Around the ring

Start your . . . pedals
June 2–8 is Bike to Work Week and UVic is once again taking part. Great prizes are available for UVic participants including a special grand prize of a bicycling trip around Europe. Cycle once or twice or challenge yourself to ride each day, and pedal into this week’s events including a bike wash station and a safe cycling course. More info »

Donate your old water bottles
Now that the Canadian government has announced its plan to restrict the use of bisphenol-a, or BPA, a chemical used to make hardened plastics, you’re probably wondering what to do with your plastic bottles. UVic’s Naomi Rittberg (UVic Students’ Society) is collecting bottles to house used needles. She has set up collection boxes in the SUB to gather Nalgene brand bottles, disposable water bottles and juice bottles. Since April, Rittberg has donated more than 80 bottles to AIDS Vancouver Island’s used needle collection program. Info: www.avi.org/node/2090.

Update your contact information—just in case
In order to be able to provide important emergency information to students and staff, UVic needs your current contact information on file. Please take a moment now to check and update your telephone number, cell phone number, email and mailing address in uSource. Your contact information will be used only for the purpose of sending official emergency messages from the university.

Here’s how to do it:

1. If you do not have a Netlink ID, visit https://netlink.uvic.ca/
   Log in via http://usource.uvic.ca
2. Choose the Faculty & Staff or Student tab
3. Choose Personal
4. Choose Update Addresses & Phones or Update E-mail Addresses
5. Click the active link(s) to bring up the information fields and enter your current contact information
6. Click Submit

For more information about the UVic emergency management program, visit the emergency preparation site or email University Emergency Planner Daphne Donaldson at ddonald@uvic.ca.