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Friday, September 22, 1995
Welcome to distant students
Waterloo's faraway students converge on campus today -- some hundreds,
out of the perhaps 5,000 who are taking "distance education" (correspondence)
courses this term.
It's the annual open house organized by the distance education office.
And just in time for the visitors to have a look, there are brand-new
World Wide Web pages available through UWinfo for the
distance
and continuing education operation.
The open house today and tomorrow includes social events, study skills
seminars, campus tours and textbook sales. There's a tour of the distance
education office itself at 3:15 today (it's at 156 Columbia Street,
just off campus).
The major event tomorrow is a "course fair" from 10:30 to 12:45 in the
great hall of the Davis Centre, to which potential students and people
from the community at large are invited, as well as current students.
Both academic departments and service units will have people on hand
to explain what they can offer.
Last-minute information should be available from the distance ed office
at ext. 2002.
Tickets for the Hagey Lectures
It's less than a month now to the 1995 Hagey Lectures, to be given
by philosopher and brain scientist
Patricia
Smith Churchland of the
University of California at San Diego.
Tickets are available now, says Vera Golini of St. Jerome's College,
the chair of the Hagey Lecture committee:
As you know, the Hagey Lecture, with title "Can Neurology Teach Us
Anything about Consciousness?" is in the UW Humanities Theatre, Hagey
Hall, on Wed., Oct. 18, 8:00 pm, followed by a reception, open to all, in
Room 280 Hagey Hall where the public can meet Professor Churchland.
Admission to the Hagey Lecture, as also to the student lecture, is free
of charge; however, tickets are required.
You can get tickets from the Humanities box office (phone 888-4908),
from the faculty association office in Math and Computer (phone ext. 3787,
e-mail facassoc@watserv1), or from Golini herself
at 884-8111 ext. 217, e-mail vgolini@watarts.
Churchland will also be giving a "student lecture/colloquium"
entitled "Feeling Reasons: What
Happens to Free Will if the Brain Is a Causal Mechanism?". Free
admission does not require tickets. It takes place Thursday, October 19,
from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Student Life Centre (multipurpose room), and
will be followed by an open reception where students
can meet the lecturer.
Lots of little announcements today
- The
Mathematics
Society has a pub night ("The Tie Strikes Back") tomorrow at
Federation Hall, starting
at 7:30.
- This year's lecture series of the St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic
Experience begins tonight with "Catholicism at the Dawn of a New
Century: Two Visions of a Church Struggling to Emerge." The speaker
is Thomas Fox of the National Catholic Reporter. His talk starts at
7:30 at Siegfried Hall of St. Jerome's College; admission is free.
-
Wednesday's Gazette had the date wrong for an information session
about employment in the public service of Canada. Kerry Mahoney of
career services sends
the correct information: "Public Service applications for full-time
employment (including Foreign
Service) are now available in the Career Resource Centre, NH 1115.
Application deadline is: October 13, 1995. In addition, there will be a
Foreign Service information session on Tuesday, September 26 from 11-12:30
in NH 1020."
- The parking office in the General Services Complex will be closed
from 1 to 4:30 p.m. today for a department meeting.
- The Ontario Women's History Network annual conference happens
today and tomorrow, chiefly at Renison College. Ken McLaughlin, the
university historian, is among the speakers ("Women and the Local
Textile Industry, 1939-1949"), and so is Nancy-Lou Patterson, retired
from UW's department of fine arts ("Traditional Women's Arts in the
Waterloo Germanic Community").
Finally, this important note
A little bird with e-mail capability tells me that today is a birthday
for Cathy Jardine in the university graduate office. Greetings to her!
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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