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From November 16-30, six large boxes-one for each of the four classes, one for MBA students and one for the faculty-were set up in Bill and Marion McDougall Hall, to collect donations. The MBA students won the challenge, collecting about 230 items for the food bank. They also asked the business society to donate $150-the dollar value of their prize-to the food bank.

Faculty, staff, and students are advised that if a decision is made at any time to close the 69´«Ã½campus, details will be made available as follows:

Radio Stations: Announcements will be made on local radio stations by 7:00 a.m. if possible. Stations contacted will be: CFCY/Magic93, CBC Radio, Radio Canada, K-Rock, Ocean 100, and C102 (Summerside).

Campus Closure & Alert Line: A message will be recorded, by 7:00 a.m. if possible, on the 69´«Ã½Campus Closure & Alert Line. To access this information, please call (902) 894-2882.

69´«Ã½Website: An urgent notice will be posted on the front page of the 69´«Ã½website, upei.ca.

When 69´«Ã½education students returned from their pre-service training this time last year they held a class discussion about the obvious impact of poverty on students in some local schools, and they talked about actions that might make a difference. Christie Chandler, now in second-year Education, has taken that discussion a step further this year by organizing a holiday campaign to collect good quality clothing, non-perishable food items, and personal toiletries to distribute to young people who are in need.

The campaign is concentrating on junior and senior high school students in the Charlottetown area in particular. The schools will distribute the donated items, in a confidential manner, to the students who could most benefit from them. Birchwood and Colonel Gray schools in Charlottetown have been designated as the drop-off points. Anyone with items to donate may deliver them to either school on any week day until December 22. More information is available via the 69´«Ã½Faculty of Education at 566-0731.

Heather Russell is the winner of the 69´«Ã½Staff Achievement Award for 2009. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to University community life and quality of service across campus.
Heather has been a staff member at 69´«Ã½for 12 years. Since 2003, she has provided administrative support services to faculty and students in the psychology department, one of the largest departments in the Faculty of Arts. In nominating her for the award, her colleagues praised her unique combination of competence and caring, describing her as 'the heart and soul of the department.' In a testimonial from a former student, Heather was commended for going 'above and beyond her duty to make students' academic careers at 69´«Ã½fruitful.'
As a volunteer, she has been an integral part of the free lunch programs for students during exam times organized through the Chaplaincy Centre; a key player in the Purple Ribbon campaign to raise awareness about violence against women; and secretary of the Learning Disabilities Association of PEI.
The 69´«Ã½Staff Achievement Award is sponsored by the Academic Support Group.

In "Romantic Cosmopolitanism," English professor Esther Wohlgemut shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography.

Orysia Dawydiak of AVC draws on her own Ukranian heritage in her first novel, "House of Bears," the story of a young woman, her strained relationship with her traditional Ukrainian mother and her family's unspoken past, starting in the 1930s in Ukraine, followed by emigration to England and settlement in Canada.

Dr. Kim Critchley (left), 69´«Ã½Dean of Nursing, presents Leslie Warren, divisional nurse supervisor with the Office of the Attorney General, with the 2009 Bill and Denise Andrew Preceptor Scholarship for her longstanding work as a preceptor with nursing students. Fourth-year students work with preceptors to gain experience in community agencies across the province. Looking on is Simon Pickles who completed his five-month placement under Warren's guidance at the Sleepy Hollow Correctional Centre, and Christine Murray, a member of the 69´«Ã½Nursing Faculty and advisor for the Nursing and Population Health course. Fifty-four nursing students recently completed their community placements in a wide variety of rural and urban settings.