Daily Bulletin, Friday, March 3, 1995

PROGRAMMERS PLACE:  The Waterloo team that went to Nashville this week
for the international finals of the Association for Computing Machinery
programming contest has placed 10th, among 38 teams.  "I'm very proud
of them," says coach Jo Ebergen of the computer science department.
"They have now become extremely motivated to go back to the finals next
year and win it all."  He noted that the inexperienced UW team that placed 
seventh in the ACM competition in 1993 went back last year and took
first place.  A member of that team, Ian Goldberg, helped to coach this 
year's rookies, who will now have a big advantage in the 1996 contest.
Team members are Zygo Blaxell, Philip Chong and Nikita Borisov.

GOT A JOB?  Co-op students seeking positions for the spring term got
the word Wednesday on whether or not they've been matched with a job
so far.  Olaf Naese of the co-op education department reports that as
of yesterday, 57.5 per cent of the students had jobs to start in May.
"This percentage includes students who are returning to their previous 
employers as well as those who were matched as a result of the initial 
interview period just ended.  There are still 1,358 students requiring 
jobs.  This figure includes 67 Architecture students whose employer 
interviews do not begin until March 20."

The "continuous" phase of co-op interviews began on Monday with the
first set of postings, and more went up yesterday.  Interviews resulting
from those postings will be rolling by late next week, Naese says.

GRAPHIC SERVICES is doing a survey of its customers.  Which copy centres
have you used?  How much do you spend each month on photocopying?  Are
you pleased with the hours graphic services is open?  How's the service?
And so on.  There are printed copies of the form at the copy centres, and
it's also available on-line (look on UWinfo under Graphic Services).  The
survey is being carried on until March 10, and is managed by Jeremy
Steffler, who's in Graphics Express in South Campus Hall.  "Graphic
Services will use the results of this survey," says a note from department
director Linda Norton, "to initiate changes to its service and prepare for
the many years ahead."

BUYING A COMPUTER:  Computing services has its weekly professional
development seminar today, and the speaker is Unix guru John Sellens.
Topic: "The University is about to purchase a machine to be a major
database server for the University's financial systems, student systems,
and all sorts of other things.  This is likely to be the largest Unix
machine (or cluster of machines) on campus, and will include a bunch of
redundancy and reliability features that we don't normally see.  John
Sellens recently visited the UCC [that's the University Computing Committee]
and gave them an overview of the reasons for the machine, the features
that are required, and the planned acquisition process.  Now, you can
hear the same presentation plus get to hear a little more about the
actual machines under consideration."

EVENTS, BRIEFLY:  The annual Black Forest coffee-house runs tonight and
Saturday at St. Paul's United College, starting at 8 p.m. 

The Waterloo Christian Fellowship is off for its winter term retreat at
Camp Shalom.

A conference on "Native Women and Post-Secondary Education" is beginning
this morning, and runs through Saturday afternoon, on the fifth floor
of the Math and Computer building.  Renison College and the UW women's
studies program are among the sponsors.

Winnipeg poet David Arnason gives a reading at 3:30 today in room 221
of St. Jerome's College.

And a "Night of Women in Comedy", Saturday at 8 in the Theatre of the 
Arts, kicks off local observations of International Women's Week -- for
which I don't have anything like a comprehensive list of events, but
I know some bits of what will be happening.  Saturday night's performance,
titled "Hysterics", features Sensible Footwear, Christine Crosby, and
Shannon Laverty -- a trio from England and two solo comics from Toronto,
one of whom promises "a wry, subtle touch" and the other "an extensive body
of dry, dirty, self-deprecating material".  Wit and sex, and admission
is $15, students $12.50.  The sponsor is the Women's Issues Committee
of the Graduate Student Association.

SPORTS:  The season is coming to an end, and there are no home events 
for Warriors or Athenas this weekend.  (The OUAA hockey championships will
be staged at the Mutual Arena in the Waterloo Recreation Complex, but
UW isn't playing.)  The basketball Warriors are in Hamilton for the
west division championships; the volleyball Warriors are at Laurentian
fighting for a national championship after just missing the Ontario
title; Athena and Warrior swimmers are at Universite Laval in Quebec
City for the national championships; indoor hockey and indoor track and
field athletes are at the Ontario championships in Windsor.

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