Daily Bulletin, Friday, December 16, 1994 THE JAZZ SINGER: The Holly Cole Trio comes to the Humanities Theatre tonight, in one of the highest-profile concerts of the year. Cole was sold out last night at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, and she's sold out tomorrow night in Ottawa. But for tonight in Waterloo, tickets are still available -- "a very few, maybe fifteen or twenty" as of first thing this morning, the box office says. Call them at ext. 4908. TRIPLE ENTENTE: A memo went out yesterday from the presidents of UW, Wilfrid Laurier and the University of Guelph, announcing "the creation of a Presidential Working Group to study the opportunities for, and the benefits of, greater collaboration among our three Universities". The group consists of the vice-presidents (academic) of the three institutions. Says the memo: Our institutions have an enviable record of collaboration in research activities and in undergraduate and graduate programs. The close proximity of our campuses enables a substantial amount of collaboration at the undergraduate level, particularly between Laurier and Waterloo. In addition, we can be justifiably proud of our early commitment to joint graduate programs. The audio-visual link between Guelph and Waterloo, now extended to McMaster and to Wilfrid Laurier at a later date, facilitates the offering of these programs. Other examples of joint activities include cooperative efforts to cope with library acquisitions and storage, and participation in the Native University Access Program. In each of these examples, the goal of our collaborative effort has been to increase the breadth and quality of our academic programs and to contain or decrease the costs of program delivery, while respecting the autonomy and distinctiveness of our individual institutions. We look forward to other joint initiatives, for we are convinced that increased collaboration can be an important component of a successful strategy to maintain and enhance quality in light of the funding difficulties we face. NOW ON UWINFO: The Federation of Students has joined the list of UW groups and departments that communicate through UWinfo. Its material includes everything from a list of executive members to basic information about the impressive range of Fed businesses and services -- the used book store, Scoops (wouldn't you love a cone today?). There's also a large menu of information about personal safety resources on campus. Says Avvey Peters, the Feds' internal affairs officer: "The project was supposed to be initiated last Fall, but never seemed to get off the ground. Thanks in part to a restructured hierarchy of the Federation, including three new Offices and three Senior Officers, we now have some semblance of continuity in CC235. So, I or someone else from the Internal Affairs office will be looking after posting regular Feds announcements." Also now easily available through UWinfo are the proceedings of last month's symposium on "Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age". The material actually resides on a gopher maintained by Electronic Frontier Canada, but there's a pointer to it on UWinfo under "Documents of Current Interest". COUPLE OF CORRECTIONS: Yesterday's announcement about the new procedure for winter storm closing of UW, listing local radio stations, spoke of "CFCA", which has lately renamed itself KOOL-FM. Same frequency, though, 105.3 FM. Also, I must have a mental block about what department Sue Fraser works for when she's not busy with staff association activities. Just last month I attributed her to the budgets office; yesterday I said health studies. In fact, she's in the kinesiology department -- and I hope that's right. SEASON'S GREETINGS to those attending holiday festivities today. In the psychology department, faculty and staff will enjoy a luncheon from noon to 2 p.m., with a party run by the graduate student organization starting at 3:00 in the psychology lounge. Chris Redmond Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo 888-4567 ext. 3004 credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca