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His office is surrounded with a candy bowl filled with caramels, a Garfield photo and a Christmas card from Barack Obama. He’s a lover of dogs and owner of three. He’s Professor Nigmendra Narain, but you can simply call him Nig. A political science professor, Nig has been teaching at Western for 16 years and knew he wanted to work in an academic institute since the second year of his undergrad. So enthusiastic about learning, Nig got permission to sit in on extra tutorial sessions just to see how the TAs taught and the way they handled issues.

A big part of Nig’s decision to become a professor was due to his mom being a teacher. Nig’s household was a place where discussing your opinion and views on important subjects was highly promoted.

“Our dinner table had discussion,” Nig says. “So we would be talking, we would be debating issues of the day.

We were never discouraged from talking about politics, talking about religion, talking about the social issues of the day .… We were always brought up to have respectful conversation and to engage in that.”

Growing up, any time Nig and his brother wanted something, they had to present arguments on why the item was useful enough to purchase. Nig reminisces about having to provide solid reasons for wanting computer and video games, such as Dig Dug and Donkey Kong.

Aside from his mother, two big inspirations in Nig’s life were his grandmothers. His maternal grandmother lost

her husband when his mother was just four years old and she was left to raise six children. When she was in her ’80s she came to live with Nig and his family in Canada and managed to learn French in just two years.

“She was imprisoned by the British, she fought for independence [in India], she fought in elections, she faced a lot of challenges over time,” Nig says.

His paternal grandmother had just a third grade education but stressed the value of education for her nine children.

“I would have to say both of them were significant inspirations because their life stories were about resilience,” Nig says. “And in many ways they are the stories of many Canadians that come here and seek to make a better life for themselves.”

As for his life today, Nig lives with his mother and three dogs, Abby, Queenie, and Torino. All of his dogs are rescue dogs: Abby was saved from a puppy mill, Queenie came from an abusive background and Torino was put in dog fights.

“I think the one thing I’ve learned from my dogs is to remember what matters in life is our humanity to each other,” Nig says.

When speaking about influential life advice, Nig recalls words of wisdom from Mrs. Jacobson, a Holocaust survivor who sold his parents their house.

“You can have all the riches in the world, all the friends in the world but at the end of the day the only thing you have left — and this is some advice her parents gave — is what you got in your head,” Nig says.

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Death of Western student inspires petition NATHAN KANTER DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR @NATHANATGAZETTE A Western student struck by an alleged impaired driver late last Wednesday night has passed away.

Andrea Christidis, an 18-year-old first-year health sciences student, succumbed to injuries sustained in the incident and was pronounced dead at London Health Sciences Centre on Friday.

Christidis was a resident of Medway-Sydenham Hall and was from Scarborough, Ontario.

Her death has sparked a petition to install guard rails on Western’s campus. The online petition, started by former Western student Kevin Ross, is posted on change.org and has garnered nearly hundreds of signatures as of Tuesday afternoon.

“As a former Western student I should have spoken up earlier about this problem as cars are continuously getting too close to walkers on campus,” the petition says. “I believe it is time to start building measures to help protect future generations of Western students who are loved. Rest in peace Andrea Christidis.”

On Sunday, Christidis’ uncle, Meni Rizakos, read a statement from the family in front of Toronto media.

“Andrea was a kind, compassionate and loving human being. She was deeply loved, as reflected by the outpouring of condolences, sympathies and prayers from all of those that she touched,” he said. “Her family wishes to express its deepest gratitude to all of the nurses, doctors and support

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staff who provided compassionate care and comfort to Andrea and her family.”

“Her beautiful smile, kind soul and infectious spirit will be missed,” the statement added.

Christidis was walking on the sidewalk on Lambton Drive near Talbot College and the indoor tennis courts on Wednesday evening around 11:30 p.m. when a car jumped the curb and struck her.

She was walking home from a study lab. Witnesses say she was thrown roughly 20 yards by the vehicle.

Yesterday, Western lowered the flag on UC Hill in her honour.

Western president Amit Chakma released a statement over the

weekend as well, to offer his sympathy.

“This is a terrible tragedy and Andrea’s death saddens me deeply,” Chakma said. “I know that I speak for the entire Western community when I say that my heart goes out to her family and friends at this most difficult time.”

Christidis graduated from Leaside High School in June with an honours diploma in both French and English, and had aspirations of working in the medical field.

Yesterday morning there was a funeral at St. Demetrios Church in Toronto.

Western said counselling services are available to students, staff and

faculty at their website uwo.ca/ health or by calling 1-866-925-5454.

The driver of the vehicle, identified as 24-year-old Jared DeJong, has been charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm, impaired operation causing bodily harm and having in excess of 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood by the London Police Service.

DeJong appeared in court last week and was released on $1,500 bail on conditions that include driving and alcohol bans. He is next scheduled to appear in court on November 3.

The LPS is currently investigating and has requested anyone with information in relation to this incident to contact them. n

Andrea was a kind, compassionate and loving human being. She was deeply loved, as reflected by the outpouring of condolences, sympathies and prayers from all of those that she touched.

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Federal Elections 2015

Swing issues: These could change your vote KATIE LEAR NEWS EDITOR @KATIEATGAZETTE

hinder law enforcement’s investigation of actual threats.

SECURITY: BILL C-51

citizens who may be considered threats to national security to Cabinet ministers, who are appointed by the sitting government.

CONSERVATIVES: Bill C-51 is a highly controversial security law recently passed by the Conservative government. It increases sharing of information between government agencies and gives discretionary power, such as assigning people to no-fly lists, over

LIBERAL PARTY: Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has spoken in favour of some aspects of Bill C-51 over others, but wants to limit the powers CSIS and other security agencies would have and bring a mandatory review of the Anti-Terrorism Act every three years.

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NDP: The NDP have been outspoken in their opposition to Bill C-51 and vow to repeal the law.

CONSERVATIVES: Canada’s current electoral system is first past the post, where the government is formed according to the number of electoral districts that have been won (which is determined by who has won the majority of the votes in that riding).

First-past-the-post has long been criticized for not representing the overall percentage of votes received by parties and therefore allowing parties to form governments without earning over 50 per cent of votes. For example, a party that barely loses in every riding would receive no seats, even if they gain a significant number of votes.

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Proposed changes to the current electoral system come from the Liberal, Green and New Democratic parties, where each leader proposes different changes, but a common theme is the possible introduction of proportional representation. Under this electoral system, the number of seats awarded to a party is directly connected to the percentage of votes they receive. For example, if a party were to receive 20 per cent of the overall votes, they would receive 20 per cent of the seats in Parliament.

LIBERAL PARTY: The Liberal Party promises to consider electoral reform measures and bring legislation to reform the electoral system within 18 months of forming a government. In their policy proposal, the Liberals have vowed to consider reforms such as mandatory voting, ranked ballots and proportional representation.

NDP: Should they be elected, the NDP wants to introduce a mixed-member proportional system. In a mixed-member proportional system, voters submit two ballots: one for their local riding and another for the party they want to form the government.

GREEN PARTY: In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Elizabeth May voiced her support for the proportional representation electoral system, as the current system supposedly punishes parties that want to co-operate.

SYRIAN REFUGEE CRISIS CONSERVATIVES: The Conservative government has been criticized for its slow response to the Syrian refugee crisis as the current Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has said Canada

will aim to resettle 10,000 more Syrian refugees over the next three years. In response, the government has announced that they would start an emergency relief fund that would match donations made by Canadians up to $100 million.

LIBERAL PARTY: The Liberal Party has declared that should they form a government, they would take “immediate action” to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada through “immediate, direct sponsorship by the Government of Canada.” They also want to provide $100 million to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees to support relief activities in Syria.

NDP: The NDP has vowed to take in 10,000 refugees by the end of 2015 by appointing a Syrian Refugee Coordinator and working with the departments of Foreign Affairs, Citizenship and Immigration, amongst others.

GREEN PARTY: The Green Party has focused on condemning the Conservative government’s lack of action concerning Syrian refugees, but Elizabeth May has said the government should increase the number of refugees to 40,000 over the next five years. n

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There’s an app for that: Canadian federal elections edition AMY O’KRUK NEWS EDITOR @AMYATGAZETTE Wading through analysis, scouring news sources and searching party websites can cause the most enthusiastic student voters to buckle under information overload. A team of innovators, however, have set out to streamline the path to informed voting — one app download at a time.

“Our mission is … to help people get involved in the political process,” said Fanshawe alumnus and co-founder Trevor Blades. “One of the ways to do that is by creating websites and apps and other various forms of engagement through social media and outreach events.”

The product, Pollenize, is a straightforward, compact elections guide that breaks down each of the major parties’ platforms point-bypoint. It sums up over a dozen issues using jargon-free blurbs accompanied by easy-to-digest visuals. The website and app also helps users discover where they fall on the political spectrum and locates voters’ ridings.

Founded in 2014, Blades said he and fellow Canadian co-founder Miguel Barbosa came up with the idea for Pollenize after a 2014 Toronto mayoral debate.

“One day following one of the Toronto mayoral debates, [Miguel] gave me a call and said … ‘there was a question posed talking about what specific plans the politicians have to engage the youth in politics and encourage them to get out to the polls, and there was no clear answer,’ ” Blades said. “We immediately thought … this is a hole that we can fill right now.”

Since then, Pollenize also covered the 2014 Chicago mayoral elections before gearing up for Canada’s federal election coverage. After October 19, Blades said Pollenize has set its crosshairs on the 2016 American presidential race.

To date, the website has attracted around 100,000 unique visitors and close to 7,500 app downloads.

Voters can check out the website and download the app at www.pollenize.org. n

Our mission is … to help people get involved in the political process. One of the ways to do that is by creating websites and apps and other various forms of engagement through social media and outreach events.

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Where the parties stand on the key issues HAMZA TARIQ BREAKING NEWS EDITOR @HAMZAATGAZETTE

ECONOMY GREEN The Green Party has pledged to shift Canada to a “green economy.” They plan to implement a fee on carbon pollution and provide incentives to environment friendly technologies. The Greens have expressed their opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The party plans to create jobs in the renewable energy and in the infrastructure sector. They will also establish a $15 minimum federal wage.

LIBERALS The Liberals want to conduct a 10-year, $60 billion infrastructure plan that will lead to three straight years of deficits immediately with a balanced budget projected for their fourth year in government. The party is also promising to conduct a review of the TPP and intends to open discussion on it in Parliament.

They plan to increase funding and jobs to deal with youth unemployment. Liberals want to create a new Canada Child Benefit to provide Canadian families more money to raise kids. They also promise to bring the old age security eligibility from 67 to 65.

NDP The NDP plans to create a $1.5 billion annual infrastructure fund and want to increase funding for transit countrywide. The party has stated that it will not consider itself bound to the TPP agreement. They are pledging to increase funding for aerospace companies and investing $40 million in the Canadian Space Agency. The NDP promises to bring the old age security eligibility from 67 to 65. The party wants to create 40,000 more youth jobs. The NDP has pledged to increase the federal minimum wage to $15.

CONSERVATIVE The Conservatives plan to continue most of their current polices. The intend to ratify and implement the TPP if re-elected. They also plan to create 1.3 million new jobs by 2020. They party has promised to increase funding for transit infrastructure in large cities to deal with congestion issues. The Conservatives plan to inject $1 billion over 10 years in the automotive industry.

ENVIRONMENT GREEN The Greens want Canada to lead in world climate negotiations and draw concrete plans to deal with climate change. They intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025. The party plans to cancel the $1.3 billion annual subsidy provided to the fossil fuel industry.

Finding your riding and who’s running IAIN BOEKHOFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @IAINATGAZETTE WHEN TO VOTE Polls will be open for 12 hours on Monday, Oct. 19. Check your local polling station for its hours.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING • One piece of ID with your current address on it, if you live in London.

• Two pieces of ID if you’re not from London and wish to vote here. You will need one piece of ID with your current address and can use a number of other pieces of ID, including your lease, to prove your identity.

• If you’re unsure, go to elections.ca to find out what you need.

LONDON NORTH CENTRE Boundaries: The riding includes Western University and encompasses almost everything north of the Thames between Highbury and Wonderland roads.

Incumbent: Susan Truppe Who’s running: Conservative: Susan Truppe Green: Carol Dyck Liberal: Peter Fragiskatos Marxist-Leninist: Marvin Roman New Democratic: German Gutierrez LONDON WEST Boundaries: Located in the northwest part of London, it encompasses all of London west of Wonderland

Rd. Incumbent: Ed Holder Who’s running: Communist: Michael Lewis Conservative: Ed Holder Green: Dmitri Lascaris Liberal: Kate Young Libertarian: Jacques Boudreau New Democratic: Matthew Rowlinson LONDON FANSHAWE Boundaries: Located in the southeast part of London, this riding encompasses the city east of Highbury Ave. Incumbent: Irene Mathyssen Who’s running: Conservative: Suzanna Dieleman Green: Matthew Peloza Independent: Ali Hamadi Liberal: Khalil Ramal New Democratic: Irene Mathyssen ELGIN-MIDDLESEX-LONDON Boundaries: The riding spans all of Elgin County across Lake Erie and extend north to encompass Thames Centre and the outskirts of southwest London.

Incumbent: Vacant Who’s running: Christian Heritage: Michael Hopkins Conservative: Karen Vecchio Green: Bronagh Morgan Liberal: Lori Baldwin-Sands New Democratic: Fred Sinclair Rhinoceros: Lou Bernardi n

LIBERAL The Liberals plan to put in place emission reduction targets while allowing provinces and territories to set their own carbon pricing policies. They pledge to increase the amount of Canada’s protected marina and coastal areas by 10 per cent by 2020. The party intends to increase funding for parks, wildlife areas and bird sanctuaries.

NDP The NDP has pledged to eliminate subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.

They plan to bring into place a capand-trade system which puts a clear market price on carbon emissions.

They plan on using such revenues to invest in renewable energy projects.

CONSERVATIVE The Conservatives are promising to reduce carbon emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. They have contributed $300 million to the UN Green Climate Fund. The party is opposed to carbon taxation.

SECURITY GREEN The Greens plan to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing. They also intend to repeal Bill C-51. The party has stated that it will legalize and regulate the sale of marijuana.

The Greens also plan to crack down on illegal gun smuggling and review the restricted firearms registry while consulting First Nations and sport shooting organizations.

LIBERAL The Liberals plan to instate strong sentences for serious crimes but deploy mandatory minimum sentences only for serious and violent

offenders. They have pledged to legalize marijuana nationwide. Liberals will repeal Bill C-24 and make amendments to Bill C-51. The party plans to draw a national action plan to treat PTSD in first responders and provide compensation plans for those killed or injured in the line of duty.

support a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict.

LIBERAL The Liberals will end Canada’s role in the bombing campaign in the Middle East but will keep military personnel on the ground to train local forces. They will boost humanitarian aid in the region and allow more refugees to come to Canada.

Liberals intend to increase Canada’s foreign aid funding. They will also focus on improving relations with Mexico and the US and work to lift Mexican visa requirements.

NDP The NDP wants more severe sentences for violent crimes. They also want to focus on rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners, especially those being treated for addictions.

The party has stated that it will repeal Bill C-51 and C-24. NDP will decriminalize marijuana possession and will be open to legalization after consultations on non-medical use.

NDP The NDP pledges to end Canada’s bombing role in Iraq and Syria. The party wants to work towards peaceful solutions in the Middle East. The NDP has also pledged to allow more Syrian refugees to come to Canada.

They want to focus military priorities UN-mandated peacekeeping missions. The NDP will committ considerable amounts to Canada’s foreign aid funding.

CONSERVATIVE The Conservatives will introduce life without chance of parole for crimes of a brutal nature. They plan to restore mandatory minimum penalties for illegal possession of loaded restricted firearms. The Conservatives will consider putting into place a new ticketing system for people possessing 30 grams or less of marijuana. The party has also pledged a RCMP hotline to report ‘barbaric cultural practices.’

CONSERVATIVE The Conservatives are committed to continuing the military mission against ISIS. They will also continue to support Ukrainian security forces and want to increase funding for the Department of National Defence. They have pledged to resettle a number of Syrian refugees in Canada. The Conservatives also intend to provide funds to advocate for religious freedoms in the Middle East and increased foreign aid for maternal and child health in Africa and elsewhere. The party will be looking into instating travel bans for places “ground zero” for terrorist activities. n

FOREIGN POLICY GREEN The Greens will end Canada’s combat role in Iraq and Syria and will look for alternative means to defeat ISIS. The party intends to allow more Syrian refugees to come to Canada.

They plan to increase focus on disaster assistance and away from NATO war missions to UN peacekeeping mandates. The Greens will reduce spending on defence consultants and contractors. The party will also

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Western’s wrestling HALA GHONAIM SPORTS EDITOR @HALAATGAZETTE

He was infamous for his intimidating size in the wrestling ring.

He was so good that he outgrew his high school.

He started his career in London after being invited to train with Western’s wrestling team.

And then… he took off.

“You can imagine this. Mom and dad with nine kids. He was working as well, so they were taking his money to support. He didn’t like that. He wanted to wrestle and he wanted to go to school. He was told ‘you’re not going to school, you have to keep working to support the family,’” Harry Geris’ son, Shawn, said. “He just took off. Went down to the States and got a scholarship and he went against his parents’ wish.”

After following his passion, Harry landed international titles: 10-time Canadian National Champion, three-time Olympian and three-time all-American. His journey ended in 2008 when he passed away in London while assisting the team that started it all: Western Mustangs wrestling.

Shawn wrote Buried in the Maple Leaves: The Untold Story of North

There are people that won’t put up with it … academically.

Some people will drop out.

He didn’t do that. His character never gave up because of his passion and love for the sport.

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American Wrestling Legend Harry Geris to walk readers through his father’s journey of hardship, commitment and triumph.

Although he’s earned multiple titles, Harry’s greatest accomplishment was the way he lived.

“He did things his own way and he usually got things done.... He didn’t let things get in his way,” Shawn said. “We come into contact with people that have these obstacles to get in the way of achieving things. Often these days more people have the tendency to give up.”

It was a theme the wrestling champion lived by whether he was competing or coaching.

“He never gave up if there were obstacles in the way. There were grades.... He had to deal with that as well. There are people that won’t put up with it … academically. Some people will drop out. He didn’t do that.

His character never gave up because of his passion and love for the sport.”

Shawn believes athletes today are growing up in a different, more distracting environment than his father’s.

“We have [video games] that kids get interested in. Sometimes we don’t have the structure at home that has taught us discipline. Back then, there was discipline,” he said. “It kept them in line.... We got parents that are both working and it’s harder to discipline your children at times when you’re not there all the time.”

As a parent himself, Shawn devoted his time to writing his novel

in order to ensure his children don’t take their grandfather’s story for granted. As a young child, Shawn watched his father succeed without fully understanding the extent of his accomplishments. However, the Geris family won’t be the only ones to receive a pleasurable nostalgic experience. The wrestling legend was a well-respected man who inspired many from the very beginning to the final months of his career.

Among the many emails from Western grads, “one in particular would say [the athlete] didn’t have time for practice,” he said. “So my father would drive to his home and practice one-on-one with [the athlete] in the morning…. We lived in the south end of the city so he had to drive to the other end and he worked with [the athlete] for nothing because he wasn’t getting paid. He was doing it for the love of the sport.”

Harry came across as a heroic

mentor who pushed people to succeed in different ways in his society.

Often, those stories of encouragement and inspiration never reach the spotlight and become lost in history. Upon reflection, Shawn wishes he had appreciated his father’s story as a young adult because it would have pushed him a little bit further.

“To get above and over hurdles, you need to motivate yourself because you’re the only person that can actually do things,” he said. “We feel sorry for ourselves a lot in life and it’s probably putting limitations on ourselves because of that.... We should say, ‘yeah I am having a bad day, but we could do more.’ And that’s what I think my dad did.”

From an ordinary boy at a local high school to a recognized wrestling legend, Harry Geris indeed took off, leaving behind a story of true strength and inspiration that will forever live on. n

Men’s hockey team returns with offensive holes NATHAN KANTER DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR @NATHANATGAZETTE It happened last off-season and it’s happened again.

Two years in a row now, Western head coach Clarke Singer has seen his offensive weapons graduate in significant numbers.

First, all three of his top scorers from the 2013-14 season left: the trio of Daniel Erlich, Zach Harnden and Matt Clarke, who finished first, sixth and seventh in Ontario University Athletics in scoring that season.

This past off-season, Western’s three top scorers have left again: last year’s captain Steve Reese, along with wingers Kyle De Coste and Stefan Salituro.

The question heading into the 2014-15 campaign was obvious: who would score goals for the Mustangs?

Well, it didn’t seem to matter too much even without significantly less talent up front: Western dipped in goals-per-game only marginally, from 3.93 goals-per-game to 3.70.

Their regular season record was virtually the same, finishing with a 21–7–0 record in 2013-14 and a 19–7–1 record last year.

Can the same be said for this season? Can Western once again compete for a top spot in the OUA west division despite so many unknowns up front?

It’s possible, but more unlikely this year.

That’s because this season Western has 11 new recruits: seven new forwards, three new

defencemen and one new goalie.

Fans again must ask themselves who will provide the scoring, perhaps with an even more desperate tone than last year.

Points will have to come from some of the new guys because Noah Schwartz can’t do it all. Schwartz is the only returning player who has topped 20 points in his OUA career, doing it last season with 21 in 24 games.

Perhaps one player Singer is hoping will make a big impact is centre Robert Polesello. Polesello, a native of Bolton, Ont., has spent the past two seasons playing for the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League where he tallied 74 points in 86 games. Before Kingston he also spent time playing down in the States at the University of Vermont.

Let’s also not forget about returning centre Cody Brown. He only dressed in five games last year because of injuries but he notched four points in five games.

Before Western, he tore up junior B hockey, scoring 93 points in just 41 games for the Caledonia Corvairs of the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.

The good news for Western is their defence and goaltending are not up in the air. The starting six remain almost unchanged from last year and the goaltending should actually be better.

David Corrente, Stephen Gaskin, Matt Herskovitz, Colin MacDonald, Alex Micallef and Jake Worrad all

return. Whether those are still the starting six remains to be seen, but regardless, it’s a major plus to have a familiar core on the back end.

In goal is where things get interesting.

Starter Greg Dodds returns but he’ll have some major competition in Peter Delmas. Delmas was brought in last season, but because of a Canadian Interuniversity Sport rule about players who have played pro hockey in the last calendar year, had to sit out games and could only practice with Western. Now, singer is ready to push Dodds for the starter role, evident with his impressive 39-save performance two weeks ago in a 2–1 exhibition loss to the Michigan State Spartans.

Delmas and Dodds should make up the best goaltending duo in the OUA this year.

In 2015-16 the Western Mustangs will very much be right in the thick of things. They most likely won’t finish one or two as they have in the past, but there’s no reason they can’t push for home ice for the first round of the playoffs.

Plus, as any OUA hockey fans know, when the playoffs begin it’s truly anyone’s game. Just ask last year’s sixth-seeded Gueltph Gryphons who ended up winning it all.

Westen defeated the Brock Badgers 3-1 last weekend in their season opener and will host the Laurier Golden Hawks tomorrow night at 7 p.m. n

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players over seven innings.

Day two of the tournament saw the Mustangs go up against their toughest opponent yet – St. Clair.

St. Clair was certainly out for revenge this tournament after the Mustangs dominated the 2014 final 9–1 to claim their fourth consecutive national title and leave the Saints with second place.

In this year’s match-up on day two the Mustangs found themselves tied 1–1 with the Saints after seven innings. While the Saints scored two runs in the top of the eighth, Western responded in the bottom of the inning with a score of their own.

The Mustangs then determined the fate of the game when an intentional walk to Riley Cunningham loaded the bases for Lauren Sovereign who hit her second pitch to give the Mustangs a 4–3 win.

Saturday’s win gave Western a bye to the semi-finals, where they defeated Laurier 5–1. They then faced off against St. Clair in the finals, where the game was much closer than last year’s 9–1 thumping.

The Mustangs scored first, getting a single run in the top of the first inning but St. Clair tied it two innings later. The game remained tied until the final inning, when Sarah Bondy hit a walk-off single to claim the championship for St. Clair.

Head coach Pete Lemon was disappointed with the loss and

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wishes they could play the Saints again.

“We didn’t really get timely hits like we normally do and when it’s a one game championship that can happen,” he said. “If we played them a bunch of times I think the results would be different.”

Although Western’s winning streak was snapped, their season is not over yet.

“We have the Ontario championship this week so we’ve got to rebound and show that we’re still the best team,” Lemon said.

The Mustangs will attempt to claim the Ontario crown this weekend when they travel to Kingston for the Ontario Intercollegiate Women’s Fastpitch Association championship tournament. n

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Rowers win individual titles SHANE ROBERTS SPORTS EDITOR @SHANEATGAZETTE This past weekend Western rowers headed to St. Catharines to see how they stacked up against the best competition in the country at the National Rowing Championships.

At the meet, the Mustang rowers competed against competitors of all ages. They also represented their respective provinces instead of the Mustangs.

The top Mustang results were by Ontarians Andre Pelletier and Jill Moffatt, and Saskatchewan native Larissa Werbicki. Over the three day competition they each raced the 2,000 metre course four times.

Pelletier finished fifth overall in the men’s single category and came first place in the under-23 age group category. In the lightweight women’s single Werbicki also came in fifth place overall and first in the under-23 category. Moffatt finished seventh in the lightweight women’s single and second in the under-23 category.

On a personal level, Pelletier was surprised he raced so well considering the setbacks he’s had this past year. Pelletier’s injuries include several back injuries, which he thought occurred because he was training too hard and had some some technical faults in his rowing style.

“I’ve had a lot of injuries this year and I’ve still been able to compete [at] a fairly high level,” he said. “But I think that’s just relying on the years of experience that I have and I was able to do some training, [although] never really consistently.”

In rowing, the mental game is so important that you can’t really assume that you ever got anything in the bag because that’s when somebody will just sneak up on you and beat the crap out of you.

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But a factor in Pelletier’s defeat was his lack of training, he said.

The four rowers ahead of him are all training full-time at the National Training Centre. He hopes to be in their position in the next couple years. In order to get there he believes he needs to train smarter and not harder.

“They’ve all put in the hours and they’re all bigger and older,” he said.

“To get there I’m going to have to

consistently keep up my training over the winter rather than train as hard as I can and then get injured and then have to take a week or two off.”

As for the team, Pelletier declined to make any predictions for the upcoming races.

“I would never say we’re expecting to do anything. Expectations leads to entitlement, which leads to complacency,” he said.

He further went on to explain the need for the team to stay focused on training for the rest of the season.

“In rowing, the mental game is so important that you can’t really assume that you ever got anything in the bag because that’s when somebody will just sneak up on you and beat the crap out of you,” he said.

“So we have to try and really keep our composure and just eliminate any chance of not working as hard as we could in these next couple weeks leading up to OUAs and CUs.” The next two weekends, the Mustang rowing team will be heading back to St. Catharines. Next weekend they will be competing at the Brock Invitational. The following week, they will be competing in the Ontario University Athletics championship. After the OUAs, they will close out their season on Halloween weekend in Nova Scotia at the Canadian University Rowing Championships. n

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Going undefeated throughout both regular season and playoff action is nothing new for the Mustangs softball team. In fact, they had been going undefeated since September 27, 2013, winning a total of 69 consecutive games and claiming four consecutive national championship titles.

What wasn’t new for the Mustangs was losing in the final game of the championship tournament.

That’s what happened last Sunday when the St. Clair Saints downed the Mustangs 2–1 in the last inning, to claim a national gold for themselves and push the purple and white into second place.

“It’s always nice to do well,” Mustangs head coach Pete Lemon said. “We were, of course, hoping to win gold and to lose it in the final inning was a little tough to take of course.”

Fans watching the tournament may have been surprised at the outcome as the Mustangs dominated their first day of action on Friday, Oct. 9.

Western’s first opponent was the Calgary Dinos. The Mustangs took the early lead in the bottom of the first inning to put the Lady’ Stangs up 1–0, a lead that the Mustangs maintained until the top of the fifth.

Despite the limited scoring until that point, Western came away from the fifth inning with eight hits and five runs to win the game 9–1.

Immediately after the win the Mustangs went on to play the host Durham Lords. While the Lords got onto the scoreboard first with a run in the third inning, it was the Mustangs that walked away with the 4–1 win as Western’s Rachael Jacques allowed the home team only four hits, one run and one walk, while striking out eight

We didn’t really get timely hits like we normally do and when it’s a one game championship that can happen. If we played them a bunch of times I think the results would be different.

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RICHARD JOSEPH ARTS & LIFE EDITOR @RJATGAZETTE As an English major, I’m pretty much the opposite of a medical science student — my future holds no vast wealth and the only thing I’m nursing is a hangover. But there’s one thing I share with the illustrious physician and that is my god-awful handwriting.

It’s just one in a long list of reasons I prefer to use a laptop for my academic work. I can keep all my notes organized, legible and in one place; I can get electronic versions of my course texts and forego dragging 50 pounds of overpriced textbooks around campus. But above all, I should be allowed to use my laptop in class because I’m a goddamn adult, it’s my education and it’s the 21st century.

There’s an implicit assumption that young people are too irresponsible to be trusted with modern tech because their weak minds will succumb to the allure of the Internet.

There’s no hope that serious, dedicated students might use these tools wisely; no understanding that a disengaged student is going to stay disengaged, whether he’s surfing the web or doodling in his notes.

There is a lot of research that would seem to support the anti-laptop attitude in classrooms. There was the landmark 2003 study by Cornell University, “The Laptop and the Lecture,” a subsequent study by Princeton and UCLA entitled “The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard,” and an article in the New Yorker by Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore called “The Case for Banning Laptops in the Classroom,” all to the same effect: using your laptop is less effective in terms of engagement and learning than the old-fashioned pencil and paper method.

While these studies are concerning, the solution isn’t as simple as just banning laptops outright. First

of all, what happened to university being for adults? Students scrolling mindlessly through their Facebook feed during lecture are screwing up their own education, which they paid for. Hopefully they learn from their mistakes and buck up, also known as growing up — or they don’t. Either way, it’s not the teacher’s responsibility to hand-hold them through the course. There’s already enough mollycoddling in an institution that claims to prepare us for the world at large.

Additionally, if there’s anything we’ve learned from the last 50 years of education, it’s that different people have different learning styles. An instructor telling me that they know how my mind works better than me — well, it’s a tad presumptuous.

But let’s look at the bigger picture here. No matter how rational and legitimate these studies are, progress is unstoppable. A few thousand years ago, Plato and his contemporaries believed speech was far superior to the written word.

They claimed true knowledge was known intrinsically and displayed rhetorically, not recited from marks on a page. And yet here we are today, spending thousands of dollars on textbooks and fervently taking notes in class. Now, the world is changing again and education is going to change with it, whether we like it or not.

Maybe we can look at the results of these studies a different way.

Maybe there’s a disconnect between the 19th-century model of university education and the tech-oriented world we live in today. Maybe — members of faculty might want to sit down here — it’s time to change the lecture. As we move from a written tradition to a digital one, we should be trying to integrate online resources and digital activities into our classrooms instead of denying the future.

Banning new technology didn’t work with music piracy and it won’t work with education. Universities can either adapt to the real world or bury their heads further in the stodgy sands of academia and suffocate. n

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his year’s federal campaign has seen a serious debate about how we run our elections.

The NDP, Liberal and Green parties are promising electoral reform in one shape or another.

The Conservatives say they want to stick with our current system, first past the post.

This system, however, means parties with less than 50 per cent of the vote can have a majority of seats in Parliament. In fact, despite having many majority governments, just once in the last 50 years has a party won 50 per cent of the popular vote.

Most of the time, this has benefitted whatever party controls one side of the spectrum. In the 1990s, the Liberals controlled the left and right wing parties split the vote. In recent years, the opposite has happened, with the Conservatives benefitting from vote splitting on the left.

This system has led to calls from all parties who have been in opposition at one time or another that the system itself is unfair and they have no hope of forming government.

Ranked ballots, too, would favour whatever side of the spectrum has the majority of parties, leaving us back at square one.

A bigger issue is how electoral reform happens.

Should the government be able to push it through, as the NDP and Liberals have said they would?

That answer is no. Those in power, if given the chance, will set up the system to keep themselves in power for as long as possible. This is why you see gerrymandering in the US, with the ruling party drawing out districts that benefit them the most.

Electoral reform should be left up to the voters and independent bodies, such as Elections Canada. The last time there was an electoral reform referendum in Ontario, voters rejected it. Even if the parties want it, that doesn’t mean Canadian citizens do.

So, what can be done in the meantime to make our democracy better? That answer is mandatory voting.

But what should be done about this, if anything?

Make election day a holiday, institute a fine for not voting and give every possible opportunity for people to take part in the democratic process.

Alternate systems might solve some issues but they have their flaws as well. Proportional representation would inevitably lead to minority governments, especially since Canadians seem scared of the “c” word: coalitions.

Running a first past the post election with mandatory voting might be all we need to “fix” our system.

And even if it isn’t, it will give us valuable data and insight into the Canadian voter without favouring any one party over another. n

Learning vs. education: Staying true to the university’s mission EDMUND GOEHRING OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE How would Socrates fare in an outcomes-based academy? Early on in The Republic, a discontented student temporarily upends a peaceable discussion that Socrates had been conducting about justice. The student, Thrasymachus, muscles himself into the conversation with the assertion that justice is the advantage of the stronger. Socrates parries his adversary’s advance by doing what he always does: asking questions.

Soon thereafter, Thrasymachus finds himself losing his original bluster and his bellicosity evaporates into “a wonderful quantity of sweat.”

“A wonderful quantity of sweat.”

That does not seem to me a bad outcome for an education. Somehow, though, I suspect that this is not

what the University had in mind in asking that our syllabuses dictate to our students what the outcome of their education will be.

Unless the University is referring to that or to kindred virtues like an expanded sense of wonder or an increased self-awareness then it is disavowing the idea of education itself.

That disavowal reaches down to the letter of things, as the word “education” comes to us by way of the Latin “ex-ducere,” which means to “bring out” or “lead forth.” The syllabus that tells you what the class’s findings will be or the paper assignment that tells you what conclusions your essay must draw does not promise education but indoctrination.

This call for an inventory of outcomes presumes that we have

a sufficient understanding of ourselves, as individuals and as a species, to know in advance what things will or ought to look like for us. Instead of coming from a love of learning and a curiosity about the world, outcomes emanate from education’s nemesis, High Consumerism.

I received a vivid sense of its countenance in a recent meeting where an administrator from another institution — but, remarkably, in the field of education — said that his son, who was now attending university, was entitled to know the outcomes of his classes.

This is learning as user-friendly experience, where the world serenely genuflects to our desire, and if you don’t like what you get, you can always exchange it for something more compliant.

Of course teachers have obligations to their students. Teachers, as temporary custodians of souls, are obligated to listen, to pursue truth, to encourage and, most of all, to challenge, because none of us knows who we are or what we are capable of until we have confronted something different from and larger than ourselves.

Of all of the deficiencies in

the language of outcomes — the self-satisfaction that we today know better than those from our past, the illiberality cloaked as freedom of choice, the disabling false promises of success, the pseudo-scientific presumption that you can quantify learning of all those shortcomings, it is that smallness, that meagerness, that is most dispiriting. We owe it to ourselves and the larger public we serve to advance a larger, more generous, and truer vision of learning.

Edmund Goehring is an associate professor in the Don Wright Faculty of Music. n

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SHACHAR DAHAR GAZETTE STAFF @GAZETTECULTURE Last week, Microsoft held a press conference to showcase their new devices. Here’s everything you need to know about them.

SURFACE BOOK

The Surface Book is Microsoft’s first venture into the laptop market and every inch looks like a rival to Apple’s MacBook Air. The Surface Book features a 13.5” touchscreen and has a resolution of 3000 x 2000, giving it an impressive pixel density of 267 ppi.

The Surface Book weighs 3.34 pounds – about the same weight as the 13” Retina MacBook Pro. The laptop’s dynamic fulcrum hinge lets it open and fold into all kinds of positions and also allows the keyboard-bearing base to be removed completely, turning the Surface Book into a standalone tablet.

As well as a traditional keyboard and touchpad, the Surface Book comes with a stylus for precision work. Microsoft says the Surface Book will have a battery life of up to 12 hours. It measures 22.8 mm thick at its widest point. The most expensive version of the Surface Book maxes out at 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SSD storage with an Intel Core i7 processor.

The two things that stuck out to me were the fact that Microsoft opted to not include an HDMI port and the strange choice to design a laptop that isn’t entirely level when closed.

SURFACE PRO 4

The Surface Pro 4 is the latest iteration of Microsoft’s Surface Pro series and is better than its predecessor in nearly every way. The Surface Pro 4’s 12.3” screen has a resolution of 2763 x 1824 compared to the 12” 2160 x 1440 Surface Pro 3 display.

Weighing 1.73 pounds and measuring only 8.45 mm thick, the Pro 4 is both lighter and thinner than the Pro 3. There are a few different versions of the Pro 4 that max out at the same specs as the Surface Book.

LUMIA 950/950 XL

The Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950 XL phones will be the first to run

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Windows 10. The Lumia 950 comes with a 5.2” AMOLED display, a 1.8 GHz hexacore Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, 3 GB of RAM, a 3000 mAh battery and a 20 megapixel camera. It has 32 GB of storage and allows for 200 GB of expandable storage.

The Lumia 950 XL is similar to the 950, except for the fact that the 950 XL comes equipped with a 5.7” AMOLED display – making it larger than the 950 – a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and a 3340 mAh battery. The 950 XL is 8.1 mm thin, compared to the 8.25 mm 950.

Both phones support Microsoft’s Continuum technology, which, when connected to a monitor and keyboard, uses the new Microsoft Display Dock to effectively transform a mobile device into a fully-functional PC, albeit one that’s limited to Windows 10 apps.

On paper, the new Lumia phones are quite impressive, but until Microsoft gets their app store in order, I would stick with Android or iOS. If you have any questions or suggestions, email Shachar at shachardahan1@gmail.com. n

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COURTESY OF SHELLEY NIRO ALUMNA MAKING MOVES. Shelley Niro encourages other people of colour to tell their stories, whatever way they can.

In a society comprised of little pleasures and low attention spans, films act as outlets for people to stop and listen to the stories others need to tell. They demand attention; they’re captivating and open your eyes to a world you may not have understood before. And for Western alumna Shelley Niro, film was the best medium for her to debut her latest project, Niagara.

Niro graduated from Western in 1997 and has been working from project to project to keep herself in the film industry. Branching out on her own, Niro made Niagara: two stories of her daughter and grandmother told over the backdrop of Niagara Falls. It’s a simple short film spanning 5 minutes, but she’s grabbed attention from major organizations like imagineNATIVE and Toronto International Film Festival.

ImagineNATIVE, an annual film and media arts festival that takes place in October, accepted Niro’s short film into its diverse programming list that shows films from indigenous filmmakers around the world. The festival will be showing her short film at the TIFF Bell

COURTESY OF SHELLEY NIRO NIAGARA. Niro’s film will be on the big screen on Saturday, October 17th.

Lightbox theatre as part of a series called The Grandfather of All Treaties.

It’s been a long ride for Niro after working alone as a one-woman production team. She joked about her production of the project since all she had was a camera, a megaphone and herself.

Niro went onto discuss her editing habits and perseverance, saying, “I think it’s about continuing to make stuff and not being too critical about what you’re doing. There is a time and place to be critical, but if you want to produce, you just have to jump in, hold your breath and go for it.”

Niagara also traces back to Niro’s Mohawk roots as the first few titles explain the origin and definition

of the word “niagara,” unraveling another word deriving from First Nations languages but altered in the face of English.

When asked about Canada’s convenient recognition of First Nations people and culture, Niro says, “I feel that reparations have been limited and you really have to try and find your own way most of the time. And if you can [get your art out there], get it made and get it projected, then it’s quite an amazing journey.”

Niro went on to encourage people of colour to continue telling their stories no matter the resistance because of the importance of existing in a space. She also called out for people to seek out such works to open their eyes to the world around them.

“Please go to the films that are being showcased, because they won’t be shown too much in that kind of atmosphere and environment,” she said. “You’ll walk away and think, ‘I’ve never seen something like that before’ or ‘somebody is telling my story as well.’ I think [festivals] are a great opportunity to really engulf yourself in film.”

Niagara will be playing at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Saturday, Oct. 17 at 2:45 p.m. n

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Welowszky hopes his viewers see themselves and others as beautiful people. After playing his first short film Debt Sentence (2014) in over seven film festivals, he began looking into the music scene in London and made his latest short film Et Tu Dude? (2015). While making the project, he became close with a few local bands and even made a music video for So Young’s Whatever I Want

To. With two successful projects on his back and several connections, Welowszky continues to showcase people’s passions on the big screen to inspire others to go after their dreams.

INFLUENCES: Chris Marker, Werner Herzog, Harmony Korine, David Bowie PAST, PRESENT FUTURE: Welowszky started dabbling with films around 2013 when he was with the Western Solidarity Network. Originally capturing footage during the O-Week protests, the videos eventually snowballed into his short film Debt Sentence, solidifying his ambitions in the film world. Currently he’s focusing on capturing more of the London arts scene as Et Tu, Dude? features in the Montreal World Film Festival, Hamilton Film Festival and its London premiere at the Annual Winter Spectacular Festival.

Welowszky looks to send his films to bigger festivals after this year to get the world out about the London scene. He’s also working a new short film that he plans on releasing next year.

Documenting something seems like such a powerful, political act in a weird way. To be able to capture things in such a transient city like London where there are so many people… there is some kind of record of their lives and the people who were here.

TRAVIS WELOWSZKY “Documenting something seems like such a powerful, political act in a weird way. To be able to capture things in such a transient city like London where there are so many people… there is some kind of record of their lives and the people who were here,” he says.

WHERE CAN PEOPLE FIND YOU?: You can contact Welowszky on the Et Tu, Dude? Facebook page and you can catch Et Tu, Dude? in London from December 16-20 at the Annual Winter Spectacular Festival. n

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