From the Western News archives of April 15, 1993.
1. The Studio, run by the University Student Council, is accepting registration for children’s summer programs: compart (computers and art); half-day art; and spart (sports and art).
2. Political Science Professor Janet McClain runs her Public Administration course like a consulting firm. Students are ‘commissioned’ to do a study. This year’s focus was on aboriginal issues. Of last year’s group, McClain said a report involving the Ojibwa of the Thames “went right back to the band council.” Student Ari Cohen, whose group looked at employment equity for aboriginal people, said “there should be more emphasis put into this field” to unseat negative attitudes toward native peoples.
3. University Preschool celebrates its 20th anniversary as it flourishes with 85 children between the ages two and five enrolled. “Children often are registered on our waiting list before they’re born,” said Mary Lou Vernon, the preschool’s director.
4. Nobel laureate Sir Derek Barton will deliver the inaugural Fred Pattison Senior Lecture in Chemistry. Barton’s connection to Western reaches back not just 14 years (an honorary degree in 1979) but 30 years as inaugural lecturer for the 3M Lecture in Chemistry.