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Friday, November 15, 1996
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Snappier image on the Web
A new home page for UWinfo was
introduced at midday yesterday, replacing
the 11-month-old
page that was all text apart from UW's shield at the top. It's an
effort by the UWinfo operations committee to respond to requests for a
livelier Internet presence for UW, without overloading computer networks
too much or trying users' patience with very slow graphics. Roger Watt,
of information systems and technology, estimates this page is just about
10 times as large as the previous one -- 28 kilobytes, compared to
2.8 kb -- so it'll take ten times as long to arrive on a user's screen.
The image, designed by Chris Hughes of graphic services, is based on
this year's secondary school recruiting poster.
I suppose today's a good time to mention that (although I am a member
of the
UWinfo
operations committee) UWinfo and the Daily Bulletin are not the
same thing. I always shudder a little when somebody asks me to "put an
announcement on UWinfo". UWinfo is the university's electronic information
system in general;
the Daily
Bulletin is, well, a daily bulletin that's available both through
UWinfo and on a couple of Usenet newsgroups.
John Ralston Saul is coming
Tickets are "moving briskly" for next Wednesday's Hagey Lecture by
author and social critic
John Ralston Saul. The
box office may be out of tickets by now, but a few should still be
available from the faculty association office (ext. 3787) or members
of the Hagey Lecture committee, says committee chair Mark Havitz
of the recreation and leisure studies department.
Saul will be speaking on "Power versus the Public Good: The Conundrum
of Individualism and the Citizen". That lecture is Wednesday night at 8
in the Humanities Theatre; on Thursday at 10 a.m., Saul will give a
student-oriented seminar in the Student Life Centre.
His most recent book, The Unconscious Civilization, has just won
the 1996 Governor-General's Award for non-fiction. Its central theme is
that the ideology of "corporatism" dominates the modern age. By
"corporatism" he means the development of large groups -- not just big
business but bureaucracies and interest groups of all kinds -- that
dominate society and subvert the loyalties of their members from the
common good. Saul describes corporatism as essentially
anti-democratic.
Should be a lively lecture. . . .
November weekend at UW
Among the events today, tomorrow and Sunday:
- The
Waterloo Public
Interest Research Group presents a noontime talk today by
John Fagan, molecular biologist who "renounced over $1.5 million
of grants to protest genetic engineering" two years ago, and now
tours the world "to alert the public to the dangers of
genetically engineered food". His talk starts at 12:30 in
the Davis Centre (don't have the room number, sorry).
- The Ontario Universities Athletic Association "football hall of
fame dinner" is to be held tonight at the Waterloo Inn. Being inducted
into the hall is UW's football coach, Tuffy Knight. And there's a big
game in town tomorrow: the Churchill Bowl, to be played at University
Stadium, pits the University of Guelph against the University of
Saskatchewan.
- The International Graduate Student Committee of the Graduate
Student Association invites all graduate students, and their families
and friends, to an International Food Fair tomorrow. This "feast of
international cuisine" runs from 5 to 8 p.m. in the multipurpose
room of the Student Life Centre, and it's free. "Come sample typical
food from all around the world," says Enrique Diaz de Leon, chair
of the IGSC, noting that 11 countries are to be represented, from
Spain to Korea.
- The "very first UW all-night juggle" runs from 6 p.m. Saturday to
9 a.m. Sunday in the great hall of the Student Life Centre. It's
sponsored by
the
UW Juggling Club, which asserts that juggling is "better than
sex" and, more plausibly, says that everyone's welcome to watch the
all-nighter this weekend or to show up and take part.
And two serious notes
The December examination schedule is now
available on
UWinfo (look under Registrar's Office).
The annual "universities issue" of
Maclean's magazine,
dated November 18, should be on the newsstands Sunday night. As of this
morning, Maclean's still has
its 1995
rankings and reports displayed on its web site.
CAR