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westernnews.ca PM 41195534 September 18, 2014 / Vol. 50 No. 23 BRANDON VANDECAVEYE // SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS BRANDON VANDECAVEYE Western’s newspaper of record since 1972 2 Western News | September 18, 2014 upload your photos Coming Events SEPT. 18-24 # tag with #westernu @westernuniversity flickr.com/groups/western/ 18 // THURSDAY WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL Bringing a message of humanity Humber at Western. HOMECOMING 2014 3 p.m. Relive Your Western Experience. west- ernhomecoming.uwo.ca. WOMEN’S SOFTBALL Sept. 18-21. Waterloo at Western. 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. MCINTOSH GALLERY Rob Nelson: Photographs 1977-2014. WOMEN’S SOCCER Janet Werner: Another Perfect Day. Windsor at Western. Free admission. mcintoshgallery.ca. 6 p.m. Runs until Nov. 1. MEN’S SOCCER LEARNING SKILLS SERVICES Windsor at Western. Maximize Your Memory. sdc.uwo.ca/ 8:15 p.m. learning. 12:30-1:30 p.m. UCC 147A. DON WRIGHT FACULTY OF MUSIC STUDENT SUCCESS CENTRE Breakaway. Cutting-edge music for WORKSHOP two trumpets featuring guest artist Neil What to say after hello? Planning on Mueller, Central Michigan University. attending the career fair? Get the 8 p.m. von Kuster Hall. competitive edge by attending this workshop. Learn how to introduce yourself, ask employers relevant ques- 20 // SATURDAY tions, how to follow up with employers and more. westerncareercentral.ca. THE MODERN AGE OF COMIC 12:30-1:30 p.m. UCC 315. BOOKS Western Libraries, 6th Annual Home- PHYSICS AND coming event. westernconnect.ca/ ASTRONOMY SEMINAR comicbooks. J.L. (Iain) Campbell, University of 9-11:30 a.m. WSS 2130. Guelph. The Curiosity rover alpha par- ticle x-ray spectrometer: mineralogy ROWING and geochemistry challenge physics. Western Invitational. 1:30 p.m. PAB 100. 8 a.m. MIGRATION AND ETHNIC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL ADELA TALBOT // WESTERN NEWS RELATIONS COLLOQUIUM Alumni at Thames Hall. SERIES 9 a.m. Renowned primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall addressed a packed Alumni Hall Thursday Program orientation and information night. “Each of you makes a difference. Together, we can make a world we won’t be ashamed to leave our session. Stephanie Bangarth, director SCHULICH SCHOOL OF grandchildren,” Goodall said. Read an exclusive interview with Goodall on page 18. of Collaborative Graduate Program MEDICINE & DENTISTRY in Migration and Ethnic Relations. Re- Dean’s Distinguished Lecture. Brad freshments 3:30 p.m. SSC 5230. Thompson, CEO of Oncolytics Biotech WOMEN’S HOCKEY CONSULT THE huron.uwo.ca. 4-5 p.m. SSC 5220. Inc. The challenges facing the oncol- Carleton at Western. EXPERTS SESSIONS 12:30-1:30 p.m. Huron A18. ogy pharmaceutical industry and why Offers support to students who are SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION 2 p.m. Canadian patients may never benefit writing research proposals for external ITALIAN CONVERSATION GROUP SESSIONS from products developed in Canada. scholarship competitions. No registra- 2:30-4 p.m. UC 117. Offers guidance to students on how to westernconnect.ca/deans-lecture. 22 // MONDAY tion is required. apply competitively for external schol- 9-10:30 a.m. DSB 1002. 4-6 p.m. IGAB 1N05. LEARNING SKILLS SERVICES arships. No registration is required. LEARNING SKILLS SERVICES Transitioning to Graduate School. sdc. 4-6 p.m. IGAB 1N05. CROSS COUNTRY Reading Strategies for International STUDENT SUCCESS uwo.ca/learning. Western International. Students. sdc.uwo.ca/learning. CENTRE WORKSHOP 2:30-4 p.m. WSS 3134. 19 // FRIDAY 10 a.m. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. UCC 147A. International Students and Job Search Success. Find a job in Canada. Learn TOASTMASTER’S CAMPUS MEN’S FOOTBALL ARABIC CONVERSATION GROUP DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY about effective skills needed for in- COMMUNICATORS AND CELL BIOLOGY Toronto at Western. 5-7:30 p.m. UC 222. creasing your success to obtain em- Build your confidence in public speak- 1 p.m. ployment in this country. Details on Scott Ryan, University of Guelph. ing. 9119.toastmastersclubs.org/. Con- Canadian immigration regulations. Oxidative Stress in a Patient Derived tact Donna Moore, [email protected] or WOMEN’S HOCKEY 23 // TUESDAY westerncareercentral.ca. Model of Parkinson’s Disease. 85159. Ottawa at Western. 4:30-6:30 p.m. UCC 147A/B. 12 -1 p.m. UCC 147B. 12:30 p.m. MSB 282. SENIOR ALUMNI PROGRAM 4 p.m. LEARNING SKILLS SERVICES DON WRIGHT Solution in Sight. Curing blindness in MEN’S BASKETBALL FACULTY OF MUSIC WOMEN’S RUGBY developing countries. Martin Spencer, Strategies for Psychology 1000. sdc. St. Clair College at Western. Laurier at Western. ophthalmologist, Western. uwo.ca/learning. 7 p.m. A selection of Romantic piano mas- 9:30 a.m. McKellar Room, UCC. 5:30-6:30 p.m. HSB 240. terpieces, performed by Western’s 3 p.m Please send submissions to comin- Stéphan Sylvestre. LEARNING SKILLS SERVICES 12:30 p.m. von Kuster Hall. MEN’S RUGBY 24 // WEDNESDAY [email protected]. Laurier at Western. Successful Time Management. sdc. CONSULT THE EXPERTS 5 p.m uwo.ca/learning. 1:30-2:30 p.m. WSS 3134. THE CHINESE PROGRAM AT SESSIONS HURON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Offers support to students who are 21 // SUNDAY GERMANY CONVERSATION Lunch and conversation. Anyone writing research proposals for external GROUP wishing to speak Chinese and meet scholarship competitions. No registra- MEN’S BASEBALL 1:30-2:30 p.m. UC 207. people who study Chinese at Huron tion required. is welcome. Bring your own lunch and York at Western. 1-3 p.m. IGAB 1N05. join the conversation. Email hwu1@ 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. Western News | September 18, 2014 3 Books New book celebrates www.CanadianPsoriasisNetwork.com Western Engineering’s history, traditions FREE INFORMATION SESSION Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. BY JASON WINDERS Snacks will be served at 6:30 p.m. and the conference will start at 7:00 p.m. IT’S A STORY 60 years in the making. And Peter Castle, BESc’61, Delta Armouries PhD’69, has had a front-row seat for most of it. So, when it came to find- 325 Dundas St ing an author to pen the history of London, ON N6B 1T9 Western’s Faculty of Engineering, the choice was obvious. “Literally, everybody in the book I have interacted with or known, SPEAKERS many of them were, or still are, good Dr. Lyn Guenther, MD FRCPC friends,” Castle said. “Let’s just say, I Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Western University knew all the characters.” President Guenther Research Inc. Released this fall, Expansion & Innovation: The Story of Western Brenda Spinozzi, Patient Advocate Engineering, 1954-1999 walks readers from the early days as a department, to becoming a modern engineer- ing faculty with graduate programs, Link to Web site for registration: research centres and institutes. Using www.reconnectingu.ca each dean’s reign as a marker, the book brings that history to life through or by phone 1-819-743-7197 the memories of faculty, staff and alumni who helped shape the faculty and build its reputation. This conference is made possible with the support of AbbVie And, rest assured, the book does not forget the faculty’s proud history of pranks. From an observatory dome painted as a pumpkin to turning the Middlesex College clock face into a Mickey Mouse watch, the pranks – and their perpetrators – are all here. “Nobody wants to see us encour- aging pranks,” Castle said with a laugh. “But there is no way you can JASON WINDERS // WESTERN NEWS suppress it.” Western Engineering professor emeritus Peter Castle, BESc’61, PhD’69, Although its release is timed to has penned Expansion & Innovation: The Story of Western Engineering, the faculty’s 60th anniversary this fall, 1954-1999. The book will be released this fall. the book only encompasses the first 45 years, taking readers through the end of R. Mohan Mathur’s time as the faculty’s fourth dean from 1987-1999. the book. And circumstances,” Castle said. “The fascinating thing for me, hav- Several years ago, longtime West- Although the book failed to sur- ing grown up through it as a student ern Engineering professor George prise Castle that much, he treasured and a faculty member, a lot didn’t Emmerson, who taught at the uni- reliving the journey. really twig until I started this research,” versity from 1959-85, wrote a history “I have been close enough to the Castle said. “As you live through it, it of the first 25 years, a wonderful, per- scene that I didn’t find any real sur- is hard sometimes to understand how sonal account of the faculty and its prises, no hidden skeletons or any- significant some things were at that people. Castle used that unreleased thing like that,” he said. “All in all, time. In hindsight, that insight comes text as a basis for much of his writing it was a very pleasant job. From my through clearly.” on the early years. Hence, Emmerson point in my career, to look back and And Castle has seen it all – or nearly is credited as a co-author of a book say ‘I was part of that,’ and to recon- all. released 13 years after his death. nect with so many people, it was a real Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in “I was struggling early on with the pleasure.” 1939, Castle graduated from Western book to try and see how I could best Castle cautioned, however, that the as gold medalist in electrical engi- weave in his material without it being book, like its subject, is never done. neering as a member of the fourth blatant plagiarism,” said Castle, who “The problem with a project like class in Engineering Science.