UWSA by-elections now in campaign period
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
September 30, 2009
The campaigning period for the 2009 UWSA by-election officially opened last Friday, and it will carry through to Oct. 5.
 This year’s electoral process has seen a few changes from last year.
Chief returning officer (CRO) Omar Raza has been the UWSA Board of Governors representative for the last two years, and he stresses that experience within the electoral system has made a big difference.
“Last year the CRO had never ran a UWSA election. If I had to look at all the stuff fresh, it would have been a bit much, but we know exactly what candidates want and need to hear, so we’re able to put that out there right away,” he said.
Raza has addressed several of the contentious issues that followed the UWSA general election last semester.
Among the most important of these is the presence of an administrative log.
“This time we have a full log of who is accessing the system. You didn’t know who was going in and deleting candidates, because as the CRO I have all the information and I can easily go and not change the votes, but change a candidate’s name for example,” he said. >>
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Tuition fighters hold AGM, nobody comes
By Victoria Faraci
Lance Writer
September 30, 2009
“Drop Fees, education is a right for all,” a slogan that cannot be missed on signs and post cards around the university.
The drop fees coalition, a small organization of willing students fighting for the end of tuition hikes, held their annual general meeting last Thursday.
The drop fees campaign was designed to make students aware of their important role in the fight against increasing tuition.
The purpose of this campaign is “not to bash the university, but to get students informed and mobilized” said group chairperson Lauren Quinn, a post-graduate of the university now attending the faculty of education.
“Students are misinformed,” she said.
The Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is an organization that provides students with an effective and united voice.
CFS is the lobby group behind the campaign enabling students to speak up and take charge. It is made up of over 500,000 students from more than 80 university and college students' unions across Canada.
The University of Windsor is among a large group of Canadian universities lobbying to have their voice heard by premier Dalton McGuinty when he makes plans for the tuition framework of next year.
Quinn doesn’t believe that tuitions hikes will cease without mass student involvement. >>
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Law prof says free market preys on Africa's weak societies
By Leanna Roy
Lance Writer
September 30, 2009
In the year 2000, leaders of the United Nation adopted the Millennium Declaration, which is a targeted list of developmental goals to be reached by the year 2015.
 These Millennium Developmental Goals (MDGs) include universal education, gender equality, child health, maternal health, combating aids and creating environmental and agricultural sustainability.
In the Millennium Developmental Goals Report 2009, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has reported that progress toward these goals has slowed down due to the global economic and food crisis.
University of Windsor law professor Paul Ocheje believes the crisis stems from the effects of Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) implemented by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Ocheje says these policies are created to allow African countries loans by making it possible for them to reduce interest on existing loans.
However, Ocheje suggests that it is the SAPs that have intensified poverty in African counties.
He has inferred that SAPs have been imposed on the impoverished African society “because they need constant infusion of foreign capital,” and have not supplied sufficient relief of poverty.
Ocheje explains that the conditions which precede SAPs are failing neoliberalistic strategies to solve food and economic crises, including free trade, rationalization of civil services, free market and privatization. >>
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