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Month: September 2012

Zyss: Life lessons continue years after founding

Zyss: Life lessons continue years after founding

This is my third year back to the Philippines. When I first arrived as part of a pre-medical trip with a Western group, I had no idea I would start a charity and work so hard raising money to keep 20 children out of the dumpsite and on the road to independ …

Rosner: The art and skill of critical thinking

Rosner: The art and skill of critical thinking

Western News recently ran a timely piece by Adela Talbot reporting on the provincial initiative by Glen Murray to reshape Ontario universities (Blowing it up, Sept. 6). It is clear Murray’s ideas would constitute a fundamental change in what most people understand as the principal mandate of universities.

Gore: Research findings underdone

Gore: Research findings underdone

The reported results of Dr. David Spence that egg yolk consumption is a risk factor for strokes and coronary heart disease, appears to be extremely weak (Research finds egg yolks almost as bad as smoking, Aug. 13).

Hassan: Show offers ‘A Child’s View’

Hassan: Show offers ‘A Child’s View’

During my childhood, my father would pile us into his Desoto and take us for Sunday drives on gravel roads to the Oneida settlement outside London, where farmers in this agricultural heartland of southern Ontario offered us baskets of apples and pears.

New city manager brings Western roots home

With his recent move to London’s City Hall, Art Zuidema’s career has come full circle. The Western alumnus and former director of corporate initiatives with the city of Hamilton took up a new post as London’s city manager on Aug. 13.

Collaboration leads to ‘something special’

In a non-descript room of an eerily quiet wing of South Street Hospital, Mandar Jog’s work may look like a game to some. But the outcome could have a tremendous impact when it comes to the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological movement disorders.

Rosner: The art and skill of critical thinking

Rosner: The art and skill of critical thinking

Western News recently ran a timely piece by Adela Talbot reporting on the provincial initiative by Glen Murray to reshape Ontario universities (Blowing it up, Sept. 6). It is clear Murray’s ideas would constitute a fundamental change in what most people understand as the principal mandate of universities.

Gore: Research findings underdone

Gore: Research findings underdone

The reported results of Dr. David Spence that egg yolk consumption is a risk factor for strokes and coronary heart disease, appears to be extremely weak (Research finds egg yolks almost as bad as smoking, Aug. 13).

Hassan: Show offers ‘A Child’s View’

Hassan: Show offers ‘A Child’s View’

During my childhood, my father would pile us into his Desoto and take us for Sunday drives on gravel roads to the Oneida settlement outside London, where farmers in this agricultural heartland of southern Ontario offered us baskets of apples and pears.

New city manager brings Western roots home

With his recent move to London’s City Hall, Art Zuidema’s career has come full circle. The Western alumnus and former director of corporate initiatives with the city of Hamilton took up a new post as London’s city manager on Aug. 13.

Collaboration leads to ‘something special’

In a non-descript room of an eerily quiet wing of South Street Hospital, Mandar Jog’s work may look like a game to some. But the outcome could have a tremendous impact when it comes to the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological movement disorders.