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Alfew weeks ago, 1 looked at a odging house on Albert Street across from WLU. Then I looked at a few more. They weren‘t fit to house a dead cat! No wonder the students complain about slum accommodaâ€" tions. The universities are great assets to the community. They attract facâ€" ulty and students, all of whom need accommodation. A, fter reading Mr. Ron Ward‘s letters in the Dec. 18 issue of the Waterâ€" No wonder students complain about slum accommodations Then I asked myself, "Who made these places into slums?" accommodation. The city bas no right to issue lor and the Waterloo plannit The universities have an obligaâ€" _ lodging house licenses which will _ department to voice your concern tion to provide this accommodaâ€" _ destroy the city‘s residential family M. Carl Kaufma tion, just as a business such as a _ neighbourhoods. Waterl * * If it made sense then, it makes sense now loo Chronicle and the Dec. 19 issue of the Record I feel some sort of response is necessary. * Why, if the Westmount extension made sense in the 1980s, does it not make sense now â€"â€" with more traffic and more homes all around? Surely the sheer volume of traffic warrants an extra route across Waterloo to/from Kitchener. Why will the new traffic lights at Bearinger and Columâ€" bia mean more frustration? Surely with lights at those intersections the traffic flow will be much improved, Continued from page 8 viduals and small groups, and staff has conducted numerous public workshops and consultations about the library, the Rink in the Park, and the fire hall. City staff and council also held numerous public meetings to discuss and explain the RIM Park financing. The forums for citizens to express their views are the most numerous in Waterloo‘s recent histoâ€" ry. I will continue that practice in Over the past two years, dozens of people have come forward to serve on task forces and special commitâ€" tees. As a result, concerned and comâ€" mitted citizens have helped to create positive changes. Three important 2002 was a bittersweet year for Waterloo You said it QUESTION WHAT ARE YOUR HOPES FORTHE NEW YEAR? doctor‘s office, has an obligation to provide sufficient parking. Somehow, the City of Waterloo has taken upon itself to solve the problem by issuing lodging house licenses to nonâ€"resident landlords. This type of solution has destroyed neighborhood after neighborhood in Waterloo. The same thing has happened in Lonâ€" don, in Kingston and in Hamilton. It has to stop. and with far less chance of an acciâ€" dent. As a driver who regularly tries to turn left off Westmount towards Albert Street at the Bearinger/Wef? mount junction 1 know that traffic lights are needed there now, not when Westmount goes through to Columbia. As for the brilliant idea to pave two extra lanes on Bearinger where the road currently narrows I think that this may increase the chances of an accident, and will only exacerbate the problem at Bearinger and Westâ€" mount. To the best of my knowledge the only really serious accident on committees have been council‘s task force on the purchasing practices; the ethics in public life committee; and the affordable housing task force. Committee members exemplify Waterloo‘s finest volunteers. Volunâ€" teers working closely with city staff will ensure we reach our goal of 10,000 trees planted in 10 years. They make it possible for a modestâ€"sized region to raise $42 million for the One Voice One Vision Hospital Revitalizaâ€" Volunteers create our warm and caring community. I thank all volunâ€" teers for their dedication. Their recâ€" ommendations help to ensure city hall is more efficient and ‘citizenâ€" teers set for our nation! Although the financial situation What an example Waterloo volunâ€" "Getting better grades. I‘m in my first year of university, and it‘s a lot different than high school." "New classes; a new beginning. I just want to put the last semesâ€" ter behind me." ) THE CHRONICL] Alex Mcintosh CCO Lily Subara MMF The solution is to get a lot more lowâ€"cost student accommodation on campus. The universities say that it costs $50,000 per bed to build student housing..Quite satisfactory accomâ€" modation can be built for half of that â€" but not by their methods. When a man says that it can‘t be done, it only means that he does not know how to do it! Contact the mayor, your councilâ€" lor and the Waterloo planning department to voice your concern. M. Carl Kaufman, Waterloo that stretch of road in thefpast 12 months was caused by and two extra lanes will only invite more Mr. Ward‘s arguments make no sense â€" unless we are talking about a NIMBY (not in my backyard) probâ€" lem. Is this the real reason why Mr. Ward is against the extension? 1 do admit that if 1 lived close to the extenâ€" sion then I might be against it. But I hope that I would be honest enough to admit the real truth about why I was so opposed. has rightfully been the focus of the council and the community during the past 18 months, many outstandâ€" ing achievements have also occurred. Those successes are the subject of the next column â€" simply to give citizens an opportunity to balance the viewâ€" The people of Waterloo deserve a city hall they can trust. As mayor, that is what I have worked and will continâ€" ue to work to deliver â€"â€" trustworthy Waterloo is a great place to live, work, and play. With your help and involvement, we can become even and staff of the City of Waterloo, I extend to you our best wishes for a healthy, contented, and prosperous As mayor, on behalf of the council "A job as a musician on a cruise ship. I play the trombone." "Having a fourâ€" monthâ€"long summer off school." HRONICLE | Dan Sutton ”’T \ The loud little handful â€" as usual â€" will shout for the war. The pulpit will â€" warily and cautiously â€" object... at first. The great. big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indigâ€" nantly, "It is unjyust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the antiâ€" war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long, you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men... Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscienceâ€" soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by conâ€" vince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque selfâ€"deception. If truth is the first casualty of war, C uen e oree then the war against Iraq has already â€"‘ begun. The systematic manipulation |MRMWAOpNSIgN | and withholding of information that so | e TV | characterized the Gulf War was child‘s | VIEW play compared to what is going on right . | P | now. Take, for example, the furor regardâ€" I ing the inspections aimed at finding | ‘ weapons of mass destruction. Two facâ€" . | E | tories that the U.S. had insisted were . |[@ C * M manufacturing nuclear, ehemical, or ‘ > bre biological weapons turned out to be virâ€" | LA | tually in ruins; others that they had | ( ‘ identified as suspicious showed no ‘ & f | unusual activity. President Bush | | responded to this (lack of) evidence by | SCOTT stating that "this is not a court of law" | PIATKOWSKI ‘ and continuing to insist that Iraq was es d hiding things from the inspectors. To *~ this, one of the inspectors retorted "I wish they‘d tell us if they know where these weapons are; because we haven‘t found any." When Iraq handed over a 12,000â€"page weapons declaration, the Americans reviewed and edited them before passing them on to the United Nations. Even other members of the Security Counâ€" cil were denied access to the uncensored version of the report. Apparently, the key information that was removed from the report was the names of 150 companies that contributed to Iraq‘s arms programs. Why? One suspects that these companies are among America‘s most respected corporate citizens; companies that don‘t want to be held accountable for arming the soâ€"called "axis of evil". Journalists are the key to this misinformation campaign, whether they like it or not. Either through a misguided sense of patriotism or because they don‘t have access to all of the facts, they afe expected to report exactly what the White House and the Pentagon want them to report. British journalist Robert Fisk points out that "Ted Koppel, one of America‘s leading news anchormen, announced that it may be a journalist‘s duty not to reveal events until the military want them revealed in a new war against Iraq. ABC television (Koppel‘s network) announced that it knew all about the killing of four alâ€"Qa‘ida members by an unmanned Predator plane in Yemen but delayed broadcasting the news for four days ‘at the request of the Pentagon‘. So now at least we know for whom ABC works. The Pentagon said that the murâ€" dered men â€" and let‘s not lose sight of the ‘murdered‘ bit, though that‘s not the word ABC used â€" were between ‘two to 20‘ of the top ranks of alâ€"Qa‘ida. Really? So were they numbers two, three, four and five in alâ€"Qa‘ida? Or numbers 17, 18, 19 and 207 Who cares? The press are onside. Don‘t ask who is resisting forthcomâ€" ing U.S. censorship of the Iraq war. Ask who is first to climb aboard the bandwagon." Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers and helped speed the end of the Vietnam War, has called upon people of conscience working within the U.S. government to follow his lead and put an end to the misinformation (and possibly the war). "There is great dissent and that is clearty the major reason for the Jeaking. It is clear that the administration is filled with people who believe this is reckless, unnecessary, foolish... I am using every opportunity to say to people in the government who are in the position that I was then, and who know that their president is lying us into a wrongful and reckless war, to do what I wish I had done in 1964â€"65: to go to Congress and the press with documents and tell the truth. That would be a risk but there are times when big risks are worth that to save a lot of lives." scott piatkowski@rogers.com Policies of mass destruction Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger" (1910) Sm n | ANOTHER } mRX | | 16.A L | § /\ 2 We e A 3 | SCOTT | PIATKOWSKI i