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Faculty salary negotiations with the mediator, Mr, Gerald Charney, were held this past Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, the negotiators were unable to reach agreement during the mediation, and faculty salary negotiations hence move into the second phase of stage 2, i.e. to internal final-selection arbitration. The mediator is expected to make his written report and recommendations within the next ten days or so. Shortly after that the arbitration process will begin.Once the mediator reports, the negotiators have another five days to talk. If they still don't agree, according to the Memorandum of Agreement which governs faculty salary matters, "the Chair of the Faculty Salary Committee will select the final position of one of the two parties. In doing so he/she must provide an explanation for his/her selection." The chair of the committee this year is Sujeet Chaudhuri, chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering.
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The
New Quarterly magazine based at UW
has produced a special issue featuring John Metcalf, one
of Canada's foremost literary figures.
The magazine's fall issue, now in the bookstores, will be
officially launched with an evening of readings tonight in Toronto.
The event,
sponsored by the Canada Council and the University of
Toronto Bookstore, begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Rivoli,
334 Queen Street West.
"This special issue, over a year in the making, features one of Canada's most talented and irascible literary figures," says magazine editor Kim Jernigan. At the launch party, Metcalf will read from his new novella. "John Metcalf is known as an elegant prose stylist, a master of the short story genre, a missionary anthologist, and a literary knight errant tilting at the windmills of government patronage and academic discourse," says Jernigan.
Tomorrow, the women's centre of the Federation of Students brings in a speaker from the Cancer Society (12 noon, also in the multi-purpose room); on Thursday there's a breast health workshop from 2 to 5 p.m.
An excerpt from material about breast cancer made available by Columbia/HCA Healthcare:
The disease strikes one out of every nine women. But it does not have to be fatal. If a breast tumor is discovered early enough -- as increasing numbers of them are -- there is no reason to believe the patient cannot achieve a complete recovery.The key to early detection is self breast examination. About 90 percent of breast lumps are discovered by the patient, says Dr. David McCoy, a family care physician at Southern Hills. "The best recovery rate is among women who are treated before the lump reaches 1-centimeter,", he says. "That is a little larger than a pea."
The object of self-examination is to detect changes in the breasts, so regular examination is necessary for a woman to familiarize herself with the normal contours of the breasts. Monthly exams are recommended. More frequent self-exams may be confusing since the breasts change throughout the month.
The Mathematics Society is planning a referendum on increasing its fee to $10.50 per term, from the present $7.50, mostly to pay for the "atrociously" high cost of printing these days). A debate on the proposal is set for noon today in the "comfy lounge" on the third floor of Math and Computer.
The plant operations department is looking for casual snow shovellers, folks with strong backs who can show up at 7:30 a.m. on the morning after a snowstorm. The job pays $8.10 an hour; anyone interested can report to the grounds crew headquarters at the General Services Complex (inside the quadrangle near the smokestack).
It was announced in June that Village II is changing its name to Ron Eydt Village, in honour of the long-time warden of residences. That change will be official on UW's space records as of December 1, a memo yesterday said, and the building code is being changed from "V2" to "REV" as of that date.
Alumni of UW's school of urban and regional planning are holding their sixth annual dinner at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto tonight. The speaker is John Farow, president of the Canadian Urban Institute, talking on "Great Planning Disasters".
A one-day strike called by the Association of University Teachers and seven other unions is expected to pull about 100,000 people off the job at more than 100 British universities today, in a protest against 1996 pay increases that are lower than the increase in the cost of living.
CAR
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