three wise monkeys

Apr 09, 2008 04:30 AM
Antonia Zerbisias

If you think that some of the Bush administration’s conservative politics – and Orwellian moves – in the U.S. can’t affect Canada, then you have some research to do.

Ten days ago at the University of California in San Francisco, librarian Gloria Won was running through POPLINE (POPulation information onLINE), billed as “the world’s largest database on reproductive health.” Maintained by Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University, and freely available to medical schools, health organizations and the public, it is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Wed, March 12, 2008
By MARY-JANE EGAN, SUN MEDIA

For 25 years, a London microbiologist has been trying to convince a dubious world that some bacteria are good for you.

“This is why we’re alive, because we have bugs in the gut that keep us alive,” says Gregor Reid, a professor of microbiology at the University of Western Ontario.
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By Oliver Whitehead

The Harper government’s latest move to deny support to film and television programming that it deems offensive is an assault on the values of civilization.

As such, of course, it is nothing new; the Harper Conservatives have merely taken their modest place in a long but dismal line of authority figures whose fear and suspicion of the power of creativity has stifled the expression of original ideas for centuries.
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Wed, March 5, 2008

By RANDY RICHMOND, SUN MEDIA AND NEWS SERVICES

Students attend an engineering class yesterday at the University of Western Ontario. (Morris Lamont, Sun Media)

Your kids may not be smarter than you, but chances are they have more education, or will.

In London, as in the rest of Ontario, more people aged 25 to 34 have university degrees than those over 55.
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What do cosmetics have in common with cellphones? They both worry a leading cancer scientist about their potential as health risks

Jan 15, 2008 04:30 AM
Nancy J. White
Living Reporter

First off, Devra Davis won’t do the interview on her cellphone.

Call me back on the land line, she instructs. It’s not the money she’s concerned about. It’s the microwaves.

She’s also concerned about drinking diet pop, wearing a lot of cosmetics and eating non-organic red meat.
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As the number of salmonella cases linked to a university eatery grows, one father is seeking legal advice over the effect of the illness on his daughter.

“She is no shape to go back. It knocked her for a loop,” said the Toronto father, who asked not to be identified.
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Labia Majora Carnage [Printed in the "Spoof" edition which came out on the 30th of March]
by “Xavier”
Gazette Staff

Last night, local women hit the streets for the first ever Take Back the Nightie march.

The march was led by members of Western’s Women’s Issues Network, who, for the first time all year, left their circle in the University Community Centre, where witnesses claim they perform tribal dances and yell alienating slurs about pussies and cunts.
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Apr 11th, 2007
Gazette ’spoof’ angers readers

By Bob Klanac

The student Gazette’s annual April Fool’s Day parody issue has drawn widespread anger for comments about women and other groups, and the condemnation of University of Western Ontario President Paul Davenport.

In a statement released Wednesday, Davenport said he was offended by material in the issue and he will be looking for ways to ensure the Gazette and University Students’ Council, owner of the paper, prevent such articles from appearing in the future.
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Spoof of campus feminist ‘appalling’

Women’s groups demand retraction as article in Western Ontario student paper blasted
Apr 11, 2007 04:30 AM
Louise Brown
Education Reporter
Jennifer O’Meara
Special to the Star

Just 18 months after a first-year student’s striptease posted on the Internet thrust the University of Western Ontario into the spotlight, the campus has found itself in raunchy waters once more.
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Undergrads sign up for rare cross-Canada degree
Mar 24, 2007 04:30 AM
Louise Brown
Education Reporter

They’re a bit like Country Mouse and City Mouse, these two Canadian students hoping to trade places for a semester.

Amy Clarke says she’s a “big city girl” who grew up in Toronto. “I’m comfortable downtown,” she shouts over the rumble of the Queen streetcar after biology class at Ryerson University.

Four provinces away, not far from his grandparents’ potato farm, Bobby Cameron crams for history mid-terms at the University of Prince Edward Island and suggests, “You can’t get much more rural than me.”

Both have applied for an unusual exchange program meant to build bridges between two very different universities – and offer a sense of Canada to boot.
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