The Spoke Bagel has become a tasty tradition on campus, but the journey to its current landmark status was far from guaranteed. Learn the story behind the breakfast staple.
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April 2, 2019

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Spoke Bagel rises to legendary status

The Spoke Bagel has become a tasty tradition on campus, but the journey to its current landmark status was far from guaranteed. Learn the story behind the breakfast staple.

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teaching

Zecevic: Teaching about learning together

Aleksandra Zecevic remembers it clearly. “I got into the parking lot and I said to myself, ‘I am so happy to be here to have a job where I interact with young people all my life.'”

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kin

Misener named to top Kin role at ‘exciting time’

Laura Misener certainly didn’t expect it - at least not this early. But less than a decade after her arrival, she was named Director of the School of Kinesiology. She will be the first woman to occupy the role.

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haiti

Professor explores Haiti’s ‘endless present of crisis’

For more than a decade, Greg Beckett grappled with the idea of crisis. Over time, as a researcher in Haiti, the Western Anthropology professor came to realize the term doesn’t come with a universal definition.

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metal

Students connect to history via small objects

History texts are rich with epoch-spanning tales of wars won and lost, empires risen and fallen. But history is also in the small things: a yellowed ticket to an itinerant preacher’s lecture; a century-old pair of baby shoes; an imported teapot and matching creamer jug.

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Working at Western

Sustainability

Green Awards laud sustainability efforts

This year’s winners of the Western Green Awards are making strong environmental impacts on campus residences, research facilities and around the world.

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Wellness @ Western

Zumba!

Join Angelica and the rest of the Zumba family, as we move and shake our way to improved health and well-being. Participants are encouraged to bring water and low-grip athletic shoes.

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Social Highlights

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Middlesex College in black and white hits different. ⠀

Twitter

You watched the book captivate the country – now read the story about how #WesternU professor Amanda Grzyb helped bring Max Eisen’s #CanadaReads winning memoir to the world. @cbcbooks @westernuFIMS

Commentary

pills

Psychiatrists don't know all. Sometimes, they need to defer to patients' lived experiences

As a psychiatrist, I bear witness to a broken system. Mental health care is chronically underfunded, and encounters between patients and psychiatrists are becoming shorter, more sterile and dehumanized.

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Endnotes

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This list will spark joy - we promise

It’s the most wonderful time of year all year ’round when Digital Engagement Officer Meghan Cocurullo takes a turn on Read. Watch. Listen.

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