The Lancer football team was handed its first loss of the year Saturday on Alumni Field, as the McMaster Marauders eked out a narrow 21-19 decision.
The result leaves Windsor in a four-way tie for second place in Ontario University Athletics with McMaster, Ottawa and Toronto. Lancer quarterback Austin Kennedy threw 25 passes for 335 yards and three touchdowns, two to receiver Jordan Brescacin, who finished with eight catches for 111 yards.
Julian “Jules” Woolf is a lifelong, drug-free athlete who is adamantly opposed to the use of steroids in sports, but has a slightly different take than most on how an anti-doping message ought to be conveyed to athletes looking for ways to artificially enhance their performance.
“The message that comes out is that steroids will kill you,” said Dr. Woolf, a new assistant professor in kinesiology. “The fact is, there is little empirical support for this. The potential for harm is overplayed, so the message loses credibility. We need a more informative approach.”
Melancholy is common among students, making it the perfect subject for a reading group, says Alan Davies.
The English department’s writer-in-residence for the fall 2011 semester, he is hosting the free public reading group The Course on Melancholy starting this evening — Monday, September 19.
“The course will focus on texts that express or discuss melancholy,” Davies says. “It gives students the opportunity to explore the relationship between literature and their own feelings.”
The Lancer football team, currently ranked 10th in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, looks to build on its successful start this weekend as it hosts the No. 7 McMaster Marauders on Alumni Field.
Two straight wins to open the season earned the Lancers their first CIS Top 10 ranking since 2006.
Saturday's game will kick off at 7 p.m. Read a full game preview, "No. 10 Windsor set to host No. 7 McMaster in Saturday showdown" on goLancers.ca.
Like most North American children, Sandra Stephens would have grown up with classic fables such as The Tortoise and the Hare and The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
How the Crow Became Black was a new one on her. A fourth-year English major with a minor in anthropology, Stephens came across two variations of the tale this summer while she was researching First Nations oral traditions on the Wasauksing Ojibwe reserve near Parry Sound, Ontario.
The food was a reward for participating in Bike to UWindsor Week, which concludes today with a buffet from 8 to 10 a.m. at the bicycle rack in the courtyard east of the CAW Student Centre.
Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens, says philosopher Martha Nussbaum. But recently, she argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad.
Readers who can’t get enough DailyNews stories about the amazing research being conducted by UWindsor faculty and students will soon be able to hear more about them over the airwaves.
The Athletics Department is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win gold seat tickets to watch the no. 10 Lancer football team take on the no. 8 McMaster Marauders on Alumni Field, Saturday, September 17, at 7 p.m.
Two lucky winners will each receive a pair of tickets in the premium gold section of University of Windsor stadium. Just send your answers to the following trivia questions. The winners will be randomly selected from all correct responses received by 4 p.m. on Thursday, September 17.
Saturday’s Lancer football game just got a lot more interesting, as Windsor joined McMaster in Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s top 10 national rankings. The two teams will play under the lights Saturday on Alumni Field. Kick-off is at 7 p.m.
A release announcing the newest results of the national poll noted the 2-0 Lancers were rewarded for last week’s 41-40 upset of Laurier. Windsor is now ranked 10th in the country; the Marauders are seventh after a loss to Western.
