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Friday, November 8, 1996

Cool weekend for Homecoming

They call it "Homecoming", but the events scheduled for this weekend aren't just for alumni coming "home" to Waterloo. People already on campus are invited too. I see the khaki-and-green "Big Tent" already set up beside Federation Hall, where The Travoltas will play tonight and Big Rude Jake on Saturday.

Homecoming is even for children, who will especially enjoy the the "community skating party" at the Columbia Icefield tomorrow from 11:00 to 1:00. Kids can also get free facepainting at the UW Shop in South Campus Hall tomorrow, from noon to 4, and children's author Ken Nutt will be visiting there at 2 p.m.

The entertainment highlight of Homecoming is "An Evening with Red Green" in the Humanities Theatre tonight -- tickets are sold out, organizers say. Starting at the same time, and just a little more serious, is "Holiness, Wholeness, and Authentic Spirituality for Today", the annual Graduates' Lecture at St. Jerome's College, to be given by Rev. Mark Curtis (7:30, Siegfried Hall).

The ring road will be partly taken over tomorrow morning for (now here's a title for you!) the Corel WordPerfect Applied Health Sciences 5-Kilometre Fun Run. "We are celebrating 12 years of fun running," writes Tina Roberts from the faculty of AHS. "Ring Road is not being closed entirely for the run. Participants will be running in the inside lane of Ring Road, and will be travelling in a clockwise direction. Cars will be using the outside lane, and will be travelling in a counterclockwise direction."

Black and gold compete

Now, about sports during Homecoming weekend. . . .

As always, there's the Naismith Classic basketball tournament, in which UW's Warriors host seven other teams from across the country. Games get going today at 12 noon (York vs. Laurier), 2 p.m. (Winnipeg vs. Western) 5 p.m. (Ryerson vs. McGill), and 7 p.m. (Waterloo vs. Memorial of Newfoundland). Tomorrow's schedule and Sunday's championship games will depend, of course, on who wins today -- but win or lose, the Warriors will be playing again at 7 tomorrow night, against either Ryerson or McGill.

Naismith tickets are available at the door -- that is, at the Physical Activities Complex main gym. A couple of the games will be televised on Rogers Cable "community" channel 20: tonight's UW-Memorial game (broadcast tomorrow at noon and at 8 p.m.) and the Sunday championship game (broadcast Sunday at 8 p.m.). The Sports Shop, just outside the main gym, will be open for extended hours during the Naismith to make sure alumni have a chance to buy Warrior gear.

The Yates Cup football game, for the Ontario championship, starts at 1 p.m. tomorrow at University Stadium, and pits UW's amazing Warrior team against the University of Guelph's Gryphons. The winner goes on to play in the Churchill Bowl next weekend, and from there the next stop is the Vanier Cup for the national championship.

Tickets for the football game are for sale today at University Stadium and also at the athletics department office in the PAC. Price: $7 (students $5). The UW Shop sends word that there will be a special outpost at the stadium tomorrow, with bargains on "Warrior garb and paraphernalia".

The Athenas and Warriors host their annual interuniversity swim meet in the PAC pool starting at noon tomorrow. And the hockey Warriors (who beat Laurier 3-2 last night) host Western at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Columbia Icefield.

Hindus, Sikhs mark Diwali

On Sunday comes Diwali, or Deepavali ("festival of lights"), which began as a Hindu festival in honour of the goddess Lakshmi, and has also been adopted in the Sikh faith as a day of rejoicing.

Some 70 people at UW celebrated Diwali a little early, on November 2, under sponsorship of the Waterloo Indian Researchers Association. "Mr. Ramesh Bhatt and his family and Mr. Wilson sang songs for the group," reports Shaligram Pokharel in the systems design engineering department. "Children performed drama on Ramayana. A very delicious pot-luck dinner was arranged by the Food Committee."

Also happening at UW

Preregistration for the spring term continues . . . the Arts and Crafts Show in the Student Life Centre continues . . . the clothing exchange in Environmental Studies I continues.

There's a training session today, sponsored by the safety office, on WHMIS, the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System. It starts at 10 a.m., in Davis Centre room 1302, and runs for about an hour.

Alan Cairns of the University of British Columbia speaks at 2:30 (Needles Hall room 3001) on "How Will the 'Rest of Canada' Survive after a Quebec 'Yes'?"

A show of student art opens tonight at Gallery 2000 in Market Square, Kitchener, an artist-run gallery that started as an initiative of the K-W Society of Artists. Jurors for the show were Stu Oxley, a recent fine arts graduate, and Greg Murphy, who formerly taught at UW and is now at the Ontario College of Art and Design ("OCA" to you). Students who have works in the show are in years 2, 3, and 4. There's an opening reception tonight at 8, and the exhibition continues until November 23.

The talk of the campus

I haven't heard the whole story yet, but word is that "a Christian club" thought it would do the campus a good turn on a chilly day by handing out free hot chocolate around noontime yesterday in front of the Dana Porter Library. What nobody foresaw was that the power cord for heating the water would blow a fuse inside the library and knock out the computer terminals at the main circulation desk. . . .

Monday is Remembrance Day, and two ceremonies are scheduled on campus: one at 10:45 in St. Bede's Chapel at Renison College, one at 11 a.m. in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall.

CAR

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