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Monday, February 22, 1999
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The congregation, which operates Resurrection College as a residence for UW students, has applied to the City of Waterloo for a zoning bylaw amendment which would allow the development of "a plan of subdivision consisting of 40 single detached lots, 10 multiple residential units, parkland, stormwater management pond and the existing Resurrection Centre."
According to Rev. Lorford Keasey, provincial superior of the Ontario Kentucky province of the Congregation of the Resurrection, only eight of the group's 20 acres are currently being used. "We're going through the development process as a way of disposing of the land and using the proceeds for the work of the Congregation of the Resurrection."
A developer, Paul Dietrich of Wright-Dietrich in Cambridge, has been retained to facilitate the process, of which the planning stage -- working with the City of Waterloo -- could take a year, said Keasey.
Although the congregation looked at the possibility of developing a seniors' housing complex, along with other proposals, that idea has been abandonned for now, he said, in favour of the development of single-family bungalow-style homes of about 1,800 square feet.
Why develop the property now? "It's surplus land," said Keasey, "an asset that was doing us no good. We decided to dispose of it and convert it into a resource we could use." Proceeds of the development will go toward support of missions, adult education programs, and support of retired priests and brothers, he added.
The Congregation of the Resurrection has been in the area for some 145 years, and founded both St. Jerome's College and St. Jerome's High School. Resurrection College on Westmount Road was built in 1964 as a seminary, but seminary functions for the order were later transferred to a Toronto site.
There are some 85 members of the order in Canada, with Resurrection priests and brothers working in 19 countries around the world.
Patterned on the theatre sports model, storytellers will be given a premise each week on which to weave their tales, explains Graduate Student Association administrator Rose Vogt. "Whoever can tell the tallest tale wins prizes and prestige." There will also be an impromptu category with suggestions from the audience.
"Everyone is welcome to come out and participate or just listen, laugh and judge," she adds. They can also munch on the free natchos available with every pitcher of beer.
The "first ritual gathering" of the society is slated for Wednesday, March 3, at 8 p.m. and the topic is "delivering a package". Subsequent sessions will run every other Wednesday, alternating with the Jazz Goes to College series.
Also on the agenda at the Grad House are euchre nights on Mondays at 7:30, Harry Poser's Open Mike Show on Thursdays at 9:30, and the Wednesday jazz series which features the Derek Hines Quartet this Wednesday. Tickets are $5 per concert (or $13 for the three remaining concerts in the jazz series) and include a glass of wine or a domestic pint of beer. For more information, contact Vogt at ext. 3803.
"Developing Skills for Handling Interpersonal Confict Resolution" is offered by the University Conflict Resolution Support Program (UCRSP) in an effort to "help you understand conflict, and to provide a model to guide you in steps to work towards resolving interpersonal conflicts." Included in the workshop are activities to develop an understanding of communication dynamics, as well as opportunities to practice communication skills.
Open to all UW students, faculty and staff, the series will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. in Engineering Lecture Hall room 209. To register, or for more information contact Catherine Fry at cafry@uwaterloo.ca or at ext. 5671. Registration is limited to 30 participants.
Co-op and career services is offering a work finding workshop today, complete with units on the job/work search, networking, and employer research. The two-hour session begins at 1:30 p.m. in Needles Hall room 1020, and participants are encouraged to stay for an extra half-hour at the end of the workshop for a tour of the career resource centre and library.
"How Raman Scattering Can Unveil the Physics of High Temperature Superconductors" is the subject of a lecture today by Thomas Devereaux, department of physics at George Washington University, and a candidate for a physics faculty position at UW. He will speak at 3 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1304.
Software developer Richard M. Stallman will speak on Free Software: The GNU Project today at 3:30 p.m. in Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University. "Stallman's software is free to copy, free to redistribute, and free to change, so long as the source code to all modifications is also made available for free." Sponsored by the St. Jerome's math department, the talk is also free, and open to all.
Also at 3:30 today, a lecture on "Joint Modelling of Measurement Error and Missing Data" will be presented by Jouni Kuha, of Nuffield College, Oxford, and the University of Southampton. Sponsored by the UW department of statistics and actuarial science, the talk will be held in Math and Computer room 5158.
St. Jerome's winter reading series continues with the appearance of Mary di Michele today at 4 p.m. in the St. Jerome's Common Room (221). She has published several collections of poetry, and has won the CBC literary prize for poetry. Born in Italy and raised in Toronto, di Michele teaches writing at Concordia University in Montreal. Thanks to the support of the Canada Council, the reading is free.
Plans for International Women's Week are on the agenda today at a meeting of the Womyn's Centre at 5 p.m. in the club's offices, upstairs from the Bombshelter.
"Prize-winning, internationally acclaimed novelist and essayist" John Ralston Saul will deliver the 1999 Laurier Lecture tonight at 7 in the Maureen Forrester Recital Hall at Wilfrid Laurier University. The lecture is free, but seating is limited. For more information, phone Deborah Currie at 884-0710 ext. 3800.
UW senate meets at 7:30 tonight in Needles Hall 3001. Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., the pension and benefits committee meets in Needles Hall 3001.
Tomorrow is the deadline for those wishing to register for the TRACE teaching event on Thursday, February 25. Carlos J.P. de Lucena, an adjunct professor in the UW computer science department and a professor at Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Brazil, will speak on "AulaNet: An Environment for the Development and Maintenance of Courses on the Web" from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1302. Interested faculty members, adjunct and sessional instructors, staff instructors, librarians and graduate students are asked to pre-register by Tuesday by sending an email to trace@watserv1. Phone TRACE at ext. 3132 for more information.
Students can also register for the study skills program, a series of four workshops starting this week. Offered by counselling services in Needles Hall room 2080, the series includes time management, note taking, reading, and preparing for and writing exams. The first of the four, two-hour sessions begins Tuesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., with the other series starting on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m., and on Wednesday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. There is a $3 materials fee for the sessions which continue for four weeks. To register, stop by counselling services.
Barbara Elve
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