As the University of Waterloo welcomes thousands of new students to campus this week for orientation, the focus will be on fun, but there will also be messages to help everyone feel safe.
Claudia De Fazio, a fourth-year engineering student who has helped plan orientation week events, said the committee knew they had to do something to address the triple stabbing in a gender-studies class on June 28.
“It was definitely on our mind,” De Fazio told Josette Lafleur, guest host of CBC Kitchener-Waterloo’s The Morning Edition.
The engineering faculty has implemented a new role within orientation leaders called EDI officers (equity, diversity and inclusion
