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Thursday, February 29, 1996

Well, the sun is shining

Looks like a gorgeous day for Make the Sun Shine In Day, organized by people across campus who want to bring on the end of winter by the carefree use of Beach Boys tapes, Hawaiian prints and tropical drinks.

"It's really worth a trip over here," says Wendy Stoneman in electrical and computer engineering. "Everything is decorated to the nines -- you'd think you were down south someplace." She denies that E&CE is actually going to have its noontime beach picnic outdoors, but look for them spread out on the second floor of the Davis Centre.

Anne Wagland writes from human resources:

Human Resources' theme is "Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer" -- and pretty much anything goes! Individuals will wear their favourite summer outfits, whether they be stylish, sporting or otherwise. We will be setting up a beach scene in reception; will play beachball volleyball in our main office; drink lemonade and munch on nachos and salsa, and listen to Juno award winning music from the last 10 years (with just a little Beach Boys thrown in for good measure). To cap the day off, we will adjourn to a country pub for supper and a cold beer -- a great way to end a long summer day!
Institutional analysis and planning will be operating a lemonade stand on the third floor of Needles Hall; enthusiasts in optometry are promising "a day on the Eyeland"; the bookstore has summery promotions in the windows; and so on and so on. Your coffee and other "bulk" drinks are 29 cents all day at food services in honour of the sunshine.

Make the Sun Shine In Day has been sparked by a campus-wide committee of staff, but really it's the sum total of little activities all over campus, making the most of February 29. You might say it's a bright idea.

Did you say February 29?

Yes, it's Leap Year Day, that extra day added to the calendar every four years to keep astronomers happy. And may we extend special greetings to Joe Heffernan of UW's grounds crew, who celebrates his tenth birthday today. Right: he was born on Leap Year Day in 1956.

Match game a success

In spite of the Tuesday night computer problems, co-op students got the word yesterday on whether they have been matched with spring term jobs. Olaf Naese of the co-op department tells the story:
Data prior to the original computer match run was recovered and so we were in a position to put the run through again. The list of students who were not matched was displayed at 2:40 p.m. (only 2 hours and 40 minutes later than we normally post it). The list of students with employment was displayed around 4:00 p.m. (only 1 hour later than we normally post it). So, thanks to some terrific sleuthing by Data Processing together with a number of Co-op Education people, we were able to get the results of the employer interviews out to the students today after all.

UGO becomes GSO

The university graduate office has a new name, "effective immediately", says a memo from the dean of graduate studies, Pat Rowe. It's now the graduate studies office, or GSO.

Lynn Judge, until now associate registrar (graduate studies), gets a new title as well: "director of graduate studies services". Rowe's memo notes that the director reports to the dean (not to the registrar of the university) and "is responsible for the administration of registrarial services for graduate studies and for the implementation of Senate regulations as they pertain to graduate studies throughout the University of Waterloo".

Partnerships conference begins

Today and tomorrow, the faculty of science sponsors a conference on "Science/Technology-Business/Law Partnerships" (love that punctuation). It's happening in Davis Centre room 1302, with talks and panels on such topics as innovation, patents, and the commercialization of technology. This morning's featured speaker is Ted Hagelin of Syracuse University, on "Marketing New Technologies: Lessons Learned from Case Studies Research". He'll be followed by Murray Moo-Young of UW's chemical engineering department, with "Biotechnology: A Case Study of Success and Failure".

Among other highlights are a student panel discussion this afternoon on "Leveraging your Educational Experience: Are Universities and Students Doing Enough?", and tonight's dinner with guest speakers Alex Murray and Barry McPherson of Wilfrid Laurier University (dean of business and dean of graduate studies, respectively). Tomorrow, things continue; Bob Gillham of UW's earth sciences department gives one of the talks, under the title "Planned Discovery: A Case Study of an Oxymoron".

Also happening this day

The 1996 Canadian Association of Physicists Lecture will be given at 10:30 (Physics room 150) by Gary Slater of the University of Ottawa. His topic: "Genetics, Physics, and the Human Genome Project".

The Potato People present "The Family Tree", a kids' show, at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre.

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

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