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Friday, November 1, 1996
United Way hits $100,000
As of 4:00 yesterday afternoon, givings to the
United Way campaign
on campus hit $100,000, says campaign chair Helen Kilbride. That's
well on the way to the goal for this year, $145,000.
Yes, but the campaign was supposed to wind up yesterday, the last day
of October. "I'm sending our a reminder letter," says Kilbride, "and
extending the campaign until Friday, November 8. Donations and pledges
may also be sent to Carol Wooten, payroll, GSC, beyond that date. We
will take a final tally on December 1."
And she's announced that there will be "a computer random draw" among
United Way donors; a list of prizes is to be announced shortly.
Van driver was assaulted
UW's police chief, Al MacKenzie, said yesterday that the driver
of the Federation of Students "safety van" was the victim of a sexual
assault on Thursday night, October 24. A male passenger, the last
rider left on that run of the van, grabbed the breasts of the female
driver as the van was in the Weber Street and Northfield Drive
area of Waterloo. "She stopped the van," MacKenzie said, "and told him to
get out, and he did." Main outcome of the incident: the Federation
is thinking of requiring ID and recording names of van passengers
from now on.
UW holiday schedule announced
UW's holiday schedule up to the turn of the century has been issued
by the human resources department. The schedule for 1997 and 1998
had previously been announced, but dates for 1999 and 2000 are new.
The schedule shows that 1997 offers a four-day Canada Day weekend
and 2000 a three-day weekend, but in 1998 and 1999 the national holiday
is a one-day midweek break.
It also shows that the Christmas and New Year's break will be nine
days in 1997-98, the same as it is this year, but will stretch to
eleven days in 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-01 with the inclusion of
two weekends.
The schedule is available on UWinfo under "general
information", at
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoipa/holidays.html.
Nobel winner here tomorrow
Robert Curl Jr., one of this year's
winners of the Nobel Prize in
chemistry, will speak about his work at a symposium to be held on campus
Saturday. He will be at the Symposium on Chemical Physics to talk
about infrared laser spectroscopy as well as the work that won him
the Nobel, the
discovery
of "fullerenes", new forms of carbon in which
atoms are linked in the shape of a soccer ball or a geodesic dome.
Curl, based at Rice University in Houston, shares the 1996
Nobel with a colleague at Rice and one at the University of Sussex,
England. Peter Bernath, of
UW's
chemistry department, says his talk --
at 2:15 Saturday in Davis Centre room 1351 -- will include a report
on events that led up to the discovery.
Library celebrates new papers
The UW library,
the Waterloo Historical Society, and the
Joseph Schneider Haus will jointly host the official opening of the
Schantz/Russell Family Papers on Sunday.
The collection, donated to the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room by Dorothy
Russell and her son Harold Russell, draws together primary sources relating
to several early pioneering families of Waterloo County.
Archival materials in the collection span the period from 1840 to 1960.
Also included is a library of more than 800 volumes, photographs that add
to the known body of work of local photographers, and a collection of maps,
drawings, and plans dating from 1824.
The opening from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Dana Porter Library will
include remarks by Geoffrey Hayes of UW's history department about
the significance of the collection.
Warriors face WLU on gridiron
"Our game plan is really simple," says Warrior football coach Tuffy
Knight as his team gets ready for the big game tomorrow. "We have to
stop their passing game, and they have to stop our running game."
"They" is the Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Hawks, which meet
the Warriors in an OUAA semifinal game at 1:00 tomorrow at
University Stadium.
The Warriors finished first in league season play, the Hawks fourth.
It was WLU 26, UW 10 when the two teams met back in September.
The winner of tomorrow's game will play the winner of a
Western-Guelph semifinal matchup, also set for tomorrow, in the
Yates Cup game November 9 -- then on to the Churchill Bowl and
finally the Vanier Cup.
You can get tickets for tomorrow's game at the athletics department
office today -- price $5 for students, $7 for others, kids and
seniors free.
And happening this weekend
The faculty of mathematics holds the Special K and Big E math
contests -- for first-year and upper-year students respectively --
tomorrow from 9 a.m. to noon in the Davis Centre.
A Kiwanis travelogue, "Royal Netherlands: The Dutch Today",
comes to the Humanities Theatre tonight at 8:00.
The arts alumni group holds its annual theatre party tonight,
heading for "Arcadia" at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto.
The talk of the campus
The basketball Warriors beat George Brown College 64-34 in an
exhibition game last night. And contrary to what I said in yesterday's
Bulletin, it wasn't the first
Warrior
game of the year, just the first home game. The team
has already played four away games, losing them all.
Alan Morgan of the earth sciences department says he'd appreciate
hearing from anyone at UW who "is heading for Australia (preferably
Brisbane area) in the next month". He's at ext. 3029, e-mail
avmorgan@sciborg.
Air circulation in Needles Hall will be shut down on Monday
morning, from 8 to 11, for annual maintenance, the plant operations
department says.
And take a look outside: it's November!
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