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Joey Acott LANCE WRITER Facebook page titled “Windsor Memes” is creating its share of laughs and debate, raising questions about the appropriateness of the page. Memes, a term borrowed from biologist Richard Dawkins to explain how we transmit culture, are images and sayings that have become common in online communities....
Ben-Abdellah ordered in to undergo psychiatric assessment H.G. Watson FEATURE REPORTER man accused of stabbing three people at the University of Windsor on March 9 will undergo a court ordered psychiatric assessment. Appearing in the Ontario Court of Justice on March 14, Emad Abdel Ben-Abdellah, 21, of Windsor, was ordered...
Josh Kolm ARTS EDITOR very spring, Windsor’s campus and community radio station, CJAM 99.1 FM, turns to their listeners to tell them what they like on the airwaves. CJAM’s annual Jammy Awards honour the hard work of their on-air volunteers, entirely based on votes from their audience. The awards ceremony,...
Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR t’s been three years since Student Operating Computer Resources had their accounts frozen by the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance, and the group’s members are running out of patience. Since forming in 1995, the fee levying club has provided computer and server resources to clubs,...
Alanna Kelly LANCE WRITER he Internet is abuzz with talk of Kony 2012, the viral campaign designed to make Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony “famous” for his crimes against humanity. Kony is the Leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group in Uganda, Central Africa. The LRA abducts male children...
Suspect in Friday’s University of Windsor stabbings returns to court Wednesday Stephen Hargreaves NEWS EDITOR with files from H.G. Watson he suspect in a quadruple stabbing on the University of Windsor campus Friday morning turned himself in to Windsor Police Service Headquarters Sunday afternoon. Emad Abdel Ben-Abdellah, a 21-year-old Windsor...
M.N. Malik LANCE WRITER nthropology students from a Richmond, Ind. college attended a workplace safety and environmental awareness talk at the University of Windsor last week as part of a four-city tour through Ontario and Michigan. On March 5, Earlham College students met with Jim Brophy and Margaret Keith, two...
Stephen Hargreaves NEWS EDITOR n the 101st anniversary of International Women’s Day last Thursday, the Lance set out on the University of Windsor campus to discuss the stigma behind the ‘F-word’: feminism. “There is a reluctance to identity as feminist,” said Stephen Surlin, a University of Windsor student studying visual...
U-Pass defeated by over 1,000 votes in largest student voter turnout in school history Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR t was a bittersweet evening for University of Windsor Students’ Alliance executives Thursday as a record number of students voted in this year’s general elections, but opted against a universal bus...
Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR ver 100 community members packed the Capitol Theatre Wednesday night to address transportation in Windsor and a universal transit pass currently being voted on by University of Windsor students. Panelists agreed that UWindsor students are a key component in the “big picture” plans for improving...
