Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, May 10, 1994

ON THE DAY when co-op students' work reports from the winter term are
due (4:30 is the deadline) . . . on the birthday of John Brzozowski of
the computer science department . . . and on the day the Ontario Association
of Physical Plant Administrators brings experts from other universities
to Waterloo to see just how wonderful this campus is . . . here's the news.

Unfortunately the Daily Bulletin can't reproduce the news photo of the
day, to be found on page A2 of the Toronto Star and probably in every other
newspaper in North America.  It shows a police car -- actually a replica,
not the real thing -- perched atop the famous dome of "Building 7", which
houses the library of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Word is
that the car even had a box of doughnuts inside it.

ECLIPSE TODAY:  The sun is shining, but darkness will start to fall at
11:39 a.m. as the moon's shadow crosses its face.  The path of today's
eclipse crosses Waterloo County, and we'll see a rare "annular" eclipse
-- a ring of sun entirely surrounding the moon -- for a little more than
two minutes starting at 1:20.  The partial eclipse ends at 3:05.

I'll repeat yesterday's warning from UW safety director Kevin Stewart:
"Staring directly at the sun may scar the retina and/or burn the optic nerve,
which can result in permanent and irreversible blindness.  There is no pain
associated with the burning of the optic nerve; therefore people, especially
children who may be tempted to look direclty at the eclipse, can be completely 
unaware of the damage they are causing themselves.  Parents and caregivers
in particular should be aware of the danger so they can better protect
children.  Canadians are advised to watch the eclipse on television
and to teach their children never to look directly at the sun."

CBC Newsworld television coverage of the eclipse will be piped into Davis
Centre room 1351, for anyone who wants to watch.  The "colour commentator"
on Newsworld (channel 26) will be Ralph Chou of UW's school of optometry, 
a long-time amateur astronomer and self-styled "eclipse chaser".

Graduate students in UW's physics department will be using the Physics
building telescope, and images from the University of Guelph telescope will
be piped into the "link" classroom, Chemistry 2 room 079.  Physics
professor Pim Fitzgerald will be an expert commentator on Rogers Cable
(channel 20) coverage of the eclipse, starting at about 12:30 p.m.

JOHN CLEESE VIDEO:  The next in a series of brown-bag video viewings
is set for today, says Katrina Maugham of the human resources department.
The show will be "Meetings Bloody Meetings", with John Cleese starring.  It 
hits the screen in Davis Centre room 1302, starting at 12:15 sharp.  The
presentation is sponsored by the staff training and development committee.

CELEBRATING 25:  The 25-Year Club holds its annual reception and buffet
tonight at Federation Hall.  Joining the old-timers are some 90 faculty
and staff members who came to Waterloo in 1969 -- the year environmental
studies was begun, the year Gerry Hagey retired as president, the year
Village 2 was opened.

To mention just a few names of those who are reaching the 25-year milestone:
Larry Lamb of the ES ecology lab, Mike Yovanovich of mechanical engineering
(who kindly helped me identify MIT's Building 7 this morning), my colleague
Marlene Miles in information and public affairs, Marj Kohli of computing
services (who frequently tends my Macintosh), Fran Filipitsch of the biology
department office. . . .  The full list was in last week's Gazette.

ENGINEERS GATHER: The local chapter of the UW engineering alumni have a 
breakfast meeting tomorrow at the Holiday Inn in Kitchener.  The speaker's 
topic: "The Marketing of Aikenhead's". Information: Georgette Verspagen, 
ext. 6838.

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