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Tuesday, December 19, 1995

Get those ballots in today

Are you a member of the staff association? Then this note from Sharon Lamont, the association's 1995 president, is for you:
As of noon Monday, 46.5% of the ballots distributed last week have been returned to the SA office; therefore, we need 30 more ballots returned by tomorrow for the vote regarding changes to the constitution to be valid. If you have not returned your ballot, please do so.

Interrupting the air conditioning

Doesn't seem like a bad time of year to shut off the cooling system for a few hours, does it? The plant operations department sends word that chilled water -- in other words, air conditioning -- will be turned off in parts of several buildings at various times today through Thursday. The notices say the shutoffs are happening so a crew can "extend cooling loop".

Affected are rooms on the second floor of Chemistry 2 this morning, third floor this afternoon; parts of Earth Sciences and Chemistry and Biology 1 tomorrow morning, and ESC tomorrow afternoon; Biology 1 on Thursday morning. Information: ext. 3320.

Show in Humanities tonight

The Ontario Ballet Theatre production of "The Nutcracker" comes to the Humanities Theatre at 7 tonight and again tomorrow and 2 and 7 p.m. It's sponsored by city hall's Waterloo Showtime series, and tickets ($17, students $15) are available from the Humanities box office.

Says a publicity blurb: "Experience the magic of a beloved holiday tradition! The world's most popular ballet is a miracle of imagination and colour. This brand-new, full-length staging features 26 dancers in 88 marvellous costumes against splendid original backdrops. The Nutcracker is a magnificent fantasy of good and evil in the grand style of old Russian ballets."

There's another production of "The Nutcracker" in town this week, by the way, with Ballet Jorgen performing at Centre in the Square in downtown Kitchener. Must be the Christmas season. . . .

'Tis the season to go surfing

Speaking of Christmas, for those whose fingers and Web browsers have nothing much to do in this last week before the holiday, here are a few seasonal sites that might be worth checking out. (With the aid of the Open Text Index, created by the UW spinoff Open Text Corporation, I did look for useful Web sites touching on Chanukah and Kwanzaa, but haven't found anything.)

Graphics closing early today

'Tis also the season for departmental Christmas parties. So that the staff in graphic services can attend their celebration, various graphics facilities -- the Davis Centre and Dana Porter copy centres and Graphics Express -- will be closing early today, at 5:30 p.m.

Library lists December hours

With fall term exams winding down, the UW libraries are reducing their hours of operation. Briefly, here's the schedule for December 18 through January 1: All library locations will be closed December 23 (this Saturday) through January 1, reopening Monday, January 2.

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

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