The University Bookstore is urging its customers to purchase necessary course materials or supplies by the end of the month, when it will move into a new temporary location on the upper level of Vanier Hall.

The store will close its operations in the Odette Building at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31, and will re-open on Monday, November 12, in Vanier Hall’s Winclare lounge. The move will accommodate the expansion of the Odette School of Business.

Marketing manager Martin Deck says the bookstore will not only be open through October, but promises some savings for loyal customers.

“Our sale books are an additional 50 per cent off, and patrons can save 30 per cent off all UWindsor logo giftware,” he says. “We have a lot of other merchandise on sale as well, but too much to specify.”

The Bookstore will also staff a satellite operation in the CAW Student Centre. Its kiosk there will open by Monday, November 5, in the vendor area inside the building’s east entrance.

“That location will sell U of Windsor clothing, giftware, diploma frames and graduation rings,” Deck says.

The location in Vanier Hall will operate 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Friday. The University Bookstore Web site will remain in operation through the move, making available purchases online. Find more information at www.bookstore.uwindsor.ca.

Clarinetist Dave Bennett and the members of his jazz quartet—drummer Doug Cobb, pianist Tad Weed and Kurt Krahnke on string bass—will feature classic swing era tunes in their concert Sunday, October 28.

Bennett premiered his Tribute to Benny Goodman in November 2003 at Windsor's Capitol Theatre. The concert resulted in his first feature CD of Goodman material.

Bennett’s stage presence, knowledge of the details of Goodman recordings—and his penchant for wire-rim glasses, spats and double-breasted suits—transport listeners back to the swing era.

The concert will begin at 2:30 p.m. at Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre, 3277 Sandwich Street. Tickets are $15, with a student rate of $5. Order by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212, or purchase online at www.uwindsor.ca/music.

This concert is the finale event of the UWindsor Reed Weekend, October 26 to 28 at the Music Building. Scheduled events include:

• a recital by clarinetist Daniel Hasznos accompanied by pianist Philip Adamson;
• an improvisation workshop with clarinetist Dave Bennett;
• a saxophone workshop with Kelly Jefferson;
• an instrument repair workshop;
• oboe and Hungarian clarinet presentations

all free and open to the public. Find more details on the Web site of the School of Music.

Until 1985, First Nations women who married non-status men lost their status under Canada’s Indian Act, even though men who married non-status women were able to pass their status on to their wives and children. The effects of this discrimination are still being felt in many communities today.

In a free public event, “Aboriginal Women v. Canada,” Jeannette Corbière Lavell and Dawn Lavell Harvard discuss the losses experienced by First Nations women and their children as a result of gender discrimination in the Indian Act.

The event is part of the Distinguished Visitor in Women’s Studies program, and begins at 4 p.m. Tuesday, October 23, in room 203, Toldo Health Education Centre.

Lavell, an Anishnabe woman of the Wikwemikong Unceded Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island, is a former president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada. In 1974, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled against her effort to correct gender discrimination in the Indian Act, a result overturned in 1985, after the enactment of The Charter, which restored status to her and her children, including her daughter Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard, president of the Ontario Native Women’s Association and vice-president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada.

Workshop to consider everyday usefulness of equality rights

The 2012 celebration of “The Women Behind The Charter” will conclude Friday, October 26, with “Can They Really Do That?!” a discussion about the everyday usefulness of women’s equality rights on the street and in the workplace, led by Joanna Birenbaum, former legal director of the Women’s Legal Action and Education Fund (LEAF).

The workshop is open to the public but will be of particular interest to social workers and community advocates. It runs 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall of All Saints' Anglican Church, 330 City Hall Square West. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 at the door, which includes a light lunch. RSVP by phoning 519-253-3000, ext. 3727, or e-mailing wsvisitor@uwindsor.ca.

Handwritten newspapers were a common tradition in Finnish popular movements at the end of the 19th century and during the first decades of the 20th century, says Kirsti Salmi-Niklander.

An academy research fellow of folklore studies at the University of Helsinki, she will discuss her research into the history of the popular press in a free public lecture, “Hand-written newspapers as an alternative medium in Finnish and Finnish-Canadian popular movements,” Tuesday, October 23, at 2:30 p.m. in the Rose Room, Vanier Hall.

Dr. Salmi-Niklander says that handwritten newspapers gained new meaning in immigrant communities, where printed material was often scarce.

“Newspapers were written out by hand—most often as only one copy—but published orally, by reading them aloud at meetings,” she says.

The International Wednesdays documentary series presents A Walk to Beautiful on Wednesday, October 24, at noon in the International Student Centre on the second floor of Laurier Hall.

A Walk to Beautiful tells the stories of five women in Ethiopia ostracized by their family and villages due to their suffering from obstetric fistula, a serious medical condition caused by failed childbirth under poor conditions.

These women live in isolation with a sense of loneliness and shame due to rejection by their own. Each of these five women chooses to reclaim their lives by taking the long and exhausting journey to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital so they could receive free medical treatment available only there.

While not every patient can be cured, each woman takes her own journey toward becoming independent and productive members of their communities once again.

International Wednesdays screenings are free and open to the public.

The Marketplace food court in the CAW Student Centre will celebrate the cuisine of South Asia today, with special lunch and dinner dishes at the Homestyle station.

Lunch dishes include:

• baked samosas with sweet chilli sauce and side, $6.49
• chana and cauliflower masala with side, $6.49
• chicken biryani (halal) with side, $7.99
• vegetarian biryani with side, $6.49
• pasta with chana dal, $6.99

And dinner entrées include:

• curry beef (halal) with side, $7.99
• butter chicken (halal) with side, $8.99
• pasta with chana dal, $6.49
• baked samosas with sweet chilli sauce and side, $6.49

Side choices are basmati rice or naan bread.

A total of 22 computer science and mathematics students competed Friday to represent Windsor in the regional competition of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest.

Friday’s local competition had contestants battle it out in Erie Hall’s Java Lab for three hours to solve five programming problems using the C, C++ or Java language. The top two teams, with a third participating as a reserve, are:

1. Chris Drouillard, Alex Velazques and Matt Renaud
2. Adam Heinermann, Dillon Friesen and Nemanja Petrovic
3. Efron Silvan Berlian, Chance Chase, and Minghan Zhang

The upcoming contest at the University of Windsor, the only Canadian host site in the region, will have the teams solve nine problems in five hours on November 2 and 3, says Ziad Kobti, director of the School of Computer Science.

“We have students who have been practising all year round. It is great to see students dedicating their time and training themselves to succeed, and our top team did just that,” Dr. Kobti says.

The IBM-sponsored East Central North America Regional Programming Contest draws undergraduate students from western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Ontario, and Indiana. Winners advance to the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals, where the world champions will return home with the “World’s Smartest” trophy as well as prizes and scholarships.

November’s event is open to all undergraduate students interested in programming or volunteering. For more information on the competition, visit the School of Computer Science Web site.

— by Chantelle Myers