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The holiday part: Monday, September 2, is a public holiday, on which UW offices and most services will be closed. The libraries will be entirely closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The Customer Support Centre in information systems and technology (formerly "computing services") will be open Saturday, but closed Sunday and Monday.
Open 24 hours a day, as always at UW, are the university police (phone ext. 4911, or 888-4911) and the turnkey desk in the Student Life Centre (phone ext. 4434 or 888-4434). Maintenance emergencies can be reported to ext. 3793.
There are special business hours for the parking office this weekend: they'll be open Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. and Monday from 8:30 to 4:30. The bookstore and UW Shop will also be open Monday, noon to 4 p.m.
And it's back to work on Tuesday for pretty much everybody.
Parents will have a chance to check out UW at a reception on Monday as some 3,600 first-year students settle into campus life. The parents' reception from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Federation Hall is an opportunity to learn more about UW and meet president James Downey. As well, representatives from the six faculties and other departments and services will be on hand to provide information. There will be welcoming addresses by Downey and Mario Bellabarba, president of the Federation of Students, at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Parking in several lots near Fed Hall and the Villages will be free on Monday.
Undergraduate registration begins Tuesday in the small gym of the Physical Activities Complex. Official registration days are Tuesday (science in the morning, engineering in the afternoon); Wednesday (arts in the morning, environmental studies and independent studies in the afternoon); Thursday (mathematics in the morning, applied health sciences in the afternoon); and Friday (anybody who didn't get there at the right time earlier in the week). If you're already on campus today, you can register at the cashiers' office in Needles Hall.
Many of the issues explored in the one-hour play are preceded by the word sexual: harassment, orientation, attitudes, assault, transmitted diseases. Relationships are the core of the action. But, true to the reality of undergraduate life, problems with alcohol play a part as well.
The single-and-sexy characters have been doing it for eight years. Falling in and out of love, getting drunk, getting pregnant. Picking fights. Helping each other survive. The object is to raise awareness among students about these issues, and to point the way to resources and programs, both on and off campus, which might help deal with them.
Denise Angove of UW's health services calls "Single and Sexy" an effective alternative to the standard orientation-week health lecture that students often tuned out. "I think it's as simple as students speaking to students, in the language that students understand." And though a synopsis of the action may sound depressingly serious, the actual performance is, in a word, fun. It skips from sight gag to song to dream scene to TV parody in the flick of a sneaker sole.
The play is updated each year under the guidance of director Darlene Spencer, a student when the show was created and now a lecturer in UW's drama department. "The goal is to break down stereotypes and keep people listening," Spencer says. For example, audiences often expect Nick, the jock, to be the date rapist. It gives preconceived ideas a jolt when the rapist turns out to be Curtis, "just your average guy," while Nick is gay.
Billed as the highlight of frosh week, "Single and Sexy" draws audiences of 2,000 to 3,000 each year at UW, while performances are also staged at Wilfrid Laurier University.
There will be a performance Monday at 2:00 and more shows later in the week: Tuesday at 11 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., and Thursday at 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., all in the Theatre of the Arts. The show hits WLU's Theatre Auditorium on Wednesday at 11 and 2.
It's been hectic, says Linda Bluhm in the human resources department, who's been coordinating the paperwork on all those retirements. Today, she notes, is the last day on the job in HR for co-op student Diane Storey, who's been "cool, calm and collected, a genuine life-saver for us during a period of unbelievable workload".
To mention just a few of the well-known faculty members whose retirement date is September 1: Ralph Haas in civil engineering, Russel Legge at St. Paul's College, Ian McGee in applied mathematics, U. S. R. Murty in combinatorics and optimization, Harry Sullivan in mechanical engineering, Muriel Vogel-Sprott in psychology.
Also leaving are Anne Dagg in independent studies, Pat Bishop in kinesiology, Reg Friesen in chemistry, Bob Porter in classical studies, Ed Moskal in pure math, and many many more.
Clair's teaching career began in a one-room school house in rural Saskatchewan, in the nineteen-thirties. Following service with the RCAF in World War Two, he studied and then taught at the College of Optometry in Toronto. He helped establish the School of Optometry at the University of Waterloo in 1967, retiring in 1982.He is survived by his wife, Lois, and their two sons. Visitation at the Edward R. Good Funeral Home, 171 King Street South, Waterloo, will be on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. A public memorial service will be held in the funeral home chapel on Tuesday at 2:00 with Rev. Paul Ellingham officiating.
Memorial donations may be made to the school of optometry or to the Canadian Optometric Education Trust Fund.
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