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Tuesday, July 25, 1995

Making the campus greener

Participants in WatGreen, the program that links students' academic work with environmental improvements on campus, will be reporting today on their latest work. All are welcome for the presentations, to be given from noon to 4 p.m. in room 221 of Environmental Studies 1. Topics of the presentations: Other WatGreen news, a Web site for WatGreen has been created (look on UWinfo under "Departments"). And WatGreen has helped in the creation of a university-wide environmental committee chaired by James Kay of environment and resource studies. The committee includes Patti Cook, UW's waste management co-ordinator, and six faculty representatives: Muthu Chandrashekar (systems design engineering), Paul Eagles (recreation and leisure studies), George Priddle (environment and resource studies), Winston Cherry (statistics), Hamish Duthie (biology) and Keith Warriner (sociology). The committee was set up by the provost after WatGreen representatives made presentations to UW's executive council in March and the board of governors in April. Because committee members were selected just a few weeks ago, the committee has not yet met, Kay says.

Librarian heads for Guelph

Mike Ridley, associate librarian (systems) in UW's library, is leaving after four years at Waterloo. He has been named chief librarian at the University of Guelph, where he previously worked from 1979 to 1985.

"Mike will assume his duties in the early Fall 1995; a precise date has yet to be negotiated," said a memo yesterday from UW's chief librarian, Murray Shepherd. The memo noted that Ridley "has been instrumental in introducing, encouraging and supporting a number of exciting, innovative and effective changes in Library Information Systems and Services." Ridley was also acting university librarian for several months last winter.

Shepherd added: "The collaborative initiatives with Guelph and Laurier, already well begun, will flourish."

Beaver wins in tough contest

David Dilts, Sandford Fleming Debate coordinator for engineering, sends word about the spring term debates, which finished on Friday. He reports that the finals were held in POETS pub, "between Systems Design, represented by Ritcha Gupta and Doug Sverich, and Chemical Engineering, represented by Casey Colak and Jeremy Steffler. Systems, as the government, cleverly redefined the original debate topic: 'The parliamentary system is obsolete and will be replace by a monarchy' to that of 'The parliamentary symbol, the beaver, is obsolete and will be replaced by the monarch butterfly.' While Systems raised the issue of the beaver's destructiveness and the butterfly's beauty, the Chemical team countered with the beaver's nature of building things and the butterfly's propensity to fly south for the winter. After a lively debate, with many comments from the large and lively crowd of back-benchers, the judges awarded the debate to the Chemical team."

Basketball tournament continues

The national junior basketball championships continue, with men's competition being held at UW today and women's competition at Wilfrid Laurier University. Games scheduled in the Physical Activities Complex today: Manitoba vs. Saskatchewan at 1:30, Newfoundland vs. Ontario at 3:30, New Brunswick vs. British Columbia at 6:30, Nova Scotia vs. Prince Edward Island at 8:30.

As for the women's side of the event, an informant tells us: "Two girls from the UW team are playing, Jacalyn White for NB and Mary Francis (Max/Muffy) Lapthorne for Alberta. PEI dropped out at the last minute, so there was a hole to be filled in. This was filled by a pickup team of local players, coached by the (UW) coach, Kathy Keats."

Talking about computing

The University Computing Committee holds an open meeting today, specifically for faculty members, to get input into its review of the University Computing Directions Statement. The meeting begins at 2 p.m. in Needles Hall room 3001.

Trunk sale is cancelled

The staff association had been planning to hold a "trunk sale", a sort of garage sale on wheels, on September 13. Says a memo this week" Unfortunately we have had to cancel the above event due to lack of interest. . . . We thought it was a great idea . . . but alas we didn't get sufficient response to make it worthwhile."

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

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