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Tuesday, July 11, 1995
Student killed at SkyDome
The man who died in a fall at Toronto's
SkyDome on
Sunday has been identified as Chad Cronkwright, who was a UW anthropology
student and a keen participant in stage activities at Waterloo, including
FASS.
Cronkwright was 26. He was working for Christie Lites Ltd.,
installing lighting for a trade show at the Dome, when he fell from a
steel scaffold onto the Dome's concrete floor. He died from head and
internal injuries. A large, heavy man, "He had five years' experience
and he had the (safety) harness," a source from Christie told the
Toronto Star.
Business people come to UW
The monthly networking get-together "Business After 5", sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce of Kitchener and Waterloo, is being held at UW
this month: specifically, tonight from 5 to 7 at the Optometry building.
Participants (typically more than 100 people) nibble refreshments,
look over exhibit tables, chat and trade business cards. Tonight there
will also be a chance to tour the school of optometry clinics and labs,
and the dean of science, John Thompson, will bring the university's
greetings.
The chain letter is back
"It has been around the world nine times," says the chain letter that
has surfaced on campus again in recent days. (Wonder who's keeping count?)
It's the same letter that has been here from time to time over the years,
complete with promises of riches if you copy it and pass it on, threats
of bad luck or death if you don't, and mentions of "George Welch" in
the Philippines who lost his wife but gained $7 million.
Copying chain letters isn't an appropriate use of UW staff time or
university photocopiers -- that seems fairly obvious -- and distributing
them is a waste of time and effort for the university's mail carriers,
says the manager of central stores, Al Lawrence.
And since the letter invokes God, "faith" and St. Jude, I thought I'd
ask for a comment from one of the campus chaplains. I reached John Fast,
the Mennonite chaplain, who called it "amazing" how many people see God
as "a kind of magician". He said about the chain letter: "In all senses
it's pagan -- there's nothing Christian about it."
The computing directions statement
As yesterday's Daily Bulletin noted, UW's
Computing Directions Statement is under
review. The University Computing Committee is doing the job, for
the Commission on Institutional Planning. The UCC's announcement of
the review will appear in full in tomorrow's Gazette is and is now
available on UWinfo.
The trail through Waterloo
The lead story in yesterday's Kitchener-Waterloo Record was an
announcement of the "Laurel Trail", some four miles of walking and
cycling pathway being constructed through most of the city of Waterloo.
As the Record noted, one section of the trail is already complete: it
runs from Columbia Street north to Beaver Creek Road, across UW's north
campus, along the east side of Laurel Creek.
Coincidentally, I was checking out the trail just a few days ago, along
with the much rougher hiking trail that parallels it on the west bank
of the creek: both are real assets to campus and community.
Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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