Daily Bulletin

Friday, October 3, 1997

University of Waterloo -- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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United Way campaign starts soon

This year's campaign for the United Way, which supports some 50 social agencies in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, will start on campus with a "dress-down day" next Friday, October 10.

Helen Kilbride, who's heading the campaign again this year, noted that the on-campus United Way effort is starting a little later than usual, and said the official campaign dates would be October 10 through November 10. Across K-W, the campaign got rolling last week.

Pledge forms are on hand now, and other information about the United Way should be available on campus shortly, said Kilbride, who is retired as UW's associate registrar for graduate studies.

Convocation honours announced

Invitations to the fall convocation ceremonies, sent out by the registrar's office this week, provide the first public word on who's going to be honoured by the university at that occasion. There are four honorary degrees to be given, three people will become "honorary members of the university", and nine retired faculty members will become "distinguished professor emeritus". That's in addition, of course, to hundreds of degrees being given to students from all six of UW's faculties.

Fall convocation will be held Saturday, October 25, in two sessions: at 10 a.m. for applied health sciences and arts, and at 2 p.m. for engineering, environmental studies, mathematics, science and independent studies.

The honorary degree recipients in the morning will be Jane Urquhart, Waterloo-based novelist, and James W. Wilson, pioneer of co-op education at Northeastern University in Boston. Receiving honorary degrees in the afternoon will be Tom Brzustowski, former UW vice-president and now president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Arthur Carty, former UW dean of research and now president of the National Research Council.

Becoming honorary members of the university, all at the morning session of convocation, will be former registrar Trevor Boyes; Peter Naus, long-time St. Jerome's College faculty member; and Jake Willms, retired as assistant to the dean of arts.

To become distinguished professor emeritus are (morning) Herb Lefcourt Don Meichenbaum, and Muriel Vogel-Sprott, all of the psychology department; (afternoon) George Francis of environment and resource studies, Richard Preston of geography, and Ralph Haas, Bruce Hutchinson, Archie Sherbourne, and Tim Topper, all of civil engineering.

St. Jerome's gives the runaround

The Charity Run fund-raiser gets going this afternoon, with St. Jerome's College students beginning their annual 48-hour relay around the ring road. I certainly hope the road is fully open by that time: paving work is coming along nicely on the engineering side (and the steam rising during yesterday afternoon's rainfall was unearthly spectacular), but there are roars and beeps as of machinery on the arts side this morning, so the work could be starting there any moment.

Anyway, around and around the road the runners will go, raising funds for this year's designated charity, Notre Dame of St. Agatha Children's Centre. The goal is to raise $7,000 for Notre Dame's new "respite care" program for families in difficulty, providing "planned weekends in which parents will be able to leave their children in capable and trusted hands as well as providing an emergency relief centre".

The Charity Run began in 1976, and has raised more than $120,000 since then for many local agencies. This year's preliminary activities -- food, sports, parties -- have been going on all week. Today a reception at 2:40 and opening ceremonies at 3:05 (not 3:00!) will be followed by a "symbolic first lap" of the ring road at 3:45.

The final lap is scheduled for 6:30 Sunday evening, followed by Mass and closing ceremonies in Siegfried Hall.

Nominating the nominating committee

Six faculty members have been acclaimed to the presidential nominating committee that will soon get to work, the university secretariat has announced. Nominated from their respective faculties are Mike Sharratt (applied health sciences), Phyllis Forsyth (arts), Don Grierson (engineering), Geoff McBoyle (environmental studies), Ian Goulden (mathematics), and John Hepburn (science). And now two more professors are needed, as formation of the committee continues:

Nominations are requested for the election of two regular faculty members to the Presidential Nominating Committee. At least three (3) nominators are required in each case. Nomination forms and further information are available from the University Secretariat, Needles Hall, Room 3060, extension 6125. Nominations should be sent to the Chief Returning Officer, Secretariat, NH 3060, no later than 3 p.m., Wednesday, October 15, 1997. Elections will follow if necessary.

Other committee members come from staff, students and the board of governors.

The talk of the campus

Hey, who was that on the front page of the Star's fashion section yesterday? Well, it was Veronica Law, a systems design engineering student at UW, who was picked as one of two amateur models to demonstrate "shopping for a basic business ensemble" on a $250 budget. "With all the other co-op placements I had, it was pretty casual," Law told the Star, but for this fall's job at a Toronto consulting firm she was advised to "dress up".

Yes, there are lots of co-op jobs being offered this term -- sort of. Olaf Naese, whom I quoted in yesterday's Bulletin, sends an afterthought to his announcement of an extra job posting on October 8: "Even though all this posting activity appears as though we have more jobs than we need, this is not the case. We are still in need of jobs in certain areas. The increase in employer demand this term is primarily for students with high-tech skills. Students who will benefit from this demand are mainly in the computer-related disciplines. Jobs are still very much required in Biology, Biochemistry, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Kinesiology and, to a lesser extent, in Physics, Recreation and Environmental Studies." He'd welcome all leads.

Events of the weekend

Renison College's East Asian Autumn Festival continues with a business seminar today (the tariff is $75) and cultural demonstrations tomorrow from 10 to 4 in the college's great hall (those are free). Then Saturday night comes a concert by the Korean Canadian Symphony Orchestra in the Theatre of the Arts, 7:30, tickets $8 and $5.

The Kiwanis Travel and Adventure Series brings "Poland" to the Humanities Theatre tonight at 8;tickets are $5.50, children $3.50.

"The scientific facts supporting Biblical Creationism" are promised in a series of three talks by Kent Hovind this weekend. "He is so sure of the facts that he has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who can show empirical, scientific evidence in favour of evolution," an announcement says. Hovind will speak in Engineering Lecture Hall room 101 on Saturday at 7:30, Sunday at 2:30 and Monday at 7:30.

The Waterloo County Quilters' Guild presents its "Quiltfest" on the weekend at the St. Agatha Community Centre, just out Erb Street. Admission is $4, and the event is open today, Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 5.

The University of Toronto holds its annual open house, U of T Day, tomorrow from 10 to 4 all over the downtown campus; the new visitors' centre in Knox College will have its official opening at noon.

And sports: well, the football Warriors (now 2-2 and ranked 8th in Canada) play at Western tomorrow afternoon. Also travelling are the field hockey Athenas (to Trent), the rugby Athenas (to Brock), the baseball Warriors (to Exhibition Stadium to face Guelph), and both volleyball teams (to a tournament at Brock). The tennis Warriors and Athenas host a tournament Saturday, and both soccer teams have home games at Columbia Field Saturday and Sunday (the women playing at 1 p.m. each day, the men at 3 p.m.).

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY October 3, 1963: UW's first traffic and parking regulations are issued.

October 4, 1968: The band "Major Hoople's Boarding House" plays for a dance as the four-day festival "The Arts in the Pepsi Generation" gets into high gear.

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