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Friday, December 6, 1996
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Fourteen (and more) not forgotten
On the seventh anniversary of the
"Montréal
massacre", in which 14 women students were shot to death at the
Ecole Polytechnique, Canada remembers -- and engineering schools remember
most of all. December 6 each year has now become the focus for the
White Ribbon
Movement designed to end violence against women.
A ceremony of remembrance will begin at 5:00 this evening in
Siegfried Hall at St. Jerome's College. All are welcome.
Says Heather Calder of the Federation of Students: "While we
planned the Memorial Ceremony with the specific intention of
remembering the fourteen who died in Montreal, the ceremony has
been changed slightly this year to include the lighting of a candle
for all victims of violence. . . . All people who have been touched
by violence need to be recognized and remembered. Please take the
time to do so by pinning a white ribbon to the display in the
Student Life Centre, or by attending the Memorial Ceremony."
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As fall term
exams
begin
The season of ordeals begins this morning with exams in such courses as
Biology 470, Health Studies 442 and Chemical Engineering 023, and
continues through December 20. I noticed a knot of worried-looking
students in the lobby of Arts Lecture at 8:30 this morning, and I
suspect they're putting pen to paper even as you read this Bulletin.
Here's to you, if you have to answer exam questions today (or mark
them tonight).
The talk of the campus
The e-mail messages about the so-called "Good Times virus" are
flying again -- there's a burst of them every so often, it seems.
And every time, the experts explain that Good Times is
a hoax or
an urban legend. It doesn't really exist, and computer users
need not fear it.
Three people associated with St. Jerome's College --
Tom Bishop, Charlene Diehl-Jones and Gary Draper -- have announced
the launch of a chapbook publisher to be
called Trout Lily Press. Its first two books will make their debut on
Sunday at 2:00 in the Common Room of St Jerome's.
Arriving from Trout Lily are You
Are Here by Linda Kenyon of Waterloo, editor of UW's alumni
magazine
(a book of short fiction, with photos by
Ron Hewson),
and Dead Letters by Tom Eadie of Calgary, formerly
of the UW library staff (a book of poems).
Books are for sale ($7.50 each) and authors will be reading from and
autographing their books. And there will be wine and cheese.
The December meeting of the UW senate, which would have been held
on Monday the 16th, has been cancelled; the executive committee made
that official earlier this week. The executive has the authority to
act in senate's name on anything urgent, and things that aren't urgent
will wait for the January meeting.
That Monday before Christmas
Many UW departments are going to be closed Monday, December 23,
which is officially the last working day before the long Christmas
holiday.
The graphic
services department wants the world to know that -- in spite
of what a recent listing in the Gazette said -- it's not
going to be among them.
"We will have reduced services in
some areas," says director Linda Norton, "but we have staff working
in most areas, particularly production. This is really important to
emphasize because of the course note business. . . . We want to
avoid faculty having the impression that their course notes won't be
produced in time." Detailed hours for copy centres on the 23rd, when
many UW departments will be closed, are to be announced shortly.
And financial services is issuing this important note:
The financial services department will be closed for Christmas holidays
from December 23 until January 3, inclusive. To ensure that reimbursement
cheques can be issued and delivered before the Christmas break, travel
claim forms and requests for payment must be received in financial
services, ECH, by Monday, December 9.
Every effort will be made to process reimbursement claims received after
that date, but there is no guarantee that you will receive those cheques
before FSO's last business day. If you have any questions or concerns
please contact Marga Brindley, financial services, ext: 6591.
CBC comedy troupe hits campus
There should be more than a few laughs in the Theatre of the Arts
tomorrow night, as the CBC radio comedy troupe
"Madly
Off in All Directions" tapes its second-season debut here for
broadcast in January.
Joining show host Lorne Elliott will be Carolyn Meehan of Second City,
Stuart McLean (with Stories from the Vinyl Café) and other
performers. The series features sketches, music, stand-up and improv
comedy, recitations and what are described as "humorous editorials".
It'll be heard through the winter in the time slot usually occupied by
the Royal Canadian Air Farce (10:30 on Saturday mornings on stereo,
1:00 on Sunday afternoons on the main radio network).
Tomorrow night's taping at UW starts at 8:00; tickets are $10 (students
$8) from the Humanities box office, 888-4908.
Also on St. Nicholas's Day
The Hildegard Marsden day care's craft and toy sale continues today in
the Davis Centre lounge.
Specials -- and noon-hour music from a student trio -- continue at the
bookstore in South Campus Hall.
Information meetings about individual pensions and benefits are
continuing: late tonight (9:30 to 11 p.m.) in Davis Centre
room 1302; Monday from noon to 1:30 in DC room 1304.
Nancy-Lou Patterson, retired from UW's department of fine arts, will
read from her new children's book, Barricade Summer, tomorrow
at 1:00 at the UW bookstore, as the pre-holiday event for the store's
Kids' Club.
Canadian Union of Public Employees local 793, which represents UW's staff
in plant operations and food services, gets the season officially
started with its Christmas dance on Saturday night in the Festival Room
of South Campus Hall.
And the staff association holds Winterfest on Sunday afternoon at the
Columbia Icefield (tickets were distributed through the association
office last week).
CAR