UWindsor participates in provincial post-secondary campaign
By Rana Nabil Diab
News Reporter
February 6, 2008
The Blue Chair campaign was launched on Jan. 24 at The Basement, in an effort to help at risk Ontario youth access post-secondary education.
The campaign, sponsored by Ontario’s Undergraduate Student Association (OUSA), focuses on disadvantaged youth who face barriers to education, such as poverty or cultural disadvantages.
The Blue Chair campaign believes in providing students with the opportunity to access post-secondary education in hopes of fostering social, economic, and cultural health. >>
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Leave the Pack Behind persuades smokers to butt out
By Natasha Marar
News Editor
February 6, 2008
University of Windsor’s Leave the Pack Behind (LTPB) team capped off National Non-Smoking Week recently with the successful promotion of its Let’s Make a Deal contest.
Funded by the Government of Ontario and Health Canada’s Tobacco Control Programme, LTPB teams exist at 37 college and university campuses across Canada to promote smoke-free post-secondary institutions.
 “It’s a research project through Brock University, and the University of Windsor was one of the pilots for the program, which started in 2000,” said Judi Wilson, health promotion nurse for Student Health Services. >>
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Growing at-risk groups for eating disorders: men and children
By Kate Hargreaves
Lance Writer
February 6, 2008
Student Health Services hopes to aid in the fight against eating disorders, which have the highest fatality rate of any mental illness, through its Eating Disorder Awareness Week from Feb. 3-9.
“The theme of the week is ‘Beauty Starts from Within,’” said health promotion nurse, Judi Wilson, of Student Health Services.
Student Health Services is collaborating with the Bulimia Anorexia Nervosa Association (BANA) and the Womyn’s Centre for the seventh annual information campaign. The goal is to encourage people to be happy with their bodies and also aware of the media’s influence in defining beauty. >>
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