Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, May 31, 1994

PENSION MEETING:  The open "information session" about UW's pension and
benefits plan started at 9 this morning, and winds up at 10:30.  But that's
just the beginning of the day for the pension and benefits committee, which
continues its meeting from 10:30 to 4:30.  On the agenda: discussion about
various proposed ways of trimming health care costs, "investment strategies"
for the pension fund, and the issue of Ontario health care coverage for
temporary residents, which includes some faculty and staff members as well
as international students.

ALSO MEETING:  Electrical and computer engineering students have been
invited to an "open forum" on the future of the Watstar computer system --
now desperately overloaded -- at 11:30 this morning.  Tutor-markers for
correspondence courses have been invited to an "orientation session", either
today at 9:30 or tomorrow at 3:30 (for information: ext. 3408).  

And the Computer Science Club is sponsoring a talk today by Peter
H. Salus, managing editor of Computer Systems Magazine and author of 
A Quarter Century of Unix, just published.  His topic today: "Ontario's Role
in Unix".  The story, it seems, starts with Morven Gentleman, for 15 years
on UW's computer science faculty (he's now at the National Research Council).
Gentleman was colleague and supervisor to a number of the key people in
the development of the Unix system, now used in computers world-wide.  The
CSC event starts at 4:30 in Math and Computer room 4040.

SAYING GOODBYE:  A reception to honour Rod Sawatsky, about to leave his
post as president of Conrad Grebel College, will be held today from 4
to 5:30 p.m. on the terrace behind the college. Everyone is welcome.

CAMPAIGN WEEK events wind up today, with two events starting at 12:10.
There will be tours of the Dorney Garden, outside Environmental Studies I,
and there will be a talk on "Complaints for Fun and Profit", by Bob
Kerton of the economics department, who should know a thing or two about 
the subject from his time as president of the Consumers' Association of
Canada.  He'll speak in Math and Computer room 5136.

THEN TOMORROW comes the Community Campaign picnic, from noon to 1:30 on
the Davis Centre lawn.  (Rain location is Federation Hall, but it won't
rain, will it?)  This event is the annual celebration of fund-raising and
university spirit for faculty, staff and retirees, and it comes with the
blessing of the provost, in a memo sent to department heads late last week:

     The UW Community Campaign is playing a pivotal role in providing us
     with the resources we need to carry out our mission of teaching and
     research.  The generosity of members of the University also is a
     powerful message when seeking support in the broader community.  The
     goal, as you know, for the faculty, staff and retiree sector of 
     Campaign Waterloo is $3 million.  At present $2.6 million has been
     pledged: an achievement worth celebrating!

     Wednesday, June 1st, 1994 is the date of the UW Community Campaign
     Picnic.  The Picnic has been a great success in the past three years
     of the Campaign in bringing the faculty, staff and retirees together
     to celebrate the University and its future.

     I hope that you will be able to come and that you will encourage
     your faculty and staff to join us to celebrate this important event.

COOLING SHUTDOWN:  The plant operations department says chilled water and
air conditioning will be shut down tomorrow morning (8 a.m. to noon) in
some 18 second-floor rooms in Matthews Hall, to allow installation of a new
fan coil.

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