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Wednesday, September 25, 1996
It's three months to Christmas
Heather Locklear turns 35
today, and the Blue Jays won last night
for a change, and Math Week is continuing. Today mathies can enjoy
an Ultimate Frisbee Tournament at
12:30 today on the Village green, a women-in-mathematics barbecue
from 5 to 8 p.m. at Federation Hall (free food for "female mathies
only"), and movie night featuring "Goodfellas" at 7:30 p.m. in Davis
Centre room 1350.
Now here's a fragment of important information from the human
resources department: Tricia Loveday isn't the "employee benefits
assistant" any more, the person whom staff and faculty members need
to call about details of their health and dental claims. She's moved
to a new job elsewhere in the department. Taking over in the employee
benefits job is Donna Howe, who can be reached at phone ext. 3134.
And before you call, it might be worth while checking the HR
department's Web pages about employee benefits, which can be
found
through
UWinfo under "human resources".
Union contract is signed
There's a new employment contract between UW and Canadian Union of
Public Employees local 793, which represents some 300 staff in the
food services and plant operations department. It's the only union
on campus -- other staff are represented by the staff association,
which isn't a certified union.
Catharine Scott, associate provost (human resources and student
services), says this morning that a settlement between UW and CUPE
was negotiated last week, was ratified Monday by members of local
793, and was endorsed yesterday on behalf of UW's board of governors.
The agreement gives unionized staff a pay increase of 1 per cent,
retroactive to May 1 -- the same percentage increase received as of
May 1 by non-union staff. CUPE members are also receiving a $100
per person "signing bonus", and will get one extra day of paid
vacation during the life of the new contract, which runs to
April 30, 1997.
Just by coincidence, non-union
staff members should have smiles
on their faces today too, as the September "pay slips" arrive with
three months' worth of retroactive installments on that
May 1 salary increase.
Friday is payday.
East Asian festival starts
"Celebrating Our Connections: Canada and East Asia" is the title of
a week-long festival,
based at Renison College, that begins today. The opening event is
a lecture -- Humanities Theatre, 7 p.m. -- by
John English, Member of
Parliament for Kitchener (and before that a UW history professor). He'll
speak on "Canada's Connections with East Asia: Past and Present".
![[Outline map of Japan]](/1996/sep/japan.gif)
The festival continues with sessions tomorrow on "academic
connections", including a panel at 9 a.m. about university links
with institutions in East Asia. UW president James Downey will be
there along with the presidents of Wilfrid Laurier University and
the University of Guelph, not to mention someone from the Asia-Pacific
Foundation. Then at 10:30 tomorrow, vice-president (university
research) Carolyn Hansson chairs a panel on "research opportunities and
issues in East Asia". At 1:30 it's "student success stories", and at
3 p.m. there's a panel on work, study and service linkages across
the Pacific.
And events go on with a business seminar Friday, cultural
demonstrations Saturday, and film and other entertainment next week.
Meeting on binaries newsgroups
A public meeting about proposed changes to the way UW
receives and distributes computer newsgroups has been announced
for October 1 -- next Tuesday -- from 11:45 to 1:15. It will take
place in Math and Computer room 2066.
Richard Wells, an associate dean in applied health sciences
and chair of the "working group on news management", says
members of his group will be there to explain its recommendation that
the University cease importation of
any newsgroup hierarchy whose volume constitutes a significant portion of
the total and whose primary function appears to be the dissemination of
non-text content (such as picture files, executable software, or sound
files) on November 1, 1996.
The original recommendation was to make the change as of October 1,
but here we are at the end of September already, so the target date
is now November 1. The recommendation goes on:
Appeals to continue importing a specific newsgroup that is deemed
essential for research, teaching and administration or to enrich the
general intellectual life of the University will be received by the
Associate Provost, Information Systems and Technology, and referred to an
appeals committee. Requests for the continued importing of a newsgroup
will be evaluated based upon the stated need and the resource usage
implications. The decision of the committee is subject to review based
upon changing needs and resources.
The full report of the working group, announced a couple of weeks ago,
can be found
through
UWinfo under Documents . . . Computing.
Planning committee meets
The senate long-range planning committee meets this afternoon, from
1:30 to 3 in Needles Hall room 3001. On the agenda, besides an update
on the work of the
Institutional Planning
Commission, is a review of the Ontario government's recent
discussion
paper on "Future Goals for
Ontario Colleges and Universities",
and consideration of how UW
will respond to it. A Waterloo delegation will appear before
the province's
five-person "panel" on post-secondary education
October 16.
Motherhood and money and mugs
The drama department presents
a one-woman show by Toronto performer Kim Renders tonight
and tomorrow night at 8 in "Studio 180", the little theatre in the
Humanities building. Her performance, "Motherhood, Madness and the
Shape of the Universe", was a sellout last spring at Theatre Passe
Muraille in Toronto. Says Bill Chesney in drama: "Anyone who has
had or has been a mother shouldn't miss this hilarious
and poignant monologue." Tickets are $10, students $8.
Recent changes to the Ontario Student Awards Program, and how
they affect "mature students" in particular, are the topic of
a session scheduled for 2:30 today in Modern Languages room 244. "The
session should be of special interest to single parents," says
Isobel Mackay of the mature student services office. Joanne Wade
of the student awards office will speak.
The Student Watgreen Network has a meeting at 4:30 today in
the multi-purpose room of the Student Life Centre (don't you wish
somebody would think up a less awkward name for that room?). Among
the projects under consideration for this year, says organizer
Jeremy Steffler, are composting in the Villages, promoting the use
of Lug-a-Mugs, and "examining alternative energy use in vehicles
on campus". Anybody interested is welcome.
Finally, this tidbit from Mike "Hammer" Hammond, writing in a
mathematics student newsletter whose editors don't like the way I
spell its name: "Of the 41 new CS grad students who joined the
department this year, only six are Waterloo
grads. (And this, apparently, is an unusually high number.)"
CAR