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Monday, April 1, 1996

Now that April's here

I'm cancelling the literary quotation about "Aprille with his shoures soute" -- there is nothing "sweet" about "showers" of snow on April Fools' Day! However, in other respects today is a day of bright (and not-so-bright) new beginnings:

The future of the Canadian university

That's the topic of a panel discussion to be held at Village I tonight, organized by Village residents and including some people who ought to have things worth hearing. UW president James Downey has been invited; so has Joy Cohnstaedt of the Ontario Council on University Affairs; so has Michael Burns, executive director of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. Art Headlam, former director of research services at UW, and John Alan Lee of the University of Toronto complete the announced panel. The event starts at 7:30 in the "red" cafeteria.

Salaries at St. Jerome's

On Friday afternoon, St. Jerome's College made the required disclosure of salaries that are over $100,000, putting two names on the Waterloo list in addition to the 52 names announced by UW itself. They are Doug Letson, president of the college, whose 1995 salary of $143,353 puts him in third place at Waterloo overall, and Ken McLaughlin, professor of history, at $101,814.

Continuing education courses

The continuing education office offers a wide variety of personal development, professional development, business communications and computing skills courses, and its calendar of spring offerings has just appeared.

Courses in May and June include Acting, Homicide, Managing Individual Differences (Meyers-Briggs), Strategic Planning, Work Teams to Support Total Quality, Introduction to Conflict Management Skills and Strategies, Promotional Writing, Developing Effective Presentation Skills, Making Information Available on the World Wide Web, Introduction to Corel Draw 6.0, and Microsoft Office. And new this season are four courses for children (in computing, art and storytelling).

A fee discount of 25 per cent is offered to full-time UW staff and faculty. Copies of the calendar are available from the continuing education office, phone ext. 4002 (or check the office's Web pages).

What else is happening?

Now, about that trivia

In Friday's Bulletin I mentioned a note from a faculty member who had urged me to eliminate the "trivia" in the Daily Bulletin and stick with serious news. I asked for comments. My thanks to the 41 people who have e-mailed me with their opinions -- staff, students, faculty, department heads, even one faculty dean, who wrote, "I think folks should lighten up. It's administrivia that should be banned!"

"Lighten up" was the general feeling. Although three of the 41 people said the recent "birthdays on the same day" theme was wearing kind of thin, otherwise the vote was unanimous that light stuff, even irrelevant stuff sometimes, seasons the news pleasantly. "It makes the doom and gloom a little easier to bear," one staff member wrote. And another said: "I could certainly use something amusing after seeing the salaries displayed today."

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

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