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Thursday, August 31, 1995

Please obey the flagman

That's the request from Doug Wagner of the plant operations department, as work starts along the ring road today. A crew is building four "traffic calming devices" -- otherwise known as "raised walkways", but please don't call them "crosswalks", because they don't have crosswalk signs. What they are is raised spots in the road, designed to slow cars down at places where pedestrians might choose to cross.

The walkways are being built near the Davis Centre, Carl Pollock Hall, Needles Hall and the Physical Activities Complex. "The bulk of the messy, interfering work should be done by Friday night," says Dave Churchill, also of plant operations. Meanwhile, please watch for the flagman and don't run down the bearers of asphalt.

Also, watch for the smoke

A note from safety director Kevin Stewart: "Fire training is scheduled for Thusday afternoon for the dons. Persons may notice fire vehicles and some smoke near Village 2. This will be part of the session, organized by the safety office and Waterloo fire department." Training programs of various kinds for the Village dons continue all week -- and on Monday, the residents for whom the dons are responsible start pouring in.

University leaders are meeting

Presidents of Ontario's universities have a "retreat" (not a rout) in Elora today, to talk about financial and government issues. The one-day gathering is to include the presidents' first meeting with John Snobelen, minister of education in the province's new Progressive Conservative government.

Uppermost in the presidents' minds is the "economic statement" that the government is expected to produce in October, and above all the $400 million that the government has said it's going to cut from the funding of post-secondary education. Questions: How much of that money will come from university budgets and how much from other programs? How quickly will the cut be made? What latitude will universities be given to raise tuition fees to make up for the lost money?

Sessions set for faculty

The annual "faculty development days" are happening next week, co-sponsored by the teaching resource office, the faculty association, and this year also the UW library.

An agenda for the September 7 and 8 event has been sent to faculty members all over campus (and is available from TRACE at ext. 3132, e-mail trace@watserv1). It includes a general session on "teaching and learning at Waterloo", based on the studies of a Commission on Institutional Planning working group, and more specific sessions on "ideas for your class", "evaluating writing assignments from a WAC perspective", "instructional multimedia", "interdisciplinary team teaching in the Guelph-Waterloo link", and "information technology: future tool for learning". Also scheduled is the now-traditional panel on "balancing teaching, research and personal lives".

At the same time, TRACE will be sponsoring an Instructional Multimedia Fair: September 7 and 8 from 10:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1301.

The gold and black attack

That's what the UW athletics department (with its brand-new World Wide Web pages now available through UWinfo) is using for a slogan this fall. Warriors and Athenas are on the attack in four sports for which admission is charged -- baskeball, volleyball, football, hockey -- and a season ticket covers them all. Tickets are available (to staff, faculty and other "adults") at $33 for the year, or $50 for two. High school student rate: $22. More information: ext. 5823.

And no, there won't be a football game over Labour Day weekend this year. The Warrior season starts Saturday, September 9, when UW hosts Western at 2 p.m.

Shall we dance? Shall we dance?

The Carousel Dance Centre, based in UW's dance department, has classes this fall for both adults and children. For adults: ballet, "no experience necessary", on Monday evenings for an hour, starting September 18. For kids, age 3 and up: "a highly enriched dance program emphasizing child development and creativity", with modern dance, ballet and jazz. Classes start September 8. Christine Parker, director of Carousel, can be reached at ext. 3147 for more information.

And fall registration starts

There was a pretty good lineup at the cashiers' office in Needles Hall around midafternoon yesterday. Students are paying their fees for the fall term before the real registration crunch comes -- starting Tuesday at 9 a.m. in the small gym of the Physical Activities Complex. WatCards are available today and tomorrow (and next week) in the Student Life Centre.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

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