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Wednesday, December 18, 1996

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A day for Christmas parties

"We're planning on having an open house (coffee and Christmas cookies) here at the credit union," writes the organization's manager, Peter Robson. And everybody's welcome. Where? General Services Complex room 116. When? Today, "from 11 a.m. 'til say mid-afternoon." The event might provide a chance not just to get outside a couple of cookies, but to find out what a credit union is and whether the Faculty and Staff (Waterloo) Credit Union Ltd., the official name of the UW organization, might be of help to you.

There are other parties today too -- everything from an open house at the distance education office, to which people from departments across campus have been invited, to a University Club lunch for the clients of the mature student services office.

Renison principal will stay

Gail Cuthbert Brandt, principal of Renison College since 1992, is to stay in office into the new millennium. Cuthbert Brandt's appointment for a second five-year term was announced by the college yesterday. Said a statement in the name of Michael Carty, chair of the Renison board of governors: "Her reappointment was overwhelmingly endorsed by the constituencies of the Renison family and by the University community." The new five-year term begins July 1, 1997.

About this "Acrobat" thing

Web users trying to take a look at (for example) the report of the "Smith panel" on Ontario universities, released earlier this week, will have discovered that they can't read it without a piece of software called Adobe Acrobat Reader. Other agencies besides the education ministry also use the Acrobat software to guarantee that their documents will be delivered across the Web in the pretty format they want.

If you don't have Acrobat on your machine, you can get it by downloading it from UW's PC Depot or Mac Depot, whichever suits your computer. Carol Vogt, of UW's information systems and technology crew, has created an information page at http://www.dcs.uwaterloo.ca/ec/acrobat/acrobat.htm that should help people do that.

Local volunteers are wanted

Current requests from the Volunteer Action Centre: For more information, the VAC can be reached at 742-8610. And there are plenty of tasks going begging besides these; the VAC exists to mask work that need doing with the skills and interests of people who'd like to volunteer to make Kitchener-Waterloo a better place.

Thought you'd like to know

The ministry of education and training has a new deputy minister, former teacher and school board administrator Veronica Lacey. There's also a new organizational structure in the ministry; a chart is available on its Web site (but only in Adobe Acrobat format, as noted above). A key person in the organization, from the university point of view, is David Trick, assistant deputy minister for the postsecondary education division.

There will be schoolchildren on campus today for a couple of performances in the Humanities Theatre, at 10:00 and 1:30. The show is put on by Touring Players Theatre of Canada, and is based on the adventures of Franklin the Turtle. (If you have kids, you know all about Franklin; and if you don't, you don't want to.) Today's gripping dramas are based on such episodes as "Franklin Is Messy" and "Franklin Is Bossy".

CAR

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