Daily Bulletin

Voters in the Federation of Students election yesterday included science students Carly O'Brien and Erin Strutt, who shared a last-minute consultation before casting their ballots in the Biology building. Voting continues today until 4 p.m.; results will be counted after the ballots of off-campus co-op students arrive, and the name of the 2000-01 Fed president should be announced March 1.

Royal Bank economist will speak

"Students from all faculties will benefit from this presentation," organizers say, "and are encouraged to ask questions following Dr. McCallum's lecture. Some areas that may covered are Canada-US economic integration, the preservation of Canadian identity, and the evolution of society over the next 20 years."

McCallum obtained his BA from Cambridge University in 1971, a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures from Université de Paris I in 1973, and a PhD in economics from McGill University in 1977. He was an economics professor at McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Simon Fraser University, and University of Manitoba, including a period as dean of the faculty of arts at McGill, before joining the Royal Bank in June 1994.

McCallum is responsible for providing economic analysis and commentary both within the bank and to clients and the public. He is author or co-author of eight books or monographs, as well as many articles. He has written on fiscal and monetary issues, comparative macroeconomic performance of OECD countries, Canada-U.S. economic integration, and other economic topics. The following are among the topics he has addressed in recent months: the Euro, a North American common currency, Canada-U.S. free trade after ten years, Asia crisis, fiscal policy, economic outlook.

The first "2020" lecture was given January 19 by Fraser Mustard of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. The third and final lecture in series is scheduled for March 8, Firoz Rasul, chief executive of Ballard Power Systems -- the now famous Canadian fuel-cell company -- will speak (Humanities Theatre, 8 p.m.). Rasul will explore the evolution of alternative energy sources over the next twenty years, and their impact on the evolution of society.

Shadows: Nathalie Elbez, a political/environmental science exchange student from the University of Lyon, France, meets with Sylvia Rodriguez, UW student in pre-health/pre-optometry, to study together, or just to take a coffee break. They're brought together by the Shadow program, operated by the international student office. Today's Gazette has the whole story. Among other features in today's Gazette: a full list of the students who were honoured at the "leadership" dinner with UW's board of governors earlier this month.

Lecture on the Dead Sea scrolls

Her lecture is titled "The Jewish World of Jesus: The Evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls", referring to a cache of ancient manuscripts discovered in 1947 near Qumran, at the northeastern end of the Dead Sea.

Schuller's lecture will start at 4:30 this afternoon at Resurrection High School on University Avenue West, and is co-sponsored by the Waterloo Catholic District School Board. (Yesterday's Bulletin was wrong in saying that the lecture would take place at St. Jerome's University.)

"I will pay particular attention to developments in the whole area of the study of Second Temple Judaism, as this field of studies has developed and changed in the post-World War II period," Schuller says. "In particular, I will focus on the Dead Sea Scrolls and explore why this find of 800 manuscripts has been so important in our rethinking of this period."

Since the early 1980s, Schuller has been involved in an international project to translate, edit and publish the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her work in the "prayers and Psalms" category has been published in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series by Oxford University Press. She is also an associate editor of the two-volume Dead Sea Scrolls Encyclopedia to be published by Oxford University Press this year. Her other credits include a book, Post-Exilic Prophets (1988), and The HarperCollins Study Bible, of which she was associate editor.

Schuller, who is an Ursuline nun, has served as president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and she serves on the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee for the Preparation of the Sunday Lectionary.

Jazz series remembers a friend

The second annual Jazz Goes to College program runs every other Wednesday beginning tonight at the Grad House:

• February 16, the Cathy Menard Quartet,
• March 1, the Andy Klaehn Trio,
• March 15, the Paul Mitchell Quartet, and
• March 29, the Jackie Chalmers Trio.

Mike McNulty, a PhD student in philosophy who is organizing the jazz concerts for the second year, was a friend of Fagan's when the two were undergrads at Trent University. During that time, Fagan was a member of the band "Born Again Pagans", which produced four albums.

Fagan helped organize a Jazz Goes to College series at Trent, taking the name from a classic album by jazz legend Dave Brubeck. Although Fagan "died before he could get famous," said McNulty, the musician had a "spirit about creativity and the arts that was unmatched. He saw the university as a creative centre, not an academic factory. He made the time at university vibrant."

McNulty sees the resurrected jazz series at UW as a way of keeping the spirit of Fagan's work alive -- and bringing interesting and different music to the Grad House. This year, McNulty's planning to "put the college in 'college'," with an informal clinic scheduled before each concert. "Jazz is intellectual music," he says, with the clinics designed to allow musicians and their audience to exchange ideas about their approach to the genre.

Clinics run from 7:30 to 8, with performances scheduled from 8 to 11 p.m. Tickets are $5 per show and available at the Grad House. "The room holds only 55 people, so be sure to get your tickets early," he advises. Except for the candles, the series is non-smoking.

A day when it's easy to keep busy

A brown-bag talk on "How to Put the Brakes on Depression", sponsored by the Employee Assistance Program, starts at 12 noon in Engineering Lecture room 207. The speaker is Tom Ruttan of Dr. Charles Pierce & Associates, an off-campus agency that takes many counselling referrals from the EAP. "Depression," says Ruttan, "can affect a great deal of a person's life, including their work, their social life and their physical health. It can interfere with a person's sleep, appetite, energy, enjoyment of activities, and it can, in some cases, lead to feelings of harming oneself. There are many things that you can do to help yourself or a loved one if you feel depression may be present. Probably the most important thing to remember about depression is that it is an illness and not a weakness. And you can get better!"

Also at noontime, the teaching resources and continuing education office presents "Preparing Students for Group Work", a skills-based workshop aimed largely at graduate teaching assistants. Led by Maria Nelson and Torsten Nelson, TA developers in the TRACE office, the session will start at 12:00 in Math and Computer room 5158.

And today's noon-hour concert at Conrad Grebel College offers "Liebeslieder", love songs. The performers are Catherine Robertson (piano) and Stephanie Kramer (soprano), and the concert begins at 12:30 in the Grebel chapel. Admission is free.

In an off-campus lunchtime event, UW's InfraNet Project will sponsor a lunch session at the Waterloo Inn starring Jeff Chisholm, vice-chair of the Bank of Montreal and president of its mBanx Direct subsidiary. Chisholm will be talking about "Smart Communities, E-Business, and the Future of the Financial Services Industry". "He will also," an announcement says, "offer a perspective on the lessons Bank of Montreal has learned from its considerable experience with e-business and suggest opportunities for Canada's banks to play a broader role in fostering Canadian e-business with companies of all sizes."

Helen Humphreys, poet and fiction writer from Kingston will be at St. Jerome's University this afternoon to read from her work. Winner of the 1998 Toronto Book Award for Leaving Earth, Humphreys has, according to the Globe and Mail, "an extraordinary gift for writing evocatively, for creating palpable images, for spinning word sequences that take your breath away". The event starts at 4:00 in the St. Jerome's common room; admission is free.

As income tax season approaches, tax accountants from Ernst & Young will visit campus today to offer "tax tips for students". The session, sponsored by the co-op and career services department and the Federation of Students, starts at 4:30 today in Needles Hall room 3001.

Also at 4:30, the Pure Math, Applied Math and C&O Club presents "an introductory talk for undergrads" by Giuseppe Tenti of the applied mathematics department. Topic: "Brain Biomechanics and Biofluid Dynamics". (He explains: "Knowledge of the brain's mechanical properties is essential to a better understanding of how the brain reacts to applied loads. This, in turn, is important to the neurosurgeon who has to treat hydrocephalus, head injury, and tumors. Since the brain is very fragile, none of the traditional engineering methods to gain such knowledge work. This means that indirect methods must be used, and mathematical models are highly useful in these efforts. I will give a broad overview of where we are and where we are going in this interdisciplinary area of research.") Place: Math and Computer room 2037.

Early-morning users of the Math and Computer building will be without heating and ventilation from 6:00 to 8:00 tomorrow. The shutdown is necessary so new equipment can be connected, the plant operations department advises.

At noontime tomorrow, the Women's Association of UW presents a session on "Aromatherapy and Alternative Ways to Good Health", with Bernice Uebele of Nurses in Touch. The event will start at 12:00 in Humanities room 373.

CAR

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