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A jazzy kind of night
If a pin dropped right now, you’d hear it. Despite seating almost three dozen students with instruments in hand, Room 104 in Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music building is unusually quiet. But tonight, the silence hangs heavy with anticipation, and soon the room will erupt into a flutter of melody. The Worst Pop…
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Campus safety on foot
The phone rang, breaking through the chatter from people huddled around a desk during their evening break. Manan Bhatt, a Western University Foot Patrol volunteer, picked up the receiver and listened intently to the voice on the other end. “Oh, really? That’s crazy. Okay, I’ll let them know,” he said, and hung up. His face…
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Campus police pierce the darkness
A night shift for Western University’s Campus Community Police Service is like a bubble waiting to burst. At a given moment it can be still, tranquil, boring, devoid of action, but also fragile and ready to pop. And when it pops, an officer can be gunning the engine of a police cruiser, racing hard toward…
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Triathletes cycle while campus sleeps
By the time most Western University students get out of bed on a Friday morning, the members of the Western Triathlon Club have already gotten in not just one workout, but three. Practice starts bright and early at 6:30 a.m., but their morning begins even earlier. Jacqueline Rennebohm, a third-year environmental health student, woke up at…