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Monday, February 3, 1997

Winter's half way through

The midpoint between winter solstice and spring equinox comes at 3:10 p.m. today, Eastern time. So there is still hope -- particularly as Waterloo Waldo, our resident groundhog, didn't see his shadow yesterday, grey day that it was. The fine snowperson who has appeared between Arts Lecture and Humanities presumably isn't seeing its shadow either.

But some of winter's delights still lie before us -- such as FASS. "1001 Arthurian Knights" runs this Thursday through Saturday, with four performances (Thursday and Saturday at 8, Friday at 7 and 10, all in the Humanities Theatre). The show is described as "a musical romp from Waterloo's campus to King Arthur's court", presumably with the usual bad puns and jokes about university life. So inclusive is FASS that the management even offered me a walk-on part -- but don't worry, I've had to decline. Tickets for the show are $8, available from the Humanities box office at 888-4908.

Best of all, I guess, co-op job interviews for the spring term begin today; watch for heavy traffic on the first floor of Needles Hall. "Please be sure," the co-op department advises students, "to watch the bulletin boards and/or Access every day to ensure that you will not miss any of your interviews."

Still the same old voicemail

The planned upgrade of Meridian Mail, UW's voicemail system, "was not completed this weekend as scheduled", says Bruce Uttley of information systems and technology. He reports a series of difficulties, starting on Friday night when the change "was abandoned when problems were encountered with a tape containing the new software. The old system was restored before 1:00 a.m. and the upgrade was rescheduled for Saturday night, pending the arrival of a new tape. The cutover Saturday ran into a variety of problems, this time related to both hardware and software. The old Voice Mail system was ultimately restored and Voice Mail was back in service by 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. We will be reviewing the activities of this weekend and the Voice Mail cutover will be rescheduled in the near future."

Carrying on UW's business

The executive committee of the UW senate will meet at 3:30 this afternoon in Needles Hall room 3004. On the agenda: the sempiternal business of planning a procedure for reviews of academic departments, as well as the usual reports that will make their way to the monthly meeting of the senate itself on February 17.

And this is the season for elections to the senate, with many seats in various faculty and student constituencies coming open. Nominations for faculty and graduate student seats, previously announced, will close this Wednesday at 4:00.

The university secretariat has announced the results of nominations for undergraduate student seats on senate, which closed January 17:

André Cousineau, mathematics, has been acclaimed as the mathematics undergraduate student representative for the term May 1, 1997 to April 30, 1999.
Ryan Chen-Wing, mechanical engineering, has been acclaimed as the engineering undergraduate student representative for the term May 1, 1997 to April 30, 1999.
The science seat remains vacant for the term May 1, 1997 to April 30, 1998.
An election in the at-large constituency will be held in conjunction with the annual election conducted by the Federation of Students (February 11 and 12). There are four candidates: Arnie Bose (accounting), Keith Parker (systems design engineering), Robin Stewart (computer science software engineering), and Aly Valli (arts applied studies). Statements from the candidates were published in the Gazette last week and are also available on the secretariat's web pages.

And finally, these notes

The basketball Warriors beat Windsor 62-21 on Saturday -- that's the only sports score I have so far this morning.

A job fair sponsored by UW and three other post-secondary institutions will be taking place Wednesday at Bingemans Conference Centre on Victoria Street North in Kitchener. It runs from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with representatives on hand from some 75 employers with "permanent, summer and contract job opportunities". The career resource centre in Needles Hall has information about a free shuttle bus from UW to Bingemans.

Carleton University has narrowly avoided enduring a strike by some 1,200 teaching and research assistants, as an agreement was reached between management and Canadian Union of Public Employees local 2323 on the eve of the January 31 strike deadline.

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY
February 1, 1961: Jack Adams becomes UW's first public relations officer. February 1, 1980: Jon Dellandrea comes to UW as director of development.

February 2, 1979: The Adolescence of P-1, by Thomas Ryan, is selling well at the UW bookstore in spite of its $6 price tag, apparently because it's a science fiction novel set at the University of Waterloo.

February 3, 1976: The board of governors approves establishment of a UW department of religious studies.

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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