Miah-Marie Langlois

Finance offices preparing for holiday break

The Finance department advises that its procurement and customs departments will close for the holiday season on December 23 and will re-open on January 3, 2012.

Accounts payable will run payments (i.e. electronic fund transfers and cheques) for the final time of the year on Tuesday, December 20. Requestors must submit all invoices or cheque requisitions for payment by Friday, December 9, to meet this deadline. Any invoices or cheque requisitions received after this date will not be processed until after the holiday break.

Document Imaging offers discount on spot colour printing

The Document Imaging Centre is getting into the holiday spirit by offering material printed with red or green spot colour at half-price until the end of the semester.

Contact operations manager Lucy Brown at 519-253-3000, ext. 2100, for further information.

University Bookstore to show appreciation for student clientele

The University Bookstore will extend a discount to all UWindsor students on Monday, December 5, in celebration of Student Appreciation Day and Residence Night.

Just show your student card to receive a 10 percent discount on everything in the store except textbooks, computers, software, magazines and gift cards. The savings even apply atop ongoing sales that reduce giftware and board games by 10 percent, and sale books by 50 percent.

In addition, the store will remain open until 7 p.m. for residence night.

Week to make mental health issues top-of-mind

Mental health is everyone’s business, says Beth Oakley, director of the Educational Development Centre. That’s why she is hoping for campus-wide involvement in events early next semester meant to raise awareness of these issues.

Mental Health Awareness Week will run January 16 to 19, 2012. Organizers hope to provide education in four key areas: prevention, awareness, destigmatization and resource provision.

Writer in residence to discuss the ethics of authorship

In his final public appearance as UWindsor writer-in-residence, Alan Davies will read excerpts from his current writing projects and discuss the experience of writing as an everyday practice.

In his lecture, entitled “The Right to Write,” Davies will consider the ethics of writing as an active mode of articulating and investigating made and given worlds. It starts at 5:30 p.m. Monday, December 5, in room 2101 Chrysler Hall North.

Contest winner receives early Christmas present

Christmas came early for Peter Marval, media artist in the Centre for Teaching and Learning, as he won yesterday’s DailyNews contest and two free tickets to the Festival of Christmas choral concert, Sunday, December 4, at 3 p.m. at Assumption Church.

So’s name was drawn from all respondents who correctly noted that Merry Christmas wishers demand figgy pudding; that wassailers are generally not picky and will accept cider, mulled wine, punch or spiced ale; and that if you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do.

Presentation to promote transnational feminist research methodology

Researchers should be sensitive to how gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, history and geography influence the production of knowledge, says Snežana Ratković.

A science teacher from the former Yugoslavia now pursuing a doctorate in education at Brock University, she will deliver a free lecture entitled “Employing a Transnational Feminist Research Methodology” on Wednesday, December 7.

DailyNews truncates publishing schedule until 2012

Campus news will appear less than daily in the period leading up to the holiday break. With Monday the final day of classes, DailyNews, the university’s e-newsletter, will publish on the following dates:

  • Monday, December 5;
  • Wednesday, December 7;
  • Monday, December 12;
  • Wednesday, December 14;
  • Monday, December 19; and
  • Wednesday, December 21

resuming regular Monday to Friday publication on Wednesday, January 4. Please plan your submissions accordingly.