Abortion hits roadblock on information highway
April 9, 2008
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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The ‘Spoof’ - Labia Majora Carnage
April 12, 2007
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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Western’s response to Gazette “spoof”
April 12, 2007
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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Six degrees of education
March 24, 2007
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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Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias
February 26, 2007
By SAM DILLON
Published: February 25, 2007
GREENCASTLE, Ind. — When a psychology professor at DePauw University here surveyed students, they described one sorority as a group of “daddy’s little princesses” and another as “offbeat hippies.” The sisters of Delta Zeta were seen as “socially awkward.”
Worried that a negative stereotype of the sorority was contributing to a decline in membership that had left its Greek-columned house here half empty, Delta Zeta’s national officers interviewed 35 DePauw members in November, quizzing them about their dedication to recruitment. They judged 23 of the women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
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Robarts courting UWO
February 8, 2007
Thu, February 8, 2007
The cash-strapped research institute is in merger talks.
By JOHN MINER, SUN MEDIA
Canada’s only independent research institute is talking merger with the University of Western Ontario after running into financial difficulty.
The board of the Robarts Research Institute, based in London, decided to approach UWO because research grants weren’t covering its costs.
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Procrastination is a 4 letter word
February 1, 2007
The science of keeping up with yesterday
‘To actually not procrastinate takes planning, effort and will,’ expert says
DAWN WALTON
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
CALGARY — Do not delay. Read this story now. Although I know some of you will likely never get to it, I understand. You have other things to do. Sleeping, watching television and checking e-mail.
But it’s not your fault.
“Procrastination is natural,”
Procrastination is a 4 letter word
January 11, 2007
The science of keeping up with yesterday
‘To actually not procrastinate takes planning, effort and will,’ expert says
DAWN WALTON
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail
CALGARY — Do not delay. Read this story now. Although I know some of you will likely never get to it, I understand. You have other things to do. Sleeping, watching television and checking e-mail.
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Way to go, Schulich researchers!
January 1, 2007
Both women are faculty members at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario.
New Canadian technology tracks cancer’s spread
Updated Sat. Dec. 30 2006 10:47 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
When it comes to cancer, it often isn’t the initial tumour that kills. It’s the cancer cells that migrate and spawn new tumours. Now scientists at the Robarts Research Centre in London, Ontario, have devised a new way of following cancer cells as they spread that may help them learn how to stop them.
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