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[ President's
letter to the UW community, 19 October 1995 ]
Monday, October 30, 1995
The long-awaited and rather scary
referendum on
Quebec sovereignty is going on today.
If you haven't heard enough about the issue yet, Wilfrid Laurier
University promises "four knowledgeable faculty members" at a talk and
discussion from 11:00 to 12:30 today in the Paul Martin Centre.
And tomorrow, WLU will sponsor "The Day After the Referendum", organized
by the chaplains' group and starring Brian Tanguay and Terry Copp of
WLU. It starts at 2 p.m. in WLU's science building, room N-1053.
A few other horrors today
With Hallowe'en coming tomorrow, spooks are the order of the day:
- The UW Shop in South Campus Hall sponsors pumpkin carving today
from 8:30 to 4:00, followed by judging for "skill and originality".
First come, first served with a pumpkin and carving tools, says Olga
Nohra of the shop's staff.
- The
Mathematics
Society sponsors a free showing of
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
at 8 tonight in Arts Lecture room 113. Admission is free. "Please, no
confetti," organizers say, but otherwise, one can expect the heavy
audience participation that seems to go with public showings of the RHPS.
- Tomorrow, from 8:30 to 9 and 12:00 to 1:00, there's something very
special -- and all for $1, to benefit the
United Way. "The
all-knowing, all-seeing, omnipotent Great Dr. Pumpkin (a.k.a. earth
sciences chair Bob Gillham) will tell your fortune
in BFG 2105." I'm told he can answer such earthshaking queswtions as
"Will I enjoy my comprehensive exams? Should I drink Coke or Pepsi? When
will the Darcy equation become a law? Will Leno overtake Letterman?" And,
presumably, "Who, if anybody, won the referendum?"
Who's eligible for employee benefits
A memo to staff and faculty members is out this morning announcing a
proposed change in who's eligible for which staff and faculty benefits.
The change has been worked out by three committees and will be aired at
a public meeting next Wednesday (November 8), after which it's to be
submitted to UW's board of governors for approval.
The idea is that "appointment duration, not full-time or part-time
status, be the primary determinant of benefit eligibility. Under
this proposal, ongoing part-time employees will receive increased
benefits whereas future, temporary, full-time employees will receive
reduced benefits. . . .
There
are no changes in benefit eligibility for ongoing full-time employees,
which includes appointments conditional upon availability of funding
as well as definite-term appointments equal to or greater than 2 years."
The open meeting on the proposal is set for November 8 from 3:30 to
4:30 p.m. in Needles Hall room 3001.
Other things are happening
At noontime today, Al Evans, retired professor of religious studies and
UW counsellor, will be speaking in the Kitchener Public Library's
lecture series. His topic: "The Art of Lying".
The Investment Technology Network brings John Selwyn, president of
Crosskeys Systems Corp., to campus at 6:30 for a talk on "Raising
Financing for Technology Companies from Angel Investors". Information:
744-3425.
The "Life Beyond the Car" series -- organized by the Federation of
Students and the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group -- continues
tonight with a talk by Jo Ann Woodhall, transportation planner for the
city of Kitchener. She's on at 7 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1304.
Tomorrow, St. Paul's United College hosts a launch party for the book
A Million for Peace by Shirley Farlinger -- the story of the
Peacemaking Fund of the United Church of Canada. The reception runs
from 3 to 6 p.m. in the college's MacKirdy Hall.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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