Daily Bulletin, Wednesday, March 8, 1995

CHIROPRACTIC SCHOOL?  An advisory committee has recommended that UW take
some slow steps towards closer links with the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic
College, which has been looking for a university connection.  The 
committee was headed by Robin Banks, UW's associate provost (academic
affairs), and calls for a "three to five-year" collaboration between UW
and the chiropractic college -- now located in Toronto -- followed by
"a formal decision on affiliation".

The heart of the collaboration over the next few years would be creation
of a joint CMCC-UW research clinic within the faculty of applied health
sciences.  "This will allow an assessment of the kind of research 
relationship that can be developed around chiropractic," the committee's 
report says.  It notes that "CMCC is primarily a teaching institution and, 
as far as the Committee could determine, research in chiropractic is not 
well developed here, or in fact, anywhere."

Research is one of the two main problems the committee found.  The other 
involves money, chiefly because if chiropractic were part of the university, 
there would need to be "several million dollars a year" in additional 
funding so that the faculty could include research, as well as teaching, 
in their workload.

The proposed clinic would be an outpatient clinic, like two that CMCC
currently operates in Toronto; "however, services would be guided by the
requirements of the research projects."  Waterloo and CMCC faculty would
be involved jointly -- three professors in the kinesiology department are
mentioned in particular.

Responding to the report, UW provost Jim Kalbfleisch says it "charts a
clear path for the University" to follow.  He also notes that the Ontario
government was recently advised by a high-profile commission to start
funding chiropractic education, which currently is supported only by
private money. "Should the government decide to move quickly in this
direction, some reconsideration of the Report's proposed three to five
year timetable may be appropriate."

The report can be found on UWinfo, under "Office of the Provost" or
"Documents of Current Interest".

ENGINEERS VOTE: Engineering students are invited to a forum at 11:30 in the
foyer of Carl Pollock Hall.  Speaking will be the candidates for top offices
in the Engineering Society: Brian Vidler and Michael Worry for president,
Nicole Abcarius and Darren Zacher for vice-president (external affairs),
Edward Fletcher, Katalina Princz and Doron Solomon for vice-president
(internal affairs).  EngSoc already knows who's going to be VP (finance)
and director of the Waterloo Engineering Endowment Fund: Stephen Dufour
and Derek Tokarski.  Voting for the contested posts is tomorrow.

ALSO TODAY:  The Pure Math and Combinatorics and Optimization Club turns
from matrices to muffins today, holding a fund-raising bake sale in the
third floor hallway of the Math and Computer building.

The drama department's long-awaited production of "Les Belles Soeurs"
opens tonight at 8 in the Humanities Theatre.  I'll quote from the flyer:
"The play is about Germaine Lauzon, who, having won a million stamps
(much like Zellers Club Z points) invites her sisters and neighbours to
help her glue the stamps into the books which she will turn in to redeem
her prizes.  As the evening progresses, jealousies, loyalties, odes to
bingo, and the occasional vulgar tete-a-tete climax in an all-out war."
Tickets: 888-4908.

TOMORROW, the consul-general of India, R. K. Bhatia, will be on campus for
an information session hosted by the international programs office in
the university research office.  He'll be in Davis Centre room 1304
from 9 to 10:30 a.m. to give "a presentation on the current context in
India, needs and priorities, and the opportunities for development of
academic and research partnerships".

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