Western University turned up the volume on Canada’s best Homecoming celebration last weekend as it welcomed alumni from across Canada and around the world. In addition to a wide variety of alumni-inspired activities across campus, Western teamed up with the University Students’ Council, Western Alumni and PremierLife to launch #HOCOonthehill. Starting with the electronic dance music headliner DVBBS in the morning, the crowd moved to the football game between the Mustangs and Carleton Ravens before returning to UC Hill for an evening concert headlined by Canadian rockers Our Lady Peace, along with Sloan and Coleman Hell.
Pulling up roots after 46 years
If you glance out Janet Williams’ office window in Middlesex College, you’ll see a lovely, mature 35-year-old beech tree. She remembers the day it was planted. “There used to be two, but about three years ago one suddenly died,” said Williams, an academic counsellor...