Monday, January 17, 1994

SMOKING PROJECTS:  Officials of the Ontario health ministry are coming to
campus this afternoon to announce what's described as a "major" grant for
two anti-smoking projects.  This is National Non-Smoking Week, which makes
it a good time to launch more programs aimed at high school students and
"community intervention awareness".  The programs are based in the Waterloo
Smoking Projects, a unit of the faculty of applied health sciences.  The
government announcement is to be made at a 5:30 reception in the University
Club.

CO-OP STUDENTS are on full alert mode this morning.  The first set of
postings, listing jobs that are offered for the spring work term, will go
up at 10:00 in Needles Hall, Engineering Lecture, and Math and Computer.
Students have until tomorrow evening to choose the jobs they might like,
and drop off copies of their resumes in the co-op department's numbered
bins.  (The bins have just been moved out of the co-op employer lounge and
installed in the main hallway on the first floor of Needles Hall.)  Job
interviews start January 31, after five rounds of postings and resume
submissions.

CHINESE NEW YEAR:  The Gazette is hoping to publish a major article about
next month's celebration of the Chinese New Year.  Anyone who is organizing
an event to inaugurate the Year of the Dog, or who would be interested in
talking about family traditions and the importance of the new year, is
invited to call Patty Mah at ext. 2006 as soon as possible.

SPORTS COMPLEX:  The official opening of the new north campus athletics
complex has been set for January 27 (that's Thursday of next week) at 12
noon.  The complex is in partial use now, but won't be open for recreational
use on its regular schedule (11:30 a.m. to midnight most days) for a
little while yet.  Sally Kemp of the athletics department says one delay
has been installation of the divider that can turn one big gym into two
small ones, along with other finishing work.  The complex is still lacking
a name -- this Friday is the deadline for submissions in the name contest.

UW'S SENATE meets tonight (Needles Hall 3001, 7:30 p.m.).  On the agenda for
the meeting is first reading of Policy 46, the revised policy on promotion
of faculty members.  Also coming up: another attempt to settle the English
language requirements for foreign applicants whose first language is not
English.  

SPEAKING TODAY:  Nancy Theberge of UW's kinesiology department will speak
at the Grad House at 5 p.m. today, sponsored by the women's issues committee
of the Graduate Student Association.  Her topic: "Women in Sport --
Contemporary Issues".

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs
credmond@watserv1    ext. 3004