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Thursday, February 15, 1996
Engineer will head Federation
Mario
Bellabarba, a fourth-year student in
civil engineering, will be president of the Federation of Students
for 1996-97. He was chosen to succeed this year's president, Jane
Pak, in campus-wide balloting by undergraduates Tuesday and
Wednesday. (Thanks to
the Fed officials, including chief returning officer Fatima Valji
with a 2 a.m. voice-mail message, who made sure I had the
results in time for this morning's Bulletin.)
Bellabarba has been active in the Engineering Society and now serves
as a student representative on the UW senate and board of governors.
Among his comments in a pre-election interview:
I think they need to downsize upper administration. They need to
seek student input, especially in light of the fact that we're going to
be paying more and more tuition. University is going to become very
competitive -- how many students can you get to a university,
since tuition is higher you've got to offer good services, and the
students who are already here probably have a pretty good idea of
what they think is lacking, or what they think is good, about the
university.
Elected along with Bellabarba to lead the Federation for the
coming year:
- Mark Ferrier (kinesiology) as vice-president (administration and
finance).
- Julie Primeau (arts, a Village don) as vice-president (internal).
- Kelly Foley (environmental studies) as vice-president (education).
Now, grad students seek leaders
David Bauer of the
Graduate Student
Association sends this notice:
The Graduate Student Association is now accepting nominations
for the annual election of its Executive and At-Large Directors.
Nomination forms can be obtained at the GSA office in the Grad House
during regular operating hours, and will be accepted until Monday,
February 19, at 3:00 p.m.
Ethics on the job
Co-op students are being encouraged to attend an ethics workshop
today starting at 1:30 in Arts Lecture Hall room 113.
The workshop is intended to talk about unethical practices that
students may be exposed to in the workplace and how to deal with them. For
example: hiring practices that may violate the human rights code,
"little white lies", or "Your
supervisor asks you to sign, as bona fide, test results with
artificially inflated figures. What do you do?"
Presenting the workshop today are Sally Gunz of UW's school of
accountancy and Matt Erickson, the university's
coordinator of ethical behaviour and human rights.
Between the white lines
Interested in playing baseball? Jeff Sommer and Bryan Demsky are, and
they've called a meeting for 5:00 today for other people who might
like to help form a UW team in the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball
Association. There's the possibility of support from the athletics
department if enough people want to get involved, Demsky says. Today's
meeting is in room 2134 of the Student Life Centre. Anyone who's
interested, but can't make the meeting, can get in touch with
bdemsky@undergrad.math (phone 886-6013) or jwsommer@fes.
Getting ready for visitors
The annual Campus Day, when thousands of high school students and
their parents descend on UW to find out what the place is like, is
set for Tuesday, March 12. The advance program being distributed
through high schools by the
secondary
school liaison folks in the registrar's office,
includes everything from parents' information sessions to department
tours, and the inevitable Science Spectacular.
Cuts at other universities
The University of Western Ontario "is bleeding", says its
newspaper, WesternNews, in
a front-page story:
The most recent figures available from Human Resources
show that 118 members of University staff have had their positions
terminated. . . . Western's administrative units are working
closely with the Department of Employee Relations to make sure
that those who have lost their jobs are treated as fairly as possible
under the circumstances.
WesternNews does not indicate exactly how many of the 118
were laid off involuntarily. At least 38 were able to take early
retirement. In addition, some 30 faculty at Western
(out of 300 who are eligible) have so far decided to take early
retirement.
At the University of Guelph, president
Mordechai Rozanski and the vice-presidents will hold
an open
meeting at 12 noon today to talk with faculty and staff about
"the budget shortfall and proposed solutions". Big announcements
are expected.
And finally, on Flag Day
- In a physics department colloquium, P. R. Backus of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration will talk about "The Search for
Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence: Project Phoenix" (3:30 p.m., Physics
room 145).
- The architecture school's Arriscraft Lecture Series tonight presents
architect Aino Niskanen on "Continuity in Traditional
Finnish Functionalism" (8 p.m., Environmental Studies II room 286).
- The Rainbow Butt Monkeys -- a band name that my ten-year-old
just loves -- play the Bombshelter pub tonight.
Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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