Daily Bulletin

Monday, November 10, 1997

University of Waterloo -- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Warriors take the Yates Cup

For the first time ever, Waterloo has the Ontario football championship, as the Warriors defeated Western's Mustangs 30-10 on Saturday afternoon in London. Here's how TSN is describing the game:

Quarterback Ryan Wilkinson did it with his legs (10 for 102 yards rushing, including a touchdown) rather than his arm (two completions for 44 yards) for No. 3 Waterloo. Seventy five of those yards came on the first play from scrimmage and helped Wilkinson win the Dalt White award as the most valuable player of the Yates Cup game.
Jarrett Smith, the country's leading rusher, had 27 carries for 150 yards and a touchdown for the Warriors and Arek Bigos kicked four field goals, the longest from 40 yards.
Quarterback Oliver Curri had 104 yards passing the only Mustang to go over 100 in any statistical department.

The Warriors will now face the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, winners of the Ontario-Québec league, in the Churchill Bowl game next Saturday in Ottawa. The winner of that contest meets the winner of a game between British Columbia and Mount Allison in the nationally televised Vanier Cup game November 22.

In other sports: The basketball Warriors defeated Toronto on Friday and Memorial on Saturday, but lost to St. Francis Xavier University 95-79 in the championship game of the Naismith Classic tournament yesterday. In hockey, UW and Wilfrid Laurier University played to a 2-2 tie.

UW team first in programming

Student programmers from Waterloo have won again -- this time taking first place and third place in the East Central programming contest sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. Now it'll be on to the world finals in Atlanta at the end of February.

In the East Central competition held on Saturday at Notre Dame University, teams of three students had a maximum of five hours to solve seven programming questions. UW's first-place team was made up of Derek Kisman, Chris Hendrie, and David Kennedy, who finished all the questions in 1 hour 43 minutes.

Team B, consisting of Jeff Shute, Viet Trung Luu, and Wai Min Yee, got all the questions in 3 hours 3 minutes. A team from Case Western Reserve University came in second. The University of Toronto was sixth.

Coach Gordon Cormack of the computer science department says, "I am very proud of both teams. Both performed well enough to qualify for the final, but ACM rules allow only one team per school to advance. Our A team is very strong, as evidenced by their domination at the regional contest, and they have a good chance to do well at the final." He offers "special thanks to Michael Van Biesbrouck (graduate student and past finalist) for helping with preparation and coaching."

This is the sixth consecutive year that Waterloo has advanced to the final. In past finals, Waterloo has placed 7th, 1st, 10th, 3rd, and 5th.

Ontario goes to the polls

It's election day in municipalities across Ontario, including Kitchener and Waterloo, where voters will be electing mayors, councillors, a Waterloo Region chair, board of education members, and (in Kitchener) members of the hydro commission.

Probably the fiercest, most-publicized competition has been for mayor of the city of Waterloo, but dozens of seats are being contested eagerly. Among the few candidates who don't have to worry is Tom Galloway, who's been returned unopposed as councillor for Kitchener's South Ward. Galloway's day job is as director of custodial and grounds services in UW's department of plant operations.

Polls are open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today. The Municipal Elections Act requires employers to give employees three consecutive hours off work to cast their votes. "The legislation does not impact many of our employees," says Neil Murray in human resources, noting that pretty well everybody already has three clear hours off work before the polls close.

On the day the schools reopen

The winter term schedule ("Course Information Report" is the official term) is now available on UWinfo -- look under "Courses" on the home page and follow the links. The registrar's office says the fall term exam schedule should be along any day.

First round job match results for co-op students looking for winter term jobs will be posted at 3:00 today on the Needles Hall bulletin boards. Students who find that they're matched will rejoice; others should plan to attend "continuous phase instruction meetings" at 4:30 (locations are also posted on the NH bulletin boards).

A meeting is set for 12 noon today (Needles Hall room 3001) to provide more information about the decision to phase out Macintosh computers at UW, and "transitional requirements to assist individuals in converting from a Macintosh to a PC platform".

And there's a meeting at 12:45 (Davis Centre room 1302) from departments whose photocopiers are affected by the planned change from Venda cards to WatCards for self-service photocopying.

The health services department "will go live with new scheduling software" today, says its director, Barbara Schumacher. "In anticipation of the transition we ask for your patience as we arrange your appointments with our doctors and counselors. We will not be giving flu shots or allergy injections on Monday, but welcome you on any other working day for these services. All other services will be available as usual."

And the announcements go on

A session on "Designing Computer Assisted Learning Materials" starts at 3:30 today in Math and Computer room 5158. Sponsored by the teaching resource office and the TeleLearning Research Network, it stars Michelle Montgomery of the University of Glasgow, who says there is "a lack of formal design in the production of CAL materials. This talk discusses the possible reasons for this, suggests a solution and outlines a new design method for producing CAL materials."

The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group has a demonstration planned for this evening: "Interested individuals will picket the Westmount Plaza Shell from 4:30 to 6:30 to protest Shell's willful destruction of the Niger River Delta environment and their disregard for the survival of the Ogoni people and the human rights of all Nigerians. November 10 is the 2nd year anniversary of the oil motivated execution of the Nobel Laureate Ken Saro-Wiwa, who protested in favour of the rights of the Ogoni."

The United Way campaign on campus has raised $93,108 towards its $145,000 goal. That was the figure as of Friday afternoon; the campaign continues.

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, and two services are planned on campus. At 10:45, the chaplains' association conducts a service at the Renison College chapel. At 11:00, the Engineering Society holds a ceremony in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall. Everyone is welcome at either event to remember those who served in Canada's wars.

Water supplies will be interrupted in the Optometry building tomorrow from 8 a.m. to noon -- hot water throughout the building, cold water in only a few rooms -- as a laboratory is refitted.

And the question of the day: who was the pig who emptied a car ashtray in the middle of the arts quadrangle?

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY November 9, 1960: The first issue of the Gazette is published. November 9, 1976: "Make the rich pay for this economic crisis that's affecting universities," psychology professor Doug Wahlsten tells a rally on National Student Day. November 9, 1987: Undergraduate students begin two days of voting in which they reject membership in the Canadian Federation of Students.

November 10, 1961: An "advisory committee on patents, royalties and copyrights" holds its first meeting to work on a policy about faculty and staff ownership of intellectual property. November 10, 1988: Former premier Bill Davis visits UW for the dedication of the computer research building that bears his name.

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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