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Western student-athlete among Top 8 Academic All-Canadians

Western student-athlete among Top 8 Academic All-Canadians

Engineering student and Mustangs track and field and cross-country star Kate Current has been named one of Canada’s top student-athletes.  Current, who is in her second year of graduate studies in civil engineering, was one of eight student-athletes  …

Cheque is in the mail

Cheque is in the mail

Following through on a fall election promise, the provincial government starts rolling out a tuition grant this month for undergraduate students, meant to cover roughly 30 per cent of a student’s academic costs each year.

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.

Finding needles in a digital haystack

Finding needles in a digital haystack

Two teams led by researchers at The University of Western Ontario have won the second-annual Digging into Data Challenge and will use the power of computers to analyse complex information related to mummies and human rights abuses.

Western medical pioneer honoured

Western medical pioneer honoured

OTTAWA – Dr. Calvin Stiller, University of Western Ontario professor emeritus, was recently named an Officer of the Order of Canada. For Stiller, it was a promotion within the order.

Painter named coach of women’s soccer

Painter named coach of women’s soccer

Martin Painter (BA ’98, LLB ’02, BEd ’07), a member of the Western Mustangs 1999 men’s national championship soccer team, has been named the new head coach of Mustangs women’s soccer.

Cheque is in the mail

Cheque is in the mail

Following through on a fall election promise, the provincial government starts rolling out a tuition grant this month for undergraduate students, meant to cover roughly 30 per cent of a student’s academic costs each year.

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Rito: Read, then make up mind on Occupy

Heinz Klatt’s portrayal of the Occupy movement was a less realistic representation of the actual protesters than Snooki is of people from New Jersey (“Occupy movement may be most vapid of all,” Heinz Klatt, Nov. 24).

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

Avola: Occupy movement all about love

The Occupy movement is a protest against those whose actions attack love. The Occupy protestors are screaming for the recognition of all humans. It is a call to our elite to stop profiting off of the backs of the poor and marginalized people whose countries we have engulfed with war and terror. It is a call to stop pulling funds from our public and social services to feed corporate imperialism. This protest is for love. Our world needs to change; otherwise we will ultimately destroy ourselves.

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Small: Look beyond lies-by-omission

Thanks for the article on Western professor David Heap’s efforts (“The man who won’t go away,” Nov. 24). However, one omission is troubling.

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

Traister: Credit to the true ‘Negotiators’

I am pleased to see Western News draw attention in its year-end Newsmakers edition (Dec. 8) to the historic negotiation and strike of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association-Librarians and Archivists (UWOFA-LA).

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

Winders: Let’s go shopping south of the border

It’s time to go shopping, Canada. I know that’s unusual advice just a week after the holiday season, and days before the credit card bills that fueled it start rolling in. But now is the time to go shopping, because your neighbours to the south are offering incredible values.

Finding needles in a digital haystack

Finding needles in a digital haystack

Two teams led by researchers at The University of Western Ontario have won the second-annual Digging into Data Challenge and will use the power of computers to analyse complex information related to mummies and human rights abuses.

Western medical pioneer honoured

Western medical pioneer honoured

OTTAWA – Dr. Calvin Stiller, University of Western Ontario professor emeritus, was recently named an Officer of the Order of Canada. For Stiller, it was a promotion within the order.

Painter named coach of women’s soccer

Painter named coach of women’s soccer

Martin Painter (BA ’98, LLB ’02, BEd ’07), a member of the Western Mustangs 1999 men’s national championship soccer team, has been named the new head coach of Mustangs women’s soccer.