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Tuesday, September 19, 1995

Athletics has a new name

Memo issued by the provost yesterday:
Effective immediately, and with the support of the Executive Council, the Department of Athletics is being renamed the Department of Athletics and Recreational Services. This name change recognises that recreational services form an important part of the programs offered by the Department.

If UWinfo looks different to you

If you're used to reading the Daily Bulletin, or hunting other information, on the UWinfo gopher, prepare for a change. On many campus computing systems, the "uwinfo" command will be changed in the next few days so that it points the user to the UWinfo Webspace rather than to the gopher. (Other computing systems won't be making the change until the end of the fall term.)

If you type "uwinfo" and find yourself looking at an unfamiliar page, you're in the Webspace and ready to use "lynx" to navigate the World Wide Web. The essential keys are the arrows: up and down to move through the page you're seeing, right and left to enter a Web link or go back again.

The UWinfo gopher will still exist, and there are ways to reach it, including Turbogopher and PCgopher as well as Unix commands. And the Daily Bulletin will, for now, continue to be available in a gopher version as well as the more powerful Web version. But the gopher is fast becoming obsolete -- see the first item on the UWinfo gopher menu for details.

New president for NSERC

UW's first provost, Tom Brzustowski, will take over October 1 as president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He becomes the second former top administrator at UW to head a major federal scientific agency. Arthur Carty was dean of research at UW until he was named last year to head the National Research Council. Industry minister John Manley announced Brzustowski's appointment last week. He will succeed Peter Morand, whose term at NSERC ends September 30. Brzustowski was a professor of mechanical engineering at UW for 25 years, and vice-president (academic) from 1975 to 1987, also holding the title of provost for his last few months in that office.

Happening at food services

Notes from Michele Grondin in the food services department:

Reminder to co-op students

Work reports from the spring work term are due today at 4:30. And tomorrow, the "master copy" of the co-op record for each student who's looking for winter term placement should be available, starting at 10 a.m. at the co-op department in Needles Hall.

Continuing among the Feds

The Federation of Students continues its "Fed Awareness Days" and open house. Just for example, there's the Women's Centre:
We have books, files, pamphlets, magazines, periodicals, publications and videos. The resources include such topics as environmental/peace issues, violence against women, safety, health issues, sexuality, feminist theory, spirituality and much more. Our books and magazines contain fiction, writings and poetry by Native women, Black women, lesbian women, Canadian women and women around the world. Our new resources include a T.V., VCR, video library and access to the Internet, all of which will be useful for discussion groups and workshops.

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

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