week of november 25th 2012
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Still need a placement? Looking to get some more volunteer hours? Perhaps a part-time job? Do you have a
passion for sports? The Community Outreach Program is looking for you. The Community Outreach Program is a
new program created by the Athletics & Recreation department. The program works to create a relationship
between Laurier Brantford students and local sports organizations in the community. Currently we have more than
a dozen volunteer positions open with more coming in. Check out lbstudentaffairs.ca/athletics to find the
Community Outreach Program and see what interests you. If you have any questions, please e-mail Ahmed Minhas
at [email protected] or Greg Stewart at [email protected]
Wednesday, November 28 1:30 – 2:30 PM, Nipissing Darling room 110. Whether you’re applying for an alternative
practicum placement, summer job, or you’re graduating and applying for your first teaching job, this workshop is
for you! If you’re still using the same resume you developed in high school, it likely will need major updating to
compete in today’s job market. Come to this workshop and develop a resume that gets noticed! Learn how to
target your resume and present your skills effectively. We’ll offer tips on resume styles; formatting and layout; and
how to select appropriate content. Bring a printed version of your resume so you can make notes.
Wednesday, December 5 1:30 – 2:30 PM, Nipissing Darling room 110. What are principals really looking for from
future teachers? Join us as we discuss how to prepare for a successful job interview. We’ll show you how to: make
a positive first impression; present your best qualifications; formulate answers to common interview questions; &
offer you tips on how to reduce stress and maximize your performance.
Career Development Centre
SC Johnson Building, 2nd Floor
519.756.8228 ext. 5726
www.wlu.ca/career
The Offices of Teaching Support Services and the Associate Vice-President: Teaching and Learning are pleased to
invite you to the Brantford Teaching Event on Tuesday, December 4 in the Carnegie Building Foyer from 9 - noon.
The event theme of "Welcome to My Classroom" invites you to relive being a student again through the lens of an
educator. Participate in "real-life" mini lectures, activities, and/or demonstrations taught/facilitated by your
Brantford and Waterloo faculty colleagues from a variety of disciplines. When "class" is over, engage in dialogue
and ask questions about what you experienced and observed.
Take time from your busy schedule to engage in "good talk about good teaching" (Palmer, 1993). The two-part
interactive morning panel is designed to give you an opportunity to: consider various instructional ideas,
approaches, and strategies, identify and reflect upon new and shared insights to teaching, learning, and course
delivery, & contemplate how you might adapt what you learned or experienced to your own instructional practice.
To register and to view the agenda, go to: www.wlu.ca/events_detail.php?grp_id=12499&ev_id=9362.
The event is free to Laurier community members (faculty, staff, post-docs, students). External guests are welcome at
a charge of $10 per person. Refreshments will be provided at registration and at the midway break between parts
one and two of the panel.
For more information, contact Jeanette McDonald, Manager, Educational Development, at [email protected]
Join us for our annual $5 t-shirt sale! Just in time for
the holidays!
Thursday, November 29, 2012 from 10:00 am - 5:00
pm in RCW lobby.
For more details on this event and others in the near
future, check out our Facebook page “Stedman
Community Bookstore”.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 519-756-8034
Come on out to Social Justice Coalition's Spaghetti
Dinner on November 27 from 4-8pm in RCW! For $5
you will get:
Pasta with tomato sauce
Caesar salad
A roll
We will also be selling tickets for a 50/50 draw...for $1
per ticket, you have a chance to win half of the
proceeds from the draw! All proceeds will be going to
the purchase of Christmas hampers for needy families.
Tamara Enzel
Please join us for Laurier Brantford's first Holiday
card-making party for people who are incarcerated.
The idea is to make and send holiday cards to
imprisoned Canadians as part of a multi-city initiative
that is being organized/advertised through Facebook.
For more information, see the Facebook Page “Multi-
City Winter Holiday Card-Making Party for Prisoners!
Get involved”
The event will take place on December 3 from 4pm-
6pm in the GRH lounge (basement). Please sign up at
the U Desk.
In addition to holiday party staples (food, drinks,
holiday music), we will provide everything that is
needed to make holiday cards (markers, paper,
stencils). This event is public: we hope family, friends,
and people from the broader Brantford community
will join us. For more information please contact
Marcia Oliver at [email protected] or Jennifer Lavoie at
For complete details please visit:
www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2548&p=14873
DEADLINE: January 14, 2013
For complete details please visit:
www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2548&p=12017
DEADLINE: January 14, 2013
For complete details please visit:
www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2548&p=18078
DEADLINE: January 14, 2013
The application to graduate in the Spring 2013 ceremony
can be found online here:
www.wlu.ca/forms_detail.php?grp_id=1365&frm_id=496
The deadline to apply to graduate without the late fee is
January 15, 2013. A convocation fee of $22.70 will be ap-
plied to your account. Applications will be accepted be-
tween January 16 and April 15, but a fee of $80.65 will be
applied to your account ($22.70 + $57.95 late fee).
If you would like to submit an update for the Weekly
News, you can find the form HERE.
If you have pictures taken at a campus event, please
send them to [email protected] with some
information about the event that took place. Please
note that pictures will be included if space permits.
The Dean’s Honour Roll for 2011 - 2012 is now available! Recipients can pick up their certificates at the Dean’s
Office Reception Desk during office hours. For a detailed list of recipients please click HERE. The Dean’s Office is
located in RAC East 132 and is open Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Closed daily from 12:00-1:00 p.m.) To
verify yourself as a recipient, please present your One Card at pick-up.
We have new drop in hours for students in first year: no appointment necessary!
Monday morning
Wednesday afternoons
Friday all day
And don't forget, all Program Worksheets are now available at www.wlu.ca/brantford/advising
Advising is coming to the Residences. In the afternoon of Wednesday November 28 Academic Advising will be in
Lucy Marco Place to help students complete a program worksheet. More importantly- we will have snacks and
treats, from healthy to absolutely not healthy. For more information, please contact Jason Tackaberry at
Course Evaluations will be conducted in class during the last 2 weeks of term. Evaluations for Fall 2012 term
courses will commence November 19, 2012. Student responses to these anonymous questionnaires are summa-
rized in statistical form and used by the University in the assessment of teaching performance. It is vitally important
to both the University and the faculty member for students to provide good information about instructional perfor-
mance. Please take the completion of these forms as a very serious matter.
Thank you for your cooperation,
Ruth Cole
Administrative Assistant to the Dean
519-756-8228 x 5782
Do you need a stress reliever? Come on out to:
Wilkes Gym
4:30-5:30pm
Wednesday November 28 for ZUMBA Fundraiser event!
*We are raising money and accepting clothing, toy and school supply donations for Solidarity in Action programs
in Peru and Ecuador 2013! For more information, please contact [email protected]
Have you volunteered your time on campus? You can
now add it to your Co-Curricular Record (CCR)! The
CCR is a document that details a student’s extra
curricular activities associated with WLU which is great
to attach to a resume. For information on how to add
positions to the record, please watch our
VIDEO. If you have any questions, feel free to contact
PRISM funding is a pool of funding that is available to
those students, staff and faculty of campus groups
attempting to engage in diversity & respect-focused
programming for which other sources of funding are
not readily available. Requests to the PRISM fund will
be reviewed as they are received, however applicants
should allow 3-4 weeks for the funding request to
be reviewed and results released.
Students, staff and faculty interested in receiving
funding should complete the PRISM Fund
Application. For more information, please contact
Jessi Calberry at [email protected]
Campus in Action will be doing a Stocking Stuffer and
Craft Sale on November 28 in RCW at 10:00-3:00. We
will be selling handmade crafts (scarves, socks, slippers
and warm buddies for example) that are great for
stocking stuffers and gifts. Visit the group's Facebook
page to see future updates on this event and to see
what we are selling.
Caitlin Janzen, Kathy Pellin, Cassandra Jetter
STUDENT WELLNESS CENTRE OPEN DAILY 8:30-4:30
Clinic will be CLOSED Dec 21 and will re open January 2nd.
Isadora Chan & Rachel Fischer were the winners of a $25
gift card to our Bookstore! Both were participants in the
draw from our Healthy Sex & Relationships Fair hosted by
Health Services & Peer Educators.
Get Your FREE Annual Vaccination
Tips for getting flu shot:
Wear a T-shirt
Bring health card or UHIP/GuardMe card
If you have a fever, wait until symptoms improve
You’re required to wait 15 minutes after the injection
Walk-ins will be accommodated with priority to
appointments.
Physician appointments are offered daily by appointments
and walk-in (by order of priority). Chiropractic
appointments are offered on Mondays; treatment
approaches include interventions such as adjustments, soft
tissue therapy and exercise prescription. Massage therapy
appointments are available Tuesdays and Thursdays. For
more information or to book an appointment call ext. 5803
Fitting is now available on-site at Health Services through
Thompson Health Services. LB insurance and most private
insurance companies cover some or all of the cost of
custom orthotics. A physician referral is required. Call ext
5803 for more information and to book an appointment.
We offer free Nicotine Replacement Therapy, along with
health teaching and counselling.
2nd Floor, Student Centre
519-756-8228 ext 5803
This workshop is designed to help students learn strategies that will help them prepare for and write both objective
and essay style exams. Join us in Market Place room 115 on November 28 from 4:00 - 5:00 pm.
New Facilitated Study Group for EN204
Come to the Learning Services Centre room 115 at 11:30 on Friday November 30 to join our new FSG! This is the
perfect time to take part in a group discussion about class material.
It is the police of the Learning Services Centre not to assist students with take home exams, unless a professor has
given prior instructions to the centre staff to do so. Faculty can contact Jenna Olender directly at [email protected]
to give either specific students, or their entire class permission to use this service.
For the rest of this term Learning Services will be conducting an experiment that aims to show the wisdom of the
crowd. To partake in this experiment drop by the Learning Services Centre during regular hours and record your
guess of how many jellybeans are in the jar. For more information on this experiment search Youtube for "BBC -
The Wisdom of the Crowd".
Are you interested in travelling to Peru or Ecuador? Do you want to have a transformative two week volunteer
experience this summer? Would you like more information about this opportunity? Come out to the SIA
information sessions on Wed. November 28 at Noon or 3PM in RCW324 and learn about these great experienc-
es from an SIA representative.
Please contact [email protected] for more information.
We hope you were able to get your Spencer West ticket in time! The Sanderson Centre has completely sold out of
this exciting anniversary event. Thank you to everyone for your great support!
If you have any questions about any of the anniversary events, please contact Shawna Carroll at
[email protected] or 519-752-1524 ext. 7555.
For the most recent issue of the Nip News, please click here.
She:kon Sewakwe:kon! (Greetings to Everyone) Just a quick note out to our LB campus Aboriginal student group
that you will have FIRST DIBS today and tomorrow to respond to this notice and book your appointment for a free
20 minute foot massage OR a free, half-hour Life Reading next Thursday November 29th between 1 pm and 6
pm. There will also be a variety of traditional medicines and teas available for purchase during our mini-Therapy
Thursday event.
BOOK NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN....! As of Monday the opportunity will be opened up to the entire campus and
the appointments will go quickly! E-mail [email protected] to book your spot!
On Wednesday November 28 the Music Committee is holding a Jam Night in support of "Movember". Donations
will be accepted and will go to supporting Prostate cancer research!
This will be an open Jam Night and committee encourages students as well as faculty to come out and support or
take part in the performances! Multiple instruments will be available for anyone to use. The event will take place
Wednesday 3-8pm in the RCW lounge. Come out and jam for a good cause! If you would like any more
information please contact James Gould via Facebook (Committee President) or check out of Facebook group.
We’re looking for new members!
What is CEDA? Well, it’s really simple actually. We send out monthly newsletters containing information about
volunteer positions working with children within Brantford and other opportunities relevant to teaching careers
with the ultimate goal of gaining experience in the field of teaching. It is open to anyone in ANY program who
wants to gain experience with children. We are also planning really fun events as a way to meet new people that
share the same goals and passions as you. *ALSO INCLUDED ON YOUR CCR*
Email President Amie Naccarato [email protected] for more information and look out for us on campus in the
upcoming weeks for event info!
Calling all Students’ Union volunteers! Stop by the Multi Purpose Room in the Student Centre basement on
Thursday November 29 between 11am-3pm for Fall Volunteer Appreciation! There will be lots free food and great
prizes!
Come hang out with us so we can show you how much we value YOU and take a break from all your paper
writing. If you have any questions or are looking for more information please contact Jen Connor at