![[University of Waterloo]](/images/logobars/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Thursday, September 15, 2005
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Scrum]](/images/2005/0916rugbyL.jpg)
![[Ball in midair]](/images/2005/0916rugbyR.jpg)
But, but . . .
It's twenty years since the Warriors have taken an OUA
men's
rugby championship, but co-captains Blyth Gill and Brian Stubbs
say their squad should be able to build on last year's bronze medal
finish, "feeling more confident even as a young team". They're off
to the right start, having defeated Laurier 28-15 on the weekend, and
will face McMaster on Saturday afternoon (3:00) at Columbia Field. The women's
rugby Warriors, meanwhile, are "giants on the inside",
says veteran player Stacy Charlton. They played an alumni match on
the weekend, but are psyched for the real thing against Western on
Saturday (1:00, Columbia Field). Photos by Steve Brooks, athletics and
recreational services.
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As of September 13 (Tuesday), 3,488 of the 3,557 co-op students who are scheduled to be on a fall 2005 work term "have employment or do not need it", the department reports. That's 98.06 per cent. The report adds that 143 of these students, although scheduled to be on a fall work term, are not participating in the process so are counted as "employed."
Last year at the same time, 92.85 per cent (3,548) of the 3,821 co-op students who were scheduled for a fall work term had employment or did not need it (including 133 non-participating students), leaving 263 still needing jobs.
In individual faculties and programs, the following numbers represent students with employment or not participating in the employment process (e.g., taking an "on own" term) for the fall term: Accounting 28 (100%); AHS 175 (99.43%); Arts 186 (96.88%); Architecture 72 (98.63%); Engineering 1,860 (97.64%); Environmental Studies 125 (98.43%); Mathematics 811 (98.66%); Science 218 (98.64%); Teaching 13 (100%).
"As the work term only started last week," says the memo from CECS, "we anticipate that the number of co-op students without jobs for the fall work term will continue to decrease in the coming month."
Lawrence Lam, vice-president (internal) of the Federation, said there are more than 1,300 international students at UW, many of them among the 20,000 undergraduates whom the Feds represent. "The service's mandate is to respond to the needs of our international students, especially as the contingent of international students is making up an increasing percentage of the student body as a whole." He expressed "gratitude to the University of Waterloo for their generous support of this initiative".
Coordinator of the new service is Gerardo Salas, a Mexican student who was the last president of the SIS. He says international students "are very excited to finally have visible representation on this campus. The International Student Connection will strengthen links between international students and give Canadian students a chance to meet people from all around the world."
A kickoff barbecue was held last Sunday, and the ISC office -- in Student Life Centre room 2124 -- opened on the first day of classes. (The phone number: ext. 7872.)
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Clubs Days 10:00 to 4:00 today and Friday, Student Life Centre.
Meningitis vaccine clinic for students born 1985 through 1990, ends today, 9:30 to 11:30, Health Services, no charge. Graduate scholarship information session for mathematics students, 3:30, Math and Computer room 2065. Career development workshops: "Introduction to Career Services Online Modules" 3:30, Tatham Centre room 2218, "Starting Your Own Business: Next Steps" 4:30, TC room 1208, registration online. MathNews beginning-of-term meeting 4:30, Math and Computer room 4020. Writers, proofreaders, artists wanted. Art gallery reception for the opening of "Heavy Weather", retrospective by fine arts faculty member Art Green, 5 to 7 p.m. in East Campus Hall, 7 to 9 p.m. at K-W Art Gallery. Exhibition continues through October 20. Orchestra@UWaterloo open rehearsal 7:00 to 9:30, Ron Eydt Village. New players (students, staff, faculty, alumni) invited -- register online. Pension and benefits committee Friday 8:30 to noon, Needles Hall room 3004. Centre for International Governance Innovation presents open seminar: "Global Institutional Reform: Conflict or Coherence?" Friday 9:30 a.m., 57 Erb Street West, free tickets rsvp@cigionline.org. Chemistry seminar: Austen Angell, Arizona State University, "The Weirdness of Water-Like Systems in Their Supercooled States, Liquid-Liquid Transitions and the Like," Friday 4:00, Math and Computer room 2066. St. Jerome's University inaugural Laurence A. Cummings Lecture in Cultural History: Modris Eksteins, University of Toronto at Scarborough, "Art, Fame, and the Problem of Authenticity: Vincent van Gogh and Us," Friday 7:30, Siegfried Hall. Canada's Wonderland trip organized by Math Society, Saturday; tickets ($23) on sale third floor of Math and Computer. UW's ACM programming contests this Saturday and September 24, details online. Novelist Sandra Birdsell readers from her new book, Children of the Day, Sunday 7 p.m., Conrad Grebel University College chapel, free. Canadian Institutes of Health Research representatives speak about scholarship opportunities, undergraduate to postdoctoral, Monday 8:30 to 10:30, Needles Hall room 3001. TB skin testing clinic Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 to 4:30, Village I great hall. Accounting Students Endowment Contribution presents Dennis Kavelman, chief financial officer of Research In Motion, Wednesday 4 p.m., Humanities Theatre; reception follows. |
![[Aplevich]](/images/2005/0915paplevich.jpg)
Aplevich (right) arrived at Waterloo in 1967 to complete an undergraduate
degree. After receiving "an offer I couldn't refuse," she stayed
to earn her master's degree in French, honing her skills as a
teaching assistant in the process. She graduated in 1970 after
meeting her future husband, Dwight (an electrical and computer
engineering professor at UW) and decided to make
Kitchener-Waterloo her home.
After 14 years as a part-time language instructor and 20 years of full-time teaching, Aplevich retired on September 1.
In addition to celebrating her retirement, Aplevich is celebrating her first anniversary as a cancer survivor. "I had surgery for breast cancer one year ago on September 9, 2004," she recalls. "Luckily for me, it was caught early (thanks to a mammogram) and I am fully recovered."
Three weeks after her surgery, she watched others participate in the Run for the Cure and made a vow that "if I survived, I would take part in 2005." Aplevich will be "walking" in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure on Sunday, October 2, at RIM Park in Waterloo. Money raised will fund research, education and awareness programs across the country.
"Finding a cure," says Aplevich, "is urgent before breast cancer affects my daughters and the women in your lives." She's heading up a team for the event, and welcomes friends and colleagues to donate or join the team for the 5-kilometre walk. Donations can be made online, and anyone wishing to join her team "Friendship One" for the walk can email Aplevich at paplevic@watarts.
The UW research office has announced a couple of visits by people from the national granting councils that are the biggest source of funding for research on Canadian campuses. This morning it's a delegation from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. "This session," says the research office, "will provide advice on preparation of Discovery Grant applications of particular interest to first time applicants; information on NSERC policies and peer-review process; and changes to programs and updates on electronic submission. There will also be an opportunity for questions and answers." Then tomorrow the visitor is Sarah Mark of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. "The morning session will focus on Grant Writing Strategies for a Successful SSHRC Application. . . . Sarah will also be available during the afternoon to meet individually with faculty members." Last-minute information should be available from Selena Santi in the research office.
Rick Haldenby, director of UW's school of architecture, will be speaking tonight at 7:00 in the lecture theatre of the Architecture building on Cambridge's Melville Street. Title of his talk is "The Dream of Nature". This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Cabin, Cottage and Camp: New Designs on the Canadian Landscape" on view through this weekend at "Design at Riverside", the Cambridge Galleries outpost in the Architecture building. Haldenby, who signs his e-mail with a quotation from the Roman poet Martial, will talk about "the idea of the villa and its descendent, the cottage, as the medium through which humanity articulates its relationship with the natural world". Examples will include material from the exhibition along with more conventional Ontario cottages and villas from Roman and Renaissance days. "Cabin, Cottage and Camp" explores the varied themes that surround contemporary "homes away" through a broad survey of contemporary designs across the landscape. Exploration of the theme is illustrated in the work of some of the Canada's most distinguished architects and designers. Admission to the lecture and the exhibition is free of charge.
"The Bike Centre is getting ready for the term and we need volunteers," writes Ted Harms of the UW library, a long-time spoke in the Bike Centre wheel. There was a volunteer drop-in yesterday, but those who didn't make it are still welcome -- e-mail uwbikecentre@yahoo.com. Tenth anniversary celebrations are planned this fall for the Bike Centre, which is on the lower level of the Student Life Centre, northwest corner (look for the air pump outside). A week from today -- Thursday, September 22 -- there will be a bike auction, Harms reports, "as part of the WPIRG-sponsored UW Car Free Day. The good weather location is the SLC courtyard and the bad weather is the SLC Atrium. The bikes (in a variety of sizes and styles) will be out for 11:30 a.m. and the auction will get underway at noon; sales are by cash or cheque only. More details to come."
Spring term grades for undergraduate students become official today, and requests for official transcripts will begin to be processed shortly, the registrar's office says. . . . UW's Architecture building in Cambridge and the Centre for Environmental and Information Technology on the main campus will welcome visitors Saturday as part of Doors Open Waterloo Region. . . . People from the UW Alternative Fuels Team are expected to be showing off their project at the Georgian College Auto Show in Barrie this weekend. . . .
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