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The Gazette: reinvented for the digital age

After 24 years, our run as a Tuesday to Friday daily print publication will be coming to an end this year. But that doesn’t mean Canada’s only daily student newspaper will no longer be daily — we’ll just be where our readers are: online.

A reduction in our print publication schedule is one part of a comprehensive plan to better serve our readers, staff and volunteers. We need to adapt to the trends in the journalism industry and in the mainly youthful demographic that we serve. We may be less frequent in print, but we will be publishing seven days a week online, which is better for you, the reader, and us as students in a learning environment.

This is a decision that the editorial board has reached independently and after much deliberation. And, unlike other student newspapers, we are fortunate enough to have a publisher who supports us financially and is willing to invest in the future of The Gazette that we envision. The overarching goals of these changes are: to provide our readers with a better print edition that focuses on in-depth stories and analysis; to foster an online presence that focuses on breaking news and publishing a wider variety of content; and to provide a truly modern training ground for Canada’s future journalists.

Our hope is that a transition to the digital world will ensure the short- and long-term success and sustainability of The Gazette, and maintain it as one of Western University’s strongest and oldest campus traditions.

What we're doing Twice a week print publication.

Instead of a four days a week print edition, we will focus our efforts on producing two distinct issues a week. The focus will be on in-depth stories, context and analysis, with the best of our online content being formatted for print.

Real-time news and continuous publishing.

We want to deliver the news as it happens, and make it more accessible to students. This means increased live coverage, more breaking news stories and more timely stories online, as well as in print. We will also publish nontimely stories throughout the day and week.This provides a better product for readers who want to know what’s happening on campus and beyond.

Diversifying coverage.

We will focus on content that is interesting both to produce and to consume — whether it’s through writing, photos, graphics, videos or illustrations. This also means we’ll be looking for content in places we’ve never looked before — including partnerships with other media organizations on campus and new ways for students to contribute.

Training program for staff and volunteers.

Starting with next year’s new editorial board, we want to train our editors and volunteers to equip them with the basic knowledge to do their jobs and new skills and tools they need in a modern media organization. This will contribute to making our content higher quality and more consistent for our readers.

Why we're changing To better serve readers.

By reducing the amount of time we spend on the production of a print edition, we will be able to spend time on creating more content on a regular basis, serving our readers seven days a week rather than four. We want to give you more — more relevant news and more coverage of students and student issues on the platforms you use. Whether you still want to pick up the print edition or read us on your computer or your phone, you’ll be able to and you’ll find different content depending on the platform. We also want to provide more

relevant coverage in different ways, such as blogs about student life. We want to focus on the journalism that matters most to students and cut out the rest.

To better serve our staff.

We want to prepare our staff, especially those who want to pursue a career in journalism, for their first internship and job in the field. This means we have to be providing an experience that equips them with the skills employers expect of them. In 2015, this means that digital reporting is prioritized over traditional print skills. We’ll also be able to focus on putting out the content we want to produce, not the content we have to in order to meet our deadlines.

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MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD ONE. The Gazette held its elections last Friday, electing three full-time staff to oversee the digital transition of the newspaper next year. The first ever digital managing editor is Nathan Kanter (right), the first ever print managing editor is Olivia Zollino (left) and returning as editor-in-chief is Iain Boekhoff.

Western receives half-billion dollar software donation Brittany Hamilton GAZETTE STAFF @uwogazette

Western Engineering announced an exciting new partnership yesterday with Seimens’ product lifecycle management software in which the company made an in-kind software grant to the faculty.

Siemens is a leading global provider of PLM software services for a variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, machinery, medical devices, shipbuilding and electronics.

The donation provided Western with licenses for 400 seats for students to use the software, with a commercial value of more than $522 million.

Andrew Hrymak, dean of the faculty of engineering, expressed

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his profound gratitude at the announcement at the Thompson Engineering building.

“We recognize how important it is for our students to get hands-on experience working with industry standard software,” Hrymak said.

Also in attendance were London North Centre MP Susan Truppe, London mayor Matt Brown, Western vice-president research John Capone, as well as several representatives from Siemens.

Truppe addressed the crowd and explained the economic benefits the partnership will have in London and in southwestern Ontario as a whole.

“I couldn’t be prouder that they have chosen Western University.

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Campaign to get graduates hired

Western is launching a new marketing campaign to try to get its graduates hired.

The campaign, called HireWesternU, will launch today

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and was developed through the Student Success Centre.

The campaign sells Western students as “extraordinary talent,” and highlights six hirable qualities Western graduates allegedly possess. The campaign says they’re high achieving, community engaged, global ready, research-oriented and entrepreneurial.

Western is releasing a 24-page purple-branded booklet which the university will use to entice employers to hire Western graduates.

Part of the campaign’s goal is to make the recruiting process more streamlined for employers.

“The HireWesternU campaign is a centralized marketing campaign designed to connect more employers with extraordinary talent from Western,” Jeff Watson, employer

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relations team manager with the Student Success Centre, said.

“Our goals are to increase the number of employers recruiting from Western and increase the number of co-op, internship and practicum opportunities — what we call work-integrated learning,” he continued.

He says students will see more diversity in the companies that come to campus to recruit because the campaign is actively targeting top employers. He says Tim Hortons, which previously has been reluctant to recruit on campus, is now biting.

The campaign will officially launch on today, where mayor Matt Brown will welcome 100–125 employers on campus. Certain high-achieving students have been invited to a networking forum after the 30-minute address.

Right now, the campaign is planned to last four years. Watson says it’s going to start locally, then begin targeting employers at a provincial, national and then international level. “[We’ve] creat[ed] an intentional message or story about our students and developed a streamlined pathway employers can use to recruit and hire students for employment and work integrated learning opportunities,” Watson said.

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Western launches new sexual violence campaign University introduces new awareness campaign to promote a safe campus amidst high-profile controversies Drishti Kataria GAZETTE STAFF @uwogazette

Western university is putting the issue of sexual violence at the forefront through the revamping of its sexual violence website and the creation of the Sexual Violence Prevention Education Committee.

It is also one of the few universities in Ontario that has an established sexual violence policy.

Western’s commitment to providing and maintaining a safe environment in which sexual violence is not tolerated stems from this policy.

“Any and all acts of sexual violence will be addressed and individuals who have committed an act of sexual violence will be held accountable. Simply put, sexual violence is not tolerated at Western,” Provost Janice Deakin said in a press release.

The sexual violence website provides information on sexual violence, its effect on victims and survivors, how to report sexual violence and on-and off-campus resources that provide support to victims and survivors of sexual violence.

A Sexual Violence Prevention Education Committee has been established to fulfill the University’s commitment to taking action to prevent sexual violence and to support victims and survivors. The committee is formed of representatives from different campus wide organizations, including Campus Community Police Services; Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women and Children and Housing and Ancillary Services, as well as Western graduate and undergraduate students.

Currently, the committee is developing training initiatives, response protocols and an awareness campaign to launch this fall.

Its main purpose is to educate and raise awareness about sexual violence to Western students.

“We’re going to be doing some communication initiatives; we’re going to have a banner up on Western’s home page. Also a social media campaign to really bring that awareness, and to try to reduce stigma so that people feel comfortable in responding however they want,” Angie Mandich, acting associate vice-president student experience, said.

Western’s initiatives come after several high profile cases at universities across the country made national news. In February 2014, members of the University of Ottawa’s hockey program were suspended when they were connected with the sexual assault of a female student in Thunder Bay. In December 2014, Dalhousie University was embroiled in controversy over misogynist Facebook posts by dentistry students.

Presently, a 26-year-old male Western student is on trial for the alleged sexual assault of another 22-year-old-female student.

When asked about what students can do to prevent sexual violence on campus and provide support to victims, Mandich emphasized giving personal support and having the ability to connect our victims to the help and services they need.

“Also support our students through friendship, through conversation, really help to reduce the stigma,” she continued.

Western’s Division of Housing and Ancillary Services created a video called, See Something, Do Something, in which male leaders from across campus speak out against sexual violence.

As mentioned in the video, “half of the people on this campus and in Canada are at a heightened risk of sexual violence.”

Matt Helfand, president of the University Students’ Council, says in the video, “If it’s safe to do so, intervene. Speak up, step in and remove potential harm.”

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SEE SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING. Western created a video campaign featuring prominent male leaders from around campus speaking out against sexual violence against women.

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“Today’s announcement results in jobs, results in economic growth and results in more Western University graduates finding work right here in Southwestern Ontario.”

London mayor Matt Brown expressed a similar sentiment, highlighting how the partnership will directly benefit the London community.

“Western is among the very best educational institutions in the world,” Brown said. “Partnerships like this go a long way to strengthen London’s position as the home of world-class education and to attract the very best minds to our city.”

Western has been working with Siemens for a few years now, but there were only around 25 seats available to students to use the technology, according to Hrymak. With the expansion to 400 seats, many more students will have the opportunity to work with the software.

“The second piece is the scope of it,” Hrymak explained. “The entire industrial package has been

donated today from Siemens as a grant in-kind, and that’s a wonderful opportunity because students will be able to work on different parts of the package, so they can learn more about advanced manufacturing.”

The goal of the partnership is to give students more of an opportunity to use industry-standard technology to better prepare them for their future jobs and careers.

There are already a few courses offered to engineering students that use the software, but with this announcement the number of these courses will be increased. A possible certification program that will specifically teach students how to use the technology is also being discussed.

The partnership is a move that directly benefits students, and Hrymak was clear that this is the most important reason behind it.

“This commitment from Siemens will prepare our students for jobs of the future using one of the best engineering design software solutions available on the market.”

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Where in the world is Arthur Nestor?

Moses Monterroza GAZETTE STAFF @uwogazette

In the beginning of the school year, students in the museum curatorial class began studying the archived documents of Arthur Nestor, a professor at Western from 1967–1975 who mysteriously disappeared.

Their work has been compiled into an exhibit at Western’s Artlab entitled, Beneath the Surface: The Archives of Arthur Nestor. “[The exhibit]’s a representation of a year’s work of putting together and archiving boxes of things that we’ve found from the basement of one of the university buildings,” says Emily Peltier, a student responsible for the promotions aspect of the project.

What started as an innocuous research project ended up being a tantalizing mystery.

“He quit his job and picked up and left. He didn’t empty his office, he didn’t empty out his house — he was just gone,” Keely Mccavite, another student working on solving the mystery, says.

The further the students delved into these archives, the more mysterious Nestor’s intentions as a zoologist and professor became.

“His research was primarily with the Great Lakes and pollution and that’s how he got on tenure here.

But what his real research was about was trying to prove that the Loch Ness monster was real,” MacCavitt says.

The exhibition is a collection of his possessions, each emphasizing his relentless interest in cryptozoology – a field that studies animals whose existence has not yet been proven, which is considered to be a pseudoscience.

In an effort to display all the facts as objectively as possible, the students underwent the arduous

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UR EXHIBITION IS A PARAFICTIONAL EXHIBITION, IT EMPLOYS FICTION AND TRUTH TO TRY AND FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS PERSON WHO WAS A VERY QUIRKY SCHOLAR AND ACADEMIC. KIRSTY ROBERTSON

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CURATORIAL STUDIES

process of rebuilding and organizing the documents.

“They rebuilt the office from stuff he had and also stuff they had to find. They did research on the characters around it, they did research on lake monsters, and pollution — you name it, they did it,” says Kirsty Robertson, associate professor of curatorial studies and organizer of the project.

“What you’re seeing is a man’s life put on display,” Peltier says.

The walls are filled with pictures, documents, maps and diagrams.

There are no answers — just facts and figures. You are forced into the role of a detective, piecing together different clues.

The exhibition itself is considered parafiction, a genre of artwork that operates in a space between fictional and real.

“Our exhibition is a parafictional exhibition. It employs fiction and truth to try and find out what happened to this person who was a very quirky scholar and academic,” Robertson says.

Beneath the Surface will continue to run until March 12 at the Artlab Gallery. If you plan on going, be prepared to be utterly baffled by the curiosity that is Arthur Nestor.

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Greenwash, rinse, repeat Faking environmentalism in marketing Richard Joseph GAZETTE STAFF Greenwashing. It sounds like a morning dose of Listerine, but unlike mouthwash, this particular practice might leave a bad taste in your mouth.

The term is a portmanteau of “green” (environmentally friendly) and “whitewashing” (glossing over unpleasant facts). Essentially, a company is guilty of greenwashing when they make false claims about the environmental benefits of their products or practices. With an increasingly environmentally conscious consumer base, companies aspire to appear “greener” than their competitors to corner the market.

Take the soap company Dove — famous for commercials about saving wildlife and cleaning oil spills. Despite this appearance of eco-friendliness, Dove has recently come under fire for using the chemical triclosan, deemed “toxic to aquatic life” in their antibacterial dish soap.

Unfortunately, greenwashing is not a straightforward issue.

Stephane Vachon, an associate professor at the Ivey School of Business in the field of environmental management, shed some light on the complexities.

“The problem is, almost anything can be the basis for a greenwashing claim,” he says. “For example, a company might claim that they’re saving paper — that’s great, but maybe they’re consuming way too much energy. So they reduce their energy usage — but now people say they’re not doing anything about paper consumption.”

As Vachon points out, there are a myriad of environmental issues any corporation might address: water usage, energy, paper waste, overpackaging, etc. and any of them could be a basis for criticism without a view to the bigger picture.

On the other hand, not all corporate responsibility is so abstract and it is certainly not immune to criticism. While broad, sweeping claims of “greenness” might be hard to disprove with all these factors, specific and marketed statements of eco-friendliness can be investigated.

The Canadian-based environmental

marketing agency TerraChoice conducted a series of “report[s] on [the] environmental claims made in the North American consumer market” and categorized incidences of greenwashing into “seven sins.”

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One common corporate tactic, according to the report, is the “sin of vagueness,” whereby a claim is deliberately constructed so that it is meaningless or misleading. The term “all-natural” is a good example — as the report points out, “arsenic, uranium, mercury and formaldehyde are all naturally occurring, and poisonous ... ‘all-natural’ isn’t necessarily ‘green.’”

Another is the “sin of irrelevance,” an environmental claim that might be true but does not matter to a green consumer and is thus misleading. The label “CFC-free,” for example, is often used to advertise a product despite the fact that CFCs have been banned by law for years.

The study concludes that over 95 per cent of North American products marketed as eco-friendly “commit one or more of the seven sins of greenwashing.”

Part of the problem might be the lack of comprehensive legal framework for what constitutes greenwashing. Currently, greenwashing is under the umbrella

of false advertising. Thus, the Canadian Competition Bureau and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission deal with these claims — but to discern between different shades of green more rigorous legislation may be called for, according to Dr. Gordon McBean from the Centre for Environment and Sustainability.

In 2005, McBean was invited by Prime Minister Paul Martin to give a presentation on climate change and environmental management to a panel of CEOs. “At the end, most of them signed a public statement asking for regulations and rules,” he recalls. “In most cases, what these companies want is clarity. We need top-down leadership from the government, federally, towards putting clean, open, understandable regulatory frameworks in place.”

As well, there are NGOs dedicated to environmental preservation which act as third-party watchdogs for these companies.

Vachon cites Greenpeace as an NGO which has evolved from “blocking access to buildings” into “a very well-organized entity that will do rankings, [conduct] campaigns, and raise awareness.” With the rise of social media, it is easier than ever for organizations like Greenpeace to spread messages at minimal cost.

Finally, there is the possibility that the market system itself will adjust to these environmental issues.

“The VP of Shell Canada has regularly said we do need a carbon tax,” says McBean. “Companies are calling for it now, because they don’t want to be caught surprised by it — they’d like to have some dialogue and discussion in these policies.”

On the investing side, environmental issues might become increasingly important.

“Stockholders want profit, of course, but on the other hand they also want minimal risk,” Vachon explains. “If a company is environmentally or socially irresponsible, they’re always at risk of exposure.

Take Joe Fresh — right after the Bangladesh building collapse, their sales and profits fell as well.

Stockholders and investors are certainly not oblivious to the importance of environmental issues.”

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Festival revels in the arts Samah Ali GAZETTE STAFF @uwogazette

Arts and music takes over campus this week as the Reverie Festival holds events for Western artists.

The Arts & Humanities Students’ Council, Music Students’ Council and FIMS Students’ Council coordinated midday performances, art shows and nightly coffee houses to showcase the talent throughout the Western art scene.

Artist Joanna Li displayed her art at Wednesday’s art sale and said, “It’s a cool opportunity because not a lot of people know about the art scene at Western aside from the people in the faculties.”

The week began on Monday with Craig Cardiff’s songwriting workshop, canvas painting in the Uuniversity Community Centre Atrium and a FIMS Art Showcase in the Physics and Astronomy building in the evening.

“This is a building you typically associate with science and I think that’s exactly what we’re going towards,” says Liz Nash, AHSC president. “Just because you’re in one faculty doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy other aspects that are typically associated with other faculties.”

Tuesday evening kept the pace going with an intimate night of music and poetry at the Wave.

Students performed original songs, poems and stories as the audience enjoyed free coffee and cookies.

Art and music took over the UCC Atrium on Wednesday as Visual Arts Supporters Association held an art sale showcasing various works of art by Western students. Musicians

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and DJs played songs in the background attracting attention to the performance and artwork, keeping the welcoming environment alive for all Western students.

“It’s great exposure. The atmosphere is really fun so it makes people want to come out and look,” states artist Amy Harrington.

Theatre Western also participated by kicking off their Into the Woods show on Wednesday night.

The performance was a rendition of the popular Christmas movie Into the Woods and incorporated elaborate musical numbers seen in the film.

“It’s definitely an event-heavy month and I think it’s a good to have these destressers during a really busy time for students,” says Nash.

The week will come to a close on Thursday afternoon with an Art and Cheese event in Conron Hall, also known as University College 224.

The event will feature a performance from Western student and musician

Sarah Botelho.

Reverie Week is also promoting VASA’s Life Drawing event in the evening in the Visual Arts Centre along with the Comedy Club’s performance in the UCC Atrium in the early afternoon.

“The point of Reverie is to bring together different student groups together on campus with the arts community,” says Haley Everitt, AHSC events vice president. “Music, FIMS and the AHSC are all coordinating the events and promoting the Comedy Club, VASA, Theatre Western, WUFS, it’s a way for all of us to get together in a big collaborative event.”

The Reverie Festival concludes this week with a collection of events. Into the Woods will be perfomed nightly from March 4–7 in the Mustang Lounge with tickets available from Western Connections and at the door for $15 for students. There will also be a Wine and Cheese event in Conron Hall on Thursday afternoon.

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Shachar Dahan GAZETTE STAFF @uwogazette

WolframAlpha has saved all of us at one point or another – whether it is for homework, or when we are just too lazy to work on that agonizing math assignment. For those who are unfamiliar, WolframAlpha is an online computational knowledge engine – it’s basically a website that’s really good at doing math.

But this review isn’t going to focus on WolframAlpha, it’s about its superior: Mathematica. Stephen Wolfram, the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, created both programs.

The main difference between Mathematica and WolframAlpha is that Mathematica is much more powerful and is able to compute just about anything that comes to your mind. Whether you want to render a 3D image of a torus, or know if an isomorphism exists between graphs, Mathematica can quickly become your new best friend.

Many things can be computed in Mathematica using the familiar WolframAlpha notation, but the main drawback arises when you dive into more complex mathematics, as this will require learning the special Mathematica coding language. Those with a knack for coding should quickly get the hang of this. Those who do not have coding experience may find themselves needing to reference the user manual every so often, but the coding language can be learned with practice.

Mathematica is perhaps the strongest math-oriented computational software program available – making it the preferred choice of most mathematicians. But such a powerful program does not come cheap. As a desktop-only version, Mathematica carries a price tag of $250. Math majors will love Mathematica for being able to handle anything plugged into it. Those who are serious about pursuing a career in mathematics will have no regrets if they decide to invest in Mathematica.

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For months now, I’ve been listening to all the young people in my office talk about Tinder — a social networking site where you can find people in your area you’ve never met. They’re in your vicinity and they’re ready to meet and maybe hook up. Naturally, because I’m a creep, I’m intrigued.

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Dear Life, When it comes to Western giving up sexual assault stats, citations are definitely sorely lacking.

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Tinder Plus is really a huge minus Holmes is on the Case Brent Holmes DEPUTY EDITOR @BrentAtGazette

In Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, he writes, “In the beginning the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and was widely regarded as a bad move.” But now, the online dating app Tinder has made what could be considered an equally bad move.

Tinder launched a pay-per-month subscription service, Tinder Plus, on Monday. For the low, low price of $11/ month, you can unlock Tinder Plus’s new features, which include the ability to look back over your swipes if you change your mind, the ability to set your location and unlimited swiping.

You read that right — from now on, you are limited per day in the number of people for whom you can swipe right.

This is where Tinder really gets things wrong. According to a study by The New York Times, women swipe right only a third as frequently as men. This means if you’re like me — a heterosexual male who doesn’t have cheekbones carved in marble, pecs made of paving slabs and a six-pack — the only functional way to use the app is to swipe right incessantly and then filter through the matches.

If you think using any kind of social media or online dating is embarrassing enough, you wouldn’t believe the amount of sass I get over following this method and having swiped right for dogs, babies and, worst of all, cats. Thankfully, none of hellspawn that makes up the lattermost

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of that list pawed right for me.

Tinder claims there is no swiping limit, but that’s not what I saw when I randomly decided to open the app after nearly a month of being gracefully swipefree. Within a minute, I had used my maximum swipes and was told I’d have to wait 12 hours before continuing.

After looking up the new premium version, I soon discovered that this isn’t even the most problematic thing about Tinder’s new modus operandi. Students will have to enjoy the 10 or so years they have of affordable Tinder use, because the cost of using the premium features of the app increases as you get older. Once you hit 30, the cost of using the app jumps by at least $10.

In terms of online dating, Tinder has been, in my opinion, much like the entire online dating scene — completely useless. Tinder already boiled down online dating to its most superficial and most base qualities and Tinder Plus just exacerbates the problem.

Good luck using Tinder if you are generally unattractive or older, but now the app might as well be saying, “You’re old and/or unattractive, therefore you need to pay us more to try to find anyone.”

Now this isn’t anything Tinder can’t fix — all they have to do is completely scrap Tinder Plus.

Evidently, Tinder is so out of touch with this generation, they forgot that our defining quality is not wanting to pay for things — see also: the music industry and Game of Thrones being the most pirated TV show of all time. The young are going to swipe left on paying and the 30-plus age group mind as well just start using other, free online dating sites.

In the meantime, I’ll go back to being a cranky curmudgeon and look forward to saying, “I told you so,” when everything goes back to the status quo like we are living in some kind of bizarre sitcom.

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Analysis: 2015 Cricket World Cup Green eggs and Hamza

Hamza Tariq CRICKET EDITOR @HamAtGazette

The International Cricket Council’s 2015 World Cup is underway as 14 teams compete for the game’s most coveted trophy.

The sport is the second most watched in the world. The 11th edition of the cricket world cup is being hosted by Australia and New Zealand. So far, it has been a very exciting tournament. Batting sides have crossed the previously anomalous 400-run mark multiple times and the associate nations have fared far better than anyone could have predicted.

Most teams are halfway through their pool games and are vying for a spot in the quarter-finals, which begin on March 18. The semifinal games are scheduled for March 24 and 26. My predicted semifinalists for this cup are New Zealand, India, South Africa and Australia.

Sitting comfortably on top of pool A, and already qualified for the quarterfinals is New Zealand, having won all four of their games. The host nation has historically been one of the most underrated teams in world cricket, but their current form and home advantage puts them on top of my list of favourites for lifting the cup.

The Black Caps have a very balanced team. Their bowling attack, led by Tim Southee, Trent Boult and Daniel Vettori has proven too hot to handle for any batting side. The batting line-up led by hard-hitting captain Brendon McCullum and well supported by the in-form Kane Williamson and Corey Anderson has also looked very aggressive and

comfortable at home.

Defending champion India had a forgettable tour of Australia just before the World Cup. They lost all their one day internationals in the tri-series against England and Australia with one no result, and they also lost the test series to the Australians. Ever since they beat archrivals Pakistan in their first world cup game, however, in a sporting event second only to the FIFA World Cup final in terms of viewership, they haven’t looked back.

Captain M.S. Dhoni has managed to yet again rein in his resources and Team India has won all of its first three games, putting them on top of pool B. The return to form of batsmen Virat Kohli and Shekhar Dhawan has given a big boost to the Indian morale. The bowling, while lacking in big names of Indian teams in yester years, has done a very good job of limiting opposition sides to low scores.

South Africa is famous for choking in the knockout stages of big tournaments. If anyone has watched their batting in the past few games, however, it can safely be said that the Proteas have the ability to blast their way to the trophy. The exploits of captain A.B. de Villiers, Hashim Amla and Francois du Plessis has enabled South Africa to post scores upwards of 400 in their past two games.

The Proteas’ strike bowler Dale Steyn has taken only five wickets in four matches but his form has been improving every game and he has looked increasingly threatening.

Spinner Imran Tahir on the other hand took nine wickets in four tournament games and has really been on point.

The only reason Australia made to my list is because of their preWorld Cup form and consistency.

While they defeated out-of-form England and thrashed associate Afghanistan in their pool games, they faltered in the big game against

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New Zealand. But the Australians are always tough opponents, especially at home. They came into the tournament on the back of an unbeaten streak against India and England.

It would take a high quality and in-form side to prevent Australia from reaching the semifinals.

Those are my four favourites for the semifinal spots in the World Cup. Sri Lanka is another strong contender and has come into form recently. The West Indies and Pakistan have been consistent in their infamous inconsistency and are possible wildcards. This World Cup is just beginning to heat up and there are a lot games ahead. I am hoping for more upsets and thrilling matches that go down to the wire as the tournament progresses into the knockout phase.

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One game to rule them all: the OUA finals Robert Nanni SPORTS EDITOR @robertnanni

The Western Mustangs women’s hockey team is preparing to face the Guelph Gryphons this Saturday in the Ontario University Athletics finals.

The Mustangs defeated both the Nipissing Lakers and Laurier Golden Hawks in the first two rounds of the OUA playoffs and now push through to the provincial championships for the third time in four years. Western finished the regular season with a record of 20–1–3. Having swept the first two rounds of the postseason, they have now dropped just a single regulation game in the past five months.

The Lakers saw no mercy from the Mustangs in the first round, as the Western women coasted to two straight wins to move on to the semifinals, winning 3–1 and 3–2.

They followed up shortly after with a 3–1 win against the Golden Hawks, paralleling their first win against Nipissing.

While this was a solid start, the Mustangs faced some troubles in the second game, scrapping by with a 5–4 double overtime win.

Offence and goaltending will be key factors in the series. Gryphons goalie Stephanie Nehring had a save percentage of .947, just slightly behind Mustangs goaltender Kelly Campbell’s .954 during the regular season. Both finished as the top goaltenders in the OUA in save percentage, goals-against average and win percentage.

While Campbell has a save percentage of .930 in the playoffs, Nehring has slightly topped her with a .950 percentage. Nehring is also coming off a 2–0 shutout of the Toronto Varsity Blues in their

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series-deciding semifinal game.

Although the Mustangs have the best overall record of any team in the OUA, the entire year will come down to this elimination game.

The two teams are very well matched, but pure statistics favour the Mustangs slightly. Mustang forward Kendra Broad finished second in scoring in the league in the regular season, racking up 30 points in just 24 games. She has also added four more in the playoff so far.

Forward Sydney Kidd has also performed well, potting seven goals in the regular season and scoring four more during the playoffs.

Guelph isn’t lacking firepower either. Kidd is tied for the post-season scoring lead with Gryphon forward Jessica Pinkerton at five each.

Pinkerton led the team this season with 24 points in 24 games, trailed

by Katlyn Mora with 19 points, and Christine Grant with 17. While Pinkerton is clearly the team’s star up front, the Gryphons chemistry

has carried them throughout the year.

The Gryphons have had more trouble making it this far compared to the ‘Stangs, however. They prevailed over the Ryerson Rams in the quarter-finals, though they needed overtime in both games to win. In the semifinals, the Gryphons struggled with the Varsity Blues as it took them double overtime to win their first game and they dropped their second game 2–1.

Moving into the finals, Western

hopes to remain on top of their game, and not see any slip-ups like those present in the second Laurier game, where double overtime nearly saw the team’s first playoff loss. Lucky for the Mustangs, forward Tia Kipfer saved the team in the sixth minute of double overtime.

The final game of the playoffs will be held this Saturday at 4 p.m. at Thompson Arena, where the Mustangs and Gryphons will face off for this year’s OUA title.

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