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| Yesterday |
Friday, September 10, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
Not familiar with the sport of rugby? Here's what a game looks
like (Warriors vs. Brock University, 1998).
![[Scrum]](/images/2004/0910rugby.gif)
The orientation committee picked the rugby game as part of the annual Black and Gold Day, a feature of each September's orientation that typically attracts 2,000 to 3,000 students to cheer on the Warriors. The day usually features a football game, but this weekend the football Warriors are playing out of town (at McMaster), so rugby takes centre field instead.
Orientation week winds upThe emphasis is on residence events for first-year students today, including a "carnival and barbecue" on the Village green. Tonight most faculties will be partying in the Student Life Centre.Tomorrow, Black and Gold Day celebrations start at noon on Columbia Field, with food and enthusiasm preceding the rugby game. And tomorrow night? That'll be the traditional toga party, held on and around the Matthews Hall green from 9 p.m. into the small hours. The biggest event of the week, it's the only official orientation activity at which liquor is available. Other sports this weekendBaseball vs. McMaster, Saturday 1:00 and 3:30, Jack Couch Park, Kitchener; Sunday 1:00 and 3:30 vs. U of T, Christie Pits, Toronto. Soccer at Western on Saturday and Windsor on Sunday: men at 1 p.m. and women at 3 p.m. both days. Football at McMaster, Saturday 2 p.m. Field hockey at Toronto Invitational tournament all weekend. |
The 2004 Warriors have an international and Canadian flair to their line-up. "We have players from Japan, France, and South Africa on our roster," he says. "We have also players from across Canada including Newfoundland, Québec, Saskatchewan, PEI and of course Ontario."
Players that Stuart expects to lead the Warriors are veterans Brian Stubbs, Blyth Gill, and Lucas Harden. Jarrod Ehgoetz, a 2003 OUA all-star, will be lining up against his brother, who plays for the Golden Hawks. Freshman Andrew Reitzel, a local player from St. David's in Waterloo, is also expected to have an impact with his new Warrior team.
Another interesting twist to the game is that both coaches for Laurier (Josh Windsor and Mike Lippert) are UW alumni. "There are certainly some interesting sidebars to the match-up this year," Stuart continued. "With the rivalry we have with WLU, and the game taking centre stage for Black and Gold Day, the team is looking forward to Saturday afternoon."
And it immediately adds: "Connecting to UW resources comes at some risk to your PC and to the campus network; you have a role in keeping yourself and other users protected." The site has a link to information on virus protection, using moderate amounts of bandwidth, "only using campus resources for academic purposes" and respecting the rights of other users.
Says Stephen Carr, an IST consultant working with the faculty of engineering: "The 'yourpc' site provides a much needed introduction to UW's decentralized computing infrastructure for new users, and serves as a jumping off point for locating information about available services. The site links to various web pages on campus that contain information on printing, connecting to the campus network, email, remote file access, software sources, and getting help.
"There is also information for Windows, Mac and Linux users on keeping their PCs virus free and up to date, and in doing so, protecting the campus network."
A "new users" page on the site has information about such things as computing accounts, UWdir directory listings, the "(almost) complete coverage for wireless computing" on the UW campus, and sources of help and information.
Separate pages for Windows, Mac and Linux talk about recommended hardware, supported software, security, training, and more sources of information. So what computer should a Windows-oriented user buy? "IST maintains preferred laptops and desktop used for equipment used on campus. However, any new computer that you purchase will be sufficient to meet your needs at UW. Since there is wireless access across campus, you may want to consider adding a wireless card as well."
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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UW-ACE seminar: "An Introduction to the Reusable Stuff
Repository", 2:00, Flex Lab, Dana Porter Library.
Library information for graduate students -- one-hour session on "facilities and services that will make your library research more effective". Meet at 1:30 at Davis Centre fire escape door facing MC. Campus TechShop, Student Life Centre, open Saturday noon to 4 p.m. for beginning-of-term rush. Bookstore extended hours next week, Monday-Thursday to 7 p.m. Dana Porter Library open Saturday and Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Fall term hours begin Monday morning. Alumni job search workshop all day Saturday, Tatham Centre, information online. Hockey Warriors team meetings (walk-ons welcome): men Saturday 4:30, women Sunday 2 p.m., Columbia Icefield. East Indian Community Walkathon in support of St. Mary's Hospital Cardiac Centre, leaves from Student Life Centre 9 a.m. Sunday, information canjaria@uwaterloo.ca. Davis Centre library opens Monday at 8 a.m. after summer renovations. Used book sale organized by mature student services, Monday and Tuesday, Modern Languages foyer. Waterloo Centre for German Studies dinner to honour contributor and community leader Paul Tuerr, September 15, South Campus Hall, information 888-4973. Health informatics research chair launch celebration, September 16, 11 a.m., Davis Centre. |
"Though Ontario has frozen fees for two years, hikes over the last decade are still more than four times the rate of inflation," says Jeff Henry, vice-president (education) for UW's Federation of Students.
Henry is calling on Bob Rae -- the former Ontario premier who is reviewing post-secondary education for the present government -- to "recognize the need to control tuition fees" as part of his study. "Controls are especially important in Ontario," says Henry, "where students have seen increases of 137 per cent during the same time frame."
Rae's recommendations are expected in January. They'll deal with everything from structure (such as the relationship between universities and community colleges) to government financing of higher education, but from a student point of view the tuition fee issue stands front and centre.
"Student fees accounted for a record 20.5% of revenue compared with only 12.0% in 1990/91," the StatsCan report says. "Since 1990/91, income from student fees has risen at an average annual rate of 8.1%, compared with 1.6% from governments."
"Tuition hikes are a painful symptom of the underfunding of the system," said Henry in a news release following the StatsCan report, which confirmed that Ontario ranks last in per-student funding among the Canadian provinces.
However, he points out, the province doesn't deserve all of the blame. "When he was finance minister, Paul Martin [now prime minister of Canada] slashed $3.9-billion out of provincial transfer payments. That money needs to be restored through the dedicated post-secondary education transfer payment promised by Martin during the campaign."
Says Henry: "Both levels of government need to work together to find a funding solution, because, for students and for Canada, a bright future depends on higher education."
CAR