Daily Bulletin, Monday, May 2, 1994

THE FIRST DAY:  Spring term classes began this morning, and the registration
process is in full swing, with lineups out in the second-floor hallway of
Needles Hall.  The longest lineup actually is for financial aid information,
and the second-longest is to pick up class schedules.  Registration itself,
the business of writing that four-digit cheque for tuition and incidental
fees, is going smoothly at the cashiers' desk across from the registrar's
office.

Bruce Pinder of the registrar's office notes that things will go smoothest
for those who read the fine print in the Registration Newsletter.  In
particular: come and pay your fees on the right day, which is today for
engineering, Tuesday for mathematics, Thursday for arts, Friday for science,
environmental studies and applied health sciences.

Not many students were able to pay their fees by mail this term, since fee
rates weren't set until the first week of April.  That creates bigger
than usual lineups for on-campus registration.  Says the newsletter:  "A 
third less satisfactory option is available.  Drop boxes will be set up
in Needles Hall when line-ups warrant so you can deposit your fee statement
and cheque."

Late fees are payable starting May 6, this Friday.  

PAY GOES UP:  Most people who work for UW are earning a little more today
than they were last week.  Staff members (those with annual pay over $30,000, 
anyway) had to take three "unpaid days" in 1993-94, thanks to the provincial 
Social Contract.  For 1994-95, the fiscal year that started yesterday, it'll 
be just one unpaid day -- Monday, February 20, 1995.

Faculty members will actually have more unpaid days this year than they did
in 1993-94: six this year, compared to five last year.  But faculty did
receive a "progress through the ranks" pay increase as of May 1, calculated
at half the usual annual level.  (The PTR increase, provided under the
Social Contract agreement between UW and the faculty association, is the
reason faculty members get those extra unpaid days that staff don't.)

Still undecided, at last report, was the level of pay for graduate student
teaching assistants, but it's likely to be going up for 1994-95.

VISITING TODAY:  The Waterloo Advisory Council, a group of business and
employer representatives that advises the co-op education department and
the deans, meets today and tomorrow on campus.

A group of 20 people from universities in Java and from the Indonesia
ministry of tourism has arrived on campus to begin an eight-week training
program on tourism planning and management, organized by UW's geography
and recreation and leisure studies departments.  They're being formally
welcomed by the president and other dignitaries this morning as their
sessions begin.

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