Daily Bulletin

Gold over blue The football Warriors defeated Toronto's Varsity Blues 58-10 in the home opener on Saturday afternoon.

Campus swings into fitness

For those who don't fancy skipping every week, or step classes every week, or Ak-wa-fit ("the wet workout") every week, there's even something called the "sanity saver", in which participants try a different fitness activity each week through the fall term.

Courses are open to campus recreation members, which includes current students at no charge. Off-term co-op students can buy a membership for $26.75; staff, faculty and alumni for $64.20; outside folks, for $107.

The first step in registration for instructional activities is to pick up a ticket tomorrow (between 8:15 and 11:30) from the "red north" corner of the Physical Activities Complex. Each ticket carries a registration time on Wednesday, and the ticket-holder should show up at that time at PAC room 2039 to register and pay the class fee.

Fees vary widely -- $30 for eight squash lessons, $54 for a Bronze Cross lifesaving course, $12.75 for a one-shot canoe clinic, $30 for many of the three-days-a-week fitness classes. Full information about registration is available on the web or in the maroon "Incredible Guidebook" that the campus rec folks have circulated on campus this term.

Back for its second year is the "Cross-Canada Challenge", a simulated run across the nation and back again. You can sign up for a token that will move along the big map in the PAC trophy case (Red North hallway) each week based on how many exercise activities you report doing that week.

Also starting this week are a multitude of campus rec leagues -- some competitive, some "co-recreational" -- in sports such as broomball, basketball and innertube waterpolo. Tournaments are being scheduled in slow-pitch softball, volleyball, golf, and squash. And clubs dedicated to archery, rowing, kendo and other sports are also starting their fall activities.

Film leads off Federation's week

"Canis Lupus" was shot last winter, much of it in the Student Life Centre, amid excitement and confusion. "The movie includes local celebrities such as James Downey," says Federation vice-president Chris Harold, adding that the ex-president of UW "shockingly gets robbed" in the film.

At least we know the story line includes guns. Director Mike Downing found himself issuing an apology in February for some of the confusion during the filming:

I was completely unprepared for the nightmare of trying to shoot for 30 hours in one weekend in the busiest place on campus. For the record, we shut down access to the atrium only to control the traffic coming and going. The reason for this is simple: firearms can kill. The arsenal of weapons used during the technically challenging weekend shoots were real guns. They were .45 calibre Berettas in perfect firing condition. Even with the barrels blocked they emitted a three foot long gas discharge that could seriously injure or kill. In addition to this, the shell casings leave the chamber flying, red hot, and have great potential to injure. So when you hurdled our barriers and ignored our signs, many of our actors and crew (who had seen demonstrations of what the guns could do) were rightfully distressed. Several confrontations resulted from this, and for this I apologize.

Tonight's showing will be at 8:30 in the great hall of the Student Life Centre.

Federation Week continues with Clubs Day in the SLC on Tuesday and Wednesday from 10 to 4. Says Harold: "Come check out the sixty-plus clubs on campus. All students, staff and faculty are welcome to join!"

Also on Tuesday the SLC will find room for a volunteer fair, with representatives of more than 50 community organization on hand "to answer questions and sign up people who are interested".

And on Thursday, "Cirque du Service", otherwise known as Service Awareness Days, will be offered to keep people informed about the various services the Federation provides. There will be tours of the Fed office from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Senior posts in the library

Leaving after ten years with the library is Margaret Hendley, who held the new post of assistant university librarian (information services) for her last few months at UW. She came to UW in 1989 as the library's coordinator of user education; in 1991 she became head of the reference and collections department in the Dana Porter Library.

In a reorganization earlier this year, the library created two positions of "assistant university librarian" and named Hendley to one of them, in charge of "information services". Says a tribute from university librarian Murray Shepherd: "Margaret can be most proud of her role as the 'bridge' between faculty members and library staff. She has successfully interpreted the needs of this academic community and brought together various talented people in the Library to make decisions and move forward."

Taking over from her as assistant university librarian (information services) is Susan Routliffe, who was previously coordinator of the library's user services department. She's been a librarian at UW for some 20 years.

Says Shepherd: "Susan will be responsible for the management, development, and evaluation of instructional programs that assist library users in the effective utilisation of information resources necessary for teaching, learning, and/or research and for the promotion of library information services. Susan will represent the Library to the University on information services issues and work collaboratively with the TriUniversity Group (TUG) of Libraries and other partners in the delivery of information services.

"Information Services includes reference services, instructional programmes and materials, consultation services, and access to, organisation, and delivery of electronic information resources and services."

The other new job created in last spring's reorganization was assistant university librarian (information resources management). Named to that post was Joan Macdonald, formerly head of the reference and collections department in the Davis Centre library and an 18-year member of the library's staff.

Her new job calls on her to do such things as "Define strategies for acquiring or accessing electronic resources . . . Ensure that course and program changes are reflected in collection management practices . . . Oversee collaborative information resource initiatives, especially the information resource projects within the TriUniversity Group (TUG) of Libraries and the Ontario Council of University Libraries . . . Identify and address conservation and preservation issues."

At the same time as announcing these changes in its administration, the library reports that a new librarian has joined the staff: Jackie Stapleton, whose responsibilities will be chemistry and systems design engineering.

Drama department auditions begin

§ The musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" hits the stage in the last week of October. Auditions will be held tomorrow and Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Theatre of the Arts. "Reading and listening copies of audition material are available from Joyce in Modern Languages room 121, or phone ext. 5808."

§ Shakespeare's "King Lear" will be performed November 24-27. Auditions will be held Wednesday and Thursday afternoon in Humanities room 180, the studio theatre: "please arrive before 3:00 p.m. . . . If you are unable to make the audition, please contact the stage manager to make alternative arrangements. For more information please contact the stage manager, Michael Haltrecht, mhaltrecht@uwaterloo.ca." The show also already has a web site.

"From light comedy to dark drama, from pure fantasy to stark reality -- there's something for all tastes in this season's offerings," a drama department announcement promises. "Charlie Brown", based on the comic strip "Peanuts", and "Lear", the classic work of aging and honesty, are the major productions for the fall term.

In the winter, the drama department will stage "Suburban Motel", a pair of short plays by George F. Walker, in early February in the Humanities studio theatre, and "Spring Awakening" by Frank Wedekind ("sensational and shocking in its day") in the Theatre of the Arts in mid-March.

Pages from a campus notebook

A series of lectures on "Tourism: People, Places & Products" begins this afternoon with a talk by Geoff Wall of UW's department of geography. The series is sponsored by the two departments that study tourism at UW: geography, and recreation and leisure studies. Two other UW people will be heard in the series, as well as experts from as close by as Wilfrid Laurier University and as far off as Australia. Sessions will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 each Monday in Arts Lecture Hall room 124.

UW's senate, the university's top academic governing body, will meet today at 4:30 in Needles Hall room 3001. Yes, 4:30; the late afternoon hour is being tried for this year in place of the traditional evening meetings. On the agenda this month are the usual reports on new and renewed faculty appointments, appointments to committees, and reports from the president, the provost and the vice-president (university research) on what's been happening.

This week brings two important opportunities to wear out the shoe-leather. The annual "Take Back the Night" women's march is scheduled for Thursday evening; it doesn't touch the campus this year, taking place instead in downtown Kitchener, but a number of university people are sure to be involved. Sunday (September 26) the walk is organized by the AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener-Waterloo and Area, in support of research into AIDS (which was defined as a "dread disease" in an insurance policy that passed through my hands the other day). Watch for more information on that walk.

Advance note: the annual craft fair in the Student Life Centre is scheduled for November 3-5. "We are looking for vendors who do hand-style crafted items," says Nancy O'Neil, assistant manager of the SLC. "Anyone wishing to apply can contact me at ext. 6283."

A paragraph in the Daily Bulletin last week listed the topics that are covered in Co-op 101 sessions for first-year co-op students, mentioning one of them as "workplace safety (for engineers only)". That was a mistake, the co-op and career services department now says: students in all faculties, not just engineers, get that session as well as the others.

CAR

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