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Students, staff and faculty across campus are signing on to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Run for the Cure, Sunday, October 2, on Windsor’s riverfront. The foundation has launched a challenge to Canada’s colleges and universities, inviting them to compete with other institutions in an effort to maximize fundraising to support its vision of creating a future without breast cancer.

Josh Paglione, director of student life for the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance, hopes to draw representation from every club to his team.

The Organization of Part-time University Students welcomed its members to campus with a free welcome barbecue outside the CAW Student Centre on Tuesday.

Several hundred part-time students, staff, faculty and alumni turned out, drawn by the smell of hotdogs, hamburgers and veggie burgers grilled by Catering Services. In addition to the free grub, members attending the eighth annual event received gifts such as OPUS t-shirts, water bottles and notebooks.

A book by a UWindsor graduate has been selected as the subject of a city-wide read-a-thon next week.

Windsor Reads will feature public readings of Alexander MacLeod’s bestselling first book of short stories, Light Lifting, short-listed for both the Booker and the Giller Prizes.

“It’s a celebration of Windsor’s literary talent and the written word,” says Sarah Jarvis, a volunteer with Literary Arts Windsor. “We’re bringing book readings to where Windsor’s citizens live, work, study -- and even heal.”