Four UWindsor graduates will be inducted into the Alumni Sports Hall of Fame this Sunday, October 2—Lancer athletes Jodi Beaugrand, Andy Buckstein and Jennifer (Graham) Schutz, and builder Richard Peddie. Sports broadcaster Joe Bowen will receive an award recognizing achievement outside the University.

The ceremonies and reception will begin at 1:30 p.m. in the Ambassador Auditorium, CAW Student Centre, and all are welcome. Besides the individuals above, Sunday's event will recognize the 1975 Lancer men’s football team. Read more about this award in Thursday's DailyNews.

	Jodi Beaugrand (1993) played four seasons on the Lancer women’s volleyball team. In each of those years, she was named the squad’s most valuable player and a division all-star. In 1997 she was received the Banner Shield as the University’s top female athlete.
	Andy Buckstein (1983) was a track speedster who competed for the Lancers from 1980 through 1983. He set 27 Lancer track records and won provincial gold medals in the 600m, 400m, 200m and 100m, and received the 1983 DeMarco Award for high academic achievement.
	Jennifer (Graham) Schutz (1995, 1997, 1998) competed on the Lancer track and cross country teams, winning six national titles, the most by one athlete in school history. She was selected five times as an all-star in track, once as an all-star in cross country, and three times as an all-Canadian.
	Richard Peddie (1970, 2001) is a long time and generous supporter of the University -- especially its athletic programs. Currently the President and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Peddie founded “Full Court Press”, a fundraising initiative to support the Lancer men’s basketball program, established a bursary fund to support student athletes, and made a major gift toward the installation of artificial turf on Alumni Field.

Joe Bowen (1973) is best known as “the voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs” as he has broadcast over 2,100 Leaf games. Other career highlights include the blow-by-blow broadcast of Muhammad Ali's last fight and the Trevor Berbick vs. Larry Holmes world title fight.

The reception and ceremonies are open to the public; all those interested in attending are asked to RSVP on the event Web site.

Canadian University Sport named UWindsor kinesiology grad Erika Reiser (BHK 2011) to its Academic Top 8 for the 2010/11 season.

The former Lancer pole vaulter graduated in movement science this spring with a grade point average of 12.4 on a 13-point scale, earning the President’s Medal as the top overall student at the University of Windsor in terms of academic achievement and contribution to campus and community.

In her four years of competition, she won four medals at the Ontario University Athletics championship and three at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport, including provincial gold and national silver medals in 2011, leading the Windsor women to the OUA and CIS team banners.

A four-time Academic All-Canadian and member of the Dean’s Honour List, she captured the 2011 DeMarco Trophy as the Lancers’ top female student-athlete. Reiser is now studying medicine at the University of Toronto.

Reiser is the third Lancer to be named to the CIS Academic Top 8, following fellow track and field stars Jackie Malette (2006, 2007) and Noelle Montcalm (2009).

The CIS honours as Academic All-Canadians student athletes who have attained a grade point average of 80 percent or better over the academic year while competing for a university varsity team. The 50 Lancers who qualified in 2010/11 will be celebrated at a breakfast hosted by UWindsor Provost Leo Groarke on October 12.

Read “Erika Reiser named to prestigious CIS Academic Top 8” at goLancers.ca.

Students in biology professor Lynda Corkum's class, Stream Ecology, explored the flowing waters of Rock Glen Conservation Area last weekend, gathering data and samples they will process and analyze over the remainder of the semester.

Rock Glen is located near Arkona, Ontario, about a 30-minute drive inland from Grand Bend on the Lake Huron shore. Most of the area is flat, producing meandering, slow-flowing channels, says Dr. Corkum, but the streams rushing over the ancient escarpment at Rock Glen provide unique habitats for aquatic life that are more typical of more rugged parts of Canada.

Hobbs-Mackenzie Creek, a tumbling trout stream, flows into the Ausable River, a larger river that attracts spawning salmon stocked into Lake Huron later in the fall. The students, accompanied by Corkum, professor Jan Ciborowski and graduate teaching assistant Bill Glass, spent Saturday, September 24, comparing the two waterways—using survey equipment to calculate slopes, measuring discharge, and collecting chlorophyll samples to estimate algal abundance. They also compared the aquatic insects that live under rocks in riffles and pools in both rivers.

The techniques students learned are an essential part of protocols used by resource managers to assess habitat quality, hydrology and the overall health of rivers.

Chris Busch knows his work helps to support the university – both his paid work as research accounting manager in the finance department and his volunteer work as a canvasser for the Annual Giving Program.

“As a donor, my support helps to sustain the university and helps students to achieve their full potential,” he said Tuesday at a luncheon kickoff for the UWindsor fundraising campaign.

Team leaders and canvassers also heard from UWindsor President Alan Wildeman, campaign chair Bruce Tucker, student Neb Zachariah and vice-president university advancement Jonathan Braniff.

“How do you raise money? You ask for it,” Dr. Wildeman said, noting that in the past two years, the number of employees contributing has climbed by 200.

This year’s donations will grow more than the university’s endowments, student scholarship funds, and operating budgets, says development officer Mona Dosen. They will grow a new centrepiece for the campus grounds.

“For every member of faculty or staff who makes a pledge, a flower will be planted in a garden outside the Leddy Library,” she said. “The design is by our own facilities staff, John Regier and Garry Moore. It will be beautiful when it is filled with blooms.”

UWindsor students hoping to win a new Apple iPad2 have until Thursday to enter the Facebook video contest.

The competition invites answers to the question “Are You Proud to be a UWindsor Lancer?” in the form of a one- to three-minute video. The entry period ends Thursday, September 29. Review the contest rules and check out last year’s winning creation at www.uwindsor.ca/pac/fbcontest.

A coalition of UWindsor students is hosting a forum for candidates in the provincial riding of Windsor West, Wednesday, September 28, at noon in the CAW Student Centre.

The candidates will be asked to address issues related to post-secondary education.

Vajo Stajic, a fourth-year labour studies student, says the October 6 election offers a key opportunity to pressure politicians and demand change.

“Education has become a central issue to several parties’ platforms,” he says. “In Ontario, we’re paying the highest tuition fees in Canada. Enough is enough.”

The coalition includes the University of Windsor Student’s Alliance, the Organization of Part-time University Students, the Graduate Student Society, the Student Movement Newspaper, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group – Windsor, and the Canadian Federation of Students – Ontario.

Opening her home to students from other countries taught her that more unites people than divides them, says Beth Oakley.

She had some special guests last Thanksgiving under the Host for the Holidays program, which matches international students with Windsor families willing share Thanksgiving dinner.

“My extended family was a little reluctant at first, but since I was doing all the cooking they didn't protest too loudly,” recalls Oakley, director of the Educational Development Centre. “Once they met this lovely couple, everyone thoroughly enjoyed them.”

She says her guests – Chinese graduate students Haoran Xie and Sixue Zhang – shared their family customs and traditions, and learned about Canadian holidays in exchange.

“I felt that sharing my family with them made them miss their own families back home just a little bit less,” Oakley says, “if only for the day.”

The program, now in its third year, is currently accepting applications from prospective hosts and guests. Organizers will match hosts with guests based on a number of factors—dietary preferences, tolerance for pets, timing of the meal, and even convenience of transportation.

Find more information, including online applications, on the program Web site, uwindsor.ca/isc/host.

The UwinCARD can be used to purchase food at the new Huron Church Applebee’s restaurant under an agreement with Food Services. Cardholders can apply UwinCASH or meal plan monies and employees may also charge to the card through payroll deduction.

The restaurant, located at 2187 Huron Church Road, boasts 15 flatscreen TVs and free wi-fi. Lunch combos include the Pick 'N Pair where you can choose two of the hearty soups, savoury sandwiches, and pasta. Check out the full menu and the list of specials at applebeescanada.com.

Food Services also renewed an agreement with the Thirsty Scholar pub in the basement of the CAW Student Centre, allowing staff and faculty to pay with the UwinCARD.

Campus flags will be lowered Wednesday, September 28, in memory of retired languages professor Vincente Perez-Soler, who died June 4 in Valencia, Spain.

Dr. Perez -Soler joined the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department in 1966, received tenure in 1970 and retired in 1979.

Campus Community Police are seeking information regarding an incident of theft in the CAW Student Centre on September 24.

A laptop bag containing currency, computer peripherals and personal items was taken from the second-floor study lounge. Find more information, including a full description of the incident and surveillance photos of a suspect, in the crime advisory on the Campus Police Web site.