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| Yesterday |
Thursday, September 18, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
"There have been six reported incidents involving sexual touching or stalking of women in the area of Hazel and Hickory Streets, Waterloo, since early May," the bulletin says.
"The suspect is described as male; 20-29 years of age; 5'6" to 5'11" tall; slim build; shaved head or short hair; wearing dark clothing and baseball hat. Anyone with information or who may know someone matching the suspect's description is asked to contact Waterloo Regional Police at 653-7700 ext. 639, or University of Waterloo Police at ext. 4911."
A map on the one-page warning shows where Hazel and Hickory are, relative to WLU, and notes that there have been three "assaults and stalkings" in May and three more in September.
It adds the advice for people to follow "normal safety precautions", such as sticking to "a major road or well-lit path" when walking after dark. "Do not walk home alone at night."
Concern about the "predator" has been the topic of major stories in the Record yesterday and today. "There is a targeting of female victims in their early 20s," a police official said, according to yesterday's story. "In all but one case, the man approached the women as they walked home alone in the early morning hours."
"Smiling Over Sickness," says a memo from the organizers, "is a student-run organization whose goal is to make sick children smile. This objective is achieved through voluntary services provided within the local community."
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Rohit Ramchandani describes the new club he co-founded -- the UW International Health Development Association -- to Clubs Day visitors yesterday. Photo by Barbara Elve. Clubs show their stuff in SLCIt's the second of two Clubs Days today in the Student Life Centre. Says Rick Theis, clubs director for the Federation of Students: "This open house for recognized clubs is an excellent opportunity for all students at Waterloo come and discover more about the multitude of organizations that exist on campus every term."Fed Clubs represent many different cultural, political and social interests, and there is something for everyone to join. Want to learn how to swing dance? Check out the Swing and Social Dance Club. Interested in Anime? Try out CTRL-A (Club that Really Likes Anime). Good at arguing? Lend your talents to the Debate Club. "These and many more clubs will gladly answer any of your questions about what they can offer, so stop on by the Great Hall in the Student Life Centre from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to find out more about what Fed Clubs can offer." For more information, Theis can be reached at fedclubs@feds.uwaterloo.ca. |
When an organizational meeting is held next week, SOS will be electing not just the usual leadership, such as a treasurer, but a fund-raising coordinator and a "smiles squad coordinator", who will be "responsible for coming up with unique ideas to put smiles on the faces of the children".
The meeting will be held Friday, September 26, at 2 p.m. in Physics room 150. Anyone interested can also get more information by e-mail (soswaterloo@hotmail.com) or, of course, at the Clubs Days booth.
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One of two faculty members in the UW political science department who
specialize in Ontario politics (the other is
Peter
Woolstencroft), Williams (left) says he's done about ten media
interviews, including a phone-in show on CBC radio.
"That was the day the [campaign] ads started," Williams says, and he was there to give some professional comments on the way the parties are presenting themselves to voters in preparation for the October 2 vote. "I try to make sure it's not just a partisan or short-term grinding of axes," he says about his media appearances, saying the job of a political scientist is to help put the news in perspective.
Major party candidates in local ridingsKitchener-Waterloo
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He'll be in the classroom again in the winter term with Political Science 345, which will have to take the current campaign -- and the election result -- into account. "We'll try to make some sense of the outcome," Williams said. "Whether or not it's a change of government, there will still be changes of sorts."
But he said he doesn't want to make a prediction now: "I don't venture into that territory." The Progressive Conservatives, led by Ernie Eves, will be seeking a third term in office, though current polls mostly show the Liberals, led by Dalton McGuinty, with the strongest support two weeks before polling day.
As for his own opinions, Williams said he has thoughts "as a citizen, as an academic, and as a political scientist". In that third capacity, he's "concerned about the issues of representative democracy", and critical of the current Tory government for "downloading" and for reducing the number of members in municipal governments. "The idea of having fewer representatives as a neutral, or a positive, process is completely unfounded," he said. "Representation is not just about cost."
A correctionI said yesterday that Pat Cunningham, this year's staff co-chair for the United Way campaign, was taking over from Sharon Lamont. In fact Lamont was chair several years ago (and has promised to provide some assistance to the campaign this year), but more recently the staff leader for the United Way on campus has been Chandrika Anjaria of the information systems and technology department. |
Tomorrow, LT3 has another session that should be of special interest: "An Examination of Learning Objects: What are they? Where are They? And Why Should I Start Using Them in My Courses?" It runs for an hour starting at 11:00, also in the Flex Lab. Details:
Tracy Penny Light, LT3's Instructional Manager, will conduct an informal presentation on Learning Objects. She will discuss what they are, where they can be found (CLOE, MERLOT) and why instructors and students lives get much easier through the use of them. Learning improves. Marks can improve, and students interact with the learning objects in a positive way. This short seminar will be of great benefit to all types and styles of instructors. If you have experience with overcoming learning problems with multimedia, this will be as valuable to you as if you have not used multimedia for solving learning difficulties within your courses.More information: ext. 3899. To register: "please go to LT3.uwaterloo.ca, click on Events, and fill out the registration form."
Back to today, now . . . a "coffee break" in support of the Alzheimer Society of Kitchener-Waterloo will run all morning in the fireplace lounge in the Lyle Hallman Institute, Matthews Hall. "A coffee and homemade goodie" are promised, any time from 8:15 to 12:30. The event is sponsored by UW's Alzheimer Research and Education Project as part of the society's annual coffee-break fund-raiser.
Would-be athletes who are a little slow off the mark can register today for "programs with spaces left" in campus recreation (go to Physical Activities Complex room 2039). . . . The Imaginus poster sale continues in the Student Life Centre . . . A series of information sessions about graduate scholarships also continues, with a presentation about mathematics at 3:30 today in Davis Centre room 1302. . . .
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Invitations a few days ago announced "the opening of the
Centre for Business,
Entrepreneurship and Technology, or CBET, today from 4 to
7 p.m. CBET has its new quarters on the first floor of Needles Hall,
and its first students, in the Master of BET program, enrolled this
month.
The teaching resource office presents a workshop on "Tutorials and Teaching: Purposes, Roles and Strategies" at 12 noon today in Math and Computer room 5158. . . . In preparation for the coming (September 24) career fair, career services will hold a workshop at 2:30 (Tatham Centre room 2218) on "Making the Career Fair Work for You". . . . An introductory meeting for this winter's Putnam math competition is scheduled for 6 p.m. in Math and Computer room 5158. . . .
Trucks are scheduled to be on the move today, hauling the worldly goods of the earth sciences department over from Columbia Street to the new Centre for Environmental and Information Technology. The move will take the rest of the week. I dropped in on CEIT yesterday and found plenty of people, though details of the building are still unfinished and many spaces aren't yet occupied. At the second floor coffee shop, lights were on but (so far) nobody home.
Carbon Copy, the UW Graphics copy centre on the second floor of the new building, was humming away yesterday. It'll be closed today from noon to 1:15 for a staff meeting.
The drama department's production "Tuesdays and Sundays" continues tonight, and through Sunday, at 7 p.m. in Kitchener's Victoria Park. Drama professor Andrew Houston, who directs the two-actor show, has a special interest in "site-specific" performance, and what could be more specific than an island in a lake in a park? The play is based on an incident that took place on Prince Edward Island in 1887. Admission is pay-what-you-can.
Friday night, the (free) lecture series at St. Jerome's University gets under way for this year with a timely talk on "The Word from Rome: The Next Pope and the Future of the Church". The speaker is John L Allen Jr., who covers Rome for the National Catholic Reporter. His talk starts at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Siegfried Hall.
Student programming contests will be held this Saturday and again September 27, says Gordon Cormack, the computer science professor who organizes and coaches them. "As always," he writes, "the contests serve a couple of roles. First, lots of people find them fun. Second, the results are the primary criterion used to select two teams to represent Waterloo at the ACM International Programming Contest." Details are on the web.
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