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$100,000 grant lor ovc surgical unit NEWS The Wellcome Trust of London, England has Wellcome Trust has provided major support given a grant of $100,000 to the Ontario for veterinary medical research outside the Veterinary College to help with the establish­ United Kingdom." ment of an experimental surgical unit. The grant, which will be made in a lump BULLETIN The Wellcome Trust was created 30 years sum, will be used to equip the experimental ago under the will of Sir Henry Wellcome to surgical unit to be housed in the college's promote research in human and animal clinical research building. medicine. Under the direction of OVC professors The Wellcome Trustees are the sole share­ James Archibald and Harry Downie, the unit holders in the pharmaceutical company, the will provide the laboratory and associated Wellcome Foundation Inc., from which the facilities for experimental work in surgery trust derives all its income. and physiology. UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH "We are especially pleased at the announce­ "I should point out, "Dean Howell added, ment of this grant" said OVC Dean Dennis "that the unit will also be available to personnel Howell, "because this is the first time the in the sister medical schools of the province." Vol. 19 No. 30 July 24, 1975 It was ice cream all round during the great university taste test There was free ice cream for everyone in the samples had 50 per cent of the sucrose solids cyclamate (26) and saccharine(47). University Centre when three food science replaced by corn syrup solids. As anyone who Professor Pearson expects that eventually students conducted a taste test for Professor has cooked with it will know, corn syrup is more and more corn syrup will be used in Sandy Pearson. Don Amichand of Student only 50 per cent as sweet as sucrose. Hence Canada since it is locally produced and sugar Affairs, left, insisted he was taking all that these three samples were bolstered with other prices continue to fluctuate. He thinks it is ice cream to the secretaries. Taster on the sweeteners. Close in popularity to the sucrose- possible Canadians could develop a taste for right gave serious consideration to her sample. sweetened ice cream was the sample bolstered ice cream that is a little less sweet than that The ice cream that met the most favourable with aspartame, a relatively new sweetener we now favour. response was the one sweetened entirely with made from amino acid (this was sample 19 The tests were conducted by Karl Bergen sucrose, the sweetener most commonly used for those who remember their favourites). The with the assistance of Gord Brown and Quebec in commercial production. The other three other two were sweetened with calcium exchange student Jacinthe Fortier. Task force on local government publishes report Information on Ontario's local and regional governments involved, he said. provincial government consider giving financial governments is a valuable commodity which assistance to local and regional governments One of the major problems in obtaining should be more complete and easier to come to develop their own information systems and information "is simply that people don't by, a University of Guelph economist says. improve their reporting of information to the know where to look," he said. The task force Economics professor Douglas Auld was the province. Over three-quarters of Ontario's recommended that the Ontario Statistical chairman of a three-man task force on local municipal governments just aren't big enough Centre prepare a booklet listing all available and regional government data formed in May, to afford even a full-time clerk-treasurer. This regular sources of data pertaining to local and 1974, as a result of OEC's concern about the creates difficulties in answering requests for regional governments. The booklet would also difficulties faced by people trying to obtain information, the report noted. contain a brief summary of the type of infor­ information on governments, he explained. mation that could be obtained from each To help ease the problem of expensive It took about a year for the group to source. duplication and redundancy in reporting research and write its report, entitled "Infor­ information, the task force recommended the mation — A Critical Component for Better Even if all the sources of information were Ontario Statistical Centre develop a standard Government," which contains 10 recommenda­ known, however, people looking for informa­ questionnaire that municipalities would tions on improving the availability, accessibility, tion would still have problems of accessibility, complete twice a year. The questionnaire and quality of data on municipal governments. he pointed out. Almost all the information would supply information that is requested Professor Au Id's main research interest is about local and regional governments is most often and this data would be available to government financing, especially at the local produced by governments at the municipal, users through the centre instead of the indivi­ and regional levels. Other members of the provincial and federal level, and their agencies. dual municipalities, Professor Auld explained. task force were Dr. Gail Cook, senior econo­ The task force continually came across mist, Howe Research Institute, and Dr. Gerald references to information listed as "confiden­ One of the other recommendations made Hodge, of Queen's University. tial," "for internal use only," or available by the task force was the establishment of Municipal officials, provincial officials, and only with "official sanction," he said. an "urban indicator data bank." The bank would collect and publish information on non-governmental researchers including "In most cases, the rationale for limited or such indicators of the quality of life in muni­ citizens groups, businessmen, academic no access is not apparent, and hence any use­ cipalities as housing, poverty, crime rates, and researchers, and professional consultants are ful information may be denied users on unsub­ recreational and cultural facilities. all interested in information on local and stantiated grounds," the report stated. The "Such a system should be descriptive in regional governments. However, given the task force called upon the various governments nature, simply describing certain urban current state of affairs, trying to obtain and their agencies to justify their policies of phenomena which could then be used widely meaningful data from more than one munici­ limited access to data "with a view to making by analysts, municipal administrators, the pality, or even more than one department as much information as possible available to within a municipality, can be extremely province and individuals to assess urban living the public." difficult. Meeting demands for information conditions and examine areas of public can also be expensive for the local and regional The task force also recommended that the policy concern," the report stated. APPOINTMENT Colin Jones has been appointed to a liaison position between Agri­ culture Canada and OVC. His official title is coordinator of the Ontario region of the Education and Develop­ ment Division, Health of Animals Branch, Agriculture Canada. Dr. Jones has been on campus for the past four years working for the Health of Animals Branch and at the same time on a Master's Degree in Animal Science. The new position involves acting as a sort of information officer between OVC dean, faculty and students on the one hand, and the government on the other. He is able to advise students on government employment opportun­ ities and take back to the branch new develop­ ments at the college. In addition, Dr. Jones keeps in touch with veterinarians in practice New Zealander Greg Edmeades is this year's winner of the O.M. McConkey scholarship which is and is responsible for the courses (as many as presented annually for all round scientific ability to a crop science graduate student by Mrs. 20 a year) given for professional and lay staff Louise McConkey, in memory of her husband. Professor McConkey (whose portrait is shown in in the province. Dr. Jones is located in the the picture) was a grassland ecologist and conservationist long before the principle of conserva­ Veterinary Microbiology and Immunology tion in agriculture became popular. Greg, shown here with his Ph.D. supervisor Professor Terry building, and contributes to the teaching of Daynard, is working with corn stands on the causes of inter-plant competition, with particular regulatory veterinary medicine in the depart­ emphasis on its effect on grain productivity. ment. The position is one of three in Canada. 2 Exploratory study into migraine headaches by Guelph student University of Guelph psychology graduate exists." A small number of past psychological are also keeping a special diary for three student Alex Loucks doesn't suffer from studies have indicated that the migraineur is months. The diary is really a collection of migraine headaches, but he's interested in likely to have a number of distinctive personal­ daily questionnaires and asks for detailed people who do. ity traits, including an above average need for information on such things as diet, moods, For about the last six months, Alex has achievement, and a strong leaning towards frustrating experiences and many other factors, been collecting information on people, mostly perfectionism, but the sample studies have as well as descriptions of migraine headaches from the university community, who suffer usually been small and carried out at the clini­ which occur. When the diaries are analyzed, from the pounding, throbbing headaches. cal level, Alex commented. Alex hopes they will shed some light on A 1974 Honors B.A. graduate of Guelph, he So far, about 1100 people have filled out environmental, physical and emotional factors decided to do his M.A. thesis on "migraineurs," Alex's questionnaires dealing with migraine. which may "trigger" migraine.

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