Daily Bulletin, Thursday, March 16, 1995

HAPPY PURIM to all those who are celebrating the feast of Esther.

TODAY'S MEGILLAH is a short one, presumably because the end of the winter
term is in sight and people are buckling down to work instead of making
news.  There's one public lecture of importance: Svend Robinson, member
of Parliament for the Burnaby area of British Columbia, is on campus
today, and will speak at 12 noon on "Living and Dying with Dignity".
(Robinson was charged in the recent and much-publicized "assisted suicide"
case of Sue Rodriguez.)  His talk, sponsored by the Federation of 
Students, is in Arts Lecture room 113.

Also today:  there's an opening for "First Voice", a juried exhibition of
work by third-year fine arts students, at 4 p.m. in the UW art gallery,
Modern Languages building.

At 8 p.m. the Muslim Study Group presents a "Christian-Muslim Dialogue"
on "Jesus and Christianity and Islam".  For Islam: Jamal Badawi, director
of the Islamic Information Foundation.  For Christianity: Darrol Bryant
of Renison College.  The event happens in Davis Centre room 1351.

GREEN LUNCH:  Parsley boiled potatoes, tomatoes stuffed with spinach,
cream of broccoli soup and spinach fettuccine are all on the menu for the
St. Patrick's Day lunch, offered today and tomorrow in the Laurel Room
of South Campus Hall.  Price is $9.75.  Reservations: ext. 3196.

ABOUT TEACHING:  Yesterday's Gazette had a front-page story about changes
to teacher education in Ontario, and rashly referred to the mathematics
teaching option as "UW's only sizeable teacher education program".  Well,
it's not so, as I quickly learned.  "Wrong!" said a concise note from 
Reg Friesen of the dean of science office, who drew attention to the 
Waterloo-Queen's co-operative science teaching option.  And there's also
the French teaching program.  Each of the three graduates about 25 teachers
a year.  

And all three UW programs give future teachers far more classroom time
than the conventional Bachelor of Education program that runs for one
academic year after an undergraduate degree.  In that respect, they're
models for what the government has said it wants to do in teacher
education generally.  We'll see if we can give science and French a little 
attention in the Gazette next week or the week after, in that context.

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