Get your holiday shopping done on campus—the University Bookstore is offering a 10 per cent discount for UWindsor faculty and staff Friday, December 14.

The 10 per cent discount applies to all purchases, excluding course materials, textbooks and computers. It even will reduce further the giftware and games already on sale. And the sale applies to purchases both from the Bookstore’s location in Vanier Hall and its kiosk in the CAW Student Centre.

The Bookstore’s annual pre-holiday Sale Books Sale offers 50 per cent off the already-low stickered prices on selected titles from now until the Bookstore closes on December 21. And yes, Friday’s discount applies to sale books as well!

As always, the Bookstore has thousands of discounted books on offer, in categories ranging from fiction to history, from cooking and crafts to children's books for kids of all ages, says marketing manager Martin Deck.

Today—December 12, 2012—is 12/12/12 and to celebrate the occasion, the University Bookstore is offering DailyNews readers a special contest with an alluring prize.

Up for grabs is a copy of Cooking with Giovanni Caboto. This handsome hardbound volume gathers more than 230 recipes, drawn from each of Italy’s 20 regions and taste-tested in the kitchens of Windsor’s Caboto Club. Featuring more than 250 colour photographs, the book retails at $34.95 and would make a perfect gift for anyone wanting to expand their culinary horizons.

To be eligible, just answer our duodecuple quiz of all things twelvefold. A winner will be randomly selected from the respondents with the most correct answers received by 1:13 p.m. Thursday (13:13 on the 13th).

1. Which polyhedron has 12 edges?
   a) a cube
   b) a dodecagon
   c) a dodecahedron
   d) a tetrahedron
    
2. How many doughnuts are in a baker’s dozen?
   a) 10
   b) 11
   c) 12
   d) 13
    
3. What is the common name for a quantity of a dozen dozens?
   a) a dodecadozen
   b) a double dozen
   c) a gross
   d) a square dozen
    
4. Which element has an atomic number of 12?
   a) beryllium
   b) magnesium
   c) manganese
   d) sodium
    
5. In Greek myth, what was the 12th and final labour of Heracles?
   a) to slay the Nemean lion
   b) to capture the golden hind of Artemis
   c) to clean the Augean stables
   d) to bring the three-headed hound Cerberus from the underworld
    
6. Which of the 12 tribes of Israel were not named for a son of the Jewish patriarch Jacob?
   a) Benjamin and Reuben
   b) Dan and Gad
   c) Ephraim and Manasseh
   d) Judah and Simeon
    
7. Twelfth Night falls on the eve of which Roman Catholic feast day?
   a) Epiphany
   b) Immaculate Conception
   c) Pentecost
   d) Saint Stephen’s Day
    
8. What is the final gift received by the singer of The 12 Days of Christmas?
   a) drummers drumming
   b) ladies dancing
   c) lords a-leaping
   d) a partridge in a pear tree
    
9. Which actor played the foreman of the jury in the 1957 film 12 Angry Men?
   a) Martin Balsam
   b) Henry Fonda
   c) Jack Klugman
   d) Jack Warden
    
10. Which variant of football fields 12 players per side?
    a) American football
    b) Australian rules football
    c) Canadian football
    d) rugby
     
11. Chinese new year in 2013 will usher in the year of which of the 12 creatures in the Chinese zodiac?
    a) the horse
    b) the snake
    c) the tiger
    d) the dragon
     
12. Which character starred in the Schoolhouse Rock episode dealing with multiplying by 12?
    a) a mouse dodging balls on a billiard table
    b) Noah loading animals into the ark
    c) a rabbit with a lucky foot
    d) a space alien with six fingers on each hand

Contest is open to all readers of the DailyNews. Send an e-mail with your responses to uofwnews@uwindsor.ca. One entry per contestant, please. Note: the decision of the judge in determining the most correct response is inviolable.

Adrian Taropa has signed on for a real fight.

The fourth-year business student has taken a leading role in promoting Get in the Ring, a fundraiser for the Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital Foundation and the Care for Kidneys Foundation, centred on a boxing match for the Canadian heavyweight championship.

Taropa’s web design company, TD Labs, oversaw the online marketing, booking system and web development for the event, December 14 at the Caboto Club.

In addition to the title fight between current Canadian champ Neven Pajkic and challenger Shane Andreesen, the card includes bouts between undefeated Windsor heavyweight Ali Mansour and Caleb Grummet, and a four-round contest between Josh Cameron and Shane Upshaw.

The formal affair will also feature musical entertainment and a seven-course dinner. Taropa says it will bring together some of the community’s highest profile professionals and businesspeople.

“Get in the Ring represents a tremendous opportunity for students—especially those in business, medicine and law—to meet potential future employers and for recent and upcoming graduates to pursue a career in Windsor,” he says.

Find more information on the event website.

The Marketplace food court in the CAW Student Centre will serve a Jewish-themed dinner on Thursday in celebration of Hanukkah. The eight-day festival of lights began December 8.

The dinner runs 4 to 7 p.m. and will feature:

• matzo ball soup;
• Israeli salad;
• fried chicken cutlets;
• pot roast;

each served with a slice of challah bread and a choice of potato latkes or roasted root vegetables. Also on offer are the jelly-filled doughnuts, sufganiyot.