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Tuesday, September 3, 1996
The new are here, the old are back
Thousands of students have hit campus in the last few hours, and the
fall term is under way.
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Registration starts today, with science students invited to do their
paperwork (and hand over their cash) this morning at the Physical
Activities Complex, and engineering students this afternoon. Tomorrow,
it's arts in the morning, environmental studies and independent studies
in the afternoon; Thursday, mathematics and applied health sciences;
Friday, anybody who didn't make it on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
If you need a
WatCard, you can
get it in the Student Life Centre between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. this week.
Next week, the cameras will be back in the WatCard office in the General
Services Complex.
What new students are doing
Well, getting a lost a fair amount, and wearing T-shirts, and meeting
people -- those are always among the central features of orientation.
Biggest event on today's orientation schedule, though, is the all-campus
pep rally, which runs from 1 to 2:30 p.m. It's being held outdoors this
year, on the Matthews Hall green: something to do with last year's
experience in which fireworks burned a hole in the gymnasium floor,
perhaps?
Also on the agenda for first-year students today are an engineering
pizza party, "The Game" for math students, a Village 2 breakfast,
and a family picnic at St. Paul's United College. Tonight: parties,
some on campus (Fed Hall and the Bombshelter), some off campus. Science
students, the schedule says, will head for Toronto's SkyDome to see
Pat Hentgen of
the Blue Jays master Kansas City.
Performances of
"Single and Sexy" are set for 11:00, 2:30 and 4:30 in the
Theatre of the Arts. Everybody's welcome, but various groups of
first-year students are scheduled in for each audience.
A prize for a newcomer
I'd like to get first-year students into the habit of reading the
Daily Bulletin, and to reward anybody who's already trying it, a
small welcome-to-Waterloo prize is available, thanks to May Yan, UW's
director of retail services. If you are a genuine, new first-year
UW student reading this Bulletin, drop a note by electronic mail
to credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca to claim your prize. This offer
will be repeated daily until somebody wins.
More notes about the new term
Special orientation activities for international students are
scheduled for Thursday and Friday in the Student Life Centre. The
program includes greetings from student and university leaders, tours,
a panel on "international student experiences", and briefings on
services, laws and libraries. Full information is available from
the international student office in Needles Hall.
Parking lot A, across University Avenue from the main campus
entrance, has reopened. "We will have people down at the lot to try
and eliminate any problems and get people in for work and parked,"
says Elaine Koolstra, manager of parking services. People who hold
permits for A lot have been using C lot, just across the street
from it, during the construction work.
And these other matters
- A memorial service will be held at 2:00 today at the
Edward R. Good Funeral Home in downtown Waterloo for Clair Bobier,
one of the little group of pioneers who brought the College of
Optometry from Toronto to become a "school" of UW in 1967.
Bobier, who retired from the faculty in 1982, died on Thursday.
- The executive committee of UW's senate meets at 3:30 today
(Needles Hall room 3004) to set the agenda for the senate's September
meeting. Among the items on the agenda: a draft document titled
"The Supervisory Process: A Guide for Faculty and Graduate
Students".
- Things are just about ready for
Faculty
Development Days, to be held Thursday and Friday. "Please also
note," writes Donna Ellis from the teaching resource office, "that we
are having tabletop displays from 10 to 1 both days by various
departments on campus that provide teaching and learning
support; this is a new feature of Faculty Development Days." More
information: ext. 3132.
And finally, Nancy Elash here in information and public affairs
tells me that two more men are still needed for UW's team in the
oddest athletic event of the year, scheduled for
Sunday: "UW's Corporate Challenge
team needs two more males -- faculty, staff or
students -- to join them for a fun day of high-spirited, inter-company
competition. The Corporate Challenge, organized by the Chamber of
Commerce, involves over 100 teams from area businesses who participate in
fun and wacky games. It takes place on Sunday, September 8, 1996 from 8:45
a.m. until 3:00 p.m at the Kinsmen Sports Centre in Cambridge. Team
members will get a uniform consisting of T-shirt and shorts, plus a lunch
and refreshments will be provided."
Interested? Call Elash at ext. 2220.
CAR