Daily Bulletin, Monday, June 13

VENTURING ON CAMPUS:  UW's Faculty of Mathematics was featured at the top 
of last night's CBC Venture, a business program broadcast on the 
English-language TV network.  "Somebody in this country is doing something 
very, very well, " said host Robert Scully, in introducing the Canada-wide show.

In its nearly 10-minute report, Venture focused on how the university 
develops budding mathematicians through a series of contests aimed at 
elementary and secondary pupils, as well as how the co-op system works in p
lacing students with advanced technology employers, especially in the 
computer software field.

"You're going to see some students, some employers, a university all getting 
together to make sure that those students have plenty of job opportunities 
when they leave," Scully said, as the program cut to show video of UW's recent 
convocation for graduating students in the Faculty of Mathematics.

"The class of 1994, this year thousands of students will march straight 
from the procession line into the unemployment line,"  Venture reporter 
Debra Lamb said in general comments on tough times for graduates, as the 
convocation music swelled in the Physical Activities Complex.  "But these 
(Math) graduates (at UW) have plenty of job offers and starting at close to 
$40,000 a year."

The program interviewed several graduates and co-op employers, as well as 
Prof.  Ron Dunkley, chief architect behind the UW-originated Canadian 
Mathematics Competition, and Prof. Don Cowan, a veteran member of UW's 
Department of Computer Science.

"While lots of Canadians worry about how to wow their kids with math," Lamb 
reported.  "There's one university -- Waterloo -- that's systematically 
finding the best of what is out there across the country.  Waterloo's 
strategy?  Try to create a math elite, the kind of graduates top 
international firms like Microsoft and Toshiba will come all the way to this 
small southern Ontario town to get."

CANADA'S BIRTHDAY:  Volunteers are still needed for UW's Canada Day 
festivities on the north campus at Columbia Lake.  This will be UW's 10th 
consecutive year for the several-hour celebration, which includes a colorful 
parade and spectacular fireworks show.

In previous years, the event sponsored by UW and the Federation of Students 
has attracted about 50,000 people, and this year promises similar numbers.  
To put on such a big show, organizers are looking for scores of volunteers 
to lend a hand.

Curtis Desjardins, co-chair of the organizing Kitchener-Waterloo Canada 
Day Council, is seeking some 250 volunteers on July 1, plus 40 volunteers 
on the day before and the day after, to help with everything from concessions 
to the parade.  Apart from a fun time, volunteers get free T-shirts.  He can 
be reached at ext. 6329; or call Kate Maude at 747-2542.  Volunteers can 
also drop by the Federation office in Campus Centre, Room 235.

BOOKLETS EXPECTED:  UW's Human Resources office has sent word that the 
faculty and staff booklets detailing benefit and pension information are 
due to arrive early this week in the campus mail.

The booklets contain individual information about UW benefits coverage 
(extended health, dental, life insurance, salary continuance, etc.) and 
pension participation (projected pension income and contributions).

Linda Bluhm, human resources, says that some problems in printing the 
booklets have "hopefully all been detected."  If, however, your booklet is 
illegible or you don't get one, call her at ext. 2046.

Also on pensions, Bluhm reports that her office has received notice from the 
Teachers' Pension Plan Board that the reciprocal agreement between the 
Teachers' Plan and the UW Pension Plan will end as of Dec. 31, 1994.  So 
UW plan members who have money in the teachers' plan and wish to transfer 
their money here should call Bluhm.

John Morris, Jim Fox
UW News Bureau, (519) 888-4444
jfox@mc1adm.uwaterloo.ca