It was an unobtrusive crowd that greeted Elizabeth Witmer as she strode to her fifth consecutive election victory as MPP of the Kitchener-Waterloo riding. She thanked voters “from the bottom of [her] heart” for their support in what she described as a “very, very exciting campaign.”

Many students carry their MP3 players along on their travels, accompanied by a steady stream of personally relevant music — their “life soundtrack.” In his report, Life Soundtracks: The uses of music in everyday life, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, a professor at Montreal’s McGill University, claims that music can be used to regulate emotions and cognitive efforts to assist in a variety of tasks, including studying.

On October 1, UW Registrar’s office circulated an e-mail to all students introducing the new concept of pre-enrolment.

According to the memo, “you’ll be able to ‘pre-enrol’ into courses (not sections, just courses) you wish to take in the Spring 2008 term by submitting your course requests anytime beginning on October 29 and until November 4. We’ll take your requests and produce for you a class timetable that you can still alter to suit your needs when you log on during your appointment time in February 2008.”