Daily Bulletin, Friday, May 13, 1994

ON FRIDAY THE 13TH, a hairy elephant is being put together on campus.
Actually it's a 14-foot "articulated mastodon", a cast made from a specimen
unearthed in Newark, Ohio, five years ago. It comes to campus as the
mascot (or star?) of the weekend's Mammoth Gem Show and next week's
meetings of the Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical
Association of Canada.  TV and newspaper cameras have been invited to
Village 2 for 11 a.m. to watch the critter being put together.

The gem show, with displays and dealers, is open to the public from 10 
to 6 tomorrow, and 10 to 5 on Sunday.  Admission is free.

Some 1,000 participants in the two rock groups, the GAC and the MAC, will
be checking into the Village 2 conference centre tomorrow and Sunday.
Their convention runs through Wednesday.

ALSO TODAY:  At one extreme, Wayne Shortt and some of his colleagues from
the UW Police will be in their dress uniforms, taking part in Police Week
displays and demonstrations at Fairview Park Mall in Kitchener.  (The
special event runs through tomorrow.)  At the other extreme, teams of
engineering students are ready for anything, as the "Medieval Scunt:
Quest for the Holy Grail" scavenger hunt is about to kick off.

THE SILVER CORD:  Tomorrow night is the premiere of a massive choral work
by Len Enns, head of the music department at Conrad Grebel College.  "The
Silver Cord", to be performed at the Centre in the Square by the K-W
Philharmonic Choir, is a three-movement setting of texts from the Biblical
book of Ecclesiastes, a book of reflection, disillusonment and doubt about
the value and point of life.  In the final movement, Enns turns to a passage
from Psalm 130: "My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch
for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. . . ."
The composer has been working on this project for some three years.  

Howard Dyck conducts the K-W Symphony Orchestra along with the Philharmonic
Choir in tomorrow's 8 p.m. performance.  A number of UW people are members
of the choir, including Betsy Zanna of the dean of arts office, Sasha
Zweers of Germanic and Slavic, students Christina Ronzio and Tim Osland,
Jay Black of the math faculty computing facility, Derek Haukenfreres of the
bookstore, and Joy Fisher of psychology, I'm told.  Enns will speak briefly
before the music starts.

THE LIMERICKS:  All of six limericks showed up in yesterday's quick contest.
Kerry Mahoney and I judged them carefully, and have awarded first prize to
Adrian Pepper of the math faculty computing facility for this entry:

There was a young student from Waterloo,
Taking a course that he sorta-knew,
     He tried hard to cram,
     But failed the exam,
For he hadn't done all what he oughta-do.

And honourable mention goes to this anonymous entry:

UW's leader rejects
The mix of computers and sex.
     Said he, "I'm no fan,
     So we must have a ban."
I just hope _Fanny Hill_ won't be next.

READERS:  On Wednesday, we took a count (as best we could) of the people
who read the Daily Bulletin in either of the ways it's available.  (1) The
UWinfo logs show, as of this morning, 298 connections to that Bulletin.
(2) I invited readers through uw.general and uw.campus-news to check in by
e-mail, and so far I've received 193 messages.  Of course there's no way
of knowing how many people didn't bother to send mail, or stopped reading
before they reached the paragraph in which I made the request.

Thanks to all those who responded, particularly those who sent comments
and suggestions.  And a special salute to Diane Gensemer of the biology
department office, who reports that she makes a paper copy of the Bulletin
every day to post on the main office door for the benefit of people who
don't have easy computer access.  I certainly encourage other departments to
do the same -- we post it here on a third-floor Needles Hall bulletin board.

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