Matt Walters

UWindsor community eligible for discount on Red Wings tickets

The Detroit Red Wings is offering UWindsor students, faculty, staff, retirees and alumni discounted prices to see the National Hockey League team play at Joe Louis Arena.

These tickets offer savings on box office prices not available to the general public. Priced at $42 or $53, the seats are located in the upper bowl, rows 11-15 or 2-12 for these games:

Speaker to address economics of sports broadcasting

Can advertising make free-to-air broadcasting more profitable than pay-per-view television?

Stefan KesenneEconomics professor Stefan Késenne of the University of Antwerp and Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, will address this question in a free public lecture on Friday, September 23, at noon in room 144, Human Kinetics Building.

This event is the first of the year in the Faculty of Human Kinetics Distinguished Speakers’ Series.

Day a chance to discover the opportunities that engineering offers young women

The engineering profession offers a wide range of career opportunities to young women, from designing pollution control equipment, to supervising construction of a building, to managing hospital schedules. The possibilities of these well-paid jobs are nearly endless.

On Saturday, October 1, the University of Windsor wants to introduce local students to some of them.

Go Engineering Girl, now in its seventh year, will provide girls in grades 7 through 10—and their parents—a chance to learn more about engineering as “a caring profession.”

Fast to benefit famine victims

Thirty hours without food cannot compare with the suffering of people in famine-stricken Somalia, says Candace Spencer, but it may help to relieve it.

The coordinator of the Womyn’s Centre is organizing the UWindsor 30-Hour Famine, part of a national effort to raise funds in relief of Somali refugees.

“I think everybody has seen what is happening in Somalia,” says the political science and women’s studies major. “We want to give them just a taste of how it is for these people day after day after day.”

Full blood donor clinic on-campus Monday

Approximately every minute of every day, someone in Canada needs blood. The good news is that one blood donation—in just one hour—can save up to three lives.

UWindsor students, faculty and staff will have an opportunity to meet that need as Canadian Blood Services holds a full blood donor clinic in the CAW Student Centre's Ambassador Auditorium on Monday, September 19, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Libyan students fly flag of freedom

A new flag hangs today in the International Student Centre—the flag adopted in August by Libya's National Transitional Council.

The tri-coloured banner, bearing a white star and crescent, was raised Wednesday alongside other flags in the windows surrounding the centre.

Libyan students celebrated the event as heralding a new age of freedom for their homeland.

"It is very good news," said Abbas Elazhari, a master's student in electrical engineering. "Now I hope for peace for the Libyan people."

Major league Motor City sports subject of quiz contest

Today’s DailyNews quiz features questions about Detroit sports figures. The prize, courtesy of the Alumni Affairs office, is a jute bag, perfect for hauling to your next big game.

The winner will be randomly selected from all correct responses received by 4 p.m. Wednesday, September 14. To be eligible, select the most correct answer to each of the following questions: