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Thank you to 157 volunteer speakers!
For 25 years, the UVic Speakers Bureau has matched faculty, staff and graduate
students with community organizations and schools throughout southern
Vancouver Island. Since last September, the bureau has provided speakers
for more than 350 engagements. The UVic volunteer speakers offered to
share their expertise and enthusiasm on topics as far-ranging as art and
architecture, firness, animals and plants, parenting, computers, world cultures,
social and justice issues, wellness, travel, history, employment and world
affairs. To see the full list of speakers who have volunteered over the last year,
visit communications.uvic.ca/sb/thankyou.php. For more information contact
Mandy Crocker at 721-8587 or mcrocker@uvic.ca.
Put some bounce in your lunch hour
Here’s your chance to get on the right track to fitness and show a little UVic
spirit. The 2006 President’s Fitwalk is a quick trip around Ring Road with your
colleagues. It starts at noon on Wednesday, June 21 from the University Centre
breezeway. As well as being good for the heart and soul, this annual event
sports some friendly competition—the Spirit Award goes to the department
that brings the most spirit to the event and the Participation Award will be
awarded to the department with the most people participating in the walk.
The walk is sponsored by athletics and recreation and this year’s theme is “change and transition.” If you won’t be able to walk with your co-workers, you
can still support your department by registering and walk the Ring at another
time. For more information contact Kathi Cameron (athletics and recreation) at
472-4028 or kcameron@uvic.ca.
Another First Nations partner joins CYC program
The Penelakut Tribe on Kuper Island is the latest of nine aboriginal organizations
to participate in the school of child and youth care’s First Nations partnership
program, which delivers two years of university-accredited coursework in child
and youth care in First Nations communities. Students from the mid-Vancouver
Island bands successfully completed their coursework and are expected to
convocate in November. The program is a unique arrangement in Canada
that incorporates the traditional knowledge and practices of the partners
with the school ‘s curriculum. The program has been offered 10 times to tribal
organizations in three provinces and was selected by UNESCO as one of 20 best
practices across disciplines from around the world that incorporate indigenous
knowledge.
Is that 721 or 472 or 853?
The next time you’re providing a university phone number to someone
off -campus, double-check the entire phone number. Continued growth of
the university has led to a third prefi x being added to the campus roster of
telephone numbers. In addition to the original 721 prefi x, and the 472 prefi x
added in 1994, there’s now 853. There are about 4,500 telephone lines in use on
campus. Although a prefi x should in theory accommodate 10,000 numbers, the
university is only able to reserve (at the cost of about $1 a month per number)
a block of 1,000 numbers at a time. As a result, the telephone companies can
assign other blocks within the same prefi x to other customers. “Always be sure
to use the correct prefi x when providing your seven-digit number, printing
stationery or listing on a website,” advises Ron Koznan, manager of network
services. For more information visit http://nets.uvic.ca/telserv/dialing.html.
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