Daily Bulletin, Monday, August 15, 1994

COMPUTER REOPENS:  UW's Computer Store, promising lower prices,
reopens for business today after a two-week staff vacation.

"We expect a lot of business from people looking for back-to-
school specials on all the products," said director Jim Dodd,
just moments before the doors opened at 10 a.m.

"It's traditional for the companies to offer the specials.  In
the past year, the prices have been very volatile, up and down,
and it's nice to see them at a lower level."

The store, located in Mathematics and Computer building, Room
2018, is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.  Customers can check the
computers on display, although there may be a wait before they
can take their new computers home.

"We have some Macs, some Scooters in our stock that they can take
over the counter, but most of the customer orders come in a
couple of weeks," Dodd said.

OBSERVING ELECTION:  Waterloo MP Andrew Telegdi, a UW alumnus and
student leader, is off to Mexico by mid-week to join a Canadian
delegation monitoring Mexico's presidential election August 21.

Telegdi, a former president of the Federation of Students, told
the Daily Bulletin that he will "observe the elections" as the
official representative of the federal government.  Currently, he
is the vice-chair of the federal parliamentary committee on human
rights.

"I believe that there isn't a more fundamental human rights issue
than free elections," Telegdi said, adding that he will report
his findings to the government after he returns August 25.

"One of the reasons the government allows us in is to show us
that they have clean elections," Telegdi said. "The expectation
is that we will be able to have the freedom of movement to
monitor the elections."

He said he wants to check out the turnout for the election, as
well as whether the election process has been properly adhered
to.  Telegdi also wants to see how well the election computers
are working.  The previous election, held in 1988, was tainted by
accusations of fraud, including ballot-box stuffing.

As part of a delegation, headed by Ed Broadbent, president of the
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development,
Telegdi will travel to Chiapas, a state in the south of Mexico,
where a peasant rebellion occurred earlier this year.  The
delegation is visiting the country at the invitation of the Civic
Alliance, a non-partisan coalition of 400 Mexican non-
governmental organizations.

STUDENT DEATH:  A UW arts student, Daniel Chor Ming Chan, died in
a drowning accident at Elora Gorge Park Saturday afternoon.

Chan, a second-year economics student, had been walking in the
rapid water of the Grand River when he slipped in one-metre deep
water, Guelph OPP said.  He was then dragged by the current to
deeper water.  Apparently, Chan, 21, of Scarborough, was a non-
swimmer.

John Morris,
UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4567, ext. 6047
jmorris@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca