Fanshawe – From My Bottom Step

As the first presenter at yesterday’s ETC public participation meeting about the City’s proposed new noise by-law took his seat and began to speak, I struggled vainly to hear what was being said. The music was simply too loud.

Committee Chair Paul Hubert clearly wasn’t amused by the disturbance or by Dennis Pellarin’s “I hope I don’t get fined for it” quip, but once I came to realize that the noise had been a tactic emanating from a small stereo, his point had been made. He and other members of the Town and Gown coalition are concerned about the impact that loud music has upon nearby residents of the university.

But that wasn’t Mr. Pellerin’s only concern. Because even though the proposed new by-law may provide some enhanced capability in the ability to lay charges based upon quantitative decibel readings, there is much contained in it that may not be so positive. Continue Reading

Thu 8/28/08 by Kevin Van Lierop in Politics 2

Students: The Other Perspective

Its that time of year again, its officially (ok, well not officially yet) fall and more importantly back to school time. First and foremost please remember to slow down when you see children and school buses. They are our future and we need to protect them. Drive cautiously and remember the rules of the roads.
Students, some people hear that word and they just cringe. Many people when they hear … Continue Reading

Wed 11/28/07 by Greg Fowler in Lifestyle 0

Molson Promo Dissed

It appears that Molson Canada felt compelled to end it’s ‘Campus Challenge’ … Continue Reading

Thu 11/22/07 by Greg Fowler in Lifestyle, Politics 0

Off-campus Student Conduct Codes

It seems that the Police Service Board rejected Councillor Bernie MacDonald’s proposal at it’s meeting last week, preferring to ask that UWO and Fanshawe apply their student codes of conduct off-campus (read more: ‘Police Board wants off-campus code’; Mike Hayes; The Gazette; 2007/11/22).
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2007/11/28 – The Gazette: Police hitting the streets…