Daily Bulletin, Friday, October 28, 1994

BOO!  Look and shudder -- the UW Shop, in South Campus Hall, has some
two dozen Hallowe'en pumpkins on display today, the products of a carving
contest held yesterday.  First and second place winners are both from
the geography department, Colleen Tanner and Anne Marie Braid; third
place went to Julie Thompson of health studies and gerontology.

And if costume partying is your style, this weekend is the time for it.
The Chemistry Club and Watrox (the earth sciences student group) are
holding a joint party tonight, for example.  Saturday night, cover
charge at both Fed Hall and the Bombshelter is just $1 if you show up
in costume.  Proceeds go to Unicef.

AND BOO TO YOU:  A busload of student protesters should be on its way
downtown just about now, bound for a demonstration at the office of local
MP Andrew Telegdi.  Organized by the Federation of Students, the
demonstrators will tell Telegdi (except that he won't be there in person
to hear them) what they think of federal financing proposals that could
double tuition fees over the next few years.

The "social program reform" proposals issued by Lloyd Axworthy, minister of
human resource development, can be found through UWinfo.  The "Documents
of Current Interest" folder on UWinfo has a new address: look on the
main menu under what's now titled "Documents, Reports, Policies and
Procedures".

THE VISITOR CENTRE, formerly called the "visitors' reception centre", is
moving to its new home today.  By the first of the week, Gail Ruetz and
Jonathan Wheatley will be ready to receive visitors at a prominent spot
on the concourse of South Campus Hall.  The visitor centre is a branch of
the secondary school liaison office.

It's been housed in the Optometry building for some years now, and 
Marg Kerr-Lawson of the optometry school notes that over the past dozen
yers, Ruetz "has become part of the School.  Officially the School has 
been trying to reclaim that space for years and we're delighted that it 
is ours again.  But we will miss Gail.  Give her a warm welcome, all you 
people down there in South Campus Hall!"

THIS WEEKEND:  St. Jerome's College presents the annual Graduates'
Association Lecture tonight, with J. A. Loftus, new in the college's
psychology department, talking under this title: "The Challenge to Religious
Leadership, or, If I'm in charge around here, why is everybody laughing?"
He promises "a reflection on the morale of present-day leadership in the
Church", and will talk at 7:30 p.m. in Siegfried Hall.  Admission is free.

Watsfic, the campus science fiction club, holds a Games Day tomorrow, a
chance for both members and non-members to play card games, board games
and any other game that can fit in the Math building "comfy lounge".  Says
Watsfic president Joe Zubkavich: "The fun starts at 10 a.m. and officially
runs until 1 or 2 a.m., though many games continue being played until
well into Sunday afternoon."

(He also sends a reminder that tonight, Friday, there's an evening of
Japanese animation films in Arts Lecture room 116, starting at 5:00.)

AND SPORTS:  The basketball Athenas are hosting the Waterloo Invitational
Tournament, all weekend in the main gym of the Physical Activities Complex.
The hockey Warriors are at home tonight to Western (7:30) and tomorrow
afternoon to Windsor (2 p.m.).  Other varsity teams are on the road,
including the football Warriors, with that big semifinal game against
Laurier tomorrow in the SkyDome.

FINALLY:  It's an auspicious day for higher education, judging from Chase's
Annual Events, an essential resource for this Bulletin.  It's the 358th 
birthday of Harvard University, and it's St. Jude's Day -- a saint popular 
with "students, who often ask for his help on exams", Chase's says.
And Desiderius Erasmus, founder of humanism, was born on this date in 1467. 
As palindromists all know, SUMS ARE NOT SET AS A TEST ON ERASMUS, and he's
also given his name to the European Union exchange program for universities.

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