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Wednesday, November 15, 1995

In the bleak early winter

See, amid the winter's snow,
Cars go sliding to and fro,
Into every parking lot,
Each into its chosen slot.
But you've gotta have the right card to let you into your chosen lot, unless you're paying cash to enter or exit. Conversion of parking lot H from the old blue cards to the new orange ones is supposed to be complete as of today, and users of lot B are changing over rapidly. Still using your old card? Take it to the parking services office, fill out a form and get the new one.

Planning reports are available

The first of nine "working group" reports done for UW's Commission on Institutional Planning are now available on UWinfo. These two deal with "International Connections" and co-operative education. This morning's Gazette has a big article about a third of the reports, the one on "quality of life", which isn't on UWinfo yet but should be soon.

Also coming in electronic form shortly are working group reports on teaching and learning, continuing education, and research and graduate studies. The remaining three reports -- governance, human resources, and computing -- are still being written.

Heather White of the provost's office, who is secretary of the planning commission, stresses that "these recommendations are for information only at this point, i.e., the commission will integrate them with all the information received and will set priorities in the draft plan it will release in the spring." The working groups -- each made up of faculty, staff and students -- were sent off to look at a specific subject; "it is the role of the commission to balance their opinions and set priorities in a wider university context."

Paper copies of the reports have been sent to deans' offices and association offices on campus, and are on reserve in the library.

ERS professor speaks out

Two weeks ago, the president of UW announced that a professor of environment and resource studies, Sehdev Kumar, had been disciplined -- docked a percentage of his pay for two years -- as the result of sexual harassment and other irregularities on a 1994 field trip to India. In this morning's Gazette is a statement from Kumar, the first he has issued on the subject. He says in part:
I maintain now, as I have done since the allegations publicized in the President's statement of November 1 were first made more than one year ago, that they are totally false and fabricated. . . .

Because of the fragility of my health, the extreme emotional strain I have been subjected to over the past year, and because of my very poor financial situation, on the urging of my family and friends, I withdrew my appeal [of the President's judgement].

Coming to a theatre near you

UW's drama season continues next week with the opening of "Chicago", an energetic, edgy musical that takes satiric aim at fame-hungry starlets and sleazy lawyers. Though it's set in 1920s Chicago, the story clearly resonates today, says Tim Gentle, a fourth-year drama student who plays the lawyer for a chorus girl accused of killing her husband. Check out the lawyer and the chorus girl on the first page of the Gazette this morning.

"Chicago" runs November 22 through 25 in the Theatre of the Arts. Tickets are $10 (students $8) and are available through the Humanities box office at 888-4908.

Tell me what's a-happening

Briefly: Islamic Awareness Week continues, with a "bazaar" in the Student Life Centre all week. And while it's "Greek Night" in the Village I and II cafeterias (Greek salad, gyros, souvlaki, baklava) there's kosher food at Brubaker's in the SLC. Cosmopolitan, this campus.

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

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