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Wednesday, February 12, 1997

It's 'The Children's Hour'

You won't see Audrey Hepburn and Shirley Maclaine, who starred in the film version illustrated above, but you'll see UW students taking the same roles. The drama department's production of "The Children's Hour", a play about gossip and trust and lesbianism that's still incisive after sixty years, opens tonight in the Theatre of the Arts. The show runs through Saturday at 8 p.m; tickets are available from the Humanities box office at 888-4908.

High-tech classroom opens

The Accounting and Environmental Studies Smart Classroom, or ACCESS for short, will have its official opening today, with celebrations at 3:00 in the Environmental Studies I courtyard. The classroom is just downstairs from there, in ES I room 132.

Says the invitation: "The ACCESS classroom is a 50-seat, state-of-the-art teaching facility designed to deliver university courses, professional development seminars and other programs to audiences on campus, across Canada and around the world. The fully interactive, multi-purpose site is equipped for video conferencing and for high-resolution data projection. The ACCESS Classroom is intended for use by the local community as well as by the University of Waterloo." The brochure gives credit to "our major corporate sponsors", Coopers & Lybrand and London Life.

Promoting the technology triangle

That's the name used for the cities of Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph and surrounding area, where the economy is increasingly powered by bright ideas in computers, aerospace and similar industries. Often, of course, those bright ideas grew out of the University of Waterloo.

"The Impact of the Technology Industry in Canada's Technology Triangle, or, How Waterloo Region Became the Premier High-Tech Region of Ontario/Canada" is the title of a talk to be given at 7:00 tonight, at the main branch of the Kitchener Public Library downtown. The speaker is Yvan Couture, president of the Taaz Group Inc. and interim executive director of the new Canada's Technology Triangle Technology Association. His talk is sponsored by KPL and by the Commercial Computing Museum.

Engineering runs out of steam

There's a leak in a high-pressure steam line in one of the service tunnels beneath the campus. The result: steam to three buildings will be shut off tonight from 10 p.m. to about 2 a.m., says central plant manager Rick Zalagenas. Losing steam, and heat, will be Engineering I, Engineering III and Carl Pollock Hall. "My main concern," says Zalagenas, "is any areas where the steam is used in a process or experiment -- they should be shut down in anticipation of our work."

Today is Ash Wednesday

In the Christian tradition, it's the first day of Lent; the "Ash" name comes from the old rite of having one's head daubed with ashes to symbolize humility and repentance. (Something of the sort will still happen in services at St. Jerome's College today.) Lent is the seven-week season leading up to Easter, during which abstinence precedes Easter joy as winter precedes spring.

These other notes this morning

Fountain Ministries, formerly the Laymen's Evangelical Fellowship, presents a talk by Joe Gray of Grace Presbyterian Fellowship today, at 7:30 in Davis Centre room 1304. Raised in a conservative Jewish home, Gray "became a follower of Jesus Christ through a miraculous conversion experience", a Fountain announcement says. "He will share his testimony and describe his Christian faith from a Jewish perspective."

Friday is Valentine's Day, but the feasting can start early -- Brubakers in the Student Life Centre has a dinner tonight (beef wellington and a raspberry sweetheart dessert) for $12.95 per person. The Laurel Room in South Campus Hall will be open for a similarly romantic lunch tomorrow, at $10.50 (call ext. 3198 for reservations).

My apologies to anybody who saw a version of yesterday's Bulletin that said a newly-elected member of the senate was "Mike Delfgaauw". That would be Mieke Delfgaauw, of course, of the faculty of environmental studies. Some things, a spellchecker just doesn't catch.

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY
February 12, 1969: The faculty association holds a tribute for recently retired president Gerry Hagey, and it is announced that the Hagey Lectures will be established in his honour.

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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