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Then she's off to wed Joelien Creighton, who earned a MSc and PhD at UW, and is doing a post-doc in theoretical astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology. Giannakopoulou will be finishing her thesis in Pasadena, and returning to UW around the end of the year to defend it.
During her tenure as coordinator, the observatory has been the site of great astronomical hoopla, with the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter, and the appearance of comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp. During such high-profile events, some 1,500 visitors a week toured the observatory.
However, the best part of the job for Giannakopoulou has been "seeing the excitement I can pass on to the members of the audience when they understand something important."
She will be replaced as observatory coordinator by Greg Poole, who received his BSc in physics from UW and is currently engaged in research.
"I would hate to think the Lectriever gods got one final poke at us," he laughed, pondering the timing of its demise. Installed some 25 years ago when the School of Optometry building opened on the north campus, the outdated and inadequate system was scheduled to be replaced with a manual shelf system by now. However, delays in the process have pushed the project back another month, with renovations to the new file storage room still being tendered.
"The staff are dealing with it pretty well," said Marx. "Fortunately, we're in our slower period this month." The files from the disabled Lectriever are being transferred to new storage units, and when construction is completed, will eventually be moved into the renovated file room. "We're on a long transition to an electronic file environment, but we still need a physical system," he added.
Electricity will be cut today from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Village One housing and residence offices to allow for the relocation of conduit and wiring as part of the dining room renovations. "Computer equipment should be shut down in an orderly fashion, particularly UNIX systems," Dave Churchill from plant operations advises. For help, contact the DCS help desk at ext. 4839 or lycke@watserv1.
From the human resources department, a list of staff positions for which applications are being accepted:
"They shall beat their swords into ploughshares," wrote the prophet Isaiah, and an organization based at Conrad Grebel College, devoted to peace and disarmament issues, takes its name from that well-known verse: Project Ploughshares.
"Ban the Bomb!" says its home page. "The time has come to reconsider the role of nuclear weapons in Canadian security and defence policies."
Bill Robinson of the Ploughshares staff tells more:
Project Ploughshares is Canada's ecumenical coalition on peace issues, including such areas as the abolition of nuclear weapons, control of the arms trade, reorientation of Canadian defence policy, reduction of global military spending, and the elimination of landmines. Our national office is located on the campus of the University of Waterloo, at Conrad Grebel College. The website exists to publicize Project Ploughshares and to disseminate information about peace issues and advocacy campaigns. Although our potential audience is global, our primary target audience consists of those Canadians who are interested in peace issues. Usage is difficult to judge, but approximately 2,000-2,500 text-files are pulled each month.Links on the home page point to information on peace issues that's available on other Web pages as far afield as the United States and Australia. There's also a pointer to the federal department of foreign affairs and international trade, which invites comments by e-mail about disarmament.
Barbara Elve
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