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Tuesday, July 23, 1996

This fall's non-credit courses

The fall calendar is out from UW's continuing education office, listing more than 50 non-credit courses on topics that range from English grammar to relational databases.

Courses are listed in categories: "personal development", "professional development", "business communications", "computing skills" -- oh, and "Just for Kids", a category first introduced this spring, which includes computing training for children as young as 3. Something new in October is a "Lego Dacta Workshop", run by Rob Dickson and Bill Baer, who are busy right now managing the Engineering Science Quest camp:

This highly innovative workshop will appeal to students who are interested in learning about leading-edge technologies. Participants will build objects out of LEGO that contain devices such as gears, motors, lights, alarms and heat sensors. Then, working in pairs and using the educational software program LEGO Dacta;, they will write a computer program to control their objects.

Among the adult courses in the calendar: "Managing Chronic Pain", "Writing for Publication", "Conflict Management", "Fund-raising for Not-for-profit Organizations", "Introductory Japanese", "Introduction to Local Area Networks", "Programming in C".

Staff, faculty and students get a discount on the list price for non-credit courses, which start as low as $40 for some of the kids' courses and run up to a high of $395 for one of the business courses. More information: ext. 4002.

Parking lot work begins

Construction should be starting this week, says parking manager Elaine Koolstra, on changes to parking lot H. Part of the lot -- now occupied only by people who pay for monthly permits, mostly staff and faculty -- is to be changed to a visitor lot with a kiosk and an hourly rate.

Says Koolstra: "People who have permits to park in H lot should be aware that they may be asked to use an alternate entrance than they are used to or may face barricades and so on through the construction time."

Local volunteers are needed

Needs listed this week by the Volunteer Action Centre:

Fundraising assistant who "would make community contacts regarding fund-raising, in order to increase awareness of the agency's crime prevention programs. This is a great opportunity to gain work experience and to upgrade your skills in an office setting." Two hours a week. Listing 031-1650.
Publicity and media volunteer for the Kidney Foundation: "updating advertisements, maintaining media contacts and promoting public awareness campaigns". Three hours a week. Listing 089-1662.
Gardeners, to help "a Kitchener organization which provides safe, quality therapeutic riding programs for disabled persons". Needed is someone to do watering and look after plants, two hours a week. Listing 116-1639.

For more information -- and more opportunities -- the VAC can be reached at 742-8610.

Jokes tonight, closed tomorrow

"Hilarity for Charity" live improv comedy night comes to Federation Hall this evening. The show, featuring "Theatre on the Edge", starts at 8:00. Tickets are available in advance at the Federation of Students office, the mathematics coffee-and-doughnut shop (isn't that "the Right Angle Cafe" now?), the engineering C-and-D, and the environmental studies coffee shop, or at the door. Proceeds go to international development in Guyana through Youth Challenge International.

All graphic services outlets will open late -- at 9:30 a.m. -- tomorrow; staff will begin the day with a training session. That includes the copy centres in Math and Computer, the Davis Centre, Engineering, Humanities, the Dana Porter Library, Environmental Studies, and South Campus Hall (Graphics Express).

CAR

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