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Thursday, November 9, 1995
White stuff, slippery stuff
Yesterday's weather was a chilling preview of what we'll be getting over
the next few months. I note that sand bins have appeared at the parking
lot entrances -- help yourself if your wheels are slipping and spinning
on this winter's ice.
Perhaps it's not too early in the season to mention UW's policy on
closing because of winter storms. In summary: if the Waterloo County
Board of Education closes all its schools in bad weather, then UW is
closed; and if not, not. The full statement about weather emergencies
can be found
on UWinfo under
"Documents", and we'll print the text in the Gazette some time soon.
No sex in the snow
This isn't another paragraph about yesterday's weather on campus!
It's a report that the alumni affairs office has had to cancel the
Friday night talk by Michael Adams,
co-founder of
Environics Research, who was to be the highlight speaker of the
weekend. Sex in the Snow is the title of his book, soon to be
published, and of the announced talk, which would have dealt with
social and consumer trends and the way people's opinions influence
governments in this wintry nation.
The talk has been cancelled for lack of advance ticket sales.
However, that leaves plenty of other Homecoming activities, from The
Groove Daddys (playing the Bombshelter on Friday night) to the
Naismith
basketball tournament all weekend.
So where's the fire?
Nowhere, says safety director Kevin Stewart to those who might be
wondering why they saw some fire trucks on campus yesterday morning.
Stewart says each of the Waterloo Fire Department's four platoons
will be visiting campus for a morning during the next few weeks, to
upgrade their training on the alarm systems in the UW residences.
He says the training, presented by the safety office and the "controls
group" from the plant operations department, will remind firefighters
of what they should expect from the alarm system. Look for the second
platoon of fire trucks to be arriving next Wednesday.
Happening on
Alan
George's birthday
- The fourth annual "clothing exchange" in the environmental
studies faculty begins today (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and runs through
Saturday, in the courtyard of Environmental Studies I. It's an
opportunity for people to "donate, buy or swap" old clothing for
new-used clothes. All the money raised, and leftover clothing, will
be donated to Anselma House and the K-W Multicultural Centre,
says Heidi Freiheit, one of the event's organizers. "With the
winter season its way," she says -- no kidding -- "the need for
clothing, especially coats, sweaters and even blankets, is growing."
- The colloquium celebrating the 30th anniversary of John Porter's
The Vertical Mosaic, the book that defined Canadian sociology
and greatly influenced popular understandings of Canadian society,
runs today and tomorrow, mostly in Davis Centre room 1302. Among
the speakers today is Wallace Clement of Carleton University, who'll
talk at 3 p.m. about "Power, Class and Ethnicity: Thirty Years after
The Vertical Mosaic".
- The lucky co-op students, the ones who were matched with jobs
yesterday after the first round of winter term job interviews, have
"acceptance of employment" meetings with their coordinators, which
begin today, the
co-op department
says.
It's a real turn-off
Waste Reduction Week continues, with Conservation Day. Patti
Cook, UW's waste management coordinator, sends this exhortation:
We are going to monitor our energy load! Turn off those lights (when
rooms are not in use), copies, non-networked computers and printers,
unplug coffee makers when going home for the day. Let's see how much
difference we can make!
And finally: we remember
A Remembrance Day service will be held tomorrow from 10:45 to
11:15 a.m. in the chapel of St. Bede at Renison College. Civic
ceremonies for Remembrance Day take place Saturday, the 77th anniversary
of the armistice that ended World War I, at the cenotaph in
"uptown" Waterloo.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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