Daily Bulletin

Thursday, October 2, 1997

UW awaits infrastructure funds

Applications for the "infrastructure" funds were submitted in June. Dennis Huber, UW's associate provost (general services and finance), said then that the university had asked for $675,000 to upgrade the campus computer network, $625,000 for laboratory renewal, and $1,415,947 for maintenance and repairs -- a total of slightly more than $2.7 million.

The principle behind the infrastructure program is that Ottawa provides one-third of the money and the Ontario government one-third, with the remaining third coming from the sponsoring institution's own resources, such as the operating budget or private givings.

Day of apples and honey

Other cultures are in the spotlight today also, with the East Asian Autumn Festival, continuing at Renison College. Today brings a series of panels on educational issues, including "East Asian studies in Ontario universities" at 10:30 this morning and "Building academic linkages with East Asia" at 2 this afternoon. Tonight at 7, the Korean film "The Story of Two Women" (1994) will be shown at the Princess Cinema in downtown Waterloo.

Two people from the University of Alberta -- Jane Arscott and Linda Trimble -- will speak at 12:30 today (Humanities room 373) on "Women's Electoral Space: Glass Ceilings, Flying Wages and Revolving Doors".

The architecture school presents the first of this term's Arriscraft Lectures tonight at 8 in the "green room" of Environmental Studies II. The speaker is New York architect Taeg Nashimoto (title: "Two Effects"). Later Arriscraft Lectures are scheduled for October 30, November 6, November 20 and December 4.

Job postings are rolling in

This additional change: "Students may now apply for a maximum of 35 jobs (up from 30)."

Savings bonds not available

Due to the complexities and workload involved in implementing the Human Resources Management System by January 1, 1998, the opportunity for staff to purchase Canada Savings Bonds through payroll deduction will not be available this year. It is our hope that we will be able to resume this practice in 1998. Please contact your bank manager directly to make arrangements for purchasing bonds.

Maclean's judges law schools

So, cutting to the chase: basing its ratings largely on a survey of "every law school graduate called to the bar in the past three years", Maclean's names as Canada's "best overall" law school the one at the University of Toronto. New Brunswick comes in second, Victoria third.

The country's best-known law school, Osgoode Hall at York University, comes dead last in the magazine's ratings -- although it has the biggest library, at nearly 470,000 volumes of law, and although it was ranked fourth in a separate reputational survey of "judges, lawyers and legal academics" (behind Toronto, Victoria and McGill).

A day to mark the calendar

• Charity Run activities at St. Jerome's College continue through October 5.
• Leadership is the topic of a lecture by author Jim Clemmer (Pathways to Performance) in the Theatre of the Arts at 6 p.m. on October 7. It's a fund-raiser for the United Way campaign, tickets $10.
• "Female Parts", the drama department's first production for the fall term, runs October 8-11 and 15-18.
• The Pascal Lectures for 1997, "The Light That Dazzles Gradually: Metaphor and the Christian Imagination", by poet Luci Shaw, October 9, Theatre of the Arts, 8 p.m. (also a chapel talk October 8 and a seminar on "Journal Keeping and the Creative Process", 2:30 p.m. October 9).
• "Business After 40", a 40th anniversary event co-sponsored by local Chambers of Commerce, "celebrating UW's partnerships with the community and its businesses", October 14, 5 to 7 p.m., Davis Centre.
• Infrastructure Works Program launch October 15, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Environmental Studies courtyard.
• "The Liberation of Theology", 1997 Gerard Lecture by Very Rev. Stan McKay, October 17, 7 p.m., St. Paul's United College.
• "The New Advent: Waiting in Hope for the Next Century", this year's lecture series of the St. Jerome's Centre, begins with the Devlin Lecture, "The Second Advent: Waiting for the Return", by Rev. William Hart McNichols, October 17, 7:30 p.m., St. Jerome's.
• Fall convocation, Saturday, October 25: arts and applied health sciences, 10 a.m.; other faculties, 2 p.m.
• Science faculty open house Saturday, October 25.
• The board of governors meets Tuesday, October 28.
• "Oh, What a Lovely War!" produced by the department of drama runs November 11-15 in the Theatre of the Arts.
• Hagey Lecture by Canadian writer David Cayley, Wednesday, November 19, and student colloquium November 20.
• "Pianoscapes and Landscapes", an evening of music and humour sponsored by the staff association, November 22, 8 p.m., Theatre of the Arts.
• Staff association craft sale November 27 and 28.

CAR

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