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Friday, July 17, 1998
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Dragon Boat Festival
"Kitchener-Waterloo is in the unfortunate situation of having no natural outcrops of bedrock nearby," says the article, by earth sciences demonstrator Jane Lang, in the new issue of Wat on Earth, published by the earth sciences department for high school science teachers and other interested readers. "However, natural stone of a variety of types has been used as a building material at a number of locations." The newsletter provides a photographic tour, suggesting where one can spot red and black granite, feldspar, limestone (with the inevitable acid rain damage), breccia, marble and labradorite in local buildings.
The route starts on the UW campus, naturally enough with the rock garden between Math and Computer and the science buildings. Second stop: the nearby Student Life Centre. "Notice the floor in the enclosed foyers and on the main staircases inside the new wing," the author says. "These rock slabs are made of slate which is a fine grained rock resulting from low grade metamorphism of a sedimentary, clay-rich rock called shale. With metamorphism, the original rock becomes harder and develops a pronounced 'slaty cleavage' (the ability to break into thin flat pieces). These two properties make it an excellent choice for flooring tiles, roofing shingles, blackboards, and billiard tables. The green streaks in the rock are due to the presence of ferrous iron oxide, while the reddish colour is from ferric iron oxide."
The tour leaves campus to travel to downtown Waterloo (the public library building is particularly gneiss) and then Kitchener, ending up at 67 King Street East, where "the outside walls are made of a tan and gray limestone from Manitoba with an unusual texture in it. The rock is called Tyndall Stone and its mottled texture is the result of the burrows of marine animals. . . . Other fossils such as gastropods and corals can be seen."
Among other features in the spring issue of Wat on Earth are a report by Alan Morgan, also of the earth sciences department, about the 1973 Heimaey volcanic eruption in Iceland, an article on opals in British Columbia, and basic questions-and-answers about groundwater contamination.
Kenyon has written and edited promotional brochures, booklets and newsletters for the registrar's office, I&PA, St. Jerome's and various faculties and departments on campus. She has been the editor of the UW Magazine for the past three years and is a member of the editorial board of the New Quarterly, as well as one of the three principal editors at Trout Lily Press based in Stratford. Kenyon is past chair of the National Alumni Council, and was a member of the Institutional Planning Commission.
As manager of the publications office, she will be responsible for leading the new service unit in producing a variety of key publications for the university, including the UW Magazine, a new annual university report, periodic community reports and promotional pieces of many kinds. Part of her duties will be to help promote the university identity through consistent use of the university's marques, particularly the new logo adopted early last year.
Kenyon has extensive experience in all aspects of the publications business, including the management of a print shop. Among her goals is to work closely with UW's graphics department in helping to boost the overall quality of the university's publications.
"She is a great addition to our staff and the university. We're eagerly awaiting her arrival," said Martin Van Nierop, I&PA director.
Summerfest kicks off tonight at Fed Hall with a Rock, Bop and Roll program featuring "big band rockabilly" sounds -- "almost swing, which is on the grow right now," according to Feds' new manager of bar operations and programming, Frazer Hadwin. Tickets for tonight's bash -- $5 for Feds members/ $7 for non-members at the Feds office in the SLC, $7 at the door -- are selling well, he reports, while Saturday night's Retro 80s Dance is sold out. Although Summerfest has been a hot weather happening for years with DJs, this is the first time live bands will be playing.
Resume packages are due today for co-op students who wish to be considered in the continuous phase process. A continuous phase registration form plus 15 copies of the resume package must be submitted to the paging desk in Needles Hall. Co-op students who miss the deadline today will have their status changed to "on own -- self-imposed" unless they obtain employment by August 14.
The waterline, an exhibition of monochrome silver prints by photographer Robert McNair, a.k.a. Bob McNair of MAD (Mapping Analysis and Design computer and environmental media support group) in environmental studies, opened yesterday and continues from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today in the architecture foyer, Environmental Studies 2 room 287.
"We're poised for a profitable 1998-99," predicts an optimistic Keanin Loomis, the new Feds vice-president (administration and finance), in a recent Imprint column. In spite of the $60,000 deficit from last year -- in part from Fed Hall, which "has been a drain on the Federation of Students for a long time" -- he believes "Fed Hall is going to have the year it hasn't seen in a decade." Renovations to the facility are planned over the next few months, transforming the cavernous space into something "none of us will be able to recognize...especially with people in it." Loomis invites input on the budget process and the renovations.
Extended library hours take effect tomorrow, July 18, and continue through August 14 as follows: Monday through Thursday, Dana Porter 8 a.m. to midnight, Davis Centre 8 a.m. to 1 a.m.; Friday, Dana Porter 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Davis Centre 8 a.m. to midnight; Saturday, Dana Porter 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Davis Centre 11 a.m. to midnight; Sunday, Dana Porter 11 a.m. to midnight, Davis Centre 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. The University Map and Design Library will maintain normal summer hours.
"Declining government support and rising student debt are causing many British university students to seek alternative ways to finance their higher education. The result is what some believe to be a surge in student prostitution, reports Electronic Telegraph. . . . One female student prostitute told the Telegraph that clients feel less guilty with her than with traditional prostitutes because the money goes toward her education." -- Flash Points, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education
"After years of losing ground, higher education (in the United States) is holding its own in the competition with other public services for state dollars. As state legislatures wrap up work on their budgets for the coming fiscal year, early indications are that no other major function of state government, except for elementary and secondary education, is likely to receive a steeper increase in its state support. . . . Aggregate spending on higher education from states' general funds appears likely to rise slightly faster than spending on prisons and Medicaid." -- Chronicle of Higher Education
"Brown University settled a heated six-year legal battle over the equality of women's athletics last week, a feud that has drawn national attention to the definition of gender equality in sports. . . . The disagreement was over the interpretation of Title IX, a section of education legislation passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination. In the agreement, which was negotiated over the course of a year, Brown promised to keep the percentage of women athletes within 3.5 percent of the percentage of women enrolled at the college." -- Harvard Crimson
Some "thirty linear feet" of papers in the special collections area of UW's library document the history of the Young Women's Christian Association in Kitchener. This site offers a virtual "display" based on the exhibition.
The display -- originally a real one in the Dana Porter Library -- was created at the time of the YWCA's 90th anniversary, says Susan Saunders Bellingham, head of special collections in Porter. "The YWCA had donated their papers and archives to the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room some years previously and, as one of the highlights of the anniversary year, held a reception in the rare books room in order that members could see their archives 'on the shelf' and as well, see our other resources -- both those relating to women as well as those of local interest.
"In order to give the display a wider exposure, we decided to mount it in the World Wide Web."
Old Kitchener names like Kaufman, Clement and Breithaupt figure in the early documents in the archive, some of which are reproduced in the Web display. It also includes photographs -- of meetings, sports teams, buildings, campers, even a silver trowel used when a cornerstone was laid for an expansion of the YWCA facilities in 1937. The exhibition traces the activities of the YW from early days through its founding of the first day care centre in Kichener-Waterloo into recent years.
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