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Tuesday, April 18, 1995

MONEY TALKS: Applications for the Ontario Student Assistance Program have finally arrived, says Joanne Wade, assistant registrar (student aid). You can pick up a 1995-96 application form at the student awards office on the second floor of Needles Hall.

WORKING GROUPS: A total of seven "working groups" are looking at specific topics for UW's Commission on Institutional Planning. Besides the five previously set up, working groups on "quality of life" and "governance and decision processes" were announced a few days ago. Here are the details:

Working Group on Quality of Life for Faculty, Staff, and Students

Terms of Reference

to conduct an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for quality of life for faculty, staff, and students, taking into account internal and external factors
to consult extensively, seeking the perspectives of faculty, staff, students and others involved in, or affected by, quality of life issues
to project a vision for quality of life for faculty, staff, and students in five to ten years and develop recommendations for how to achieve it

Membership

Peter Naus, faculty, St. Jerome's
Swani Vethamany-Globus, faculty, Biology
Anne Harris, staff, Psychology
Shirley Thomson, staff, Dean of Mathematics
Avvey Peters, undergraduate, English
Susan Tirone, graduate student, Recreation and Leisure Studies
Ian Hosein, undergraduate, Applied Mathematics
Patricia Murray, staff, Plant Operations
Dave Weckman, faculty, Mechanical Engineering

Working Group on Governance and Decision Processes

Terms of Reference

to conduct an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for governance, taking into account internal and external factors
to consult extensively, seeking the perspectives of faculty, staff, students and others involved in, or affected by, governance issues
to project a vision for governance in five to ten years and develop recommendations for how to achieve it

Membership

Ken McLaughlin, faculty, St. Jerome's, Chair
Sharon Adams, staff, School of Urban and Regional Planning
Bud Walker, staff, Data Processing
Beth Jewkes, faculty, Management Sciences
Steve Codrington, student, Federation of Students
Vacancy: one alumna/us

CHILDREN'S DANCE: The Carousel Dance Centre, based in UW's department of dance, is launching a nine-week program of Saturday morning classes for children aged 3 and 4 -- "a highly specialized children's movement program emphasizing child development and creativity". Classes (from 9:45 to 10:30) run April 29 through June 24; the fee is $55. More information is available at ext. 3147.

HOW-TO WORKSHOPS: Two workshop series sponsored by UW's mature student services office will start tomorrow. One is the famous "We'll Show You How", intended for people returning to formal education after some time away from schooling. It's "an informal introduction to what is expected and required of students in the Faculty of Arts", and runs for six Wednesday evenings, 7 to 10 p.m. The fee: $50.

The other is "Preparing for Statistics", a series of eight workshops that provide "the basic mathematical skills" for students entering social science fields. That one runs 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays, for a fee of $130.

Information about both series is available at ext. 2429.

DRAMATIC NOTE: Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:
Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;
As one incapable of her own distress,
Or like a creature native and indued
Unto that element: but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death.

That's the drowning of Ophelia, in Act IV of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Eastwood Collegiate Institute is doing a production, and seeks to borrow an underwater videocamera, "with or without operator", to tape the drowning. It's "a unique opportunity to get program credit", says proud parent Matt Hill, of UW's anthropology department. Can you help? Call him at ext. 2603 or e-mail mhill@watarts.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca