![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Thursday, July 3, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Hard hat, water bottles, flags, pinwheels]](/images/2003/0703keystone.gif)
Souvenirs at the Keystone Campaign "beach party" on June 18 |
"Together, we are showing our pride in Waterloo!" says the Keystone publicity, aimed at generating more support for the five-year, $4.5 million campaign. It's the on-campus part of Campaign Waterloo, which is aimed at bringing in $260 million for "excellence" at UW, and organizers say staff, faculty and retirees are a key group of pace-setting donors.
"All year, the University has been bustling with activity," says a letter from the Keystone co-chairs. "New buildings and additions are changing the face of Waterloo. Inside, too, a lot is happening: new and expanded programs, more students, more activity on every level.
"One of the reasons for this exciting growth is the Keystone Campaign -- and especially the pride and commitment demonstrated by people like you. Thanks to you and other members of Waterloo's own family, our campaign is already at 49% of our goal of $4.5 million. That's wonderful progress, and a boost for the larger Campaign Waterloo which has also reached the half-way point. . . .
"Every gift matters, and every dollar counts 100 percent toward maintaining the high quality of this University. (There are no administrative costs deducted from your contribution.) Faculty, staff, and retiree donations are making a real difference in many areas, including the size and number of scholarships and bursaries Waterloo can offer to excellent students. Several matching opportunities are also increasing the impact of our gifts.
![[Grounds crew photo]](/images/2003/0703brochure.gif)
The latest Keystone brochure |
The mailing also tells staff and faculty: "Attracting talent is a key campaign priority. Support for scholarships helps the University to achieve this objective. Scholarships attract the best students by recognizing their academic achievement and by assisting them with their educational expenses.
"Our gifts also help the University to invest in teaching, equipment, library resources, and up-to-date learning facilities. The result is that UW can provide the best possible opportunities for its students, faculty, and staff. Every gift helps UW to achieve these goals.
"You are invited to select a priority project that deserves your support -- because you know best where your gift can make a difference and no group is closer to understanding the quality of the Waterloo experience."
![[Everest]](http://www.cecs.uwaterloo.ca/about/images/photos/Dave_Everest.jpg)
David Everest
of the co-operative education and career services
department has been elected president of
Education
at Work Ontario, one of seven regional sections of the
Canadian
Association For Co-operative Education (CAFCE). EWO
"strives to promote and foster quality
co-operative education, while ensuring an integral
partnership between students, employers and post-secondary
educational institutions."EWO proudly proclaims "a
membership of over 200 Co-op Educators working with more
than 40,000 Co-op students, at 21 Colleges and 15
Universities." More than 40 people from UW are members.
As president of EWO, Everest will be working on increasing the Ontario tax credit for employers who hire co-op students, an annual statistical survey focusing on the state of co-op in Ontario, and other EWO activities. As a field co-ordinator, Everest monitors the work term progress of co-op students in the faculty of arts in Toronto -- visiting students on work term, conducting end-of-term interviews and contacting existing and potential co-op employers. |
The open-air festival of writers, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists begins Friday afternoon, July 4, with a screening of Terrance Odette's film "Saint Monica", the story of a nine-year-old girl's journey through the busy streets of Toronto and her human experiences in a Catholic setting. The Festival continues Friday night with the gala opening of Kevin Burns's "Some Mystery Must Remain", a multi-media presentation combining musicians, readers and moving images that explores how creativity links to spirituality.
Michael Enright's on-stage, live interview with Festival hosts KD Miller and JS Porter, and St. Jerome's president Michael W. Higgins, is the centerpiece of Saturday's events. This presentation is sponsored by BMO Financial Group. Throughout the day, award-winning authors Gloria Sawai, Dennis Bock, and Anne Michaels read and dialogue with the audience about the role of the spirit in their creative process, and the Carousel Dance Company performs an original production choreographed just for the Festival.
Saturday's Closing Gala is a contemplative jazz performance by Sanctuary -- Peter Togni, Jeff Reilly, and Christopher Both's brilliant partnership of organ, bass clarinet and cello. Sanctuary will take the audience on a musical journey from Gregorian chants to Thelonious Monk.
Throughout the festival there will be a book fair and an art exhibit in the St. Jerome's art gallery.
Events are open to all. Friday events are free. Saturday tickets are $7, $5 for students and seniors. Sanctuary tickets are $20. Parking is free throughout the festival. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from the St. Jerome's reception desk.}
The system supports about 9,000 regular users, Campbell says now. "It started as a simple system needing little effort to develop and maintain, and has grown to provide a service that many consider critical. A loose-knit group (the NeBuLa, short for the Nexus Builders Laboratory) has been responsible for improving and augmenting the basic Horde Framework."
Recent mywaterloo developments include an integrated UWdir addressbook and easy spam reporting via Razor Report.
Future plans for mywaterloo include a SpamAssassin configuration tool. It will allow users (on mail servers with SpamAssassin installed) to configure SpamAssassin settings, and tag suspected spam for deletion or segregation in a separate mailbox.
The e-mail service provided by mywaterloo was originally intended to be a replacement for the Endymion MailMan mailer, which gave Waterloo Polaris users e-mail access without a full login. People have reported using mywaterloo while travelling in Europe and Asia, as well as when they want to check their UW mail from home. Many users now use mywaterloo e-mail services exclusively, rather than switching between different mail clients on and off campus, Campbell says.
Several more students involved in the Certificate in University Teaching program will be presenting their research studies this morning, from 9:30 to noon in Math and Computer room 5158. Scheduled are Jessica Cameron ("Strategies to Encourage Learning Communities: How Fostering Collaboration Could Build a Better Graduate Program"); Carolyn Goodridge ("Making the Grade: Assessment of Students' Written Work"), Martha Roberts ("Independent Studies"), and Julie-Ann Stodolny ("Speaking vs. Writing: Teaching the Academic Voice in University Composition").
Southern Ontario is under another smog alert today. . . . Architecture students have a big day of on-campus employer interviews for fall term jobs. . . . A career services seminar on "Successfully Negotiating Job Offers" starts at 4:30 in the Tatham Centre. . . .
Over the course of the summer the "Cashiers' Office" in Needles Hall -- a branch of UW's finance office -- will be changing its name to "Student Accounts". Karen Hamilton explains: "We will still remain at the same location in Needles Hall room 1110, but the name will be changed. The hours of operation will remain constant. We are changing the name to better reflect the services that we provide. We work primarily with the students and their accounts with the university, so the name now reflects this."
A stage event that's quite out of the ordinary will run Friday and Saturday nights, put together by second-year architecture students. Kelly Lam, who's one of them, writes:
What is the connection between orphaned twin sisters on their way from Siberia, an Indian prince, a young aristocratic Parisienne, a missionary returning from the Rocky Mountains, and a dissolute layabout from the low-life of Paris? And what do they have to do with a cholera epidemic, a black panther, the Pope, and a lunatic asylum?"The Wandering Jew" starts at 7:00 Friday and Saturday nights in the Humanities Theatre. Tickets are $10 at the Humanities box office.What will happen on 13 February 1832 at 3 Rue St.-François? And who is the Wandering Jew?
And . . . many people will be affected by city of Waterloo road work that's going to close Phillip Street at the corner of Columbia Street for the next few days. The closing starts tomorrow morning (officially 6 a.m.) and is to run through July 18. During this time, East Campus Hall and UW's parking lot B, both located on Phillip, can be reached only from the University Avenue end.
CAR