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Friday, July 7, 1995
Thousands coming to Waterloo
"I am pleased to report," says a memo from Ken Lavigne, associate
registrar (admissions), "that we have achieved 95% of our September 1
objective and am confident that our Year 1 enrolment objective will be
achieved and possibly exceeded."
As of July 5, some 3,412 people had been admitted to first-year study
for this fall and confirmed that they're planning to come. The target
for first-year enrolment on September 1 is 3,577; that's expected to
rise to 3,606 by November 1, the official count date, as more students
(including some who actually started at UW last year) register in
first year.
Lavigne's figures show the science faculty actually a little ahead of
its September 1 goal; other faculties range from 83 per cent to 99 per
cent of their goals.
Some notes and announcements
Low-vision study: Blind or low-vision participants are needed
for an experiment testing the use of sound in 3-D computer interfaces.
The experiment should take about one hour, and participants will be
paid $10. Interested people can contact Stephen Mereu in the computer
graphics laboratory: phone 725-1865, or e-mail swmereu@cgl.
Pension adjustment: As of July 1, the pensions received by
retired faculty and staff members were increased by 0.19 per cent, the
official year-to-year cost-of-living increase.
Environmental lecture: The text of "Environments Versus
Nature", the public lecture given by Ursula Franklin at UW last November,
has been published in pamphlet form by the faculty of environmental
studies. Franklin, "university professor emerita" at the University of
Toronto, was here as the first Canada Trust Walter Bean Visiting
Professor.
Council shut down: The Toronto Star reports this morning that
the Premier's Council, an advisory body made up of prominent people in
industry, education and other fields, is being dissolved as part of
the
Mike Harris overhauling of the Ontario government. Former UW
president Doug Wright has been a Premier's Council member.
Deputy minister for the Premier's Council is Tom Brzustowski, former
provost at UW and mechanical engineering professor. The Star quotes a
letter from him to the council members: "I have been
instructed to wind down the Premier's Council over the next three months,
and I expect to leave the Ontario Public Service at the end of that time."
What's happening this weekend
A gang from the Arts Student Union are off to Canada's Wonderland
today.
Charles Burns of the chemical engineering department is
marking a birthday. "The Love Boat cruises the island" at Federation
Hall, tonight and tomorrow, with Caribbean music and food. And more:
-
WatSFic presents "an AD&D format tourney" (that's "Advanced
Dungeons and Dragons") Saturday and Sunday in the Engineering
Lecture Hall. Information: Keith Benedict, 632-9130 or
watsfic@calum.csclub.
- The K-W
Society for Creative Anachronism holds its annual
"Forward into the Past" mediaeval collegium tomorrow, with brief
classes on such subjects as archery, Celtic Christianity, the Black
Death, pewter casting, the language of flowers, playing the harp,
and "politically incorrect woodcuts". Things are taking place in
the Peters Building at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Information: Amy Menary,
886-8261 or amenary@mach1.wlu.ca.
- Committed -- not to say fanatic -- bicyclers have announced a
"critical massing" for Saturday afternoon: a mass ride down King
Street in Kitchener and Waterloo, intended to "calm traffic" by effectively
blocking cars from using the street for a while. UW student Dave Thomson
is among the organizers.
Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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