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DO YOU ASK. Date Safe Project speaker Mike Domitrz presents at this year’s O-Week. Consent education has become a key part of the messaging at universities for first-year students.

Universities focus on consent education in O-Week Drishti Kataria NEWS EDITOR @DrishtAtGazette

With new students arriving at Ontario universities this past week, a focus on consent education is increasingly becoming the norm.

York University hosts Canada’s largest consent education presentation, with 6,500 students attending a presentation from Mike Domitrz.

Speaker Domitrz of the Date Safe project is a well-known speaker who also spoke at Western’s orientation week about the importance of consent, respect and healthy dating.

Domitrz has been coming to Western for 11 years and this year it was moved to a larger venue.

“This year’s event has been bigger than it ever has. We moved it out of rez rally and onto main stage to make sure the broadest cross section of students as possible can hear his message,” said University Students’ Council vice-president internal Alex Benac.

“He said good things to know, it got me thinking. It was one of those kind of things where he teaches you good stuff and you didn’t get bored,” said Sarranya Surendran, first-year student.

Precautions taken during Orientation Week

With regards to mental health and

consent, Western took many precautions during orientation week.

“Particularly surrounding a consent themed event, we always have community support workers in the audience,” Benac said.“That’s a precautionary measure we put in place in case there is a triggering effect or if a student wants to make a disclosure to somebody. We always want to make sure we have professionals on hand.”

Sophs had an after hours counsellor for most of the week this year.

Also, Campus Police is actively involved in planning O-Week and constantly assessing security risks and threats, continued Benac.

Leader in sexual violence prevention

“Western really is a leader in Canada with regards to sexual violence prevention on campus and that’s not to say that we’re perfect but we are a leader and that’s what sets us apart,” Benac said.

He also mentioned that Western has an an administration that is equally as committed to preventing sexual violence on campus as student groups are and that’s really important when you talk about building partnerships.

While a lot of schools buy their sexual violence material from third party companies, Western’s housing division created the ‘Upstandard’

program here on campus. It is a violence prevention campaign program that other schools actively seek to adopt, according to Benac.

Coming up

Benac said the USC will be hosting a consent themed forum to have conversations about consent in the context of university life, with representatives from St. Joseph’s Hospital and Dr. Rachel Griffin, a well-known speaker on sexual violence and consent.

The forum will be held on campus on Oct 26 and is open to the community.

When Liberal candidate Peter Fragiskatos went to his campaign office Saturday morning he was bewildered to find red graffiti covering his campaign office.

Fragiskatos, formerly a political science professor at King’s University College, is the Liberal candidate for London North Centre riding in the upcoming federal election.

“We showed up at 8:30 a.m. for a campaign meeting and to be greeted in that way is obviously disappointing,” Fragiskatos said.

This act of vandalism is more strange than most because the graffiti read “Down with Harper” and Fragiskatos is a Liberal candidate.

Susan Truppe, the current MP for London North Centre, is the candidate for the Conservative party.

Both Fragiskatos and Truppe are unaware of how many people were involved or the motive — it is a mystery if the vandalism was meant to be ironic, if the vandals mistook Fragiskatos’ party.

“It’s as strange as it is disappointing,” Fragiskatos said. “We’re obviously trying to move beyond Mr. Harper, as well as a campaign.

The Liberal party is putting forward policies that we think will put the country on a better footing.”

The act has garnered media attention and other politicians have spoken out about the vandalism. On Saturday, Truppe spoke out about the incident on Twitter.

“I’ve read that an opponent’s campaign office was vandalized.

Very unacceptable and unbecoming

of London and democracy,” her tweet read.

Fragiskatos echoed Truppe’s comment on the vandalism negatively demonstrating democracy. “[Vandalism is] disrespectful to the process of democracy,” he said.

“The foundation of any democracy is respect — without respect you can’t have any democracy.”

Fragiskatos explained it is common to find vandalism on campaign signs, although it is very unexpected on a campaign office. Truppe elaborated that many individuals are unaware that vandalizing, even if it is merely a sign, is a crime and can result in jail time.

“This is something small businesses face all the time, as well is vandalism... I would certainly encourage any victims to go to the police if they do experience that,” Truppe said.

As shocking as the act was it garnered tremendous support from the community and Fragiskatos has been very moved by constituents’ kind responses.

“We’ve received messages of encouragement,” Fragiskatos said.

“We’ve even had people show up, people we don’t know, people from the riding show up with paint cans, paint brushes, wanting to help in some way... [it] is extremely moving when you see something like that.”

Fragiskatos’ campaign has pressed on as they continue canvassing. Fragiskatos believes the best way to move forward from an incident like this is to continue campaigning.

Currently Fragiskatos says no one has been found responsible for the vandalism, although police are looking into it.

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WELL, VANDALS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Federal Liberal candidate for the London North Centre riding, Peter Fragiskatos, looks at graffiti targeting his office on Saturday. Vandals targeted his campaign office with a message of “Down with Harper,” the Conservative leader and current prime minister.

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PLAYING UP A STORM. Students were serenaded by a young busker all afternoon, as he strummed on his guitar for first-years and fourth-years alike outside of D.B. Weldon Library.

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September isn’t just a busy month for students, with spammers and phishers also increasing their activity during this time, according to ITS. Jeffrey Gardiner, central information security officer with Information Technology Services, says spamming and phishing activities see a spike in September to target incoming students.

“We have first-year students coming in, for example, that haven’t been acclimatized to Western,” Gardiner said.

“They’re new here – maybe they haven’t ever thought about clicking on links and so I think it’s just something that the phishers themselves have chosen to do – increase the number of attacks.”

Gardiner believes one motive for phishing attempts on Western students is to gain access to Western’s paid resources.

“For example, our library system

pays millions of dollars for their online journals and if your credentials are lost, the most common result is that those credentials are used to harvest online journals,” he said. “That costs the university money.”

WesternOne cards are also targets as they are linked to students’ meal plans, Gardiner added.

Currently, spam mail and phishing attacks are filtered through both Microsoft’s anti-spam system and Western’s native anti-spam system.

Western’s filter works on a ‘spam value’ system that flags emails that include certain phrases or display particular behaviors such as sending great volumes of emails with the same subject line.

Gardiner added the increase in spam and phishing messages that get through to the Western community’s inboxes are not connected to the recent change in email servers from Convergence to Office 365.

For more information on how to avoid falling for phishing emails, visit cybersmart.uwo.ca.

News Briefs

By 2022, most new jobs will require a university degree

A recent report on employment by the Council of Ontario Universities has good news for undergraduates looking for jobs.

According to the COU, 71 per cent of jobs created by 2022 will require a university degree. Furthermore, recent Ontario graduates earn about 33 per cent more than graduates across the country.

These facts come as no surprise to Jeff Watson, the associate director of employer relations at Western.

“It’s just evolved to the point where a lot of companies, because of the demand for their jobs, will require a higher credential. In this case, it’s a university degree.”

Since 2004, 1.5 million university graduates have been employed in Canada out of which 609,000 got

jobs in Ontario. The number of university grads in Ontario who got jobs increased by 57,500 over the last year, according to the COU. Particularly, Watson thinks having a Western degree gives an even greater advantage to graduates.

“That’s largely because of the opportunities they have at Western to build those skills and attributes.

In turn, employers will focus on recruiting and hiring them because of their extraordinary talent.”

For any Western students worried about employment after graduating, Watson had a few hopeful messages for them: “After two years, people were employed in their field at a rate of 93.9 percent from Western… The truth of the matter is that students are getting careers in what they studied. ” • Luke Sabourin

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Western slips one spot in QS ranking Amy O’Kruk NEWS EDITOR @AmyAtGazette

Canadian universities took a tumble on the world stage in 2015, according to an annual report published

by Quacquarelli Symonds’ World University Rankings.

Western University’s world university ranking fell one place in 2015. While the school placed 191th in 2014, Western dropped to 192nd this year.

Notably, many other Canadian universities took greater hits.

Fourteen out of the top 15 Canadian universities fell in the rankings between 2014 and 2015.

The University of Ottawa dropped 66 places and the University of Toronto dipped from 20th to 34th.

The University of Waterloo was the only school to rise in the ranks — from 169th to 152nd.

Alan Weedon, vice-provost academic planning, policy and faculty at Western, said he thinks Western remained unscathed by the rankings because of the university’s initiatives gaining visibility.

“The university has been doing a number of things in recent years that are starting to have an impact on how we are seen,” Weedon said.

“The fact that we didn’t drop like many Canadian universities reflects the fact that that message is getting through.”

QS World University Rankings also changed their methodology practices between 2014-15, which could account for shifted rankings among Canadian schools. In 2015, it

normalized its citations per faculty indicator.

Overall, Western placed eighth among other Canadian schools, unchanged since last year. McGill University rose to the No. 1 spot, knocking UofT out of its previous post and into second place.

Weedon warned that while Western acknowledges rankings systems like the QS Rankings, they aren’t always accurate.

“There’s a lot of concern about how those rankings are determined and the methodologies they use,” Weedon said. “For example, an awful lot of it is based on what people think the reputation of the university is, which isn’t really based on good data.”

He added however, that Western recognizes the rankings because they can influence how other people perceive the university, like prospective students or prospective faculty.

QS examined 3,539 universities globally and ranked 891. Its methodology uses six differently weighted indicators: academic reputation, faculty student ratio, citations per faculty, employer reputation, proportion of international students and proportion of international faculty.

Western’s highest ranking subject was philosophy at 48th and its life sciences and medicine faculty scored 145th.

“We’ve been taking a lot of initiatives in recent years to try and raise the university’s profile,” Weedon said.

“We’re not trying to rise in the ranking, but we will inevitably rise in the rankings if some of those things are successful.”

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SAVE A LIFE, WIN AN AWARD. Fourth-year health science student Rachel Holloway receives a citation from the director of Campus Police, John Carson, and vice-president resources and operations, Gitta Kulczycki, for saving the life of a former professor who collapsed at the Rec Centre last spring. She was one of five people recognized for their efforts.

Students honoured for saving retired prof’s life Rita Rahmati NEWS EDITOR @RitaAtGazette

A ceremony took place Tuesday night to honour members of the SERT and lifeguard teams at Western for saving the life of a man on campus last March.

Arsenio Giron, a retired music professor at Western, finished up a swim on March 14 and was taking a shower at the Recreation Centre when he collapsed.

“I just simply collapsed in the shower room and I was rescued by strangers,” Giron said.

Luckily for Giron, the trained volunteers and staff students on campus immediately came to the scene to help.

Recognized with a citation from the director of Campus Community Police, were SERT members Rachel

Holloway, Daniel Yacoub and Jessica Asztalos, and lifeguards Matthew Coupland and Kaitlin Jack — all of whom were involved in administering CPR and a defibrillator. Also mentioned for their help in assisting at the scene were lifeguards David Ferguson and Kyle Emerson and off-duty SERT member Greg Skerrat.

“They did an amazing job. When they got there Mr. Giron’s vital signs were absent, he had no pulse, he wasn’t breathing and they brought his pulse back,” said J.C. Aubin, a staff sergeant with Campus Police.

Aubin was the supervisor at the scene and merely observed the SERT and lifeguard students do their job. After SERT and lifeguards did their part in saving Giron’s life he was taken to the hospital and has since fully recovered.

The entire incident came as

a shock to both the victim and school.

“No prior warning — I didn’t have any symptoms, I was in good health. It came to me as a complete surprise,” Giron said.

Aubin said that in his six years at Western he has never seen such a severe event occur. He said they did a “wonderful job” and Giron was back to health because of them.

Both Giron and his wife expressed their gratitude and this ceremony enabled their appreciation to be shown to the individuals who helped save Giron’s life.

“It was very nice, I’m so glad they were recognized and given their awards,” Giron said.

Aubin concluded that this incident demonstrates that training for SERT volunteers at Western is sound and effective.

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Local craft brewer Toboggan Brewing Company takes us through the process of making a beer.

Amy O’Kruk NEWS EDITOR @AmyAtGazette

What’s a craft brewery anyway?

While exact definitions vary, in Ontario, a craft or microbrewery is a small brewery that traditionally produces single-purpose batches of beer. All Ontario craft brewers pledge to brew naturally with malt and other grains and with no chemical additives, fillers or preservatives.

In London, the latest craft brewery on the scene is Toboggan Brewing Company on Richmond Row. There, the microbrewery concocts upwards of 10 different craft beers from seasonal ales, like its pomegranate wheat beer, to heavier suds, like a double IPA or stout.

Toboggan Brewing Co. took The Gazette underneath its restaurant’s freshly renovated dining space to showcase how craft beers are made — from barley to brew to, hopefully, the hands of thirsty patrons.

1. Malting the barley To make the barley grains ready to be fermented into alcohol, the barley is steeped in water, germinated and dried. This process converts the barley into malt, or grains with the enzymes needed to later transform the barley’s starches into sugar.

2. The roast Following the drying process, the malt can be roasted to produce different flavor and aroma profiles in the final product. A lightly roasted

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malt will produce a pale beer, like an ale, whereas deeply roasted malts produce dark beers like stouts.

Did you know: All of the colour in a beer depends on the type of malt.

the separation of the liquid and solid portions in the finished mash.

Did you know: Where the mashing is a chemical process, the lautering is essentially physical.

3. Milling Next, the whole-kernel malt is run through a mill that cracks the kernels open and exposes their starchy core. This will produce more wort — the sugar water extracted from the malt during the mashing process.

5. Boiling the wort From the lauter tun, the wort goes to the boil kettle where the beer is brought to a boil, sterilizing it in the process. This is also when the hops are added.

Did you know: Hops are the flower of the hop plant, which is a member of the hemp family. Hops contain a bitter essential oil that counters the sweetness from the malt. The earlier the hops are added, the more bitter the beer.

4. Mashing Before the malt can yield wort, however, it’s mixed with hot water in a vessel called a mash tun between 65-68 degrees Celsius. Here, the natural malt enzymes in the “mash” break down the grain starches into sugar.

5. The wort Next, the mash is transferred to a lauter tun where the sugar water goes through lautering, which is

6. Cooling the wort Next, the hops are removed and the wort is clarified. The brew then goes through a heat exchanger which brings it back to room temperature very quickly, preventing bacterial growth.

7. The fermenters Afterwards, yeast is added to the beer and it converts the sugars in the wort to carbon dioxide and alcohol. The brew ferments for upwards of a week, when it is then officially considered beer.

Did you know: The type of yeast used dramatically impacts the type of beer produced. Top fermenting yeast will produce an ale, whereas a bottom fermenting yeast produces a lager.

8. The brite tank Lastly, the beer is transferred to its final vessel, a serving or “brite” tank, where it can further mature, carbonate, be stored for kegging and, finally, be consumed. Cheers!

Did you know: Judges at the Canadian Beer Awards evaluate great brews based on five criteria: aroma, appearance, flavour, mouthfeel and overall impression.

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Beyond the comical Richard Joseph ARTS AND LIFE EDITOR @RJAtGazette

Superhero films are being released faster than anyone can watch them and their popularity has led to a revived interest in another medium: the comic book.

Although the fantastic world of Marvel and DC is entertaining, not all comics deal with the muscle-bound spandex models we see on screen. Increasingly, comics are being used to deal with a grim, stark reality — even for social commentary.

The movement to establish comics as a serious medium began decades ago. In the '70s and '80s, American cartoonist Art Spiegelman was working on Maus, a postmodern graphic novel which addressed the experiences of Spiegelman’s father, a Polish Jew during the Holocaust.

It was the first graphic novel to ever receive a Pulitzer Prize.

“Maus was really when people realized … comics aren’t just male power fantasies, they can be something more,” says Tim Blackmore, a Western professor in information and media studies. “So initially, yes, it was difficult to get people to take comics seriously, but those struggles were mainly in the ‘80s. Recently there’s been a mainstreaming of that sort of culture.”

Nicole Burton, founder of the Toronto-based comics publisher Ad Astra Comix, anticipated the market for graphic novels and comics focused on social commentary.

“When I started [the company] in 2012, I wanted to create comics about social justice, to talk about serious subject matter responsibly and in comic form,” she says.

Ad Astra Comix does consultations, social media work, blogging, articles, crowdfunding promotions, advises artists and writers, and publishes.

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Today, comics are one of the fastest-growing sections of American libraries. But before Spiegelman’s Maus won a Pulitzer Prize, comics were mostly seen as playful fantasies for children somehow inferior to the novel.

Blackmore disagrees. “We’re not losing anything with comics,” he explains. “When a medium joins other media, we engage in a both-and, not an either-or sort of behaviour. People thought that TV would kill radio, but in fact it made radio stronger.”

Burton says comics have an appeal that longer-form, text-based media does not: accessibility.

“If you share an article about the Mike Duffy trial or missing and murdered aboriginal women … only [a few] people will read it,” says Burton. “But comics are incredibly quick to digest, to read and understand – even when dealing with really inaccessible subject matter like tax reform.”

Serious graphic novels have even made their way into the world of education. Scholastic, a prominent comics publisher for schools and high schools, has works like Bone gracing every library. Blackmore himself has taught Maus and Dark Knight at Western since 1997.

Burton also works with schools to bring comics into the classroom.

“Some teachers now have a provincial mandate to teach about residential schools and we have engaging comics that talk about that,” she says. “I definitely think that’s the future of education.”

But perhaps because of the marketing and popularity of superhero comics, the West is lagging behind in this development.

“The average person here still views comics as lowbrow entertainment, because we’ve labelled them ‘books for children,’ ” Blackmore explains. “But then … you look at Japan, at Korea, these cultures [that are] hugely driven by that kind of literature. It’s understood as a national art form. We dumbed down comics and now we have some catching up to do.”

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Maths Formulas Free has you covered. It provides all the mathematical formulas you will ever need, all in one easy-to-navigate app.

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Most people swear by their apps – and why wouldn’t they? They provide us with a completely redefined way of interacting with our devices and if done right, keep us staring at our phones for hours. Looking for a good way to take notes in class? There’s an app for that. Love your phone, but hate the look of its software? There’s an app for that as well. There’s actually an app for almost anything you need, but if you’re unsure of where to begin, here is the first installment of essential apps you need to get you started.

TRANSPORTATION Maps.me Whenever you find yourself travelling, the last thing you want to see is your phone battery go down and your data usage go up while downloading a map. That’s where Maps.me comes in. It provides easy-to-use offline maps and you can also access your GPS to give you turn-by-turn navigation — all while offline.

PRODUCTIVITY OneNote OneNote has everything you could ever want in a note-taking app. OneNote gives you the ability to create multiple notebooks for all the classes you’re taking and allows you to write plain text notes, add photos, voice recordings or even draw a picture. OneNote will also sync your notes across all your devices.

Genius Scan Genius Scan is a document scanner that allows you to take pictures of receipts, notes, documents or anything else and then convert them to PDF with a tap.

MATH Wolfram|Alpha Wolfram|Alpha is a powerful online computational knowledge engine – it’s basically a website that’s really good at doing math.

Many people will be used to the traditional desktop version, but the good news is that you can take Wolfram|Alpha on the go with this mobile app.

Maths Formulas Free It’s happened to us all: you’re sitting down to finish your math

Google The Google app is one of the most useful apps you can download in the app store.

It works using Google Now Cards, which provides you with alerts, reminders and personalized recommendations. Not sure if you need a jacket? When you wake up in the morning, a weather card will be there with the forecast. Have an appointment? A card will pop up reminding you of your appointment and will even map you a route and tell you when you need to leave in order to be there on time.

Google can also access your Gmail and give you relevant cards based on your emails.

And when you’re done with a card, all you have to do is swipe it away.

Any apps that I missed? If you have any questions or suggestions, email Shachar at a shachardahan1@gmail.com.

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SENATE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON RENEWAL In June 2015, in response to concerns about its effectiveness and the lack of university community participation in decision-making processes at Western, Senate established an ad hoc committee with the following terms of reference: 1. To make recommendations that will establish more robust and transparent decision-making practices and processes at Western.

2. To receive comments and recommendations from across campus and from the affiliated university colleges and to determine ways forward that are beneficial to the whole community.

3. The committee is given the following specific tasks: a. a full review of the state of governance at Western focusing on collegial governance and the role of Senate, including a review of the constitutional documents of Senate including the by-laws and regulations, the terms of reference of all committees, and a review of the development of agendas for Senate meetings; b. such other matters that arise during its investigations with respect to the enumerated tasks of the committee.

The ad hoc committee invites members of the university community to provide their input. This may be done in writing to the committee at senate-renewal-cttee@uwo.ca or in care of the University Secretariat, Room 4101, Stevenson Hall. Alternatively, you may plan to attend one of a number of town hall meetings that will be scheduled over the coming months.

Information about the ad hoc committee, including a schedule of meetings will be available in future at the following web site:

www.uwo.ca/univsec/about/gov_review/senate_rev_index.html

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There’s something about breaking up with someone you just look hotter than you ever did before.

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Avoiding the Be wary of Western’s rank Turkey Dump Green eggs and Hamza

The Nanni Diaries Hamza Tariq BREAKING NEWS EDITOR @HamzaAtGazette

Robert Nanni ARTS AND LIFE EDITOR @RobertAtGazette

Despite the cliché “distance makes the heart grow fonder,” the infamous turkey dump always makes its rounds on Thanksgiving weekend. Going back home to visit your bae for the first time since you left can feel awkward and soon after you may find yourself single once more.

The turkey dump is a phenomenon rumoured to stem from separation issues and exposure to other potential mates. While long-distance relationships can definitely be a struggle for many, the added worry of “what am I missing out on?” plays its role as well.

Although it has been found that long-distance relationships can be as satisfying as geographically close ones, they definitely involve a higher sense of commitment. Being apart can make it easy to fall apart, but this is avoidable to some extent.

So now is the time to take it upon yourself to avoid the turkey dump before it gobbles up your relationship.

First off, you will definitely want to keep in contact.

These next three weeks will be the most important in your relationship, but also the most stressful. Make sure you are making time for your significant other, whether that be through texting, calling or carrier pigeon – whatever it takes to keep your soulmate around. While sending “good morning,” “good night” and “I love you” texts are important, effortful communication is perhaps more important.

Having just ended a 16-month long-distance relationship, I know that daily texting and occasional FaceTime chats can make it seem like everything is fine and dandy.

However, it is important to realize that how each person handles this transition period is extremely variable. Some love the freedom of being away because they are busy and need their space, while others cannot fathom the thought of not having a five-mile radius on their significant other.

With that in mind, make plans to visit. The start of school and Thanksgiving weekend are a whole six weeks apart – that’s six weeks of meeting people, socializing and intoxicated run-ins with “that guy from down the hall” you keep hearing about. A trip to campus gets you in with your partner’s new friends and ingrains you as a fixed part of their life. No way will they want to explain to everyone where you went, and it will really show them how much you care.

While you need to make your partner know you will not be left behind, don’t forget to give them their space too.

There’s nothing worse than feeling unable to do anything for more than seven minutes without three texts and a missed call from bae. This is where it gets difficult. It’s crucial to find a healthy balance of “don’t forget about me” and “do your own thing,” but testing the waters with variable levels of clinginess may help you prevent the turkey dump.

If you do find your partner distant or you personally want to end the relationship, know that it is acceptable to do so. I know very well that leaving someone you care for is not easy, but if you’re finding the relationship problematic then a turkey dump is – through no one’s fault – definitely in order.

At least you’ll have mashed potatoes and gravy afterward to wash down the sadness.

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Much like a renewed season of a bad E! reality show that thrives more on popular demand than originality, the 2015-16 universities’ rankings have been released to much fanfare.

The first major rankings released are the QS World University Rankings. QS is considered one of the premium ranking systems among a plethora.

So how did Western fare this year?

Well, we came in at 192nd, one down from last year. Now we can shake our heads and mutter something about the incompetence of the university administration or we can cheer at the fact that we are a solid 14 positions over Queen’s.

But there’s also a third option: we can look into how Western actually did last year and maybe cast a critical eye over the rankings system.

Western is a world leader in HIV/AIDS research. The university is conducting groundbreaking research and clinical trials for multiple vaccines. In 2014,

Western hired its fourth HIV virologist, which means that the university now has the highest concentration of HIV researchers in the country.

In addition, this fall Western is slated to open a world-class AIDS research facility that is the only one of its kind in Canada and will further propel the university’s research in the area.

Western leads the way in wind engineering research. The university has the world’s most significant wind research facility cluster, which includes four wind tunnels. Some of the department’s major projects include the World Trade Centre in New York, most structures at Canary Wharf in London, England, and the CN Tower, amongst others.

In 2014, Western researcher Adrien Owen was the first to show that some vegetative patients are able to communicate. Since then, investigators at the Brain and Mind Institute have pioneered novel techniques to detect consciousness in vegetative patients.

So now the question arises, are the rankings really a fair assessment of how the university is doing in comparison to other institutions?

I don’t think so. The QS rankings’ methodology, like many other ranking organizations, depends heavily on ‘reputation’ surveys. This method has faced regular criticism and is considered an easy way out where surveys

are conducted, rather than focusing on the university’s teaching and research.

QS also has an interesting star-based evaluation system. Here, the university pays to be audited and be rated out of five stars. This ‘product’ offered by QS can cost a university $30,000 for three years. Interestingly, Western has five stars in this paid category.

Therefore, to move up the charts, universities are incentivized to focus more on what the ranking organizations are looking for rather than prioritizing academic freedom and innovation.

Western itself should avoid falling victim to such measures and concentrate on having high academic and employment standards.

The obsession with rankings can potentially open doors to incidents where data is manipulated by institutions to appear more competitive. Such an incident occurred in the States where a highly ranked college reported false SAT scores for six years to ranking publications like the U.S. News and World Report.

Rankings are not an accurate representation of a university’s academics or learning and teaching experiences.

Students and everyone who follows these rankings should realize that more often than not, institutions of higher learning are being held hostage to arbitrary categorizations.

In addition to providing bursaries for students who can’t meet the financial demands of Greek life, Greek Mustangs have collectively raised over $100,000 and put in countless hours of community service for organizations such as Get REAL and the Boys and Girls Club of London.

The Greek community often gets a bad rap, but rarely gets the praise it deserves.

Hopefully anyone reading this article will give the Greek community a sober second thought and not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

• Brandon Linds, IFC President

3) Hazing is not a Greek-only problem. Sports teams, bands and many other student organizations at schools across Canada and the United States have had issues with this. Also, Metlin mentions that we are not governed by the university but we do in fact have strong ties to our international organizations and we follow a strict set of anti-hazing rules.

They visit our chapters a couple of times a year and we have strict reporting processes that help to lessen and eliminate these problems. As Metlin mention in this column, when organizations get caught being involved with any type of hazing actions there are strict sanctions and most of the time these chapters are shut down — often by the chapter’s international organization.

4) Greek life is not part of clubs week, which is why the Panhellenic Council booth and IFC fraternity booths are outside the University Community Centre, not in the Atrium or Mustang Lounge.

Greek life can be an amazing experience with tons of benefits. There is a huge emphasis placed on scholarship, philanthropy, brotherhood/sisterhood and leadership. Please get informed on both sides of the issue if you think Greek life might be for you. There are hundreds of Greeks at Western and worldwide that could vouch for all of the positives that come out of joining.

• Katie Mitchell, Education I

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Re: “The Greek scene shouldn’t be at clubs week,” Monday, Sept. 14, 2015 (online only)

InterFraternity Council president responds The Greek community often comes under fire in opinion pieces. These opinion pieces tend to focus on — and exaggerate — a select few issues in the Greek community, while glossing over or completely ignoring the far more prevalent benefits that Greek life provides not only to fraternity and sorority members, but also to the community at large.

Members of the Greek community are instrumental in helping one another grow into the best possible person they can be. Every organization boasts strong mentorship programs where older, more experienced members take younger ones under their wing to help them navigate the challenging adjustment to university and campus life. Outside of active membership, many organizations maintain strong alumni relations as well, providing networking and more senior mentorship opportunities for young men and women.

The Greek community also exemplifies the power of collective action.

Consistent among all fraternities and sororities is the belief that as individuals privileged enough to attain a post-secondary education, there is a corresponding duty to give back to the less fortunate.

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Greek column disappointing

This afternoon I was disappointed to see the article concerning Greek life on The Gazette website. As a UWO sorority alumna I would like to give an insider’s view on some of the points in the article.

1) It does not cost anything to go through the fraternity recruitment process, just the sorority recruitment process. This is because the process itself costs money (buses are chartered to take the girls from chapter to chapter).

2) Dues cost more than other clubs because more comes along with them.

They cover the cost of sisterhood/ brotherhood events, formals, semi-formals, upkeep of our houses, t-shirts and much, much more. If you come through our recruitment process, we offer a breakdown of where these dues go and you can decide for yourself if they are worth it.

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gameday Western’s cross country and golf teams will be opening up their seasons this weekend. Cross country will travel to Guelph for a meet on Saturday and golf will be hosting a tournament on Friday in London.

From the Forest City to the Big Apple Hala Ghonaim SPORTS EDITOR @HalaAtGazette

It’s first year all over again for a young Canadian committing to new roommates and unfamiliar coffee blends in America’s biggest city.

Sydney Kidd, the Sundridge, Ont. native, established a love for Tim Hortons upon moving away from her hometown, which was too small for an Iced Capp.

“I hear things in Manhattan are quite different,” she says. “I grew up in a town of 1,000 people… But we [will] live outside of Brooklyn so hopefully we will avoid the hustle and bustle of Manhattan.”

Over 8.4 million people populate New York City, which is home to the Riveters – a much different hockey team than the Western Mustangs.

The biology and global development major put her post-graduate studies at Ivey Business School on hold to play in the first American professional women’s ice hockey league: the National Women’s Hockey League. The NWHL was established in 2015 as an alternative to the men’s National Hockey League.

For Kidd, this means she can finally chase her dreams.

“When I was younger, I always wanted to play in the NHL. That was the peak of hockey for me,” she says.

“Then you get older and you realize that maybe that goal is not realistic.”

Though the big city is intimidating, the 22-year-old is looking forward to adapting to all the new changes that will come with joining a diverse team.

“We have girls from Austria, Russia, and Japan, so they’re actually putting us up in two athlete houses,”

Kidd explains.

The New York Riveters have the highest number of international players amongst the four NWHL teams, but she thinks the international divide won’t matter.

“It doesn’t matter where you come from, we all speak the same language: we all talk hockey,” she says. “You can take people from Russia, you can take people from Japan but at the end of the day we are going to be living together working for the same goal.”

That goal would be winning the Isobel Cup, named after the daughter of the donator of the Stanley cup, Fredrick Stanley.

Although Kidd is looking forward to her new goal, she doesn’t question why some of her previous Western teammates decided to stay on familiar rinks.

At the time of Kidd’s signing, two other Mustang teammates were asked to join the league as well. However, Kendra Broad and Kelly Campbell declined.

“They were in a pretty awesome situation where they were offered these contracts early on when they had the opportunity to play for Western for a year,” Kidd explained.

Kidd had run out her Canadian Interuniversity Sport eligibility, so she wasn’t able to return to London.

An alternative could have been playing for the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, which started off to aid many university players who run out their eligibility and need a place to play competitively.

“I have put all these hours into this one sport and I have all this talent built up into this one thing,” Kidd said. “Do I just succumb to being in league hockey or do I try and pursue that somewhere else?”

“I thought about playing in the

CWHL,” she adds, but points out CWHL players have to pay to play, whereas the NWHL will pay her to play. “[The CHWL] shows how much women love playing hockey because they’re not doing it for the glory but for the love of the game.”

An added bonus in Kidd’s NWHL contract is the promise for a 15 per cent chunk of every $120-jersey sold.

“The hardest part about women’s sport is getting that fan base,” she said. “I think NYC is the place to be because there are so many people so we will probably have that audience.”

Here in Canada, Kidd remembers hundreds cheered as she made waves across Canadian University Sport by helping her Mustangs to their first-ever championship win last season.

“The first game was probably the scariest because you’re playing and if you don’t win that game, you have no shot,” she says, “[whereas] if you lose the second game you can still play [for bronze].”

Kidd is glad she took the year off to focus on all aspects of hockey, something she wasn’t able to do when playing at Western.

“It’s hard. You’re trying to put school on the side and focus on hockey for an entire week,” she says.

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All thanks to MUSTANGS oach Dave BarretT. “I speak his name and I get shivers,” she says. “He is sort of that coach that you see in movies that inspires the team in ways that you can’t really put words to.”

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thegazette • Thursday, September 17, 2015

Queen’s and Western: The ultimate rivalry

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We examine the historic feud between the football clubs Serena Quinn SPORTS EDITOR @SerenaAtGazette

There are a few things you agree to when you accept your offer of admission to Western University.

First, if you’re choosing to live on-campus, you agree to be tossed into a lottery system that could have you spending the next eight months of your life in Saugeen-Maitland Hall.

Second, you agree to make purple and white your new favourite colours, even if you only wear those Western sweats to exams or those purple beads out to homecoming.

Third – and perhaps most important – you agree to hate Queen’s.

It’s a perplexing feeling to be standing amongst a sea of students wearing purple and white chanting phrases like “we hate Queen’s.” And while you might not necessarily understand the deep-rooted history of the rivalry, there’s something special about joining in these chants – uniting with your fellow student against a common enemy.

“It’s a very healthy rivalry,” said Western’s athletic director Therese Quigley. “It’s been there for a very very long time across many of our sports. But probably nowhere stronger than in our football history.”

How long is very very long?

Over 86 years, according to Mervin Daub, a former Queen’s football player and author of Gael Force: A Century of Football at Queen’s.

He says the rivalry dates back to Oct. 19, 1929, when Queen’s and Western went head-to-head for the first time.

Queen’s won that game 25-2 on home turf and they also defeated the Mustangs 14-0 in November

for the second time that season. In the very early years of competition between the two schools, Queen’s consistently won over Western until 1931 when the Mustangs won for the first time.

“Queen’s played football for a long time before Western started playing,” Daub said. “We started playing football in 1882 so the Mustangs are a relatively late arrival.”

Before the Mustangs made their way onto the gridiron, Queen’s competed against teams like Toronto and McGill.

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T’S [A RIVALRY] THAT I THINK WILL CONTINUE FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE BOTH OF OUR UNIVERSITIES [HAVE] VERY, VERY HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS, AND VERY HIGH ATHLETIC STANDARDS THÉRÈSE QUIGLEY

WESTERN DIRECTOR OF SPORTS AND RECREATION SERVICES

While Western was late to the football scene in comparison to Queen’s, their induction into intercollegiate play made them the fourth team in a league known as the Old Four – the original four teams of intercollegiate sport.

“There was a time in college football where the premiere league in the country was called the ‘Big Four’ or the ‘Old Four’ and that was Queen’s, McGill, Toronto and Western,” current Queen’s football head coach Pat Sheahan said.

“These were great days. I’m not sure

that college football in Canada has ever returned to the level of importance that it was during the Old Four.”

Through the late 1940s and into the ‘60s, intercollegiate football in Ontario and Eastern Canada was at its peak. The rivalry between Queen’s and Western grew out of the similarities that both universities shared in terms of academic prestige and athletic vigour. This made competing against each other that much more exciting.

“I think the very unique feature about Western and Queen’s is that they have a lot in common over the years,” said Sheahan. “Both school[s] boast a tremendous collegiate attitude and Western and Queen’s were both models for the Canadian collegiate scene.”

While both teams were a part of the original four, the rivalry started because both Western and Queen’s had successful football teams.

It’s argued they were each other’s toughest competition in the league.

“In my time through the late ‘50s and throughout much of the ‘60s [the rivalry] was really important,” said Daub. “McGill had quite a good football team from about 1960-62, but that was the only time that anyone really showed anything besides Queen’s and Western.”

While many other teams in Ontario University Athletics have developed great football teams that pose a challenge to both Queen’s and Western today, the rivalry remains strong because both teams have maintained their athletic prowess.

“The games have been competitive; we’ve gone back and forth, we’ve had some tremendous victories, we’ve had some heart-breaking losses,” Sheahan said.

If you need proof of the level of competition between the two teams

look no further than their win/loss record over the past 86 years.

“I would say 90 games have been played between the two teams before this year. Queen’s has won 45, Western has won 43 and they tied two,” Daub said. “That’s unbelievable.”

It’s by far the closest win/loss record between any team in the league.

Quigley agrees the rivalry is still rooted in both the quality of the football teams and the academic success of both universities.

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T’S GOING TO BE A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT’S GOING TO BE FUN TOO. PAT SHEAHAN

QUEEN’S FOOTBALL COACH

“It’s a fun rivalry but it’s one that I think will continue for a long time because both of our universities [have] very, very high academic standards and very high athletic standards,” Quigley said.

With a passionate rivalry also came a tremendous amount of school spirit and an overwhelming amount of student support for the respective football teams that can’t be matched today.

“You would find thousands of students from Western would make the trek to Toronto, to Montreal [for games],” Sheahan said. “Going to the football games, at that time, seemed to mean much more than perhaps it even means today.”

Perhaps another historical element that added to this rivalry was the disbanding of the Old Four and the reorganization of Ontario’s and Quebec’s intercollegiate football

conferences.

In 1970, Queen’s and McGill went to play in the Ontario-Quebec Athletic Association while Western and Toronto went to play in what is known today as Ontario University Athletics.

“When a lot of the new schools came in with teams like Wilfrid Laurier, Carleton and Guelph and places like that, they split up the league,” Daub said.

“The hope was that football would grow on other campuses, which it has, but what was lost was some tremendous rivalries,” Sheahan added.

Between 1970 and 1999, Western and Queen’s only played two games against one another and those were playoff contests. For 29 years, the two rivals rarely went up against one another and this built-up tension could explain why the rivalry is still so intense today.

In 2001 when Queen’s joined the OUA, there was a chance to rekindle that rivalry again and it’s one that has been going strong ever since.

With Queen’s rolling into town on Saturday, Sept. 19 to take on the Mustangs for the first time this season, the Gaels expect a cold welcome as they walk into rival territory.

“We expect the place to be packed, noisy and for people to cheer every time Western makes a play,” Sheahan said. “It’s going to be a hostile environment but at the same time it’s going to be fun too.”

Adding to the rivalry this Saturday will be the level of competition expected from both teams.

“Western’s got a very good team this year, certainly. I know they have high expectations,” said Sheahan.

“It’s a big challenge for us and a very tough opponent, no question.”

Saturday’s contest is set to kick off at 1 p.m. at TD Stadium.