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Wednesday, December 3, 1997

University of Waterloo -- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Ten are honoured as volunteers

From committee membership to work as a Girl Guide leader, from dog-walking to charity fund-raising, ten students have done outstanding things as volunteers and were honoured last night with the President's Circle Awards for Volunteerism. The reward: a cheque, a dinner with UW's president and other VIPs, and a big warm feeling inside.

Here are the ten students who received the awards, being given this year for the first time:

Veronica Chau, for work with international students, Village orientation, the Distinguished Teacher Award committee, and the academic rights commission of the Federation of Students.
Graham Crate, for work with math orientation and the Students Advising Co-op group.
Heather Guthrie, for leadership in a local Guide troop over the past two years.
Melanie Hazelton, for work in residence orientation and the Student Life 101 program.
Corey Helm, for work in the Waterloo Citizens Environmental Committee, the Food Bank and other agencies.
Adina Kaufman, for work with Reaching Our Outdoor Friends, the Humane Society (that's where the volunteer dog-walking comes in), Campus Day, Women in Engineering, the engineering bus push and other activities.
Karen Kerk, for extensive work with Reaching Our Outdoor Friends.
Rebecca Marshall, for work with the Village Community Outreach program, involvement in the student volunteer and part-time employment centre, and volunteer work in public and secondary schools.
Andrew Wilson, for work with the Village Community Outreach, the Peer Assistance Links Service, the university senate and other agencies.
Jennifer Yessis, for work with the City Green Strategy Committee, Adopt Our Road clean-up crews, graduate student mentoring in applied health sciences, and many other activities.

Football coach won't return

Dave "Tuffy" Knight, the coach who took the football Warriors all the way to the Churchill Bowl game this year, is leaving after a decade at UW, the athletics department is announcing today.

Knight built a new foundation for the football program, says athletics director Judy McCrae: "During Dave's tenure, the football program drew tremendous respect in the OUA, and indeed, in the country. Dave is a passionate coach and teacher of the game. He cultivated the game and believed in Canadian university football." Knight holds the record for the most victories as a coach in Canadian university history, with a record of 163-79-4.

McCrae continued: "His players have a tremendous respect for Dave and for his in-depth knowledge. He taught them to win and to be better than they were in the last game. Dave's demands for hard work, dedication and an expression of joy for the game were evident in the players and teams he developed."

Carl Totzke was athletics director when Knight was hired, at a time when the football Warriors were something of a joke. "We were aware of Dave's credentials when he coached at our crosstown rival WLU," says Totzke. "He worked with the Toronto Argonauts for several years and when he became available in 1988, we were delighted. He has not disappointed and has brought Warrior football to a level of respect in the country."

A celebration of Knight's Waterloo years at a farewell party for the legendary coach will be held in January, the athletics department says.

Faculty association meets today

The faculty association will hold its fall general meeting this afternoon. The agenda includes reports from the association's president and treasurer, and from various committees, plus a confidential session on negotiations with the UW administration over a proposed new Memorandum of Agreement. The meeting starts at 2:30 p.m. in Physics room 145.

High schoolers imitate politicians

I walked in from the parking lot with the "deputy minister of heritage and culture for Saskatchewan", who looked pretty much like a high school student and who wanted to know where the Modern Languages building is. That's right, it's the Federal-Provincial Conference Simulation, being held at UW today and tomorrow. The annual event has students from 13 Waterloo Region high schools playing the roles of politicians and the news media.

This year's prime minister will be Derek MacLeod of Eastwood Collegiate Institute, whose school takes the role of the federal government. Students from the other schools will represent the provinces, territories and native peoples. Students from Waterloo Collegiate and Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate will be the press and publish newspapers during the conference.

The students have set the agenda for meetings, with major topics to be discussed including finance, health, heritage and culture, justice, international affairs, social services and human resources, environment and agriculture.

The conference simulation opens this morning in the Theatre of the Arts with presentations by each of the first ministers. Conference debates and discussions will continue Thursday. The event is sponsored by UW's political science department and the History Heads Association of the Waterloo County Board of Education, as well as by the participating schools, the ministry of Canadian Heritage, and the faculty of arts.

A workshop on manufacturing

To assist manufacturers in learning about "agile manufacturing" practice and implementation issues, UW's WATMIMS research group will hold a seminar and workshop today.

"For Canadian manufacturers to compete effectively in the global marketplace, they must react quickly to changing customer needs," says James Bookbinder, director of WATMIMS -- the Waterloo Centre for the Management of Integrated Manufacturing Systems, based in the department of management sciences. "Many organizations are turning to agile manufacturing in order to succeed in this environment, in which the manufacturing operation attains the flexibility to respond quickly to shortened production cycles, rapid changes in product demand and to minimize the overall costs of operating a production system."

WATMIMS researchers have been active with industry studying, at both the micro- and macro-levels, the behavioural and operational characteristics of new assembly processes and factory layouts. In particular, attention is being paid to the effectiveness of team-based manufacturing systems, as well as the quality, flexibility and productivity benefits accrued from these systems. David Dilts, John Buzacott and Frank Safayeni of UW will be speaking today, along with two executives invited from industry.

Now, a whole bunch of announcements

The St. Jerome's College students' union is helping with the Angel Tree toy drive to buy Christmas toys for children whose families can't afford gifts this year. Sue Clarke, vice-president of the group at St. Jerome's, says "loonie and toonie donations" are invited either at the students' union office or at the St. Jerome's Spirit Shop, until this Friday. "The total of the donations collected will be matched by the students' union and used to buy gifts to put under the Angel Tree."

Ticket sales in the Dollars for Scholars raffle continue just until next Monday. Meredith McGinnis of the development office, who's trying to coordinate things, says there are tickets out with volunteer sellers all over campus and she really doesn't know how many have been sold -- but she's hoping the number goes up, to raise more money for scholarship funds. A ticket booth will be open in the Student Life Centre today from 10 to 4.

The president's office wants to remind faculty members to return the survey that's being circulated by the education ministry's task force on "learning opportunities" for disabled people. "The return rate has not been staggering," says Susan Shantz in Needles Hall, noting that surveys are supposed to be returned by December 5, which is Friday. The form is available on the Web, or in hard copy from deans' offices.

The December meeting of the UW senate has been cancelled; the senate's executive committee, which met Monday, concluded that "there weren't sufficient items to warrant a Senate meeting", the university secretariat says.

The Student Information Systems Project has an open house scheduled for tomorrow, in two sessions, at 9:30 and 1:30. "The first hour of each session will be a general information session," says Dave Mason of information systems and technology; it takes place in Davis Centre room 1302. Then participants move to "the project room" in the Math and Computer building to have a look at the SAS software that will be at the heart of the project.

During the postal strike -- which could be ending Friday -- payments from Mutual Life for reimbursements on the student supplementary health insurance plan can be picked up during business hours at Health Services room 124.

There's been some confusion about the power shutdown tomorrow in the Math and Computer building. Latest word is that it will affect a couple of second-floor computer labs, from about 4 a.m. to 8 a.m., but that there will not be an interruption to the central VM computing system. A shutdown of VM is, however, expected for several hours on Thursday of next week, December 11, when another power cut is scheduled.

For the seventh time, the music department, based at Conrad Grebel College, will be presenting a noon-hour concert in the Davis Centre. This year's concert -- by the University Choir, Chamber Choir and Chapel Choir -- is set for tomorrow at 12:15. "At the conclusion of the program," says conductor Leonard Enns, "we will include several traditional Christmas carols and invite audience participation."

The English Language Proficiency Exam will be offered tomorrow (that's Thursday) at 7 p.m. in the Physical Activities main gym. Any students who haven't yet met their faculty's English language requirement should plan to be there or be exceedingly square.

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY December 3, 1958: The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Building, later to be called Engineering I, is opened by premier Leslie Frost.

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