![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
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Monday, November 17, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
Bank of Canada governor speaksUW is one of the sites for a videoconference today as David Dodge, governor of the Bank of Canada, will be presented with a "Visionary Award" and speak about global challenges.His address is entitled "Global Challenges, Canadian Opportunities". Dodge will speak at Ottawa's Carleton University, with the presentation transmitted live via satellite and webcast to more than 4,000 participants from 30 universities in nine provinces. It's the 7th annual Visionary Seminar, presented by the Office for Partnerships for Advanced Skills, which is an agency of the Council of Ontario Universities. The seminar, with the annual award, is designed "to provide a forum for industry representatives, university faculty and students to join together to assess an informed vision of the future". OPAS is a partnership of universities, companies and groups, dedicated to "advancing industry/university partnerships through a variety of initiatives and events that promote lifelong learning, particularly via learning technologies; knowledge transfer from universities to enterprise; and dialogue on labour market issues". The satellite showing -- with free lunch -- starts at 11:30 today in Davis Centre room 1302. There's still space available, I was told late Friday, so all are welcome. |
It says 8 faculty were appointed with tenure, 22 were given tenure and promoted to associate professor (the usual path for faculty who come to UW at the beginning of their careers), and 6 were awarded tenure who weren't also being promoted.
The committee also looked over 39 reappointments of probationary faculty members (those on their way to tenure) and 22 promotions from associate professor to full professor during the 2002-03 year.
The annual report says three "tribunals" met to deal with appeals after faculty members were refused tenure or promotion, under the rules in UW's Policy 77. "Each tribunal reviewed the T&P dossier considered at earlier levels and weighed the additional submissions (oral and written) made available to it."
Two of the appeals were from professors who had sought tenure and promotion to associate professor from assistant professor. In both cases, the tribunal ruled in favour of the professor and against the president of the university, who makes the tenure and promotion decision following consideration by a series of committees. Both tribunals, says the report, "concluded unanimously that the candidates qualified under Policy 77 for the award of tenure and promotion".
In one case, the report says, "the tribunal found reasons to discount the negative review of one referee based on the fact that the referee did not have an appreciation of the literature and journals in the discipline being assessed."
In the third case, the tribunal decided that the applicant should not be promoted to professor "at this time. For promotion to full Professor, Policy 77 states that a 'continuous program of scholarship with positive peer review by nationally and internationally recognised scholars is essential'. In the view of a majority of the members of the tribunal, the candidate's record of the past five years did not meet this standard."
![[On the field]](/images/2003/1106laszlo.gif)
After a severe injury that cut his competitive soccer playing career short, Laszlo has decided to focus on refereeing. "Initially, while still residing in Europe, I wanted to referee because that was one other way to be involved in the game."
Certified as a level 3 referee, his experiences are impressive. After 5 years in campus recreation, Laszlo has been the student program coordinator, coordinator of referees, referee development instructor, as well as refereed over 150 campus recreation games. His accomplishments do not stop here, however. Outside of campus recreation, Laszlo has refereed Kitchener Minor Soccer, Inter City Kitchener District Soccer League, South Regional Soccer League, Ontario Cup, Ontario Youth Soccer League , Ontario Soccer League -- Men, Ontario Women's Soccer League, OUA Men's and Women's, and the Canadian Professional Soccer League. Laszlo has also been invited to referee in numerous international tournaments in Canada, United States, Denmark, and Norway. In total, Laszlo approximates that he has refereed over 2,000 soccer matches.
Lazslo already had a wealth of soccer experience before joining the campus rec ranks, but his five years of service in CR has gained him valuable insight and knowledge. "Refereeing in campus recreation has taught me so many things. I have learned how to handle people, and learned how to handle stressful situations." This is also the message he is trying to convey to the younger refs just starting out in campus rec. "As a referee, you cannot give up. You will have bad days just like players do. You have to learn from every single game because each is different. Young refs also have to understand that you are out there to manage a game, yet you do not want to steal the thunder from the players. You are not out there just to blow the whistle."
Leagues coordinator Marc Itturiaga was thrilled to inherit an employee with so many credentials. "Laszlo provides our sport programs with much needed respectability. He has tremendous leadership qualities and understands what it takes to be a campus recreation referee. He has become a mentor to other referees in the program and has taught other students to make the most of their opportunities."
Upon finishing his master's at Waterloo, Laszlo is uncertain which area of interest he will pursue. "I would like to complete my PhD. and teach high school. However, I could also see myself working with the Canadian embassy as a foreign service diplomat." He also works at the YMCA and loves working with youth and teens. Despite all these interests, he plans on continuing to referee at all levels. "As with other referees, my ultimate goal is to referee in the World Cup of Soccer. Nothing is impossible and as long as I have the opportunities, I will try my very best."
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Graduate and research council, 10:30 a.m., Needles Hall room 3001.
Senate long-range planning committee, 3 p.m., Needles Hall room 3004. UW senate, 4:30 p.m., Needles Hall room 3001. Eco-adventure trips to Costa Rica information session by JourneySouth, 7 p.m., Math and Computer room 4040. Career night for science students, with guest speakers on the pharmaceutical industry and on forensics in police work, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Rod Coutts Hall room 307. "E-Portfolios as an Integrating Technology for Students", workshop in Flex Lab, Dana Porter Library, 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, organized by LT3 technology centre. Mystery novelist Gail Bowen reads from her work, St. Jerome's University cafeteria, 4 p.m. Wednesday. Faculty of Arts Lecture, Geoffrey Fong, "Clearing the Smoke: How Behavioural Research Is Playing a Leading Role in Preventing the Future Global Tobacco Epidemic", Theatre of the Arts, 4 p.m. Wednesday. |
![[From the Denude invitation]](/images/2003/1117denude.gif)
Artworks
by five fourth-year students make up "Denude", showing this week in
the front gallery at East Campus Hall. There's an opening gala from
5 to 7 p.m. this evening.
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Let's return to the topic of Columbia Lake Village (formerly the Townhouses), which I said the other day had always been occupied by upper-year students until they were taken over as a first-year residence this fall. It's more complicated than that, explains Bud Walker, UW director of business operations. Originally the townhouses were for upper-year students, but starting in 1999 there were also first-year students. In 2003, with the arrival of the double cohort, "most of the exchange students are housed there along with first-year students," says Walker, "but it is mostly first-year students. Of course, in the winter and spring terms there are more upper-year students at CLV than in the fall term because they replace first-year students who go out on co-op terms."
A for-profit company that offers "cram" sessions before exam time -- aimed at students who aren't confident they've learned what they were supposed to over the past three months -- has been told it can't rent space on the UW campus to hold its classes. A memo from the provost the other day told deans and department heads that apparently the company "is planning sessions for more than 20 UW courses. . . . Their intent is to recruit UW TAs as instructors." The provost asked departments to "be alert . . . to ensure no facilities are booked through your units" for that kind of business, and to advise teaching assistants that working for such a company "may create a conflict" under UW's conflict of interest policy.
The co-op department sends a correction to information that was released last week about co-op student employment, specifically in the teaching option: "There are 13 students (not 7) in the Teaching Option who took part in the Initial Interview Phase. As it turned out, all but one was matched with a job. That means 92.3% of the Teaching Option students currently have employment" for the winter term.
An announcement will come this afternoon about plans for "a university campus" in central Kitchener, city officials have said. According to stories over the weekend in the Record and Star, two sites are under consideration, and discussions have been held with "local universities". Kitchener mayor Carl Zehr told UW's board of governors last month that there had been conversations with UW about having a presence downtown, but no specifics had been settled. Today's announcement will be made at a meeting of a Kitchener city council committee, the two newspapers reported.
A notice from the university secretariat: "The election of one graduate student to Senate closed Wednesday, November 5, at 3 p.m. The results were as follows: Craig Sloss -- 16; Lubomir Stanchev -- 31; declined -- 1. The candidate declared elected is Lubomir Stanchev, term to April 30, 2004. Of the 2,602 eligible graduate student voters, 48 voted for a return rate of 1.84%." Stanchev is in the department of computer science.
And . . . there are quite a number of UW people involved in the K-W Musical Productions presentation of "Godspell", which hits the stage this week at Kitchener's Centre in the Square. "This is a must-see production," writes Stacey VanderMeer, secretary in UW's department of music, who's working on the music for "Godspell" in her spare time. "We've been rehearsing since the beginning of September," she adds. Among the UW names in the cast list are Steve Brown (statistics and actuarial science), Susan Brown (kinesiology student), Nancy Mann (counselling services), Robert Mann (physics), Dan Petker (computer science student), and Matt Iley (optometry). Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, and Saturday afternoon; call 578-1570 for tickets.
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