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Monday, April 22, 1996

Report on Friday's protest

Ultimately, there was a protest as everyone knows by now. Reports from campus and at the Community Day of Action rally in Waterloo and Kitchener indicate it was one of the most peaceful and uneventful held in the province to date. After the speeches, the gathering of about 600 marched from campus around the ring road to join with other Community Day of Action participants in uptown Waterloo. Chief organizer Stan Fogel called the day a success and told the campus rally that Premier Mike Harris would be presented with a Dishonorable Degree (unfurled to cheers) later this fall, after thousands in the education sector had signed it.

Earth Day celebrations today

The world keeps turning, and today is Earth Day (although some places the celebrations came yesterday instead, and others stretch it out to a full week). About the only thing happening on campus for the occasion, it appears, is a discussion at Conrad Grebel College tonight (7:00) under the title "How Can the United Nations Be Revitalized?"

On a wider front, here's what the World Wildlife Fund has to say:

This Earth Week, take a minute to say thank you to the individuals, corporations, govenrments and organizations who you know are actively working to protect the environment. If your municipal government is doing a goodj ob protecting sensitive natural areas from development, then tell them you appreciate their efforts. If your local grocer makes a point of stocking food produced without harmful pesticides and herbicides, thank him or her. Look around and find a few ways to respond positively to the initiatives that others are taking for a better environment.

Teaching and learning events

Two events are taking place on Thursday:

The teaching resource office offers a workshop on "Method, Laboratories, Case Studies: A First Course in Statistics", involving R. J. Mackay and R. W. Oldford of the statistics and actuarial science department. They'll talk about Stats 231 ("in the larger historical context of scientific method and explanation"). It starts at 1:15 in Math and Computer room 5136. To register: trace@watserv1, or ext. 3132.
The distance education office is bringing in a satellite teleconference on Quality Distance Education, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin ("present and future distance education efforts, what we have learned and where we go from here"). It runs from 2 to 4 in Davis Centre room 1302. Information and registration: jmoser@corr1, or ext. 2025.

Where the jobs are

Here's a note from Kerry Mahoney, who manages the career information centre in Needles Hall:

I am interested in finding out what web job sites people on campus have found for various faculties/disciplines. I understand that some UW pages have made links to valuable job listings and I would like to hear about them. Our job listings page is very well used by students who are in the job search process. Perhaps those on campus could let me know of sites as they find htem and I could add them to our Career Services page as well. My e-mail address is kmahoney@nh1adm.

And this just in

The hot water shutdown in Matthews Hall that began this morning is scheduled to continue until 4 p.m. tomorrow. (Or as they say on television: Celluloid factory explodes -- no film at eleven.)

Chris Redmond -- credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
and Martin Van Nierop -- vanierop@nh3adm.uwaterloo.ca
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
(519) 888-4567 ext. 3004

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