Daily Bulletin

Monday, September 16, 1996

New leadership for the union

Hernan Crespo, president of CUPE 793 for eight years, was promoted late in the summer to a foreperson's job in the plant operations custodial section. That's a non-union position. Crespo's departure leaves Jim Cairney, a plant operations painter, as acting president of 793. He was previously the union's vice-president (plant operations).

CUPE 793 represents hourly-paid staff in plant operations and in the food services department.

Cairney said he is "being thrown in at the deep end" as CUPE 793 is in the midst of negotiations for a new employment contract with UW, the first since the expiry of the three-year Social Contract. The formal conciliation process is beginning today with representatives of CUPE (both the union local and the union's regional professional staff) and of UW (headed by associate provost Catharine Scott).

Neil Stewart, chief union steward, becomes plant operations VP of the union local in Cairney's place. There's a change in another union post as well, as Inge Butter, vice-president (food services), took early retirement this summer. Filling in for her is Cathy Forlippo. The acting officers will serve until elections are held next month.

Senate hears national leader

Also tonight, senate may see a draft of "Policy 73, Intellectual Property Rights". The draft has been in preparation by a committee set up last winter, chaired by Jim Brox of the economics department, following recommendations of the Provost's Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property. Brox's committee was asked to write a UW policy to cover "authorship, patents, software, copyright, and materials developed for teaching. It should include a Statement of Principles, default options for sharing IP rights, and mechanisms for informal and formal dispute resolution." The draft would go to faculty councils and other bodies across campus for comment before senate votes on approving it.

Among smaller items on the agenda for tonight, senate will deal with setting up a nominating committee for vice-president (academic) and provost. Would you believe it, Jim Kalbfleisch has been in that position since July 1, 1993, and the end of his five-year term is in sight. He's eligible to be reappointed.

News and announcements, briefly

• A memo from Pauline O'Neill of the research grants office has gone out to all faculty members, listing grant programs, application procedures and deadlines for the fall of 1996. The memo includes research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council -- UW's biggest single source of research money -- and from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The memo is available in full on the research office's Web pages, at http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca:80/infoor/Fall96_01.htm.
• Information sessions about external funding for graduate students -- details of interest to people who are thinking of entering graduate programs -- are being held this week by the graduate studies office. A faculty of arts session is scheduled for Tuesday at 12:30 in Humanities room 334; faculty of science, Tuesday at 3:30 in Biology 1 room 226; faculty of mathematics, Wednesday at 4:30 in Davis Centre room 1302.
• A reception "to launch UW's science and business honors undergraduate program" has been announced for tomorrow at 5 p.m. at the Waterloo Inn.
• The teaching resource office is holding a workshop for teaching assistants on Friday. It promises "advice from a panel of experienced TAs", with "tips and advice that stem from their experiences", as well as group discussion. TAs who would like to take part should preregister with TRACE at ext. 3132 (e-mail trace@watserv1); the event runs from 2:30 to 4:00 on Friday in Engineering 1 room 3516.

CAR

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