Orientation activities have been rolling for more than a day now. There are special events for each faculty, each Village residence and each church college, which occasional campus-wide activities such as Friday afternoon's Frosh Olympics. I'm told that the full schedule was rather late getting back from the print shop but should be available around campus today.
Of interest as Tuesday heats up: a pancake breakfast at Village 2 (which should be over by now), noon-hour pizza in the Poets Pub for first-year engineers, a Village 1 barbecue from 4 to 6 (do I sense a common theme here?), and tonight, a range of social events that sees science students heading for Loose Change Louie's, arts students trying out Laser Quest and the population of Village 1 enjoying a Quad Hop.
The English Language Proficiency Examination will be given tomorrow, in four sessions: at 9:30 for engineering, 1 p.m. for arts, 2:30 for science, and 4 p.m. for environmental studies, applied health sciences and mathematics. All the tests are in the main gym of the Physical Activities Complex. (If you miss tomorrow's ELPE, your next chance will be Thursday, December 7, the registrar's office says.)
Here's something just for you. The Federation of Students has kindly agreed to provide a couple of prizes, which I'll forward to the first two bona-fine first-year students I hear from by electronic mail at credmond@watserv1. This offer will be repeated in the Daily Bulletin each morning until it's claimed.
Your new student identification card, the WatCard, is available in Village I and the Student Life Centre, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. You get your "validation sticker" when you register, which is to say, when you pay your fees.
Graduate students are registering this week too. There was a little lineup outside the university graduate office this morning -- it doesn't usually open for customers until 10, but is keeping longer hours during the early-September rush.
On the agenda are the predictable things, including reports from the president and provost, deans' reports on changes in their faculties, and appointments to committees. In confidential session, the committee will discuss something headed "Westhues Matter", presumably part of the continuing unrest in the department of sociology, where professor Ken Westhues is at the centre of charges and counter-complaints.
Chris Redmond
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