In both cases -- the staff election and the election of faculty senators to the committee -- three signatures are required on the nomination form. The university secretariat has full details, including a list of eligible faculty senators, and that information also appears in today's Gazette and on the secretariat's web site. For both elections, nominations will close on October 1.

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United Way campaign will seek $150,000 -- by Kristin Schmidt, UW United Way office manager, from today's Gazette

Last year's campaign surpassed this goal, achieving $158,654, and this year's campaign is hoped to do even better.

The United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and area supports 80 social services and health-related programs offered by its 45 member agencies throughout the K-W area. Donations given to the United Way go towards such efforts as family support services, independent living programs for people with disabilities, emergency help for people in crisis, community aid for seniors, and counselling for both individuals and families.

The University of Waterloo has consistently played an important role in supporting the United Way. This year's campaign co-chairs are Pat Cunningham, mathematics alumni officer, and Winston Cherry, a faculty member in mathematics. Their goals are to reach well beyond the traditional $150,000, and increase the overall participation on campus.

Many volunteers across campus will be involved organizing a variety of fun events throughout the month to help raise awareness and support for the United Way. To prepare them for their work, volunteers are invited on a morning bus tour to visit three United Way agencies on Monday, September 29, prior to their training luncheon at noon.

The Campaign Kick-Off on October 3 provides an opportunity for members of the campus at large to ride the United Way bus (courtesy of Kuntz Electroplating) to visit community organizations supported by United Way donations. The bus tour will run from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and those interested should contact the UW United Way office at ext. 3840.

Other kick-off events include a campus-wide Dress-Down Day (toonie contributions welcome). Each Friday in October will be designated as a Dress-Down Day for United Way.

It's a busy day at Waterloo

David Tee of the University of California at Berkeley will speak this morning (10:30, Davis Centre room 1302) on "Diversity and Freedom: A Fundamental Tradeoff in Wireless Systems". The talk is sponsored by the Institute for Computer Research and other agencies.

The music department's fall series of noon-hour concerts starts today with Indian classical music by Lakshmi Ranganathan (12:30, chapel of Conrad Grebel University College). . . . The student awards office will be closed all day today, open tomorrow as usual. . . . The UW retirees association holds its annual wine-and-cheese party today from 3:00 to 5:00 at the University Club. . . .

Today's career services seminar is "Thinking About Working Outside of Canada?" and starts at 3:30 in the Tatham Centre.

The first "smarter health" seminar of the season, a talk by Alex Jadad of the University of Toronto, is scheduled for 3 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1302. Jadad will speak on "Wellness and Health in the Information Age: We Must Meet Our Children's Expectations".

The Waterloo Space Society -- formerly Students for the Exploration and Development of Space -- will hold a general information meeting today at 5 p.m. in Physics room 145. "This meeting," says event coordinator Reyna Jenkyns, "is a great opportunity to see what events are planned for this term and how to get further involved in space and aerospace activities." Another member, Benjamin Sanders, elaborates: "Under our new title, the Waterloo Space Society, we will represent SEDS, CASI, the Mars Society and other space and aerospace related groups. If you're interested in anything space related, then you should come check us out! We host exciting speakers, organize cool trips, build telescope arrays, meet with astronauts, design Mars missions, sit out and watch the stars -- you name it!" More information: e-mail seds@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca.

A fund-raiser for the UW women's Ultimate Frisbee team -- and I confess I don't know whether that's interuniversity, recreational, or World Cup level -- is scheduled for tonight at the Graduate House. Admission is $4, and the fun starts at 8:00, with everything from food and a DJ to door prizes and "exciting company".

Much will be happening tomorrow too:

• A Volunteer Fair in the Student Life Centre, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. -- "come and visit with representatives from a variety of agencies to find out about volunteer opportunities."
• A feng shui discussion group at noon hour in Math and Computer room 2034. Feng shui is the Chinese art or science of "design and object placement to promote health, wealth, happiness and harmony", I'm reminded, and the group meets monthly. More information: mykurtma@uwaterloo.ca.
• Hubert Saint-Onge, noted business leader and knowledge strategy expert, speaks at 5 p.m. (Needles Hall 1101) in one of the first events sponsored by the new Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology.
• First fall meeting of the Interdisciplinary Coffee Talk Society, with a talk by Scott Kline on "Evil and International Affairs" (Graduate House, 5 p.m.).
• "Language, Tradition, and Contemporary Aboriginal Life", first in a fall series of lectures about Native issues (8 p.m., St. Paul's United College). I'll be saying more about this series in tomorrow's Daily Bulletin.

And a few other data points

"Hey!" writes "S.M.", the otherwise unidentified editor of the science student newsletter SciNotes. "Who put soap in the Giant Egg Statue? Bad bad person! . . . The UW green shirts are not your slaves to clean up after you. . . . They have more important things to do than clean soap scum out of fountains, and fix fountain plumbing. . . . You also killed millions and billions of little algae!" This crime against humanity seems to have been committed on Sunday night, September 14. The "egg statue", by the way, is more formally called "Break", and stands between Math and Computer and the science complex.

A recent UW graduate, Steven Ficko, writes to draw attention to a new web site, Room4Me. Says Ficko: "This past summer I created a new rental housing site with the goal of improving rental housing quality and conditions In Waterloo. The site combines rental housing postings as well as reviews (housing and landlord). Whenever someone searches for housing, all places returned that have a review associated with them are also returned so that the user can see what others though of the place that they are looking at the details for. The site is free for students. I found housing in Waterloo to be a huge hassle for me, from booking appointments and then not having anyone show up, to the really horrid places that I saw, it took a really long time for find a decent place to live in each term. I think that my site will help to improve this process for anyone searching for rental housing."

The registrar's office sends a reminder: "All students expecting to graduate at the fall convocation must submit an Intention to Graduate form. Forms are available from the registrar's office, the graduate studies office, or department offices. If you submitted a form earlier in the year for fall 2003, you need not submit a new form. Address to which convocation information will be mailed is the mailing address recorded in Quest. Please note that this is the address to which diplomas will be mailed for students that do not attend the ceremony." (Fall convocation is scheduled for October 25, in morning and afternoon sessions.)

Staff and faculty members who are approaching retirement may want to take advantage of a series of pre-retirement sessions under the title "Bridging the Gap", says Wanda Speek, pension advisor in the human resources department. The session are offered on Tuesday nights at the Rockway Centre in Kitchener, and run in three series -- starting October 21, January 27, or April 20. For more information (including the word on fees) and registration, the person to call is Wendy Fifield at Rockway, 741-2507.

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