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Western Gazette
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Western University's official student newspaper since 1906 🗞
- Five students are suing Western University over its COVID-19 vaccination and booster policy.
- As of Monday at 4 p.m., Western is ending its classroom mask mandate. The university will instead strongly encourage mask wearing in instructional spaces.
- The five students who sued Western over its vaccination policy say they will appeal the verdict favouring the university.
- Western’s investigation into allegations of sexual violence in Med-Syd comes on the final night of OWeek.
- TW: Sexual violence. Witnesses and a survivor of mass sexual violence have given new details about this year's harrowing Orientation Week at Western University. Read their accounts, on their own terms, here.
- CORRECTION: A student-led walkout on Friday saw over 12,000 attendees, as students, faculty and staff walked out of class and marched through campus in support of survivors of sexual violence.
- .@WesternU will require all students, staff, and faculty to provide proof of vaccination before returning to campus this fall.
- Madiha Salman, a @WesternU civil engineering PhD candidate, was among the four killed in London’s worst mass killing while on a walk with her family Sunday evening. She was 44.
- We have some breaking news on UC Hill...
- Unvaccinated @WesternU community members will no longer have the option of undergoing testing to remain on campus. Accommodations will remain available for those with medical or Ontario Human Rights Code exemptions.
- An online petition created by a @WesternU professor is urging university administration to make two doses of a @GovCanHealth-approved vaccine mandatory for all students, faculty and staff returning to campus in the fall.
- “When the reports of sexual violence during OWeek surfaced, I felt like I couldn’t escape my assault. Being surrounded by the trauma all day was suffocating.”
