Daily Bulletin, Friday, December 16, 1994

THE JAZZ SINGER:  The Holly Cole Trio comes to the Humanities Theatre
tonight, in one of the highest-profile concerts of the year.  Cole was
sold out last night at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, and she's sold out
tomorrow night in Ottawa.  But for tonight in Waterloo, tickets are still
available -- "a very few, maybe fifteen or twenty" as of first thing
this morning, the box office says.  Call them at ext. 4908.

TRIPLE ENTENTE:  A memo went out yesterday from the presidents of UW,
Wilfrid Laurier and the University of Guelph, announcing "the creation of
a Presidential Working Group to study the opportunities for, and the
benefits of, greater collaboration among our three Universities".  The
group consists of the vice-presidents (academic) of the three institutions.
Says the memo:

     Our institutions have an enviable record of collaboration in research
     activities and in undergraduate and graduate programs. The close
     proximity of our campuses enables a substantial amount of
     collaboration at the undergraduate level, particularly between
     Laurier and Waterloo.  In addition, we can be justifiably proud of
     our early commitment to joint graduate programs.  The audio-visual
     link between Guelph and Waterloo, now extended to McMaster and to
     Wilfrid Laurier at a later date, facilitates the offering of these
     programs.  Other examples of joint activities include cooperative
     efforts to cope with library acquisitions and storage, and participation
     in the Native University Access Program.

     In each of these examples, the goal of our collaborative effort has
     been to increase the breadth and quality of our academic programs
     and to contain or decrease the costs of program delivery, while
     respecting the autonomy and distinctiveness of our individual
     institutions.  We look forward to other joint initiatives, for we
     are convinced that increased collaboration can be an important
     component of a successful strategy to maintain and enhance quality
     in light of the funding difficulties we face.

NOW ON UWINFO:  The Federation of Students has joined the list of UW
groups and departments that communicate through UWinfo.  Its material
includes everything from a list of executive members to basic information
about the impressive range of Fed businesses and services -- the used
book store, Scoops (wouldn't you love a cone today?).  There's also a
large menu of information about personal safety resources on campus.

Says Avvey Peters, the Feds' internal affairs officer: "The project was 
supposed to be initiated last Fall, but never seemed to get off the ground. 
Thanks in part to a restructured hierarchy of the Federation, including 
three new Offices and three Senior Officers, we now have some semblance of 
continuity in CC235. So, I or someone else from the Internal Affairs 
office will be looking after posting regular Feds announcements."

Also now easily available through UWinfo are the proceedings of last month's
symposium on "Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age".  The
material actually resides on a gopher maintained by Electronic Frontier
Canada, but there's a pointer to it on UWinfo under "Documents of Current
Interest".

COUPLE OF CORRECTIONS:  Yesterday's announcement about the new procedure
for winter storm closing of UW, listing local radio stations, spoke of
"CFCA", which has lately renamed itself KOOL-FM.  Same frequency, though,
105.3 FM.

Also, I must have a mental block about what department Sue Fraser works for
when she's not busy with staff association activities.  Just last month I
attributed her to the budgets office; yesterday I said health studies.  In
fact, she's in the kinesiology department -- and I hope that's right.

SEASON'S GREETINGS to those attending holiday festivities today.  In the 
psychology department, faculty and staff will enjoy a luncheon from noon to
2 p.m., with a party run by the graduate student organization starting
at 3:00 in the psychology lounge.

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