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Thursday, November 9, 1995

White stuff, slippery stuff

Yesterday's weather was a chilling preview of what we'll be getting over the next few months. I note that sand bins have appeared at the parking lot entrances -- help yourself if your wheels are slipping and spinning on this winter's ice.

Perhaps it's not too early in the season to mention UW's policy on closing because of winter storms. In summary: if the Waterloo County Board of Education closes all its schools in bad weather, then UW is closed; and if not, not. The full statement about weather emergencies can be found on UWinfo under "Documents", and we'll print the text in the Gazette some time soon.

No sex in the snow

This isn't another paragraph about yesterday's weather on campus! It's a report that the alumni affairs office has had to cancel the Friday night talk by Michael Adams, co-founder of Environics Research, who was to be the highlight speaker of the weekend. Sex in the Snow is the title of his book, soon to be published, and of the announced talk, which would have dealt with social and consumer trends and the way people's opinions influence governments in this wintry nation. The talk has been cancelled for lack of advance ticket sales.

However, that leaves plenty of other Homecoming activities, from The Groove Daddys (playing the Bombshelter on Friday night) to the Naismith basketball tournament all weekend.

So where's the fire?

Nowhere, says safety director Kevin Stewart to those who might be wondering why they saw some fire trucks on campus yesterday morning. Stewart says each of the Waterloo Fire Department's four platoons will be visiting campus for a morning during the next few weeks, to upgrade their training on the alarm systems in the UW residences. He says the training, presented by the safety office and the "controls group" from the plant operations department, will remind firefighters of what they should expect from the alarm system. Look for the second platoon of fire trucks to be arriving next Wednesday.

Happening on Alan George's birthday

It's a real turn-off

Waste Reduction Week continues, with Conservation Day. Patti Cook, UW's waste management coordinator, sends this exhortation:
We are going to monitor our energy load! Turn off those lights (when rooms are not in use), copies, non-networked computers and printers, unplug coffee makers when going home for the day. Let's see how much difference we can make!

And finally: we remember

A Remembrance Day service will be held tomorrow from 10:45 to 11:15 a.m. in the chapel of St. Bede at Renison College. Civic ceremonies for Remembrance Day take place Saturday, the 77th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, at the cenotaph in "uptown" Waterloo.

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

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