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Wednesday, July 10, 1996
Where cross the crowded ways
Reconstruction of the intersection of Columbia Street and Fischer-Hallman
Road
is underway this summer at the southwest corner of UW's north campus.
Current result: lots of dirt, and complete closing of a stretch of
Columbia northward towards Beaver Creek Road, along empty land
that belongs partly to UW and partly to Hewlett-Packard.
Although it may appear that chunks of the north campus are being
gobbled up in the road work, UW isn't losing any land, says
Dennis Huber, associate provost (general
services and finance). He said the work is taking place on Region of
Waterloo road allowances, with no land transfers involved.
Under its capital works program, the Region also plans to
reconstruct the intersection of Laurelwood, Bearinger and Fischer-Hallman
at the northwest corner of the north campus, with work to begin in
late summer or early fall, Huber said. For that intersection, some
minor land adjustments were approved by the UW board of governors in 1994.
In both cases, he said, the university had an opportunity to review plans for the projects before work began.
Also under construction right now is Father David Bauer Drive, which
will connect downtown Waterloo and the Waterloo Recreation Centre with
Westmount Road in the vicinity of Westmount Plaza. Lanes are closed on
a stretch of Westmount for that project. And the work continues on
Seagram Drive and parking lot A, on yet another edge of the campus.
The dons do dinner
That's the attraction tonight in the
Village I
cafeteria, where Wednesdays are generally "theme nights". This
evening, the Village dons will be serving the food, and the menu
includes apricot chicken as well as some dishes made from the dons'
own cherished recipes.
Me, I like the old Nova Scotia recipe for how to cook an owl. You
clean the owl and lay it on a cedar shingle about an inch thick, and
you put the shingle and the owl into a 350-degree oven. Roast it
all afternoon, checking every hour or so for tenderness. When it's so
well done that you can drive a fork easily into the cedar shingle,
you throw away the owl and eat the shingle. . . .
Happening on this sunny day
Nothing's certain today but blood and taxes, or something:
- The summer blood donor clinic runs from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. in
the multi-purpose room of the Student Life Centre. Lisa Ballinger sends
this appeal from the Red Cross: "We're holding less clinics in the
area due to funding cutbacks, so we really need to have a good turnout
at the clinics that we do have so that we collect enough blood to
supply the hospitals. If people can't make it to that clinic, they
can call me, Brenda or Marie at 744-6110 for information about other
clinics. There is one on July 17 at Rink in the Park from 1:30 to
8:00 p.m. which might suit some students."
- The
Students
Advising Co-op group has a workshop today about taxes and co-op
students, starring
Jean Blyth of
Ernst & Young. Among the topics:
reporting bursary income, claiming moving expenses, "dealing with
Revenue Canada". The workshop starts at 4:30 in Needles Hall
room 3001.
- The board of directors of the
Graduate
Student Association meets at 6:00 tonight in Needles Hall
room 3004. (And tomorrow, starting at 1 p.m., the GSA holds a
barbecue and golf tournament at the Maryhill Golf Club.)
More from the research office
As yesterday's Bulletin noted, the office of research is moving its
"research bulletin" onto UWinfo. "We've had a few
problems," writes Kyle McKenzie, describing the kind of frustration
that just about every department with any Web material has endured.
Net result: right now, you can't actually see the current issue
of the newsletter anyplace on the Web, but within a day or two it
should be visible and elegant at its new URL,
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoor/news. Meanwhile, McKenzie notes, "hard copies have been
distributed as in the past."
CAR