Daily Bulletin, Thursday, March 17, 1994

WHAT'S HAPPENING?  You'd better be careful if you want to rely on the
Billboard listings in yesterday's Gazette, which were badly jumbled.  It
might be wiser to use the "Events" facility on UWinfo this week.

If you do want to use what appeared in print yesterday, you can trust
that all events belong under the day-and-date headings where they appear
except for these:
     
     Under Thursday, the last seven and a half items belong to Sunday.
     Under Monday, the last four items belong to Friday.
     Under Sunday, everything but the first line belongs to Thursday.
     Under Friday, the last three and a half items belong to Monday.

We apologize for the mess.

IVY FALLS SILENT:  UW's voice mail system will be shut down from 4:30 p.m.
until about 8:00 tonight for a software upgrade, says Joan Wiley of the
telephone services department.

PENSION AND BENEFITS:  The pension and benefits committee meets this
morning (9 to noon, Needles Hall 3004) with the usual complicated agenda.
Discussion of the benefits program and how much it costs (the expensive
"extended health plan" for faculty and staff, in particular) will take
up a good share of the time.

The committee will also look at premium levels for the pension plan in
1994-95.  Everyone will remember that contributions from both UW and
individual employees were reduced to 90 per cent of their nominal level
for 1993-94, as a way of saving the university almost $2 million and
giving individuals a little relief from the pain of the Social Contract.
The question now is, should that reduction continue for another year or
two?  Indeed, is the pension plan surplus so large that the reduction in
university contributions could be even bigger this year?

PUTNAM CONTEST:  We've received unofficial word of the results in this
year's William Lowell Putnam math competition, and we're trying to get
fuller information.  What arrived so far says that UW placed somewhere
between 6th and 10th place among the universities competing (the Putnam
doesn't publish exact placings except for the very top winners).  Last
year, UW came third.  Individual rankings:  Ka-Ping Yee, 16th-28th; Ian
Goldberg and Jie Lou, 29th-57th.

AND A HAPPY St. Patrick's Day to all.  The Laurel Room in South Campus
Hall has a roast lamb special this week for those whose culinary tastes
run to the Irish.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca