Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, May 24, 1994

LOTS TO DO:  On the first day of "Campaign Week", this period of special
events and fun sponsored by the Community Campaign, there are a few things
to do at noon hour.  Applied health sciences is offering blood pressure
testing in the Physics building garden; and for those whose blood pressure
is fine, there are two different walks around the Ring Road.  One is a
challenge event between counselling services and health and safety, and starts
from Needles Hall at noon.  The other is an engineering challenge -- mechanical 
vs. civil, but again everybody's welcome to join in.  The announcements
don't say which direction either group will be walking.  It might be
rather fun to see two parades confront each other somewhere around the 
smokestack.

Also at engineering, the SAE Formula Car will be on display outside Carl
Pollock Hall.  Among week-long activities that start today: kite flying
on the Village green, and the "best and worst book list" collection being
sponsored by the library.

I suspect the biggest attraction of all today, however, is going to be the
Dunk Tank set up in the arts quadrangle by the administrative departments
based in the General Services Complex: human resources, plant operations,
food services and police services.  You pay a dollar for three balls and a
chance to tip somebody into the drink; proceeds go to the senate scholarship
fund.

MEETING TODAY:  The executive committee of the board of governors meets
this afternoon (3:30, Needles Hall 3004) to set the agenda for the June
meeting of the full board.  The agenda material is heavy on endowments and
foundations, with progress reports or proposed constitutions for the
Waterloo Environmental Studies Endowment Foundation, the Mathematics
Endowment Fund, and a UW Student Life Projects Endowment Fund.  Not previously
announced, this latter seems to be a formal, permanent mechanism for raising
and disbursing money for what have come to be called "quality of student
life" projects, part of the "student coordinated plan".

WATER WORKS: The quality of the water in the Grand River will be explored by 
about 200 secondary and elementary students visiting campus today.  Coming
from 13 schools in the Grand River watershed, they are participating in the 
annual project congress of the Grand River Water Quality Monitoring Program, 
launched in 1987-88 by professors and students in the department of 
environment and resource studies.  The goal is to give students a better 
appreciation of the environment, says ERS professor Jim Robinson.  At the 
event, to be held in the Arts Lecture Hall, the students will take part in 
workshops dealing with water quality and environmental issues.  Students in the 
monitoring program analyse water samples from the Grand River at least four 
times a year and share their data with other schools.

WHAT A BOAR:  As the faculty of arts prepares to install the Boar sculpture
in front of Modern Languages, with festivities set for June 4 during the
alumni reunion weekend, the UW library has announced "a display tracing the
use of the image of the wild boar in Greek and Roman art and highlighting 
the experiences of the Boar here at UW".  The display, on the second floor
of the Dana Porter Library, is to be unveiled at 1:30 today.

GENDER RELATIONS:  As last week's Gazette noted, the recent "Dialogue on
Gender Relations", with speaker Sheila Tobias, is to be aired on Rogers Cable
(television channel 20) tonight at 7 p.m., and again Sunday at 4:30.  The
Gazette was quite wrong, though, in saying that Tobias's talk was a Faculty
of Arts Lecture.  In fact, she was brought to UW by the faculty of science
on March 10.  The Gazette also said Tobias is from York University; really
she's from the University of Arizona.

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