Tuesday, January 25, 1994

REVIEW OF TOP BRASS: UW's president is calling on a vice-president from his
former university to review the top management at Waterloo.  The review, 
announced yesterday, covers the offices of eleven top people -- the president, 
the provost, and those who report to them.  James Downey had been saying 
since shortly after he took office at UW that he wanted to have the 
administrative structure reviewed.

The review is to be headed by J. F. O'Sullivan of the University of New 
Brunswick, where Downey was president until 1990.  Working with him will be 
two UW faculty members and one staff member.

Here's the text of the announcement the president issued yesterday:

     I have recently struck a small committee, advisory to
     me, to review the current central administrative
     structure of the University and to give advice on what
     changes might be made to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

     The offices directly affected by the review will be:
     President, Vice-President Academic & Provost, Vice-
     President University Relations, the four Associate
     Provost positions (Academic, Students, Computing, and
     General Services), Treasurer, University Secretary, Dean
     of Graduate Studies and Dean of Research.

     Dr. J. F. O'Sullivan, Vice-President, Finance &
     Administration at the University of New Brunswick, has
     agreed to chair the committee comprised of Dennis Huber,
     Director, Business Services, Plant Operations, Professor
     Mary Thompson, Statistics and Actuarial Science, and
     Professor Gary Waller, Chair, Department of Psychology.

     The Committee will begin work immediately and I expect
     that its work will be completed by the summer.

SARAJEVO VISITOR:  The editor of the heroic newspaper that has kept
publishing in Sarajevo through these months of war and starvation is
visiting UW today, and will speak on "The Future of Bosnia" at 8 p.m.
in Math and Computer room 2065.

Kemal Kurspahic, editor-in-chief of the Sarajevo daily "Oslobodjenje"
(The Liberation), together with a team of brave men and women, have 
succeeded in publishing the newspaper throughout the 22-month siege
of Sarajevo, in spite of the lack of electricity, fuel and paper shortages.
 
Kurspahic was invited by the Bosnia-Canadian Relief organization to visit 
a few towns in Canada, and Waterloo is one of them, says one of the organizers,
Adnan Dzinic (adzinic@sun14.vlsi).

LIBRARY DISCARDS:  From yesterday's issue of the "From the Library Office"
newsletter: "In an effort to provide space in the Phillip Street Storage
facility for material to be transferred from the Dana Porter Library to
relieve congestion in the stacks, approximately 30,000 duplicate volumes
will be withdrawn.  Care is being taken to ensure that items are truly
duplicates and that special materials are retained.  Lists of these items
have been reviewed by selectors and some items are being reviewed by
Special Collections staff members before they are withdrawn.  Material to
be withdrawn will likely be offered to libraries or agents for libraries
in the Third World or Eastern Europe."

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