Daily Bulletin, Friday, April 8, 1994

REMEMBERING:  Today is Yom ha-Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, on which
the world remembers six million Jews and a comparable number of other victims
who died under Nazi dictatorship between 1933 and 1945.

MONEY MATTERS:  UW's president and provost didn't get to Toronto yesterday,
thanks to weather and traffic, to add their voices as the universities 
confronted the Ontario Council on University Affairs.  Bob Truman, the
director of operations analysis, did make it to the meeting on behalf of UW.

Along with discussion of the "resource allocation review" that OCUA is doing,
there was some new information about university grants for 1994-95.  The
government is sticking to its announcement that there will be no new cuts
to the grants, but that doesn't mean universities will get as much in the
coming fiscal year as they did in the year that's ending this month.  Some
cuts had already been announced.  And besides that, the education ministry
is setting aside more money for "special purposes" than it did this year.
Prominent among those special purposes is the transition to full university
status for Ryerson Polytechnic University, which will get an extra $4 million.

Bottom line:  general grants for universities were $1,823,200,000 in the
1993-94 year, and will be $1,774,900,000 in 1994-95, a drop of 2.8 per cent.

ANNIVERSARY MARKED:  Freddie Swainston, who's in charge of salary
administration in UW's human resources department, marks her 20th anniversary
as a UW staff member today.  Says Catharine Scott, director of human
resources:  "She actually has more time in than that, having started at UW 
in the Library, then quitting to get her degree and coming back a few years 
later. Her time has been divided between the two departments -- Library 
and Human Resources. She is the third of us to hit 20 years this year. 
Linda Bluhm and I both hit 20 this fall, all of those years in Personnel/
Human Reources. Nice to think that we have all worked together for so long."

Oh, and happy birthday today to David Davies of the history department.

THIS WEEKEND:  The giant annual used book sale, sponsored by the Canadian
Federation of University Women, starts at noon today and runs until 9 p.m.
(at First United Church in downtown Waterloo).  The sale continues tomorrow
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Hot and cold water will be shut off in the Health and Safety building
tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for replacement of faulty valves, the plant
operations department advises.

Waterloo Showtime presents "Colors in the Storm", a musical play about the
life of Tom Thomson, in the Humanities Theatre tonight.  Tickets are $19
and $17.  Tomorrow at 1 p.m., also in Humanities, Showtime presents
children's singer Charlotte Diamond.  Tickets for that one are $9 and $7.25.

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