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Second Cup station ready to serve

The Marketplace food court’s latest addition opened Tuesday. The Second Cup offers self-serve coffees and other hot beverages.

Dave McEwen, Food Services department head, says he had been working to bring the company to campus since early 2010.

“They have a great line of premium coffee products, all certified by the Rainforest Alliance,” he says. “Second Cup really takes into consideration sustainable business practices.”

Presentation to take measure of student mentorship program

Information literacy librarian Tamsin Bolton and drama professor Tina Pugliese will discuss their research into the impact of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Mentor Program in a free public presentation Friday in the Leddy Library.

“We have surveyed first-year students, mentors, and instructors who have had mentors in their classrooms to get a full sense of what has been happening,” Bolton says. “We are currently in the process of going through the data.”

Arab uprisings historic, but modest so far, human rights expert says

Uprisings in Arab countries have been a struggle for human dignity, but their successes to date can only be described as modest, in part because of their inability to freeze out sectarian hardliners trying to gain control in the region, according to an expert who spoke on the UWindsor campus Thursday.

“The people have not yet achieved what they were looking for,” said Bahey El Din Hassan, who has won the label “the father of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement.”

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Lancers to McDonalds charity day: we’re lovin’ it

Lancer coaches and athletes turned out May 2 to volunteer for McHappy Day, the annual fundraising event that sees McDonald’s restaurants across the country donate a portion of the day’s sales to local children’s charities.

Special guests, sports and media personalities, politicians and professional entertainers greeted and served customers to help raise money for Ronald McDonald House, which provides families of sick children a home-away-from-home or a place of peace and calm within a hospital.