UW did it! Faculty, staff and students helped reach the
     $150,000 goal for on-campus donations to the local United
     Way campaign this year.
 
          That's the good news for four dozen charities and
     service agencies, and the people in Kitchener-Waterloo who
     depend on them.  The bad news is that UW fell 9.5 per cent
     short of its other goal: having 38 per cent of UW faculty
     and staff contribute to the campaign.
 
          As of last Wednesday morning, UW had raised $3,747 more
     than the dollar goal. Now Phil Caskanette, one of the co-
     chairs of UW's United Way campaign, is expecting that the
     final total will be about $160,000.
 
          "At the beginning of the campaign I didn't think it was
     possible," Caskanette said at a wrap-up lunch.
 
          Although UW met the dollar goal, it's projected that
     the city-wide United Way campaign will be $37,000 short of
     its $3.75 million target.
 
          Anyone who would still like to contribute to the
     campaign can still do so by contacting Caskanette or UW's
     payroll department.
 
          Again this year, awards were handed out to departments
     with high levels of giving and participation.
 
          The president and provost offices, internal audit and
     staff association, dean of applied health sciences, and
     operations analysis received platinum awards.
 
          Gold awards went to dance, parking, TRACE (teaching
     resources and continuing education) and information and
     public affairs.
 
          Silver awards went to St. Paul's College, health
     studies and classical studies.
 
          Bronze medals went to telephone services, the two
     applied health science centres, arts computing office,
     counselling services, co-operative education and career
     services, purchasing, development, bookstore, recreation and
     leisure studies, personnel and the faculty of applied health
     sciences -- the first time a whole faculty received an
     award.
 
          Some of UW's success stories include St. Paul's College
     for increasing its participation rate by 60.8 per cent to
     72.7 per cent; alumni affairs, whose participation rate went
     from 10 per cent to 46.2 per cent; St. Jerome's College,
     from 19.8 per cent to 42.6 per cent; telephone services,
     from 44.4 per cent to 100 per cent; and the school of urban
     and regional planning and department of environment and
     resource studies, both up by 20 per cent.