Emma Donoghue, who was The University of Western Ontario’s writer-in-residence in the 1999-2000 school year, will read from her acclaimed novel Room at 4:30 p.m. today in North Campus Building, Room 117. Room was short-listed for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Sponsored by the Faculty of Information & Media Studies (FIMS) and The Book Store at Western, the event is free, although seating is limited. See the FIMS website for more information.
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...