Daily Bulletin, Wednesday, July 27, 1994

A TREE GROWS:  The Shad Valley program on campus comes to an end today,
with a luncheon, a banquet and a tree-planting ceremony to cap a frantic
month of work and play.  Each year the program involves "fifty hyperactive
sixteen-year-olds" -- the phrase is from one of the UW faculty who likewise
devote a month of day-and-night effort to Shad Valley.  The kids have
learned a lot about science, entrepreneurship, teamwork and life, and there
will be tears today as things wind up.  As they have done for the past
half-dozen years, the "Shads" will plant a commemorative tree in a grove
near Conrad Grebel College, where they've been living for the month.  The
tree-planting ceremony takes place between 11 and 11:30 this morning.  
A display of the projects developed by the Shads can be seen all day today
in the great hall at Conrad Grebel.

ARCHITECTURE DISPLAY:  Thesis work by fifth-year students in UW's school
of architecture is on display all this week in Environmental Studies 2.
Everyone's welcome to have a look any time between 8:30 and 4:30.  Guest
critics from other schools and the planning profession will be assessing
the individual projects.

SAYING GOODBYE:  Jack Dunnington, who's played a central role in operating
the residences at UW since before today's students were born, is coming
up to retirement.  He'll be honoured with a reception today from 4 to 5
p.m. in the great hall of Village 1.  Dunnington, who joined the UW staff
in 1969, officially retires August 1 as manager of Village 1.

ELECTROPOLLUTION:  "Awareness in the electrical environment -- A discussion
of electromagnetic fields and your health" starts at 6 p.m. today at the
Waterloo Public Library downtown.  One of the three speakers is Hari Sharma,
radiation and electromagnetism expert now retired from UW's chemistry
department.  In Waterloo, concern about electromagnetic fields is chiefly
focused on Mary Johnston School, west of the campus, which is located
beside a hydro corridor; magnetism readings in the vicinity are relatively
high.  Tonight's symposium is sponsored by WPIRG, which is accepting
reservations at ext. 2578.

CO-OP FUNDING:  UW has renewed its request to the Ontario government for
extra funding to cover costs imposed by the co-op programs, which see
students move back and forth between campus and the workforce.  The current
way of counting enrolment misses some co-op students, UW argues, and 
so this university (which has the world's highest co-op enrolment) is
penalized.

In addition, there are higher costs for co-op activity, quite apart from
the administration of co-op placement itself, which is now covered by a
special co-op fee.  "The alternation of academic terms and work terms in
co-op requires that most courses be offered twice each year. . . . Two
course sections will be required where frequently one would suffice in a
regular program.  The situation is similar to that in bilingual institutions
where both English and French versions of a course have to be taught for
the same class.  We estimate that about 10% of our course sections are
extras owing to the co-op system."

The argument is made in a brief to the Ontario Council on University Affairs,
which is doing a review of university funding formulas, as the government's
request.  It was sent in by UW's top officials in June.  (Here we are at
the end of July, and I'm just getting caught up on reading this stuff.)

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