Daily Bulletin, Friday, February 10, 1995 MONEY BACK: All students who paid a $25 fee for the new Student Centre during the fall term will be getting their money back. The fee is being refunded because the new building wasn't ready (as scheduled) during that term, and the referendum and resolution that created the fee said it would start when the building was available for use. There's been some controversy over the $25 fee, but Federation of Students leaders initially said it was only fair, since fall term students did benefit from the other parts of the "student co-ordinated plan" covered by the fee, including the north campus recreation complex. However, the grumbles eventually came to the Student Centre management board, which voted unanimously in favour of a refund, and UW's president has agreed. Students will get their refunds by cheque "in the next two months", Federation president Stephen Codrington said yesterday. The result of the refund is that no money at all flows into the "student co-ordinated plan" for fall 1994. A $10-per-term fee had been charged since 1992, but authorization for that fee expired with the spring term. The Student Centre and athletic complex will just take that much longer to be paid off. The Student Centre is covered by a mortgage with the Bank of Commerce that was taken out November 1, says the associate provost (finance), Dorothy Battae. RUBBISH! The graphic services department is doing waste audits of some of its copy centres and the main print shop these days. "The audits are being conducted," says Jeremy Steffler of the department's staff, "in conjunction with Patti Cook, the university's waste management coordinator, to determine what waste exists within the department. The information gained during this audit will be used to find ways to reduce this waste." They're weighing and sorting the trash at 1:30 each afternoon. And I suppose the whole project comes with an iron-clad promise: satisfaction guaranteed . . . or twice your garbage back! SEASONAL SALES: At Graphics Express in South Campus Hall, you can bring in your favourite 3-by-5-inch colour photo and have it copied onto a Valentine card "for the low price of $4.14 plus tax", says manager Colette Nevin. "If you wish, you may have the card laminated for the inclusive price of $5.02 plus tax. We have two styles of card to choose from." And nearby at the UW Shop, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind is setting up today for its annual crocus sale. The plants are there from 11:30 to 2:30 today, priced at $3 apiece or four for $10. The crocus sales support such CNIB programs as low vision services and independent living. THIS WEEKEND: Let's see -- the drama department's "Oleanna" continues at 8 tonight and tomorrow night in the studio theatre, Humanities 180. The Ontario Ballet Theatre brings "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", a show for kids, to the Humanities Theatre tonight at 7 and Saturday at 1:30. Ani diFranco, "one-woman acoustic punk band", performs Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre. The volleyball Warriors host Guelph at 8:00 tonight in the Physical Activities Complex. Otherwise, all the interuniversity teams are on the road this evening, including both men's and women's basketball teams, playing tomorrow at Western. Chris Redmond Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo 888-4567 ext. 3004 credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca