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Thursday, September 7, 1995

Start the day with a warning

UW police chief Al MacKenzie phoned this morning to ask me to spread a piece of good advice: Keep your valuables within sight. A university campus isn't immune to thieves. Yesterday afternoon, for instance, somebody stepped into an office in the Optometry building, rifled through a knapsack and took away some of its contents, including a credit card, which had already been used by the time the owner discovered it was missing. Keep your eyes on your fries.

Orientation week continues

It doesn't seem like the finest of weather for environmental studies students to be exploring Laurel Creek, or for the science barbecue. A good day, though, to step in out of the drizzle and watch a performance of "Single and Sexy" in the Theatre of the Arts -- it's free, today at 11 a.m., 2:30 and 4 p.m. A good day, also, for the Renison College chapel service at 4 p.m.

And tonight, for those who aren't taking part in the great Scunt event, there's a triple bill at Federation Hall. The Federation of Students Board of Entertainment, BEnt, presents "Odds", "Treble Charger", and (I'm not making it up, you know), "The Rainbow Butt Monkeys".

Registration continues too

Today is registration day for mathematics students (in the morning) and applied health sciences students (in the afternoon). And students from all faculties who didn't quite make it earlier in the week are due to register any time tomorrow, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the small gym of the Physical Activities Complex. Late fees start after tomorrow: $10 for the first day, $3 each additional day. If you haven't registered by October 31, you're out of luck altogether.

Faculty development days begin

A session on "Undergraduate Teaching and Learning at Waterloo" begins Faculty Development Days this morning, followed by a couple of more technical sessions -- "Ideas for Your Class" and "Evaluating Writing Assignments". At 2:30 today, in Davis Centre 1302, comes the annual fall panel on "Balancing Teaching, Research and Personal Lives". Faculty Development Days continue tomorrow.

Also running both days is the Instructional Multimedia Fair in Davis Centre 1301. Everybody's welcome.

People are being consulted

As the Commission on Institutional Planning continues its work, two of its working groups will be holding public meetings in the next few days to ask for opinions from students, faculty and staff:

The working group on human resources has a meeting next Wednesday, September 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the Student Life Centre. Under discussion: such issues as balancing workloads, salary and benefit packages, development and training, and merit and performance evaluation.
The University Computing Committee has a meeting Thursday, September 21, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in Arts Lecture room 116. Wanted: comments on the planned revision of the University Computing Directions Statement

Notes from here and there

While I wasn't looking, the soccer season started. Don't have any scores yet, but the Warriors played Durham College on Tuesday and the Athenas played York University yesterday. And today at 1 p.m., the Warriors host Conestoga College in an exhibition game on the north campus. Spectators are welcome, of course, free.
You might think that filing your up-to-date address with the registrar's office is enough, but no. The UW library doesn't get updated address information; if you're going to be using the library, you need to notify the library of your current address, which you can do at any circulation desk. The address on file with the library is the one to which recall notices and other library mail will be sent.
A series of export training seminars, called Global Connections, will be held on campus this fall. The series, covering opportunities for careers in international business, has been a success several times in the past; this fall's series starts September 15. An information sesson will be held today at 4:30 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1302, and repeated next Wednesday, September 13, at 4:30 in DC room 1304. Information: the co-op and career services department at 888-4026.
The walkways around the Dana Porter Library and the Arts Lecture Hall will be used for orientation chariot races today from about noon to 1:30 and tomorrow from 3 to 4 p.m. Advice from safety director Kevin Stewart: "Please arrange your schedules so that your vehicles are not in this area at these times."
Because of late cancellations, the Village residences currently have vacancies for three first year female students (double room and interconnecting room accommodation). Anyone interested should contact Barb Heppler at ext. 3705.

And, we have a winner

Actually, five winners -- first-year students who accepted the invitation in yesterday's Bulletin to drop me a note by e-mail and receive a small prize. I was pleased to hear from, and welcome as Daily Bulletin readers, Marta Poterski, Todd Bowman, Neil DeBoni, Auriel Manolson, and William Lewis. "I just set up my Watstar account five minutes ago," one of them told me; glad your computing priorities include this Bulletin!

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

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