Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, September 20, 1994

ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGE:  The president has made public both the "O'Sullivan
report", from his advisory committee on the senior administrative structure,
and an announcement of some changes he is making in response to its
recommendations.

The major changes:

     The associate provost (computing and information systems), Johnny
     Wong, will not have a successor when his term ends September 30.
     Computing services and data processing will report directly to the
     provost while a review of computing on campus is carried out.

     The other departments reporting to that associate provost will now
     report in new directions: telephone services to the treasurer;
     graphic services and the computer store to the associate provost
     (general services).
 
     The treasurer's title is changed to associate provost (finance).

     A policy change will be introduced to give the dean of research the
     new title of vice-president (university research).  That makes a
     total of three vice-presidents for UW.

     The position of associate vice-president (academic) will be created.

     The safety office will report to the university secretary, rather
     than being part of a "health and safety" department.

Tomorrow's Gazette will have a long discussion of the report -- not only
the immediate administrative changes, but its analysis of the cost of
administration at Waterloo ("not excessive").  The O'Sullivan committee
came to the conclusion that Waterloo's unique structure, in which both
academic and administrative matters are headed by the same person, the
vice-president (academic) and provost, works well and should not be much
changed.

The O'Sullivan report and the president's response to it can be found on
UWinfo: look under the Daily Bulletin heading and "Documents of Current
Interest" subheading.

NO ENTRY:  Security director Al Mackenzie advises that, starting immediately,
the gates on many service roads will be closed and locked from 6 p.m. to
7 a.m. nightly, and all weekend.  The step is both for safety (keeping
down the congestion from illegally parked vehicles) and for security (making
it more difficult, for example, for somebody to steal a computer, load it
into a car and drive off).

PROVINCIAL ISSUE:  A campus-wide memo has gone out from the provost, Jim
Kalbfleisch, drawing attention once more to the "discussion paper" on
university financing that's being circulated by the Ontario Council on
University Affairs.  The text of the discussion paper is available on 
UWinfo, and as of some time yesterday, so is a draft of UW's response to
it.  Find them both through the Daily Bulletin and "Documents of Current
Interest" headings.

BUSY DAY:  Co-op students face an important deadline today: work reports
from the spring work term are due at 4:30 p.m.

The Federation of Students is holding an open house at its offices in the
Campus Centre, today through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.  "Drop by,"
communication officer Avvey Peters suggests, "for coffee and conversation,
office tours, and meet the staff."

Adventurer Jeff MacInnis, the first person to sail the Northwest Passage
from west to east (in a catamaran, no less), speaks on campus today, sponsored
by Ford Canada and the Midnight Sun solar car race team.  Tickets are
available at the door -- Engineering Lecture room 101, 7;30 p.m. -- or
in advance from the Engineering Society office.  First year students get in
free; others pay $5, non-students $10.

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