Hundreds of students, faculty, and staff gathered in front of Memorial Hall on Friday to pay tribute to Canadian soldiers who fought and fell in the cause of freedom.
The service included an address by UWindsor president Alan Wildeman, a reading of the poem In Flanders Fields, playing of The Last Post and Reveille, singing of O Canada, and concluded with the laying of a wreath below the commemorative plaque in Memorial Hall.
The University of Windsor community is invited to a special Remembrance Day ceremony outside the east entrance to Memorial Hall on Friday, November 11, at 10:45 a.m.
The Office of Human Resources has made a provision for non-essential university employees to attend the ceremony, which will last until approximately 11:15 a.m. In particular, anyone on campus who has served in the military is especially welcome to attend.
The Faculty of Human Kinetics Distinguished Speakers Series presents Jeff Horowitz delivering a free public lecture entitled “Exercise and Dietary Effects on Fat Metabolism that May Improve Metabolic Health,” at noon on Friday, November 11, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.
The School of Music’s Take 4 series of student recitals will showcase performances by five students in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, Wednesday, November 9, at 4 p.m.
The program features:
The Lancer men’s and women’s basketball teams will open the 2011-12 season with a pair of home games this weekend at the St. Denis Centre. Windsor will host the Laurentian Voyageurs on Friday and the York Lions on Saturday; the women will play at 6 p.m. and the men at 8 p.m. both nights.
Fans will want to be sure to attend Friday, as the Department of Athletics honours the University of Windsor’s three reigning Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship teams.
The Windsor International Film Festival is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win four free tickets to a screening Friday or Saturday at the Capitol Theatre.
The festival will feature more than 30 films from November 10 to 13. General admission is $12. Find more information, including a full list of film titles and times, on the festival Web site.
In the colonial context, engaging the legal system as a potential means of redress and the recognition of rights is fraught with a basic contradiction, says Brenna Bhandar: can the legal system be utilized as an arena for social-political struggle without legitimizing the colonial order itself?
The Assumption Heritage Trust Foundation presents an exhibition of pieces preserved by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Wednesday, November 9, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
Organizers promise “a peek into the past and a look into the future.”
Connie Giglio, the foundation’s director of public affairs, said the teaching order had touched countless lives since its founding in 1843.
Playwright, novelist, social activist and documentary filmmaker Drew Hayden Taylor will hold a question-and-answer session in the Jackman Dramatic Art Centre’s Studio Theatre at 1 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
Admission is free and open to the campus community. His appearance sponsored by the School of Dramatic Art was organized by its director, Lionel Walsh, and facilitated by Taylor’s commitment to Bookfest Windsor.
With 10 provinces to visit since May 1, it has been a long six months for Ursula, but Windsor marked the end of the road.
The polar bear has been touring Canada’s universities to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and this week was UWindsor’s turn.
During her time in town, Ursula visited some of the campus hotspots, hung out with some students, and even took advantage of the University’s proximity to Detroit to do a little cross-border sightseeing.
