UWindsor Launches Contest To Name Campus Walkways

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The former Sunset Avenue.

The University of Windsor has launched a contest to rename both stretches of Sunset and Patricia which have been remade into pedestrian-friendly thoroughfares leading into campus.

“This past autumn, we enjoyed for the first time a car-free and care-free Sunset Avenue. We had community barbeques there, and students and faculty and staff could stroll and relax,” Dr. Wildeman said. “I do not want the University of Windsor to forever refer to that wonderful space as Sunset Avenue. It is not where the sun sets … it is where the feeling about being at a university should be nourished.”

Wildeman also said it was time to deal with the “historic dead-ending” of Patricia Avenue.

“This spring, adjacent to the new Stephen and Vicki Adams Welcome Centre, we will be completing the landscaping with a new entrance way. It is where Patricia Avenue used to continue on. This is a wonderful historic Champs-Elysée through the old part of the campus, past Dillon Hall and the soaring London plane trees.”

The competition is open to everyone and suggestions can be e-mailed to [email protected]. Submissions will be accepted until 4pm on March 11th.

A panel of faculty, staff and students will review the submissions and entries and the new names for Sunset and Patricia will be announced Friday, April 1st.

The winning entries will each receive a $250 gift certificate from the Campus Bookstore.

The new names will be prominently displayed as you enter campus.

The former Patricia Avenue.