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Teglas: Universities must fight for what they stand for
It’s laughable that the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities and its minister are just talking about student-centred education now (Blowing it up, Sept. 6).
Heap: ‘Child’s View’ offers fascinating connections
Artist Jamelie Hassan’s text about A Child’s View from Gaza raises many fascinating questions and many compelling connections: between art and politics, between indigenous struggles in this country and in Palestine.
Winders: So, what exactly is your Big Idea?
I know you have it in you.
Western study looks at earning inequalities
One year ago today, the Occupy Wall Street movement pushed earnings inequality to the forefront of global politics. With the protest still roaring, most studies suggest that earnings inequality is far greater in North America than in Europe, but is this really the case?
Power interruption closes rec centre and Western Engineering
As Western continues to investigate a power interruption affecting buildings and facilities on the south end of campus, Western Student Recreation Centre (WSRC) is currently closed.
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
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).
Pond: Research requires a calendar check
This is hilarious (Research finds egg yolks almost as bad as smoking, Aug. 13). Is it April 1 already?
Winders: Embracing the madness of King Joe
Maybe I have covered one too many dead student stories to find Mayor Joe Fontana very funny.
Olson: Sex, status and the stiletto
As a fashion historian, I feel it is my duty to own around 120 pairs of shoes.
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.
Plenty of feedback: Faculty decries minister’s push, defends Western’s progressive classroom.
With seven roundtable discussions now complete, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities is waiting out the Sept. 30 deadline for feedback on its contentious proposed changes to Ontario’s postsecondary system.