University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario is located in London, Ontario. It is
commonly referred to as UWO, Western Ontario, or simply Western.

                                         Motto:           Vertias et Utilitas
                                         Chancellor       Ellen Clitheroe
                                         President        Paul Davenport

                                         School type      Public
                                                          Main campus: None
                                         Religious        Brescia: Catholic
                                         affiliation      Huron: Anglican
                                                          King's: Catholic
                                         Founded          1878

                                         Location         London, Ontario,
Campus                                                    Canada
                                                          25 000
The university covers 155 hectares of    Enrollment       undergraduate
land on the North Branch of the Thames                    5000 graduate
River.                                   Campus
                                         surroundings     Urban
                                         Campus size      155 hectares
Organization                             Sports teams     Mustangs
The university's Chancellor is Ellen     Mascot           Mustang
Clitheroe, and its President is Dr. Paul Davenport. The university over 60
faculties and programs. Faculties and programs at the university are:

Students

There are approximately 25 000 undergraduate and 5000 graduate students at
UWO. King's College has about 1500 students, Huron University College about
1000, and Brescia University College about 500. The major student residences
are Medway Hall, Sydenham Hall, Alumni House, Essex Hall, Elgin Hall,
Delaware Hall, and Saugeen-Maitland Hall. The affiliated colleges have their
own residences.

Faculty

There are about 1200 faculty members at the university and affiliated
colleges. The Faculty of Social Science employs the highest number of faculty.

Sports, Clubs, and Traditions

In 1929 J.W. Little Stadium was built. This stadium served as the site of
convocation until 1960, and continued to be used as a sports stadium until
2001 when it was torn down and replaced with TD-Waterhouse Stadium. The new
stadium was the primary site of the 2001 Summer Canada Games, which were
held in London.

Western has over 20 sports teams, which are called the Mustangs. From 1939
to 1948 the football team was undefeated, and they have won 6 Vanier Cups.
For 30 years the football team was coached by John P. Metras, for whom the
Canadian Interuniversity Sport's best defensive linesman award is named. The
men's basketball team has also won many championships.

There are over 100 clubs, for academic, religious, cultural, and other
pursuits, which are governed by the University Students' Council. The
Student Council also publishes The Gazette, the student newspaper, which was
founded in 1904 and given its present name in 1937.

UWO has a traditional rivalry with the University of Waterloo, located only
one hour to the east.

The Engineering students often pull many pranks during the year, usually
against the new students each September.

History

The university was founded in 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth of the Anglican
Diocese of Huron as "The Western University of London Ontario." It
incorporated Huron College, which had been founded in 1863. The first four
faculties were Arts, Divinity, Law and Medicine, and there were originally
only 15 students when classes began in 1881. The first of these students
graduated in 1883. In 1916 the current site of the university was purchased
from the Kingsmill family, and in 1923 the name of the university was
changed to its present form. The first two buildings constructed at the new
site were the Arts Building (now University College) and the Natural Science
Building (now the Physics and Astronomy Building). These were built in a
neo-Gothic or "Collegiate Gothic" style. The University College tower, one
of the most distinctive features of the university, was named the Middlesex
Memorial Tower in honour of the men from Middlesex County who had fought in
World War I (all 40 male students at the university in 1914 had enlisted).
Classes on the present site began in 1924.

Although enrolment was low for many years, after World War II the university
began to increase greatly in size, and by the 1970s 10% of university
students in Ontario were enrolled at UWO. After World War II, the university
saw the addition of new faculties such as the Faculty of Graduate Studies
(1947), the School of Business Administration (now the Richard Ivey School
of Business) (1949), the Faculty of Engineering Science (1957), the Faculty
of Law (1959), and Althouse College for Education students (1963).

Other notable buildings on campus include Thames Hall (built in 1950), the
Stevenson-Lawson Building (built in 1959), Middlesex College (with its clock
tower, another distinctive feature of the university, built in 1960), Talbot
College {built in 1966), Alumni Hall (built in 1967), the University Campus
of the London Health Sciences Centre, the John P. Robarts Research
Institute, the Lawson Health Research Institute, the D.B. Weldon Library,
the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, the Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel
Laboratory, the University Community Centre, the Social Science Centre, and
T.D. Waterhouse Stadium (built in 2001). There is also the Hume Cronyn
Memorial Observatory, built in 1940 as the first observatory at a Canadian
university, and named after the grandfather of actor Hume Cronyn. The
McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery was built in 1942, and is now the oldest
university art gallery in Canada.

The school colours are purple and white, and the school's motto is Veritas
et utilitas, meaning Truth and usefulness.

Famous Alumni

   * Thalia Assuras, 1981, CBC journalist
   * James Bartleman, 1963, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
   * Paul Beeston, 1967, former president of Major League Baseball
   * Roberta Bondar, 1971, astronaut
   * Sheila Copps, 1973, Minister of Heritage in the federal Liberal Party
   * Duncan Coutts, 1993, bass player for Our Lady Peace
   * Janet Ecker, 1975, Ontario Minister of Finance
   * Elliotte Friedman, 1993, sports reporter
   * Dianne Haskett, 1977, former mayor of London
   * Jennifer Hedger, 1998, sports reporter for TSN
   * Gar Knutson, 1983, Liberal Member of Parliament
   * Silken Laumann, 1988, Olympic rower
   * Marnie McBean, 1997, Olympic rower
   * Alice Munro, 1976, author
   * Kevin Newman, 1981, reporter for Global News
   * Steve Rucchin, 1994, hockey player for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
   * Scott Russell, 1985, CBC commentator for Hockey Night in Canada and
     figure skating
   * Al Waxman, 1957, actor
   * Hilary Weston, 1997, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

There is also a fictional alumnus - Michael Patterson from the comic strip
For Better or For Worse.

Famous Faculty

   * J. Phillipe Rushton, a controversial Psychology professor who has
     written about race and intelligence

Prominent Groups

   * University of Western Ontario Debating Society, the oldest student
     association at the university and one of the largest and most respected
     university debating societies in the world. It competes internationally
     against teams such as Harvard, Princeton, and Oxford. From 1994 to
     1997, the Society was ranked as the #1 competitive debating society in
     North America, winning more major awards than any other team in the
     United States or Canada. The Society is a member of CUSID, the Canadian
     University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. (Official Web Site)

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