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Tuesday, September 19, 1995
Athletics has a new name
Memo issued by the provost yesterday:
Effective immediately, and with the support of the Executive Council,
the
Department
of Athletics is being renamed the Department of
Athletics and Recreational Services. This name change recognises
that recreational services form an important part of the programs
offered by the Department.
If UWinfo looks different to you
If you're used to reading the Daily Bulletin, or hunting other information,
on the UWinfo gopher, prepare for a change. On many campus computing
systems, the "uwinfo" command will be changed in the next few days so
that it points the user to the UWinfo Webspace rather than to the
gopher. (Other computing systems won't be making the change until the
end of the fall term.)
If you type "uwinfo" and find yourself looking at an unfamiliar page,
you're in the Webspace and ready to use "lynx" to navigate the World
Wide Web. The essential keys are the arrows: up and down to move through
the page you're seeing, right and left to enter a Web link or go back again.
The UWinfo gopher will still exist, and there are ways to reach it,
including Turbogopher and PCgopher as well as Unix commands. And the
Daily Bulletin will, for now, continue to be available in a gopher version
as well as the more powerful Web version. But the gopher is fast becoming
obsolete -- see
the
first item on the UWinfo gopher menu for details.
New president for NSERC
UW's first provost, Tom Brzustowski, will take over October 1 as
president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
He becomes the second former top administrator at UW to head a major
federal scientific agency. Arthur Carty was dean of research at
UW until he was named last year to head the National Research Council.
Industry minister John Manley
announced
Brzustowski's appointment last
week. He will succeed Peter Morand, whose term at NSERC ends September 30.
Brzustowski was a professor of mechanical engineering at UW for 25 years,
and vice-president (academic) from 1975 to 1987, also holding the title of
provost for his last few months in that office.
Happening at food services
Notes from Michele Grondin in the
food
services department:
- This week at the "international table" in Brubaker's, the food
outlet in the Student Life Centre, "Al Madina will be serving
scrumptious Egyptian food".
- "Food Services will be at Septemberfest in South Campus Hall,
explaining and selling our meal plans. Now is the perfect time to
save 5%, up to 20% on your food service purchases with your new
WatCard."
- The Village residences will have "KFC Night" this week: Village I
on Wednesday, Village II on Thursday. "KFC dinners will include
cole slaw, fries, grecian bread, a 16-ounce drink and your choice of
three, four, five or six pieces of chicken." Yes, people who don't live
in the residences are still welcome to eat there.
- This week is the last chance to get a WatCard in the Student
Life Centre; after this Friday, people who need WatCards should go
instead to the WatCard office in the General Services Complex.
Reminder to co-op students
Work reports from the spring work term are due today at 4:30. And
tomorrow, the "master copy" of the co-op record for each student who's
looking for winter term placement should be available, starting at
10 a.m. at the
co-op
department in Needles Hall.
Continuing among the Feds
The
Federation of
Students continues its "Fed Awareness Days" and open house.
Just for example, there's the Women's Centre:
We have books, files, pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, publications
and videos. The resources include such topics as environmental/peace
issues, violence against women, safety, health issues, sexuality, feminist
theory, spirituality and much more. Our books and magazines contain
fiction, writings and poetry by Native women, Black women, lesbian
women, Canadian women and women around the world. Our new
resources include a T.V., VCR, video library and access to the Internet,
all of which will be useful for discussion groups and workshops.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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