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A public opinion survey of Waterloo citizens will be conducted to find out their views about a ward system of municipal election. City council Monday voted to spend $25,107 to hire Torontoâ€"based Envirâ€" The apartment building at 24 Pe?pler St. now sits vacant in a city with a rental housing shortage. City hall is not sure if it can protect the building from demolition. lan Kirkby phofo Waterloo collegiate will hold a Parent Education Workshop on AIDS Education, Tuesday, May 10 from 7:30 â€" 9:30 p.m. in the school‘s auditorium. The purpose of the workshop is to provide parents with current information about AIDS and to outline the school‘s Health program including resource and teaching methods. The presentation will be assisted by Dr. Schumacher M;:D., Public Health Nurse Miss Marion Kelterborn, and the Physical and Health Education teachers of Waterloo collegiate. < Environics Research to conduct ward survey For more information contact Waterloo collegiate at 884â€"9590 It was with more than a tinge of consternation I picked up the newspaper on Saturday to read that the University of Ottawa had sold its library acquisitions to a corporation and was leasing it back. tion I attended) if they were considering the same thing. Guelph is. Has it come to this, 1 wondered. The severe and onâ€"going underfunding of the university system in Ontario, and indéed Canada, was something I was familiar with, having written a couple of magazine articles exploring the topic. But selling the learned materia! to the highest bidder? That‘s incredible! I promptly telephoned a friend who works as a librarian at the U of G library, hoping to get the "real dope". No such luck. My friend first knew of it by reading the paper, as it turns out. What‘s more, he ran into his boss leaning against a building in downtown Guelph reading the same article, in shock. You can‘t really blame the universities They‘re only turning to prostitution out of desperation. The nearest street corner can be mighty attractive when you‘re really broke, there‘s no money in sight and no other way. And that is the picture for Ontario universities today. The article went on to ask the presidents of other universities, including the University of Guelph (the instituâ€" AIDS information at WCI Tuesday Where should universities draw the line? Some objections onics Research Group Limited to conduct the telephone survey. Some council members objected to the process of measuring public opinâ€" ion through a survey when council has also commited itself to holding a Let‘s go back a little to the 1960s. The whole western world panicked when the Russkies launched that pesky little Sputnik. Suddenly, education was the path to the future, the way to promote science, technology, industrial production and prove the superiority of capitalism and democracy. Canada, and Ontario especially, began building first universities then community colleges everywhere. Ontario kids, in a wonderfulâ€" ly egalitarian move, were guaranteed universal access to higher education if they had the academic standards. There would be an elitist university system no longer. Well, we all know capitalism is superior â€"â€" including the Russians of late, it seems. But by the midâ€"70s the Ontario government in particular was starving the university system. The feds also cut back slowly and painfully on research and Coun. Lynne Woolstencroft said, "It‘s very hard to conduct a survey in a community which has dealt with the issue as a big yawn. "It should be debated, then surveyed." The city will also hold public meetâ€" ings on the alternative systems of election. Tonight at 7:30 an informaâ€" tion meeting regarding the advanâ€" tages and disadvantages of a ward system and the current atâ€"large sys tem will be held in the city hall council chambers. Coun. Mary Jane Mewhinney reâ€" plied, "Should we manufacture an issue out of nothing? I think this is a burning issue in the political science departments of our universities." referendum on the issue at the Nov. 14 1988 municipal elections. There will also be public meetings at city hall Tues. May 31 and Wed. June 1 to discuss the electoral system. City Seen lan Kirkby We allvnmmedfate!y started making plans to find somewhere to live," she said. The tenants were notified by the Waterloo planning department that the notices were invalid after someone complained to city hall. o "We looked into (the eviction notice) and found these notices were invalid unless they had a notice from the municipality attached to it," said Greg Romanick, the director of development planning. Under the Ontario Rental Housing Protection Act, developers must receive permission from city council to demolish rental accommodation. The applicaâ€" tion would go through a similar process to that of a zoning change, including informal public hearings, said Romanick. The provincial act is designed to protect muchâ€"needed rental accommodation from destruction. â€" Romanick said that a Torontoâ€"based company, First Plazas Inc. bought the apartment buildings as well as other lands along Peppler St. "They bought up virtually the whole area," said Romanick. John Zimmer, viceâ€"president of development for First Plazas Inc. said the notices were sent out by the law firm representing the company. First Plazas is a large company with over two million square feet in developments, he said. He suggested the Chronicle contact the law firm. Beth Mitchell, a lawyer with Weir and Foulds said the notice "was almost sent in error. It should have contained an order pursuant to the rental protection act." s â€" _ Despite notice from the city that the eviction notice was illegal, Snyder and other tenants decided to move out anyway rather than face the future uncertainty. â€" o â€" â€" "It was a major inconvenience at first," she said. "I had expected to stay there for years yet. I had no intention of moving. _ _ s Romanick said First Plazas and the city met to discuss the notices. "They noted the serving of notices was an inadvertent act on their part and they would subsequently be coming back to us with an application under the Rental Housing Protection Act." The legal status of the nowâ€"vacant building is unclear, said Romanick. He could not say whether the landlord would have to go through the approval process to demolish an empty building. "That‘s a bit of a hazy area," Romanick said. "I think it would be good for the public to realize this is the kind of thing that happens." â€" â€" â€" â€" _ Zimmer said "I‘d have to hear it from them" of any possibility of the city preserving the vacant building for needed rental accommodation. "I don‘t really have any comment on that." â€" o However, he agreed the company has gathered a considerable quantity of land for a commercial development in the area. "We don‘t have to have that apartment building. We‘d like to have the apartment building." WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MAY 4, 1988 â€" The universities responded initially by slicing away their excess flab (idle bureaucrats, mainly). Now, however, classâ€" rooms are overâ€"crowded, labs full of outdated equipment, and universities overâ€"run by an aging tenured faculty. University of Waterloo president Douglas Wright likes to tell reporters that Alabama gives more support to its universities than Ontario. There will be an eventual impact on our quality of life and economic growth. Is it any wonder they would consider a tax loophole to get bucks? Even if it gave some semblance of control over educational material to the highest corporate bidder? A scary thought indeed. development â€" the source of future medicines and industrial innovation. Locally, University of Waterloo vice president of University Services Pat Robertson said the idea is "quite interesting" and while the university is now "trying to get details on how the thing works", he has some questions about the ethics of "If it‘s legal, it‘s legal, but there does seem to be some angles to it, doesn‘t there," he said.