UWindsor alum travels to Mecca for grad research
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 7, 2009
A few years ago UWindsor graduate Leni Lebherz made a decision about how he wanted to live his life by reverting to the Islamic faith.
 Now he is combining this passion with a master’s thesis.
Lebherz, now a student at Royal Roads University, is currently beginning work on a thesis in international relations that deals with people who convert to Islam, with a focus on converts with Christian backgrounds.
He himself has a Christian background, as his grandmother was a Christian. He is Muslim on his mother’s side, which is from Pakistan.
To help give him a practical knowledge of the topic, Lebherz recently took a trip to Mecca, the holiest city of Islam, along with several other converts. >>
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UWSA would fight any frat party sanctions
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 7, 2009
UWindsor’s Delta Chi fraternity has been the centre of attention in the last few weeks, as on Sept. 25 they hosted a controversial keg party at their Mill Street frat house.
The party drew debate in the days following because of its supposedly high level of noise late into the night, and the fact that alcohol was allegedly being served until early morning hours.
A large amount of Windsor police officers were on the scene for several hours, and they made three arrests by the time they had left.
The party was the subject of discussion at the following Windsor city council meeting, where Ward 2 councilor Ron Jones raised the issue of sanctioning students for off-campus activities.
Mayor Eddie Francis also expressed anger at the party for straining police resources.
Calls to the mayor's office for comment were not returned. >>
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UWindsor prof hopes to cleanse great lakes
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 7, 2009
Years of research may have finally paid off for a UWindsor professor and several of his former students.
 Niharendu Biswas, professor and senior associate dean of engineering, initiated research years ago that would help clean up the Detroit River, and construction based on their model could start as early as this winter.
Biswas and his team have been studying storm water mixing with raw sewage during times of heavy rainfall. If the rainfall is too heavy, water treatment plants cannot handle the sudden influx of water, and it simply gets diverted to different areas.
Unfortunately, in Windsor-Essex county it gets diverted either back to the Great Lakes, or to the Detroit River, and storm water can be a major pollutant of both. There are impurities, often, in both the sewage and the storm water. >>
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