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The weight room in the Physical Activities Complex is the "conditioning room" now, with a greater range of equipment, a mix of men and women users, and (as of this fall) staff for several hours a day. For some students, "the decision to come here and use the facility is a huge step," says fitness staff member Rebecca White. Now there will be someone to give expert advice to newcomers. A feature in Wednesday's Gazette had much more about the workout room.

Former Manitoba premier teaching at UW

As visiting professor, Pawley is teaching the CDNST 365K course -- Canadian Federalism: Past, Present and Future -- at St. Paul's United College on Tuesday evenings. He will also deliver a public lecture, "The Choice we Face as Canadians: Is Survival Running from our Friends?" on Thursday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall.

Free tickets for the talk can be reserved by contacting Arlene Sleno at St. Paul's, 885-1465 ext. 201, or stpaul@uwaterloo.ca.

"Since 1998, the annual Knowles and Kerr-Saltsman public lectures in Canadian Studies have enlivened intellectual debate," says Bob Needham, director of the program, citing past speakers Stephen Lewis, Olive Dickason, Tony Clarke, Mel Watkins and Dalton Camp. "Howard Pawley's intellectual and public accomplishments make him a worthy addition to this series."

He completed undergraduate studies at United College (now the University of Winnipeg) and a law degree at the University of Manitoba Law School. He served on the faculty of the University of Manitoba and the University of Windsor, where he held the Paul Martin Chair in International Relations and Law from 1993 to 1998, and received the Outstanding Special Lecturer Award from the University of Windsor law school graduating class.

From 1969 to 1988, Pawley was a member of the Manitoba provincial legislature, acting as attorney general (1973-1977), party leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party (1979-1988) and provincial premier (1981-1988).

A lifetime member of the Selkirk Indian and Métis Friendship Centre, he has been a tribunal member of the Canadian Council of Churches-Latin American Tribunal on Human Rights, and was a representative at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Yemen.

Computer skills for teaching and learning During the fall term, there are two streams of courses in the Skills for the Academic Electronic Workplace program. One stream is intended to help course instructors in gaining electronic skills, while the other is intended to assist researchers in acquiring the computing skills they need to carry out their work. Full abstracts and registration forms for these courses will be available the last week of the previous month from the IST course web page. "If you would like to receive a monthly e-mail reminder indicating what courses are coming up in the next month, please complete the SAW Course Reminder Form," IST says.

Tourism lecture series begins -- from the UW news bureau

Experts from Canada and elsewhere will speak at the Tourism, Environment and Community series sponsored by UW's departments of geography and recreation and leisure studies.

"The public can learn about the latest issues in tourism," said geography professor Geoff Wall, chief organizer of the series. "With global receipts of $453 billion US in 1999, tourism is a major agent of economic, social and cultural change throughout the world, but with considerable risks to environments and communities."

Wall said UW can play a leadership role in promoting a greater awareness of the complex interrelationships of tourism, because of "its expertise in various aspects of domestic and international tourism, top graduate students and excellent library holdings".

The tourism lectures will be held Fridays, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., in Environmental Studies I room 350. The dates, topics and speakers:

• Today: "Tourism, environment and community: examples from Indonesia," Geoff Wall.
• September 29: "The Queensland ecotourism market," David Weaver, Griffith University, Australia.
• October 6: "Tourism, development economics and sustainable development," Bill Gartner, University of Minnesota.
• October 13: "Caribbean cruises," Paul Wilkinson, York University.
• October 20: "Japanese tourism and the Japanese market," Atsuko Hashimoto, Brock University.
• October 27: "Tourism entrepreneurship in Thailand and Vietnam," Judith Cukier, environmental studies.
• November 3: "Tourism and ethnicity in China," Geoff Wall and graduate student Philip Xie.
• November 10: "Ecotourism and community development in Costa Rica," Lisa Campbell, University of Western Ontario.
• November 17: "Food as tourist merchandise," Robert Healey, Duke University.
• November 24: "Growth management in Whistler, B.C.," Alison Gill, Simon Fraser University.

Another technology conference planned

Some 125 students from 18 universities across Canada attended the first conference in March, and student organizers are expecting to attract more than 400 for their second effort, which will offer workshops on the Internet, next generation technologies, entrepreneurship, wireless technologies and biotech.

An organizational meeting was held last weekend, but the planning committee "can definitely use help in all areas of planning from sponsorship to logistics," says Jonathan Kwan, conference chair. Anyone interested in lending a hand can e-mail him at jcckwan@undergrad.math.

It's autumn, and it's the weekend

Co-op students should note that job posting #2 for winter employment will be posted at noon today. And: "One copy of your résumé package must be handed in to the CECS drop-off box in Needles Hall by 8:00 p.m."

At 10:30, the department of statistics and actuarial science presents a talk by long-term visitor Yun Yi on "A Generallized Mover-Stayer Model for Panel Data" (Math and Computer room 6091A).

The Imaginus poster sale in the Student Life Centre is in its last day, running until 4:00 this afternoon.

José Casanova of the New School for Social Research is at UW today to give two lectures:

• At 1:30, a talk on "Immigrant Incorporation in New York City: The Role of Religion", sponsored by several units in and about the arts faculty (PAS room 2030).
• At 7:30, a talk on "Globalization and the Church", sponsored by the St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience (Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's University).

The band Sloan will play Federation Hall tonight, "with special guests", in a show partly the local high-tech firm PixStream. Students who don't get the sponsored free tickets will be paying $14 to $18 a head for tonight's show.

A note from the Math Grad Committee warns that "The Math Graduating Class is having its First Night Out tonight at 8:00 at the Weaver's Arms. If you're a math student and graduating in 2001, come on out for some free food and good times. A great place to meet people in your graduating class and to find out what's going on in the next eight months."

All students are welcome to take part in UW's ACM Programming Contests, says computer science professor and ACM coach Gordon Cormack. "The 2000-01 season will be the 25th year of the ACM Competition, which attracts teams from thousands of universities worldwide. The first stage consists of Waterloo's local competition, held September 23" -- that's tomorrow -- "and 30. On each day, you are given five problems to solve in three hours using C, C++ or Pascal. . . . Based on the results of the Waterloo competitions, two teams of three students will be selected to represent Waterloo at the East Central Regional Competition." UW's team came second in the world in the ACM contest last winter.

UW engineering graduates from 1965 and 1970 will be on campus tomorrow for reunion activities organized by the engineering alumni office. The main events are a "Get Reacquainted Lunch" at the University Club, a 4 p.m. reception in the Student Life Centre hosted by UW president David Johnston, and a gala dinner at the Walper Terrace Hotel in downtown Kitchener.

Sports this weekend: well, the women's tennis team hosts McMaster on Saturday starting at 9 a.m.; the women's rugby team hosts Brock at 1 p.m. on the north campus; also at 1:00, there's a women's swimming meet in the PAC pool; and at 2 p.m. the football Warriors host Windsor at University Stadium. It's "our annual Football Autograph Day", says Chris Gilbert, promotions coordinator in the athletics department. "All kids will be provided with free autograph sheets to get all their favorite Warrior football players' autographs immediately following the game."

Teams in other sports are away from home this weekend. Men's and women's volleyball teams will be in a tournament at Wilfrid Laurier University (well, that's not so far away from home). There's a cross-country meet at Western, and the women's field hockey team is at Carleton for a tournament. Sunday, the baseball Warriors play at Western, the soccer teams at Windsor, and the tennis team at Queen's.

And if there are any athletes who are in town, able to get up, and hungry on Sunday morning, there's a special event for them, described as a "breakfast scramble" at the Physical Activities Complex and on the ring road, starting at 11 a.m. Sunday. "Yet more food, fun and new friends," Stephen Drew from the athletics department promises.

And a reminder: the International Superwalk for Parkinson's -- against Parkinson's disease, surely, not for it -- will be held Saturday. The event starts at 10:30 a.m. at Kitchener's Victoria Park.

CAR

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