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Friday, August 2, 1996

Monday a holiday

It's the civic holiday long weekend - with great weather in store - so things will be especially quiet around campus. Summer term students will be getting down to some serious studying since this will be the last week of lectures and exams are just around the corner. Most services will be shut down, but essential services will be available:

University police -- 888-4911 (or, from a UW extension phone, ext. 4911) 24 hours a day as always.
Maintenance emergencies -- plant operations department, ext. 3793, 24 hours a day.
Student Life Centre turnkey desk -- always open, ext. 4434.
Information Systems and Technology (computing services) helpline -- 888-4839 (that's ext. 4839). Major network problems reported to that number will be addressed during the weekend if the appropria te people to fix them can be located.

Library hours: Dana Porter: 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Davis Centre: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; UMD is closed. The circulation and information service desks are also closed at the Porter and Davis libraries.

Walking the Web at Waterloo (11)

by Chris Redmond

These Web Walks start from the UWinfo home page at https://uwaterloo.ca, but there's no reason UWinfo has to be the home page or starting-point for everybody, and indeed it isn't. Staff in UW's library, for instan ce, generally use the Electronic Library as their home page. On Netscape, Mosaic and most other browsers, it's not a difficult chore to type in the URL of whatever page you'd like identified as your "home".

What choices are there? Your own department's page, of course, if you refer to it often. You can even have your own individually created, idiosyncratically convenient page, if you have the HTML skills to do that (and the computing resources to make it wor k). You could do worse than use this Daily Bulletin as your home page, guaranteeing that every time you fire up your Netscape, you'll see the latest news.

If you follow a path from UWinfo to "Departments and groups" and then choose the psychology department, you're on your way to a treasure of a home page. The link to it is near the bottom of the psy ch department page, in the list headed "More Local Info". The page in question is "the beeHive", where "bee" is the initials of local wizard Bill Eckmeier. His Hive has a rich, densely organized list of usef ul links, primarily but not only of interest to psychologists -- even if it does refer to these daily effusions as the "Gazette's Daily Bulletin".

It's worth noting that your home page doesn't have to be based on a Waterloo computer, either. There are both amateur and professional pages that can serve that purpose, ranging from the Daily Bikini to Starting Point.

A sad farewell

It is with sadness that we report the death of Joy Staines, the former manager of the University Club from 1983 to 1994. Joy was well known and loved by many UW faculty and staff who came to know her at the club.

She died peacefully at her lakeside home in Oliphant on Sunday, July 28.

In addition to serving the university so well for over a decade, Joy was the former executive director of the YMCA in Kitchener, and former manager of The Waterlot restaurant in New Hamburg. She also served for many years with the Canadian Cancer Society . She accepted early retirement from UW in 1994.

At her request there was no funeral service. A reception for family and friends is being planned for later in the summer. The family would appreciate memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society.

Birhday wishes

Birthday wishes go out to Lynda Johnson, in User Services, Davis Centre Library. It's her birthday tomorrow, but we're jumping the gun.

Public service announcement

August 3, 1996 marks the 70th birthday of Anthony Dominick Benedetto, more popularly known as Tony Bennett.

Writer today: Martin Van Nierop (vanierop@nh3adm)
Technical support: Kyle McKenzie (kkjmcken@mc1adm)

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