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Wednesday, November 6, 1996

Undergrads can preregister

Undergraduate students who are on campus now, and will be back in the spring term of 1997, can preregister today through Friday for their spring term courses. Here's why and how:

From program and course selections submitted at Pre-registration, a Student Registration Form/Fee Statement showing your schedule of classes, their times and rooms, will be produced and mailed to you. This will enable you to complete registration by mail and go directly to classes when you arrive on campus.
Select your courses using the Course Offerings List and the Legend of Abbreviations. Please note that some courses listed in the Calendar may not be offered.
Once you have selected your courses, enter all the requested information on the Pre-registration Form. Be sure to list courses in order of preference. Also, for each course selected, please enter the "Course Index Number" in the appropriate place on your Pre-registration Form. This number appears on the Course Offerings List with each course entry. You should be using the most recent copy of your personal computer-produced timetable (Student Registration Form) for Pre-registration. You are asked to present this form with your New Course Requests to the appropriate Departmental Advisor.
If you don't have your most recent timetable, you should check for it at the Registrar's Office in Needles Hall (Engineering and Optometry students should check with your departmental office). If required, another copy of this form may be reproduced for you.
Students should read the faculty and program regulations carefully to be sure that degree requirements are understood and met in the manner required by your program. If you are thinking of changing your Faculty next term you should contact the appropriate advisor of the Faculty to which you wish to transfer.

And the registrar's office has these other memos of importance:

Winter Schedules and Fee Statements will be mailed the week of November 11. Avoid having these sent home, submit your local address to the Registrar's Office by November 7 if it is not already on your file. St.Jerome's and Renison College students should contact their Registrar regarding the distribution of Winter schedules and fee statements.
Avoid line-ups for Winter Registration. Pay your fees before December 15 using the fee statement which will be mailed to you. Cheques may be post-dated to January 1, 1997. Adjustments for additional courses will billed after January 17; adjustments for reduced course loads will be refunded after February 21.
Second instalments of OSAP funds will be available the week of December 9, 1996 providing payment of Winter registration is completed at the same time. Please pick up in the Student Awards Office, 2nd floor, NH from 10:00 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. daily.

US voters return Clinton

American voters yesterday reelected Democrat Bill Clinton as president of the United States, but left Republicans in control of Congress, though with a reduced majority. The result, says the news service Academe Today, is that "the President can expect continued attacks on some of his Administration's priorities, including the AmeriCorps national-service program and the direct-lending student-loan program. Balancing the budget is likely to remain a key issue for the next two years, and could make it difficult for President Clinton to win approval of the increases he wants for a host of federal education programs. . . . The Republican victories insure a continued focus on at least one issue that is potentially embarrassing to higher education: the escalation of college costs."

Students overwhelmingly supported Clinton, says Brown University's Daily Herald in Providence, Rhode Island. Across the United States, Clinton drew about 50 per cent of the vote and Republican challenger Bob Dole 40 per cent, with the rest mostly going to independents Ross Perot and Ralph Nader.

Voters in many states also had to make decisions on local issues. In California, "Proposition 209", also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative, was approved. Its effect: to forbid affirmative action programs financed by state or local governments. Affirmative action at the University of California has been especially contentious.

Human resources holds a party

There's an open house today, from 3:00 to 4:30, at the human resource department's offices in the General Services Complex (facing the north door of the Davis Centre). "Join us for a cup of coffee and a light snack," the invitation says, "as we celebrate the amalgamation of Payroll and Human Resources into one department."

Says a HR newsletter that was distributed this week: "Our geographic and departmental separation meant that employee records were duplicated and clients were often unsure where to go for information and service. Our 'merger' will mean considerable time and paper savings and better service to the university community.

"Payroll moved to renovated space in General Services Complex earlier this month. . . . The reception area for the entire department is still conveniently located in GSC 130."

Also today at Waterloo

Central stores holds a sale of surplus UW property -- from computer hardware to watches -- from 11:30 to 1:30 at East Campus Hall (off Phillip Street).
The Student Life Centre presents its 21st annual Arts and Crafts Sale, today through Friday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Manitoba writer Di Brandt reads from her work at 7:30 this evening in the chapel at Conrad Grebel College.
The astronomy group holds its monthly open house tonight, with a slide show at 8 p.m. (Physics building room 308) followed by a tour of the rooftop observatory. "Dress warmly," coordinator Jean Giannakopoulou advises.

And co-op students are living in suspense today. Job ranking forms for the winter term were issued yesterday morning and due back by the end of the day; match results (did you get a job or didn't you?) are to be posted Monday afternoon.

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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