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Friday, September 20, 1996
Gary Buckley is mourned
One of UW's most beloved staff members died last evening. Gary
Buckley, who was assistant registrar for engineering and applied
health sciences, had been battling leukemia for years, and had
been away from work since early July. He died at age 52.
Buckley joined the UW staff in 1970 and held a series of jobs in
the registrar's office, where he was famous for his ability to
make sense of complicated masses of numbers, not to mention the way
he could estimate the size of a lineup and make the seating at
convocation come out perfectly even. Off the job, he was equally
well known for his work in support of the Cancer Society and his
play at the Waterloo Tennis Club.
Visitation will be tomorrow at the Ratz-Bechtel funeral home in
Kitchener; the funeral is expected Sunday, but details aren't
known yet.
Correspondence students visit UW
"Distance education" is the preferred term nowadays for what used to
be called UW's correspondence program -- courses, and whole degrees,
available for several thousand students who never have to set foot
on campus. (Waterloo had Canada's largest degree-credit program by
distance education until the development of Alberta's
Athabasca University.)
Once a year the faraway students are invited to
an open house
at
Waterloo, and the 1996 visit is taking place today and tomorrow.
They can attend on-campus classes today if they like, see library
demonstrations, tour
the
distance education office where their assignments are handled,
and hear some special presentations. There's lunch at the
Laurel Room and a "social hour" from 4 to 6 at the University Club.
Tomorrow, more special presentations are scheduled (including one on
net surfing and one on writing exams), and departments will have
information available at a "fair" in the Davis Centre great hall
from 10:30 to 12:30. A hospitality area in the Davis Centre food fair
will be running from 8:30 to 5 tomorrow. The day ends with "coffee
and comments" there at 4:15.
Draft policy now available
The draft of UW's Policy 73, "Intellectual Property Rights", is
now available in full through UWinfo. It was introduced at Monday
night's meeting of the UW senate and
summarized
in Tuesday's Daily Bulletin. The text is available through the
university secretariat's Web pages; its URL is
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/pol73intro.html.
Events of the day and weekend
- Today is "Alzheimer Coffee Break Day" across Canada
and in many places on campus, ranging from food services outlets to
the president's office. "A cup today, a cure tomorrow," says the
slogan -- the idea being that you slip a little something into a
donations box in support of research against Alzheimer's. (Some of
that research, of course,
is taking place at UW through the
Alzheimer
Research and Education Project.)
- A seminar on "The Countryside in Ontario", dealing with
country planning, management and decision-making, runs all day at the
Waterloo Inn, sponsored by UW's Heritage Resources Centre.
- Teaching assistants are invited to a panel discussion this
afternoon (2:30 to 4 p.m., Engineering 1 room 3516) at which
experienced TAs will address questions and concerns. The event is
sponsored by the teaching resource office.
- The Federation of Students runs its "Waterloo Education
Consultation" through the weekend, collecting opinions and ideas about
Ontario post-secondary education for submission to the five-person
panel appointed by the provincial government to study the college
and university system.
- The annual Terry Fox Run, "Marathon of Hope", a fund-raiser for
cancer research, takes place Sunday, with the Kitchener-Waterloo
run starting from Federation Hall at 11 a.m.
Jews all over the world observe Kol Nidre on Sunday
evening and Yom Kippur -- "day of atonement", the most solemn day of
the year -- on Monday. UW does not close for Yom Kippur, but
there may be some class cancellations and some absences from
campus for the day.
CAR