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Winders: Students must take point in allowing zero room for ignorance
You must stop this. I understand no amount of university scolding or media shaming is going to make you. But you, my young friends, need to make this stuff a distant memory.
Severe weather warning – UPDATED 5:49 p.m.
Western is running on a normal schedule, meaning all activities – including classes – remain as scheduled following a severe thunderstorm that moved through the area in the last hour. The violent front – featuring lightning and hail – resulted in Western using its on-campus weather alert siren for the first time. No major damage reported.
Arismendi: Remembering days of ‘danger and dread’
I would like to congratulate professor David Heap on his excellent article about the important lessons of the Chilean coup, 40 years later (Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons, Sept. 5).
McPherson: Study ignores availability of health care options
In her study (Study: Education drives health behavior changes after falling ill, Aug 29), Western Sociology professor Rachel Margolis states, “health problems arise throughout the life course and how people respond to new medical conditions can shape their future health.”
Statement about Orientation Week concert
The University Students’ Council (USC) and Western regret the actions and commentary of the artist Classified made Saturday night on stage at the Orientation Week concert. Both officials felt the performance did not reflect the mission, values and messages of the Orientation Program.
Expect delays on Western Road this afternoon
Be advised Western Road will experience a brief delay in traffic flow between 3-3:30 p.m. today due to the opening of Western’s new Richard Ivey Building.
Mustangs win big over McMaster, 58-15
HAMILTON, Ont. – Second-year quarterback Will Finch threw for 449 yards and five touchdowns while receiver George Johnson had nine receptions for 224 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Western Mustangs to a 58-15 victory over the McMaster Marauders on Saturday afternoon at Ron Joyce Stadium.
‘Nightmare’ swim fails to stop PhD candidate
When she was younger, Samantha Whiteside found a certain comfort in water.
Campus Digest: Western division celebrates a millennia of employee service
Marlon Brando and Al Pacino topped the box office with The Godfather. Roberta Flack owned the Billboard charts with her hit The First Time I Saw Your Face. Everyone tuned in for All in the Family on Saturday night. And Wendy Dupuis started at Western.
New network would unite city’s medical community
Excitement is growing among partners in the Medical Innovation and Commercialization Network after the venture received encouragement from a city council committee last month to forge ahead with the development of a governance structure.
$1-million gift to support Lawrence Centre
A prominent London business leader known for his faith in the ‘virtuous cycle’ has put that belief into action by donating $1 million to the Ivey Business School which will support public policy and leadership education.
Heap: Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons
Aerial bombings, tanks in the streets, widespread terrorizing of civilians by soldiers and police: this was the horror unleashed on Sept. 11, 1973, by the military coup d’état in Chile. Led by Augusto Pinochet and other generals with U.S. backing, the coup overthrew President Salvador Allende’s democratically elected Popular Unity government, and brought in a brutal military dictatorship that lasted 17 years.
Winders: Students must take point in allowing zero room for ignorance
You must stop this. I understand no amount of university scolding or media shaming is going to make you. But you, my young friends, need to make this stuff a distant memory.
Severe weather warning – UPDATED 5:49 p.m.
Western is running on a normal schedule, meaning all activities – including classes – remain as scheduled following a severe thunderstorm that moved through the area in the last hour. The violent front – featuring lightning and hail – resulted in Western using its on-campus weather alert siren for the first time. No major damage reported.
Arismendi: Remembering days of ‘danger and dread’
I would like to congratulate professor David Heap on his excellent article about the important lessons of the Chilean coup, 40 years later (Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons, Sept. 5).
McPherson: Study ignores availability of health care options
In her study (Study: Education drives health behavior changes after falling ill, Aug 29), Western Sociology professor Rachel Margolis states, “health problems arise throughout the life course and how people respond to new medical conditions can shape their future health.”
Statement about Orientation Week concert
The University Students’ Council (USC) and Western regret the actions and commentary of the artist Classified made Saturday night on stage at the Orientation Week concert. Both officials felt the performance did not reflect the mission, values and messages of the Orientation Program.
Expect delays on Western Road this afternoon
Be advised Western Road will experience a brief delay in traffic flow between 3-3:30 p.m. today due to the opening of Western’s new Richard Ivey Building.
Mustangs win big over McMaster, 58-15
HAMILTON, Ont. – Second-year quarterback Will Finch threw for 449 yards and five touchdowns while receiver George Johnson had nine receptions for 224 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Western Mustangs to a 58-15 victory over the McMaster Marauders on Saturday afternoon at Ron Joyce Stadium.
‘Nightmare’ swim fails to stop PhD candidate
When she was younger, Samantha Whiteside found a certain comfort in water.
Campus Digest: Western division celebrates a millennia of employee service
Marlon Brando and Al Pacino topped the box office with The Godfather. Roberta Flack owned the Billboard charts with her hit The First Time I Saw Your Face. Everyone tuned in for All in the Family on Saturday night. And Wendy Dupuis started at Western.
New network would unite city’s medical community
Excitement is growing among partners in the Medical Innovation and Commercialization Network after the venture received encouragement from a city council committee last month to forge ahead with the development of a governance structure.
$1-million gift to support Lawrence Centre
A prominent London business leader known for his faith in the ‘virtuous cycle’ has put that belief into action by donating $1 million to the Ivey Business School which will support public policy and leadership education.
Heap: Four decades later, coup in Chile offers lessons
Aerial bombings, tanks in the streets, widespread terrorizing of civilians by soldiers and police: this was the horror unleashed on Sept. 11, 1973, by the military coup d’état in Chile. Led by Augusto Pinochet and other generals with U.S. backing, the coup overthrew President Salvador Allende’s democratically elected Popular Unity government, and brought in a brutal military dictatorship that lasted 17 years.