An exclusive service for UWindsor students will provide discounted round-trip bus service to London and Toronto for the fall reading week.

The Blue and Gold Express will make two trips to each city and offers several advantages, says associate vice-president, student experience Ryan Flannagan.

“They will be with their peers, so it’s safer and a chance to make some friends,” he says. “Plus, it leaves right from campus, so it’s one less thing to worry about when they’ve got so much on their minds.”

Buses will leave from the Vanier Circle and stop at London’s White Oaks Mall and the Fairview Mall in Toronto.

Two buses are scheduled:

• leaving at 4 p.m. Thursday, October 6, and returning at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, October 15;
• leaving at 11 a.m. Friday, October 7, and returning at 11 a.m. Sunday, October 16.

The round-trip price is $35 to London and $65 to Toronto.

Tickets will be sold from the Student Affairs Office, room 117, CAW Student Centre, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. September 26 to 30 and October 3 to 7. Ticket are first-come, first-served, so get your spot early.

Do you want to get involved on campus? Make new friends? Help the community? An event Monday and Tuesday can help you to identify those opportunities.

With more than 100 clubs at the University of Windsor, there is an outlet for almost every interest. During Clubs Days—September 26 and 27—student leaders are out looking for new members.

Stop by and see if there’s one or more that’s right for you, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre Commons and Student Courtyard.

UWindsor music alum Greg Samek (BMus 2006) will perform works of his own composition and others when he joins professor Nicholas Papador and Justin Skalaa in concert Tuesday, September 27.

“Wild Hearts: An introspective study on the nature of the search” will also feature the world premiere of a piece by Vancouver composer Jordan Nobles, as well as improvised works for percussion and multimedia.

Admission is free; it begins at 7:30 p.m. in Lambton Tower’s Studio A. Learn more on the event website.

It’s billed as a “Pizza Party with the Prez,” but in fact several presidents will be on hand for a reception today celebrating finalists in the 2016 Why Humanities competition.

UWindsor president Alan Wildeman will host the event from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Ambassador Auditorium, CAW Student Centre. He will award a semester’s free tuition to the winner of the contest, which challenged students to submit a manifesto on the theme “What do the humanities mean to you?”

The five finalists selected by judges from the Humanities Resarch Group are:

• Layale Bazzi, physics;
• Abrial Cooke, arts and science;
• Andrew Deane, liberal and professional studies;
• Alexa diCecco, arts and science; and
• Victoria Pedri, psychology.

The event is free and open to all. It promises door prizes and presentations as well as the titular pizza.

Provost Douglas Kneale will serve as master of ceremonies and student presidents Moussa Hamadani of the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance and Amin Safaei of the Graduate Student Society will attend.

UWindsor professor Blake Roberts will moderate and two of his colleagues in political science will join a panel discussion in advance of a live screening of the first debate between U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, tonight at the Water’s Edge Event Centre.

The panel will explore the potential impact the election results could have on Canadians, reviewing such issues as trade, immigration and employment. Its members include Lydia Miljan and Sarah Dunphy.

The event is free and open to the public; doors open at 7:30 p.m. The centre is located at 2879 Riverside Drive East.

Speakers from Islamic, Jewish and Christian faiths will come together to discuss the issue of “Science and Religion: Conflict or Critical Engagement?” Tuesday on the UWindsor campus.

Participating are:

• Mohamed Mahmoud Al-Gammali, an imam with the Windsor Islamic Association;
• Arthur Brown, a biologist with the Robarts Research Institute; and
• William Crosby, professor in the UWindsor Department of Biological Sciences.

The panel will attend to ongoing challenges as well as to areas of fruitful engagement during the free event, which will run 3 to 5 p.m. September 27 in Katzman Lounge, Vanier Hall.