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Tiananmen Square memorial returns to Keele campus
published June 26, 2012
It was a mystery that left many in the York community scratching their heads. The Goddess of Democracy, a Keele campus landmark for nearly 21 years, disappeared from its longtime home in the student centre late last August. The absence of the statue—erected in memoriam to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre—was immediately » more
Show and tell: Academic innovation at York
published May 23, 2012
A day-long event held on May 9 at York University’s Keele campus was a show and tell of epic proportions. The results of 39 projects supported by the Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) were presented to the University community during the inspiring celebration, which featured a virtual symphony of multimedia, a dizzying » more
Glendon is growing: Centre of Excellence for French-language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education opens
published May 22, 2012
The Glendon campus of York University really is an oasis: not only a natural oasis in the midst of bustling, urban Toronto but also an oasis of French and bilingual culture and education in southern Ontario. Thanks to a $20-million investment by the Government of Ontario, the oasis is growing. The » more
Students expand Wikipedia’s feminist history record, take on the online encyclopedia’s gender gap
published May 3, 2012
Although students are usually told to steer clear of Wikipedia, that was not the case for those in last term’s seminar course, The Politics of the Canadian Women’s Movement. Instead, the students were charged with rewriting feminist history in the free online encyclopedia. Undergraduate students in the fourth-year political science and » more
Bye-bye bottled water: York ‘takes back the tap’
published April 19, 2012
York University is phasing out the sale of bottled water. The move to phase out the sale of bottled water on the Keele and Glendon campuses by September 2015 was announced on April 17. As part of the announcement, York President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri and Vanessa Hunt, president of the York Federation » more
