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Tuesday, April 2, 1996

The April 19 protest

The "community action day" in Kitchener-Waterloo on April 19 has become more than just a labour movement protest against Ontario government policies, says one organizer. Stan Fogel of St. Jerome's College is helping to coordinate an "education protest" as part of the day's events, which are being jointly sponsored by the Kitchener-Waterloo Labour Council (Ontario Federation of Labour) and the Coalition for Social Justice.

(No, the protest has nothing to do with the strike of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union against the provincial government. OPSEU went back to work yesterday.)

Fogel says there's strong sympathy for the strike from UW associations representing students, staff and faculty, but such groups -- other than Canadian Union of Public Employees local 793 -- aren't officially endorsing the protest because they have to represent members with a wide spectrum of views. So, an unofficial committee is making the plans for protest participation by interested UW people. The committee will meet tomorrow, Wednesday, at 4:30 p.m. in Student Life Centre room 2134, and everybody interested is welcome.

UW examinations that were scheduled for April 19 have been rescheduled for Monday, April 22. "In all other respects," said a memo from the provost on March 22, "Friday, April 19 is a normal business day for the University." That's understood to mean that if people want to take the day off to protest, they should arrange in advance to have it as a vacation day or unpaid day.

Bob Myers is mourned

A memorial service will be held in the Theatre of the Arts at 10:30 this morning for Robert L. Myers, who died Friday at the age of 70. He was a professor of French at UW from 1963 to his retirement in 1986, and served eight years as chair of what was then the "department of classics and romance languages". Myers was also well known as an artist; the University Club held many exhibitions and sales of his water-colour landscapes.

Board of governors meets

Approval of tuition fee increases for 1996-97 is on the agenda this afternoon as UW's board of governors holds its spring meeting -- Needles Hall room 3001, starting at 3:30 p.m.

As all the world knows, fees are going up sharply as the result of Ontario government funding decisions. The hike for most UW undergraduates is 19.8 per cent, so that the one-term fee for an engineering student breaks the $2,000 barrier at $2,019 (that's $1,608 for tuition plus $411 in co-op fee). For regular program arts and science students, the one-term fee will be $1,468.

Also up for discussion by the board: the state of the budget, a proposed review of the housing operation, and a presentation from Gary Griffin, director of the teaching resource office, about "Teaching -- Resources, Techniques, Technology".

On the last day of classes

Yes, I know, students in engineering and mathematics finished lectures for the winter term on Friday. Today's the last day for students elsewhere on campus -- and now (after the long weekend, April 5 being Good Friday) it's exam season.

Much is still happening on campus:

The staff association holds the first in a series of gardening seminars at 12:00 today in Davis Centre room 1302. Larry Lamb of the ecology lab will speak on "Wildlife Gardening".
Maureen McNeil of the University of Birmingham speaks at 2:30 on "Errata to Exotica: Sexual Politics in Canada in the 1990s". Her talk (in Humanities room 373) is sponsored by political science, history, women's studies, and the advisory council on academic human resources.
The Danny Grossman Dance Company performs at 8 tonight in the Humanities Theatre. From a publicity release:
The Danny Grossman Dance Company was formed in 1975, and has been a leader in modern dance ever since. Grossman's work is powerfully individual, full of his own uniquely quirky humour and keen social awareness. His political consciousness was formed in his childhood, growing up in the revolutionary ferment of San Francisco in the fifties and sixties, and his art continues to reflect his humanistic concerns. A performance by the company is a disarming combination of entertainment and socio-political enlightenment.
Tickets are $16 (students $14) from the Humanities box office.

A birthday with a difference

It's happy birthday today not to an individual, but to a university -- one that doesn't exist any more. Loyola College was founded in 1896 to serve the English-speaking Catholic segment of Montreal. Its degrees were originally granted by the Universite de Montreal. Loyola later became an independent Jesuit university, and was eventually merged with Sir George Williams University into today's Concordia University. Tonight a Loyola Club Dinner at the St. James's Club in Montreal will be a highlight of the anniversary celebrations.

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

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