UW closed, freezing rain expected
The university is closed today thanks to bad weather that's expected to get worse as the morning wears on. As cars slithered over local roads, both Waterloo Region school boards made predawn announcements that schools would be closed today, and by longstanding arrangement, UW automatically follows the lead of the public school board in reacting to winter storms.
Under the emergency closing guidelines, the closing means classes are cancelled, and any assignments due today will be due at the same time tomorrow instead. Staff members don't have to come to work, except a few in "essential services" such as policing, maintenance and Village kitchens. Libraries, offices and stores on campus will be closed, and so will a host of services and spinoffs, from day care centres to the optometry clinic. The closing includes UW branches in Kitchener and Cambridge as well as the main campus.
The Student Life Centre is open (and there's coffee at the turnkey desk) but Brubaker's cafeteria, Tim Horton's and other SLC services are closed.
Registrar Ken Lavigne says students should check with their instructors for new dates for any midterm exams that were scheduled for today. Staff in the co-op department are scrambling to make new arrangements for employer interviews that were scheduled for today, as the main interview period nears its end before the job match on Monday.
It didn't actually look that dreadful outside at 6 a.m., but roads were starting to fill up with accidents, and freezing rain was moving in from the west. A local radio station's list of closings includes everything from the major school boards to a number of day care centres. Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph are closed today.
Sergeant Wayne Shortt of the UW police says campus roads are "greasy in spots" but have been cleared by the grounds crew shift that started at midnight. The campus looks like "a ghost town", he said, with most people staying home. And he added the usual advice to anybody who has to take a car out: "drive with care and control!"
At UW, one casualty of today's closing will be the scheduled reception to open a pair of exhibitions at the UW art gallery in East Campus Hall. The event was scheduled for 7 p.m. Opening in the gallery are "Inscriptions", a solo touring show by UW fine arts professor Jane Buyers, and "The Black Notebooks" by Montréal-based artist Brigitte Radecki.
Also on the agenda for today had been an appearance (6:30 in the Biology amphitheatre) by two internationally known activists, sponsored by the Solidarity Association for International Liberation and Young Communist League. Word came yesterday that one of the two speakers, Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado, would not be able to come to UW anyway. The other scheduled visitor was "Palestinian Jew" and academic Uri Davis.
It's been more than two years since the last snow day. The closing procedure was used when snow and freezing rain hit on January 27, 2004.
Under the emergency closing guidelines, the closing means classes are cancelled, and any assignments due today will be due at the same time tomorrow instead. Staff members don't have to come to work, except a few in "essential services" such as policing, maintenance and Village kitchens. Libraries, offices and stores on campus will be closed, and so will a host of services and spinoffs, from day care centres to the optometry clinic. The closing includes UW branches in Kitchener and Cambridge as well as the main campus.
The Student Life Centre is open (and there's coffee at the turnkey desk) but Brubaker's cafeteria, Tim Horton's and other SLC services are closed.
Registrar Ken Lavigne says students should check with their instructors for new dates for any midterm exams that were scheduled for today. Staff in the co-op department are scrambling to make new arrangements for employer interviews that were scheduled for today, as the main interview period nears its end before the job match on Monday.
It didn't actually look that dreadful outside at 6 a.m., but roads were starting to fill up with accidents, and freezing rain was moving in from the west. A local radio station's list of closings includes everything from the major school boards to a number of day care centres. Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Guelph are closed today.
Sergeant Wayne Shortt of the UW police says campus roads are "greasy in spots" but have been cleared by the grounds crew shift that started at midnight. The campus looks like "a ghost town", he said, with most people staying home. And he added the usual advice to anybody who has to take a car out: "drive with care and control!"
At UW, one casualty of today's closing will be the scheduled reception to open a pair of exhibitions at the UW art gallery in East Campus Hall. The event was scheduled for 7 p.m. Opening in the gallery are "Inscriptions", a solo touring show by UW fine arts professor Jane Buyers, and "The Black Notebooks" by Montréal-based artist Brigitte Radecki.
Also on the agenda for today had been an appearance (6:30 in the Biology amphitheatre) by two internationally known activists, sponsored by the Solidarity Association for International Liberation and Young Communist League. Word came yesterday that one of the two speakers, Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado, would not be able to come to UW anyway. The other scheduled visitor was "Palestinian Jew" and academic Uri Davis.
It's been more than two years since the last snow day. The closing procedure was used when snow and freezing rain hit on January 27, 2004.
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