Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, November 8, 1994

THE SCIENCE FACULTY holds its eighth annual Awards Banquet tonight, in
the Festival Room of South Campus Hall.  Being handed out are everything
from co-op work report awards to entrance scholarships and kudos for
those who have made the dean's honours list.

The Helen Sawyer Hogg Scholarship in Astronomy goes to Gisele Dagenais;
the Canadian Association of Optometrists Award of Merit to Alexander
Kennedy; the David Holden/Memorial Scholarship to Henry Duewel.  (I choose
those three to mention almost at random, from among the hundreds of names
in the evening's program booklet.)

Guest speaker tonight is Yeti Agnew, a Toronto lawyer and member of UW's
board of governors whose undergraduate degree from Waterloo is in chemistry.
The president, James Downey, is also expected to say a few words.

MORE ON MACLEAN'S:  The "fourth annual ranking" of universities from
Maclean's magazine has now been out for some 24 hours -- which gives a
little time to look at something besides the rankings charts.  The 60-page
special section in the magazine's November 14 issue also includes "thumbnail
sketches" of all Canada's universities, features from several angles, and
a "student forum" in which nine students of assorted shapes and sizes
answer questions.  Among the nine is Sandy Atwal, editor of Imprint, UW's
student newspaper.  Quoth he: "At Waterloo, the entire arts faculty is 
subservient to the engineering faculty.  Is university for education or 
for getting a job?  Why can't it be both?"

There's also a listing of "what's hot" and "what's not" at each university.
Pluses at Waterloo: diverse ethnicity, co-op programs, easy Internet
access, the ducks. Minuses: construction, "long lineups and bureaucratic
red tape at Needles Hall, aka Needless Hell", the programming of CKMS.

Nice pictures on pages 16 and 19 of Ian Goldberg of the UW computer
science club, with his comments about the ups and downs of being labelled 
a computer geek.

COMING EVENTS:  Friday is Remembrance Day, which is not a holiday for UW, 
although the university will, as usual, provide a wreath for the civic 
ceremonies in downtown Waterloo.

A forum for discussion of the federal government's proposed social program 
changes will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Engineering Lecture room 101. 
The Federation of Students says both Andrew Telegdi, MP for Waterloo, and 
John English, MP for Kitchener, are expected "as well as some other 
luminaries".

Heritage is the topic as a symposium continues, marking the 25th anniversary 
of the environmental studies faculty.  "The Heritage Estate in Canada and 
Ontario" runs through Thursday morning.

South Campus Hall is almost fully renovated now, and a grand opening is 
set for November 16 at noontime.  See the big advertisement from the 
bookstore and its neighbours in tomorrow's Gazette.

Knowlton Nash of the CBC appears Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the bookstore, 
talking about his new book The Microphone Wars and signing autographs.

Zel Whittington is retiring after a long and popular career running UW's 
bookings office. A reception in her honour happens Thursday from 4 to 6 at 
the University Club.

FASS sponsors a coffee house this Saturday night, starting at 8, at the 
Grad House. Admission is free (but a donation jar for Campaign Waterloo will 
be on hand). The invitation: "See, or be, the talent that makes UW more than 
a place to work!"

The autumn arts and crafts sale in the Campus Centre runs Wednesday through 
Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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