Daily Bulletin, Monday, October 3, 1994

A NEW MONTH, and the arts pedestrian tunnel is open again between South
Campus Hall and Arts Lecture.  (Construction in SCH is continuing: the
new home of the visitors' reception centre is coming along nicely, and
last of all will be the new graphic services copy centre.)

Saturday football score: McMaster 23, Waterloo 19.

SO MANY JOBS:  Olaf Naese of the co-op department reports that things are
booming in the fall interview period: "Due to an increase in the number 
of employer requests for co-op students for the January-April '95 work term, 
it will be necessary to extend the co-op employer interview period by one 
week.  With this change employer interviews for all co-op students (except 
those from Chartered Accounting, Architecture, and Teaching Option) will 
take place from October 11 to November 2."

TALKING ABOUT WORDS:  SigDoc, otherwise known as the "special interest
group on documentation" of the Association for Computing Machinery, is
meeting in Banff this week -- that's the conference that was held at UW
last year -- and several people from UW's English department are there.
This morning, or this afternoon allowing for the difference in time zones,
Chris Hudel will be providing "An Overview and Introduction to Mosaic
and the World Wide Web" as the first working session of the conference.
Tomorrow, Paul Beam and Beth Brown talk about "User-Interactive On-Line
Help in a CAL Authoring Environment".

MEDAL WINNERS:  The university graduate office has announced the names of
the graduate students who will collect medals at the fall convocation
ceremonies October 22.  Winner of the Alumni PhD Gold Medal is Pamela
Ann Berg of chemistry; of the Alumni Master's Gold Medal, David Sumner
of mechanical engineering.  They've been chosen as the highest-ranking
recipients of doctorates and master's degrees, respectively, at UW this
year.  Similar gold medals for six bachelor's degree recipients are given
at spring convocation.

BERMUDA AGAIN:  I haven't quite given up on my proposal to move this
university to Bermuda, where I'm pretty sure there was no frost on the
roofs as there was in Waterloo today.  However, I'm not getting any 
support from Kevin Mayall, a student in urban and regional planning who
happens to come from Bermuda himself.  "Bermuda is crowded enough as it
is," he says.  "We have 60,000 residents on 11,300 acres of land. . . .
Might I suggest Bahamas?  Maybe UW could purchase its own island."  He
also contradicts the suggestion that there would be no cars and hence no
parking revenue: "Bermuda actually has more cars per square mile than
probably any other country in the world.  And that's even with a law that
restricts Bermudians to one car per household!"

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