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Thursday, July 20, 1995

More than acting, less than dean

Yesterday's Gazette had a paragraph in it about Paul Schellenberg of the mathematics faculty, and some thoroughly garbled information. We called him acting dean, and he's not. "I hope my new boss is here to work for a three year term and not just acting," laughs Dorothy Chapman of the dean's office. The true fact (as opposed to the false fact?) is that Jack Kalbfleisch is still dean of math, and as of July 1, Schellenberg is associate dean (undergraduate studies), a position in which he succeeds John Wainwright. That's not a position Schellenberg has held before, though he has been acting dean for a time, as well as chair of the combinatorics and optimization department.

A year of electronic information

Today marks the first anniversary of UW's Electronic Library, an array of World Wide Web pages that make the university library electronically accessible and lead to information useful for all the disciplines researched and studied at UW.

When it was launched July 20, 1994, the EL incorporated the earlier "library gopher". It now includes everything from the library's main catalogue, Watcat, to lists of WWW "starting points" and search tools, not to mention specific pages of electronic resources for each department.

The Electronic Library is maintained by the library's Internet Resources Committee, chaired by Christine Jewell. The IRC's annual report notes that the committee "takes pride in being on the cutting edge. UWELib was one of the first Canadian University Libraries to develop a Webpage. It has been recognized as a substantial achievement in innovation, testified by the OLITA award received in the winter of 1995."

Open meeting on computing

The University Computing Committee today holds the first of three open meetings about its review of the University Computing Directions Statement. Today's meeting is explicitly for students, and starts at 3 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1302. Meetings are scheduled for faculty on July 25 and for staff on August 2.

Things that aren't working

Things to do today

Still watching the government

The Toronto Star this morning reports a rumour that grants to universities (and school boards) will be cut by 2 per cent as part of the financial pinching that the Ontario government is to announce tomorrow. The Star doesn't say exactly what the cut would apply to, or when it would start, and that makes a big difference as universities plan whatever retrenchment will be needed.

One other rumour was made fact yesterday, as the government fired Charles Pascal, deputy minister of education and training for the past two years. Though originally brought into the senior civil service by a Liberal government, he was closely associated with the social policies of the New Democratic government that went down to defeat last month.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

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