Volume 25 Number 26 81 07 02 Alumni Weekend The 300 students attending START 81 sessions June 25 and June 26, July 18 and July 19 and July 24 and July 25, are coming from such widely different places as Thunder Bay, Windsor, Kingston and Ottawa. Their interests cover every program that Guelph offers. What they have in common is a desire to attend the University of Guelph next fall. Almost 99 per cent of those who came to START 80 did go on to enroll at Guelph, says START co-ordinator, Peggy Patterson of the Counselling and Student Resource Centre. The aim of the three two-day START sessions is not to recruit, therefore, but to reinforce their decision to come to Guelph. The theme of START 81 is "How to Be a Successful Student at Guelph." Twelve hundred questionnaires filled out at March Friends of the University of Guelph, Inc. president, Counselling this past spring showed that the Dr. A. Grant Misener of Illinois is welcomed to a number one concern among prospective stu- reception by President Donald Forster. Left is 1941 dents involved academic success — "Can I OAC graduate Charles M. Robinson of California. make it academically?". The second was Dr. Archie MacKinnon, new OVCAA president, financial — "Can I stay solvent?", and the left; Dr. Bob Buck, immediate past-president, and Dr. third involved residence living — "Whats Wendy Parker, first female OVCAA vice-president. it going to be like to live in residence?". Outgoing OACAA president, Dr. Clare Rennie, "As a result of March Counselling we OAC Dean Clay Switzer, centre, and new OACAA have a much clearer idea of what students president, Larry Argue. actual concerns are and can deal with them Alumni recall campus days during wagon tour. more directly," says Mrs. Patterson. The START program, accordingly, is made up of a number of resource sessions which help the student gain a complete idea of how to answer the big question — "How can I be successful as a university student?". START 81 students are being assisted in other ways. By staying overnight in residence they become acquainted with residence life, make new friends and find out where things are. By being placed in groups of five from the beginning of Day 1, they learn the value of co-operative effort. "No one student can attend all the resource sessions," explains Mrs. Patterson, "so in order to find out how to be a successful student at Guelph they must work Continued on page 2. START 81 Continued from page 1. Sigma Xi award to GWC2 graduate Andrew Parkinson is the winner of this years Sigma Xi D.G. Ingram Award for the outstand- ing Ph.D. thesis at the University of Guelph. Dr. Parkinson, who was enrolled in the chemistry program of the Guelph-Waterloo Centre for Graduate Work in Chemistry from September 1977, received his doctoral degree in February,1981. While at the University Dr. Parkinson co- authored, with Dr. Stephen Safe and his other research group members, 15 refereed research publications and 10 book chapters on various aspects of the biochemical toxicology of halogenated pollutants. He was also an out- standing rugger player, playing three years for the University of Guelph rugger team. Dr. Parkinson is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Drug Metabolism at the Hoffmann-La Roche Re- search Laboratory in New Jersey where he is continuing his research on the drug- The START Class of 80. Most of them are now Guelph students. metabolizing enzymes. q out a game plan and pool their information. sity areas, including Al McGinnis, Director of This is essential since at the end of Day 2 each Residences, OVC Dean, Doug Maplesden and group is expected to give a seminar answering Chemistry professor, Joe Prokipcak. the big question." There will also be moments to unwind. After the seminars of Day 2, START 81 games Beside attending sessions and seminars begin. These include monster ball and amoeba, Liz Reemeyer START 81 students will have more opportun- which, again, stress team effort. "We want ity than their predecessors to become students to find out that, in order to succeed, At the Institute of acquainted with a broader range of University they have to learn to rely on many people Computer Science Liz personnel. Faculty members, senior students, and many resources, and that to do so is all Reemeyer has been as well as administrative and professional staff right. We hope that as they leave START 81 named to the position members, will be present to meet them they will have come to see the University as a of computer account- informally over lunch, and there will be a num- living, human resource they can draw on in ing clerk. q ber of dinner speakers from a range of Univer- the semesters ahead." Miss Reemeyer, a native of Guelph, joined the Institute in 1977. For the past Environmental science two years she has assisted Pearl Milne with computer accounting day camp for children and managed the registration of ICS non-credit training courses. She now looks forward to An environmental science day camp will and systems in their environment. "We assisting users with their accounting concerns be held at the Arboretum this summer hope that the children will gain an appre- and can be reached at Ext. 3717. for girls and boys who are nine to 11 ciation and respect for the natural environ- years of age. ment," says Alan Watson, biologist. If you have children interested in Co-sponsored by an Experience 81 Wayne Hepburn nature, birds, flowers, trees, mammals grant, Ministry of Culture and Recreation, and insects who would like to know more the programs camper/leader ratio has Wayne Hepburn has been appointed manager about these and where they live, four been set at 5 to 1, notes Mr. Watson, so of programming for the University Centre. weekly sessions will be offered: July 20 that the children will have ample oppor- Mr. Hepburn, who received his B.A. to July 24; August 4 to August 7; August tunity to ask questions and pursue from Guelph in 1976, has been on the Univer- 10 to August 14, and August 17 to individual or small team projects. sity Centre staff as assistant manager, pro- August 21. The cost for a one-week Most of the activities will take place gramming, since July, 1980. Prior to joining the University Centre he served as manager program is $40, except for the August on the 330-acre Arboretum site. A of activities for the Bullring, for the Central 4 to August 7 session which is $35 for tractor/haywagon will provide trans- Student Association. a four-day camp. portation from the University bus stop The environmental science day to the Nature Centre. camp, will be held at the J.C. Taylor Sessions are limited to 20 children. GUELPHS Continuing Education Calendar, Fall Nature Centre, will provide an interest- Applications and fee should be submitted 1980, won the first-place distinctive promotional ing and varied program which will teach not later than July 10. For further award for composite calendar — non-credit, at the the children about the natural cycles information, telephone Ext. 3932.[] recent annual meeting of the Canadian Association of University Continuing Education. 2 Meeting of June 25. Non-academic Fees for Graduate Students Macdonald Stewart Art Centre A three-party letter of agreement defining the The Board approved that beginning in The Centre has established a corporate basis for the collection of fees from students the fall, 1981, semester, University non- membership committee to encourage annual and the conditions under which the University academic fees apply to full-time graduate contributions from local and national com- will proceed with the construction of new students only, except in cases where a student panies to build a solid base of support for campus athletics facilities highlighted a short is permitted to enroll full-time and conduct programming and acquisitions. Board of Governors meeting June 25. research some distance from campus. Construction of the multi-purpose facil- Capital Project Status Report ities (see News Bulletin 80 06 05) is expected Guelph/Beijing Memorandum of Understanding Footings and foundation walls are complete to begin by March 31, 1983, and be completed The Board approved the Memorandum of on the Land Resource Science building exten- by March 31, 1985, according to the agree- Understanding between the Beijing Agricul- sion. The project is expected to be finished ment which was signed by the Central Student tural University, Peoples Republic of China Association, the Graduate Students Association by mid-October. Work is also essentially and the University of Guelph. q and the University of Guelph. The University complete on the boiler economizer. estimate of capital cost is $9,400,000, based Appointments on a March, 1983, construction start. The Board approved the following Students voted, at a November, 1980 appointments: Terry Fox referendum, in favor of the project under a OAC: Dr. L.L. Burpee fills an established position student fee structure consisting of a pre-fee as assistant in the Department of Environmental University of Guelph flags are flying at of $12 per student per semester, commencing Biology as of September 1, 1981. half mast this week as the University September, 1981, until the facility opening, community joins the nation in mourning and then a post-fee of $20 per student per Board Meetings the death of young cancer victim, Terry semester. The student contribution is not to The following is a schedule of 1981-1982 Fox. Mr. Fox, whose Marathon of Hope exceed $3,130,000, and the total time for fee meetings for the Board: September 24, Octo- run last year raised $23 million for cancer collection is not to exceed 23 years.