The Lancer women’s track and field team claimed its fourth straight Canadian Interuniversity Sport championship Saturday in Winnipeg. Windsor’s 87 points put it just ahead of Guelph’s 82-point total.
The Lancer men finished third overall. The team total of 73.5 was behind Western’s 90 and Guelph’s 77.
Read all the details at goLancers.ca.
Women’s basketball headed to national title tournament
From what he has learned about Paul Vandall, says earth and environmental sciences professor Phil Graniero, Jeff Mastronardi is the perfect recipient of an award in his memory.
“When I first met Jeff, I was quickly struck by his personal need to understand why things work the way the do, and not just how,” Dr. Graniero says. “He had a desire to put the natural-physical and human-social aspects of environmental problems into a bigger context.”
The English Undergraduate Student Association presents a public reading from the poetry of Irving Layton as part of nationwide celebrations of the Canadian icon’s centenary, Monday, March 12.
One of Canada’s best-known and prolific poets, Layton won a Governor General’s Award for his 1959 book, A Red Carpet for the Sun. In 1981, Italy and Korea nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 2006 at the age of 92.
Monday’s event will begin at 7 p.m. in the Oak Room, Vanier Hall.
Two reports in the last month suggested reforms to Ontario’s social assistance system: a commission created by the 2009 Poverty Reduction Act and the Drummond commission on the reform of public services.
Anti-poverty activist Marion Overholt, a staff lawyer at Legal Assistance of Windsor, will discuss how these reports fit into the reality of the shrinking middle class in Ontario, increasing rates of poverty, assumptions about people living in poverty, and our disappearing social welfare system at noon on Monday, March 12, in the law building’s room G101.
Too much money at the top is bad for everyone, says Linda McQuaig.
“Our society tends to regard large fortunes as evidence of great talent or accomplishment,” she says. “Yet the vast new wealth isn't due to an increase in talent or effort at the top, but rather to changing social attitudes legitimizing greed and government policy changes that favour the new elite.”
The Student Chamber Showcase, Sunday, March 11, at Assumption University Chapel, is an opportunity for students performing in smaller musical groups to step into the spotlight.
The concert begins at 2:30 p.m. and promises great variety in its performances by voice majors, percussionists, string players and trombonists:
A diversity exhibition highlighting the communal involvement and activism of teacher candidates will form the centerpiece of the fifth annual Social Justice in Education conference, Friday, March 9, in the Neil Education Building.
The Trifecta Trio, a trio of musicians on the faculty of East Tennessee State University, will play a classical concert free and open to the public in the Music Building’s Recital Hall on Friday, March 9, at 7 p.m.
The trio -- Aryn Day Sweeney, oboe; Jeffrey Whaley, horn and Chih Long Hu, piano – will perform 20th century works of York Bowen and Jan Koetsier as well as new pieces by Greg Danner and Maria Niederberger.
When Lancer women’s basketball player Iva Peklova first spoke with local media, she said she had come to Windsor to win a national championship.
In a profile of the Prague native, Windsor Star sports columnist Bob Duff writes:
“Peklova began her Windsor days by delivering a bold statement. Then she helped deliver the goods.”
Read his article, “Peklova delivers the goods,” on the Star’s Web site.
For feminists like Catherine Hundleby, every day is women’s day. However, having a special day to help others recognize how much progress still needs to be made to create a truly equitable society for women is critical, the professor in philosophy and women’s studies says.
