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[ President's letter to the UW community, 19 October 1995 ]

Thursday, November 2, 1995

One more thing to recycle

UW's waste management office announced it in an ad in yesterday's Gazette: "Boxboard can now be flattened, and recycled with our corrugated cardboard."

Explanation: "Boxboard is material such as kleenex boxes, pad backing, etc. It is a paper board material used in packaging. . . . Please flatten all cardboard boxes for recycling."

Waste management coordinator Patti Cook is getting excited about Waste Reduction Week, which starts November 6, and especially the "swap meet" set for Saturday the 11th. She explains:

The City of Waterloo is sponsoring a SWAP Meet at the St. Jacob's Farmers Market on Saturday Nov. 11, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. (look for the tent). There will be drop off blue boxes in the Student Life Building Great Hall, and Environmental Studies 1 foyer, for good, reusable 'stuff', on Monday, October 30, to Friday, November 3 (Other locations within the City will be announced soon). Or you can bring your 'stuff' to swap on Saturday the 11th.
SWAP categories include: clothing, housewares, craft materials, kids stuff (clothing and toys), books and magazines, and sporting goods, as well as non-perishable food items for the St. John's Kitchen. All items are free for the taking at the SWAP Meet. 'Swapping' or 'taking' does require a donation of a non-perishable food item. At the end of the day, all items left over will be donated to community charities.

Big day for co-op students

Today's the day: job ranking forms will be available at 10 a.m. for co-op students in search of winter term jobs. They're due to be returned by 4 p.m., says Jason MacIntyre, whose co-op job this term is to help the co-op department communicate.

And today's the middle day of the preregistration period, for co-op students who expect to be back on campus in the spring term of 1996.

The Web as a cultural phenomenon

That's the title for a talk at 3:30 this afternoon by Prabhakar Ragde, of the computer science depatment. To be given in Davis Centre room 1302, it's sponsored by the Computer Science Club. Ragde provides an abstract of what he might say:

This talk will not tell you how to use a WWW browser, how to enhance your own home page, or give yet another list of the coolest sites in the universe. So what's left? Only some loosely-structured reflections on what the growing popularity of the Web says about the people (from hackers to novices) who currently use it, and what the implications might be for universities and for society at large. The talk will take a cautiously optimistic tone (which is unusual for this speaker) and will be accessible to both interested laypeople and technical specialists.

And, speaking of the Web . . .

This Daily Bulletin is currently available in several formats, of which the most popular is the one you get if you click "Daily Bulletin" on the UWinfo Web home page:

The text edition of the Bulletin on the UWinfo gopher is less and less used. Yesterday 447 people checked out the Bulletin by Web and only 81 by gopher. (Don't know how many people saw it on uw.general and uw.campus-news.) I am thinking of taking the gopher version out of operation as of December 1. Most gopher users would still be able to choose a link that would pop them into hyperspace to read the Web version of the Bulletin via "lynx".

If there are dramatic objections to ending the gopher Bulletin shortly, please let me know.

And on James K. Polk's 200th birthday

"Living Our Mission: Issues in Catholic Education" is a workshop that will run from 4 to 8 p.m. in Siegfried Hall of St. Jerome's College. Featured speaker is Monsignor Dennis Murphy, a member of the Royal Commission on Learning. St. Jerome's co-sponsors the session with the Waterloo Region Roman Catholic Separate School Board.
The folks in the office of institutional analysis and planning, on the third floor of Needles Hall, are collecting used books ("anything except textbooks") for a sale tomorrow in support of the United Way. The sale runs from 9:30 to 4:00 Friday in Needles Hall room 3043, and prices start at 50 cents apiece (or $2 for five) for paperbacks.

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

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