![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Thursday, October 16, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Under baseball cap]](/images/2003/1016suspect.gif)
Says a police news release: "On September 6, 2003, at approximately 1:00 a.m. a female was grabbed by an unknown male in the sports field of Waterloo Collegiate Institute. The male fled the area when approached by citizens walking in the area.
"The male is described as white, in his mid-20's, 5'7" to 5'8", medium athletic build, 160 lbs. to 170 lbs., short reddish blond hair, scruffy light colored beard, slight freckles across nose, light colored eyes. He was wearing black baseball cap (no logo), varsity sweater with an unknown embroidered type stitching across the front, dark jeans, dark blue runners with white in them and black fine knit style gloves.
"Waterloo Regional Police would like to speak with this individual about this incident and possibly other incidents that have occurred around the university area this year.
"Anyone with information about this individual is asked to call the Waterloo Regional Police Major Case Unit at 653-7700 ext. 785, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
"Police remind people to be prudent about walking at night. It's best to walk along lighted paths, walk in pairs, tell someone of the route you are taking and carry a cell phone if possible."
"This year's study," says the Globe, "includes the opinion of more than 26,400 students who told Uthink, an on-line research and youth marketing firm, and The Strategic Counsel how they feel about their university experience. . . . They were all members of the StudentAwards.com online community and were invited to complete the survey. . . . Students were not asked to rank universities; in all cases students were asked about their personal experiences and perceptions."
| U of Toronto's response |
Participants also ranked UW 9th in Canada for graduate studies in law, 8th in medicine and 8th in business. UW does not have a graduate program in law, medicine or business.
A web site has the detailed rankings and excerpts from the comments -- including one that sums up UW as a "very positive learning environment with a high emphasis on student responsibility". Another student calls UW's computing technology "tres cool", and another observes that "This university is very well respected among employers."
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The annual award goes to Morley Lemon (left), who is PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor of Accounting at UW and just finished a term as director of the school of accountancy. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
Says a citation from the ICAO: "A teacher for more than 30 years, Dr. Lemon is also a recipient of the University of Waterloo Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Lemon earned his BA at the University of Western Ontario, his MBA at the University of Toronto and his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin.
"Dr. Lemon has published many books and has contributed numerous articles to leading publications on issues facing the accounting industry. One of his key research interests is the study of how auditors make judgements about materiality and risk in the context of the audit and their use of audit risk models. He has also written at length on the subject of ethics in accounting, with a focus on how to assist accounting students develop an ethical framework to serve them in their professional lives.
"In addition to his several years as President of the Institute's Waterloo-Wellington District Association, Dr. Lemon also served on the Institute's Council in a variety of roles, including leadership of the Audit Committee and directing professional development activities."
He'll be honoured tonight at the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Business Achievement Awards Gala Dinner, being held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and, ICAO says, "heavily attended by business and political leaders from across Ontario".
Art, sex and death"Good Medicine" is the title of a show that opens today in the UW art gallery in East Campus Hall. "It deals with the eternal polarity that exists between sex and death," explains Carol Podedworny, the gallery's curator.The show is the work of a group called the Torontoniensis Collective that has been active since 1996. Core members are John Abrams, Mark Adair, Catherine Daigle and Tim Howe. For each exhibition the core members invite other artists to participate. For the new exhibition, additional artists are Mary Anne Barkhouse, Libby Hauge and Robert Houle. An opening reception runs from 7:00 to 9:00 this evening. The artists will talk (perhaps not in unison) at an event Tuesday, October 28, at 1:30 p.m. The exhibition will run through November 20. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, noon to 4 p.m.; Thursday 12 to 7 p.m.; Saturday 1 to 4 p.m. Admission is free. |
"Also," Szepaniak adds, "Linda Bluhm and I will be making presentations on our individual trips, Friday at 12 noon. I know many faculty and staff would like to hear about the trip as they graciously donated." Szepaniak went to Haiti last winter, and Bluhm went to Romania the previous summer, volunteering with agencies related to World Vision.
Then tonight, from 8:00 to midnight, a "Famine Freedom Concert" is scheduled, featuring, oh, practically everybody, from Matt Osborne to the UW Drum Circle. A highlight of the program will be the new work "Piece of the Rock", by Carol Ann Weaver and Rebecca Campbell of Conrad Grebel University College. There's no ticket price for the concert, but donations will, of course, support the 30-Hour Famine campaign.
Meanwhile, lots of other things are happening today, and I'll have to list them pretty briefly:
The Carbon Copy and Pixel Planet copy centres (in the new CEIT building and the Student Life Centre, respectively) will be closed from 11:45 to 1:15 today for a staff meeting. . . . I understand that the classical studies department is having a reception today to honour scholarship and prize winners, but I don't have details. . . . Faculty members at Wilfrid Laurier University have been invited to a noontime seminar today on "the challenges associated with ensuring teaching is inclusive". . . .
Tomorrow morning, the tourism lecture series continues with a talk by Ted Manning, president of Tourisk Inc. in Ottawa, on "Signposts for Sustainable Tourism" (9:30 a.m., Environmental Studies I room 132).
Tomorrow at 3 p.m., the earth sciences department presents the annual Farvolden Lecture, this year with Mary Anderson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, speaking on "Groundwater in a Conveyor Belt of Lakes". Location: Davis Centre room 1302. A reception follows in the foyer of the department's proud new home, the Centre for Environmental and Information Technology. (And earlier in the day, starting at 10:30, a groundwater research symposium will be held -- details, ext. 2069.)
Tomorrow night, Kathleen Skerrett of Grinnell College, along with theology student Lorraine Ferguson, "who was forced to drop her studies because of chronic pain", will appear together for this year's John Sweeney Lecture in Current Issues in Healthcare, at St. Jerome's University. Their topic: "Pain and the Soul". The lecture (free admission) starts at 7:30 p.m. in Siegfried Hall at St. Jerome's. Saturday from 9:00 to noon, Skerrett, Ferguson, and chaplain Melinda Szilva will lead a workshop on a similar topic, aimed at "people who live with pain, as well as the people who love and care for them" -- registration 884-8111 ext. 259.
Saturday also brings a day-long workshop on "Intellectual Property: From Science to Business", sponsored by the Science and Business Students Society. Details are on the SCRUBS web site.
If you are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your home/dialup computer, you will need to verify that your computer has not been compromised. Compromised machines are severely attacking the University network! To protect the network, compromised machines will be blocked from our dialup service without notice.The memo gives detailed advice about what to do -- especially, get the "Home and Security CD" for $5 from IST's "CHIP" help centre in the Math and Computer building.What to do if your workstation is affected? Disconnect your computer from the network immediately!
Know any kindergarten or Grade 1 teachers? The UW Centre for Child Studies is interested in meeting with teachers, says director Daniela O'Neill, "to help in the development of appropriate tasks of mathematical reasoning to be used in a study of how linguistic and mathematical thinking are related. We would ask you for only one meeting of a couple of hours and would be able to offer you a small remuneration in return for your time." For more information, O'Neill can be reached at ext. 2545, e-mail doneill@uwaterloo.ca.
And . . . first-year student James McMartin tells a story about Columbia Lake Townhouse life, in last week's Imprint: "One late night I went home, saw cables on the floor, boxes in the hall, shower running -- my housemates are up to something. I open my door and there's a girl in my room. And she's cute. Cool. She was at the computer and there was stuff all over the place. Oh, she must be the Resnet rep. and she finally came to turn on the Internet at this school that's so well known for computer science. She smiled: 'Hi!' Hi. 'What's up?' 'Uh, not too much.' I looked around. Weird -- she was in pyjamas. Ah, I see. Made sense. She's in her pyjamas, at her computer, in her room, in her house. I have just walked into the wrong house. Which explained the boxes, shower, etc. Thank God, I got out of there before the naked girl walked out of the shower and I got pegged as the creep who'd been harassing women in the neighbourhood."
CAR