Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, November 15, 1994 STAFF LEADERS: The staff association has announced the results of nominations for its 1995 executive, with several people being acclaimed to office, while there will be an election (with five candidates) for three seats as directors. Mark Walker of the earth sciences department was acclaimed to the post of president-elect. He'll become president in 1996. The 1995 president is Sharon Lamont of the Davis Centre library, who was acclaimed to the president-elect role a year ago. Also acclaimed: Karen Musselman of economics to a second year as secretary; Meredith McGinnis of distance education to be treasurer; Iris Strickler of computer science, this year's treasurer, to be vice-president. Sharon Adams of urban and regional planning, the 1994 president, stays on the executive as past president. Candidates for directors' posts: Angelo Graham of safety, Sylvia Hannigan of the Centre for Cultural Management, Linda Lingard of statistics and actuarial science, Paul Ludwig of the Institute for Computer Research, Brian Whitfield of the engineering machine shops. Association members are receiving ballots, which are due back by Monday, November 28. The staff association holds its annual general meeting Monday, December 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Davis Centre 1302. URSULA FRANKLIN, much-honoured metallurgist at the University of Toronto, visits UW today as the first holder of the new Canada Trust Walter Bean Visiting Professorship in the Environment. She'll speak at 4 p.m. (Arts Lecture room 113) on "Environments Versus Nature". Says Franklin: "I will speak about the philosophy of environmental science and about studying the environment. I will make the point that 'environment' can be a rather narrow concept, compared to the complexity of 'nature', and I will make a plea not to shy away from accepting and studying complex situations, and to resist oversimplifications." SOUTH CAMPUS HALL looks more and more finished every day. Any bets on whether the visitors centre will be furnished and ready for use by 12:30 on Wednesday, when the grand opening of the newly-renovated building is to start? Benches and wastebaskets appeared yesterday in the new mall area, and there are photocopiers visible in what will soon be Graphics Express (although the official word is that it'll be another week or so before customers can actually be served there). Tomorrow's opening celebrations are sponsored by the bookstore and UW Shop, food services (its Double U's outlet is doing a steady business in coffee and muffins), Marlin Travel and Graphics Express. There are rumours of cake. COMING: The theatre centre says its sixth annual Christmas pageant will be held in the Humanities Theatre Saturday, December 3, at 3 p.m. A used clothing sale in environmental studies runs Thursday through Saturday this week. "Web masters and web weavers" are bidden to a meeting Thursday to talk about sharing techniques and information for the construction of World Wide Web pages at UW. Carol Vogt of computing services says, "We would encourage anyone who is (or will be) maintaining a Web server or building Web pages to attend." It's at 3:30 in Math and Computer room 2009. Chris Redmond Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo 888-4567 ext. 3004 credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca