Daily Bulletin, Thursday, March 9, 1995 THE SUN GLITTERS on the ice . . . Don Grierson of civil engineering marks a birthday . . . "Les Belles Soeurs" continues tonight in the Humanities Theatre . . . engineers vote today for the new Engineering Society executive . . . the consul-general of India is speaking this morning about Canada-India research linkages (the talk started at 9 in Davis Centre 1304). A pretty busy Thursday in the middle of the term, altogether. The Peter Senge teleconference on "Applying the Principles of the Learning Organization" takes place this afternoon from 2 to 4:30, in Arts Lecture room 116. It's the second of three such programs, "designed to help individuals gain an understanding of how to adopt and integrate critical 'learning organization' concepts into the workplace". Faculty and staff interested in taking part should give a call to Marg Letter in the human resources department, phone ext. 6645. Tonight, besides "Les Belles Soeurs", there's "Local Initiatives in Alternative Food Production", a student-sponsored lecture at the Waterloo Public Library, 7 p.m. Also at 7, the fine arts film society presents "The Boys from Fengkuei", another in its series of Taiwanese movies, in East Campus Hall room 1219. And "REM (the Rhinos' alter ego)" play the Bombshelter pub starting at 8, in the first event of Winterfest weekend. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK is continuing, and now that it's almost over, some information has arrived about special events. From 11:30 to 1:30 today, there's a film showing, the National Film Board's "Out", about gay and lesbian youth in Canada, with discussion following. Location: Davis Centre room 1301. Tomorrow, at 12:00, the "Womyn's Circle" meets at the women's centre, Campus Centre room 238: women only. Evening events: tonight at 7, "Feminist Prof Night" in Needles Hall room 3001. Tomorrow at 7:30, "Feminism and the Politics of Hope", a lecture by Sandra Butler in Siegfried Hall of St. Jerome's College, with ticket prices on a "sliding scale". All these activities are sponsored by the Federation of Students women's centre, which also has a T-shirt "clothesline display" going this week in the CC, and is selling Indonesian batik cloth as a fund-raiser. NSERC FUNDING: The president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council has issued a Canada-wide memo about how his agency, the major source of research funding in those fields, is going to cope with the budget cuts announced by the minister of finance. "As a first step," he says, NSERC's executive committee has "approved the accelerated phase-out of non-core programs", meaning that there will be no money next year for conference grants or the "General Research Grants" that go to universities as seed money. (UW's GRG in the current year: $250,000.) NSERC also says it has had to cancel the planned increases in its "core" grants for research. "The situation was unavoidable," says the memo, "as a competition at this level would have created instalment commitments that would be impossible to sustain in subsequent years, when cuts to the NSERC budget to deeper. It would also force future applicants to compete for a much smaller pie." Altogether NSERC is handing out $475.3 million this year and $448.4 million in 1995-96. Chris Redmond Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo 888-4567 ext. 3004 credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca