UWSA by-election results ratified by council
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 28, 2009
The 2009 UWSA by-election results were officially ratified by council last Thursday, with very little debate or conflict.
 The election saw a significantly higher turnout than elections from previous years, with 1,201 votes cast - nearly 500 more than last year.
Chief returning officer Omar Raza attributes this to the different strategy of advertising during voting days which was adopted this year.
“We had a Promotions Team around campus, handing out lanyards, pens, and other swag, as well as talking to students about the election itself, and informing them of where they could go to receive more information,” he said.
“We also ran society elections along side the UWSA's election, reaching out to a greater number of students this way as well,” he added.
During the ratification meeting, the by-election was referred to as nearly flawless. >>
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UWindsor researcher highlights rare breast cancer strain
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 28, 2009
With the conclusion of breast cancer awareness month this week, one UWindsor researcher spent the month of October studying a rare type of breast cancer.
 Inflammatory breast cancer, (IBC), accounts for less than 5 per cent of diagnosed breast cancer in North America, according to professor Dora Cavallo-Medved. However, the five-year survival rate for IBC is under 50 per cent.
Curiously, IBC seems to have a higher predisposition in women of north African or Middle Eastern descent. Tunisian and Egyptian women are specific examples that have been cited. There is no knowledge, however, as to why this predisposition exists.
“Researchers are looking into genetic, environmental and viral influences,” said Cavallo-Medved.
The term “inflammatory” breast cancer can be a misnomer. >>
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Casinos should be less liable to addicts, says prof
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
October 28, 2009
According to professor Emir Mohammed of UWindsor’s law faculty, casinos should not be as liable to problem gamblers as the law currently dictates.
The problem outlined in his essay, which will be published in “Windsor Review of Legal and Social Justices,” partially stems from the equivocal nature of the term “problem gambling.”
“I think that ‘problem gambling’ is an equivocal term. It could mean someone who simply has a ‘problem’ gambling. Or it could mean someone with an actual pathological or psychiatric condition. The spectrum of gamblers covered under the term ‘problem gambling’ is extremely broad,” said Mohammed.
Mohammed explains that though it seems easy to make a scapegoat out of casinos, this does not help the true problem gambler.
“It may seem socially or politically convenient to litigate and blame ‘gaudy’ casinos, but this does not address the problem gambler's own compulsion and ‘responsibility’ in the matter,” he said. >>
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