Daily Bulletin, Friday, July 29, 1994

THAT STUDENT FEE:  UW has received official approval to start charging the
planned "student service fee", starting in September.  The fee was approved
by the board of governors last spring, after agreement was reached between
student leaders and top UW officials for a fee that would pay most of the
costs for such services as athletics, health and counselling.  The fee is
to be $24.31 this fall term for full-time undergraduates, and $16.20 for
full-time graduate students.

The agreement with student leaders was settled on March 18.  Five days later,
as part of its announcement about tuition fees and university grants for
this year, the Ontario government declared that student service fees could
only be collected by universities after a "protocol" was arranged between
the university and its student organizations.  Guidelines for such protocols
were announced at the end of June.  

And now UW has the all-clear: "The March 18 document has been certified as
a final protocol," Bob Truman, the director of operations analysis, said
this morning.

NSERC PROGRAM:  The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has
announced preliminary results in the competition for its new Collaborative
Project Grants.  UW's research office says 25 of the 52 projects proposed
by Waterloo researchers have made the cut, including 13 from science, six
from engineering, five from mathematics and one from applied health sciences.
"The competition in this program is extremely rigorous," says Joan Hadley
of the research office.  Eventually about 100 projects will be accepted
Canada-wide, from 973 original applications; about 600 are still under
consideration.

HOLIDAY WEEKEND:  Monday, August 1, is Civic Holiday.  UW offices and most
services will be closed -- but the campus centre remains open as always,
and UW police will be on duty (888-4911).  Maintenance emergencies can be
reported to ext. 3793, 24 hours a day.

The libraries will be open for reduced hours: 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in
Dana Porter, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Davis Centre.  Saturday and
Sunday library hours are unchanged.

Steve Breen of computing services notes that the input-output room will
be closed on Monday, but will be open Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. "If you notice an outage of the campus computer network or any major
DCS-maintained computing facility during this period, you can report it by
telephoning the DCS HelpDesk at 888-4839. If the outage has a severe impact 
on the university computing environment and the appropriate facility-support 
personnel can be contacted, the problem will be addressed; otherwise, it 
will be pursued Tuesday morning."

The Graduate House will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

OFF TO STRATFORD, in the interval between spring term classes and exams,
are two groups (at least) of students.  This afternoon, it's the Computer
Science Club, seeing "Alice Through the Looking-Glass".  Saturday night,
it's the Math Society, seeing "Othello".

I'M LEAVING for some vacation.  Over the next three weeks, the Daily 
Bulletin will be issued by some of my colleagues in the office of 
information and public affairs.  Suggested items for the Bulletin can be 
sent to the attention of John Morris at ext. 6047, e-mail jmorris@mc1adm.

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