Daily Bulletin, Friday, October 21, 1994

TWO "FACT-FINDERS" from the Canadian Association of University Teachers
are visiting UW (yesterday and today) to look into the case of Len Friesen,
a history professor at Conrad Grebel College whose job was eliminated 
last winter.  Friesen is now on faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University.

UW's faculty association has published a 51-page report on the Friesen
case, including statements about how he was treated earlier in his Grebel
career, the events as Grebel's president (Rod Sawatsky, now moved to
Pennsylvania) decided that budget circumstances made it necessary to 
eliminate a job, and the process by which Friesen was laid off.  The 
faculty association asked the CAUT academic freedom and tenure committee
to look into the affair, which it is now doing.

"It has been alleged that at the heart of this case is a lack of due 
process related to academic freedom and tenure," Roger Gannon, chair of
the CAUT academic freedom and tenure committee, said yesterday.

CONVOCATION WEEKEND:  Fall convocation will be held in two sessions
tomorrow -- at 10 a.m. (applied health sciences and arts) and 2 p.m. (the
other faculties).  The ceremonies are held in the main gym of the Physical
Activities Complex, and all are welcome.

SCIENCE OPEN HOUSE:  From 10 to 3 tomorrow, you can check out the dinosaurs, 
learn about crashing comets and pick up pointers on chemical experiments at 
the science faculty's open house, being held as part of National
Science and Technology Week and National Chemistry Week.  Parking is free 
at lot C, located at UW's main entrance at University Avenue and Seagram 
Drive. Helping steer visitors to the parking lot will be a "crazy chemistry 
VW van spouting smoke." And "footprints" will guide them to the open house 
in the Physics, Chemistry and Biology buildings.

Attractions include "kitchen chemistry", a talk on compact disks, new
dinosaur models in the biology and earth sciences museum, and talks for
potential science students and their families.  The biology greenhouse will
be open for tours, and Phil Eastman of the physics department will offer "hot
tips for cold physics" with liquid air.

ALSO HAPPENING:  Bert Fraser-Reid, a former faculty member in UW's chemistry
department, is visiting today, to give the annual Undergraduate Lecture
at 9:30 a.m. and the Brian Fitzsimmons Memorial Lecture at 3:30 (under the
title "How Unsaturated Sugars at Waterloo Led to n-Pentenyl Glycosides
at Duke").

The fourth biennial Canadian Universities Conference in Optometry is being
held in town (at Kitchener's Valhalla Inn) today through Sunday.  Co-hosts
are Canada's only two schools of optometry, the one at UW and the one of the
Universite de Montreal.  More than 400 delegates are expected, including
researchers and clinicians from across Canada and abroad.  Optometry
students are taking an active part in the event.

Conrad Grebel College holds its Family Day on Sunday, with activities all
afternoon including a worship service at 3:00 and "buffet supper and
concert" at 4:30.

Most of the interuniversity sports teams are away this weekend, but 
there will be soccer against Brock on Saturday afternoon at Columbia
Field -- the Athenas at 1:00 and the Warriors at 3:00.  The football
Warriors face the hapless York Yeomen in Toronto tomorrow.

Also in the little apple:  the University of Toronto holds its annual 
U of T Day open house Saturday from 10 to 4.  Information: (416) 978-UofT.

HEATING will be turned off on the second floor of East Campus Hall from
7:30 to 4 p.m. tomorrow, Saturday, for maintenance work.
                             
A SOFTWARE LAB will have its official opening next Wednesday, UW's news
bureau has announced. The "Bell Canada Software Reliability Laboratory"
is a joint venture involving Bell, UW, and the Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council.   Research will address "key issues related 
to the reliability of software products with an emphasis on
telecommunication systems".  UW and Bell officials will ceremonially open
the lab in the Davis Centre, with a reception to follow.  Time: 1:30 p.m.

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