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That's how organizers of UW's summer campus open house for incoming students are feeling. They sent out invitations for today's campus orientation to students and encouraged them to bring their parents and siblings, expecting 500 or so people to attend to make it a success.
The response was far beyond what anyone had anticipated.
"There are now more than 3,450 people confirmed and more are expected," says Catharine Scott, co-chair of the event called Student Life 101. Of that number about 1,300 of those attending are students who will start their university careers at UW in September.
The response prompted organizers to quickly adjust plans to accommodate the crowd. Among the changes: Instead of hamburgers there will be beef-on-a-bun with a huge hip of beef (also vegetarian choices); and some meeting places had to be changed to larger quarters.
Activities at Student Life 101 run from noon until 8 p.m. today and are designed to help ease incoming students into university life before those first few hectic weeks of classes.
Planning for this year's open house and orientation started a year ago when the Federation of Students held an event attended by about 350 people. Scott, associate provost for human resources, and Melanie Hazelton of the student federation, co-chaired a committee that put the event together over the past year.
The idea of a summer-time orientation came from a suggestion by student Matt Iley who found that he and many new students were overwhelmed with all that is going on in September.
The expanded program will help "relieve student and parent anxiety and alleviate some of the huge lineups the first week of school" because students can get a head start today, Scott says.
Here's what's on the program from noon to 4 p.m.:
Final Jeopardy: "You bring the questions and our panel will supply the answers" is scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m., and from 5 to 8 p.m. Federation Hall, Canada's largest student pub, will be the spot for sampling campus food.
As well, during the day information booths at Federation Hall will provide an introduction to the student federation; student awards; financial aid; library, counselling and retail services; housing; textbooks, course materials and computers; health; graphic services; food services and nutrition counselling; parking and police; co-operative education; disabled student services; and off-campus dons aiding students in the transition to independent living.
Designed to give participants "an appreciation for the musical heritage of the Christian church in a stimulating setting," the camp will offer instrumental, choral and chapel activities, culminating in a concert on Friday, August 22 at 7:30 p.m. at Waterloo North Mennonite Church.
"The northernmost part of the North American continent has seen some of the most fascinating human adaptations anywhere," anthropology professor Robert Park writes at the top of his web page. "These pages provide a glimpse of archaeological research in this region and its results, focusing principally on the Canadian High Arctic where I've done the bulk of my research."
He explains how they came to be:
I created those pages over two years ago, just after I'd learned enough HTML to create a web page for what was then the Department of Anthropology. The Archaeology in the Arctic exhibit was my attempt to puta bit of interesting scholarly content onto the WWW. I also felt (and still feel) that the WWW should lead people back to libraries and books for more detailed information, so I was careful to include a page listing books that interested people could consult.A link at the bottom of the page points back to Park's original home page for anthropology, which notes that UW now has a combined "department of anthropology and classical studies".One of the best things that have come from creating the exhibit is the e-mail I've received from all sorts of people, mostly flattering (and even including a request from a writer in Israel to translate it into Hebrew for a high school level anthropology text). I've also received three or four messages telling me that my graphics aren't exciting enough. True enough, I suppose, but my use of small pictures reflected my conviction that web pages shouldn't take forever to load.
If I ever get around to it, I'd like to put in some optional larger pictures, more artifact photographs, and some information on my present excavations on Baffin Island.
Barbara Elve
bmelve@nh4.adm.uwaterloo.ca
August 11, 1971: Mavor Moore is the speaker at an Arts Lecture Series session in the faculty lounge of the Social Sciences Building (later Environmental Studies I).
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