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Friday, July 30, 1999
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Suspect there's more to Shakespeare than your high school teacher revealed? Students can delve into the Bard's lore and language in Shakespeare and Thou, running on Saturday afternoons between October 2 and November 27.
Also new in the personal development category is yet another take on a topic of interest to everyone: stress. Understanding Personal and Relationship Stress is a one-day workshop on Friday, September 17, to "help participants understand stress and its impact, and develop methods to deal effectively with stressors in their lives."
Among the professional development courses offered for the first time this fall are Leadership in the Next Century, Exploring Diversity -- Understanding our Differences to Improve Performance, Listening with Understanding, Innovation: Thinking Out of the Box, and Strategic Negotiation.
The section of courses on business communications and languages has expanded to include an Introduction to the Irish Language (Part Two), for previous students to "continue learning everyday conversation in Irish and build on phrases acquired in Part One" A new course in Intermediate French for Work and Travel" will explore "aspects of French and French-Canadian business and social practices." A six-week on-line course, Business Communications Using E-mail, will have its own website with most lessons providing an interactive, web-based assignment or demonstration.
Students who completed the Introduction to Access course in the computer skills section, have a chance to expand their knowledge with the new Microsoft Access (Part Two), which emphasizes more complex queries, interactive forms and report design.
New for kids next term will be Fossils, Folklore and Fact for ages 7 to 12, offered on two Saturdays in December with games, drama and video/film for the dinosaur crowd.
Tuition discounts for most courses are offered for seniors, anyone registering for more than one course, and full-time UW staff, faculty and students. A company discount is offered for more than one person registering from an organization. As well, gift certificates in any denomination are available for those who wish to give the gift of learning.
Registration for fall continuing education courses can be completed on line, by mail, by phone, by fax or in person. To learn more, phone ext. 4002.
The study, by a Georgetown University sociologist, reveals that rising student debt impacts family relationships, student attitudes toward their peers and institutions, and student views about borrowing and saving, reports The Washington Post. The study concludes that credit problems among students are more significant than previously thought and affect more than student finances.
The easy availability of credit and rising debt are shaping today's college experience in three ways, according to the report. First, the college experience is making debt acceptable. Second, parental control of students is being jeopardized by the easy availability of credit. Third, many students are trying to achieve a standard of living that they cannot afford.
As many as one in five credit-card holders in college carry debts over $10,000, reports The Christian Science Monitor.
The next legal aid clinic for graduate students will be held on Tuesday, August 3, starting at 1 p.m. at the Grad House. Appointments for the clinic, sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, can be made by contacting Bob Sproule at grad-mgr@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca with your student ID number and a brief description of your concern.
Community volunteer opportunities are available for a driver with a class F licence, for board members with the Aids Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area, for people who enjoy working with horses, and for an office worker with computer and organizational skills. To learn more, contact the Volunteer Action Centre at 742-8610.
If you notice an outage of the campus computer network or any major IST-maintained computing facility during this period, you can report it by telephoning the IST HelpDesk at 888-4357. If the outage has a severe impact on the University computing environment and the appropriate facility-support personnel can be contacted, the problem will be addressed; otherwise, it will be pursued Tuesday morning.Since it's exam season, though, the libraries will have some service on Monday. The Davis Centre and Dana Porter Libraries will be open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., with circulation service available 1:15 to 4:45 p.m. The University Map and Design Library will be open 12:30 to 4:30. It's regular hours on Saturday and Sunday -- and the libraries are continuing with "extended" open hours, later than usual each night through August 13.
Some key services continue as always:
Barbara Elve
bmelve@uwaterloo.ca
Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
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