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Friday, December 19, 1997
University of Waterloo • Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Students need meningitis shots
Local health authorities are advising everybody aged 12 to 22 -- a
group that includes a majority of UW's students -- to get vaccinations
in the next few days against
meningococcal meningitis, an
infectious disease of the membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
An estimated 50,000 people need the vaccinations in Kitchener-Waterloo
and the surrounding townships.
Four people are in hospital with the same strain of meningitis, and
there have been 11 cases in the area this year, strikingly more than
usual, the
Waterloo Region health unit says.
Students in local high schools are being assigned to clinics for their
free shots this Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. There will be
"catch-up" clinics December 24 and after Christmas. University
students and
other young people who aren't in high school can go to any of the
clinics on any day.
Health officials say a clinic visit will take about an hour, what with
paperwork, waiting time, the shot itself, and a 20-minute rest
afterwards because a small number of people feel faint after getting
the vaccination. The vaccine takes 10 to 14 days to take effect
and is thought to be 85 per cent effective in those who get it.
Clinics will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. December 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 (until
3 p.m. only),
27 and 28 at four local high schools. The nearest to campus is
Resurrection Catholic Secondary School, on University Avenue
west of Fischer-Hallman Road. Other sites are Bluevale Collegiate
in Waterloo,
Grand River Collegiate and Eastwood Collegiate in Kitchener.
An information line in the health unit can be reached at 883-2289.
There are no plans so far for the meningitis vaccine to be available
on campus, says Denise Angove of UW's health services, although that
could possibly happen in the new year. But she said it's important
for students to get the shots, from the free local clinics. (Take
along your Ontario Health card and your WatCard to prove that you're
a local resident.) Students who are currently away from Waterloo
will have to see a physician and get a prescription for the vaccine,
she said. In that case there will be a charge for the vaccine, which
can be reclaimed through the student health insurance plan.
It's payday for everyone
People on all three of UW's payrolls -- monthly, biweekly and "casual" --
get paid today, making a whole lot of pre-holiday spending possible
over the weekend. Here's a reminder of when the eagle will
scream again: Monthly payroll, January 23 (a week early)
and February 27; Biweekly payroll, January 2; Casual
payroll, January 9.
A cut in provincial income tax rates is due January 1, and there will
doubtless be changes in Canada Pension deductions and so on. Carol
Wooten of UW's payroll office says she doesn't have full information
yet, but it'll be distributed to staff and faculty member when she gets it.
Solution, and another puzzle
I've heard from several people who solved Wednesday's "pencil test"
correctly, including one who articulated his reasoning so thoroughly
that I was dizzy by the time I had read it. (And he appears to
have solved the puzzle without using all the available evidence, which goes to
prove something.) Anyway, the correct answer is indeed that it was
Professor Chung who used the red pencil.
To further beguile your time, let me present "PhD Pursuit", as
devised by one of my devious-minded colleagues here in information
and public affairs. Again, there are no prizes. The
idea is to identify which academic department was responsible for each
of the following genuine UW PhD thesis titles.
- An Experimental Study of Mixing in a Ventilated Room
- psychology
- mechanical engineering
- systems design engineering
- Nonlinear Programming Using an Expander Lagrangian Function: A Water Resources Management Case Study
- earth sciences
- civil engineering
- systems design engineering
- H-infinity Control of Acoustic Noise
- applied math
- physics
- systems design engineering
- Modeling of Circular-Grating Surface-Emitting Lasers
- physics
- electrical and computer engineering
- systems design engineering
- Examining Aggressive Behaviour from a Group Perspective
- kinesiology
- psychology
- systems design engineering
- The Role of Image and Language in Formal Hierarchical Communication in Organizations
- psychology
- management sciences
- systems design engineering
- The Abstract Media Model
- English
- fine arts
- systems design engineering
- Influence of Pavement Reflection on Target Visibility
- civil engineering
- planning
- systems design engineering
- Deviant Labels and Generic Social Processes: Inter-Group Relations of a Hunting Dog Club
- sociology
- recreation and leisure studies
- systems design engineering
- Coastal Resort Morphology as a Response to Transportation Technology
- civil engineering
- geography
- systems design engineering
- The Reflective Instructor with Deliverate Apprentice Architecture
- philosophy
- management sciences
- systems design engineering
Correct answers tomorrow.
The talk of the campus
I learned this morning that two of the people injured in
the Fredericton
plane crash on Wednesday were UW students. Parag Shanbhag
of mechanical engineering and his brother, Maneesh Shanbhag of electrical
engineering, are both recovering from injuries.
It'll be a little more than a month before marks for fall term
courses are available. Grade reports will be handed out
starting January 26, the registrar's office says. (Faculty members
who taught this term have to submit marks by January 2, the first
day after the long holiday.)
And . . . this may come as a shock, but Santa Claus
doesn't exactly live at the North Pole. His true identity is
revealed in the November-December issue of the staff association
newsletter. Seems he's really Andy Norris of UW's graphic
services department, who appears in the red suit each year at
the association's Winterfest. His elves? Those would be daughters
Ashley and Katie.
It'll be a quiet weekend
Today is the last day of exams for the fall term, and
it's party night at the Graduate House with the Pandemonium
Blues Band. But just about
nothing is scheduled on campus Saturday and Sunday. The libraries
will be closed both days, and open again on Monday. Most UW offices
and services will be open Monday too (though not the bookstore and
computer store), but many staff will be taking a day's holiday to
begin the long Christmas break early. Compliments of the season, then,
to everybody for whom today is the last working day of 1997; see you
in the new year.
Here's a reminder that Monday's Daily Bulletin will
have full information (or as full as I can make it) about UW services
and events over the Christmas and New Year's break, and will be available
on UWinfo all through the holiday.
CAR
TODAY IN UW HISTORY
December 19, 1973: Paul Cornell resigns as dean of arts; Pat Rowe
takes over as acting dean. December 19, 1988: Don Brown -- "Brownie"
from his early days in the athletics department, and later in central
stores -- dies of heart failure.
December 20, 1962: The university senate approves the curriculum
for a one-year post-degree Bachelor of Physical Education program.
Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
Information
and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
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