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Wednesday, October 9, 1996

Payroll department is moving

UW's payroll department is making its move today. Staff members are shifting their workplace from East Campus Hall (where it's been associated with financial services) to the General Services Complex (where it will sit next to human resources).

Because of the move, payroll will be closed today and tomorrow, says department manager Carol Wooten. "Wednesday we will be returning any incoming calls," she says. "Thursday, for emergency situations people can call either human resources -- ext. 3134, Donna Howe -- or financial services -- ext. 3946, Betty Toews -- and we will be notified."

There won't be any interruption to getting people paid on time, she promised. Tomorrow is the regular biweekly payday for those UW staff, mostly union members, who get their money every two weeks. And it's a welcome one: regular bargaining unit members will see the recently-agreed 1 per cent pay hike reflected in tomorrow's paycheques. The increase is retroactive to May 1, and retroactive pay from May through September, along with the $100 signing bonus, will be delivered in a separate cheque in early November.

Canadian writer speaks today

Rudy Wiebe, author of such books as The Temptation of Big Bear and A Discovery of Strangers, will read from his work tonight at Conrad Grebel College. The reading is set for 7 p.m. in the Grebel chapel. Says Betti Erb, the college's communications coordinator:

Along with other work, he will read a new 35-minute story called "Believing Is Not Seeing", written for the recent Fraser Valley Arts and Peace Festival in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Wiebe's new work, as the Mennonite Reporter put it recently, "juxtaposes two stories: the conversation between a husband and wife about the differences between the glorification of war and its grim reality, and the town council meeting about the expansion of a hog farm." . . . All are welcome to this public reading sponsored by Conrad Grebel College and the Canada Council.

Talk today on Palestinians

Mohamed Elmasry of UW's electrical and computer engineering department will give a talk and video presentation tonight titled "Palestinians Under Siege: An Eye Witness Account". The event is sponsored by the Muslim Students Association.

A news release explains: "Professor Elmasry, an Egyptian-born Canadian, visited Israel for the first time last November when the Israeli PM was assassinated." Elmasry is well known as a spokesman for Muslims in Canada. His talk tonight begins at 7:30 in Davis Centre room 1350.

Microelectronics visitors today

A team from Canadian Microelectronics Corporation will be visiting UW's department of electrical and computer engineering today. At 2 p.m. there's a general interest presentation (Davis Centre room 2577) on "Microelectronics, Related Technologies and Engineering Support -- the CMC Program Today and Forecast". After that, the visitors will meet with individuals who sign up to confer with them on such topics as design management, licensing technology, and instructional support.

CMC is, its web page explains, "a not-for-profit organization established in 1984 to provide industrial microelectronic technologies to Canadian universities, both to facilitate world-class research and to ensure a strong source of well-trained graduates. CMC is supported by contributions of technology, services and cash from industry and by matching funding from the federal Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. CMC's membership now includes 35 universities and 18 industrial organizations," UW among them.

"CMC's services, which are primarily directed to researchers (faculty and graduate students) at its member universities, include: Coordinating access to five fabrication technologies plus one post-processing series; Negotiating special licensing arrangements or directly distributing selected CAD tools, and providing user support; For selected fabrication technologies, preparing and distributing design kits for the primary CAD tools (Cadence Design Framework II design tools and Synopsys synthesis tools) supported by CMC; Loaning and maintaining computing and test equipment; Providing training support for the above tools and technologies."

And in case you're hungry

The food services department is serving Thanksgiving dinner today in the Village II cafeteria and at Brubakers in the Student Life Centre. Tomorrow, same menu at noontime in the Laurel Room in South Campus Hall (reservations, ext. 3196) and in the evening at Village I.

With the holiday weekend coming up, many food outlets will be closing, says Michele Grondin in food services: "Brubakers will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday, Tim Horton's in the Davis Centre will not open on Saturday, and Village I will be running on restricted hours. Only Village I servery and grill will be open on Thanksgiving Monday, but all units will resume their normal hours on Tuesday."

And next week, food services moves to an Oktoberfest theme, with schnitzel and cabbage rolls (maybe pigtails too, if I'm really lucky?). The mascot of Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest, Onkel Hans, will be visiting Brubakers -- not this Friday, despite what it says in this morning's Gazette, but on Friday of next week, October 18.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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