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Wednesday, February 14, 1996

The things we do for love

Dress in red, for one thing, on this Valentine's Day. "Dress in Red Day" was cooked up by Marsha Wendell and her colleagues in the arts undergraduate office, and has spread across the arts faculty. Participants pay $2 -- the money goes to the Heart and Stroke Foundation -- and if red isn't your colour, you can dress any way you want, and buy a sticker (from any arts undergrad or graduate secretary) to show your support.

And everywhere, of course, Valentine's Day is for lovers. People will be giving lace and chocolates today, and surely somebody on campus will be getting engaged -- drop me a note if it's you and you'd like a mention in tomorrow's Bulletin, please.

Special Valentine food is on the menu at Brubaker's; at the University Club (dinner dance tonight, $29.95); at the Laurel Room (brunch $10.50). And in the Village cafeterias, it'll be Italian night, Italian presumably being the language of lovers.

Tonight, The New Quarterly sponsors "Amour vs. Love" -- see page 8 of the Gazette for more about the evening of "unconventional love stories".

The hockey Warriors lost

Somehow the hockey results in today's Gazette got mangled. Tony Martins in the athletics department advises that in fact the team lost to the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in two exhibition games this weekend. Scores were 3-2 and 4-0 for Alaska, not 3-2 and 5-0 for UW as reported.

The hockey Warriors have clinched first place in the OUAA Far West and will now host Western on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and Windsor on Sunday at 2 p.m. Both games are at the Columbia Icefield.

On Tim Ireland's birthday

The first computer, almost

It's the 50th anniversary of ENIAC, which (according to a court ruling) wasn't the very first computer, but which was certainly one of the important ancestors of today's machines. The "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer" was built at the University of Pennsylvania, which today re-enacts the 1946 unveiling of ENIAC and begins 18 months of special celebrations. The Association for Computing Machinery is meeting in Philadelphia this week and is joining in the observances.

Senate elections are under way

As undergraduate students elect five members of the university senate -- voting winds up today, in tandem with the Federation of Students elections -- faculty members are about to do their own voting.

Three seats are up for election: one representing faculty at large, one for the science faculty and one for the engineering faculty. Candidates' names appear in today's Gazette and on UWinfo under "Departments", then "Secretariat".

Eight senate seats have been filled by acclamation: faculty members from applied health sciences (Stephen McColl and Paul Eagles), arts (Peter Woolstencroft), mathematics (Ian Goulden), St. Jerome's College (Michael Higgins) and Renison College (Judith Miller), and graduate students (Edmund Dengler and Serag GadelRab). A faculty seat from environmental studies remains vacant.

The Year of the Rat

The season of Chinese new year is approaching. Monday, February 19, would be the day; so Sunday afternoon and evening, the Chinese Student and Scholar Association will celebrate at Federation Hall with a buffet dinner, entertainment, children's activities, karaoke and dancing. I'll say more in the Bulletin later this week; meanwhile, tickets ($6.50 for adults, $3 for children) are available from CSSA executive members, including Joe Xiaohui Lu (jxlu@barrow) and Hongmei Zhu (ext. 6679).

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

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