UWindsor pub, The Basement, closing: This time we're for real By Hannah Larking News Editor January 21, 2009 On Monday, Jan. 12, the University of Windsor’s student pub, The Basement, was officially approved for demolition by the board of governors and scheduled to take the last of its last calls on Friday, Feb. 27.
 The project was approved when the board members unanimously agreed that they could not even remember where the pub was located. A poll taken by the University of Windsor Students’ Alliance (UWSA) reinforced this claim.
Poll results indicated that 97 per cent of students did not know they even had a pub, while two per cent selected the “Oh yeah, the place that gave me the runs” option, and the remaining one per cent was attributed to Tiffany Gooch and Mohsin Khan, president and vice-president (university affairs) of the UWSA. >> | New medical school funding fallout By Ryan Rogers
Editor-in-Chief January 21, 2009 With the shiny new medical school up and running, despite still being under construction, the University of Windsor was dealt a blow when a major donor got cold feet and dropped out of negotiations.
 Everything was running smoothly until it was learned that one medical school student, Craig Campagna, accidently prescribed euthanasia, instead of Echinacea, for a patient with a common cold.
“It was a simple mistake,” defended Campagna, “I mean, they sound so much alike. They’re even beside each other in my textbook.”
The life of little Betty Buttons, only six years old, was spared by doctors at Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor after a real doctor realized that euthanasia was not the best course of action for her congested nasal passage. >>  | | Campus Kiss | | UWindsor board of governors approves tuition refunds By Billy Graham
Lance Writer January 21, 2009 On Wednesday, Jan. 14, the board of governors approved a motion to refund a portion of tuition due to last semester’s strike.
 Effective immediately, the motion allows for students to pick up cheques made out to 25 per cent of their tuition payment in the UWSA’s office. While some claim that this decision is not fiscally responsible, others claim that this is revolutionary.
The move has been considered groundbreaking by the student union at York University, who has been on strike for over a semester.
When asked whether they would follow suit and provide refunds to their students, president of York University, Mamdouh Shoukri, said “I’m not listening, la la la,” and cupped his hands over his ears.
“This is a great example of our university finally doing something that is just and fair,” stated board of governors’ member Omar Raza. >> |
