Daily Bulletin, Thursday, September 8, 1994 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT DAYS are happening today and tomorrow: a series of workshops for professors new and less new. This morning at 9, UW president James Downey and faculty association president Jim Brox will talk about "Accountability and University Autonomy". At 10:45, a panel addresses "Nifty Ideas for Your Class". At 1:00, it's "Inclusivity in the Classroom", and at 2:30 it's the annual panel on "Balancing Teaching, Research and Personal Lives". The 9 a.m. event is in Math and Computer room 2065, and for the rest of the day the program moves upstairs to room 4059. The audio-visual centre offers a demonstration next door (room 4058) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. of PictureTel, a dial-up videoconferencing system. The day's activities end with a wine and cheese party from 4 to 6 at the University Club. Tomorrow, Faculty Development Days continue with "Strategies for Teaching in a Large Classroom", at 9 a.m., and "Strategies for Handling Disruptions in Large Classes", at 10:45. Location for both panels: Davis Centre room 1351. Another special event for faculty members is coming up: a workshop on research, next Tuesday from 8:30 to noon. The UW office of research will explain its own workings and the workings of the national research granting councils. While the event is primarily for new professors, who had better be thinking about getting their research programs underway, everybody is welcome, says a memo from Joan Hadley and Susan Sykes of the research office. Information: phone ext. 6040. NEW STUDENTS, meanwhile, continue to get oriented. Social events seem to predominate on today's schedule (applied health sciences will get "Wet and Wild" at Columbia Field this afternoon) and nearly everybody's preparing for a Scunt, or scavenger hunt, tonight. "Single and Sexy" is on at 11:30, 1:30 and 3:30 in the Theatre of the Arts. It's registration day in the Physical Activities Complex for mathematics students (this morning) and applied health sciences students this afternoon (let's hope the first-year ones aren't too wild and wet to be allowed indoors). Here's some perceptive advice from the registrar's office: "If an address change only is required, an address change card should be used." And here's some advice from the library: changing your address with the registrar's office doesn't change the library's files. So that your recall notices and other exciting mail from the library will get to you, and you won't incur nasty fines, you should advise the library (at the circulation desk) when you change your address. FOR MATURE STUDENTS: We had an awkward typographical error in yesterday's Gazette, announcing that the non-credit "starter" course for mature students was to begin on "Wednesday, September 10". Ain't no such day. The course starts next Wednesday, September 14, running from 7 to 10 p.m. Anybody interested can get more information from Issy Mackay in the mature student services office, phone ext. 2429. SAYING FAREWELL: A retirement reception for Gord Ambrose, late of the registrar's office and correspondence office, is set for today in the Festival Room of South Campus Hall, from 4 to 6 p.m. Friends of Leo Jabs, who's just retired after a long career in the central plant, will be dining with him tonight at the Black Forest Inn. Chris Redmond Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo 888-4567 ext. 3004 credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca