this is going to do to me? The headlines all week have touted me the overwhelming favorite. Here, it says so right in the Chronicleâ€"â€"Campbell the fave in C of C Classic. I‘ve put my heart and soul this summer into peaking for today, and you tell me it‘s postâ€" poned?" ‘"Uh, if you look outside Rick..." ‘"Don‘t give me any of that. I just took a stroll in our parking lot out back and Laurel Creek isn‘t even flooded up to my whitewalls yet. It didn‘t even take five minutes for me to towel off when I came inside. Boy, aâ€"few sprinkles and the whole world panics." ‘"*But Rick, they say the golf course is under..." ‘"I don‘t care what they say, whatever happened to intestinal fortitude, to the courage to play on, to play the ball where it floats, the kind of stuff the game was made of over ‘ome. Only wimps would cancel out on a day like this." message on to you that we‘ve had to cancel the tournament today, the club phoned and they‘re practically under water out there. We‘ve had to move the tournament back a week to next Thursday, OK?" ‘"Rick, I didn‘t realize you were so serious about all this. I..." ‘Serious? All summer I‘ve been telling folks about my one big goal, to cart off top honors on the big Sept. double ones. I‘ve spent hours working on my short game. I pointed towards hitting four fairways a round by Sept. 4, planning an allâ€"out assault of five or six a week later. I‘ve had my swing videoâ€"taped. I‘ve reâ€"gripped my irons, reâ€"spiked my shoes, reâ€"charged my emotional batteries, Janice, I was up to 2: 30 this morning at the putting green at Merry Hill, rolling in tricky 12â€"footers, which is no mean effort with wormâ€" pickers walking all over your line." ‘*No Janice, you can‘t stay on top for a week, and don‘t call me Shirley. I can see it all now, there I‘ll be tomorrow, gnashing my graphite shaft whileâ€" hackers like Ford and Chalmers cruise the prize table, knowing in my mind that had the tourâ€" nament been held as it should have been last week, that I‘d be _ holding court at the postâ€"tourney press conference, reâ€"living the highâ€" lights for the inkâ€"stained wretches in attendance. No, this way, I‘ll be lucky to break 90. Woe is me, the one that got away." "I‘m really sorry Rick, if I had known how much this meant to you...Well, good luck Thursday anyâ€" way .‘ ‘‘Thanks. That‘ll be me out there on every fairway, disconsolate, head down, bogeying my way into oblivion. I shouldn‘t stay for the prize table, but I guess I will..." "But Rick, it‘s only postponed for a week, surely