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Friday, August 1, 1997

Ian Lithgow

A new VP and a new dean

Ian Lithgow, lately of York University, today becomes UW's vice-president (university relations), one of three vice-presidents of this university. His appointment was announced last winter after a Canada-wide search.

Lithgow's responsibilities include the office of development and alumni affairs and the office of information and public affairs. He's moving into the office on the third floor of Needles Hall that was used by the last VP (university relations), Roger Downer, until his retirement a year ago.

Also new in office today is Mike Sharratt, as interim dean of applied health sciences. He'll serve through next June 30, while a search committee looks for a new dean. Sharratt is a kinesiology professor, has served as associate dean (graduate studies and research) in AHS, and is winding up a term as president of the Canadian Association for Exercise Physiology.

A happening kind of place

What's not happening today is classes: it's that breathless pause between spring term lectures (which ended yesterday) and exams (which begin Tuesday). A few notes, though, on other kinds of activity:

Participants in the International Conference on Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems are arriving at Ron Eydt Village for the weekend. The organizers, based in UW's applied mathematics department, explain: "This conference will focus on recent advances in the theory and applications of differential equations and dynamical systems, including ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, functional differential equations, impulsive differential equations and their corresponding discrete analogs. There will be several invited expository addresses covering recent trends and many invited lectures on problems of current interest and important applications in various disciplines."

People from the Vietnamese Student Association, and counterparts at half a dozen other Ontario universities, are heading for Elora Conservation Area for the weekend, to take place in Camp Song Viet '97.

The staff association office will be closed August 5 through 15, reopening August 18.

And it's a long weekend

Monday, August 4, is Civic Holiday in Ontario, and so a holiday for UW staff and faculty. Offices and most services will be closed.

Here, so far as I have them, are specifics of what's in operation at Waterloo this weekend:

UW police: on duty 24 hours as always, 888-4911.
Student Life Centre: open 24 hours, turnkey desk 888-4434.
Library: Saturday and Sunday, usual hours. Monday, Davis and Porter libraries open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; circulation and information service desks closed.
Maintenance emergencies: phone ext. 3793, 24 hours a day.
Computer networks: call helpdesk, 888-4839, to report major outages. "If the outage has a severe impact on the university computing environment and the appropriate facility-support personnel can be contacted, the problem will be addressed; otherwise, it will be pursued Tuesday morning."
Computing Help and Information Place (888-4357): open Saturday 9 a.m. to 7:45 p.m., closed Sunday and Monday.
Bookstore and UW Shop: closed Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Graphics Express: closed Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
Food services: the only outlet open over the weekend will be the Village I cafeteria.

Waterloo Web site of the day

CONCERT LIST
http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~ckmsinfo/conclist.html

What's playing on campus, in Kitchener-Waterloo and in Toronto? CKMS knows, and if you miss the daily on-air announcements (at 9:10 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.) here's the Web page where you can find all the listings.

Bill Wharrie, technical coordinator for the UW-based radio station, explains that the concert listings are just part of the overall CKMS site, http://watserv1.uwaterloo.ca/~ckmsinfo:

Our web site has several purposes. One is to provide our schedule. Unlike commercial radio, we have different types of programs (catering to different interests) throughout the day and week. The second is to give potential volunteers an idea of what we're all about. A third is to publish our "charts" -- listings of the top 35 releases each week, and top 50 each month. This can help listeners get an idea of the variety of music we play. Finally, we provide links to sites of our volunteers, other Canadian campus and community radio stations, other UW media, and other radio- and music-related sites.
The site has been designed with a minimum of graphic content so that people browsing it don't have to wait too long for each page to load. We do not use frames or Java -- virtually any browser can handle our site.

Other features of the CKMS site include a history of the station's early years.

The Bulletin goes on

I'll be taking some vacation starting this weekend. Until I return, the Daily Bulletin will be produced by my colleague Barbara Elve (bmelve@nh4.adm.uwaterloo.ca) -- she'll meet you in this space on Tuesday.

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY August 1, 1965: Alfred Kunz is named director of music at UW. August 1, 1978: UW adopts a "records management policy", Policy 12, defining how long different kinds of paperwork must be kept on file.

August 2, 1995: A meeting is held in the president's office to launch plans for UW's 40th anniversary celebrations.

August 3, 1976: The Dana Porter Library becomes a "full depository library" receiving copies of all federal government publications.

August 4, 1964: Bill Lobban becomes director of physical plant and planning.

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca -- (519) 888-4567 ext. 3004
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