Campus
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Stickers a cause for concern on campus
Students have spotted stickers featuring the phrase “It’s okay to be white” on the outskirts of the University of Winnipeg (U of W).
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News Briefs
Gendering Racial Violence // Information session // Canada 150 medal reception // Classics Department's research series // Transcona library reuse options
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Wesmen volleyball team adds golden prospects
The Wesmen women’s volleyball team might have more potential than their mid-season 1-5 record indicates.
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TDOR vigil to be held on campus
What started as a web project in the late ’90s has since evolved into an annual vigil.
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PROFile: Sarah Bezan
Sarah Bezan is an instructor, and she’s currently teaching an English 1A course called Animal Metamorphosis in Fiction at the University of Winnipeg.
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Historic queer dance puts accessibility first
Homo Hop is an annual dance party hosted by the University of Winnipeg’s LGBT Centre.
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PROFile: Jan Stewart
While Professor Jan Stewart is the dean of The Gupta Faculty of Kinesiology and Applied Health until the end of next June, she says she’s still working on her ongoing research projects.
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CKUW radio marathon hits airwaves Nov. 8th
The annual CKUW Student Radio Marathon will take place this Nov. 8 from 6 a.m. to midnight. The marathon allows the voices of University of Winnipeg (U of W) and collegiate students, as well as faculty and staff to be heard all day on the station.
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PROFile: Department Assistant Rachel Berg
Rachel Berg is the office manager for the department of Modern Languages and Literatures and the department of Religion and Culture. As an office manager, she oversees everything for those departments.
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U of W to receive two biomass boilers
Two new 100 kWh biomass boilers will be installed at the University of Winnipeg (U of W) this year.
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PROFILE: Mary Jane McCallum
Mary McCallum is a First Nations professor who started working at the University of Winnipeg in 2008 in the history department.
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UWSA hopes that board won’t raise tuition
The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) hopes to learn specifically which financial struggles students are experiencing from the Campus Poverty Report survey that closed on Oct. 11.
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UWSA looking to change sexual assault policy
The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) recently signed on to the Our Turn National Student Action Plan (Our Turn), a coalition of student groups and unions across the country, pledging to improve the university’s current sexual assault policy.
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News Briefs
Nurses at St. Boniface Hospital // Canadian history lecture // Public feedback on skate park // 60s Scoop rally // Legalizing pot
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Basketball team prepares for a new season
October brings basketball back to campus, as the University of Winnipeg Wesmen men’s squad is evaluating players and making final roster cuts during their pre-season schedule.
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Candidates run in UWSA byelection
The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association (UWSA) is holding byelections to fill a number of vacant board of directors positions, and, this year, the association hopes to exceed historically low voter turnout.
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PROFile: Julie Nagam
Nagam is the chair of Indigenous Arts of North America and an associate professor at The University of Winnipeg. She’s also an artist, and she and Jamie Isaac co-curated INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE, which is currently set up at the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG).
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Profile: Conor Whatley
Studying ancient Greek and Roman history was not where professor Conor Whately thought his university career would end up.
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Accessibility concerns with campus washrooms
The University of Winnipeg has been adapting its campus to address the needs of gender non-conforming (GNC) individuals in the past few years. However, accessibility to gender-neutral washrooms is still an issue.
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PRofile: Alan Diduck
Community engagement is a common theme that pops up throughout environmental studies and sciences professor Alan Diduck’s career.