NEWSWIRE

Chase winter away at the 2007
Health Fair

In collaboration with the Wellness Steering Committee, York’s Department of Health Education & Promotion is gearing up for Health Fair 2007 – an annual event full of ideas and information on how to live a healthier life. This year’s fair, takes place on Feb. 21, from 10am-3pm, in Central Square and has something for everyone including informative exhibits by students, staff and faculty, live fitness demonstrations and chances to win great prizes including an iPod.

Meet York President-designate Mamdouh Shoukri
All members of the York community are invited to attend a reception to welcome President-designate Mamdouh Shoukri on Tuesday, Feb. 20, from 5 to 6:30pm, in the lobby of the Technology Enhanced Learning Building located on the Keele campus.

Women's Lions play for a spot at national finals
The sixth-ranked York Lions women’s basketball team is one win away from returning to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport National Championship. The Lions host the Queen’s Golden Gaels in the Ontario University Athletics East Final at 6pm, Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Tait McKenzie Centre.

Lions battle for end-of-season laurels
The York men's and women's varisty sports teams took on their provincial rivals this week as end-of--season action continued all week.

Chantel Dunn is remembered at memorial service
At a memorial Feb. 7 for Chantel Dunn, a York student who was the innocent victim of gun violence a year ago, students announced a scholarship and the York community pledged to install a commemorative bench in her name.

You could win an iPod Nano in healthy habits survey
Randomly selected York students will be invited, by email, to complete a National College Health Assessment Web Survey this week. If you are among the students invited to participate in the survey, you could win one of two iPod Nanos or one of five York Bookstore $50 gift certificates.

Join York's World Community Grid team today
York University is the first Canadian university to join the World Community Grid, a network of personal computers that can be put to work when they are idle to provide researchers with a readily available pool of processing power that can be used to solve macro research problems. Find out how you can join the York team in Campus Notes.

Atkinson students reach for the STARS
Atkinson’s Student and Alumni Relations (STARS) unit held two events recently to help new students ease into social and academic life on campus: an orientation designed to equip new students with the tools needed to excel in their first year, and a mix and mingle for students and upper-year student peer mentors.

Italian Studies celebrates its students
It was a celebration of excellence as faculty and students gathered in Founders College on Feb. 1 for the inaugural Italian Studies, Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics Awards Ceremony for 2005-2006.

HR students win varsity case competition
A team of York University human resource management students - Suman Seth, Harminder Singh and Mindy Aujla - won the annual case competition earlier this month against teams from Ryerson University and the University of Toronto.

Free the Children founder advocates universal primary education
Human rights advocate Craig Kielburger urged York Faculty of Education students to support the cause of universal primary education for children worldwide in a presentation to teacher candidates at the annual Faculty of Education Students' Association conference.

Career Centre supports students in their summer job search
Every year around this time, students start to wonder about their summer job possibilities. This year over 1,400 York students came out to the Underground on Feb. 6 to meet representatives from 32 organizations hiring for summer positions.

McLaughlin College launches winter-term talks today
Immigration and refugee lawyer Lorne Waldman kicks off the McLaughlin College Winter Term Lunch Talks series with a discussion about Maher Arar and the Fragility of Human Rights in Canada on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at 2pm.

Disability historian explores 'mad' people's history
Not until he was 27 did Geoffrey Reaume come out of the closet. The York critical disabilities and health ethics professor, now 44, disclosed to his thesis supervisor that he had been in a psychiatric hospital during his teens. It added credence to his proposal to do a PhD on life in a Toronto asylum – from the patients’ perspective.

Glendon Gallery presents Other Don Quixotes exhibit
York’s Glendon Gallery presents Other Don Quixotes, an exhibit of 50 posters by Spanish graphic artists featuring images of the legendary Cervantes character. The exhibit, which opens Monday, Feb. 19, commemorates the fourth centenary of Cervantes’ novel Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Israeli and Palestinian films draw big crowd
Nearly 200 people attended the Feb. 1-screening of Palestinian Mohammed Bakri’s film Since You’ve Been Gone and Israeli Yulie Cohen-Gerstel’s My Terrorist. Student peace group Shalom-Salam @ York organized the event, called Bakri and Cohen at York, and invited the two filmmakers, who both work in Israel and are friends, to the screening.

Fine Arts Festival is extended to three weeks
York's thriving fine arts community is poised to launch an extended three-week celebration in Accolade East on March 9, highlighting its resident talent and the new facilities through a multitude of public events spanning all the fine arts disciplines.

Recital series features music Faculty members
Clarinetist Patricia Wait will be the featured artist on Feb. 22 in the third concert of the York University Music Department's Faculty Recital Series. Joining her in a performance of 19th- and 20th-century European chamber music will be her faculty colleague Mark Chambers on cello and guest artist Elizabeth Acker on piano.

York takes the lead role in a new R & D consortium
York has received $300,000 in funding from the Ontario government to lead a unique public-private partnership that will help fuel the economic development of the GTA’s creative and entertainment industries: The Consortium on New Media, Creative, and Entertainment R&D in the Toronto Region (CONCERT).

Korea Japan Week celebrates two cultures
For a taste of Korean and Japanese cultures, come out and see martial arts demonstrations, dance performances and other events during Korea Japan Week at York Feb. 19-22.