Daily Bulletin, Monday, July 11, 1994

MACLEAN'S SURVEY:  Yes, UW plans to take part in this year's survey of
Canadian universities for Maclean's magazine, in spite of a recommendation
from the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada to boycott
the project.  Bob Truman, UW's director of operations analysis, will be
coordinating the big job of collecting data about Waterloo for the magazine.
Requests went out Friday to various departments that will need to 
provide information.

Truman said quite a few other universities also seem to be going ahead
and cooperating with Maclean's, despite the AUCC recommendation.  He noted
that UW has been part of the controversial Maclean's survey for the past
three years, and "There's no sudden realization . . . that we shouldn't
participate."  Indeed, he added, Maclean's has made many changes to the way
it collects and presents the data, in response to university complaints.
The magazine's 1994 universities issue is due out in October.

RUMOURS OF ASSAULTS:  In Friday's bulletin I noted that the UW police
deny rumours of any recent sexual assaults on campus.  A perceptive comment
arrived from Judy Koeller, and is quoted with her permission:

	For a variety of reasons, many sexual assaults are never reported to 
	the police.  Some victims of assault choose to turn to friends, 
	family or agencies other than the police for support. This is 
	unfortunate because perpetrators are left to assault again, and 
	because it allows people to believe that sexual assault isn't 
	very common.

	Of course, the police can only deal with the cases that are 
	reported, and it takes courage for a victim to come forward and 
	report an assault.  Mr. Redmond's article seems to imply that since 
	the police haven't heard about any assaults, none have happened. 
	Perhaps the "rumours" were started by assault victims who chose to 
	confide in people other than the police.

DE-IONIZED WATER will be shut down in Biology 1 and Biology 2 tomorrow,
Tuesday, from 8 a.m. to noon, the plant operations department advises.

MONTHS LONG:  The library has quietly introduced a new option in borrowing
books through the self-charge terminals (which are available whenever the
libraries are open, even when there are no staff at the circulation desks).
Until now the self-charge terminals have offered only the standard two-week
loan period, but from now on, borrowers who are entitled to "term loan"
(faculty, staff and graduate students) will automatically get that extended
loan period on books they charge out using those terminals.  The new
service will be officially publicized starting in the fall.

HEARTH AND BEACON:  Finally, what's that creation that appeared Friday
among the oak trees in the arts quadrangle?  It's the first of four proposed
installations by a team of 4B architecture students under the guidance of
Don McKay.  Lighted at night, and reflecting sunlight during the day, it
represents part of a conceptual "habitation", and it's also meant to "make
people see the campus in a new way".  The creators are Catherine Kilcoyne,
D'Arcy St. Pierre and Julia Burrill.

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