Daily Bulletin

Monday, October 20, 1997

University of Waterloo -- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Another day, another $20,000

Several of UW's deans will visit South Campus Hall tonight to see where the money comes from. They'll watch student callers as they get on the phone to UW alumni and parents of students, inviting contributions through the "mail-call" fund-raising program. It's been spectacularly successful, says William Rowe of UW's development office, bringing in an average of $20,000 for each evening of phone calls.

"We're doing a million dollars a term now," says Rowe, announcing the final total for the spring term -- usually the lightest of the year -- as $1,050,000. Revenue for the fall term is already $150,000 ahead of what came in last year, he says.

Alumni and parent donors can designate the money for whatever purpose they want: lab equipment, the library, scholarships, and so on. The goal, says Rowe, is to reach all 90,000 alumni and 15,000 parents once a year, though "it's tough" to get to them all. About 20 callers are at work each evening, Sunday through Thursday. This term, for the first time, a few callers are working daytime shifts to reach alumni for whom the university has business phone numbers but not home numbers. "That's increased our revenue about 10 per cent," Rowe said.

Tonight is "job mentoring night", and around 6:00 the callers will be joined by the deans of arts, applied health sciences and environmental studies, plus associate deans from mathematics and science. Someone from engineering will be coming Tuesday night, Rowe said. The VIPs will be on hand for about half an hour and may even talk to some of the alumni.

Senate will be deciding

The campus will likely know tomorrow who's going to be the next dean of engineering. A report from the deanship nominating committee is on the agenda -- in confidential session -- for tonight's meeting of the UW senate, which starts at 7:30 in Needles Hall room 3001. The committee has been looking to appoint a dean for a term starting next July; the term of David Burns, dean since 1990, ends on June 30.

In the open portion of tonight's meeting, the senate will -- judging from the printed agenda -- be dealing mostly with routine business, including the approval of hundreds of candidates for degrees at Saturday's convocation ceremonies. The president and provost will give their usual monthly reports, and there will be a special presentation on orientation. The University Tenure Appeals Committee is also submitting its annual report.

As Ed Goodwin marks a birthday

The ring road is open again at the southwest corner, near the PAS building, and parking card holders are back to using the far west entrance of parking lot H. And does that mean that paving work on campus is over? Far from it: this morning pedestrians are making a detour over the grass behind South Campus Hall, as a crew installs new cobblestones on a section of the red-lined "pedestrian spine" there.

Chartered accounting students will find out today what jobs they've got for the winter term. Matches will be posted at 3 p.m. on the Needles Hall bulletin boards. Co-op students in other programs have to wait a while longer, as interviews continue for another two weeks.

The Canadian Association of Optometry Students, in cooperation with the Canadian Association of Optometrists and the Eye Health Council of Canada, present Eye Health Canada Week. "In order to educate the public about the importance of receiving regular eye exams by qualified doctors of optometry, we will be running an information booth in Waterloo Towne Square on Saturday," said Shawn Charland of the students' association. The public is also encouraged to bring old eyeglasses to the booth or to UW's school of optometry so they can be used by optometry students involved in aid work in Mexico this winter.

The student Mathematics Society is in the midst of a by-election to choose a vice-president (activities and services) for the rest of the fall term. Candidates Chris Buchanan, Adam Nevraumont and Mark Thornton will be at an open forum today -- sorry, I don't have information about the time -- and voting is this Thursday and Friday.

Recognition for a staff member

A staff member in the operations group of UW's information systems and technology department was honoured Thursday as one on of Kitchener-Waterloo's ten "Oktoberfest women of the year".

She's Chandrika Anjaria, honoured in the "arts, history and literature" category. Anjaria is a well-known volunteer and spokesman for Indian heritage and cultural activities in this community; she's been connected with a social and cultural club for older East Indian immigrants, the National Indo-Canadian Council, and the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre. On campus, she has taken on various volunteer and social activities, and is currently the United Way campaign coordinator in IST. Her job involves data entry and input-output control for batch-oriented processes such as payroll and student course records.

Announcements from five departments

"The deadline for applications and nominations for the President's Circle Awards for Volunteerism has been extended to Friday, October 24." -- the university secretariat.

"The IST computing course schedule for November and December is now online. You can view the complete list of courses on the Web or pick up a brochure from any of the computing consulting offices on campus. Registration for these courses is done on the Web." -- information systems and technology.

"One phone call to graphics customer service representatives at ext. 3452 will bring the free graphics courier van to your location in 30 minutes or less. It is a complete pickup or delivery service for your priority work. Call ext. 3452 for more details." -- graphic services.

"The Distinguished Teacher Awards program is administered by the Teaching Resources and Continuing Education (TRACE) office. The nomination deadline is always the first Friday in February. This allows time for the selection of award winners, whose names are announced at the March meeting of Senate. The award is open to all those who teach students at the University of Waterloo and its federated and affiliated colleges." -- TRACE.

"Disability Services is looking for individuals with computer experience to proctor exams and to provide occasional office support (days and evenings) during the fall term. This is a casual, hourly-wage position with a potential per-student bonus. If you are interested or would like more information, please contact Linda Chamberlain, ext. 4635, or drop by Needles Hall room 2051." -- student services.

Happening Tuesday and beyond

Students considering teaching as a career may be interested in hearing from representatives of several faculties of education who are coming to campus this week. Presentations are scheduled in the multipurpose room of the Student Life Centre, as follows:

Tuesday: University of Western Ontario, 9:30; University of Toronto (child study), 10:30; Brock University, 11:30; University of Ottawa, 2:30; Queen's University, 3:30.
Wednesday: University of Toronto, 9:30; University of Windsor, 10:30; York University, 11:30; Nipissing University, 2:30; Lakehead University, 3:30.
Thursday: D'Youville (New York), TEACH (Australia, Great Britain, Scotland), JET Programme (Japan), KOM Consultants (Australia, Great Britain), University of Maine at Presque Isle, Canisius College (New York), Waterloo Centre for Applied Linguistics, Medaille College (New York), Daemen College (New York), teacher training in Great Britain, all between 10:00 and 1:00.

The teacher talks are organized by UW's career services office.

Telepresence, which enables members of "virtual teams" located in different places to work together on projects, is the topic of an InfraNet Project seminar by David Martin, president of Smart Technologies Inc., at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Davis Centre room 1302.

The Faculty Computing User Support group, dubbed FACCUS, will hold a "discussion and tour of computing support facilities in the faculty of arts" tomorrow. Vic Neglia of the arts computing office is the speaker; things start in Humanities room 373 at 1:30 p.m. All are welcome.

"Instructional Technologies and the Mainstream: The Risks of Success." That's the title of a talk Wednesday morning by William Geoghegan of IBM's instructional technologies division, sponsored by UW's teaching resource office. It starts at 9:30 a.m. in Math and Computer room 5158.

CAR

TODAY IN UW HISTORY October 19, 1962: Ralph Stanton, chair of the department of mathematics, gives the commencement address at the Bracebridge High School.

October 20, 1975: A Canada-wide postal strike begins, and UW's central stores makes arrangements for foreign mail to the university to be handled by a customs broker at Niagara Falls, New York.

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