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Friday, November 29, 1996

Bulletin from the police

The campus is "edgy", as the front page of the K-W Record put it last night, after a new series of sexual assaults, following shortly after a series in late summer for which a man has been charged. The university police issued this bulletin yesterday about the recent events:

Since Tuesday, 26 November 1996, there have been three sexual assaults in the near vicinity of the UW Campus and Waterloo Park.
The person we are seeking is described as follows: Male, 18-25 years of age, slender build, medium height, pock-marked face. The subject usually wears dark clothing.
We want to remind the members of the UW Community to review their personal safety procedures. We suggest that you be constantly aware of your surroundings; walk on well lighted and well travelled walkways and pathways; walk with another person if at all possible and avoid secluded walkways and pathways.
We also want to remind you that the Walksafe service is available on campus from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. and that the Feds Safety Van operates during the evening as well.
If you observe any activity involving the suspect contact the University of Waterloo Police Service or the Waterloo Regional Police Service immediately.

The UW police are at 888-4911 (from an on-campus phone, that's ext. 4911).

Events for a rainy weekend

A pair of end-of-term concerts this weekend will show off the students in UW's music program. The Stage Band has a concert tonight at 8, in the great hall of Conrad Grebel College. The choirs -- Chapel Choir, Chamber Choir and University Choir -- perform Sunday evening at the Centre in the Square in downtown Kitchener, accompanied by an assembled orchestra and the Inter-Mennonite Children's Choir.

Less melodic activities of note:

The Centre for Applied Health Research hosts a conference today on "Mind, Body and Pain". Taking place in the Humanities building, it's an event of the Ontario Inter-Urban Pain Association.
The staff association's third annual craft sale (dolls, ceramics, pine cones, flowers and fleece) continues today in Davis Centre room 1301, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Physician Ursula Anderson speaks at 7:30 at Siegfried Hall, St. Jerome's College, about "Psalms of the Children: Their Songs and Laments", the thoughts and feelings of some of the troubled children she has worked with over a lifetime of practice and public health work. Her visit is sponsored by the St. Jerome's Centre for Catholic Experience.
The University Club has "Santa's Pub Night" this evening, with food starting at 5:00 and music by Blue Stew starting at 6. Reservations: 888-4088.

In sports, tomorrow sees the Vanier Cup game for the national university football championship -- yes, I know I said last week it would be played on November 23, but that was wrong. Saskatchewan faces St. Francis Xavier for the crown.

Most of UW's own sports teams are off now (hockey won't resume until after the new year, for example), but the track and field teams have their season opener tomorrow afternoon at Western, and the basketball Athenas are also heading to Western for a Saturday afternoon game. The Warrior basketball team will host Niagara College on Saturday night, and both men's and women's swim teams are competing today at the University of Toronto.

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Faculty certification, faculty strike

Faculty members at Brock University in St. Catharines have voted for union certification. Results were announced Tuesday: 64 per cent of professors' ballots, and 75 per cent of librarians' ballots, were cast in favour of certification. Meanwhile, faculty at Trent University continue on strike, and Trent authorities have announced that fall term exams won't be held until some time after Christmas.

The talk of the campus

The flags at the University Avenue entrance are at half-staff today to recognize the funeral of Matthew Main, the third-year political science student who died Monday in a fall from the balcony of his apartment near campus.

The draw is to be made today for donor prizes in the campus United Way campaign.

There's now a Web page providing access to the remarks made at Tuesday's "annual general meeting" of the university. At least, the speech by president James Downey and the remarks by the chair of the board of governors, Peter Sims, are there; the financial information offered by provost Jim Kalbfleisch is to be added shortly, I'm told. The URL is http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/annual/annual96.html -- or look on UWinfo under "Documents".

It's payday, for faculty and monthly-paid staff. Note that next month's pay will come early, because of the Christmas holidays: on Thursday, December 19.

And . . . to nobody's great surprise, there was no information about university grants (or anybody else's grants) when Ontario treasurer Ernie Eves spoke to a legislative committee yesterday. He said the cabinet is finding it "difficult" to make the promised $3 billion in new spending cuts, and that was about it.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
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