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Tuesday, November 21, 1995
Winter schedules available
Undergraduates can pick up their schedules (and fee statements) for
the winter term this week, as I said in yesterday's Bulletin. However,
I got some of the details wrong.
Only arts and environmental studies students should come to the
registrar's office to get their paperwork. Schedules for students in
other faculties should head in these directions:
- Science: Earth Sciences and Chemistry room 252.
(Optometry: check your mailbox.)
- Applied health sciences: Your department office.
- Mathematics: Math and Computer room 5115.
- First-year engineering: Carl Pollock Hall room 1320.
- Fourth-year engineering: systems design, Davis Centre room 2599C;
electrical, DC room 2597B; mechanical, Engineering 2 room 2328; civil,
E2 room 2333; chemical, Engineering 1 room 2509; geological, E2 room 2304.
- Renison and St. Jerome's Colleges: Your college.
Schedules for part-time students, and for co-op students who are on
work term right now, are in the mail.
Protests hit French universities
Today's been announced as a "national day of action" for students whose
strikes have already shut down many of
the universities in France.
Protests began last month at the
Universite de Rouen, where students stayed out of class for three weeks,
returning when the national government agreed to finance another 188 new
faculty positions over the coming four years. Other campuses that have
been hit by strikes are chiefly "overcrowded provincial universities that
were founded in the 1970s", Academe Today reports. The education
minister said last week he will offer a four-year plan "to ensure that
all universities receive equal treatment" in funding, but he didn't give
details. The leader of the national faculty union responded that the
minister, Francois Bayrou, is "a brilliant humbug . . . the fundamental
problem is that the French government devotes 0.54 per cent of the gross
domestic product to education." University spending should be doubled,
he said.
Campus health survey
Sharon Duff of the
Campus
Health Initiatives Project says she'll give people a few extra days
to return the survey forms they were sent recently. Faculty, staff and
graduate students received the forms, which ask about health behaviour
and health-related services on and off campus.
"We have had a good response to the survey, but we are interested in
having as many of your responses as possible," says Duff. They'll be
accepted until this Friday. Questions or concerns? Duff can be
reached at ext. 6277.
Happening today, briefly
- A forum on disposal of nuclear wastes is being held at 4:30 today
in Davis Centre room 1350.
Representatives from Atomic Energy of
Canada Ltd. will be on hand to talk about a proposal for "deep
burial" of such wastes. The AECL people are also available to talk to
other groups while they're in Waterloo today and tomorrow, says Greg
Michalenko of the department of environment and resource studies, who
invited them. He can be reached at ext. 6577.
- Breast Cancer Awareness Week continues. Tonight at 7, there will
be films on the subject in the great hall of the Student Life Centre.
Tomorrow, anyone interested in learning how to do breast self-examination
can visit health services (9 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m.) to see videos
on the subjects and speak to a nurse about any concerns.
- A one-hour session on "Ethics in the Co-op Workplace" starts at
1:30 this afternoon in Davis Centre room 1351.
- Tim McDaniels of the University of British Columbia is at UW
today to give at lecture on "Characterizing Perception of Ecological
Risks", sponsored by the
Institute for
Risk Research.
- It's election time for the
Mathematics
Society, with polls open today and tomorrow from 9:30 to 3:30
on the third floor of Math and Computer. Chris Buchanan and Rachel Nickie
are seeking the presidency of Mathsoc.
- Performances of "Power Play", a 40-minute show about workplace
harassment, are today at 12 noon in the Environmental Studies
courtyard and 6:30 p.m. in Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's College.
- The bookstore's Professional Trade Reference Bookfair runs today
and tomorrow in the South Campus Hall concourse.
- "Witness", on CBC television (channel 5) tonight at 9, has a report
on the notorious Valery Fabrikant murders at
Concordia University.
About reading this Bulletin
The Daily Bulletin is available in both Web and gopher formats, as well
as on the Usenet newsgroups uw.general and uw.campus-news. Full service
of the Bulletin on the UWinfo gopher will be discontinued as of
December 1; the plan is that from then on, gopher users will be able
to see the current day's Bulletin, but there won't be an archive of
previous Bulletins. To get the full service, you'll need to use the
Web version of UWinfo, which is where the action is anyway. Anybody who
has comments or questions about this planned change is welcome to
drop me a note.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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