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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Salmonella could forfeit student’s year
November 14, 2007
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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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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Western in the news… again.
April 11, 2007
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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A borderless world will focus on cities
March 2, 2007
By Stephen Poloz
Have you ever looked at one of those satellite photos of the earth, taken at night? It is truly a remarkable sight, and full of economic meaning, besides.
What most people see when they look at these photos is the lights – literally billions of them. Of course, they also see massive areas of darkness. But what an economist sees is not the lights, but a map of economic activity. Dense clusters indicate intense economic activity. The photo reveals what might be referred to as economic gravity.
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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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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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