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Posted on April 29: Occupational Health & Safety Week activities cover range of topics

In the event of a fire, would you know how to properly use a fire extinguisher? Well, if you have any doubts you might want to attend an information session being held at McMaster on May 6 as part of North American Occupational Health & Safety Week. Risk Management Services has lined up three days chocked full of information sessions and activities aimed at increasing awareness of and information about health and safety issues. The session on "Get a Handle on How to Use a Fire Extinguisher" will be held on Tuesday, May 6 beginning at 9:15 a.m. in the Zone 7 Parking lot. Rob Edge, a fire service technician for physical plant, will lead this hands-on training session. Other information sessions will be held at both McMaster locations on campus and downtown throughout the week. These will include everything from how to set up your computer workstation properly to personal protective equipment to investigating an accident. "This is an opportunity for all members of the McMaster community to raise their own personal awareness about health and safety, to keep our environment and the campus safe, and to also have some fun in the process," says Lisa Morine, safety officer, Risk Management Services. To view the complete list of activities planned at McMaster for North American Occupational Health & Safety Week, May 5 to 9, click here.

Posted on April 29: McMaster mails early offers of admission

As of last week, McMaster sent out approximately 9,100 early offers of admission. McMaster received about 44,000 applications from registered Ontario secondary school students, many of whom applied to more than one McMaster program. The Enrolment Management Team is releasing its offers of admission in two rounds. The first round, scheduled to be in the mail by April 30, were sent out one week early. Other institutions, such as The University of Western Ontario and the University of Guelph, also sent out offers earlier than anticipated, said President Peter George to the Board of Governors last week. The second round of offers will be sent out May 30. "Owing to the very large number of applications, the ongoing Enrolment Target Agreement negotiations with the government and the overall challenges associated with secondary school reform, we have elected to make the majority of our offers in round two," says University registrar George Granger. "This will give us the benefits of additional grade data and other analysis which contribute to the prudent selection of competitive admission averages. Our goal is to hit our target enrolment as closely as possible." Current estimates suggest the total number of offers will exceed 19,000 by early June.

Posted on April 29: McMaster and SARS Protocol for international travel and international visitors

McMaster continues to monitor updated information about Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Although no cases of SARS have been reported in Hamilton, the University has decided to institute additional precautions to reduce the level of risk. All members of the McMaster community are strongly encouraged to delay or reschedule visits to campus by visitors who are from or have recently travelled to countries that have been identified by Health Canada as areas of higher risk. There are differences in the international advisories issued by the World Health Organization and Health Canada but the decision has been made to follow Health Canada guidelines. At this time these countries include China Hong Kong Taiwan Anyone travelling from these countries is asked to not come to campus for 10 full days following their arrival in Canada. This could have an impact on some conferences, group events and individual visits. The University also requires international graduate students, post-doctoral students and exchange students returning from these countries to complete 10 full days away from campus before attending university facilities. Those faculty, staff or students who choose to travel to these countries despite travel recommendations from Health Canada will also need to follow isolation protocols before returning to campus. International students currently at McMaster who would normally return home to countries affected by SARS for the summer and who wish to stay in Canada should contact the International Student Office at ext. 24748. The SARS situation changes on a regular basis and the McMaster community will be kept informed of any new developments or changes to this protocol. Please monitor the Daily News Web site for updates. Any questions regarding the University's response to SARS should be directed to the McMaster Crisis Management Team at ext. 24330, or by e-mail to team chair and vice-president, administration, Karen Belaire at vpadmin@mcmaster.ca. Ongoing updates are available on the mcmaster.ca Web site at http://www.mcmaster.ca/sarsupdate.html

Posted on April 28: Tuition fees give McMaster competitive edge

McMaster's Board of Governors approved tuition and miscellaneous fees for the 2003/04 academic year. To keep McMaster's programs competitive and innovative, fees will increase in medicine, business and engineering and tuition will increase 2 per cent in basic arts and sciences programs, based on a five-year provincial government cap on tuition approved by the Board in June 2000. In medicine, fees will increase 7 per cent, to $14,445 from $13,500. The funds will help support rising costs in faculty and facilities, which have gone up 5 per cent a year. McMaster has the lowest total tuition of all Ontario medical schools in Ontario. McMaster's total tuition is $40,000, compared with the University of Toronto, which is $59,000 and Queen's University, which is $50,000. Bursaries for medical students have increased 33 per cent to $2.2 million from $1.7 million, the highest amount given out to students at medical schools across Ontario. An average bursary to a medical student at McMaster is $6,900. Student tuition pays one-third of the cost of a medical education, estimated to be about $50,000 per year. The Michael DeGroote School of Business will increase MBA tuition fees 20 per cent for each of the next two years. MBA tuition is $9,600 for two terms in 2003/04 and $11,520 for two terms in 2004/05, for a total tuition cost to a student entering this fall of $21,120. "This is in keeping with our previously announced intention to continue to increase tuition fees to improve our competitive position amongst leading MBA schools," says dean of business Vishwanath Baba. Tuition fees support a number of initiatives, he says, including faculty hiring and recruitment, infrastructure, marketing, MBA case competitions, IT infrastructure and hiring of staff to expand international programs. Fees in engineering will increase by 12 per cent for each of the next three years to between $4,946 to $5,371, up from $4,796 last year. From the increase, 30 per cent supports student bursaries, 30 per cent funds central administration and 40 per cent supports faculty and new educational programming, says dean Mohamed Elbestawi. "We do not see that the status quo is an option," he says. "We see no choice but to expand and improve these programs in order to attract the best students to the Faculty of Engineering program."

Posted on April 25: American Musicological Society Program (April 26-27)

American Musicological Society, New York State - St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting April 26-27, 2003 McMaster University Saturday, April 26 9-9:30: Arrival, Registration 9:30-10:30: Session I: The Waltz in the 20th Century Alexander Carpenter, University of Toronto: "(Second) Viennese Waltz: Crisis, Change and the Waltz in Arnold Schoenberg's Oeuvre" Teresa Magdanz, University of Toronto: "The Celluloid Waltz: Reveries of the American Carousel" 10:30-11: Coffee Break 11:00-12: Session II: "Spiritual" Music in the 16th and 17th Centuries Marjorie Roth, Nazareth College of Rochester: "Chromaticism in Context: A New View of Orlando di Lasso's Prophetiae Sibyllarum" Janette Tilley, University of Toronto: "From Personification to Meditation: Representations of the 'Faithful Soul' in Lutheran Devotional Music of the Seventeenth Century" 12-1:30: Lunch 1:30-2:30: Plenary/Keynote Address 2:30-3:30: Session III: The Agenda of Modernism in 20th-Century Compositions Brian Locke, SUNY Stony Brook: "'Of Base and Contemptible Passions': Madness and Modernism in Jeremias' Opera 'Bratri Karamazovi'" Alexander Colpa, Kingston, Ont.: "The Role of Existentialist Theory in the Early Dramstadt Schoenberg Reception: A Study in Lateral Stylistic Transmission" 3:30-4: Coffee Break 4-5: Session IV: Reassessing Received Knowledge about the 20th Century Rob Haskins, Eastman: "'Beating My Head Against that Wall': Cage, Harmony and an Argument for Analysis" Murray Dineen, University of Ottawa: "Adorno, Jazz and Schoenberg: For the Defence" 5-6: Business Meeting 6-6:30: Concert Richard Semmens, University of Western Ontario: recorder Mary Cyr, University of Guelph: viola da gamba Sandra Mangsen, University of Western Ontario: harpsichord (Pieces by Jacques Hotteterre, Marin Marais, and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre) 6:30: Dinner: details to be announced Sunday, April 27 9:30-10:30: Session V Performing Sensuality in the late 18th and 19th Centuries Emily Dolan, Cornell University: "Taming Sonority with Reason: Kant, Rousseau, and the Glass Armonica" Tom Denny, Skidmore College: "'Che sono i fini di chi fa mal'? - Variant Endings during Don Giovanni's First Century" 10:30-11: Coffee Break 11-12: Session VI Wagner and Verdi Lindsay Moore, University of Toronto: "Rich Man, Poor Man: Verdi's and Wagner's Operas and the Changing Copyright and Performance Rights Laws of the Nineteenth Century" Drew Stephen, University of Toronto: "The Hunt as Couleur Locale in Verdi's Don Carlos and Wagner's Tannhaeuser" 12-12:30: Session VII Chant Andrew Hughes, University of Toronto: "Early Printed Sarum Breviaries: Manuscript and Continental Origins"

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