Daily Bulletin, Monday, March 27, 1995

IT'S A GRAND DAY for a grand opening, as UW begins a week of celebrations
for the long-awaited expansion of the Campus Centre.  Things start with
opening ceremonies from 1 to 3 p.m. today, including "presidential welcomes
and ribbon-cutting ceremonies", cake-cutting, a balloon drop (with prizes
and coupons), and the announcement of the building's new name.  Campus
Centre?  Student Centre?  Generic Building?  The envelope, please.

Special activities in the CC continue all week: games and a coffee house
Tuesday, business promotions Wednesday, club demonstrations and a movie
marathon Thursday, "Class of '95" celebrations Friday.  An art show, an
exhibition of historical photos, and the "time capsule collection" run
continuously.  Festivities wind up next Tuesday, April 4, when members of
the UW board of governors participate in a second ribbon-cutting and a 
reception.

There's a grand opening brochure for the building, which notes that the
original CC was opened April 4, 1968, so its 27th birthday is at hand.  As
for the expansion:

     The completion of this $6.6 million project, to which undergraduates
     are contributing $5.5 million, is a result of a co-operative effort
     by the University, the Federation of Students and the many builders
     who have all demonstrated tremendous dedication.

     Some of the highlights of this project include new facilities for
     the Federation of Students and Fed businesses, meeting and club space,
     pharmacy, variety store, physiotherapist, Bell phone centre, games
     room, bike compound and the Marketplace restaurant.

ALSO TODAY:  Well, anything else would be an anticlimax, but a little of
that cake and a few of those balloons ought to be diverted to the computer
science department, where Jo Ebergen marks a birthday today.

And this evening the Graduate Student Association holds its annual meeting,
at which -- among other things -- a fee increase to $17.60 per term from
the present $16.80 will be on the agenda. Guest speaker for the meeting is
Andrew Telegdi, member of Parliament for Waterloo.  He'll be talking about
the effect that students organizations have, or can have, on the political
process.  All grad students are members of the GSA and are entitled to be
at the meeting: Engineering Lecture Hall room 211, at 6 p.m.

THE KLEMMER co-op day care centre is having a special event Saturday: a
"silent auction" of children's toys, crafts, and many items donated by
local businesses to support the centre, which lives in one of the original
farmhouses on UW's north campus.  The auction will run from 1 to 3 p.m.
Saturday ("no joke", even if it is April 1) at the Waterloo Recreation
Complex downtown.

And apparently there's a rumour around that Klemmer is closing, going out
of business.  No way is that true, its officials say.

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