Daily Bulletin, Thursday, January 19, 1995

NO CONFERENCE:  A provincial conference on "quality in post-secondary
education" was to start today, hosted by UW's Federation of Students.  The
idea was to bring together students, university leaders, and experts on
teaching.  The event has been postponed until "about August", says David
Drewe of the Federation.  He noted that student organizations have exhausted
their budgets by this point in the academic year, and are coming to the
end of their elected mandate anyway, while many university officials
needed longer notice to work a conference into their schedules.

T-SHIRTS are still available at Graphics Express for the rest of the week,
says manager Colette Nevin.  "Bring your favourite photo in to us and we
will make a colour copy of it and print it on a white cotton T-shirt for
the low price of $15.99 each."  The offer, made to draw attention to
the Express in its early days of operation, ends Sunday -- yes, Graphics
Express, in South Campus Hall, is open seven days a week.

IN THE MAIL yesterday and today:

     UW alumni are invited to luncheon with Peter Gzowski (of CBC fame)
     on February 16 at the King Edward Hotel in downtown Toronto.
     Tickets ($30) are available from the alumni affairs office.  The
     event is added to a calendar of alumni activities that already
     includes "Internet for You", an evening sponsored by the Vancouver
     alumni chapter on February 1, and a "hospitality suite" sponsored
     by Toronto-area accounting alumni on February 25.

     The second Faculty of Arts lecture of this academic year is set for
     February 28 at 7:30 p.m.  The speaker: William Chadwick, of the
     department of drama and speech communication.

     St. Jerome's College is disconnecting some of its UW phone
     numbers: ext. 2954 (director of residence), ext. 6866 (registrar),
     ext. 3401 (business office), and ext. 6596 (dean).  That leaves
     just one UW extension number at the college, ext. 6593, for the
     president and the dean.  Otherwise, you've got to phone St. Jerome's
     people through the college's own switchboard, 884-8110.

     The board of governors executive committee will meet next Tuesday,
     in preparation for the February 7 meeting of the full board.  Among
     the agenda items: "Investment Objectives and Policy Statement for
     UW Endowment Funds".

MARDI GRAS comes February 17 -- a celebration sponsored by the Community
Campaign, offering Louisiana food, jazz, games of chance and a "silent
auction".  Volunteer coordinator for the event is Meredith McGinnis of
the distance education office, who's looking for lots of help for a period
of about two and a half hours that evening.  "Anyone interested should
call me at ext. 3307," she says. "No special skills required -- just an
enthusiastic outlook and the desire to have fun."

SPEAKING TODAY is Frank Tompa of the computer science department.  His
talk, "Text Searching Technology and the Oxford English Dictionary", is
sponsored by the Computer Science Club and starts at 4:30 in Davis Centre
room 1302.  The CSC notes: "The Oxford English Dictionary is a work 
without parallel in the world.  When it came time to computerize it, a
team at the University of Waterloo developed some sophisticated search
techniques.  Come and hear about this exciting research."

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