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| Yesterday |
Friday, February 17, 2006
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
"Clearly this is disruptive for employers and students," says Peggy Jarvie, director of co-op education and career services, adding that "CECS staff is working very hard to adjust schedules as best as possible. Students should check JobMine regularly for schedule updates." The job match was to open at noon today and close Monday morning. It will now stay open until Wednesday.
Jarvie said 64 employers were scheduled to be interviewing in the Tatham Centre yesterday, some of them from out of town. "With some staff working from home, we've been able to reschedule a few of those employers to interview [Friday], and some made other arrangements. The balance will be rescheduled for Monday and Tuesday next week."
Dave Thomas of CECS adds that a number of employers actually arrived on campus for yesterday's interviews, and "were not impressed" to find the university closed. The Record this morning has a front-page story -- under the heading "How'd that become a snow day?" -- exploring how the local school boards made the decision to shut down for the day, a lead that was followed by institutions across the county, including UW. It quotes Frank Seglenieks, manager of the UW weather station, commenting that "Environment Canada erred on the side of caution this time" in predicting a major storm with freezing rain yesterday.
Rescheduling the day's activities is made more complicated by the February reading week that starts Monday for students in four faculties, and the two-day reading break next Thursday and Friday in the other two faculties, engineering and math. Students who have the week off are already trickling away from campus today.
The athletics department sends word that facilities in the Physical Activities Complex and the Columbia Icefield will be open on the regular schedule next week. However, campus recreation will not operate leagues, classes or instructional programs for the week. Some food services outlets will be closed next week or operate on reduced hours. Tim Horton's in the Student Life Centre, usually a 24/7 service, will be closed this weekend (from 7 p.m. tonight to 7 a.m. Monday) and open only from 7 to 7 all next week.
Electrical power will be shut off tomorrow morning (from 8 to 10) in the Physics building, Rod Coutts Hall, the CEIT, and the CIM wing of the Davis Centre. . . . Guy Poirier of UW's French department is in New York this weekend to sing at Carnegie Hall with the Rainbow Chorus of Waterloo-Wellington, as part of a weekend of music in support of AIDS research. . . . Nominations are due by Monday for the new round of TVOntario's "Best Lecturer" competition. . . .
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The arts
faculty has a new associate dean (graduate studies and research). Sandra
Burt of the political science department took on that role as of January
1, succeeding Heather MacDougall of history.
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"Inscriptions", a solo touring show by UW fine arts professor Jane Buyers (currently on sabbatical), visits Waterloo between stops at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa and the Koffler Gallery in Toronto.
"The work is based on the image of the open book," says Buyers. "The sculptures turn text into actual forms while the works on paper explore found marginalia and hand-written notes on canonical texts including Milton, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth." In probing the transformational nature of books, she uses found school texts, creating lithographs and etchings through the incorporation of organic images. In her porcelain sculptures, Buyers investigates the form of book pages, inviting the viewer to read the work "as symbol, as object, as time encapsulated."
Sharing the gallery is "The Black Notebooks" by Montréal-based artist Brigitte Radecki. Gallery assistant Barbara Hobot describes the works as "portraits" of Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart. The artist, says Hobot, "presents acrylic paintings which consist of excerpts from Smart's handwritten journals. Enlarging and tracing the notes onto canvas, Radecki shows us some of the writer's most self-critical moments. When selecting source material, Radecki is particularly drawn to portions of text that Smart has crossed out, furiously edited, and marked with frustration.
The tiny strokes of paint that fill the canvases, says Hobot, are "suggestive of handwriting, imbuing sentiment and self-awareness into her work, instigating an abrasive conversation with Modernism." Support for The Black Notebooks is provided by Renison College English professor Judith Miller, as well as the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, UW's General Research Funds, and the Waterloo Community University Research Alliance.
An opening reception for the shows, scheduled for last night, was hit by the campus closing, although Radecki did make her visit from Montréal for the occasion. Both exhibitions continue through March 23. Hours are noon to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, noon to 7 p.m. on Thursday, and 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Centre for International Governance Innovation presents Andrew
F. Cooper, associate director, "Reworking Canada's Strategy for
Humanitarian Intervention", 11:45, 57 Erb Street West, free
tickets 885-2444 ext. 246.
Imprint Publications annual general meeting 3:00, Student Life Centre multipurpose room. Residential Energy Efficiency Project workshop on home energy savings, Saturday 1:30, Rona Home & Garden, Cambridge. Fantastic Staff, Faculty and Alumni Day at Warrior men's basketball game Saturday 3:00, Physical Activities Complex; half-time airplane toss, children's tattoos, other events; free tickets 888-4973. Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre (part of Conrad Grebel University College) fund-raiser, "Big Rude Jake" and Cate Falconer-Lichty, Saturday 8 p.m., Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. Joseph Schneider Haus museum 25th anniversary event: Ken McLaughlin, St. Jerome's University, speaks about the 1981 restoration, Sunday 2:00 at the Haus. Heritage Day workshop: "Heritage: The Competitive Edge", Monday all day, Architecture building. Alumni Networking Workshop Tuesday 6:00, Tatham Centre room 2118, fee $10, details online. Sports this weekend: Men's hockey at Brock tomorrow; game 3 of best-of-three series, if necessary, Sunday 7:30 p.m. at the Icefield. Men's basketball vs. Laurier, Saturday 3:00, PAC (broadcast on CKMS). Women's hockey Sunday at Toronto. Nordic skiing Saturday and Sunday, OUA championships at Laurentian. |
Sarah Lewis, chapter president, was named "Volunteer of the Year" out of 15,000 members nationwide for her dedication to the organization, selfless commitment to development and for making the Waterloo chapter the largest and most effective chapter in Canada. In 2004, Lewis completed a four-month internship in Cameroon, where she worked on a health project to improve water, sanitation and hygiene in rural communities.
As well, Catherine Denis, a systems design engineering student, received the inaugural Professional Engineers of Ontario/Engineers Without Borders Scholarship, worth $1,000. She will be travelling to Burkina Faso in May for a four-month overseas internship with EWB.
"The EWB national conference is an extraordinary opportunity for the University of Waterloo chapter to learn from student leaders across the country and to educate ourselves about the engineering approach in international development," said Lewis, an economics student. "The growth of membership and of our educational programs this year is a testament to the hard work, thoughtfulness and dedication of our members."
The conference, held January 18-22, also included distinguished guest speakers such as Roméo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda in 1994 and author of Shake Hands With the Devil -- The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, as well as John McArthur, manager of the UN Millennium Project and associate director at Columbia University's Earth Institute.
Mike Tucker, a representative of Digital Rapids, EWB Waterloo's newest corporate sponsor, was also at the conference. The network based video-processing and video stream management technology company has recently pledged $5,000 to the Waterloo EWB chapter and $5,000 to support the EWB national conference.
UW's chapter sent 40 students to join more than 500 other young Canadians at the conference. The delegates learned about international development related issues and participated in interactive workshops. Engineers Without Borders is a leading international humanitarian organization dedicated to the fight against world poverty. Its goal is to develop technology -- innovative, appropriate, sustainable and locally available and generated -- to better the lives of people in developing communities across the globe.
CAR