![[University of Waterloo]](/goldbar.gif)
| Yesterday |
Friday, October 31, 2003
|
Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Trick or Eat badges]](/images/2003/1031food.gif)
"As part of a national initiative to address hunger issues," says Paula Johnson, "students from UW and Wilfrid Laurier University will canvass in the Beechwood, Westmount and Laurelwood neighbourhoods for nonperishable food items and cash donations. Last year, more than 150 students participated in the event, collecting over 4,300 pounds of food for the Waterloo Region Food Bank and the Feds Food Bank. Event organizers plan to make this year's campaign an even bigger success."
In the photo, Johnson, left, poses with Jenne Lau as they get ready for tonight's collection.
Elsewhere on campus, tots in the early childhood education centre will do their annual trick-or-treating through the PAS (Psychology) building today. And I understand there will be quite a bit of costumed trick-or-treating this afternoon in the upper floors of the Math and Computer building.
Security expert Reg Quinton, speaking to this morning's professional development seminar in information systems and technology, says he'll talk about "a scary topic -- security tips for Windows". The University Club is offering a Hallowe'en lunch today at $11.95 (reservations, ext. 3801). There's a Hallowe'en party tonight at Federation Hall, of course. And the Graduate House promises, or threatens, "a spooky Hallowe'en mixer with three insane bands", from 8:00 tonight.
But surely there's nothing scary about the ranking forms that students in the teaching option will fill out today in the Tatham Centre, choosing their winter term jobs.
By popular demand, this year's Hallowe'en edition of the Daily Bulletin
does not feature the
dancing
pumpkins that have been seen here in the past.
Especially aimed at staff and faculty members is the Black and Gold Lunch today at the Graduate House and Renison College. "Everyone who attends the lunch at either place," we're told, "gets a complimentary ticket to a Naismith basketball game. We are also encouraging and rewarding those who wear Hallowe'en costumes, black-and-gold clothing or their UW wear. There will be prizes."
| More about the East Asian festival |
| More about Warrior Weekend |
| More about the Naismith tournament |
| More about the fun run |
| More about the science open house |
| More about Kidsfest at the bookstore |
| More about the WPIRG anniversary |
United Way nears goalThey'll draw a winner today: someone, among the faculty and staff donors to the United Way campaign, will win "a day off with pay" or a $100 gift certificate at the University Club. It's the big prize at the official end of the month-long campaign.And givings are very close to the month's target of $150,000. As of yesterday, Kristin Schmidt in the United Way office was able to give a total of $136,958, which is 91 per cent of the goal. She said contributions to the United Way will be accepted over the next few weeks, up to December 5. Besides pledges and cheques, money is coming in from campus-wide special events, and more are still happening. There's a costume lunch in UW Graphics today, for instance, and it's the last day for a pickle basket raffle compliments of Mary Anne Jantzi (tickets, ext. 5833). |
The workshop will highlight several themes of particular interest to the UN and the international community. These include providing information and communication technologies (ICTs) to as many as possible of the world's inhabitants and the implications of ICTs for economic, social and cultural development including democracy.
Also to be discussed are meeting the goals of the UN Millennium Declaration and the problems of ensuring confidence in the reliability and security of ICTs and avoiding their misuse choices facing businesses and governments, in particular Canadian-based businesses and the Canadian government.
The academic council is a UN-accredited, international non-governmental organization, now headquartered in Waterloo at Wilfrid Laurier University. Its mandate is to promote excellence in research, teaching and writing about the United Nations, international organization and multilateral cooperation, and to enhance the mutual understanding of academics and practitioners in addressing these matters.
This workshop is the first of an annual series sponsored by UW and supported by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, a newly established think tank on global economics.
![[Manning]](http://www.fp.ucalgary.ca/unicomm/Gazette/June3-02/manning.jpg)
Former federal opposition leader
Preston
Manning (left) will speak at St. Jerome's University tonight (7:30,
Siegfried Hall). He's brought in by the
Centre for
Catholic Experience to give the annual Wintermeyer Lecture, under
the title "Living the Interface Between Faith and Politics".
"It has become the conventional wisdom in Canada that
faith should be a private, not a public, matter and that the
separation of church and state meant that there was no
legitimate place for faith perspectives in the public square.
Mr. Manning argues that in practice it is neither possible nor
desirable to keep faith and politics in separate
water-tight compartments," says
a
St. Jerome's news release.
"We have already raised over $1,000," says Zahra Nensi of the Smiling Over Sickness group, which is sponsoring "Shave for a Cure" tonight. "Students have been raising money and in turn will get their heads shaved. All proceeds go directly to the Canadian Cancer Society." The evening starts with a residence competition at 7:00 in the Student Life Centre, as part of the pre-basketball pep rally: "The house which raises the most money receives a free pizza party. As well, the students which raise the top three amounts will win an MP3 player, a DVD Player, and a Discman respectively. All prizes will be provided by the UW department of athletics." Then over in the Physical Activities Complex, come half-time of the Warrior game, a number of students and at least one staff member will get their heads shaved (and there will be a final chance for people to make contributions). Among those taking part are two vice-presidents of the Federation of Students, David Capper and the hitherto hirsute Liam McHugh-Russell.
The Centre for Sight Enhancement, part of UW's school of optometry, will hold a public information session about macular degeneration Saturday from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the Waterloo Memorial Recreation Campus, just east (south?) of campus. "The event will consist of a series of brief presentations that will describe macular degeneration and will review its potential prevention, treatment and rehabilitation," says Graham Strong, director of the centre. "We hope that following this information session, people with macular degeneration and their families may feel more comfortable in seeking out the kind of assistance they require, armed with good information." AMD is an incurable eye disease, caused by a gradual deterioration of the central portion of the retina, or macula, resulting in a central area of vision loss.
![[Team under a tree]](/images/2003/1031golf.gif)
Warrior golfers
pose after winning the Ontario championship
in a tournament in Guelph a few days ago. The Warriors are giving much of
the credit to their coach, Doug Painter. Next action: the national
championships, but not until winter is over.
|
Sports, now. The Warriors are competing in the national field hockey championships this weekend, and lost their first game yesterday, 5-0 to Victoria. Their second-round game is this morning against York. Meanwhile, the men's soccer Warriors are suddenly in the Ontario championship tournament, after Toronto's team was disqualified; competition is at the Royal Military College in Kingston. In other sports action, the women's basketball team is at Queen's for a tournament; the women's hockey team plays at Western tomorrow; the men's hockey Warriors visit Windsor tonight, then host the same opponent tomorrow night (7:00) at the Columbia Icefield; and the men's and women's volleyball teams play at Guelph tomorrow. All that, of course, is in addition to the Naismith basketball tournament, already described, and the swim team's two meets.
A note arrives from co-op student Lawrence Lam, currently working in San Diego: "Some families and friends might be wondering about the status of the co-ops down in California. I think I can safely say that all the Waterloo co-ops in the San Diego area are okay despite the huge wildfires going on. Most of us live sufficiently northwest of the affected areas, although the air smells really smoky."
The Canadian Association on Gerontology is holding its annual conference in Toronto this week, and researchers from UW's department of recreation and leisure studies are presenting two symposia. Tomorrow morning brings "Examining the Role of Leisure in Later Life", and tomorrow afternoon "Meanings of Leisure in Different Later-Life Contexts". "Researchers from Canada, the United States, and New Zealand, including a number of faculty members from Waterloo, will be involved," writes Sherry Dupuis from the rec department.
Advance givings to Campaign Waterloo are coming along nicely, vice-president (university relations) Laura Talbot-Allan told UW's board of governors earlier this week. She said givings are at about $150 million, or 57 per cent of the campaign goal of $260 million. "We've had $32 million from five individual donors," she noted, which goes to show the potential of individual giving. The long-awaited public launch of the campaign will likely be held in late March, Talbot-Allan said, details to be announced.
A memorial service for Renison College faculty member Michael Bird, who died Monday, has been scheduled for Wednesday, November 5, at 4 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre. The funeral service will be held tomorrow at 1:00 at Parkminster United Church. Renison has created a tribute page on its web site.
The board of governors has given final approval to changes in UW's Policy 40, about the role of department chairs and how they're chosen. The changes were endorsed by the university senate in June. A key change, as provost Amit Chakma explained, "would make explicit that a Chair's duties include the management of support staff" -- five words to that effect are added right between "the implementation of the academic program" and "the allocation of space" in the list of the chair's duties.
CAR
