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From the Mustangs football team making a run at the Vanier cup and
the men’s squash team earning its 26th consecutive provincial title
to basketball phenomenon Amanda Anderson capturing Western’s
all-time scoring record, it has been a banner year for University
of Western Ontario athletes.

The South Asian Medical Students’ Association is hosting the second
annual South Asian Health Symposium on March 8.

The flag will be at half-mast Wednesday, Feb. 25 until 11 a.m. for
former Physical Plant employee Dorna Davies, who retired in 1986
with 13 years of service.

The University of Western Ontario Mustangs football team will host
the 2009 East-West Bowl on May 9 at TD Waterhouse Stadium.

It’s playoff season for many University of Western Ontario Mustang
teams and they all have their sights set on a championship.

The Western Mustangs women’s volleyball team defeated the Toronto
Varsity Blues 3-2 in the OUA Bronze medal match at York University,
Feb. 21.

Revisit Altamont in 1969, the famous free concert that not only
brought The Rolling Stones and 300,000 of their closest friends to
northern California, but also the death of the hippie generation.

Jennifer Mills, Community Educator for Partners in Caring – A
Community Response to Refugee Trauma at the London Cross Cultural
Learner Centre, will be the special guest lecturer at The
University of Western Ontario on Thursday, Feb. 26.

The Faculty of Education drama class at The University of Western
Ontario opens Urinetown, The Musical on Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Nominations are being sought for the Western Green Awards to
recognize contributions to sustainability on campus.

Four researchers from The University of Western Ontario were
announced as the university’s newest Canada Research Chairs. The
funding value of the four Chairs announced for Western totals $3.8
million.

Over the last two decades, powerful new observations have lent
overwhelming support to the idea that everything in the visible
universe emerged from a Big Bang, 14 billion years ago.