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| Yesterday |
Friday, September 3, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Actually several hundred students are in residence already -- dons, athletes taking part in Warrior training camps, international exchange students who had to fly in early -- but Sunday and Monday are the official arrival days at the Villages and other residences, and staff there will be ready for them. The first step was for dons, who have been grouped together for a week's training, to settle into their own rooms last night.
The official capacity of UW's residences this term is 4,818 students, says Gail Clarke, director of housing and residences. That's more space than ever before, with the new Columbia Lake North Townhouses in operation since earlier this year and Wilmot Court in UW Place reopened following renovations. From north to south, with the three main-campus Villages in between, beds are expected to be full.
"We're ready!" Clarke said yesterday. Move-in for first-year students will be staggered over Sunday and Monday, the same as in past years. You're welcome Sunday if your assigned room is in the north or south quad of Village I or Ron Eydt Village, the east wing of King Village, the odd-numbered floors of Beck or Eby Hall at UW Place, or the north quad of Wellesley Court in UW Place. In the other quads and floors, move-in will be a day later, on Monday, Labour Day.
Both days, traffic is expected to be heavy, and UW police will be doing their best to keep things moving and help visitors find parking. Information sent ahead to first-year students asks them to "be sure to unload your vehicle quickly," with the help of volunteers who will be on hand.
Upper-year students in residence are assigned to the Columbia Lake Townhouses and Wilmot Court of UW Place, and are trickling in between September 1 and the beginning of classes on September 13, Clarke noted.
Residence staff will be working hard, but elsewhere on campus it's a long weekend, as Monday is the Labour Day holiday. UW offices and most services will be closed Monday, although the university police (888-4911) and the Student Life Centre (888-4434) will be open as they always are. The Dana Porter Library will be open from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, but closed Monday.
The baseball Warriors have a busy weekend, as play begins in the Blue Jays Cup tournament that makes up the first half of the brief season. Part of the tournament is being played at Toronto's SkyDome, which means that games are scheduled around the Blue Jays fixtures. Thus the Warriors are facing Brock at the Dome at 9:00 this morning. Their Saturday game against Laurier will be played at Waterloo's Bechtel Park (5 p.m.) and then there's a Sunday double-header at Jack Couch Park in Kitchener: 1 p.m. vs. Toronto, 4 p.m. vs. McMaster.
The season's also beginning for the football Warriors, who face the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees at 7 p.m. on the Monday holiday, at Ottawa's Frank Clair Stadium.
Single and SexyThere's a preview performance today for "Single and Sexy", UW's traditional way of drawing new students' attention to some tough issues. During orientation week it will have five more performances (starting with a 10 a.m. show Tuesday) in the Humanities Theatre. "Single and Sexy" is described as "a high-energy and non-judgmental play about the scenarios and attitudes frosh are likely to witness or experience." Admission to all performances is free, and everyone's welcome to today's preview: 11:30 a.m. in Humanities. The show lasts about an hour. |
Orientation offers the new arrivals "a balanced introduction to the social, academic and residential aspects of university life with the guidance and support of upper-year students," says Dana Evans, orientation coordinator for the Federation of Students, which operates the week-long program jointly with UW's student life office.
Many of the new students participated in Student Life 101 held on campus in late July, said Heather FitzGerald, student life coordinator. The annual orientation was "designed by students for students", she says, to ease the transition to university life before the fast-paced weeks of classes early in the fall term.
Throughout orientation next week, students will be involved in numerous events organized by the Federation Orientation Committee, made up of 40 student volunteers who have worked more than 500 hours since January to prepare for the event.
They'll meet deans and faculty members as well as upper-year students. They'll eat pizza and subs. They'll encounter hard hats (engineers), pink ties (mathies) and the Big Banana (those in environmental studies). They'll play games, fill out paperwork, write the English Language Proficiency Exam, take safety training and learn their way around. And they'll meet lifetime friends.
An orientation highlight will be the annual semiformal Monte Carlo Night, to be held Thursday, September 9, in the Student Life Centre. Activities at the alcohol-free event include playing at casino tables (without real money) and dancing, as well as a caricaturist, psychics, a magician, swing and salsa dance lessons, and live music. Students can make a donation to the Grand River Hospital Cancer Research Centre at the door.
On Saturday, September 11, "Black and Gold Day" will be held -- in partnership with UW Athletics -- where students will gather for a pep rally at the Columbia Icefield and cheer on the rugby team when it faces Wilfrid Laurier University on the Columbia playing fields. The week ends with the famous Saturday night toga party.
Electrical and computer engineering. Wael Bazzi, "Optimum Resource Allocation in Multiservice Interference Limited Wireless Ad Hoc Networks with Quality of Service Constraints." Supervisor, F. Karray. On display in the faculty of engineering, CPH 4367. Oral defence Tuesday, September 7, 10 a.m., Davis Centre room 1331.
Chemical engineering. Nahla Sahloul, "A Study of Multicomponent Polymerization of Styrene/Ethyl Acrylate/Hydroxyethyl Acrylate/Methacrylic Acid." Supervisor, A. Penlidis. On display in the faculty of engineering, CPH 4367. Oral defence Friday, September 10, 1 p.m., Rod Coutts Hall room 309.
Earth sciences. Lesley A. Sebol, "Evaluating Groundwater Br, CFCs, 3H/3He, and/or SF6 Ages at Three Ontario Sites, and HCFCs/HFCs: A Potential Set of New Shallow Groundwater Age Tracers." Supervisors, W. D. Robertson and S. Schiff. On display in the faculty of science, ESC 254A. Oral defence Friday, September 24, Rod Coutts Hall room 305.
Philosophy. Christine Freeman-Roth, "Emotivating Justice: The Role of Emotion in Moral Theory and Practice." Supervisor, Jan Narveson. On display in the faculty of arts, HH 317. Oral defence Monday, October 4, 2 p.m., Humanities room 334.
Electrical and computer engineering. Mohamed Mohsen Aly El Said, "Electrical Pre-Equalization for High Speed Optical Communication over Single-Mode Fiber." Supervisor, M. I. Elmasry. On display in the faculty of engineering, CPH 4367. Oral defence Tuesday, October 12, 1:30 p.m., CEIT room 3142.
Electrical and computer engineering. Mina Ayatollahi, "An Efficient Multilevel Method for Analyzing Large Scale and Low Frequency Electromagnetic Problems." Supervisor, S. Safavi-Naeini. On display in the faculty of engineering, CPH 4367. Oral defence date to be announced.
CAR