Daily Bulletin, Friday, April 29, 1994 THE LAST DAY: The bookstore and the computer store are closed today for inventory, and many other departments will be counting bolts and boxes too. It's the last day of the 1993-94 fiscal year. For year-end accounting, the department of computing services says, it will shut down VM/CMS computing service at 11:00 tonight, and usage on continuing accounts will be reset to zero. Service will resume about noon on Saturday. HEALTH INSURANCE: Memos are out from the dean of graduate studies and the personnel department about health insurance for foreign students, now that the Ontario Health Insurance Plan won't cover them. (Visa students already in Canada are covered until June 30, but new arrivals aren't covered at all.) Says the dean: "The university is trying to arrange appropriate insurance at a reasonable cost to these students, but such arrangements will not be in time for new students arriving on campus for the Spring term. Consequently, we are advising new students to buy health insurance for the period until August 31." The plan being recommended is "University Health and Accident, Plus Life", offered by John Ingle Insurance, 800 Bay Street, Toronto M5S 3A9, phone (800) 387-4770. The premium for the four-month term: $286 single, $572 family. POWER SHUTOFF: Electrical power will be off on Saturday in the Health and Safety building (from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.) and in the Campus Centre (from 8 a.m. to noon) for preventive maintenance. "Computer equipment should be shut down in an orderly fashion," the plant operations department advises. TODAY: The psychology department hosts the 24th Undergraduate Psychology Conference, with 126 papers presented by students from most of Ontario's universities, all day today in the Arts Lecture Hall. At 4 p.m. Mark Zanna of the psych department gives a special lecture -- "Alcohol Myopia: Does Intoxication Lead to 'Risky Business'"? Some 2,000 women converge on the university today for the two-day Women Alive conference, a religious gathering held here each spring. Most meetings will be held in the Physical Activities Complex; the Village 2 conference centre and church college residences are providing accommodation. THE WEEKEND: The plant operations department holds its spring dinner and dance in Federation Hall on Saturday night. Sunday is Literacy Day, with celebrations centred at Kitchener's city hall from 1 to 5 p.m., including a "celebrity spelling bee", storytellers for adults and children, and talks by Joe Gold (retired from UW's English department) and Ken McLaughlin (St. Jerome's College). The Optometry Student Society is among the sponsors, as is the UW bookstore. LAST CALL FOR BOOKS: If you have written a book and had it published in 1993, the UW library would like to know about you. The Friends of the Library are hosting an event May 9 to celebrate UW writers. Part of the celebration will be a display of books written by campus authors. If you would like your book included in this display, you should contact Mary Stanley at ext. 6019 or send a copy of your book and a brief biographical statement to her at the Dana Porter Library. Chris Redmond Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo 888-4567 ext. 3004 credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca