From the Western News archives February 25, 1993
A franchise of Domino’s Pizza will join Mr. Submarine (which averages 1,000 submarine sandwiches a day) in the University Community Centre.
Workers’ Compensation Board now covers students training on work terms and as regular workers. As many as 70,000 Ontario students are having premiums paid by the provincial government. The Department of Physical Therapy has 160 students for whom work placements are a crucial part of the program.
The fight against diseases such as AIDS, cystic fibrosis and Alzheimer’s continues on campus at the R.S. McLaughlin Macromolecular Structure Facility. The state-of-the-art nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy will reveal protein structures; it is the only one of its kind in southwestern Ontario.
Her Excellency Judith Trotter, New Zealand’s High Commissioner in Ottawa, made Western her first visit to a Canadian university campus. She said she “would really like to establish a formal educational exchange along the lines of your very successful St. Andrews program.” Trotter spoke to History students and met over lunch with members of the Board of Governors and former deans.
Of the Canadian Poetry Project, Professor David Bentley, Department of English, explained Canada-inspired poetry dates back to 1693. An anthology of 16 early long poems on Canada is underway.