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MISCELLANY
Volunteerism
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U of S employees and students are extraordinarily generous with their time
and money when it comes to contributing
to charitable organizations and community causes.
Here, for example, Professor Mel Hosain, of Civil Engineering;
Kim Kozak, a student of international studies; and
Nancy Pon (BE'94 and a student of fine arts), each of whom are
volunteers with Save the Children-Canada - Hosain being chair
of the Saskatoon branch - pose with Mayor Henry Dayday, who, with
City Council, proclaimed November 20 as Child
Day, in recognition of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Missing
from the photo is
Professor Carl von Baeyer, of Psychology.
Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the Save the Children movement, drafted
the original Rights of the Child in 1919.
They were later adopted by the United Nations.
You can help to celebrate Child Day by attending an Icelandic breakfast
book launch of
Sir Thomas A. Cat, the latest children's book by
Peter Eyvindson, at Louise Avenue Congregational Church Hall, 1602
Louise Avenue, on Saturday, November
21, at 9 a.m. A free-will offering will be taken in support of Save the
Children programs in Canada and around the world.
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ASPA Birthday
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ASPA held a birthday party on October 30 to celebrate its 20th anniversary
- its 25th if one counts its
ultimate organization as a voluntary staff organization. Members gathered
in the Exeter Room of Marquis Hall to mark
the milestone and President Ivany offered some words of
congratulations and praise to the middle-management
group for its tradition of working with the University in times of
travail and hard decision-making. Above, ASPA
president Tim Archer and Wendy Bates cut an anniversary cake
for distribution to those attending.
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The Halloweensters
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Joan Tilk, Maria Jochmaring, and
Donna Cram (front), pose beside a fellow in the Faculty Club who
seems to have been
thoroughly Halloweened one way or another. These Hallowe'ensters
organized this year's version of the nerve-jangling Grey Gables Haunted
House Tour in the (much-transformed) Faculty Club basement,
complete with a pre-tour account of the dark tale of
Gladys McCafferty, whose ghost was plainly visible to those taking
the thunder-crashing,
leg-grabbing, creepy-crawly-illuminated tour.
Besides all those who contributed to UNICEF at the end of the
tour, host Cram wants to thank the following for their hard work in
putting the tour together: Maria Jochmaring,
Joan and Brenna Tilk and all the staff at Printing Services;
Edie, Melissa, and Bradley
Koski; Sarah Cram, Ron Marken,
Wayne Giesbrecht and the DAVS staff;
Rhoda Miko; Ken Turner, Ed
Singler, and the Facilities Management staff; the staff of the Faculty
Club; the
University Credit Union, Lauren
Davidson, Aletha Melynchuk, and Samantha
Sperling.
Thanks, too, to all those who contributed to the campaign for
candy for the Friendship Inn - notably the Extension Division and
the Department of Accounting.
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Storm Damage
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Grounds head Ken Turner says his work crews will probably spend
"much of the winter" tending to the hundreds of trees that were
damaged by the October 10-11 snow storm. He says the men, who have to
share the bucket truck with other Facilities Management crews, continue
to find trees they didn't know were damaged. Here, Barry
Kirchmeier saws branches aloft while George Larrowe awaits
cuttings for piling on the ground. Meanwhile, the crews are using
a powerful wood chipper to reduce the fallen branches to a huge pile of
shredded wood, near Surplus Assets, for use as ground mulch.
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Blood Donor Clinic
Canadian Blood Services Blood Donor Clinic
Date: Wednesday, November 25
Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Upper MUB (above Louis')
New donors welcome (must be 17 - 60 years of age). Please bring personal
identification. Thank you!
UBC apologizes for controversy
A November 5 article in the Globe and
Mail by Rod Mickleburgh reports that
the University of British Columbia has apologized to its
Political Science Department for "inappropriate action"
in connection with a cause
célèbre case involving accusations against
the Department of sexual and racial discrirnination.
"Following a report in 1994 by Vancouver lawyer
Joan McEwen that appeared to uphold the accusations,"
the piece says, "the University suspended
graduate-student admissions to the Department for three months.
Investigators for the B.C. Human Rights Commission recently
concluded there was no basis for the allegations.
"In a letter to department head Ken
Carty, UBC president Martha Piper expressed
the University's 'sincere regret that this issue has caused distress
in your Department, particularly to former department head
Don Blake, who persevered and acted honourably in the face
of harsh and proven criticism.'
"Ms. Piper acknowledged that the [1994] McEwen Report
was flawed and the University's action inappropriate as a
result of an inadequate complaints procedure. 'For this error,
I apologize on beha!f of the University. We have learned
a great deal from this experience.'
"Mr. Carty said he was gratified by the
University's action. 'We have had to live under a professional cloud
for over three years,' he replied in a letter to Ms. Piper.
'On behalf of my colleagues who were so damaged by
this whole episode, I accept your sincere apology....We
want nothing more than to move on.'"
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