Faculty

Guitarist Vaughn Klugh heads up a small combo for a recital today — Monday, January 23 — at 4 p.m. in the Music Building’s Recital Hall.

A sessional instructor in the School of Music, Klugh teaches guitar and arranging. His recordings include the albums Two for the Road, Wendel Harrison & Vaughn Klugh Duo, and his most recent, Choose Love.

He is also the author of “THAT: the Theory, Harmony, Arranging Techniques” teaching system.

For the last 45 years, Tony Blair has been making the world a better place, one argument at a time.

A professor emeritus in the university’s Philosophy department, Blair is one of the original founders of a school of thought known as informal logic. Simply put, it’s a manner of ordinary reasoning that helps people become more skilled critical thinkers, better able to assess the validity of arguments they’re faced with every day.

The Asian delicacy shark fin soup is often served at weddings, banquets and important business deals and symbolizes wealth, power, prestige and honour, but demand for its main ingredient has led to the overfishing and rapid decline of many shark species around the world.

A visiting researcher will discuss his work, which he hopes will help slow that decline, at a lecture this afternoon.

The Lancer basketball teams will face one of their toughest tests to date this weekend when they play host to the Brock Badgers on Saturday night at the St. Denis Centre.

The games will be one of the featured match-ups in Canadian university basketball, carried live for local viewers on TV Cogeco’s cable channel 11 and webcast for out-of-town fans at SSN Canada.