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Friday, September 29, 1995

United Way campaign begins

If the staff you encounter today are in their grubbies, there's a reason: Dress-Down Day, being encouraged to draw attention and enthusiasm for the on-campus United Way campaign. The campaign gets under way today, and is seeking to collect $160,000 during October. "Thanks to your generosity," a leaflet tells the 1994 donors, "hope replaced despair in many lives." And the same can happen this year. Pledge forms are being distributed to staff and faculty by department representatives.

Happy Michaelmas, happy payday

Plenty of things are goin' on today:

At noon, in Needles Hall 3004, Aubrey Diem of the geography department shows excerpts from a new video movie based on his book First Rains of Autumn, set in the winter in the Swiss Alps. Also: "Learn how to create a CD-ROM with sound and narration using your own slides."
The Global Connections export seminar series sponsored by the co-op department gets going at 1:00 today. Last-minute information: ext. 2494.
Avraham Sela, visiting UW from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, speaks on "State and Society in the Middle East", at 2:00 in Humanities room 178.
The Japanese animation club, which calls itself CTRL-A, the Club That Really Likes Anime, has its first movie night of the fall term, from 4:30 to 10:30 in Engineering Lecture room 101.
Job posting number 3 for winter co-op jobs will be available starting at 10 a.m.; it expires Monday evening.
Mike Something, with special guest Dayna Manning, plays the Bombshelter pub in the Student Life Centre tonight.

New things on the Web

A couple of important documents that have appeared to the World Wide Web in the past few days:

Ontario's Throne Speech -- the one that was being delivered during Wednesday's riot at Queen's Park -- available through the Ontario government Web site, through the UW Electronic Library, or directly at http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/premier/throne.html.
The report of the Information Highway Advisory Council, available at "http://info.ic.gc.ca/info-highway/ih.html.

There's a long, long trail

It's called the Laurel Trail, and it runs through Waterloo from downtown past the UW campus, through the north campus and up to the Laurel Creek conservation area. The trail, sponsored by the city government, has its official opening Sunday at 2 p.m. at City Hall, corner of Regina and William Streets. Among the VIPs will be Roger Downer, UW's vice-president (university relations).

After the ceremonies, there will be a chance to walk the trail's six-kilometre length. Members of UW's Outers Club will be volunteering in the UW portion of the trail, which runs along the railway tracks on the east side of campus, then up past the Brubacher House museum and along the creek through the north campus. Everybody's invited -- and the Brubacher House will be open to visitors from 2 to 4 p.m. (adults $1).

And also on Saturday

UW's first triathlon, starting tomorrow at 9 a.m. with a swim in the Physical Activities Complex pool, followed by biking and then running around the ring road.
The St. Jerome's Charity Run, which starts at 4 p.m. today from the college's Siegfried Hall, continues through Sunday evening. Meanwhile: all-night movies tonight at Notre Dame College, a carnival from 10 to 3 tomorrow at St. Jerome's, and a pub and casino Saturday night, all to help raise money for the Global Community Centre. Say, aren't the charity runners going to be competing with the triathlon crowd for space on the ring road?
A programming contest, sponsored by the Computer Science Club, to select UW team members for the ACM programming contests later this winter. A second preliminary contest is set for October 14.

Excitement at University Stadium

It's "Bell Canada Gold and Black Day" at University Stadium (formerly Seagram Stadium) tomorrow afternoon as the football Warriors meet McMaster University's Marauders. Says Jennifer McCormick of the athletics department: "The Fan of the Game (wearing and showing the most spirit) will walk away with a $500 Via Rail travel voucher! Five contestants will be selected and the winner will be by audience cheering at the half-tme. Enter the free draw by Bell Canada and you could win a cool Mickey Mouse telephone valued at over $100, or lots of other great merchandise. Fed Hall has billed Saturday night as the Post-Game Bash and will be decorating the place up in gold and black with a Varsity spirit all night."

Sunday, as the soccer Athenas and Warriors face Western, it'll be Burger King Day with "random free giveaways". Those games are at Columbia Field: the women's game at 1:00, the men's at 3:00.

Downey's day in court

Sunday sees the third annual Downey Tennisfest, honouring UW president James Downey and giving faculty, alumni, staff and retirees a chance to play round-robin doubles and dine at the Waterloo Tennis Club.

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

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