Syphilis spike reaches UWindsor campus
By Leanna Roy, Lance Writer, D'Arcy Bresson, Editor in Chief
March 31, 2010
An alarming resurgence of syphilis across the nation has reached the UWindsor campus.
 This marks the first time in 20 years UWindsor Health Educator Judi Wilson has seen a campus case of the sexually transmitted infection known to cause brain damage and congenital birth defects.
Wilson explained that since 1991, there have been no reported cases of the sexually transmitted infection (STI) but has confirmed that syphilis has reached the University of Windsor campus.
The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care flagged the medical community throughout Ontario about an increase in infectious syphilis cases in Ontario late in 2009. Windsor-Essex County shows no exception to this outbreak and the Windsor Essex County Health Unit has the statistics to prove it, reporting that 29 cases of syphilis in 2008 has risen to 37 cases in 2009.
Wilson says the increase of syphilis cases in Canada has been "exponential" since the late 1990s. >>
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CFS releases task force report on campus racism
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
March 31, 2010
Tderation of Students (CFS) released a 48-page report regarding on-campus racism in Canada, and the results are disappointing, or so it seems.
 UWindsor’s office of human rights, equity and accessibility defines racism as “the belief that some people are superior or inferior to others because they possess certain biological and cultural traits. It classifies people according to their skin colour, facial features and hair textures.”
The report details 79 recommendations to combat racism, yet UWSA vice-president university affairs (VPUA) Robert Woodrich is at least partially skeptical of the claims.
“The findings of the report are entirely anecdotal. While this doesn't mean that the findings are necessarily untrue, it does mean that they are unverifiable. As such, the UWSA cannot act on these specific instances although we welcome anyone experiencing racism to come forward and speak confidentially with an academic advocate,” he said. >>
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Male anxiety affecting exercise habits
By Michal Tellos
News Editor
March 31, 2010
Karen Maini, a master’s student in the human kinetics faculty, is examining men with exercise anxiety.  No, she isn’t staring them down to make them more nervous, she’s studying them to see what can be done to combat the anxiety.
Maini and her team of professor-advisors, UWindsor’s Krista Brock and Brock University’s Kimberley Gammage, identified five facets of male anxiety toward lifting weights: someone hovering over them waiting to use equipment, someone commenting on their appearance, difficulty with lifting a certain amount of weight, having their form corrected by a trainer, and exercising in the presence of an attractive female.
“Manipulation of these conditions proved to affect the level of anxiety.
We manipulated these 5 aspects differently for 2 groups in order to influence how anxious they felt. For example, one group had a female trainer and were told they had to lift an unrealistic amount of weight,” said Maini.>>
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