Sunset Avenue? Patricia Avenue? Not for long.

The University is launching a contest aimed at renaming both those stretches of Sunset and Patricia which have been remade into pedestrian-friendly thoroughfares.

President Alan Wildeman announced plans to rename Sunset and Patricia during his January 29 address to the university community, citing an opportunity to instil a greater sense of pride in the campus.

“This past autumn, we enjoyed for the first time a car-free and care-free Sunset Avenue. We had community barbeques there, and students and faculty and staff could stroll and relax,” Dr. Wildeman said. “I do not want the University of Windsor to forever refer to that wonderful space as Sunset Avenue. It is not where the sun sets ... it is where the feeling about being at a university should be nourished.”

Wildeman also said it was time to deal with the “historic dead-ending” of Patricia Avenue.

“This spring, adjacent to the new Stephen and Vicki Adams Welcome Centre, we will be completing the landscaping with a new entrance way. It is where Patricia Avenue used to continue on. This is a wonderful historic Champs-Elysée through the old part of the campus, past Dillon Hall and the soaring London plane trees.”

The competition is open to everyone and suggestions can be e-mailed to NameTheWays@uwindsor.ca. A panel of faculty, staff and students will review the submissions and entries will be accepted until 4 p.m., March 11.

The new names for Sunset and Patricia will be announced Friday, April 1, and the winning entries will each receive a $250 gift certificate from the Campus Bookstore.

Dr. Wildeman said that the university is open to all kinds of suggestions: “The names could be ones that reflect our traditional lands, they could be ones that reflect our diversity, they could be ones that honour great alumni or scholars, they could be ones that remind us that education and compassion have the power to change lives immeasurably.

“Once we have names, they will be prominently displayed as you enter what are two great corridors through the campus.”

Find contest rules on the public affairs website.

A bus set to provide transportation from the Toronto area to Saturday’s open house on the UWindsor campus filled up so quickly, organizers have arranged for a second.

“We posted the information on a Monday and had it fully subscribed by Wednesday,” says liaison officer Marium Tolson-Murtty. “We are very excited to have it prove so popular!”

The buses will leave from the Dixie Outlet Mall in Mississauga at 7 a.m. and will provide more than transportation, Tolson-Murtty says.

“We have arranged for snacks and giveaways, we’ll play videos about campus life, and we’ll have some lively hosts to talk with our guests during the trip,” she says. “They will know so much about the University before they even get here.”

Business professor Vincent Georgie, director of international affairs Mike Houston will captain the buses for the ride to Windsor, accompanied by third-year concurrent education student Erin Gabriel and another current student to be named.

The free shuttles were the suggestion of provost Douglas Kneale, and Tolson-Murtty says she hopes they will continue for future recruitment events.

“It just makes it so much easier for families,” she says. “We don’t want our visitors to be tired when they get here.”

To reserve a spot on the bus, e-mail info@uwindsor.ca or call 1-800-864-2860.

University Players is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two tickets to see the family drama Dancing at Lughnasa. The play’s run continues through March 13 in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre’s Hatch Studio Theatre.

Performances Wednesday through Saturday are at 8 p.m.; weekend matinees are at 2 p.m. Order tickets online at www.UniversityPlayers.com or by phoning 519-253-3000, ext. 2808.

To enter the contest, just send your answers to the following three trivia questions. The winner will be selected at random from all correct responses received by 3 p.m. Wednesday, March 2.

1. When the University Players first performed Dancing at Lughnasa in 1998, which role was played by current director Marc Bondy?

a) Chris
b) Gerry
c) Jack
d) Michael
 

2. In addition to Dancing at Lughnasa, which of Brian Friel’s plays are set around the town of Ballybeg?

a) Faith Healer
b) Living Quarters
c) Philadelphia, Here I Come
d) all of the above
 

3. Dancing at Lughnasa is set in Ireland’s County Donegal in which 20th Century decade?

a) 1920s
b) 1930s
c) 1940s
d) 1950s

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.

Lancer women’s basketball will open the defense of its national and provincial titles Wednesday when the team hosts the Laurier Golden Hawks in the preliminary round of the Ontario University Athletics playoffs. The men will play their first game of the post-season later that same night against the Laurentian Voyageurs.

Both Windsor squads finished at the top of the OUA west division standings—the women at 15-5 and the men at 14-6—which under the league’s playoff structure, ranked them sixth and fifth, respectively.

Admission to the March 2 action is $12 for both games with a $10 youth and seniors rate, and $3 for UWindsor students with ID. The women will tip off at 6 p.m. and the men at 8 p.m. in the St. Denis Centre.

All too often, universities have functioned as exclusive spaces where certain groups are included, while members of marginalized groups find themselves on the outside, says Sarah Buhler.

A law professor at the University of Saskatchewan, she will discuss her experience leading an interdisciplinary class that brought together university students, Aboriginal high school students and former gang members, Wednesday on the UWindsor campus.

Her free public presentation, “Reading Law and Talking Justice in the Wahkohtowin Classroom,” will begin at noon in the Farmer Conference Room, Ron. W. Ianni Faculty of Law Building.

“Wahkohtowin” means “kinship” in Cree, the predominant Indigenous language in the area surrounding Saskatoon.  The Transnational Law and Justice Network presents prof. Buhler’s lecture as part of its Borders, Boundaries and Intersections speakers’ series.

A chance to work alongside students from other universities is an important aspect of the Ontario Sport Management Collective, say professors and students who travelled to Hamilton recently for interactive panel discussions and professional development workshops.

Students in the UWindsor Master of Human Kinetics sport management program joined graduate students from Brock University, Western University, the University of Waterloo and the University of Ottawa at Tim Hortons Field, home of the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Following a brief introduction from each program, the morning session consisted of panel discussions with sport executives from Ontario Basketball, the Tiger-Cats, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and the York University Department of Athletics and Recreation. After lunch and a guided tour of the facility, students broke into groups to address research problems identified during the morning meetings.

Jen Nielson, a first-year master’s student, found the day very beneficial.

“The opportunity to network with people outside our faculty, as well as to compare research that is being done at different universities, was not only very interesting and exciting, but very important for the future of sport management,” she said.

Professor Marijke Taks, who along with faculty colleague Jess Dixon served on the event’s organizing committee, noted that the collaboration between students from different universities was an important aspect of the day.

“The students really enjoyed having industry speakers, the Q&A format and the group work, which required the students to work on a real life problem of a specific sport organization highlighted during the Q&A sessions,” she said. “With the group work, the students particularly enjoyed that they were mixed with sport management graduate students from other universities. The first-year students really appreciated and benefited from being mingled with upper-level graduate students during this group experience.”

In preparation for Thursday’s Celebration of Nations cultural festival, the Marketplace food court in the CAW Student Centre will spice up its lunches this week with foods from around the world.

The Wednesday, March 2, specials are drawn from the islands of the Caribbean: island-style jerk chicken, rice and beans and fried plantains, and Jamaican patties—either beef or vegetarian. Try them at the Chef to You station from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Thursday’s menu will centre on Chinese foods.

Celebration of Nations will feature cultural displays and performances in the CAW Student Centre Commons, March 3 from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The Campus Bookstore has selected an Under Armour sweatshirt as its featured item of the week.

The fleece hoodie incorporates “Storm” technology to repel water without sacrificing breathability, while its soft inner layer traps heat to keep the wearer warm and comfortable.

Available in men’s and women’s styles, sizes and colours, each boasts the words “University of Windsor” printed on the sleeve.