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Friday, September 19, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Open doors:
The Brubacher House
museum on UW's north campus is among dozens of buildings that will
welcome visitors tomorrow during
Doors Open
Waterloo Region. Admission is free (10 a.m. to
4 p.m.) to such sites as the Rummelhart
School on Erb Street West, the old Sun Life Financial building in
central Waterloo, and the 1880 Brick brewery.
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"Open house is extremely important to our distance education students as it provides an opportunity for them to meet instructors, administrators and other students," said Don Kasta, director of distance and continuing education. Prospective students are also invited to attend, as a special information session will be available for them before the course fair. Along with a full day of activities designed for students, there are many activities of general interest for visitors wanting to explore UW.
At 11 a.m., Kasta will give a talk on "Thinking About Distance Education" (Davis Centre room 1304). He will present an overview of the opportunities available by distance education and how the program works at UW. During a buffet lunch -- from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. -- in the Festival Room at South Campus Hall, Sheila Ager, professor of classical studies, will give a presentation on the sometimes bizarre but always fascinating subject of ancient medicine in a talk on "Hysterical Virgins: Women and Doctors in Antiquity."
As well, there will be a series of four themed activities, mostly from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Davis Centre:
Another seminar (Davis room 1304 at 9:30), led by Diane Salter, instructional development specialist in the Centre for Learning and Teaching Through Technology, will discuss "Learning Online -- The Student Role." She will talk about UW's innovative approach to creating a student-centred online learning environment.
There will also be a hospitality room in the Davis "fishbowl" lounge from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and a students' used book sale in the great hall during the same hours.
A Renison news release explains why the college is involved: "With approximately 11 Canadians becoming infected with HIV every day, AIDS continues to be a major health issue.
"In spite of HIV/AIDS information campaigns since the 1980's, one in four Canadians continue to believe that they can contract HIV through kissing and mosquito bites, and approximately 20 percent of the Canadians believe that AIDS is curable if treated early. These results from a recent Health Canada national survey speak to the pressing and continuing need for HIV/AIDS education and awareness because, right now, prevention remains our only cure.
"AIDS Walk Canada is the largest fundraising and awareness-raising event for HIV and AIDS in the country. Last year, over 52,000 Canadians raised more than $5,000,000 for Canadian AIDS Service Organizations (ASO's) in their communities.
"ACCKWA has provided support and services to those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as education and outreach in Waterloo Region since 1987. All funds raised stay in Waterloo Region and are used to support ACCKWA's services and programs."
Participants can register on-line through AIDS Walk Canada.
Meanwhile, in Toronto, five staff members from the distance and continuing education department plan to walk 60 kilometres tomorrow to raise money for the battle against breast cancer. Tami Everding, Scott Murie, Lois Goldsworthy, Victoria Michalek and Mark Turzenski are taking part in a walk that's part of the big city's Weekend to End Breast Cancer.
Tourism lecture series resumesThe annual lecture series on tourism research, sponsored by the geography and recreation and leisure studies departments, gets going today with a talk on "Tourism Development in Marginalized Communities".The speaker is Donald Reid of the University of Guelph, who will hit the podium at 9:30 this morning in Environmental Studies I room 132. Lectures follow each Friday through November 21. "Tourism is a major agent of economic, social and cultural change throughout the world, but it is not without its risks," says Geoff Wall of UW's geography department, who organizes the series. "We need to pay close attention to tourism policy and planning issues." |
Tonight at St. Jerome's University, John L. Allen Jr., author of Conclave: The Politics, Personalities and Process of the Next Papal Election (2002), will take an insider's look at the next papal election. Drawing on interviews with dozens of cardinals and other Vatican personalities, he will discuss the leading candidates and the issues that will confront the next Vatican administration. His lecture, entitled "The Word From Rome: The Next Pope and the Future of the Church," takes place at 7:30 p.m. in Siegfried Hall, free of charge. All are welcome.
From his post in Rome, Allen provides daily coverage of Vatican events for the National Catholic Reporter, an independent lay-owned American newspaper with a worldwide readership. His weekly Internet column, "The Word from Rome," is praised by conservatives and liberals alike as the best English-language source of Vatican news. A regular analyst for CNN, he will be an expert commentator on CNN and National Public Radio during the next papal election.
Allen's writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Tablet, the Irish Examiner, and other U.S. and international publications. He has been honoured by the Catholic Press Association. In 2000 he published a critical and controversial biography, Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican Enforcer of the Faith.
His talk -- the Somerville Lecture on Christianity and Communications -- launches the 2003-2004 season of the St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience. As part of the Somerville Lecture, which is sponsored by the Catholic Register, Allen gave the same talk last night at the Newman Centre chapel, University of Toronto.
Other speakers in this fall's SJCCE lineup are Rabbi Dow Marmur on "Holiness and Spirituality", Kathleen Skerrett and Lorraine Ferguson on "Pain and the Soul", Preston Manning on "Faith and Politics", Rev. James Wahl on the early years of St. Jerome's, Cynthia Mahmood on "Understanding Terrorists and Martyrs", and Mary Jo Leddy on "Pursuing a Culture of Peace".
The LT3 technology centre has a session today under the title "An Examination of Learning Objects: What are they? Where are They? And Why Should I Start Using Them in My Courses?" It runs for an hour starting at 11:00, in the Flex Lab in the Dana Porter Library. Tracy Penny Light, LT3's instructional manager, will discuss what "learning objects" are, where they can be found, and "why instructors' and students' lives get much easier through the use of them". The session is aimed at "all types and styles of instructors" -- information, call ext. 3899.
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The Warriors
face Wilfrid Laurier's Golden Hawks on the football field tomorrow
(2 p.m., University Stadium), and the shirt -- available in the UW
Shop, South Campus Hall -- shows how fans feel about the prospects.
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There's something new tonight at the Federation Hall student pub. It's "All Access Night", says Dave McDougall of the Federation staff, "targeted at the under-19 crowd so they can enjoy the club atmosphere without leaving campus". The Fed web site is promising "celebrity bartenders . . . exotic cocktails . . . tons of prizes".
The drama department's outdoor show "Tuesdays and Sundays" (which got nice play on the CKCO television news last night, almost like live footage from the 1880s) continues today and Saturday in Kitchener's Victoria Park. Performances are at 7 p.m., and let's hope the rain stops in time for the show to go on tonight. Admission is pay-what-you-can.
Student programming contests will be held tomorrow and again September 27, says Gordon Cormack, the computer science professor who organizes and coaches them. "As always," he writes, "the contests serve a couple of roles. First, lots of people find them fun. Second, the results are the primary criterion used to select two teams to represent Waterloo at the ACM International Programming Contest." Details are on the web.
"Cinderella" comes to the Humanities Theatre on Saturday night -- a Cinderella with a difference. "This is a unique program," writes an organizer of the Tamil Cultural Association of Waterloo Region. "Indian and Chinese artists will perform the story of Cinderella in dance form, created to suit an English-speaking audience." The show is jointly presented by the association and the Abiramy Dance Academy, and choreography is by noted Indian musician Zaskir Hussain. Saturday's show starts at 6:30; tickets are $15, children $8.
Pam Charbonneau writes from the residence life office: "This Sunday we will be holding the first annual International Students in Residence Reception from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Great Hall of Village I. This is an opportunity for international students living in residence to meet one another, meet some key people on campus and to ask any lingering questions about living in residence, Waterloo and/or Canada."
Off campus this weekend: the local Volunteer Action Centre of K-W and Area holds a Volunteer Fair Saturday at Conestoga Mall. . . . The annual Royal Medieval Faire is scheduled for Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., in Waterloo Park (off Westmount Road). . . . The Waterloo Public Interest Research Group is among groups supporting an "International Car-Free Day Festival" Sunday (noon to 4 p.m.) in Victoria Park, Kitchener. . . .
Sports this weekend: As the T-shirt shows, the football Warriors will face WLU's Golden Hawks tomorrow afternoon. In another major event of the weekend, cross-country runners take part in the Waterloo Open, starting at 1 p.m. Saturday on the north campus. And tonight at 7:30, the women's hockey team hosts Guelph at the Columbia Icefield, before heading to Windsor for an afternoon game tomorrow.
Before the football game -- at 10 a.m. tomorrow in the stadium -- the field hockey team will host York's Yeowomen. They then head to Toronto for a Sunday game. The baseball Warriors play Western tomorrow (1 p.m., Jack Couch Park) and then have a Sunday game at York.
Both Warrior soccer teams play at Laurier on Sunday (women at 3 p.m., men at 5 p.m.). The rugby teams are away tomorrow, the men at Trent, the women at Brock. And the badminton team will hit the Toronto Blues Invitational on Sunday.
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