Korissa Williams

Lancers to celebrate successes with banner-raising ceremony on Friday evening

The Lancer men’s and women’s basketball teams will open the 2011-12 season with a pair of home games this weekend at the St. Denis Centre. Windsor will host the Laurentian Voyageurs on Friday and the York Lions on Saturday; the women will play at 6 p.m. and the men at 8 p.m. both nights.

Fans will want to be sure to attend Friday, as the Department of Athletics honours the University of Windsor’s three reigning Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship teams.

Exhibition to provide a peek into the past

The Assumption Heritage Trust Foundation presents an exhibition of pieces preserved by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Wednesday, November 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Windsor.

Organizers promise “a peek into the past and a look into the future.”

Connie Giglio, the foundation’s director of public affairs, said the teaching order had touched countless lives since its founding in 1843.

Campus mourns death of retiree

Campus flags will be lowered today in memory of retiree Clarence Weidman, who died November 4. Weidman joined the University’s staff as a stationary engineer in Facility Services, a position he held until his retirement in 1994. Funeral services are planned for today; details are available in his obituary.

University, faculty ratify collective agreement

A Collective Agreement has been successfully ratified by the Windsor University Faculty Association (WUFA) representing 581 full time faculty and librarians and 364 sessional members. WUFA members accepted the agreement in a vote on November 1, and the University’s Board of Governors also successfully ratified the agreement during a special meeting November 2.

UWindsor President Alan Wildeman expressed his appreciation for the successful completion of bargaining.

Reception to mark opening of exhibition to honour chemist

The United Nations has declared 2011 to be the International Year of Chemistry, marking the centennial of Maria Sklodowska-Curie’s second Nobel Prize. To honour the occasion, the Leddy Library will display an exhibition about the life and achievements of the Warsaw-born chemist.

Nursing students to demonstrate dangers of hearing loss

According to fourth-year nursing students Kelsi Mayne and Mia Milivojevic, environmental noise levels can mean a case of hear today, gone tomorrow, for our ears.

The two invite the campus community to a brown-bag conference on noise-induced hearing loss, Thursday, November 3, from 12:10 to 12:50 p.m. in the CAW Student Centre’s second-floor boardroom.