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Thursday, November 16, 1995

Talking about acid rain

With a lecture and a reception, UW's library today celebrates the official opening of a major archive about environmental activism in Canada. The files of the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain -- the largest environmental group in the country, shortly after its founding in 1981 -- were donated to UW last year

There will be an open house from 9:30 to 11 today in the Doris Lewis Rare Book Room, on the ground floor of the Dana Porter Library. Then at 11:30 Michael Perley, who was executive director of the Coalition (and now heads the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco), will speak in the Humanities Theatre. His talk is about international environmental advocacy; everybody is welcome.

The acid rain papers occupy more than 100 boxes. Organizing the material and producing a "finding aid", the key document that allows access to information in an archive, took a year's work by Jane Britton of the UW archives staff. The result is available through UW's Electronic Library as well as in the rare books room itself.

Board executive will meet

The executive committee of UW's board of governors meets this afternoon (Needles Hall rom 3004, 1:30 p.m.). It's expected to approve changes to the benefit plans offered to future part-time and temporary staff and faculty members at UW, along the lines of proposals circulated on campus a few weeks ago. Also on the agenda is the proposed early retirement plan that's a big part of UW's cost-cutting strategy for 1996. Announcement of the precise terms of an early retirement program isn't expected until after the Ontario government says -- around the end of this month -- just what it's going to do about university grants next year.

As Gordon Cormack marks a birthday

Some things happening while the snow continues to blow:

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

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