Director Tory James has put together a “wonderful cast” drawn from the campus and surrounding community for a staged reading of Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris, tonight—Friday, December 7.
“We have a great group this year,” says James, a photographer in the Centre for Teaching and Learning. “And you can’t go wrong with this material. I guarantee that people will be laughing until they cry.”
James describes the seven women who will read:
The air in the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation is about to get a lot cleaner.
Workers from Nedlaw Living Walls were busy this week installing more than 1,500 plants into the building’s biowall, which will help naturally filter the air that flows through the 300,000 square foot engineering building.
A professor in the university’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research is hopeful that a stolen laptop containing an invaluable amount of extremely important data on it will be returned.
“Whoever stole it can keep the computer,” said Aaron Fisk. “We won’t even press any charges, and we’re considering some sort of reward. It’s just really important that we get the data back.”
Christmas has become too commercial, says Janeen Auld, which makes the Adopt-a-Family program a perfect way for her to celebrate the holiday.
“My family doesn’t exchange gifts,” says Auld, an instrument technician in the chemistry department. “It’s just too much stuff. Buying for people truly in need is the only type of shopping I want to do.”
A video recording the November 30 celebration of the University’s takeover of the former Windsor Star buildings is now available for viewing.
The video by Suede Productions captures the historic handover of keys to the complex from Star publisher Marty Beneteau to UWindsor president Alan Wildeman. Hundreds of students, staff, faculty, alumni and assorted well-wishers were on hand to witness the moment.
A donation from members of the Campus Community Police Services will help stock some operating rooms in Third World countries.
CAW Local 195, which represents campus police and parking services officers, made a $300 contribution from its charity fund to help pay the costs of shipping a pallet of surgical supplies to healthcare providers in resource-poor areas of Africa and Asia.
Both sacred and secular music are on the program as the Windsor Community Choir presents its Christmas concert, Sunday, December 9, at 7 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
Under the direction of Edward Kingins, the choir brings together UWindsor students and other members of the community for a challenging musical experience, culminating in public performance of choral works.
A tree-trimming party Tuesday in the International Student Centre attracted dozens of participants representing countries around the world.
Aoi Ishimaru, an exchange student in art history from Tokyo’s International Christian University, said she wanted to experience a Canadian Christmas.
“I wanted to taste Canadian-style treats—cookies and apple cider,” she said. “It was very nice.”
Seven women from the UWindsor faculty, alumni and broader community will read from David Sedaris’ seasonal masterpiece Santaland Diaries Friday in support of the Windsor Youth Centre.
“This is a very adult story,” says University photographer Tory James, who organizes the annual benefit event, “and quite possibly the funniest 33 pages ever written in English.”
The staged reading will start at 7:30 p.m. December 7 at Lefty’s Underground, 89 University Avenue West. The doors open at 6 p.m.; admission is by donation.
The Centre for Enterprise and Law invites you to save the date for its Intellectual Property Boot Camp, a workshop providing an understanding of the theoretical and practical principles of intellectual property.
The workshop runs four days, February 19 to 22, on the UWindsor campus. It will feature a number of speakers from the fields of law and business discussing patents, trademarks, commercialization of technology, and other aspects of intellectual property.
