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Part-time students to hear from director of student aid

Mar 6th, 2012

Aase Houser, director of student awards and financial aid, is the featured speaker at the Organization of Part-time University Students social, March 7.

Attendees will enjoy a free dinner as well as learn about the Ontario Student Assistance Program, the provincial tuition grant, scholarships and bursaries.

Part-time students will be entered into a draw for a $250 door prize.

The event runs 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the OPUS Lounge, room 172, CAW Student Centre. RSVP by e-mail to opus@uwindsor.ca or by telephone, 519-971-3603.

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Kai Novak

Feminist media critic to offer ad-busting analysis

Mar 5th, 2012

Feminist blogger, radio host and ad-buster Jennie Thunder will make three public appearances in Windsor on Tuesday, March 6.

At 10 a.m., she will analyze advertisements we see every day and offer tools to continue the critique outside the classroom in her presentation “Rethink, Reclaim: Occupy the Media,” in Alumni Hall’s McPherson Lounge.

At 1 p.m., Thunder will engage in an interactive discussion, “Storming the Media,” on her efforts to harness the media to project her own feminist voice, also in Alumni Hall’s McPherson Lounge.

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Matt Walters

Video competition aims to discover student tech ideas

Mar 5th, 2012

Students with an idea for a great new technology, innovation or start-up can take it to the next level through a video competition hosted by Ontario Centres of Excellence.

The contest, open to all post-secondary students enrolled at an Ontario university or college, is a chance to put their ideas in front of the movers and shakers of the science and technology industry.

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Matt Walters

Your Health Matters information aimed at cancer prevention

Mar 2nd, 2012

Up to half of all cancers can be either prevented or detected before they become a serious threat to your health. When it comes to cancer, an ounce of prevention and screening is worth more than a pound of cure!

A session for UWindsor employees will focus on general risk factors that individuals have control over and can change. Cancer Care Ontario developed the “Your Health Matters” information session to enhance participants’ understanding of the risks.

March into savings at Document Imaging Centre

Mar 2nd, 2012

The Document Imaging Centre is offering a special incentive to use its services this month.

Any order placed in March will earn each customer a coupon worth 25 per cent off the next regular-priced order for black and white and colour impressions on any paper in stock, including wide-format posters.

The coupons are valid until April 27 and may not be used for typesetting, design, CourseWare, stationery or previously quoted jobs.

Paper airplane flights put students on path to glory

Mar 1st, 2012

When he woke up Tuesday, the last thing Paul Marchwica expected was to be entering a paper airplane competition. But the master’s student in mechanical engineering read in DailyNews about the Red Bull Paper Wings qualifier in the CAW Student Centre and set to work.

“I researched on the Internet and found the dragon design,” Marchwica said. “It pays to learn from the best.”

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Matt Walters

Film tells tales from the Toronto summit

Feb 29th, 2012

A meeting of leaders from the world’s 20 largest economies in June 2010 spent more than $1.3 billion on security measures, more than all previous G8/G20 summits combined.

Exclusion zones, overlapping layers of security fencing and an estimated 25,000 police and military personnel transformed downtown Toronto into an armed camp.

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Matt Walters

Homestyle station dishing up Mexican cuisine

Feb 29th, 2012

The Marketplace food court’s multicultural week goes south of the border today with a Mexican menu featuring vegetable escabeche Dona Vito; bone-in chicken breast with apricot mole; and beef rib chili.

Thursday’s Italian celebration features chicken marsala with grape vine; homemade porcini-infused beef ragu with fresh egg tagliatelle; and tofu cacciatore.

The Marketplace food court serves lunch and dinner in the CAW Student Centre.

Campus mourns death of retiree

Feb 29th, 2012

Campus flags will be lowered today in memory of retiree Corrado De Concini, who died Monday, February 27.

De Concini commenced working at the University of Windsor in 1969 as a custodian in Facility Services, a position he held until his retirement in 1988.

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Matt Walters