It may have been scorching hot Wednesday afternoon, but it was much less smoky than usual, as the Leave the Pack Behind student health services group held its awards ceremony in the Thirsty Scholar.
With about 50 student participants on hand to watch, UWindsor president Alan Wildeman handed out awards to those winners who reduced or eliminated cigarettes from their lives.
There are those hockey fans who believe that when the Detroit Red Wings set a new record for home wins this season there should have be an asterisk beside their names because several of those 23 victories came as a result of shoot-outs.
Then again, there are some more cerebral sports analysts who believe that if an asterisk is added to the record books, it should only be to note that with the shoot-outs included, the accomplishment becomes all the more extraordinary.
The campus chapters of UNICEF and Engineers Without Borders invite the UWindsor community to consider the relationship between food security and access to fresh water during their observance of World Water Day in the CAW Student Centre on Thursday, March 22.
The student groups will set up a booth with information on everything from how much water is used to grow crops to the ways that growing competition for scarce resources can affect food security. The student engineers will have on hand a treadle pump, which uses human power to irrigate fields.
Cogeco cable 11 will air the Canadian Interuniversity Sport women’s basketball gold medal game between the Windsor Lancers and UBC Thunderbirds at 7 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24.
The CIS named Lancer guard Miah-Marie Langlois its female athlete of the week after she led her team to the national championship.
The University Chamber Choir will premiere a new work by UWindsor alumna Shelley Marwood (BMus 2004) at the Spring Choral Concert on Sunday, March 25.
An emerging composer based in Toronto, Marwood has had works performed by the Vancouver, Winnipeg and Windsor symphony orchestras. Her composition, Elements, is based on a poem of the same name by her grandmother Ruby Mulcaster.
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the Spring Choral Concert “From the Sacred to the Profane,” in Assumption University Chapel on Sunday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 general admission, $5 for students, available at the door or in advance by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212; or online at www.uwindsor.ca/music.
As a kid growing up in Chatham, Morgan McNaughton spent most of his summers playing competitive soccer. Looking back now, he realizes the chance to play his favourite sport in an organized league was something of a luxury.
“I knew people who weren’t able to play sports like hockey just because registration and equipment was so expensive,” said the fourth-year kinesiology student. “It’s unfortunate that some people can’t play because everyone wants us to be physically active. It’s a shame to miss out on those opportunities because your family can’t afford it.”
The School of Music’s Take 4 series will showcase students in recital, Wednesday, March 21, at 4 p.m. in room 139, Music Building.
The program features:
Growing up in a region of the world that’s steeped in the ancient traditions of Confucianism, Sung Hyun Yun never gave it a second thought when his mother explained to him that he didn’t need to be in the kitchen helping with the dishes because he was a boy.
“It was very natural to accept gender-based norms and behaviour,” said Dr. Yun, a professor in the School of Social Work, who was born and raised in Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city.
In a fast-paced society that places a premium on youth and tends to dismiss the elderly, at least four UWindsor nursing students are rethinking how they view the aged while pledging to provide seniors the respectful care they deserve once they begin practicing.
“Older people should be regarded as self-reliant individuals who are capable of making decisions about their care,” said Misan Grage, a fourth-year nursing student. “Older people need to be treated with the same respect and level of care as younger people.”
