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Two workshops are on the program today: one on procrastination, led by Wendy Hatch of counselling services, and one on how to avoid pitfalls in decision-making, led by Geoffrey Fong of the psychology department. Visiting students can also sit in on on-campus classes, take tours, and check out the bookstore and computer store.
The visitors are invited to lunch at the Laurel Room at 12:30, where they'll meet up with on-campus "mature students" for that group's fall luncheon. (Last-minute information and reservations: ext. 2429.) The mature student services office in Modern Languages is headquarters for the distance education visitors today.
Tomorrow, their open house gets busier, and headquarters moves to the Davis Centre, where a used textbook sale will run all morning and there will be displays and a chance to sample audiotapes from many current correspondence courses. Bill Power of the chemistry department will get the day off to a lively start with a 9:15 a.m. lecture on spectroscopy and its role in astronomy, brain research, "our hospitals, our supermarkets, our kitchens" and even the Pathfinder mission to Mars.
From 10:30 to 12:30, departmental displays and a "course fair" are planned in the DC great hall -- "a chance to meet instructors, ask questions, and look through the course notes from each department's current offerings. . . . There will be demonstrations of some of the new online learning technologies that we are exploring. You will be able to see English 210G in action on the Web!"
The day also includes a demonstration of acoustics and digital audio sound, more tours, an afternoon writing workshop by Mary Merikle of the writing clinic and Catherine Schryer of the English department, and a final 4:15 "coffee and comments" session.
Friday's events are for distance education students and their guests, but Saturday's are open to everyone, says Avril McVicar of the distance education office. "Please feel free to join in the events."
Information systems and technology says the days of reel-to-reel tape are over: "In 1991 the University introduced the 3480 cartridge magnetic tape to replace the older reel-to-reel technology. This reel-to-reel technology is now very old and no longer supported by IBM. Therefore, the Department of Information Systems and Technology will discontinue using this equipment effective April 30, 1998. If you have any critical data stored on this media please contact Steve Breen extension 2686 or email srbreen@ist to discuss converting this data to newer media. If you receive data from other institutions or companies, please ask for it on 3480 (cartridge) or 8mm technology."
The co-op department advises that "All co-op students going through interviews must hand in one copy of their résumé package to the CECS dropoff slot, outside co-op reception, by 8 p.m."
And this from Lara Wolfson in statistics and actuarial science: "Volunteers are urgently needed to help Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region finish this summer's building projects. If you have a few hours to spend in the next few days, come and work on the build site at the corner of Fairway and Grulke Roads in Kitchener. Call the Habitat office, 571-9164, for more details."
Engineering alumni of 1962 -- those would be UW's pioneers -- and 1967 will be on campus for some reunion events this weekend. Activities tomorrow include lunch at the University Club, a tour, a president's reception in the Student Life Centre (4:30 p.m.), and a gala dinner at the Four Points Sheraton in Kitchener.
Communitech, otherwise known as "Kitchener-Waterloo's community technology association", is launching its promised series of "networking lunches and presentations" with an event next Tuesday. Speaker is Peter Mabson, a vice-president of ComDev "responsible for finding and creating new products and applications for the highly competitive aerospace industry", who will talk about his experience in launching high-tech products. Tuesday's event is at noontime at Bingemans Conference Centre in Kitchener; tickets are $25, with students getting a special $10 rate; phone 888-9944.
Finally, of course, sports. The football Warriors host the York Yeomen at University Stadium at 2:00 on Saturday. Before and after the football game, the stadium will be in use by the field hockey Athenas (10 a.m. against York, 6 p.m. against Western), and Saturday at various hours the soccer Athenas and Warriors and the rugby Warriors have home games at Columbia Field. (Full schedules are on the athletics department's web pages.)
CAR
September 20, 1953: The cornerstone is laid for a new teaching building at Waterloo College, soon to become the parent of the "Associate Faculties". September 20, 1991: Mathematics professor Jack Edmonds loses his request for an injunction preventing UW from terminating his employment, and is told to clear out his office immediately. It's the beginning of the long-running "Edmonds case", which will end with a negotiated reinstatement.
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