![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Poppy]](/images/2003/1111poppy.gif)
No words
can add to their fame, nor so long as gratitude holds
a place in men's hearts can our forgetfulness be suffered to detract
from their renown. For as the war dwarfed by its magnitude all contests
of the past, so the wonder of human resource, the splendour of
human heroism, reached a height never witnessed before.
-- Arthur Meighen, prime minister of Canada |
The Legion announced that Ang is this year's winner in the colour poster contest for her entry "Remember the Sacrifice", sponsored by the West Vancouver Branch of the Legion. Said the announcement: "The 19-year-old Singapore native, who moved to Canada in 1998, is now an architectural student at the University of Waterloo and entered the contest while in her senior year at Sentinel Secondary School in West Vancouver."
Ang will lay a wreath this morning, have luncheon with the Chief of Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces and have tea with the Governor General.
Remembrance Day today and every November 11 mourns Canada's war dead and honours those who, daring to die, survived service in the First World War, the Second World War, and Canada's more recent conflicts -- most recently two who died on peacekeeping duty in Afghanistan. At 11 a.m., allowing for time zone variations, it will be precisely 85 years since the guns fell silent over Flanders, marking the armistice that ended the First World War.
There is no one left on the staff or faculty at UW who served during the World Wars, although there are certainly retired professors and staff members who bore arms. And still among us, especially among the retirees, are some whose childhood memories include the bravery of the home front, the furor of the Blitz, even in a few cases the horrors of the Nazi camps. For their sake, and for the sake of those who are no longer among us, we remember.
Two events on campus this morning will mark Remembrance Day. A service begins at 10:45 a.m. at the Chapel of St. Bede at Renison College, with music, prayers and a speaker. A ceremony in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall begins at 10:50, organized by the Engineering Society, and includes several brief student presentations.
In ceremonies this morning at the Cenotaph on Regina Street in Waterloo, Martin Van Nierop, director of communications and public affairs, will place a wreath on behalf of the university.
![[Posting flu shot publicity]](http://www.communications.uwaterloo.ca/Gazette/2003/nov05/flu.gif)
Posting a notice of upcoming campus flu clinics is health services nurse Annette McNicol, who will be wielding a needle this week at the Student Life Centre. |
For health services nurse Linda Grant, the message is clear: "We need to take precautions, including fresh air, exercise, good nutrition and rest, and frequent hand washing." Immunization against flu viruses is another part of the protection package. "We're encouraging people to get a flu shot."
According to the World Health Organization, "Vaccination is the principal measure for preventing influenza and reducing the impact of epidemics." Although immunization does not guarantee immunity from the flu virus, those who do contract the flu will usually have symptoms that are less severe, Grant explains.
And contrary to widespread myth, the flu vaccine which is made from inactivated or killed flu viruses, cannot cause the flu and does not cause flu illness.
Symptoms of the flu are similar to those of SARS: sudden onset high fever, muscle aches, cough, sore throat. A laboratory test is needed to distinguish between the two. A cold, on the other hand, may have many of the same symptoms, but usually not a high fever.
"If people have such symptoms, if they're not feeling well, they shouldn't go to work or class until they check with a doctor," says Grant. "With highly contagious viruses, it's better to err on the side of caution." Symptoms can be described by phone to a family doctor or nurses at Telehealth Ontario (1-866-797-0000). Students can phone health services at ext. 4096.
Unless there is an outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in the community, health services will simply leave a information sign on its door informing clients of the symptoms and precautions. "We're asking students with coughs and respiratory symptoms to wear masks when they come into the building," adds Grant.
Last fall, some 3,400 students, staff and faculty were immunized at the free flu clinics offered on campus. This year, Grant is hoping to increase that number and, for the first time, prizes are being awarded to departments with the highest percentage of participation in the immunization program.
The free clinic for students, faculty and staff will run from today through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Life Centre.
The announcement comes after students' council, the main governing body of the Federation of Students, voted on Sunday to negotiate a deal with the university to put Tim's into the space now occupied by Ground Zero restaurant, on the main floor of the SLC facing the ring road.
Ground Zero has been a perennial money-loser for the Federation, and discussions of how to replace it have been under way for months. Murdoch hinted almost a year ago that he'd like the SLC space for a bigger Tim Horton's outlet than the existing ones in the Davis Centre, Modern Languages and Optometry.
It'll be open "24/7", he said yesterday, and will have an atmosphere that's "kind of a hybrid" between a conventional Tim's and the "comfy lounge" atmosphere that some students have asked for in a new SLC food outlet.
Murdoch said planning and tendering will take the winter, construction will start in May and the first coffee should be poured about the time new students hit campus next fall.
![[Two couples]](/images/2003/1111asyou.gif)
They that are true lovers run into strange capers: Dan Errey (Orlando), Lesley Tumber (Rosalind), Jennifer Scullion (Celia) and Greb Carere (Oliver) in "As You Like It", opening tonight. |
"In the past two years," says a news release from the drama department, "we have produced 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (2002) and 'Twelfth Night' (2001). 'As You Like It' completes this cycle of Shakespeare's greatest comedies.
"The play juxtaposes a courtly world, wherein power is a life-and-death struggle, with a rural setting (the Forest of Arden), where in love and humanity flourish. This production focuses on the four couples -- Rosalind/Orlando, Silvius/Phebe, Celia/Oliver, Audrey/Touchstone -- and how love takes root deep enough in the heart to survive the machinations of schemers and naysayers. The ensemble of 14 actors will double and triple a variety of roles as their quest for love leads them deeper and deeper into the Forest of Arden."
As comedy is supposed to do, the show will cheer the heart, its producers promise. They quote actor John Bowes, who starred in a 1980 production of the show by the Royal Shakespeare Company: "I cannot remember enjoying a production so much. Even when I was depressed, after a few scenes the depression would lift."
The UW production is directed by Joel Greenberg and Celeste Dickson, designed by Bill Chesney (set), Jocelyne Sobeski (costumes), Lesley Wilkinson (lighting) and Fraser Smith (sound).
Tickets are $12 (students and seniors $10) from the Humanities box office or at the door. Each performance starts at 8 p.m.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Senate undergraduate council, 12 noon,
Needles Hall room 3004.
'Variable printing' workshop offered by UW Graphics, noon -- reservations and information, ext. 2210. Career services seminars: "Job Search Strategies" today at 3:30, "Letter Writing" tomorrow at 2:30, "Resumé Writing) tomorrow at 3:30 -- details on the career services web site. Faculty of arts reception in honour of new faculty, 3 p.m., followed by arts faculty council, 3:45, Humanities room 378. Climate Change Coffeehouse sponsored by the UW Sustainability Project, free, starting at 8 p.m., Bombshelter pub. 'Just Because' luncheon buffet, University Club, Wednesday, reservations ext. 3801. Reception to honour UW winners of the Millennium Scholarships, Wednesday, 5 p.m., South Campus Hall. |
There's a noon-hour session today aimed at "anyone who has the responsibility for providing updated job descriptions to Human Resources". Neil Murray, director of staff and labour relations, sends a reminder of the event, announced last month. It starts at 12:00 in Davis Centre room 1302.
| Correction: the Israel @ Heart event is Wednesday, not today |
The staff association will hold a "town hall meeting" tomorrow to talk about the "special recognition award program" that was part of the salary increase package for next spring. It's scheduled for 3 p.m. in Biology I room 271. As well as the association executive, most of the members of the staff compensation committee -- which worked out the plan -- will be at the meeting to answer questions, says its chair, Catharine Scott, associate provost (human resources and student services). Scott adds: "Our hope is that managers will release staff who are interested in learning more about the award so that they can attend. Although the award will not be available until the 2004-2005 salary year, the Staff Compensation Committee has been working on the guidelines and although not all of them are worked out, we believe we have most of them in place."
Also tomorrow, off campus but perhaps of some interest to people at UW, is the 2003 Technology Information Show, a "business-to-business expo" of high-tech stuff, 10:30 to 4:30 at the Waterloo Inn.
"For the first time in UW history," says an enthusiastic memo from the co-op and career services department, "Career Services is holding a career information session specifically geared towards Science graduate and PhD students." It's in the form of a brown-bag lunch -- Thursday, 12:00 to 1:30 -- with speaker Crispin Taylor, editorial director of Science's Next Wave. Interested students should sign up on the career services web site.
Later Thursday, from 4:30 to 7:00, is something else new, the UW Design Challenge, sponsored by systems design engineering and the Graduate Student Association. Here's a bit of background:
The goal of the UW Design Challenge is to introduce UW students of all faculties and backgrounds to the concepts and approaches of user-centered design. The only requirement for participation in the Challenge is an interest in usability and interaction design. The judges for the Challenge are local industry and academic experts who have graciously volunteered their time. The participants will be organized into teams of four, with each team member playing one of the following roles: project management, graphic/aesthetic design, usability design, and engineering (feasibility) design. The teams will then be given background information on the design problem and given a fifteen-minute period to find a solution. At the end of the fifteen minutes, each of the judges will state his or her expectations for a winning design. The teams will then be given a further thirty minutes to complete the design and prepare a presentation. At the end of the competition, each team will be given five minutes in which to present the design and explain the team's choices and design decisions. The judges will then select the winning design.Location for the event is the Davis Centre lounge. Participants are asked to RSVP by e-mail: watchi-exec@csclub.
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