Daily Bulletin

Road work begins next week

On a campus map, 32 marks South Campus Hall, with the divided access road running up to it. Number 19 is the Humanities Building. University Avenue crosses the scene left-to-right, with parking lot H between University Avenue and the ring road.

After months of work and weeks of delay, the new SCH façade is ready, replacing what Galloway calls "that imposing concrete wall" that used to run right along the edge of the ring road.

There's gardening still to be done -- the new SCH design incorporates space for several flowerbeds -- and now comes extensive road work, including repaving of the ring road in two areas and a redesign of the "stub road" that leads up to SCH from University Avenue.

The kiosk in the median of the stub road is being removed (it's been out of use for some two years) and the flagpoles will be moved by a few yards, to a spot between the entrance road and parking lot H. The entrance road will be straightened and widened to "two full lanes" for incoming traffic, Galloway said.

The road work will start Tuesday, right after Monday's avalanche of Student Life 101 visitors. Contractors are promising to work as fast as they can, but "we'll have a mess well into September," Galloway predicted.

The work near the campus entrance will be done first. Cars will always be able to get in the main entrance, Galloway promised, but there will be times when they can't turn left along the ring road to the Humanities building and parking lot H. "People parking in H lot will definitely be inconvenienced," he admitted. Signs (and advance announcements if possible) will tell people when the best thing to do is enter the campus from Columbia Street instead.

Once that part of the job is done, the ring road is to be repaved from Environmental Studies II to the Student Life Centre, and at that stage access to parking lot D under Needles Hall will be a problem. "The ring road will always be open for emergency vehicles," Galloway said.

Paving, at least as far as a base coat of asphalt, is to be finished by September 9, the Thursday of orientation week, he said, and at that point all of the road can be used most of the time. Brief closings will be necessary later when finish coats of asphalt are added.

This week's staff positions

So here, in not much detail, are the positions being listed this week:

• Head, user services, library, grade USG 12.
• Weekend supervisor, library, grade USG 4.
• Research assistant, kinesiology, grade USG 8.
• Assistant, promotions/special events, athletics, grade USG 5.
• Operations assistant, cooperative education and career services, grade USG 4.
• Receptionist, computer science, grade USG 3.
• Call centre supervisor, office of development and alumni affairs, grade USG 8.
• Administrative secretary, electrical and computer engineering VLSI research group, grade USG 5.
• Secretary-receptionist, office of the president, grade USG 4.

Except for the Renison position, inquiries and applications go to the human resources department, phone ext. 2524. The Positions Available list notes, as it does every week, that "The university welcomes and encourages applications from the designated employment equity groups: visible minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and aboriginal people."

Notes from across campus

According to a release from the UW news bureau, UW architecture graduate Aniko Mesaros is the second-prize winner in an international design competition sponsored by the Japanese Design Foundation. Mesaros, who graduated three years ago with a bachelor's degree and then taught at the architecture school 1996-98, says her "vast living textile" project covers over what was a polluted and unused industrial harbour and is now transformed through biotechnology into a unique and animated ecosystem. Her prize is worth $10,000 US.

Chandrika Anjaria of UW's information systems and technology department was one of the Oktoberfest Women of the Year in 1997, honouring her work with the Multicultural Centre and other agencies. And now she's involved in seeking nominations for the 1999 awards, which she describes as "an effective and enjoyable way to recognize and pay tribute to outstanding women in the community. The goal is to salute their commitments and achievements, and to share the inspirations of these women." Nominations close September 24 in ten categories -- arts and literature, business and entrepreneur, community volunteer, employee, homemaker, humanitarian, professional, senior, sport and fitness, young adult. T presentation ceremony is scheduled for October 14. Says Anjaria: "Nomination forms can be picked up at the Oktoberfest office or at any branch of the Kitchener-Waterloo libraries. Please describe your nominee in detail."

Here's a reminder of the Ontario Engineering Competition, to be held in the last week of February at the University of Toronto. Now is the time for student competitors to start work, says Fakhri Karray of the systems design engineering department, who is the faculty advisor for UW participants in the OEC (and the national engineering competition that follows). "The Dean of Engineering will sponsor two official UW teams for each category," he says. Categories are Entrepreneurial Design, Corporate Design, Editorial Communication, Explanatory Communication, Parliamentary Debate, and Team Design. Karray's web page has more information.

Who's in charge here? UW president David Johnston has issued a memo about the delegation of authority as president. "When I am temporarily absent from the University campus from time to time," says the memo, "I hereby delegate those powers vested in me as President of the University to one of the senior academic officers of the University of Waterloo in order of precedence as listed below." The list starts with provost Jim Kalbfleisch and associate provost (academic and student affairs) Gary Waller. Then come the deans and the vice-president (university research), ranked by how long they've been around in senior roles: Alan George of mathematics, John Thompson of science, Pat Rowe of graduate studies (until her term ends on August 31), Carolyn Hansson (VP, research), Geoff McBoyle of environmental studies, Mike Sharratt of applied health sciences, Sujeet Chaudhuri of engineering, Bob Kerton of arts, and Jake Sivak of graduate studies (when he takes office September 1).

Advance warning: undergraduate offices in arts and environmental studies, including the mature student services office, will be closed August 16 through 27. Students who need to visit such quarters to get academic advice for the fall term should plan to get it done by the end of next week or else wait until the week before Labour Day.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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