Wednesday, December 1, 1993

IN COURT TODAY:  Trial begins this morning for Kris Warkentin, charged
with the January 1 murder of David Zaharchuk in Engineering 1 building.
He is expected to enter a plea at the courthouse in downtown Kitchener.

CALLING THE LIBRARY:  The UW libraries now have a voice-mail "menu"
that gives access to information about its main services.  The number
is ext. 4883 (from off campus, 888-4883), the former number for the
Dana Porter Library circulation desk.  

Says Eric Boyd, facilities coordinator for the libraries: "Callers wishing 
to call a service point directly from off campus can use the 888-4567 
number and then the desired extension."  New extension numbers include
those for Davis Centre reference (ext. 5766), telephone renewals (ext.
5767), government publications (ext. 5762), Dana Porter reference (ext.
5763), and Dana Porter circulation (ext. 5544).  Davis Centre circulation
remains ext. 2458.

INTERNATIONAL SURVEY:  A questionnaire is being distributed to international
students at UW in an attempt to compile a handbook, under the auspices of
the student affairs office.  Survey forms are available at the Campus
Centre turnkey desk, the Federation office in the CC, the Graduate House,
the Math Society office, the Engineering Society office, and the 
international student office (Needles Hall 2080).  An electronic version
should be available shortly in the newsgroup uw.general, say organizers
Victoria Seay (veseay@undergrad.math) and Glenn Lea.

NEWS ON MURDERS:  Here is the text of a memo from Jim Kalbfleisch, UW's
provost (and acting president this week), to the university librarian and
the associate provost (computing), dated yesterday:

  I am aware that the Library has received at least one newspaper which
  contains article(s) which violate the publication ban imposed by
  Justice Francis Kovacs concerning evidence heard during the Karla Teale
  trial.  Similarly, I understand that Internet carries a newsgroup
  which contains considerable information about the trial which is also in
  violation of the Court Order.

  The law is quite clear and the University is placed at risk of being
  charged and prosecuted if material which breaches a Court Order is
  received and distributed by the University.  By this memo, I am directing
  you to take whatever steps are necessary to remove this material from
  the Library and from the network on the basis that the University is
  not prepared to risk being charged with contempt of court for violating
  a Court Order.

The provost made a copy of the memo public yesterday afternoon.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs
credmond@watserv1    ext. 3004