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Tuesday, July 18, 1995

Waterloo wins art prizes

Four UW fine arts students and alumni won top prizes at the recent 34th annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition held at Nathan Phillips Square. They were among 500 artists participating in the juried exhibition, held July 7-9.

Eva McCauley, a fine arts graduate student, took first place in the portrait category, while Darlene Cole, who has just completed her master of fine arts degree, was cited for best student art overall. Top prize for drawing went to Dana Holst, a recent fine arts graduate who also finished first runner-up in the best student art overall category. Mike Wickerson, another fine arts graduate, won the sculpture competition.

Coming from food services

Here's the new Value Plus booklet from the food services department, which is soon going to be announcing Web pages to provide information about its hours, menus and special events.

The booklet describes the meal plans that will be available this fall, noting that a student with the new WatCard (or WATACARD, as the booklet calls it several times) can eat both in the residence cafeterias and in food outlets around campus. Off campus too: at Casey's, East Side Mario's or Pizza Pizza. And something new: the card will be good for KFC delivery (if it's chicken you eat) and also for Waterloo Taxi (if you're chicken to drive after eating, presumably).

One other development in food services that isn't mentioned in the booklet, but a highly reliable source told me a few days ago: a Tim Horton Donut outlet will be opening in the Optometry building before the end of the summer. There hasn't been any food service in that building until now, except vending machines.

Volunteers are wanted

The local Volunteer Action Centre, at 742-8610, would like to hear from people interested in these opportunities:

Reader -- a volunteer willing to work with a blind or visually impaired person is needed to read biographies, National Geographic, and other books from the client's library to the client. Volunteer would work with minimal supervision. Two hours per week for one year is required. Listing 012-1280.
Program assistant -- volunteers are needed to assist a group of seniors at a recreation centre, participating in different leisure activities. Volunteers would also assist staff in conducting the activities, and may participate in the activities when necessary. Two hours per week, on Tuesdays or Fridays during the day, for 6 months is required. Listing 119-1286.

Meetings on human resources

Here's a reminder of the open meetings announced by the human resources working group of the Commission on Institutional Planning.

The first meeting is tomorrow, Wednesday, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of the Student Life Centre. A second meeting will follow on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. in Davis Centre room 1302, and a third meeting happens in the fall, September 13 at noon hour.

To readers of the Bulletin

Would there be any interest in a voice version of the Daily Bulletin? Users would be able to dial a phone number and hear a recording that might be just a reading of the day's Bulletin or might be a different, brief UW newscast. Please send comments to the editor. No guarantee that anything will happen, even if the results are enthusiastically positive, but I'm interested in exploring the idea.

And while I'm asking questions: does anybody ever follow some of the more exotic hyperlinks that I've been sneaking into the Bulletin in recent days? Did anyone look at the picture of the Bastille, or the page about the Star-Spangled Banner, or the Arlo Guthrie home page, or the aerial view of the SkyDome?

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca

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