Fun and games were the order of the day Tuesday as UWindsor students participated in a variety of activities meant to engage them in campus life. Students Orienting Students gave away hundreds of hotdogs and hamburgers during a free barbecue lunch held in conjunction with Adrenaline Rush, which featured everything from an inflatable obstacle course to a Minute to Win It-style competition.
Undergraduate Students
Sep 6th, 2011
Lancer Shea Pierre ran back the opening kickoff 104 yards for a touchdown and set the tone for a 38-5 Windsor rout of the Toronto Varsity Blues in football action Monday at the south campus stadium.
Interim head coach Joe D'Amore shared quarterbacking duties between Sam Malian and Austin Kennedy. Malian completed 12 of 19 passes for 107 yards while Kennedy passed for 31 yards on five completions of nine attempts and ran for a touchdown.
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Up for grabs is a swanky mini-portfolio provided by the Alumni Office. Covered in faux leather embossed with the Alumni logo, it features a zippered closure and internal organizer with business card pockets, clear ID window, pen loop and a 5.5" x 8" lined writing pad.
The University Bookstore will extend its hours of operation to better serve its customers for the first few weeks of September.
“We know this is a busy time for students and faculty and hope to make the start of school a little less hectic,” says marketing manager Martin Deck. “We’ll also be running back-to-school specials on supplies and clothes during this time.”
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Catering Services is offering offices across campus a way to cope with the hustle and bustle of Windsor Welcome Week activities.
Its convenient and economical lunch menus simplify event planning, and are centred on a choice of hotdogs, pasta, sandwiches, or pizza, all delivered hot and fresh to your specific location, complete with paper plates and napkins.
When she arrived at the University of Windsor three years ago to begin her post-secondary career, she was grateful for assistance in getting settled, recalls chemistry student Samantha Scalia.
“It was really hectic,” she said. “I was so glad to have so many people helping new students.”
That’s why she decided to get involved as a volunteer with Windsor Welcome Week. Scalia was one of dozens of students who pitched in to help about new arrivals haul their belongings into residence Sunday.
If you build it, they will come.
That’s the hope of a team from the Department of Biological Sciences who installed 51 nest boxes at the University’s Pelee Environmental Research Centre on Saturday, August 27, to attract tree swallows, a blue-and-white species of songbird that breeds in the area.
“Tree swallows are an important part of our local bird community and they are excellent study animals,” said biology professor Dan Mennill, an ornithologist who helped to organize the project.
Citizenship involves more than just paying rent and taxes, says Justin Langlois, the newly-hired civic engagement coordinator in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Langlois, who began his term July 1, is re-vamping the Ways of Knowing course already offered in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science and will develop a new follow-up course, Ways of Doing, over the next year.
The Lancer football team will open its 2011 campaign at home Monday, September 5, hosting the Toronto Varsity Blues at Alumni Field.
Game time is 1 p.m. Season tickets are still available and can be purchased online at www.goLancers.ca.
Windsor has won its last eight decisions over Toronto by a combined score of 351 to 118, with the nine-point margin in last year's 26-17 victory the closest.
Contract talks between the University of Windsor and the Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA), have continued throughout the summer, with new negotiation dates scheduled for September 12, 14, 19, 22 and 23. WUFA represents approximately 1,000 faculty, librarians, sessional members and ancillary academic staff.