Daily Bulletin, Thursday, June 23, 1994

THE HEAT CONTINUES and should make today's Matthews Classic a golf
tournament to remember.  If you're looking for UW colleagues after
noon today and can't find them, they're likely up at the Elmira Golf
Course for the annual Matthews event, a summer counterpart to the
Hagey Bonspiel each winter.  Dianne Keller of graphic services, the
chief organizer, is taking the whole day off, so I couldn't reach her
this morning to ask how many faculty and staff members are taking part
(not to mention spouses, retirees, and hangers-on).

THE WESTHUES CASE:  Ken Westhues of the sociology department, who
had an outspoken letter in yesterday's Gazette about the way UW provost
Jim Kalbfleisch has handled the recent ethics case in which he was
involved, makes his complaint at greater length in a document he issued
yesterday: "Twenty Flaws in UW Ethics Hearing Committee Report No. 94-3",

The ethics committee had adjudicated a complaint against Westhues by
Adie Nelson, a colleague in sociology.  The committee found that in things 
he said to Nelson following a graduate student's oral exam last November, 
Westhues violated the UW ethics policy: "His behaviour constituted an attack 
on (Nelson's) competence and character", and things he said about her 
position as an untenured member of the department "amounted to an 
interference with her ability to perform her academic duties".

The committee recommended that Westhues be required to make an apology.
The provost released that letter of apology on June 8, but noted that
Westhues had distributed it widely on campus along with another letter which,
he said, "all but dismisses the findings" of the ethics committee.  "I
consider it to be a violation of the undertaking given by Dr. Westhues
to me," said the letter from the provost.  Westhues's latest document
charges that the ethics committee acted "wrongly and prejudicially".

AUTHORS GATHER:  The Canadian Authors Association holds its 73rd annual
conference starting today at UW's Village 2 conference centre.  About 150
writers, from the prominent to the wannabes, are gathering.  Most of the
event is open to members only, but there's an open reading on Monday (2 p.m.,
Village 2 great hall) headlined by Margaret Atwood and including other
CAA award winners for this year.

SOME DO, SOME DON'T:  Finally, I'd better acknowledge a classic 
typographical error on the front page of yesterday's Gazette, in the 
article about a health insurance plan for international students.  We
managed to say that the plan will include provision for "some-sex spouses".
I suppose some-sex spouses are the ones who frequently say, "Not tonight,
dear, I have a headache."  But change the vowel and you get what we
were actually trying to say: *same* sex spouses.  Talk about headaches!

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