Daily Bulletin, Thursday, March 23, 1995

THE BUDGET:  The senate finance committee voted yesterday to recommend
a 1995-96 budget to UW's senate, although there are plenty of numbers
in it that are still estimates.  The current guess by number-crunchers
is that the government's total grant to UW will go down by 1 per cent
from this year's figure, to a level of $122.8 million.  At the same time,
allowing for some enrolment drop, the revenue from tuition fees will
rise by 6.4 per cent, to $44.0 million.  Other revenue items in the
budget total $17.9 million.

The proposed budget includes a campus-wide cut of 1 per cent.  "It would 
be up to each department to determine how this cut would be spread
between salaries and non-salary items," said the provost, Jim Kalbfleisch.

The budget provides for five unpaid days for faculty in the coming year;
staff would take no unpaid days.  It's the last fiscal year of the
three-year Social Contract.

The finance committee was told that UW "will certainly be intensifying
the advertising for distance education", to try to turn around a drop in
correspondence course enrolment.  And admissions officers may be asked
"to admit a few more good students when they're available".

UW IS FIFTH:  Waterloo's team placed fifth in the 1994 William Lowell
Putnam Mathematical Competition, it was announced yesterday.  The contest
was held December 3, with a total of 2,314 students from 409 colleges and
universities in Canada and the United States taking part, including
284 teams.  

This year the top four teams were from Harvard, Cornell, MIT and Princeton.
Other top-10 teams (in alphabetical order) were from Nebraska (Lincoln),
New York University, the University of Toronto, Washington University (St.
Louis), Waterloo and Yale.

Members of the UW Putnam team this year were fourth-year students Ian
Goldberg and Peter Milley, and first-year student Kevin Purbhoo.  Goldberg
had the top score among Waterloo participants, ranking 21st. Honourable
Mention went to Brad Bart, who ranked 40.5, and Purbhoo, who ranked 46th.
Also ranking in the top 100 were Jie Lou, Jason Bell, Lousindi Sabourin,
and Milley.

Fourteen UW students placed in the top 206 finishers, and 26 in the
top 500.  The team was coached by Chris Small of the department of
statistics and actuarial science.

HAPPENING TODAY:  It's "Shadow Day" in the engineering faculty, with some
200 high schoolers on campus to follow students around and get an idea of
university life.  The annual event is sponsored by the Engineering Society.

The Midnight Sun III team gives a presentation on "what it takes to
build a winning aerobody of a solar race car", at 3:30 in Davis Centre
room 1302.  The team is featured in this week's Gazette, getting ready 
for Sunrayce '95 across the United States.

How do the campus pay phones work?  The Computer Science Club presents
Neil Brower of Northern Telecom, talking about "Intelligent Payphones",
at 4:30 in Davis Centre 1351.

The Sikh Students Association presents an informal discussion on Sikhism,
at 5:00 in Davis Centre 2577.  All are welcome.

The documentary "Death of a Nation", about affairs in East Timor since
the Indonesian invasion, will be shown at 7 p.m. in Davis Centre 1304.

The Taiwanese film festival sponsored by the fine arts film society
continues, with the 7:30 p.m. showing of "Kuei-Mei, A Woman", in East
Campus Hall room 1219.

ELECTRICAL POWER will be turned off in the Optometry building from 7:30
to 8:30 tomorrow morning, for crews to tie in temporary power for the
building addition that's under construction.

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