Wildeman reveals plan to revive campus
By Leanna Roy
News Editor
May 18, 2010
UWindsor president Alan Wildeman recently announced a plan to battle the university’s budget crisis.
 University staff members were anxious to hear Wildeman’s plans for the university’s budget and general realignment.
Wildeman began by explaining the newly drafted strategic plan as “something that mobilizes everybody in the university," that must be developed through consultation and reality.
The biggest issue that Wildeman pointed out is budgetary, explaining that while other universities have seen a steady growth in enrolment along with government funding to parallel that growth, the University of Windsor is experiencing a standstill.
“The reality is, we’ve flat lined,” explained Wildeman.
He believes the revenue will reach $211 million, a 3.3 per cent annual increase.
In comparison to other Ontario universities, this growth rate is extremely low according to Wildeman and that is the key issue that the University of Windsor faces. >>
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Campus Technology Day gives locals a reason to Tweet
By Leanna Roy
News Editor
May 18, 2010
In 2007, the University of Windsor held it’s second annual Campus Technology day and in an ironic twist of fate, a power outage struck and the conference was forced to proceed it’s celebration of technology, without power.
 That year, the University of Windsor proved to be a leader in technological innovation as the first school in Canada to become completely wireless.
This year's event was kicked off with a few words by the day’s keynote speaker George Siemens, a researcher at the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University.
Siemens reviewed prominent technology trends and suggested ways in which they will alter the university's teaching, learning, and research practices.
The day was filled with conferences ideally focused on some of these trends including the use of Twitter, Beyond What My Cat Ate, which focused on the idea that social networking tools have much more to offer than casual communication. >>
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Profs debate conflicts of science, religion
By Leanna Roy
News Editor
May 18, 2010
Projects ranging from robots that throw basketballs to Lego pinball machines were featured at the family friendly Science Rendezvous last weekend. The UWindsor hosted event was forced inside the confines of the Winclare room in Vanier Hall due to rain, but the show went on.
The main event featured four professors across Ontario who argued to prove whether a conflict exists between science and religion.
Paul Basset, president of Ontario Humanists Association defended science alongside the dean of graduate studies, Lois Smedick to prove that there is indeed a conflict. On the opposite end, Stanley Cunningham, Professor Emeritus and a past-Head of the Department of Communications Studies at the University of Windsor and Stuart Selby, a member of the University of Windsor’s Department of Philosophy argued that there is no conflict between science and religion.
At the beginning of the debate, the moderator asked the participating audience what their take on the matter was and the outcome of the poll was an even split.
Basset began his opening statement with the belief that religion always has and always will continue to conflict with one another. >>
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