Daily Bulletin, Friday, March 17, 1995

WEARING GREEN today for St. Patrick's?  Or have you chosen, instead, the
defiant orange and blue that are the colours of Ireland's minority in
Ulster?  I'd say the University O'Waterloo has an overwhelmingly green
tone today.  Getting in on the act is Colette Nevin, manager of Graphics
Express in South Campus Hall, who has a St. Patrick's special: copies
on green paper are 5 cents apiece today, and copies in green ink on white
paper are 7 cents apiece.  (Upstairs in SCH, the Laurel Room has the
second day of its St. Patrick's luncheon, price $9.75; I'd predict that
the dessert table, always a Laurel Room specialty, displays some green
icing here and there, and probably not much orange and blue.)

Today also is Holi, a festival to many of the faiths and ethnicities of
southern Asia, including the Sikh religion; I confess I don't know much
about it, but would be glad to learn more.

A TURNOFF:  Official word is on hand from the plant operations department,
of interest to Village 1 residents.  On Monday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.,
they're going to turn off -- I am not making this up -- "fire water".
Didn't know that raw whisky was available in the Village pipes, did
you?  Actually it seems to mean the water in the emergency hose system;
a new pump is being installed.

THIS WEEKEND:  A couple of big events are happening tomorrow:

     Starting at 10:30, the Engineering Society holds its annual bus
     push, moving a full-sized loaded bus under plumber power all the
     way from campus down University Avenue and King Street to
     downtown Kitchener.  It's a fund-raiser for Big Sisters, the
     charity engineers love to support, the charity whose front-line
     participants male engineers love to meet.  Goal this year is to
     raise $5,000.  Claire Anderson, vice-president of EngSoc, notes
     that the work Big Sisters can do with that extra funding "is
     expected to have a long-lasting effect on the way these girls
     cope in a world that places so many unreasonable and often
     contradictory expectations on its children".

     Saturday night at 8 and Sunday afternoon at 2:30, the dance
     department presents its annual concert in the Humanities Theatre.
     This year's show, titled "Vital Signs", offers a combination of
     professionally-choreographed works and works designed by Waterloo
     students and faculty.  The dance department may be on its way
     to extinction, with no students having been admitted for the past
     two Septembers, but the talent and the pride are not a bit
     diminished.  Tickets are $8 and $6; call 888-4908.

AND MUCH ELSE is happening.  Saturday night brings the Mathematics Grad
Ball, the big social event towards which so much planning and work have
been expended.  At the same time, in the Bombshelter pub in the Campus
Centre, it's TalEng, the every-so-often show presenting the musical and
other talents of engineering students.

"Bowser and Blue" play the Bombshelter at noontime today, and "Spirit of
the West" play Federation Hall on Saturday night; at other hours, both
days in both pubs, consider it a general St. Patrick's Day party.

The University Choir performs Saturday night at 8, at Benton Street
Baptist Church in Kitchener.  It's presenting "Company of Heaven", a
complex work by Benjamin Britten.  Tickets are $8 and $6.

A "praise and worship" service takes place Saturday night at 8 in the
great hall of Conrad Grebel College, as a prelude to Christ Awareness
Week, being sponsored by half a dozen campus Christian groups.  Next
week there will be daily discussions, prayer meetings and other activities,
and look for a Christian bookstall in the Davis Centre great hall.

The University of Guelph holds its annual College Royal open house on
Saturday and Sunday, with everything from mediaeval jousting to 
veterinary demonstrations.

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