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October Crisis filmmaker at York U

TORONTO, October 21, 2005 -- Thirty-five years after The October Crisis, York University will mark the anniversary with a screening of Michel Brault’s powerful film about the period, Les Ordres, and a panel discussion featuring the filmmaker.   The Department of Film at York is presenting Brault – a cinematographer, director and a founding voice of […]

Rare “Newton’s Apple tree” bears fruit for first time

York U home to descendant of famed tree TORONTO, October 19, 2005 -- Look out for falling apples on York’s campus: a rare descendant of Newton’s famed tree has borne fruit for the first time. “We were delighted and surprised to see we now have our own ‘Newton’s apple’ growing on our tree,” says Michael […]

West Indian scholar to lecture on Jamaican dancehall culture

TORONTO, October 18, 2005 -- West Indian author and literary scholar Carolyn Cooper (right) will give the 2005 Jagan Lecture on Oct. 22. Billed as a Caribbean dialogue, her lecture is titled "Sweet and Sour Sauce: Sexual Politics in Jamaican Dancehall Culture." It begins at 7:30pm in Vari Hall Lecture Room A. Cooper is a literary […]

How "Save the Whales" started: speech at York U

TORONTO, October 17, 2005 -- Renowned science historian Graham Burnett will speak at York University Tuesday about how society decided to try to save the world’s whale population. A fascinating range of biological, linguistic, and neurological research began to focus on whales in the mid-twentieth century, says Professor Burnett, of Princeton University, leading to a “Save […]

Clear highways can lead to leap in driver stress, study says

TORONTO, October 12, 2005 --  A study by York University researchers suggests that when traffic dies down, commuters’ stress levels may actually rise. The study, which evaluated the effects of job-related stress on drivers, found that when they didn’t have to focus on the task of driving, they began fretting over work instead. “In effect, […]