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Friday, July 21, 1995
The Ontario government is making some funding announcements today, but
let's not think about that. Let's think about
wine,
as a busload of math students are doing today. The Math Grad Committee
is sponsoring the tour to three Niagara-area wineries; they'll be back
around 6 tonight.
Space available in the SLC
September will see today's empty spaces in the Student Life Centre
occupied by various businesses, but one room is being set aside for
students who want to serve other students.
About 1,150 square feet on the SLC's second floor will be made available to
a suitable group. And groups that think they're suitable can
submit a proposal for the space to the Turnkey desk by
Friday, July 28. Submissions should be addressed to the SLC management
board and its interim manager, Daniel Shipp. "All proposals should focus on
service and resources for students, be open to all students, outline use
and need for space, outline building and traffic enhancement, ability to
cover space costs and any other factors considered important," Shipp says.
Some of the
empty space elsewhere in the SLC will soon be occupied by Bell Canada's
first campus phone
centre, scheduled to open August 7. A retail spot beside Apple II
hairstylists on the ground floor of the SLC should be filled by September
1, the same scheduled date for the opening of a bike storage and self-serve
bike repair room. Expansion of the Bombshelter pub into the area formerly
occupied by the Wild Duck Cafe will be happening some time
in 1996.
They're coming, in thousands
Latest word from the registrar's office is that 3,658 people have
confirmed they're coming to campus as first-year students this fall.
That's somewhat more than the goal of 3,577 students in first year on
September 1. The science faculty will be the most crowded, if the
July 19 confirmation figures hold up: it has a goal of 577 first-year
students at the beginning of September, and already 643 people had
accepted offers of admission. Mathematics was also well above
its target, with engineering and arts slightly above. Environmental
studies and applied health sciences were still a few stuents short of
their targets as of the middle of last week.
The target for November 1, the official date when enrolment is
counted, is 3,606 first-year students. Through September and October,
enrolment in arts, math and science picks up each year, while the
number in the other faculties typically drops a little.
Human resources open meeting
The "working group on human resources" of the
Commission on Institutional Planning will hold an open meeting
from 6 to 8 tonight in Davis Centre room 1302. It's a chance --
especially for people who work the night shift -- to give their views
on the issues the working group is studying, such as workloads, training,
assessment, salaries, and "institutional flexibility to adapt".
A first open meeting, held at noon hour on Wednesday, drew only about
ten people apart from the members of the working group. Discussion
emphasized pensions, the busier-and-busier pressures that come as
UW has fewer staff, and the differences between the security and respect
that UW faculty enjoy and those that staff members feel they have.
Happening on the weekend
- The university choir gives its end-of-term concert Saturday inght
at 8 p.m. in the Theatre of the Arts. Says Cecilia, the Gazette's
music columnist: "Poulenc's Gloria is the main item, with Chatman, Songs of a
Prospector, and Traditional Spirituals also mentioned. Marta McCarthy is
the director, Adele Kozak, soprano, and Byron Dueck, piano." Tickets are
$8, students $5, at the door.
- A "women's festival", sponsored by the UW
Womyn's
Centre, takes place Saturday and Sunday, from noon to 8 p.m., at the
bandshell in Waterloo Park. Promised are continuous performances by
singers, bands, dancers and other performers, as well as informal
workshops in tents nearby. Information: phone ext. 3457.
- "Women in North America: The Islamic Paradigm" is the title of a
talk by Aminah Assilmi, to be given
Saturday at 7 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1302.
Says the sponsor:
"Raised as a Southern Baptist, Aminah Assilmi was heavily involved in the
Church and with feminist movements when she accepted Islam in the late
seventies. Aminah Assilmi is a television writer and producer and is
currently the Director of the International Union of Muslim Women."
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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