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Action isn't urgent, Walker noted. "It's the end of term and there's no more events." He pointed out that the next licensed party at Fed Hall is on New Year's Eve. That event isn't likely to lead to the kind of wildness that happened November 29-30 when Fed Hall had some 900 patrons for a night of hip-hop music.
Walker himself, who's responsible for the campus liquor licence, was at Fed Hall himself late on the Saturday night when the excitement started. (He says he's been to about half a dozen events at Fed Hall through the fall term.) Things started to happen about 1 a.m., he said. "There was a fight after people started to leave -- it erupted into a lot of satellite disturbances." UW police, who were already on hand, called in reinforcements from the Waterloo Regional Police. There was one minor injury, and one man, from the Toronto area, was arrested. "I left at three," Walker says, and by that time things were calm again.
approximately 900 senior high school students from 36 high schools are expected to visit the kinesiology labs for the opportunity to have hands-on experiences in the various areas of kinesiology. Many teachers cite this trip as an opportunity to "give the students a look at a university program; experience what they are studying". The students will be coming to campus at 10:30, having a lunch break from 12 to 12:30 and leaving at 2:30. The students choose to attend three one hour sessions (out of a possible six sessions) all instructed by graduate and undergraduate students in kinesiology.
The other change presents a whole new database: an on-your-screen version of the departmental telephone directory, which appears in print form as the back section of the campus phone book. It provides hundreds of phone and location listings for department offices and for units and services within UW departments.
The on-line version is a preview of what will be in the new edition of the phone book when it's printed. And I can pass along the news that the new edition is, in fact, almost ready. The existing grey phone book, dated 1996, is pretty obsolete, what with last year's hundreds of retirements, the hiring of many new faculty and staff, and the general pace of change at Waterloo. Ginny Polai of telephone services says the new directory will be available "very early in the new year". And no, she doesn't know yet what colour the cover will be.
Staff association volunteers will be starting today to tabulate the results from the recent survey on salaries and benefits. As of the beginning of last week, some 35 per cent of staff association members had responded to the survey, "which is great", said William Rowe of the development office, who heads the association's communications committee. He was hoping for at least a few more responses before the counting starts. Results from the survey will be used by staff association negotiators as discussions start about 1998 salaries and benefits.
The Alzheimer Research and Education Program is holding its second annual "Innovation Centre Meeting and Dinner" today. It's an event for people from the five institutions (nursing homes, a home for the aged, a psychiatric hospital) that are partners in AREP research. "This event," says Beverley Brookes of AREP, "gives the centres the opportunity to share their experiences over the past year and discuss future activities and ways in which AREP can assist. In the afternoon Dr. Christopher Patterson will speak on 'Aricept and Other Drugs in Long Term Care'. Following dinner, the Honourable Cam Jackson, Minister Without Portfolio Responsible for Seniors, Province of Ontario, will address the attendees."
The Bookstore and UW Shop are continuing their support of the Books for Kids program, locally sponsored by the Kitchener-Waterloo Record. Says Brendan Beasley of the retail services department: "The aim of this program is to introduce children (from newborn to 12 years) to the joy of reading. You can help! In order to make this a reality, the Record is asking the public to donate new, unwrapped children's books at bookstores in the K-W area. You can drop your books off on-campus at the UW Shop until December 18. In fact, the UW Shop will reduce any book purchased for the 'Books for Kids' program by 10 per cent."
I sent a memo to several departments late last week, asking for information about services and events that will be happening at UW during the Christmas and New Year's holiday. If your department didn't get a memo, but will be offering any of its services or sponsoring any activities between December 22 and January 2, please drop me a note as soon as possible, so they can be included in the comprehensive list that will appear in the last Bulletin and Gazette of 1997.
CAR
December 8, 1966: A faculty and staff Christmas dance is held at Leisure Lodge, Preston (now Cambridge).
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