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LeBel’s annual spring art show shows off graduating BFA students Sarah Hurst LANCE WRITER s per tradition, this year’s graduating BFA class at the LeBel School of Visual Art is putting on a final exhibit that showcases the work produced in their senior year. Titled Twelve°, the exhibit will open April 2 and will run until April 5 with a reception held at the LeBel Building in the SOVA Gallery. Twelve° features work from Brandon Lemire, Miriam Brathwaite, Marcy Boles, Kevin Echlin, Sara Curley, Diane Dosen, Dongni Li, Veronica Murawski, Ann Roth, Jessica Terpstra, and co-organizers Stephen Surlin and Hiba...
Swapping the credit card for the revival of barter how to BARTER Know what you want: Simmons says the thing that holds people back is that they don’t know what they want in return. “Put out what you are looking for,” she said. It had big returns for one barterer on Swapisity; she scored a free laptop. Don’t undervalue your own skills: Figure out what you’re good at and use it to your advantage. You may even be able to barter for an item or skill you didn’t think you could use; people have swapped simply for help doing chores....
Adeola Mustapha speaks with Windsor Police officers in the university’s CAW Student Centre Wednesday morning, after learning she is the subject of a missing persons alert • photo Caroline Jacobson UWindsor student surprised by missing persons report Natasha Marar EDITOR-IN-CHIEF indsor Police Service have confirmed that a woman at the University of Windsor yesterday morning is indeed a missing UWindsor student. A woman fitting the description of first-year political science student Adeola Mustapha was seen talking to Campus Community Police and Windsor Police Service officers in the university’s CAW Student Centre around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to UWindsor student Caroline...
Stephen Hargreaves NEWS EDITOR indsor Police Services are reporting a UWindsor political sciences student missing. Adeola Mustapha, a first-year student from Antioch, Calif. was reported missing on Feb. 7, following a call from her west-end landlord, who had not heard from her or received rent in two months. Windsor Police Services describes Mustapha as a 19-year-old, black female with a dark completion. She’s five-foot-two, 150 lbs., with long, black braided hair and a one-inch scar on the left side of her face. The police’s investigations branch report includes a possible sighting of Mustapha in Windsor on Feb. 1, though there...
Andrea Keelan FEATURES REPORTER magine your everyday life was full of constant distractions; as flicking through the channels on a television. This is a reality for many adults suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Growing up, most people probably recall at least one kid in his or her class that was diagnosed with ADHD. Once thought to be a development disorder that children could outgrow, researchers now know that ADHD behaviours often carry over into adulthood. According to the Centre for ADHD Awareness, Canada, 80 per cent of children with ADHD will still have the disorder when they reach adolescence....
Flu shots more important than students may think Gord Bacon ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR tudent Health Services will be looking to keep students in the classroom this winter by providing influenza facts and issuing free flu shots through the “Fight the Flu” program later this month. With the help of the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, FTF clinics will be held Wednesday, Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Thursday, Nov. 24 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s Ambassador Auditorium, according to Judi Wilson, head of health promotion for SHS. Wilson said the vaccine...
By Rahul Radhakrishnan NEWS EDITOR The University of Windsor’s newly-approved digital journalism program is on track to launch this September despite delays to its development over the summer. Upgrades to lab facilities, the appointment of a program co-ordinator and finalizing of teaching staff for the new program are still in progress. The program is the collaboration of departments of Communications, Media and Film, English and Political Science. “I think the delay in confirming the co-ordinator is due to the timing of a meeting between the three department heads,” said Blake Roberts, a sessional instructor, research associate and member of...
Cyclists look back at their experiences with pride and nostalgia By Rahul Radhakrishnan NEWS EDITOR wo University of Windsor law students took to their bikes and thousands of kilometres of open road in an effort to raise funds and awareness for global poverty this summer. Clara Lee and Michal Tellos, both second-year students in the Faculty of Laws’s J.D. program, participated in Riding to Break the Cycle, the flagship project of Vancouver-based non-profit organization Global Agents for Change. Lee spent four and half weeks, cycling 2,000 kilometres in Europe from Amsterdam to Budapest along with 16 other cyclists....