UWindsor helps Haiti relief
By Stephanie Saunders
Lance Writer
February 3, 2010
Generous donations from University of Windsor students have proved that you don’t have to be George Clooney to help Haiti.  Relief efforts have taken place around campus but it hasn’t been enough according to Dane Macri, president of Speak Up and former visitor of Haiti in 2007 and 2009.
Macri hopes people will not lose sight of the country long after the buzz is gone.
“Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere...it literally looked like an earthquake happened then [2007], I can only imagine what it is like now.”
Since the quake occurred on Jan. 12, several student groups collaborated in a bake sale raising over $900. Collection bins for the Canadian Red Cross have also been made available in the UWSA office on the second floor of the CAW, and another at the information desk on the first floor until Jan. 31.
Regarding future involvement with Haiti, Macri, along with other student groups will eventually come together to raise awareness by holding a candle light vigil in remembrance. There are also dinners being organized to which the money would lend itself to a possible orphanage. >>
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UWSA delegates' mixed reactions may end CFS membership
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
February 3, 2010
After the UWSA sent a handful of delegates to the provincial conference for the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), council will have more to think about when they once again discuss membership this week.
The meeting, held in Markham, took place after some heated discussion at a recent UWSA council meeting where the group ultimately decided not to leave CFS just yet.
Faculty of arts and social sciences representative Thomas Sasso, a vocal critic of the CFS after the national meeting, said this time around there was a different tone.
“We were able to talk to delegates from many different schools to try and understand the motions, and we also took the opportunity to discuss our position in return,” he said, adding that he considered this conference more of a success than the national one, despite audiences still not being fully receptive to the UWSA’s ideas.
However, Sasso’s views remain unchanged, and he still deems the CFS “an ineffective organization that fails to recognize the concerns of some of its members,” adding that the negatives far outweigh the positives of remaining with the CFS. >>
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CARE profs will try to improve police cars
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
February 3, 2010
Two UWindsor professors at the Centre for Automotive Research and Engineering (CARE) will lead research projects to make police cars more effective and efficient.
 Colin Novak will investigate a relatively new type of siren technology, while Peter Frise will look into making cruisers more fuel and energy efficient.
Novak explains that in recent years, drivers have had more trouble hearing normal, high frequency police sirens, largely due to the sound packaging that newly manufactured cars have.
“They are quieter than they used to be from exterior noise because of the under-pad coating and such. These sound packages attenuate high frequency noise quite well,” he said, adding that some accidents across the country are attributed to this.
As a result, an American company developed a low frequency, modulating siren called the rumbler, which more easily penetrates modern cars because of the amplitude of low frequency. The rumbler would primarily be employed when driving through intersections during an emergency.
Because the sound is modulated, people within a reasonable distance of the rumbler will feel it as well as hear it, to a degree. >>
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