Volume 96, Issue 29
Tuesday October 22, 2002
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TODAY'S COMIC

LAST UPDATED: Tuesday October 22, 2002 - 2:30 p.m.

Admissions crunch: entry bar raised

Ontario high school students not on the honour roll may have a tough time getting into university next year due to the impending double cohort.



Prospective students may be screwed

Like an army of monkeys chasing a speeding banana truck, next year's crop of post-secondary applicants may face a losing battle.



Much like Hammer, it's Suarez time

Juan-Luis Suarez, a professor in Western's department of modern languages and literatures, has won the John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature, marking the third time in a decade that a department faculty member has won the prestigious award.



Tories pass bills to universities

Western will receive over $2.7 million to help prevent campus buildings from crumbling to the ground, according to yesterday's announcement by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

 

MORE NEWS HEADLINES:
> Eight spanking for TV Western
> News Briefs
> Clarification

©Ian Howes /Gazette
AS ALWAYS, THERE WAS A WIDE RANGE OF STUDENTS ON CAMPUS MONDAY, INCLUDING ONE VISITTHE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH. Proof at last that your dad was right when he said "the grass won't cut itself.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

You don't have to go all the way to New York City to enjoy Broadway's current hit revival Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim – it's playing right here at The Palace Theatre in London.


MORE A&E HEADLINES:

> CD REVIEW: Barbershop soundtrack
> MOVIE REVIEW: The Ring
> CD REVIEW: NQ Arbuckle
> 12 Questions: Not by Choice

SPORTS

Ottawa beats Western: Haylor still second best

Close, but no cigar.

Larry Haylor, head coach of the Western Mustangs football team, was one win away from surpassing Dave Knight's all-time Canadian Interuniversity Sport coaching wins record going into Saturday's game versus the University of Ottawa Gee Gee's – he's still waiting for that win.


MORE SPORTS HEADLINES:
> Sloppy Stangs save it for late
> Mustangs ram Ryerson

CAMPUS & CULTURE

C&C returns on Thursday!


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