Daily Bulletin, Thursday, January 26, 1995

GRADE REPORTS for mathematics students are available starting at 10:00
today; students can pick them up on the second floor of Needles Hall,
from 10 to 4 today and tomorrow.  As of next week, any remaining grade
reports will be at the registrar's office.  That's also where fall term
grades are being held for students from other faculties who didn't pick
them up last week.

EVENTS TODAY:  The Computer Science Club has enticed William Cowan, 
director of the computer graphics laboratory, to give a talk at 4:30 today
in Davis Centre room 1302.  Title: "Computer Graphics in the Nineties",
with special attention to the research being done at UW.  All are welcome.

The assistant director of the British Council, Caroline Warrior, visits
campus today.  There will be an open session (Needles Hall 3001, starting
at 10:30) about programs and awards offered by the British Council for
academic and professional exchanges and similar purposes.

The Egyptian Student Association winds up its "Egyptian Exhibition" from
9 a.m. to 8 p.m. in Davis Centre 1301.

THE FRIESEN CASE:  All's well that ends well, says a statement from the
faculty association, which has been looking into the way in which history
professor Len Friesen lost his job at Conrad Grebel College last year.
A fact-finding committee from the Canadian Association of University Teachers
was also involved.  The termination was a cost-cutting measure, but there
were suggestions that Friesen had not been treated fairly as the decision
was made, and that he might have been singled out for improper reasons.

According to the faculty association, its academic freedom and tenure
committee recommended that the board of governors of Conrad Grebel make 
an apology to Friesen and "undertake a review of all its policies
governing terms and conditions of employment".  The association says that
on January 13, the chair of the board wrote to Friesen -- who is now on
faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University -- to apologize and admit that "our
handling of these matters was not fair to you".  It says Friesen has
accepted the apology.  In addition, Grebel is now doing a review of its
faculty employment policies.

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