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Palestinian Solidarity Group Facebook Page • photo Stephen Hargreaves
Political pictures on Facebook stir up trouble
Images posted by a University of Windsor student group on Facebook are being considered by some as hate speech and anti-Semitic....
Pro-Palestine students stage mock check points
The University of Windsor’s Palestinian Solidarity Group shed light on realities of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for students last week. ...
Growing mental health services on campus
Growing mental health services on campus
For many first-year students, walking into a large lecture hall can be intimidating. When University of Windsor student Maya Madolyn attended a class in the large room 1118 of Erie Hall, the fear was overwhelming....
LETTER: Listen to the sound of silence
One morning, I came across an article about a room at Orfield Labs in Minnesota. This little room’s claim to fame is that it is considered the quietest place on earth. ...
Bookstore deal voted down
A slim majority of students voted Monday against having the university’s Bookstore move into the student centre....
Protestors march down Wyandotte Street in support of the people of Gaza • photo Darryl Gallinger
Mounting violence sparks student march for Palestine
Over 60 community members braved the cold to march to City Hall last Friday in support of peace in Palestine. The demonstration was organized by Palestinian Solidarity Group, a University of Windsor student-led organization. The crowd marched from Wyandotte Street East at Langlois Avenue to City Hall downtown....
International student advisor Enrique Chacon speaks about permanent residency at a UWindsor event • photo Darryl Gallinger
Canada ups residency intake of international students
The Government of Canada has announced Canadian Experience Class immigration intake, which includes residency for international students, is expected to quadruple from 2,500 in 2009 to 10,000 in 2013. ...
Seven universities recently signed a deal to facilitate transferring credits between their institutions • image Stephen Hargreaves
Credit crunch: University credit transfer agreement stirs debate
A new credit transfer agreement between several Ontario universities has University of Windsor administrators debating its necessity while students demand more from this tentative first step. Seven universities, including McMaster, Queen’s, Guelph, Ottawa, Toronto, Waterloo and Western, formed a credit transfer consortium at the end of September....
Avicii concert lands UWSA $37K in the hole
Financial statements have revealed the actual cost of the Coming Home Music Festival concert to be just over $250,000. Swedish DJ Tim Berg, a.k.a. Avicii, headlined the Sept. 5 concert at the Riverfront Festival Plaza, put on by the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance as part of its Welcome Week events for students....
Joseph Kokot, an architect working on the Innovation Centre and Parking Structure, discussed his work at the university's open house last week • photo Darryl Gallinger
Campus changes laid out for next 50 years
Jason Rankin LANCE WRITER The University of Windsor presented a round-up of a number of construction and renovation projects across campus at a community conference last week. UWindsor president Alan Wildeman held an open house Sept. 19 at the CAW Student Centre that laid out plans for transforming the campus over the next 50 years. “The University of Windsor campus has had a great history of 50 years,” said Wildeman before the event. “But there are some parts (of the campus) where we need to rebuild them because they’re no longer state of the art. They no longer have the...