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An OUA football semi-final game tomorrow will pit UW's Warriors against the McMaster Marauders. The game is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Mac's Les Prince Field. UW's athletics department has single tickets for the game, and the Federation of Students was selling a game-plus-bus package, though it may be sold out by now. The game will be broadcast on ONtv with a one-hour tape delay.

In search of two vice-presidents

James Downey: now officially acting vice-president (university relations)

While the search goes on, James Downey (left), former president of UW, is doing the vice-president's job, a role he took on last spring when Lithgow became seriously ill. Johnston said yesterday that Downey has now been formally appointed acting vice-president.

The president mentioned at Tuesday's meeting of the UW board of governors that the search committee had been set up. He added that UW will again hire the consulting firm of Janet Wright & Associates, which was used in the 1997 search that brought Lithgow here from York University.

The president himself will chair the committee, and yesterday he announced its other members: James Downey, acting VP (university relations); Geoff McBoyle, dean of environmental studies; Rob Caldwell, a Kitchener investment executive who is a member of the board of governors and president of the UW Foundation; Bill Bishop, president of the Graduate Student Association; Catharine Scott, associate provost (human resources and student services); John Bergsma, alumnus, former chair of the board of governors and chief executive of Lennox Inc.; Lois Claxton, secretary of the university, as secretary of the committee.

Johnston said the committee will use pretty much the same job description that was used in the 1997 search, except for a greater emphasis on the university's government relations: "We would want to elevate that to a primary responsibility" for the new vice-president.

Above all, the VP will be expected to lead the university into a capital fund-raising campaign. Goals haven't been set, but people are quoting numbers like $250 million as the likely goal for UW's biggest campaign ever.

The provost's position: Meanwhile, a formal nominating committee is being set up under Policy 48 to find a successor to Jim Kalbfleisch as vice-president (academic) and provost. Faculty and staff representatives on that committee are to be elected, by a procedure that was described at length in the Bulletin last week and on page 2 of Wednesday's Gazette.

There will be an acting VP (academic) and provost as of January 1, Johnston said, while the nominating process continues.

He told the board of governors he has named a small committee to help him consider whether the vice-president (academic) should continue to have the role of "provost", the university's chief operating officer, or whether there should be some change to the administrative structure that's been in effect for the past 13 years. That committee consists of former president Downey, university secretary Claxton, and the chairman of the board of governors, retired businessman Paul Mitchell.

Homecoming keeps campus busy

Highlight of the annual weekend is the 33rd Annual Naismith Classic Basketball Tournament, hosted by UW's Warriors. Games start at noon today and continue through to the championship game at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Physical Activities Complex. The Warriors are hosting teams from McGill, Ryerson, Western, Winnipeg, Wilfrid Laurier, York and St. Francis Xavier -- last year's national champions.

Other athletic events are the Warrior Basketball Alumni Game at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and the Warrior Swim Meet, with events and prizes for alumni swimmers, at noon Saturday.

During Homecoming weekend, there's an opportunity to join the Applied Health Sciences 16th Annual 5 km Fun Run twice around the UW ring road (the photo at right is from the 1998 run). Registration time is 9:30 a.m. at the Matthews Hall foyer, with the race to start at 10:15.

For family fun, there's a free Community Skating Party from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Columbia Icefield. Everyone is welcome to skate with Pounce, the alumni mascot lion, enjoy hot chocolate and get their face painted. The skate is sponsored by the Student Ambassador Association.

Franklin the Turtle will be making an appearance at the Kids Club from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the UW bookstore. As well, Adwoa Badoe, African author and storyteller, will entertain with music and dance during readings from her books Crabs for Dinner and The Queen's New Shoes.

New this year is a Virtual Reunion on Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. for anniversary classes of 1965, '70, '75, '80, '85 and '90, says Alison Boyd, Homecoming coordinator. Alumni will be able to talk to professors, classmates and current students on-line. They can reminisce or reconnect, socialize or network, or just see how UW has changed. At the Virtual Reunion, there will be photos from the anniversary years, and alumni can try their hand at trivia questions, read their peers' best memories about UW and take part in a chat room for discussions.

The St. Jerome's University Graduates' Association will be holding a Stratford Excursion to see Shakespeare's "Hamlet" on Sunday. The grads will gather first at St. Jerome's at 11:30 a.m. for a buffet lunch and lecture by English professor Ted McGee entitled "Putting on an Antic Disposition: Paul Gross as Hamlet".

Chemical physics symposium opens

Giacinto Scoles, who recently received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from UW, is widely respected as a leading innovator in the use of molecular beam techniques to study molecular interactions, surfaces and molecular clusters. He is also credited with the foundation of UW's strong reputation in the area of chemical physics. After leaving UW in 1986, he became the Donner Professor of Science at Princeton University.

"This special edition of this annual national conference will celebrate the achievements and immense scientific impact of Giacinto Scoles, who turned 65 this year," said chemistry professor Robert Le Roy, who organized the event.

Scoles is one of six invited speakers at this year's symposium, which begins tonight at 7:30. Scoles's own presentation gets under way at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday in the Davis Centre. The symposium includes both invited and contributed oral papers, as well as a poster session, and has attracted participants from Europe and the U.S., and from across Canada. Most sessions will be held in Davis room 1351, while the poster session will expand to fill the great hall. "Excited arguing scientists will be at the poster session late Saturday afternoon," Le Roy promised.

Born in Turin, Italy, Scoles earned his degrees in chemistry at the University of Genoa. He work at the University of Genoa from 1960 (taking a three-year break as a research associate at the University of Leiden, Netherlands) until joining the UW faculty of science in 1971.

In his research, drawing on his expertise in low temperature techniques and molecular beams, Scoles realized that the breakthrough in achieving ultra-high vacuum beam chambers lay in utilizing super-cold pumping techniques. He also recognized that high sensitivity, low-temperature bolometric detection was the most efficient way of determining energy losses from molecular beams, which led to the development of a whole new method of studying weakly bound molecules and molecular clusters. "Scoles is renowned for being a person with profound physical insight who is very generous with his ideas and interested in collaborating and sharing credit with others," Le Roy said.

While at UW, he founded the state-of-the-art Molecular Beams Group, was the founding director of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry, and was instrumental in establishing UW's reputation in the area of chemical physics. He has written in excess of 180 publications in refereed journals and nine short reviews, has edited four books, has served or is serving on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals and has presented more than 100 invited talks at institutions around the world, as well as receiving many awards.

Book tells history of village

From the Volunteer Action Centre Volunteer as a family or as an individual with the K-W YMCA Host Program. This program matches local families/individuals with newcomers to Canada to provide friendship, community orientation and an opportunity to practice English. Help light up the village. The first annual Art of Christmas Festival will be immersing Downtown Kitchener in the sights, sounds, and flavours of the Christmas season. The Festival begins with the Village of Lights, which will bathe two square blocks in the heart of the downtown core with a spectacle of shimmering Christmas Lights. This position would be suitable to someone who is able to work safely where height is involved. Share the Warmth coat program needs help. Volunteers are needed by The Salvation Army at the distribution centre to staff the reception desk and organize coats as they are brought in. Assistance is needed during the day, Mondays to Fridays. Community and Family Services of The Salvation Army will also soon need help with pickups and packing and answering the telephone. More information: the VAC is at 742-8610.

The book "traces the history of the town and its major employer to the period when the village was known as New Hope," says a St. Jerome's news release.

"Both Jacob Hespeler, the town's namesake, and George Forbes, its most prominent community leader, are featured. The R. Forbes Company, later known as Dominion Woollens and Worsteds, Ltd., was one of the largest woollen and worsted mills in the British Empire and came to be identified with Hespeler and its citizens, playing a prominent part in the development of Hespeler's sense of a unique community. Hespeler Portrait also re-examines the tumultuous decade of the 1950s, the amalgamation of the town into the City of Cambridge in 1973 and the re-emergence of a strong Hespeler community."

Also examined are the contributions of industries in Hespeler to the Allied victory in the Second World War, when young women who were recruited for war-time work from places as far as Newfoundland and Northern Ontario.

Published by the Company of Neighbors in Hespeler, the book was supported by grants from the Canadian Millennium Bureau and the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation.

Here's what else is happening

Architecture students are off to Toronto by bus today to take part in a one-day job interview blitz. Because large numbers of architecture students get their co-op jobs through a small number of Toronto-based firms, the co-op department organizes the one-day trip to the big city each term.

Today is "business day" as the East Asian Festival, based at Renison College, continues. The day features expert panels and speakers, aimed at giving participants the latest information on market trends in Asia and a chance to establish contacts with other business people interested in Japan, China, Korea and surrounding lands. The day's events are held in the Renison College chapel, and begin with a talk by UW chancellor Val O'Donovan, whose company, Com Dev Ltd., is among Canadian firms that do business across the Pacific. The lunchtime speaker is Yoshio Nakatani, president of Toyota Canada. Registration fee for the day: $99.

Tomorrow, the East Asian Festival winds up with "Culture and Family Day" from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Waterloo Recreation Complex. There will be costume, dance, crafts and bonsai demonstrations, "hands-on workshops in origami and calligraphy", displays of martial arts, and East Asian food. Admission is free.

This morning's event in the tourism lecture series also looks west to the east. Geoff Wall and Philip Xie of UW's geography department will speak on "Tourism and Ethnicity in China", at 9:30 a.m. in Environmental Studies I room 350.

This afternoon at 3:00, Jason Whitfield, graduate student in the school of planning, will give a topic in the "Frank Fridays" series sponsored by the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group. His topic: "Fostering Change in the Canadian Housing Sector: Identifying the Barriers and Opportunities When Building Sustainable Communities". He'll speak in the WPIRG office, Student Life Centre room 2139.

Today may be the day to pick out new glasses. "You're invited," says a flyer, "to our first Holiday Celebration Eyewear Show. Representatives from the most prominent frame companies will be presenting their latest frame releases." Eyewear will be for sale at 10 to 50 per cent off the usual prices, and there will be door prizes. The event runs from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Optometry building on Columbia Street. "Come and bring a friend," the flyer urges. "Holiday refreshments will be served. Eye appointments can be arranged."

Preregistration for spring 2001 undergraduate courses, which has been going on since Wednesday, winds up today.

And finally, more sports. I've already mentioned the Naismith Classic basketball tournament, which is a traditional feature of Homecoming weekend, as well as the football semi-final and the swimming meet. An alternative Warrior attraction is a pair of men's hockey games: against Western tonight at 7:30 and against Windsor Sunday at 2:00, at the Columbia Icefield. The men's soccer Warriors will face Laurentian at University Stadium on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. (but that's officially an away game, in a semi-final competition hosted by Laurier). Out of town, the women's rugby team is still at Bishop's University for the national championships, both volleyball teams will play at Guelph tomorrow, and the squash team is at McGill for a "crossover" tournament Saturday and Sunday.

CAR

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