What do you see when you look at Western student Jessica Grossman? What you can’t see is the hardship she endured for years. What you can see is her ostomy. For most dads, it would be a horrifying realization. Their…
With playoff runs, injuries and the constant student-athlete struggle to keep up with school work, it’s easy to forget about what’s important in life. That’s why there was much more at stake than just two points at Alumni Hall Saturday…
As the snow continued to endlessly fall over London Tuesday afternoon, the University of Western Ontario and The Spoke were forced to do the unthinkable. They cancelled Rick McGhie’s Wednesday night performance. It was just the latest in a string…
Two weeks after his arrest, the details of a man who was apprehended for threatening to kill a Western employee are slowly beginning to be released. The man was arrested on Nov. 10 and charged with three counts of uttering…
If you’re in the University Community Centre atrium today and have five spare minutes, you could save a life. The “Get Swabbed” university challenge will be setting up shop in the UCC, hoping to add over 1,000 people to the…
For the second time this week, a marathon negotiating session between the university and a campus union has averted a strike at Western. This time, the UWO Staff Association was able to reach a tentative agreement with the university on…
One day before their most important game of the season, the Western Mustangs have sold less than 3,000 tickets and nearly none to Western students. It might be the best football game no one’s going to witness. The McMaster Marauders…
Although the UWO Faculty Association and Western administration have settled on a tentative agreement, Western students may still be crossing picket lines on campus as early as next week. Like UWOFA, the UWO Staff Association has been without a contract…
The reputation of Western students around London is far from pristine. We’re seen as loud, disrespectful party animals who converge on the humble Forest City each September and make life difficult for average citizens until we leave again in April.…
A 22-year-old Western student from the faculty of science died early Sunday morning after a 15-storey fall from an apartment building on Richmond Street. David Edmondson of Thornhill, Ontario, was on a fifteenth floor balcony of the 675 Richmond St.…