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| Yesterday |
Thursday, November 11, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Poppy]](/images/2004/1111poppy.jpg)
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 students are from a course taught by Geoff Hayes of UW's history department -- History 106, "Canada and War in the Twentieth Century" -- which has moved from the Boer War through World War I and, this week, World War II. They asked to be involved in the ceremony and will place the wreath that each year is brought by university representatives to the solemn event.
On campus, two events this morning will mark Remembrance Day. Both ceremonies start at 10:45. A service at the Chapel of St. Bede at Renison College will include music, prayers and a speaker, Jean Becker, the Aboriginal student advisor at St. Paul's United College. A ceremony in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall, organized by the Engineering Society, will include the placing of a wreath, music, brief remarks, and the usual moment of silence at 11:00.
To help mark Remembrance Day, this month's display in the Porter Library is entitled "Canada and the First World War 1914-1918" and highlights a number of items from the library's rare book collection and archives.
Printed material include issues of periodicals including Canadian Pictorial, Canadian Daily Record and The YMCA and the War. Books in the display include F. G. Scott's In the Battle Silences, which is open to his poem written at Ypres in April 1915, as well as a copy of his memoirs The Great War as I Saw It. Among the other dozen books displayed are two editions of John McCrae's "In Flanders Fields" as well as an item of local interest, the Roll of Honour of Trinity Methodist Church (forerunner of Kitchener's Trinity United).
Archival materials from the period 1914 to 1918 include diaries maintained by soldiers Frederick Arthur Edmonds and W. E Short. Also exhibited is Catherine Breithaupt Bennett's diary entry for April 10, 1917, in which she comments, "War news good today: Canadians take Vimy Ridge and 4000 prisoners." However, she was not so positive in an earlier entry penned on August 3, 1914, when she recorded "Germany declares war on Russia and expects to be fighting France in a day or two. . . . Germany is grabbing at the first chance it can get to pick a quarrel. . . . Am not extra proud of my Teutonic blood tonight."
Her distant cousin A.Y. Jackson was an occasional correspondent, and on April 8, 1917, in a letter to Catherine which is included in the exhibit, he describes war as "a grim business, but it must be gone through". Her younger brother, William Walter Breithaupt also served in France and on November 8, 1918, wrote home to his mother alluding to the "grande finale" which was to take place three days later.
![[Trillium; 'Support higher funding']](/images/2004/1110thinkont.gif)
A web site
sponsored by the Council of Ontario Universities,
www.thinkontario.com,
makes the case for increased higher education funding in the province and
encourages citizens to get involved in the Rae review of post-secondary
education.
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He writes: "Internationalization Course Grants of $1,500 are available to faculty at UW. The objective of these grants is to assist faculty members in incorporating an international component to their classroom. The instructor is encouraged to use strategies developed by the TRACE office or devise alternative techniques that are best suited for their course curriculum.
"To date four strategies, developed by the TRACE Office, to effectively engaging students as learning resources for the purpose of internationalizing the classroom setting include In-Class Discussion; Multi-Cultural Group Work; Students as Guest Speakers; Students as Cultural Resources.
"To fulfill the requirements for this grant the faculty member is encouraged to complete two strategies, either from the list above or alternative techniques devised by the instructor, throughout the course of a term. Preference is given to strategies that are fully implemented and transferable. The TRACE office is interested in the success of the strategy and whether it holds potential for implementation in other courses around campus."
He says faculty members are encouraged to get in touch with him with questions or concerns. He also has "a list of students who are eager to speak about their international experiences within a classroom setting -- which may be counted as one of the two grant strategy requirements!"
He'd also like to hear from students who are willing to be listed on the Student Speakers Roster, meaning that they're available to talk about their homelands or places they have visited. There's more information about internationalization grants on Gopie's web site, and he can be reached at ext. 6874 or e-mail ngopie@uwaterloo.ca.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Flu shot clinic continues in the Student Life Centre, 10 to
5 today and Friday.
Holiday season book sale outside UW bookstore, South Campus Hall, last day. Server technology update by Mark Scott of Dell, 1:30 to 3, Davis Centre room 1304. Psychology colloquium: Richard Martell, Montana State University, "Source-Monitoring Training", 3 p.m., Humanities room 150. Career workshop: "Successfully Negotiating Job Offers", 4:30, Tatham Centre room 1208. Arriscraft architecture lecture by Mark Burry, Melbourne, "Fabrication and Human Factors", 6:30 p.m., Architecture building. To be followed by "Fabrication" conference jointly sponsored by UW and U of Toronto. Issues in Native Communities lecture series: Lenore Keesig Tobias, "Time Travel in Fathom Five", 8 p.m., MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's United College. Tourism lecture series: Nelson Graburn, University of California at Berkeley, "Authenticity and Entertainment at Ritoru Warudo (Little World), Japan", Friday 9:30 a.m., PAS room 1229. Centre for International Governance Innovation presents Susan Horton, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Prioritizing Resources for Public Health Intervention in the Developing World", Friday 12 noon, 57 Erb Street West. Trivia Challenge at St. Jerome's University, Friday 7:30, SJU Community Centre, tickets 884-8111 ext. 277. |
![[DJ Jedi and White Gold at Fed Hall tonight]](http://www.feds.ca/graphics/DJ-jedi-Nov-11-WEB-PREVIEW.gif)
UW played host last month to a gathering of key figures that most people know nothing about: members of audit committees at boards of governors of universities across Ontario. At each institution the board of governors, or the equivalent, is responsible for millions of dollars in multiple funds, and the board's audit committee is the one that looks most closely at the figures. John Wetmore of IBM Canada, who chairs the audit committee at UW, said Waterloo officials organized the half-day event, which attracted about 30 people to discuss how the work is done, how to communicate best with the universities' accounting staff and professional auditors, what legal pitfalls the committees and boards need to look out for, and so on.
A conference on "Dictionnaires français et littératures québécoise et canadienne-française" opens today, organized by St. Jerome's University and the UW department of French studies. "Ce colloque," says the web site, "se propose d'examiner le rôle que les dictionnaires français jouent dans les littératures francophones d'Amérique." It's organized by Gerardo Acerenza of St. Jerome's, whose research has much to do with the vocabulary of Québec French, and is drawing speakers from as far away as Italy and as nearby as UW itself (besides Acerenza himself, participants will include chair François Paré and brand-new faculty member Emmanuelle Sauvage of the French department).
The new school of architecture building in Cambridge is officially called Architecture, and the building abbreviation is ARC, says Marita Williams, UW's manager of space planning. . . . Speaking of the architecture school, its students, faculty and staff were able to join in the Maclean's celebration at noontime on Monday, as pizza was delivered to Cambridge at the same time it was being devoured in the Davis Centre. . . . UW representatives are at an education fair in St. John's, Antigua, today to make information available for potential students. . . .
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