Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, December 13, 1994

SENATE CANCELLED:  The university secretariat advises that the UW
senate has cancelled its December meeting, which would have been held
this coming Monday.  It'll meet again in January as usual.  The senate,
the university's academic governing body, meets at 7:30 p.m. on the
third Monday of each month, except July and August.

WORKPLACE SAFETY:  The UW safety office sends word of a session next
Tuesday at which they'll show a video about the Workplace Hazardous
Materials Information System and the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
"Government of Ontario legislation requires that all employees of the
University be made aware of current Health & Safety legislation and the
WHMIS program," writes Angelo Graham, of the safety office.

The session on Tuesday, December 20, starts at 2 p.m. in Davis Centre room
1302 and lasts about an hour, "including a brief quiz".  Says Graham's
memo, to satisfy the labour ministry: "All university employees, volunteers, 
part-time employees and graduate students who have not previously attended a 
University of Waterloo WHMIS session are required to attend."  Realistically, 
he's aiming for people in science, engineering and applied health sciences 
who haven't had their safety training yet.  Information: phone ext. 6359.

STOCKING STUFFERS are for sale this week and next from Escart Press, based
in the cartography lab of the environmental studies faculty.  Escart
publishes books by people associated with ES, such as the recent volume
The Journeys of Remarkable Women, "women travellers to the Canadian
frontier from the late 1700s to the early 20th century", by Les Harding.
Regularly priced at $16.95, it's available for $10 this week.  Harding's
earlier book The Voyages of Lesser Men, regularly $16.95, is $7 as a
pre-Christmas bargain.  Escart Press is in room 165 of Environmental 
Studies 2.

IF IT SNOWS, which it might do again one of these days, the grounds
section of plant operations will be looking for early-morning snow
shovellers.  There are plenty of shovels, says supervisor Brian O'Riley,
but he's looking for strong backs to wield them.  The job pays $8.10
an hour.  Show up at 7:30 any snowy weekday morning at the grounds section 
in the General Services Complex courtyard, and they'll put a shovel into
your hands and tell you where to start.

THAT'S IT for Santa Lucia Day, a major festival for the Swedes among us.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca