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Transit Windsor to provide free shuttle buses for concert-goers

If you need a ride to the UWSA Coming Home Festival on Tuesday, September 6, Transit Windsor is willing to provide one.

The agency will provide free shuttle buses from the Vanier Circle to the Riverfront Festival Plaza. The shuttle will begin service at 3:30 p.m. and the return service will start at 11 p.m.

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Photographer to chronicle one year in University’s life

Richard Bain is looking forward to attending the University of Windsor this year, but he hasn’t registered for a single class yet.

The photographer will spend a year taking pictures of campus life for a book to be published by Binea Press. It will be Bain’s sixth project chronicling an Ontario institution of higher learning, following volumes on Western, McMaster, Guelph, Brock, and Fanshawe College.

Civic engagement focus of Ways of Knowing, Ways of Doing

Citizenship involves more than just paying rent and taxes, says Justin Langlois, the newly-hired civic engagement coordinator in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Langlois, who began his term July 1, is re-vamping the Ways of Knowing course already offered in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science and will develop a new follow-up course, Ways of Doing, over the next year.

Football home opener set for Labour Day

The Lancer football team will open its 2011 campaign at home Monday, September 5, hosting the Toronto Varsity Blues at Alumni Field.

Game time is 1 p.m. Season tickets are still available and can be purchased online at www.goLancers.ca.

Windsor has won its last eight decisions over Toronto by a combined score of 351 to 118, with the nine-point margin in last year's 26-17 victory the closest.
 

Move-in day like Christmas for residence elves

Getting ready for Residence Move-in Day is a bit like the elves preparing for Christmas, says Diane Rawlings: “We’ve been gearing up since last spring.”

Her department will help about 1,000 students move into six residence halls on Sunday, September 4, but before that can happen, a lot of work must get done in the background.

Besides routine maintenance work familiar to anyone who has ever moved, three major renovation projects have consumed the summer:

Buttons invite questions from new arrivals

Ask Me buttonThe Educational Development Centre invites staff and faculty to wear "Ask Me" buttons for the first half of September, making it easier for new students to identify people who can provide them with a welcoming smile, directions or basic campus information.