To help ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff on campus, the University of Windsor’s Campus Community Police and the Windsor Police Service will conduct an emergency response training scenario at Memorial Hall from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 9.

Regular campus activities will continue as usual, and Kevin Beaudoin, acting director of Campus Community Police, says not to be alarmed if you see Windsor police officers during this time.

“This training is a proactive measure to enhance our overall safety and preparedness in the event of an emergency,” Beaudoin says.

“The presence of armed officers during the training is solely for simulation purposes; there is no need for any apprehension. Our goal is to familiarize everyone with proper emergency response protocols and provide valuable hands-on experience to our officers.

“By working together and participating in these exercises, we can strengthen our collective ability to respond effectively during emergencies and protect public safety and well-being.”

Access to Memorial Hall will be restricted during the training exercise and community members are asked to avoid the area. Campus Community Police will also test the University’s emergency notifications system, which means employees and other registrants to UWindsor Alert may receive test emails and text messages.

They say everything in movies is fake, notes Ashley Jun. It took her a stint volunteering on a film set to find out it’s true.

Jun, a senior student of communication, media, and film, spent a couple of weeks as a props assistant for “Show and Tell,” a Lifetime Channel feature which filmed in Windsor last month.

“It was really cool I got this opportunity to be on a set here in Windsor,” Jun says. “I got to meet so many people in the profession — local as well as from Vancouver and Toronto.”

She was one of several UWindsor students and grads involved in the project and acknowledges that a professional production is very different from the student films she had worked on.

“The crew is a lot larger and everyone has their own task,” Jun says. “I found even the fast-paced flow of how it all works to be really interesting.”

Working in props, she was responsible for ensuring actors had what they need once the cameras started rolling — from coffee cups to smartphones. And, she learned a new term, “greeking” — covering up logos to avoid misuse of corporate brands.

“We made new labels for wine bottles and pasted them over the bottles,” Jun recalls. “It was fun to see the finished products and how real the props looked when we were finished with them.”

The experience helped her to appreciate the wide variety of jobs available in media production.

“It’s a lot of long hours and hard work,” she says. “But this is an industry I’m passionate about, which makes it all worth it.”

Red Work: The Emperor of Atlantis is a work-in-progress by Catherine Heard, professor of interdisciplinary practices in the School of Creative Arts, that invites the public to contribute an embroidered motif to a large-scale installation work.

Participants may choose a traditional redwork design or may select from among the categories of patterns created for this work, including: the War on Terror, the Vietnam War, the Iranian Revolution, Abu Ghraib prison, monuments, and others.

Visit the Red Work: The Emperor of Atlantis website to view each embroidered square that’s been mailed in along with the embroiderer’s comments.

“As an artist, I’m often asked ‘Where did the idea come from?’ I can rarely pinpoint a single moment when an idea emerges for any artwork, but one of the starting points for this piece was Ruby Short McKim’s 1930 Colonial Quilt. The imagery is, to say the least, problematic,” says Prof. Heard.

Heard created an information comic about Red Work: The Emperor of Atlantis for HA&L Magazine, vol.15, no.2, “Process” guest edited by Karl Jirgens, that both entertains and enlightens about the history of redwork and this new project.

To date, Heard has received 217 embroidery squares and counting. She and her team of students and alumnae are currently working on assembly of each embroidery square into banners — like a sewing bee. The assembly team includes visual arts undergrads Phoebe Findlay and Krystal Bigsky, master’s student Emma Feliciano, and alumna Emily Roe.

Heard invites members of the UWindsor community who would like to drop in and help with the assembly, no sewing experience required, to email her at Catherine.Heard@uwindsor.ca.

They are working Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Wildeman Centre for Creative Arts on Freedom Way. Assembly will continue until Aug. 17. Then it will be carefully packed and taken to the Niagara Artists Centre for an exhibition opening at the end of September.

Heard will continue to send out embroidery kits and add completed embroidery squares for future exhibitions of this installation. For information on requesting a kit, consult these tutorial videos.

This project has received grant support from Ignite, Brightspace, the Women’s Research Fund, and the Humanities Research Group — where Heard is the 2023-24 HRG Fellow.

—Susan McKee

Lancer athletes acquitted themselves well at the 2023 Canadian track and field championships, July 27 to 30 in Langley, British Columbia.

Representatives of the blue and gold claimed six medals, including gold for Nojah Parker in the men’s pole vault, Nicholas Neri in the 1500m para ambulatory, and alumna Sarah Mitton in the women’s shot put.

Find the complete Lancer results from the Canadian national championships at goLancers.ca.

The UWindsor Pride Committee will kick off Windsor-Essex Pride Week with a tie-dye event in front of the Green Bean Café on Tuesday, Aug. 8, from 1 to 3 p.m.

UWinPride T-shirts will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis for $10 each at the event. Students with financial concerns may choose to bring one of their own items to dye or talk to organizers about a complementary shirt.

“Come on out, dye a shirt, and then go down to Green Bean and get one of their delicious baked goods or beverages” says co-chair Ashlyne O’Neil. “Green Bean has always been an affirming and safe place for queer folks, and is a place beloved by many UWindsor community members.”

The café is located on the lower level of 2320 Wyandotte St. W.

The event is in preparation for the Windsor-Essex Pride Parade on Sunday, Aug. 13. Interested in representing the University community by marching with UWinPride? Complete this brief survey to indicate your interest.

The campus pride committee will also host online Lunch & Learn sessions over the noon hour:

• Queer Pedagogy, Wednesday, Aug. 9
• Challenging Microaggressions, Thursday, Aug. 10

Find more information on the UWinPride website.

The first edition of the Campus Community Cookbook, compiled last year to raise funds for activities on Orange Shirt Day, was such a success that organizers want to make it an annual tradition.

They have issued a call for submissions of recipes for Volume Two, which will be published and sold in September.

“We only have a few weeks to pull in at least 45 recipes,” says Alicia Charlebois, student engagement assistant in the Turtle Island Aboriginal Education Centre and a member of the UWindsor Orange Shirt Day planning committee. “The recipes don’t necessarily have to be Indigenous, but we’d like to showcase the diversity of our campus cultures by sharing some of our favourite foods.”

University of Windsor offices — including campus libraries, the CAW Student Centre, and the Toldo Lancer Centre — will close Monday, Aug. 7, in observance of the Civic Holiday.

The Workplace Wellness Committee, in partnership with Lancer Recreation, is inviting employees to participate in the Team Poker Walk, an event that will conclude the four-week Get Active! Stay Active! workplace wellness challenge on Friday, Aug. 11.

Organizers encourage even those who did not participate in the challenge to sign up for the walk and join colleagues in this activity. No knowledge of poker is needed: form a team, walk along a designated route, and collect playing cards at different stations. At the end of the walk, the teams with the best and worst poker hands each win a prize.

Participants who would like to support the Campus Food Pantry can bring a non-perishable item such as canned soup or vegetables, nut butter, jam, or rice.

The event will begin in the Student Courtyard east of the CAW Student Centre at 11:45 a.m. Register your team of up to five walkers.

For more information on the Team Poker Walk and how to participate, visit the event website. Direct additional questions to talent retention co-ordinator Oliga Tserakhava at oligat@uwindsor.ca.

The University has declared a wooden bookcase for sale by bid as Disposal File 2014.

Measuring about 150 cm tall by 90 cm wide, it has two fixed and three adjustable shelves. Click here for details.