Cinema Politica will host a screening of Dive! Living Off of America’s Waste at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in room 108, Odette Building. Admission is by donation.
The film follows director Jeremy Seifert and his friends as they dumpster dive behind several grocery stores in the Los Angeles area to demonstrate the massive amount of food wasted each year in America.
The Humanities Research Group’s Distinguished Speakers Series presents Tracy Davis delivering her free public lecture, entitled “How historical is spectatorship? Knowledge, expertise, insight and taste among racialized and gendered audiences in mid-Victorian Britain,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 15, in the Freed Orman Centre, Assumption University.
When Irish eyes are smiling, they’ve probably seen the special dishes the Marketplace Homestyle station is laying out in honour of St. Patrick’s Day.
It might be a couple of days early, but the food court in the CAW Student Centre will celebrate on Thursday, March 15, with a menu featuring:
In a memo to students, staff and faculty on Monday, UWindsor president Alan Wildeman called a stabbing outside the CAW Student Centre during the early morning hours of Friday, March 9, “shocking and highly unusual for our campus.”
He credited the tremendous co-operation and teamwork of those responding to the situation with helping to maintain the safety of our community.
The University Bookstore will offer discounts on thousands of books, plus UWindsor-themed clothing, giftware, board games, and school, office and computer supplies during its annual overstock sale, Tuesday in the CAW Student Centre.
The sale will include books marked as low as 99 cents, and clothing priced to clear. It runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 13 in the centre’s Commons area.
The International Wednesdays documentary series presents India Reborn: Manufacturing Dreams, tomorrow at noon in the International Student Centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.
India produces an annual output of 1000 films, but obsession with the movies runs beyond watching them. Bollywood—Hindi cinema—has seeped into every aspect of life of people in this vast and diverse nation.
Up to half of all cancers can be either prevented or detected before they become a serious threat to your health. When it comes to cancer, an ounce of prevention and screening is worth more than a pound of cure!
A session for UWindsor employees will focus on general risk factors that individuals have control over and can change. Cancer Care Ontario developed the “Your Health Matters” information session to enhance participants’ understanding of the risks.
Voting for CJAMfm’s annual Jammy Awards will continue through March.
The awards recognize the best programs on the campus-community radio station in 10 categories, as well as local musicians and venues for live acts. CJAM will holds an awards ceremony in early April, says volunteer coordinator Sarah Morris.
“We want to celebrate the contributions of our dedicated volunteer hosts,” she says.
The Council of Ontario Universities welcomed an announcement Thursday that the provincial government is extending for one year a cap of five per cent on overall tuition fee increases at its colleges and universities.
COU chair Alastair Summerlee said the move will enable universities to protect the gains that have been made through the government’s major investments in higher education.
Two reports in the last month suggested reforms to Ontario’s social assistance system: a commission created by the 2009 Poverty Reduction Act and the Drummond commission on the reform of public services.
Anti-poverty activist Marion Overholt, a staff lawyer at Legal Assistance of Windsor, will discuss how these reports fit into the reality of the shrinking middle class in Ontario, increasing rates of poverty, assumptions about people living in poverty, and our disappearing social welfare system at noon on Monday, March 12, in the law building’s room G101.
