Daily Bulletin, Monday, April 3, 1995

APRIL FLURRIES bring traffic worries -- daylight saving time has bleared
a few eyes -- baseball is coming back -- just a typical spring morning
for the last day of classes in the winter term.  Actually, engineering and
mathematics classes wound up on Friday, giving students in those faculties
just a little extra study time before exams begin.

SPADE WORK:  They're breaking ground this morning for the Matthews Hall
addition, a $2.5 million project to make more space for the faculty of
applied health sciences.  That'll make two building additions currently
under way, plus the Campus Centre just finished and the Environmental
Science and Engineering building coming soon.  "It's typically Waterloonie," 
says Dr. Bob Norman, dean of AHS.  "In a time when you would think we should 
be closing doors and battening down the hatches, we're expanding."

Today's 9 a.m. ceremony stars Norman, UW president James Downey, MPP Mike
Cooper (New Democrat of Kitchener-Wilmot), and Mario Vella, a staff member
of MP Andrew Telegdi (Liberal of Waterloo).

THAT ESE BUILDING will be under construction within a year, and this week
people on campus get a chance to see what it might look like.  Models
and drawings submitted by five architects are on display in the main lobby
of the Dana Porter Library, tomorrow through next Monday.  The President's
Advisory Committee on Design is asking for comments before it chooses one
of the five to recommend as architect for the project.  A campus-wide memo
from PACOD is being circulated today, and will be reproduced in Wednesday's
Gazette.

GRADUATE STUDENTS get the spotlight, as Graduate Student Awareness and
Appreciation Week is being marked in Canada, the United States and the 
United Kingdom.  (Statistic of the day: there are 94,300 graduate students
in Canada, of whom 46.4 per cent are female -- up from 26.5 per cent
twenty years ago.)  

A public forum on graduate studies is set for tomorrow, Tuesday, from 12
noon to 1:30 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1351.  It's sponsored by the "working
group on graduate studies and research" of UW's Commission on Institutional
Planning.  "This is an opportunity for you to express your thoughts about
what is good, what is bad, what needs improvement and what should not
be touched about graduate studies and research here."

APPOINTED:  Gary Griffin, who has been interim director of the teaching
resources office for more than a year now, will have that post officially
for a five-year term.  That's the word from the associate provost (academic
affairs), after a search process carried out with the help of an advisory
committee.  A memo went out Friday announcing Griffin's appointment
as "Director of the Teaching Resource Office and Advisor on Continuing
Education".  Griffin also continues to be a psychology professor and the
director of the independent studies program.

THE ELEVATOR in Carl Pollock Hall will be out of service tomorrow, from
7;30 a.m. to 5 p.m., for repairs.  "If elevator service is required," the
plant operations department suggests, "the elevator in Eng 2 can be used,
except to fourth floor of Eng 4."

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