Volume 96, Issue 75
Wednesday February 12, 2003
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LAST UPDATED: Wednesday February 12, 2003 - 12:50 p.m.

Western's VP-administration, Peter Mercer, has decided to step down after eight years in the position.

"I had contemplated this for some time," Mercer said.

"There's a natural rhythm to life in administration," he said, adding it is common for individuals to return to teaching or private life.

Yesterday's media forum saw six University Students' Council presidential candidates entertain the masses with dancing, impressions and jokes.

The forum was held yesterday afternoon in the University Community Centre atrium, providing an opportunity for campus media to question the candidates on their platforms.

Computer nerds beware – the cosmetics industry is invading your domain.

L'Oreal Canada has developed "E-strat," an Internet-based competition that tests participants' abilities to manage PRIMA, a simulated cosmetics company.

Drunk kids be warned: Western is ready for you.

A paper presented last Friday to the Council of Ontario Universities by Michael Kennedy, a lawyer representing the Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie firm, examined liability to the universities' representatives in regards to the upcoming double cohort.

They got $27 billion and they still want more.

In the wake of the Romanow Report, the federal and provincial governments finally struck a health care deal at the First Ministers Meeting last Wednesday.

Sigultus is not a rare STD; it's that socially embarrassing bodily function, the dreaded hiccup.

A new theory regarding the source of the hiccup was published in the journal BioEssays in February. The article, entitled "A phylogenic hypothesis for the origin of hiccough," discusses the development of the hiccup as an evolutionary process.

It's that time again – with University Students' Council presidential elections are well under way, The Gazette delivers its annual candidate brain teaser. This year, the presidential bachelors are all taking a chance and vying for the heart of the number one bachelorette: Western's student body.

Developing the GLOBE internationally... Threatening democracy... Teachers deserve awards too... War sucks and so do you if you don't protest...