Daily Bulletin, Wednesday, November 30, 1994

KEEPING IT HONEST:  A two-day conference on "academic integrity issues in
Canada" is winding up in Toronto today, with a 3 p.m. briefing by the
heads of the three federal granting councils and the president of the
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.  "The objective of
this meeting," an announcement says, "is to help the granting councils
and Canadian universities maintain and promote a high level of scientific
integrity and become more responsive to public concerns about researcher
integrity."

Some of the "concerns" came to public attention after the Concordia 
University scandals of the past year, with reports that three engineering
professors were diverting research funds to purposes they weren't meant
for.  Other, if less well publicized, issues at various universities
include faked data, industry's influence over research, and the ethics
of research involving people.  

A CORRECTION:  I said in yesterday's Bulletin that Sunday's concert by the
UW Chamber Choir would be at St. John's Lutheran Church "in downtown
Kitchener".  Wrong.  St. John's is on Willow Street in central Waterloo.

HAPPENING TODAY:  Darlene Betteley speaks at 2:30 p.m. (Arts Lecture Hall
room 113) about "Breast Cancer Awareness and Prevention".

The Midnight Sun solar race car team has a table in the Davis Centre from
10 to 2 today (and again tomorrow) to promote the project and offer
a chance to "adopt a solar cell" for a $5 donation.  The team's getting
ready to take part in the Sunrayce across the United States next summer.

Carole Simpson of ABC News moderates a videoconference starting at 1:30,
on the so-called Information Highway and "implications of rapid technology
advances for higher education".  At UW the conference will be shown in
Davis Centre room 1302; it lasts 45 minutes.

Diane Francis, editor of the Financial Post, speaks in the Humanities
Theatre at 7:30 p.m.  Admission is $5, which goes to support the
Hildegard Marsden Day Nursery on campus.

UTILITY SHUTDOWN:  Chilled water will be turned off in Chemistry 2 from
8 a.m. to noon tomorrow, Thursday, the plant operations department says.
Boy, that'll be an ordeal in this weather, won't it, to have the air
conditioning out of service?

EXAM NEXT WEEK:  The English Language Proficiency Exam will be offered
next Wednesday, December 7, at 7 p.m. in the Physical Activities Complex.
Students who haven't yet met their faculty's English language requirement
would be wise to write the exam at that time.  (And please don't ask me why 
the notice of the exam appears twice on the same page in today's Gazette.)

CELEBRATING?  I'd be pleased to hear by e-mail from anyone who will be
celebrating the festival of Kwanzaa in late December, as I'm considering
an article about it in the last Gazette before the holiday break.

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