The CAW Centre is not watching you By Hannah Larking News Editor October 22, 2008 The University of Windsor’s CAW Centre has been without quality security cameras for the last 10 months.
 Dale Coffin, general manager at the University of Windsor’s Student Alliance (UWSA), said that the quality of the current system is so poor that some cameras aren’t even recording.
“[The cameras will] freeze on a location, sometimes we get a static picture, sometimes just nothing. We have a number of cameras we’re just getting nothing at all from,” Coffin explained.
“The record quality is not very good … They’re not very effective at all,” Coffin said.
Currently Campus Community Police does not even have immediate access to the cameras; if they needed to, they would have to ask to view the footage. But Bob Cowper, director of Campus Community Police Services, assures they have not had reason to as of late. >> | The Lance oversight committee to supervise finances, operations By Hannah Larking
News Editor October 22, 2008 On Oct. 20 and 21, UWindsor’s full-time students elected five members to sit on an oversight committee that will be responsible for financial and operational matters concerning The Lance.
The decision to create the committee came as a result of students approaching the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance (UWSA) with concern. Tiffany Gooch, UWSA president, says the UWSA did not have to approve the referendum happening.
“[Approximately 500 students signed a petition saying that they wanted a referendum question to be posed to the campus, and then [the question] went to council for clarity and became a question at the last general election,” Gooch explained.
When the referendum passed, it became our responsibility to make it happen,” said Gooch. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | Bridging the gaps between gender and race By Hannah Larking News Editor October 22, 2008 There are still gaps between gender and race, and Uzma Shakir is coming to remind us of that.
Shakir is this year’s women’s studies distinguished visitor. She will be speaking at the Caboto Club on Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. – and she promises she’s never boring.
Shakir was born in Pakistan and raised by two conservative Muslim parents, and it’s partly her background that has prompted her to take interest in women’s issues.
The researcher and activist says that, among other things, she is particularly concerned with the impact that violence, inequality, immigration and racialization have on women and their level of choice in society – and she will be discussing how many of these issues relate to the various courses that students in women’s studies are enrolled in.
“Of course, being an immigrant, racialized woman myself, and working in the immigrant and refugee sector, I have had personal experiences that have given me some insight into some of these issues,” Shakir explained. >> |
