Daily Bulletin

The calm before the storm

The new sign is ready just in time to welcome thousands of students, new and returning, who will be on campus next week. But first we come to the Labour Day long weekend. Monday, September 7, is a holiday, and UW offices and most services will be closed. The Computing Help and Information Place will be closed all weekend, from tonight at 5 until Tuesday morning at 8. Over the weekend, says a memo from information systems and technology,

If you notice an outage of the campus computer network or any major IST-maintained computing facility during this period, you can report it by telephoning the IST HelpDesk at 888-4357. If the outage has a severe impact on the University computing environment and the appropriate facility-support personnel can be contacted, the problem will be addressed; otherwise, it will be pursued Tuesday morning.

The bookstore and UW Shop are resuming their Saturday business hours (12 noon to 4 p.m.), which were suspended for the summer, and will also be open on Labour Day from noon to 4 p.m. for the benefit of arriving students and their families.

Some key services continue as always:

• UW police: on duty 24 hours as always, 888-4911.
• Student Life Centre: open 24 hours, turnkey desk 888-4434.
• Maintenance emergencies: phone ext. 3793, 24 hours a day.

Students arrive on Monday

Watch for heavy traffic. "Ring road traffic will be one way," says UW parking manager Elaine Koolstra, "entering from University Avenue, making a right turn and following the ring road to Columbia Street entrance. Village I students will continue to the Village road beside Federation Hall and Ron Eydt Village students will be directed out to Columbia Street and re-enter at the Residence entrance on Columbia. We will have both UW Police and Parking enforcement staff controlling the traffic."

Her advice: "Be aware of the change in the flow of traffic and expect lineups on the ring road."

Single and Sexy, year 10 All new students are supposed to be exposed to "Single and Sexy" sometime next week -- and there's a preview performance today for Village dons and pretty much anybody else on campus who'd like to see the show. Described as "a collective play about attitudes in the nineties", the show was actually introduced in the 1980s, and has had a major rewriting to mark its tenth year. It now claims to be "a high energy, entertaining, nonjudgmental, powerful presentation of scenarios and attitudes frosh are likely to witness or experience". One of last year's audience commented succinctly: "I wish they would show this in high school." It's sponsored by UW's health services, and directed by Darlene Spencer of the drama department. Eight students play eight lively roles. All performances are in the Theatre of the Arts: today at 1:30, Monday at 11:00 and 2:00, Tuesday at 11:00, 3:00 and 7:00, Wednesday at 10:00 and 4:30, and Thursday at 1:30 and 4:30.

During the day, the UW Computer Store will be offering a demonstration of the new Academy computer, in the great hall of Village I. Staff will be there to answer questions from students and parents about how to lease an Academy PC.

By afternoon, the various residences will be offering "ice breakers", games and other activities to keep new students busy, help them meet people and make sure they're not thinking about parents and home. In the evening there are concerts, pubs and other entertainments.

Orientation activities continue all next week, with some activities emphasizing residence (the friends you live with) and others academics and faculty life (the friends you go to class with). Highlight of the week is expected to be "the largest toga party in North America", Friday night at Federation Hall.

Official notices about registering

Fee payments can be made today at the cashiers' office in Needles Hall; they take cash, cheque, money order or Interac debit card. And if you're using a cheque or money order, you don't even have to wait in line; you can use the handy drop box.

If you are paying through an Ontario Student Assistance Program award, the registrar's office says, "signing the promissory note on the fee statement before September 4 will satisfy your fee arrangement and registration requirements until you are able to pick up your OSAP loan documents in September. OSAP funds will be released from September 8-11 in the Small Gym, PAC."

If you've paid fees by mail, you can pick up your receipt and fee statement in the Physical Activities Complex starting Tuesday.

"The absolute last day to pay fees for the fall term is September 30," the registrar's office warns.

And here's a note that the English Language Proficiency Exam will be given September 11. Students who haven't passed their faculty's English language requirement should plan to be there. The schedule: engineering at 9:30 a.m., arts at 11:30, science at 1:00, applied health sciences and environmental studies and mathematics all at 2:30.

Web site shows off the Warriors

The 1998-99 sports season offers "over 60 exciting home events", the department is saying as it offers season tickets to staff, faculty, and off-campus people. (Students receive tickets automatically as a benefit of paying their athletics fees.) The ticket includes admission to regular-season games in football, hockey, basketball and volleyball, both men's and women's, as well as the four big tournaments UW sponsors during the year. It costs $40, with discounted prices for high school students ($30) and seniors ($25); kids under 12 get in free. Tickets can be ordered from Bob Copeland in the athletics office in the Physical Activities Complex. More information: phone ext. 5869.

The soccer teams have already begun exhibition play -- sorry I don't have a score from last night's men's game versus Conestoga College -- and other teams will be in the thick of things shortly. Baseball and cross-country running are the next sports to get going, with competition in both those sports scheduled for September 12.

That's also the day of the first game for what is still the big fall spectator sport, men's football. The Warriors this year are led by a new coach, Chris Triantafilou, who's helping a team to rebuild after the graduation of ten of its stars, including kicker Arek Bigos, the all-time leading scorer in Waterloo football. (Bigos is with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League this fall.)

A correction I said in yesterday's Bulletin that Charlene Schumm, the new scheduling coordinator, had come from the other side of the registrar's office, the student awards section, to take that job. Wrong; I got confused about who's who on the second floor of Needles Hall. Schumm has been in the scheduling section all along, I'm told.

Coach Tri isn't making any promises about how the team will do this year, after a 1997-98 season that took it all the way to a controversial Vanier Cup game against Ottawa. "We are going to have to get through it," he says about the inevitable rebuilding. "I'm going to focus on controlling our mental mistakes."

The September 12 game will be played against Wilfrid Laurier University; it's a home game for Laurier's Golden Hawks, at 2 p.m. at University Stadium. Look for a horde of UW first-year students to head down to watch the conflict.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
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