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Wednesday, November 25, 1998
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Woodman spares that treeThis morning's Gazette has news of a century-old bur oak, towering over St. Paul's and St. Jerome's, that is being saved by the arboristic expertise of Tim Ernst, a member of the UW grounds crew.Rotten to the core and so weakened it was destined to collapse, the tree is being saved by what Ernst calls "tree dentistry". He has painstakingly removed -- first with a chain saw, then with hammer and chisel -- rotten wood that threatened the structural integrity of the venerable oak, and replaced the damaged heart wood with a cement filling. A native tree, frequently found on flood plains, the oak probably sustained some kind of physical damage long ago, Ernst says. The lifesaving process is "labour intensive, time consuming and very costly process", but this particular tree is an ideal candidate for it, says Ernst, who earned a diploma in horticulture from the Niagara Parks Commission School of Horticulture and is a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture. He plans to embark on a special maintenance program of watering and fertilizer after the operation to give it an extra boost. While signs of the surgery -- steel reinforcing rods and concrete filling -- may be visible on the trunk of the tree for some time, they should eventually be covered over with a callous growth. |
Says Mary Stanley in the library office: "The opening provides the university the opportunity to recognize the important and enduring role of the Concordia Club in this community. The event will showcase the records of the club as well as highlight research that has been conducted using these materials and other local archival collections housed in the UW's Doris Lewis Rare Book Room. A video will also be premiered that profiles the contributions of German-Canadians to the development of the region."
Speakers tonight will include UW president James Downey; Susan Bellingham, special collections librarian; David John, chair of the Germanic and Slavic department; Geoffrey Hayes of UW's department of history, author of the recently published Waterloo County: An Illustrated History; Robert Huschka, president of the Concordia Club; and Ulrich Frisse, a visiting student from Germany currently using the collection for his research.
The course of true love never did run smooth. . . .It's the first of four drama department productions this year, all dealing with love in one way or another. (Next up: Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", in the studio theatre in late January.)
Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. . . .
Though she be but little, she is fierce. . . .
I have had a dream, past the wit of man, to say what dream it was.
Long-time drama professor William Chadwick, who will retire from UW next spring, is directing "Dream" along with Lloy Coutts. Here's what the directors have to say about their show:
The charm of Dream is that it is so multi-faceted. It combines into one harmonious whole the serious and the farcical; the lyrical and the commonplace; the magical and the mundane; aristocrats, lovers, fairies and ordinary working men. It is a play about love and marriage, and though it certainly illustrates that the course of true love never did run smooth, it concludes with three marriages and the play of Pyramus and Thisbe, which might be said to illustrate the art of coarse acting at its most sublime."As imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes," Shakespeare says in this play. The shapes to be seen on stage this week include Becki Tolcher as Titania and Norm Friend as Bottom. As for giving to airy nothing "a local habitation and a name", the name of the local habitation is the Theatre of the Arts, and tickets are available from the Humanities box office at $10 (students $8). The lights go down at 8 p.m. tonight through Saturday. There are also three matinees for school audiences, fully sold out.
"Donations other than what was to go into the kits filled 9 boxes. Items like diapers, clothes, toys, extra soap, anti-bacterial dish soap, deodorant, etc. are going to the Central American group who work out of the Global Community Centre in Waterloo. They have arranged space in a shipment.
"Our money collection is also going very well. The tins throughout campus will remain in place until Friday. The money will then be given to MCC at a benefit for Central America. The money collected here will go to buying food, water and medicine. These will be purchased in a neighboring country for immediate delivery into the storm stricken areas of Honduras and Nicaragua."
Friday is payday. . . for faculty members and the majority of regular staff. It will be the first time the new PeopleSoft system has been used for processing UW's monthly payroll. But people will have to wait a day before they see exactly how their pay slips (and their net pay) will look, says David Dietrich in the human resources department: "Pay advices for the November 27th monthly pay will be distributed on Thursday, November 26th. This is a day later than normal. The distribution of pay advices one day before pay day may become the new norm because all payroll process dates are under review in the new PeopleSoft Human Resource Management System. The already announced change in payroll cutoff dates is another example of a change in the new system." |
The Humanities Theatre is rented today for a benefit show by a local Lions Club -- performances at 1:00, 5:00 and 8:00, with (a frequently reliable source tells me) magic and other entertainment, and the revenue going to the Lions' good works.
John Higginbottom of the Canadian embassy in Washington, DC, visits campus today, and will speak at 10:30 in Humanities room 138. Topic: "US-Canadian Relations -- Facing the Challenges". The event is sponsored by the history and political science departments.
Also at 10:30 comes a talk by Vino Vinodrai, director of industry relations and research for Bell Mobility, who "will give a brief overview of the global wireless industry. The main part of the talk will focus on the future trends in wireless such as e-commerce and multimedia applications." The talk, sponsored by the Institute for Computer Research, will be given in Davis Centre room 1304.
Adam Hatfield, graduate student in systems design engineering, will give a seminar at 11:30 (Engineering II room 1307C) on "Risk, Systems and Uncertainty". "Risk situations," he argues, "can be characterized according to their complexity, prompting the view of regarding risk situations as complex systems. This view allows the powerful conceptual tools of systems theory to be leveraged in this new context. . . ."
"Lands for Life: Our Future" is a presentation at 12 noon (Engineering Lecture room 205) sponsored jointly by the Outers Club and the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group. "This past year," writes organizer David Kidston, "has seen the provincial government designate land usage for most of North Ontario. The idea was to decide what areas would be set aside for such things as parks, logging, and mining. The result has not been a good one for the environment. The government has set the end of this month as the deadline for its 'public consultation'. Come out, find out how this land allocation is going to affect you, and what you can do about it."
Busy day for criticizing governments: at 1:30 a demonstration, also sponsored by WPIRG, is scheduled to start at the Student Life Centre. It'll make stops a Needles Hall and the University Avenue entrance to campus before heading off to the office of Andrew Telegdi, Waterloo's Member of Parliament. The issue: the now notorious "pepper spray" protest at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vancouver last year, and the current controversy over public hearings into the police-vs.-students confrontation there.
Amnesty International has an event scheduled for 7 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the Student Life Centre. Title: "Social Issues and Human Rights in Latin America". The event is organized by Carmen Sillato of the Spanish and Latin American studies department; plant operations staff member René Crespo (whose career in labour and politics in Chile, before he came to Canada, was the topic of a riveting piece in Imprint a few weeks back); and the UW cell of Amnesty.
Simultaneously, at 7:00 in Conrad Grebel College room 267, the Films for Awareness series presents "Who's Counting: Sex, Lies and Global Economics", a 1994 production of the National Film Board: "Meet Marilyn Waring: goat farmer, world-renowned political economist, and author. Waring demystifies the language of economics with vigour, clarity, and humour, mapping out an alternative economic view that would change the way we live on our planet."
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