BoD closes out 2009
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
December 2, 2009
Tuesday, Nov. 6 saw the final UWSA Board of Directors (BoD) meeting of the year, and it was a lengthy one.
BoD manages the corporate affairs of the UWSA, including but not limited to matters of primarily legal, financial, staff, business enterprise, and services nature.
The board, comprised of six UWindsor students, meets bi-weekly during each semester of the school-year.
The final meeting of 2009 was a lengthy one, according to UWSA president Mohsin Khan, because of the number of things on the agenda.
This meeting was another lengthy one, because there were a number of items on the agenda that Board wanted to discuss fully,” said Khan.
These items included executive responsibility, executive reports, changes to funding forms, and the Pub, which has a long-standing financial debt to the UWSA, as it continuously renews loans in order to remain open.
The meeting also saw funding requests, which must be heard by BoD, and the general manager report, which is presented at the end of every year.
The meeting was not exactly as Khan had expected, however, with less people asking for money than he had anticipated.
“At the last scheduled meeting, I fully expected a number of student clubs to ask for money, however this was not the case. The only big regularly scheduled thing was the general manager’s report, and that is normally given around this time of the year,” said Khan. >>
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Windsor to host 2010 engineering conference
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
December 2, 2009
The Windsor Chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) will play host to the group’s 30th annual Canadian conference.
The event, which has been in the works for about two years, is scheduled to take place from Jan. 14 – 17, and is expected to draw over 300 students from across Canada and put over $2 million into Windsor’s economy, although hosting the conference is entirely voluntary.
In keeping with the changing demands of the industry, the theme of this year’s conference is “innovations, opportunities, and challenges for today’s engineers.”
Founded in 1948, IIE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial engineering.
Each chapter of the organization must contain at least 25 members to be chartered, although universities can have as few as 10 to be chartered.
The conference will aim to educate students on the industry, provide an environment where new ideas will be shared, and reward the best candidates through real-world theoretical competitions, which will often involve applying traditional industrial engineering approaches to non-traditional situations.
Further, the conference will have speakers from industries including the healthcare, automotive, telecommunications, aerospace, energy, and food and chemical sectors. >>
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Student concerns heading into fall exams
By Madeline MacIsaac, Robert Woodwich
Lance Writers
December 2, 2009
In the last few weeks, some additional academic concerns and questions aside from exam scheduling procedures and grade appeals have sprung up.
In this article, along with Reshma Kishnani, we’ll be addressing the most common of these issues.
Kishnani is an academic advocate with the UWSA, and she provides solutions for some potentially serious problems.
The university’s new policy regarding the H1N1 flu virus has left some students confused, and this can have an unwelcome outcome if misunderstood.
However, Kishnani makes clear that the policy is meant to help contain the spread of a pandemic, not to help us skip classes.
“The H1N1 policy was designed to accommodate students feeling ill and for general public safety,” explains Kishnani. “If a student feels sick is and going to apply the H1N1 policy to their symptoms then the policy deems that they stay home - which means not being present on campus.”
Kishnani goes further in revealing that students can be punished for coming to school on the day that they fill-out the online H1N1 form, although the policy can also be used in a student’s appeal if it is relevant and will be helpful to their case.
The form and all other official details can be found at: http://uwindsor.ca/h1n1/.
Questions surrounding the university’s policy on grades based upon participation have also been emerging.
We’ve heard rumours circulating that participation can account for anywhere from 5 per cent to 20 per cent of your final grade. >>
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