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Tuesday, August 1, 1995
Gossip on the first of August
Confidential to somebody who parked a bicycle in front of the Dana Porter
Library early this morning: a squirrel has been exploring your
saddle-bags.
Jake Sivak of the
school of
optometry, who's frequently in the news for his research about
the eyes of animals, is there again. He's quoted on the front page
of this morning's Star, commenting on an American study of rhesus monkeys and
how astonishingly well their eyes "grow to clarity" despite distorting
lenses put in their way.
Of less local interest:
this first day of August is the birthday of
author
Herman Melville, and the national day of
Switzerland and
Benin.
Neuropsychologist comes to lecture
This year's Hagey Lecturer will be
Patricia
Smith Churchland, a neuropsychologist and philosopher of science
based at the University of California at San Diego.
She will be at UW October 18 and 19, the Hagey Lecture committee
announced yesterday. Canadian-born, Churchland has been on the committee's
target list for half a dozen years, said Vera Golini, chair of the
committee, and finally has been able to set a date to visit.
She'll give the general Hagey Lecture under the title "Can Neurobiology
Teach Us Anything About Consciousness?" and a separate undergraduate
lecture, "Feeling Reasons: What Happens to Free Will if the Brain Is
a Causal Mechanism?"
Perfect timing: Churchland is quoted in the cover story of this week's
Time magazine, a long article about the brain and consciousness. "What's
so exciting," she says, "is that the philosophical questions raised
by the ancient Greeks are coming within the province of science."
Phone centre is coming
The new Bell Canada Phonecentre on the ground floor of the Student Life
Centre, originally targeted to open today, is now expected to open
at the beginning of next week,
says Student Life Centre interim manager Daniel
Shipp. "We had hoped for the earlier date, but construction and
installation delays have bumped the opening back a week," he said.
The opening of the new phonecentre, between the bank and variety store in
the SLC, will render the Bell Canada trailer near the Davis
Centre redundant, says Joan Wiley of UW telephone services. The
trailer, which had offered phone rental and hook-up services, will be
closed and moved.
PhD oral examinations set
From the faculty of arts graduate office come these two notices of
PhD theses that will be defended later in August:
- Amin Mawani, school of accountancy, "Cancellation of Executive
Stock Options: Tax and Accounting Income Considerations." Supervisor,
Dr. A. Macnaughton. On deposit in the arts graduate office July 18
through August 17; oral examination Friday, August 18, 9 a.m., Humanities
room 334.
- Maritza Freyslinger, department of psychology, "A Comparison of
Instructional Techniques in the Remediation of Wisconsin Card Sorting
Test Deficits of Chronic Schizophrenic Patients." Supervisor, Dr. D.
Meichenbaum. On deposit in the arts graduate office July 13
through August 30; oral examination Thursday, August 31, 9:30 a.m.,
PAS room 3026.
Worship in the summer
During August, four various bodies will be holding Christian worship
services on Sundays on campus:
- The University Catholic Community (one of the university's
biggest, liveliest, least-publicized organizations) will have Mass
in Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's College, at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m.
Information 884-8110.
- Anglican worship will be held in St. Bede's Chapel, Renison
College, at 10:30 a.m. (August 6 and 13, and September 3, only).
Information 884-4400.
- Grace Presbyterian Fellowship, a unit of the splinter Presbyterian
Church of North America, worships at 10:30 a.m. at Conrad Grebel
College. Information 725-5522.
- Westminster United Church, a United Church of Canada congregation
whose building is under construction, worships this summer at 10:00
at St. Paul's United College. Information 746-6080.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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