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Friday, October 10, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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UW's Formula SAE car will be featured in Monday's parade. Latest achievement for the car team, representing students in at least four faculties, as it works toward building its 2004 vehicle: Waterloo placed fastest, in the rain, at the second annual "FSAE Shoot Out", sponsored by the University of Toronto and held at Toronto's Downsview Airport. |
The parade is a Thanksgiving Day fixture in K-W and across the country, drawing attention to the nine-day Oktoberfest "Great Bavarian Festival". It's the 35th annual Oktoberfest for this community.
UW's Midnight Sun solar car is also expected to be in Monday's parade, which begins at 8:30 in downtown Waterloo and heads south along King Street (that is south, right?) into central Kitchener. The weather is expected to be sunny and mild, for a change.
Oktoberfest begins at noon today with a keg-tapping ceremony at Kitchener's Civic Square, which should give some idea of how central beer is to the whole experience. There are a number of special events aimed at families, including a free pancake breakfast tomorrow (7:30 to 11:30) at Waterloo Town Square. But the heart of Oktoberfest is the "festhalls" scattered across the city, with German music, German food and a certain German beverage in abundance. Among the festhalls will be "Seagram Haus", formerly the gymnasium at University Stadium, which seats some 600 revellers at a time during Oktoberfest.
| Thanksgiving coincides with Sukkoth this year |
With the beginning of Oktoberfest, there can be more than the usual number of too-merry drivers on the road; may we celebrate with moderation and drive with care. And at Thanksgiving may we be, as the old grace says, truly thankful. The sorrows and burdens come easily enough to mind, but still, I remind myself, we at Waterloo have much for which we can give thanks.
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With "As You Like It" in November, the department concludes the trilogy of
Shakespeare's great comedies that began in 2001 with
"Twelfth
Night", and
continued in 2002 with
"A
Midsummer Night's Dream" (right).
In "As You Like It", says the brochure, "Rosalind and Celia escape a murderous duke (Celia's father) and race to the Forest of Arden. There they find that nature reveals the true possibility of loving and being loved. At the same time, and in disguise (Rosalind as a man named Ganymede and Celia as a shepherd named Aliena), they are liberated to act upon their passions." The drama unfolds November 12 to 15 in the Theatre of the Arts.
According to artistic director Joel Greenberg, the new directions this year include "site specific projects ("Tuesday and Sundays" in September and "Mimetic Flesh" in March) that highlight the recent arrival of faculty member Andy Houston and the inaugural UpStart 2004, a fringe-inspired community-wide event that runs for the first two weeks in February."
UpStart 2004 -- February 4 to 7 and 11 to 14 -- is being described as UW drama's inaugural foray into the unknown." Applications (available through the department office or online) are available to any and all who wish to participate in a self-directed project that will run in Studio 180. Guidelines on the ground rules are included with the application forms, and selection of projects is by lottery.
"Mimetic Flesh", billed as "a collective creation," plays March 24 to 27 at a "venue to be determined." It will be "a site-specific performance exploring a variety of perspectives on the body, its uses and abuses, its pleasures and pains, through work and play," says the brochure. "The performance will draw upon particular sites and locations where the preparation of flesh for consumption happens on many levels. This exploration will include overlapping views of the care and preparation of our bodies through exercise so we may look our best with the care and preparation of other bodies for consumption so they may appeal to our appetites and sense of good taste.
"Site-specific performances are defined by the particulars of found spaces or locations, both used and disused. They may be sites of work, play or worship. The development and presentation of the performance relies upon the cross-fertilization of a number of narratives and architectures, both historical and contemporary."
"Mimetic Flesh" promises to "offer artist and audience alike many unique challenges and the potential for discovery not found in a conventional theatre."
"We are also proud to announce our fourth annual Silversides Theatre Artists Event, October 21," Greenberg adds, "this year featuring several founding members of Studio 180, the UW-based professional theatre company that launched itself this past season in Toronto (Artword Theatre) and at UW with the Canadian premiere of the award-winning play 'The Laramie Project'."
The co-op and career services department put out a memo yesterday about a change in the requirements for "J-1" visas in the United States:
As part of the requirements for working in the United States, UW Co-op students who find work terms in that country routinely apply for and acquire a J-1 Training Visa in order to work there legally. . . .Questions, the memo says, can be directed to Tony Munro, the international coordinator for CECS, tmunro@uwaterloo.ca.The US State Department announced a change to the J-1 Program regulations, retroactive to October 1, which no longer permits any "second J-1 Programs". This means that individuals will only be entitled to complete one J-1 program regardless of length of stay up to the established maximum of 18 months. Prior to this announcement, the State Department had allowed for individuals to return to the US on multiple J-1s up to the point where they reached the 18-month lifetime limit. This effectively means that any student who has previously been to the US on a J-1 visa will no longer be eligible to return to the US for the January 2004 term. . . .
We have worked hard to establish strong relations with our US employer partners and we feel that they view this relationship as beneficial to their long term goals. With their help we plan to try and mount a concerted effort to clarify the negative impact of this change. This will hopefully allow us to convince State Department officials to reconsider the change or establish recognition for educational programs whereby repeat terms in the US will be allowed.
The Federation of Students issued an outraged statement yesterday after a candidate for Waterloo city council apparently said publicly that if elected she plans to create a list of all post-secondary students living in the City of Waterloo, so that students, "who move regularly into, within and out of the community, would be more accountable for their actions". No, says Federation president Chris Edey: "I don't see why the City would need to keep a list of a certain kind of resident. In a time when we're all trying to work towards a more integrated community, it makes no sense to once again single-out students for extraordinary treatment." The statement said the Federation "opposes any kind of citywide registry of students, or of any other group of citizens".
Reg Quinton, the security expert in the information systems and technology department, is giving an update on the battle against the Welchia and Blaster worms at IST's professional development seminar this morning. . . . A session titled "Selling Your Skills" is offered at 2:30 this afternoon in the career services seminar series. . . .
Coming on Tuesday from the Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology: "Join LT3 in viewing a live webcast from the University of Toronto. Professor Lynn Davie will be sharing ideas and techniques he has gained from the twenty online courses he has conducted between 1987 and now. Questions can be emailed to him. Following the end of the webcast at 1 p.m., local discussion will continue until 1:30. To register for this event please go to LT3.uwaterloo.ca, click on Events and fill out the registration form."
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Game plan:
Warrior assistant coach Marshall Bingeman talks to players
Andrew Christman and Jeff Ballentine during a pause in action
against Wilfrid Laurier University late last month. The Warriors host
Guelph's Gryphons on Saturday night at University Stadium.
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Sports this weekend: Many of the Warrior teams played their games early this week, to let people get home for Thanksgiving, but there will be a few competitions here and elsewhere. Today, the soccer teams host Wilfrid Laurier at Columbia Field, with the women playing at 1 p.m. and the men at 3 p.m. Then at 4 p.m., also at Columbia, the women's rugby team hosts York in a quarter-final playoff game. The football Warriors will meet Guelph's Gryphons tomorrow at University Stadium, but it's an evening game (7:00) because Wilfrid Laurier has a home game earlier in the day. Away from Waterloo, the men's hockey Warriors are in an exhibition tournament at York over the weekend, and the men's tennis team plays in the OUA championships at Western.
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