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Just a few notes today . . .

The provincial government has announced the distribution of $16.5 million in "accessibility" funding for nine universities this year. Much as expected, Waterloo gets none of the money. Jim Kalbfleisch, then provost, explained why last fall: "The Accessibility Fund is another 1% envelope to partially fund enrolment growth in the university system. The rules announced for this Fund would have required UW to admit more first-year students in 2000 than in 1999. We were unwilling to do this because of the large over-run in our 1999 admissions." He said then that the government had been "asked to reconsider the rules", but apparently the answer was no.

A children's show by The Potato People is occupying the Humanitaies Theatre today and tomorrow, with performances at 10 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. both days. Watch for school buses on the ring road.

The senate research council meets at 2:30 this afternoon (Needles Hall room 3004) with an agenda that concentrates on reviews of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing and the Institute for Improvement in Quality and Productivity.

A seminar on "Startup Companies: Factors for Success" starts at 2:30 in Davis Centre room 1304, sponsored by UW's InfraNet Project. Panelists will include Thomas Åstebro of UW's management sciences department, Andrew Abouchar of Waterloo Ventures, patent agent Mark Schisler, and Shirley Speakman of Royal Bank Ventures Inc.

The twice-a-month surplus sale at central stores (East Campus Hall, off Phillip Street) is scheduled for tomorrow, from 11:30 to 1:30.

And tomorrow brings a noontime session on "Collaborative Research: The Perils of Joint Ownership", in the intellectual property seminar series (12 noon, Needles Hall room 3001).

The sentence imposed on Vladimir Platonov, UW professor of pure mathematics, after he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault has been appealed by the Crown. The appeal of the two-year "conditional" sentence, meaning that Platonov must meet certain conditions but is not imprisoned, is likely to mean delay in the investigation being conducted by UW's dean of mathematics, which could lead to discipline or dismissal from the university.

. . . and a glimpse of the past

The Bulletin was created in 1993, when UW was already 36 years old, so there are thousands of earlier days to choose from. Flipping through old issues of the Gazette, I quickly selected September 23, 1981, which might well be the birth date of some of today's first-year students.

It seems extraordinary how much of the news of that day reflects issues that are still on people's minds, almost twenty years later. But take a look for yourself.

Most readers of the Bulletin will see the 1981 "Bulletin" in a floating window that can be moved around or resized to suit your screen, and read without leaving this current Bulletin behind. If you don't see the 1981 window on your desktop, and want to, you can find it at bulletin.uwaterloo.ca/hist.

CAR

Editor of the Daily Bulletin: Chris Redmond
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