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University of Waterloo • Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Wednesday, February 11, 1998

UW thanks accountants for support
Ready for a day of love
Notes: housing office move, parks award, federal budget
The colours of my love

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UW thanks accountants for support

In a ceremony this afternoon, UW will dedicate a classroom in recognition of funding that the university has received from Ontario's chartered accountants through their professional body, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Room 178 at UW's Hagey Hall becomes "The Chartered Accountants Room".

From the 30,000-member ICAO, president Bruce Jenkins and chief executive officer David Wilson will present a $96,300 cheque to the UW school of accountancy, the first instalment of the institute's latest gift of $438,000.

"Ontario chartered accountants believe excellence in university accounting education is important in providing society with professionals who will contribute to everyone's economic well-being," says Jenkins. "Even if university resources weren't limited, we would be continuing our support."

In turn, Morley Lemon, acting director of the school, praised the ICAO's commitment and support to the university since the early 1980s. "From the outset, the institute has supported the vision of (founding director) Dr. Jack Hanna and his colleagues that this university could be home to a strong academic accounting program," Lemon said. "That vision became the school of accountancy, and as the school has grown so has the ICAO's support -- both moral and financial."

The ICAO has now provided the school with more than $1 million in total. The latest contribution will fund two of the school's programs: a "bridging program" that enables business and non-business graduates of other universities to obtain their Master of Accounting degree at UW in one or two years, depending on their background, and a new Science-MAcc program allowing students to earn an MAcc degree while also pursuing a science degree.

After the year 2000, UW hopes to be able to fund these programs through normal operating funds.

Waterloo's MAcc degree program is unique in offering all the courses students need to be eligible to write the chartered accounting profession's Uniform Final Examination. UW's graduates also have consistently high first-time pass rates.

Ready for a day of love

UW's national literary magazine, The New Quarterly, will be hosting its third annual Valentine's Day event, "Wine, Writers and Song", this Saturday night at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre.

The evening, intended to build and sustain the magazine's local readership, is described as something like a party with readings. An opening reception with "drinks and fabulous desserts" will be followed by readings on the theme of love by Oakland Ross, Janice Kulyk Keefer, and actor Terry Judd, plus a performance in the commedia dell'arte tradition by members of Theatre Beyond Words. Music will be provided by pianist Bill Metcalf.

Tickets for the event are $15, and an additional $15 buys a year's subscription to The New Quarterly (at 30 per cent off the usual price) plus a chance at door prizes. The party starts at 8 on Saturday night. The community arts centre, better known as the Button Factory, is at 25 Regina Street South in downtown Waterloo. For tickets, call ext. 2837.

At the same time, faculty, students and alumni are pitching in for a celebration of creativity a few blocks away at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery. "I Love Art" will feature an evening of artists at work at the gallery -- drawing, sculpting, making prints, collages and music -- to raise money for the facility through an auction of visual art works produced for the occasion.

Among the UW participants are faculty members Jane Buyers (drawing), Ann Roberts (sculpting the head of Jane Urquhart), Tony Urquhart (drawing and collage), and Don MacKay. "It is all voluntary work to help keep UW fine arts in touch with the local artists and to benefit the CCGG," said Roberts.

Tickets for the event, on Saturday night at 7:30, are available for $15 from the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery at 25 Caroline Street North in Waterloo, phone 746-1882.

Other Valentine features at UW this week include these:

Gift specials all week from Graphics Express in South Campus Hall, including "special Valentine's Day designs for pillow cases" that display your very own photo as a place for someone to rest a loving head.
An all-you-can-eat Valentine buffet at Ron Eydt Village tonight (reservations, ext. 3125) and a Valentine's dinner special tomorrow at Village I.
Lunch in the Laurel Room tomorrow (Thursday) with maple baked salmon, roasted chicken with rosemary, roast leg of lamb, and Belgian chocolate mousse cake, all for $9.95 (reservations, ext. 3198).
A lunch buffet on Friday at the University Club: chicken breast with artichoke hearts and a roasted red pepper sauce, striploin with peppercorn sauce, aubergine and roasted squash lasagna, and a "decadent dessert table", for $11.95 (reservations, 888-4088).

Notes and the day's events

The housing office makes its move today from Village I to temporary quarters in Tutor's House #5, just east of Ron Eydt Village. The exile -- for both the housing administration office and off-campus housing -- will last through the end of August, while renovations are carried out in Village I. Phone numbers remain the same.

Federation of Students elections wind up today, with polls open in nine buildings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tomorrow morning we should know who will be leading the Feds for the coming year.

Ontario Parks, a branch of the Ontario ministry of natural resources, has introduced a new Heritage Protection Achievement Award, and the first winner comes from Waterloo. He is George Priddle of the department of environment and resource studies, who received his award at a conference in Peterborough last weekend. "These awards," the government says, "will be given out very selectively, to distinguish individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to Ontario's Provincial Park System."

The local Volunteer Action Centre is looking for help: bartenders, cashiers and such for "Chairs for Charity", a fund-raiser for the AIDS committee, on February 28; English tutors for work at the K-W Multicultural Centre; a treasurer for the K-W Association for Community Living; someone to spend a few hours once in a while doing repair work on wheelchairs, walkers and canes. For more information about volunteer opportunities, the VAC is at 742-8610.

A career development seminar on "Interview Skills: Selling Your Skills" is scheduled for 1:30 tomorrow, Thursday, in Math and Computer room 5158.

The Waterloo Region health unit declared yesterday that the meningitis outbreak in the Kitchener-Waterloo area is over. Thousands of young people, including many at UW, were vaccinated in late December and early January. As a result, "We have a high level of antibody protection in the community," said a health unit official. There hasn't been a case of meningococcal meningitis in the area since the one that's thought to have been contracted at Federation Hall on New Year's Eve.

A strike by professors at Acadia University may not happen after all. Negotiators for Acadia management and the faculty association have reached a proposed agreement, which will be up for ratification next week. Acadia faculty have been in a legal strike position since Friday.

Federal finance minister Paul Martin announced yesterday that he'll bring down his budget February 24. The budget is expected to include details on the government's Millennium Scholarship program, and perhaps other measures to support post-secondary education -- "targeted funding" is the buzzword.

The colours of my love

Now, take a look at "Wednesday, February 11, 1998" as it appears at the top of this Bulletin. (Only Web readers need try it; those who get the Bulletin through a newsgroup will see dull black and white.) The hex code for that colour is #ff00ff, but what would a human being call it? Past experiments suggest a nearly infallible division by sex: women have one name for it, men another. I'd be interested to hear what people in your part of the university have to say.

At the same time, comments are welcome on the slightly redesigned layout of the Bulletin which was introduced at the end of last week.

CAR