Daily Bulletin, Thursday, June 30, 1994

TOMORROW IS Canada Day and a holiday, but first a few notes about today.
It's the last day of work for the presidents of two of UW's church
colleges.  Bill Klassen of St. Paul's United College retires as of June
30; Rod Sawatsky of Conrad Grebel College is leaving to become president
of Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

A "memorial service for the loss of International Student OHIP" is set for
noontime, sponsored by the Federation of Students and the Graduate Student
Association.  After today, foreign students (along with other non-Canadians)
aren't covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.  "Universities and
colleges all over Ontario are supposed to be doing a little something,"
says Julie Cole, vice-president of the Feds.  At UW that takes the form of
a mock funeral.  The procession leaves the Grad House at noon, and "a large
cardboard OHIP health card will be carried to the road area on the east
side of Needles Hall.  A sermon mourning the loss will be delivered."
Participants are welcome, and invited to wear black for the occasion.

If you stay behind at the Grad House after the procession leaves, you'll
be in time for a different observation -- Canada Day birthday cake is being
served.  If you prefer to do your partying tonight, The Lowest of the Low
and The Cadillac Tramps are at Federation Hall from 8 p.m.

PLAY CONTINUES:  "The Berlin Show" is at the Button Factory theatre downtown
tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at 8, Sunday at 2, and again next week.
Rob Brown, who wears dual hats as an actuarial science professor and a
Waterloo city councillor, reports that he was at the show last night and
loved it, and furthermore that it wasn't anywhere near as hot in the
theatre as it had been the night before.  He also says the audience was
much too small for such an entertaining show.  Tickets: 885-4280.

FRIDAY HOLIDAY:  Tomorrow, July 1, is a national holiday.  At UW, offices
and most services will be closed, and classes will not be held.  The
libraries are closed Friday (but open with limited hours on Saturday
and Sunday).  University police will be on duty throughout the weekend --
their phone number is 888-4911.  Maintenance emergencies can be reported
to ext. 3793, 24 hours a day.  The campus centre will be open throughout
the weekend as always.

Kitchener-Waterloo's biggest Canada Day celebration takes place on UW's
north campus tomorrow.  Things start with a parade, leaving King and
University at 3 p.m. and heading up University Avenue and along Albert
Street to the Columbia Lake area, where performers on stage begin at
3:30.  Opening ceremonies are set for 4:30.

Between the lake and the Optometry building, look for sports demonstrations,
a children's "mini-olympics", puppetry, refreshments, children's karaoke,
and many other kinds of entertainment.  Yes, there will be toilets (and
even a diaper change area).  Nearby on the main campus, the games museum
and biology and earth sciences museum will be open.

Activities wind up with a candlelight closing ceremony at 10:00 (James
Downey, president of UW, will say a few words) and fireworks at 10:15.
The whole program is being organized by the K-W Canada Day Committee, backed
by the Federation of Students and UW itself (specifically the community
relations office), and hundreds of students, staff and others are giving
volunteer help.  Everybody is welcome -- attendance last year was
estimated at 50,000.

AND FINALLY, here's a June 30 trivia question that blatantly favours the
older generation.  First correct answer e-mailed to credmond@mc1adm wins
a Canada Day T-shirt donated by the organizers of tomorrow's event.
What are the next few lines of this verse, and what is the source?

     Our loved Dominion bless
     with peace and happiness
     from shore to shore. . . .

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