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Tomson Highway, a Western alumnus and award winning playwright, novelist, and musician spoke about his life and work at Words festival alongside other notable Canadian authors and poets.  GUERRILLA POETRY RECAP PAGE 4  INTERVIEWS WITH LINDEN MACINTYRE AND MIRIAM TOEWS PAGE 7  INTERVIEWS WITH TOMSON HIGHWAY AND LUCAS CRAWFORD PAGE 8 JENNIFER FELDMAN GAZETTE

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‘Specialization’ is the royal buzzword in modern education. There probably came a time in university, or perhaps even earlier in high school, where you chose between two paths — creative or analytical. But every now and then, students like Helen Ngo come along to bridge the gap between the two and suddenly it seems absurd to draw a dichotomy between the humanities and STEM. Helen, the student writer-in-residence for the 2015-16 year, is also in fourth-year mathematics. She applied for the position on a whim, as it sounded like a good way to get involved in the arts at Western.

“I was quite surprised when I found out,” she admits. “I was nervous about taking the position, because I knew there would be some raised eyebrows when people heard [I] was a math major.”

Luckily, an interdisciplinary education was exactly what the program needed and she enjoys being able to connect with students from all fields. During her time at Western, Helen has been involved in a variety of groups, including Science Student’s Council, LAMP and Women in Science UWO. “I really like the interdisciplinary aspect of my degree,” she says. “It’s given me the opportunity to take courses from different faculties and that’s been enlightening.”

There is a definite contrast in teaching styles and both appeal to her in different ways. Her math courses involve little student interaction and rely on formal proofs or technical ideas; the writing courses, on the other hand, are centred around discussion and open-ended approaches.

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“But in some sense, they are both an art,” she says.

“Math requires a different sort of creativity, but there is an overlap. And writing skills are applicable anywhere — even in a math-heavy field, you need to be able to communicate your ideas.”

For Helen, these two sides of her life are inseparable.

“You spend so much time thinking about math, it permeates everything,” she laughs. “I’ve written poetry about differential geometry.”

Helen has published work in Premier, Nom De Plume, Symposium and Semi-Colon, and reaches out to students to help with that precarious path to publication.

Her inspiration comes primarily from her surroundings — from the average conversations you might overhear on the street or in a coffee shop. Stories, for Helen, are fundamentally about people. What one person might consider mundane, another might find extraordinary, and she looks for that glint of opportunity among the dross.

These days, Helen keeps office hours in the Arts and Humanities Building. She is running the pen pal project at Western, where students sign up to send letters back and forth with another anonymous student. At the end of the year, the pen pals all come forth and meet their partner.

Helen suggests student writers put themselves out there and take opportunities that might seem unattainable.

“Submit your work; it’s probably better than you think.

People are too harsh on themselves,” she says.

And for math majors?

“Get enough sleep,” she advises. “There are going to be times when you want to quit — there were times when I wanted to. But just keep at it.”

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Council to vote on executive changes At a special council meeting on Wednesday, the USC executive will be presenting its executive composition review.

The review is proposing two elected and three hired positions in the University Students’ Council executive as opposed to the current four elected and two hired positions. The positions of president and vice-president will be elected while the positions of student programs officer, communications officer and secretary-treasurer will be hired.

THE SLATE SYSTEM The slate system was originally started in 2012-13 and it was scheduled for review three years later. The current slate system consists of three people, the president, a vice-president internal and a vice-president external. The proposed slate system will consist of two people running together, the president and a single vice-president.

PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT The position and role of the president will largely remain the same. The president will be the main representative and primary spokesperson of the USC. They will act as the chairperson of the executives, sit as a voting director on the USC board of directors and oversee the operations of the USC general manager.

The roles of vice-president internal and external will be consolidated into a new vice-president portfolio. The vice-president will focus on the USC’s advocacy goals. The vice-president will be supported by the USC’s advocacy services manager and a student associate vice-president who will lead a team of research and policy analysts. The vice-president will also sit as a member of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance’s steering committee.

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER AND SECRETARY-TREASURER The positions of vice-president communications and vice-president finance were changed last year into hired positions now called communications officer and secretary-treasurer. The hiring will be conducted by a panel composed of the incoming president, one council member and one USC board member. Also present on the committee as non-voting members will be the outgoing president, outgoing secretary-treasurer or communications officer and a USC human resources staff member.

The communications officer will head the USC’s public relations, including dealing with on and off-campus media, creating press releases and liaising between the media and the USC executive.

The office will act oversee the USC’s brand and will collaborate with the promotions department to oversee

social media campaigns.

The secretary-treasurer is in charge of the USC’s annual budget and providing council with updates of the corporation’s financial position. The position will also oversee grants and club finances and develop sponsorships for the USC. The secretary-treasurer will also head the USC’s elections staff and be responsible for the organization’s by-laws, policies and procedures.

The role will also be involved in orientation and training of council members.

STUDENT PROGRAMS OFFICER The position of vice-president student events will go from elected to hired. The new role will be called student programs officer.

The hiring process will be similar to that of the secretary-treasurer and communications officer, the only change being town halls held for candidates. At the end of the process a final interview will be held with the hiring panel to decide who gets the job.

The programs officer will focus on the operational requirements of student events. The position will also take over parts of the former vice-president internal’s portfolio.

The student programs officer will head the peer programs including the Peer Support Centre. The officer will continue to co-chair the orientation planning committee and will act as a manager of the orientation program. n

Chirag Shah steps down as chair of Board of Governors KATIE LEAR NEWS EDITOR @KATIEATGAZETTE Western confirmed on Thursday that Chirag Shah, chair of the Board of Governors, is stepping down from his position at the end of the year.

Shah will serve out the rest of his first term until December 31 and the Board will appoint a new chair at its meeting on November 26, according to a news release.

Shah started his term as chair of the Board on January 1, 2014.

Chairs typically serve between two to three years in the position.

“The strength of Western’s Board lies in its breadth of representation – from faculty, staff, students, alumni and external volunteers. I feel privileged to have served as chair of this board that is composed of so many dynamic and strong leaders,” Shah said in a statement. “I am very proud to be part of the many achievements of this board.”

Shah was at the centre of an independent report into the deal that gave President Amit Chakma a cash payout in 2014 equal to a year’s pay in addition to his regular salary. Conducted by Stephen Goudge, a former Ontario Court of Appeals judge, the report found that the provision that allowed for a year’s pay in lieu of an administrative leave was not in line with peer institutions.

Chakma praised Shah’s time on the board.

“Mr. Shah has served the board and the University with distinction and dignity,” said Chakma in a statement. “During his term, a new strategic plan, Achieving Excellence on the World Stage, and the new campus master plan were

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President of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association, Kristin Hoffmann, said it was time for a new chair after the events of this spring and summer.

“We think that Mr. Shah’s decision not to seek another term on the board is appropriate given what was revealed in the Goudge report earlier this fall,” Hoffmann said. “And we see this as an opportunity for the Board of Governors to appoint a new chair who will put the board’s focus back where it belongs on the teaching and research that are at the core of the university.”

She added the next chair will have to restore trust in the Board.

“I think the university community and our members will be looking for a chair who is willing to put work in restoring trust that was damaged in the spring with the double payment scandal and who is able to really build a connection with the university community that our members feel hasn’t been there.” n

CHIRAG SHAH’S TIME ON THE BOARD OF GOVERNERS March 3, 2010 Chirag Shah is named to Western's Board of Governors by the Alumni Association

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Shah approves a deal that allows President Amit Chakma to receive a cash payout equal to a year's salary instead of taking a year of administrative leave

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April 1, 2015 Chakma announces he will return the $440,000 he received for not taking the administrative leave outlined in his contract and the Board of Governors will conduct an independent review

April 2, 2015 Western's faculty association votes 94 per cent in favour of a non-confidence vote in Chakma and Shah in a record turnout

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Sept. 28, 2015 Goudge's report finds that the provision for monetizing the leave is not in line with peer institutions. He also reveals that it was only Shah who approved the deal and the board was not consulted

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CORRECTION In a graphic accompanying the story, Western part of delegation of universities to China, it was mistakenly stated there was a 29.6 per cent increase in Chinese international students at Western. There has in fact been a 296 per cent increase in Chinese international students at Western since 2009.

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Taking the streets with guerilla poetry CARLINE HSIEH CONTRIBUTOR @GAZETTECULTURE Aileen House stands on top of milk carton crates at the corner of Dundas and Richmond Street, belting out an excerpt from novelist Jeanette Winterson’s Sexing the Cherry. House reads with a passion — a love for literature evident in the highs and lows of her voice.

As the animated hand gestures continue and her exclamations carry down the noisy streets, a small group of pedestrians huddle around to stop, watch and listen.

They stand, entranced, as House weaves her magic spell towards an end and an appreciative round of applause rises into the air.

House volunteered to be a part of Guerrilla Poetry at the Words festival on November 7. Volunteers stood on Dundas Street, stationed at intersections between Richmond Street and Museum London, reading their poetry or other writers’ prose.

The objective of guerrilla poetry is to provide London’s community with a chance to participate in the celebration of words.

“We really want this festival to engage the community and give the community a voice. We want people to feel like this is their festival,” said

Philip Glennie, the organizer for guerrilla poetry.

Glennie and the other organizers achieved this by opening up an event where everyone is welcome to participate as a volunteer and read any piece of writing in the heart of downtown London.

The event provides a chance for classics, Beat Generation poetry, works by local authors and poems written by the volunteers to be shared on the busiest corners of downtown.

House’s chosen excerpt of prose is one of her personal favourites.

On the other hand, volunteer Andy Verboom read one of his own works from several years ago, a poem titled The Loosed Tongue. It begins on a negative note, but as its first half is mirrored and reversed to form the second half, it ends more positive.

“I wanted to flip the script around a bit,” says Verboom. “To start off with a very bleak picture and to show how by mirroring the lines in reverse order, you could both have that sort of fatalism and then find hope in it.”

Although responses from the public were generally positive ad supportive, Verboom received a few angry comments from pedestrians.

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He laughed them off good-naturedly.

“If you’re standing on the streets reading poetry and there’s a polite, quiet crowd around you and everyone’s paying attention, then that’s not guerilla poetry. You’re not intruding at all into the space.”

This criticism and awkwardness of reading poetry in the streets causes feelings of intimidation for first-time volunteers and individuals considering volunteering. Glennie recognizes this as one of the most difficult aspects of gathering readers for Guerrilla Poetry.

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“It’s one of those things that once they’ve done it and seen that it’s not scary, it’s a lot easier to get them back,” said Glennie.

In fact, some bystanders find themselves participating in the event. “We had a person today who heard us reading while walking by and asked if they could get up and say a few things,” Glennie recounts.

“The person….ended up reciting a very beautiful poem that shook some of the people who were listening. That was a perfect example of the kind of thing that we’re trying to do.”

Glennie hopes to see this event grow to an extent where volunteers

engaging the public with spoken literature will be an unavoidable appearance in the streets on the day of the Words festival.

“It’s one of the best expressions we have of our desire to engage the community and to really clear away the barriers that people feel sometimes when they’re approaching literature or arts.”

From the impressed murmurs that follow House’s reading, to the minutes spared by many bystanders appreciating Verboom’s poetry, Glennie’s goal of introducing literature into the streets of everyday life was nothing short of a success. n

Activists protest Jack Astor’s assault HAMZA TARIQ BREAKING NEWS EDITOR @HAMZAATGAZETTE More than 30 people showed up to protest outside Jack Astor’s on Richmond Street in downtown London on Saturday, two weeks after two animal rights activists were assaulted at the same location.

“Everyone is here because they disagree with the actions of the employees of Jack Astor’s and especially the fact that they were trying to stifle our right to protest freely and peacefully on public property,” said Chelsea Gross, a first-year student at Western and one of the victims of the assault.

A police investigation found the liquid poured on the protestors was a mixture of water, vinegar and tabasco sauce and three people were charged with assault for the incident on October 24.

The London Police Service will be charging the alleged assailants with two counts of assault. The names of the assailants have not been released at this time since the charges have not been processed yet.

The four protestors were from the Animal Liberation Alliance: Samantha McPherson; Chelsea Gross, a main campus student; Savannah Hayes, a Brescia student; and Mounika Bosta, a King’s student. McPherson and Gross had the liquids dumped on them while Hayes and Bosta were standing a few metres away.

“I’m glad that the law took it seriously, that these people were assaulted and didn’t just say ‘oh silly protestors,’” Bosta said.

“They were taking our safety into consideration.”

Speaking about the charges laid against the assailants, Gross said she felt justice had been done and it was satisfying.

Bosta explained that the police have communicated that the alleged assailants were apologetic for their actions.

“I really hope they don’t serve time or anything,” Bosta said.

“Even if they do some community hours, something that will get them to be more proactive about decisions in the future in regards to people’s safety.”

Jack Astor’s released an apology for the incident on their Facebook page soon after the incident.

The company stated, “Our team has zero tolerance for disrespectful behaviour of any kind.

We have spent the past two days fully investigating the matter with those working that evening and have followed up to discipline the staff members involved and to provide additional training to all teammates at this location.”

The London Police Service were present at the protest on Saturday.

According to Sergeant Mark Elgersma, the restaurant knew the protesters would be coming tonight and they asked for a police presence to avoid any problems.

“Everyone has been really good, they have been respectful, they have been listening and there have been no problems at all,” he said.

Michael Kuijpers, a third-year social justice and peace student at King’s University College, came to the protest to express his solidarity with those assaulted by Jack Astor’s staff members two weeks ago.

“We’re showing people here that we are not going to be silenced and our message is as strong as ever,” he said. “We are protesting animal exploitation and using animals for food, clothing or any other reason.”

Kuijpers added that activists had come from as far as Kitchener and Toronto to join the protest. n With files from Katie Lear

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Men’s lacrosse team falls just short at nationals SHANE ROBERTS SPORTS EDITOR @SHANEATGAZETTE Now that the 2015 university lacrosse season has come to a close, it’s safe to say this was the best team the Western Mustangs have had in years, as they fell just short of a championship title.

They finished their regular season with only one loss in the 12 games they played, giving them a first-place finish in the west division of the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association and a chance to compete for the Baggataway Cup. This past weekend, Bishop’s University hosted the Baggataway Cup in Lennoxville, Quebec. Due to their first-place finish, Western had a bye into the semi-finals on Saturday against the Bishop’s Gaiters.

The extra time off was certainly an advantage for the Mustangs.

“We did a lot to prepare for [Bishop’s] – just video analysis and things,” said second-year player Patrick McCrory. “And we just kind of broke down what we needed to do.”

The Mustangs got off to a quick start in the semis and found themselves with a four-goal lead after the first period. The Mustangs briefly stumbled in the second quarter, letting the Gaiters back in the game, but after half Western regrouped and took a commanding lead in the third quarter — a lead they would not give up.

The Mustangs went on to win the game 17-12.

“In the semi-final we really came together as a team,” said fourth-year Mustang Jordi Jones-Smith. “We were really hyped up and anytime we scored a goal all the boys were really fired up.”

In Sunday’s final, the energy from the Bishop’s game unfortunately did not carry over when the Mustangs got off to a slow start against the undefeated McGill Redmen. At halftime, the Mustangs found themselves trailing the Redmen 8-1.

“I just feel we were kind of shell shocked coming into that game....

They had a lot of experience on their team,” said Jones-Smith. “A lot of us haven’t been to the finals like that – there’s only a select group of us that have been to the finals.”

After regrouping at half, the Mustangs came out looking like a

new team.

“Any other team I played on we would’ve nailed it in and called it quits, but this is a good group of guys and really tight squad,” said rookie Keagan Croley.

The Mustangs’ relentless pressure made the game close in the fourth quarter and brought them within reach of the comeback, but it was not enough and the Redmen won the game 15-11.

“Once we figured out what we needed to do ... we had a huge streak and came back.... Ultimately I think we just ran out of time,” said McCrory. “If you had put another quarter on the clock we probably would have destroyed them.”

This loss marks the end of the season for the Mustangs, but there is still a lot to keep track of as the team works towards next year, such as the potential expansion of their league.

Currently the CUFLA only consists of university teams in Ontario and Quebec, despite other universities on the east coast and west coast having lacrosse teams.

“I think it would be very interesting if we did include them into a whole Canadian league in itself,” said McCrory. “The only thing that’s going to hold that back is just financials like traveling and things, but if more programs got more help from their institutions ... I think it would definitely be possible. And we’d actually have something that could compete with the NCAA.” Regardless of hypothetical league expansions, the team looks poised to compete for the title again next year. Most of their star players will be returning and they will only be graduating three of their senior players.

Next season, the team may also have an experienced indoor lacrosse professional on their team.

Fourth-year player Jones-Smith was recently drafted by the New England Wolves of the National Lacrosse League. He will be heading to New England later this month for training camp and hopes to crack the roster for the team this year.

Luckily, Jones-Smith will still be able to play for the Mustangs even if he plays professionally and he hopes with the experience the team has gained that they will be able to come home with the Baggataway Cup next season. n

If you had put another quarter on the clock we probably would have destroyed them.

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Two of the top men’s hockey teams in the OUA went head-to-head on Saturday afternoon at Thompson Arena as the Western Mustangs hosted the UQTR Patriotes in their second game in two nights.

In this east versus west battle, Western went into the game atop the west division at 7–1–0 while UQTR ranked second in the eastern division with a 7–1–1 record.

The game got off to a quick start as the teams went back and forth, each generating several early scoring chances.

After exchanging first period goals, Patriote goalie Sébastien Auger kept the Mustangs off the board multiple times in the second with sensational saves, robbing several Mustangs in close to keep the game at a standstill.

UQTR then took the momentum with a controversial wraparound goal by Mathieu Lemay, followed by a power play goal to take a 3–1 lead with just two minutes left in the frame.

Although Mustang Connor Chartier scored less than a minute later to cut into the deficit, the Patriotes responded, giving them a 4–2 edge going into the intermission.

Even with that, Mustang head coach Clarke Singer was confident in his team.

“Going into the third, it was anyone’s game,” he said.

In the third period, the Mustangs had their fair share of good scoring chances, but Patriotes goalie Auger

was up to the task, shutting out the Mustangs in the third and getting his team a 5–2 win. On the night he stopped 31 of the 33 shots he faced.

“I felt pretty confident in the net,” Auger said. “I had a pretty good game yesterday so I came here pretty confident. I had a few shots on the net from the outside to warm me up and after that I made a few good saves and the guys played well in front of me.”

Patriotes assistant coach JeanFrancois Brunelle was happy with his team’s play on Saturday.

“We played with a lot of grit,” Brunelle said. “We stayed in the structure. We had a good plan and we stuck to it. We really wanted to play that kind of game and we’re really proud of the team.”

“I have to give a lot of credit to them,” Singer said of the Patriotes after the game. “They were the best hockey team we have played this season.... They are one of the top teams in the country, they got a lot of depth, speed and structure and they took it to us.”

Singer’s one critique of his team was the loss of intensity in the third.

“I wasn’t very happy with our third [period],” Singer said. “We didn’t have enough energy.... I don’t know if that was mental or physical.”

With the loss Western is still in first place in the OUA west division with a 7–2–0 record.

The Mustangs will host the Lakehead Thunderwolves twice this week, playing them back-to-back on Thursday, Nov. 12 and Friday, Nov. 13 at Thompson Arena. n

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’Stangs lose Finch in semis but move on to Yates Cup SERENA QUINN SPORTS EDITOR @SERENAATGAZETTE The Mustangs football team took on the Laurier Golden Hawks Saturday afternoon with both teams fighting for a spot in the 108th Yates Cup final this weekend.

The Mustangs battled through the toughest contest of their season so far and managed to come out on top with a 32–18 win over the Golden Hawks.

“They’re tough. They played hard and they did a good job,” Mustangs head coach Greg Marshall said of Laurier. “It was the game that I thought it would be.”

But while a ninth consecutive win, a berth into the Yates Cup final and a shot to continue on their quest for the Vanier Cup were all good news, the victory for the Mustangs was bittersweet.

Not only did the sixth-seeded Golden Hawks give the first-seeded

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Mustangs a run for their money – the score was only 15-13 for the purple and white going into the half – but the Mustangs also lost star quarterback Will Finch due to a hit that resulted in a head injury early in the third quarter.

Finch had been playing it safe in the regular season due to the two concussions he had endured last season. The fourth-year quarterback refrained from running the ball often and on the off chance he did run he would prefer to take a slide than a tackle.

It was surprising, then, to see Finch running often in Saturday’s contest as the Burlington, Ont., native played the ball on the ground more than we have ever seen so far this season. In the regular season he rushed 33 times in eight games, an average of just over four attempts per game. In the first half alone against Laurier, Finch had rushed nine times for 67 yards.

Finch took a few big hits from Laurier defenders throughout the first half of the game, but each time he got up and continued to play.

That is, until the first possession of the third quarter, when he took a hit from Golden Hawk Scott Hutter on a blitz and didn’t get up.

In an interview with the Globe and Mail this past August, Finch said that if he suffered one more head injury he would retire from football.

So when Finch laid stiff on the field for more than two minutes on Saturday afternoon with a silent stadium anxiously waiting to see if he would get up, many couldn’t help but fear the worst and question what this injury meant for Finch’s career and the Mustangs playoff future.

After the game, it was still unclear whether it was head trauma or something less severe.

“I think it was the jaw. It might be a broken jaw, but I don’t know,” Marshall said after the game. “He was taken to the hospital and they are doing some X-rays there.”

Finch was walked off the field and then carted off to the dressing room. Backup quarterback Stevenson Bone stepped in to take on the passing duties for the remainder of the game.

Bone’s first possession resulted in a Mustang field goal that extended Western’s lead to five points, but the important touchdown came

from Matt Uren in the fourth quarter. The five-yard rush was Uren’s second of the day and bumped the lead to 25-15 before a late touchdown from Cedric Joseph secured Western’s victory.

“They were probably expecting a run up the middle, but we threw in a play last week of me just cutting in and coming around the end,” Uren, a fourth-year receiver, said. “I got the ball and managed to get the edge and just took it in.”

While the Mustangs scored the majority of their points in the second half of the game, it was a strong defensive unit throughout the entire game that kept Western in front, as they held the visiting team to a single touchdown on the day.

“It was a hard-fought win,” Uren said. “Our defence came up huge for us and our offence picked it up near the end and closed it out when we needed to.”

While the Mustangs celebrated the win, both team members and coaching staff wanted to hurry off the field and check on the condition of Finch.

But Finch was not the only star player injured in Saturday’s contest.

Laurier’s star running back and alltime leading rusher Dillon Campbell also succumbed to injury late in the second quarter.

“Dillon [has] been battered up all year and that ankle just couldn’t do anymore,” Golden Hawks head coach Michael Faulds said after the game.

Campbell led the Golden Hawks in rushing on Saturday with 73 yards despite playing less than two quarters. His absence from the second half was certainly a blow to Laurier’s offence.

“I feel really bad for our seniors,” Faulds said. “I’m happy that they got a playoff win finally last week, but the guys that played their last football game in purple and gold, I really feel for them right now.”

The Mustangs advance to this Saturday’s Yates Cup, where they will gear up on the gridiron against the second-seeded Guelph Gryphons for a chance at hoisting their 31st provincial title in program history.

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Western’s men’s rugby team will not play for gold next weekend.

Instead, they will have to battle it out for the bronze medal on Saturday, Nov. 14 against McMaster.

On Saturday night they were stifled by Queen’s in the Ontario University Athletics semi-finals 37–8.

Head coach Dave Knowles was still very pleased with the effort from his team and said he told the team to keep their head up after the disappointing result.

“They actually played extremely well,” Knowles said.

“The breaks just didn’t go our way early and that put us on the [wrong] foot for the rest of the game.”

Over 1,000 fans showed up to cheer on the Gaels, something that made it difficult for the visiting Mustangs.

“It’s hard to play on their home field,” Knowles said. “They had over 1,000 people who were very loud and vocal – disruptive.”

Western and Queen’s had battled it out in the regular season in London at Alumni Field on October 3, where they Gaels came away victorious 14–9.

Knowles said his approach to Saturday’s playoff game wasn’t much different. “[Our game plan was] basically the same as the first game – it was just to play an up front game – play in their face and [focus on] making our tackles,” he said. “It wasn’t too much change in our team structure or strategy, it was just making sure we finished executing our plays.”

Despite having control early on, Western didn’t get any breaks and also ended up taking some costly penalties.

“We dominated the early portions of the game, possession wise, territory wise,” Knowles said. “We just couldn’t get a break. We took a lot of penalties going forward, which is tough to handle but ... I just can’t reiterate what we focused on – executing our game plan and we did that, but sometimes the ball doesn’t bounce your way.”

As for next Saturday’s game against Mac, Knowles says it’s about focus.

“Again a strong team,” he said. “We’re a little disappointed because our goal was to be in that gold medal game but I’m sure Mac did too and we just need to make sure we come focused and prepared to play.”

Following the conclusion of the OUA season means it’s essentially the end for the rugby team, however many players will be traveling to Ireland next semester for some exhibition play.

“We’re going to go to Ireland for 10 days during reading week,” Knowles said. “We’re taking about two teams to play about four games.”

As for this weekend’s game against McMaster, Knowles hinted that getting a decent crowd can go a long way.

“Any support we get is always appreciated – you can see what it does for Queens when they pull out 1,000 plus people – you can’t hear on the sidelines when you’re trying to make your calls. It really helps.”

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Journalism fuels MacIntyre’s fiction IAIN BOEKHOFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @IAINATGAZETTE Fiction and investigative journalism isn’t necessarily a good mix, but for Linden MacIntyre, that mix has worked out just perfectly.

MacIntyre, one of Canada’s most recognizable investigative journalists, has authored four fiction novels, winning the 2009 Giller Prize for The Bishop’s Man, adding another award to his already long list for the groundbreaking journalism he has done in a career spanning 50 years. He’s best-known for hosting the CBC’s Fifth Estate for 24 years before retiring last year so younger reporters would keep their jobs in the wake of staff layoffs.

In an interview on Saturday before an appearance at Words, the literary and creative arts festival, MacIntyre says he started writing short stories when he was young but didn’t do anything with them.

With work and family, he soon lost interest in it and lost faith in his ability to write well.

“It was many years later when I realized I’m learning an awful lot as a journalist that I’m not using,” MacIntyre says. “I’m learning a lot about the way the world works, I’m learning about human nature. I’m learning a lot about violence and the consequences of violence.”

Carrying around all this became “not healthy” for MacIntyre so he got back into writing.

“I decided to come up with an

IAIN BOEKHOFF GAZETTE LET’S TALK ABOUT WORDS. Linden MacIntyre, former reporter for CBC’s Fifth Estate and author of four fiction novels, talks with Janice Zolf at the opening night of Words, the literary and creative arts festival, on Friday at Museum London. MacIntyre also joined author Don Gillmor on Saturday to read from his latest novel, Punishment.

idea in which I would process a lot of my thinking about violence into fictional stories that are as close to reality as possible but the characters are fictional, the circumstances are fictional,” he explains.

The skills he honed as a journalist have translated into making him a stronger fiction writer. Whether it’s being forced to be economical in writing for TV, or doing hours of research for a story, the skills he developed and used on a regular basis for the Fifth Estate helped in making his fiction better.

“I learned you have to listen to people. You have to listen for the way they talk because that’s what determines if they’re going to contribute to your storytelling... and you get an ear for dialogue and the

It was many years later when I realized I’m learning an awful lot as a journalist that I’m not using. I’m learning a lot about the way the world works, I’m learning about human nature. I’m learning a lot about violence and the consequences of violence.

LINDEN MACINTYRE JOURNALIST AND AUTHOR, ON WHY HE CAME BACK TO WRITING FICTION

human voice.”

Despite living in Toronto for the past quarter century, his East Coast upbringing stays with him and it shows in his work. His first three books, a trilogy, are set in Cape Breton, where he grew up, as is his latest book, Punishment. Finding time to write those books means he has to wake up early to get any writing done.

“For most of the time that I’ve been writing fiction, I was working a very demanding job in journalism but I discovered there’s a time of day when no one really wants to talk to me, when I can actually claim that time of day for myself,” says MacIntyre. “I just have that quirk where I am ready to roll at five in the morning so if I wasn’t able

to do that, I wouldn’t have written much of anything.”

After so many years in journalism, what draws him to fiction and the written word?

“Control,” MacIntyre says with a laugh. Having total control over the story is the important thing he says.

He adds that writing is personal for him. Working in television, he was always a part of a team reporting on a story but when he’s writing, it’s just him.

“Up until that point where I bring that other person in, it’s a solitary personal creative function — it’s not always fun. But at least you have absolute control over when you do and what you do when you’re doing it,” MacIntyre says. n

Miriam Toews: Stories of struggle RICHARD JOSEPH ARTS & LIFE EDITOR @RJATGAZETTE

NORAH GALEA GAZETTE

The Gazette recently had the chance to sit down with Miriam Toews, an award-winning Canadian novelist, after her appearance at the Words festival in London on Saturday. The event, called “An Afternoon with Miriam Toews,” featured a reading and speech by Toews.

HOW ARE YOU ENJOYING WORDSFEST? I’m having a really great time.

It was a nice audience and a very warm room, and there were great questions. It’s always nice to meet readers, you know, just have that face-to-face interaction.

YOUR 2004 NOVEL A COMPLICATED KINDNESS WON THE GOVERNOR GENERAL’S AWARD FOR ENGLISH FICTION AND THE GILLER PRIZE. WHAT’S IT LIKE TO HAVE SUCH A PROLIFIC WORK IN THE CANON OF CANADIAN LITERATURE? It’s a real shock; I was not expecting it at all. I don’t think you can ever anticipate or predict what kind of book is going to resonate with people. But it just made me feel that I wasn’t alone, and that writing was something that could actually affect a lot of people. It was very rewarding.

THAT NOVEL, AS WELL AS YOUR FIFTH NOVEL IRMA VOTH, DEALS WITH A MENNONITE COMMUNITY SIMILAR TO THE ONE YOU GREW UP IN — THE OLD ADAGE, AFTER ALL, IS “WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW.” IS IT NECESSARY TO HAVE THAT SORT OF UNIQUE EXPERIENCE TO WRITE? I think anyone can write about anything. Just about everything has been written about, so it’s just a question of bringing one’s own individual take on things. The use of language and voice, that makes something unique.

WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THEIR LIVES WHO HAVEN’T NECESSARILY

EXPERIENCED AS MUCH? SHOULD THEY WAIT UNTIL THEY’RE OLDER? When I was younger, I thought that too, that I had nothing to write about…. Nothing really big had ever happened to me. But that’s not really true if we look at it. Take somebody like Alice Munroe, for instance.

Her stories are quiet stories, about people in small towns interacting with each other. There’s nothing cataclysmic that occurs, other than maybe something in the heart, metaphorically. And she’s a Nobel Prize winner.

HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE ISSUE OF RELATABILITY? HOW DO PARTICULAR, PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, LIKE GROWING UP IN A SPECIFIC COMMUNITY, TRANSLATE INTO UNIVERSAL THEMES? If we can use our specific particular circumstances, where we grew up or what we experienced, and if we write about them in a certain way, they can be universal. And that’s the mark of a story that will resonate. A Complicated Kindness, for example, is a coming of age story. It’s the individual against the system — in that case [it was] religious fundamentalism, which is obviously not something that only Mennonite girls experience.

WRITING IS AN ODD SORT OF CRAFT. SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR INSPIRATION AND THEN POUND OUT A NOVEL, AND SOME PEOPLE SAY YOU HAVE TO SIT DOWN FOR A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOURS A DAY AND WORK LIKE ANY OTHER JOB. WHAT DO YOU THINK? It’s true, that discipline and routine is a big part of it — for me, anyway, and I think most writers would probably say the same thing.

[You] write for a good chunk of time every day, maybe at the same time [every day], whenever you feel most creative and the ideas are coming.

You do that even if you feel … not

inspired, or that you have nothing to write. I think you have to put yourself in that position when you can write and block time off at that part of the day. If you’re serious, you have to do it.

WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR INSPIRATION? The things that I’m obsessed with [are] the injustices I’ve experienced in life. In whatever aspect of life that I’ve seen, the struggle, authority, these … rigid systems, these institutions that I’m always frustrated by. Whether it’s religious fundamentalism, or welfare, or mental health, you know, whatever it is. So I think for me, my inspiration comes from my struggle.

WHAT’S YOUR PERSONAL FAVOURITE WORK OF YOURS? Well, I have different feelings about all of my books for different reasons. I really have a soft spot for my very first book called Summer of My Amazing Luck. It’s about a bunch of welfare mothers living in social housing in Winnipeg who go on a road trip. I wrote it in my 20s, and it’s rough, and I certainly think of myself as a better writer now. But it was my first book; it has a special place in my heart.

WHO ARE YOUR PERSONAL FAVOURITE AUTHORS? These days I’m reading a lot of books by Elena Ferrante, an Italian writer. I like also a lot of short story writers: Alice Munroe, Joy Williams, George Saunders. I love reading biographies of writers.

DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE FOR ASPIRING AUTHORS IN UNIVERSITY? Understanding what your story is about, understanding why you need to write and understanding who your protagonist is, I think those are absolutely necessary things to know before you can begin writing. n

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Highway opens up about life and success MOSES MONTERROZA ARTS & LIFE EDTIOR @MOSESATGAZETTE He speaks seven languages and has written novels, plays and cabarets in French, Cree and English. He has received 10 honorary degrees from Canadian universities and has bolstered a generation of professional Aboriginal playwrights and actors.

His name is Tomson Highway.

A Western alumnus, Highway grew

up in a family of 12 siblings on a patch of land bordering Manitoba.

“It’s paradise up there, thousands of lakes,” he recalls. “It’s a part of the world that’s inaccessible, so no Canadian has ever seen it.”

His childhood was unlike any modern Canadian childhood.

Growing up on the land, all he knew were the scenic vistas of the countryside and the long days dog sledding.

“I actually came within minutes of being born in a dog sled,” says Highway while laughing.

Highway’s upbringing was particularly unique, not only because of his Cree heritage but also because of the many languages he was exposed to — a theme he would later explore in his artwork.

“I grew up with two radically different languages [of the two tribes I lived with],” says Highway. “The first language outside those two was Latin…. I was an altar boy. And then English and French.”

Later he would learn Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

As a young boy, Highway dreamed of becoming a concert pianist. He adored the stage, classical music and performance. But where he grew up, it was nothing but a dream.

“I wanted to be a concert pianist, that was my first dream. But it was an impractical dream. I come from a place where there was no piano and the closest piano was around

500 km south,” he says.

Despite the odds, Highway managed to enrol in the University of Western Ontario, studying music and English. It was at Western where he avidly wrote and played, absorbing all the lessons that were taught to him.

“It was the fundamental point in my life. I learnt classical music in a way that no other person would teach it,” says Highway. “It was really intense and intimate — I immersed myself in the music.

Western gave me the wings that I have today and with them I literally flew all over the world.”

Growing up in the time that

Western gave me the wings that I have today and with them I literally flew all over the world TOMSON HIGHWAY

Highway did was not easy. He faced many trials and hardships, dealing with prejudice and systematic obstacles. But upon meeting him, you would guess that he’s lived a life of pure joy. And that’s because he has.

Before Highway’s late brother passed away, he gave him advice that he would later cherish and hold dear for the rest of his life.

“My younger brother, he died of AIDS, he was only 35. Just before he went, he said, ‘Don’t mourn me, be joyful,’ ” recalls Highway. “I think that’s why we’re here, to be joyful.

That’s why we’re put on the planet.

Don’t let anybody stop you from doing that.”

Highway believes that everything he’s accomplished today is a result of everyone in his life.

“Now, in my old age, my responsibility is to thank everybody,” he says. “All of the people who held my hands and helped me. What I have today, I didn’t do it by myself.” n

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Crawford promotes poetry SAMAH ALI ARTS & LIFE EDITOR @SAMAHATGAZETTE

JENNY JAY GAZETTE

After a successful weekend of the second annual Words festival, a new addition was added to the roster of events: open mic poetry night.

Often a stand-alone event happening the first Wednesday of every month, open mic poetry night joined Words this year and featured renowned Canadian poet Lucas Crawford. The event was held on top of Marienbad Restaurant on Carling Street and welcomed novice and veteran poets to take the stage and share their stories.

London Groove Collective opened off the night and set the atmosphere as audience members trickled in for a night of poetry. The brick walls and fireplace heated the lounge and kept the mood warm and intimate as everyone waited for Crawford to take the stage.

Western alumna Stephanie Oliver opened up the event as she introduced her fellow St. Francis

Xavier classmate.

Crawford began with poetry from his latest book Sideshow Concessions, reading three poems ranging from airplane bathroom algebra to fellow Nova Scotian Rita MacNeil. He was funny, unapologetic and added to the warm atmosphere as he opened up the stage for other poets to share their work.

As others gathered the courage to express their words, Crawford praised open mic night events, considering the lack of opportunities he had when he was growing up.

“I can’t recommend this event enough! The vibe in the room, the quality of the poets, the support you can feel from people, you can really tell there is a community here,” Crawford gushes enviously.

When asked about any new works he recommends, Crawford called upon the newly published book co-written by Daniel Zomparelli and Dina Del Bucchia, RomCom. Crawford credits the work as a funny, poignant and light

way to get into poetry, especially for undergrads, since every poem is about a different romantic comedy.

Although Crawford is a renowned poet, the artist is still a dedicated lecturer in gender, sexuality and women studies at Simon Fraser University. He acknowledges how hard it is to stay focused while studying academia.

“I feel like the more academic texts I read the more I think about the world and experience the world differently,” he says. “I want to put that down in various forms for various audiences and one of them is poetry.”

Crawford describes writing and poetry as a source of catharsis and release. He encourages novice writers to read books outside of their classes to keep expanding their knowledge and writing skills, some of the basic skills he brushed up on to become a better writer. He hopes more people take advantage of events like open mic nights, as he looks towards future writers blossoming in the coming years. n

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JENNY JAY GAZETTE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR. Lucas Crawford reads three poems from his new book Sideshow Concessions on Satuday at the Marienbad Restaurant as part of the second annual Words festival.

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Homemaking is a valuable career option Rita All About It

RITA RAHMATI NEWS EDITOR @RITAATGAZETTE Anyone who knows me well knows I love decorating my house, making costumes and baking. What they might not know is that I would love to be a housewife. This past week I told some of my friends that I would love to be a housewife and of course, the jokes started. Being a housewife to many means being lazy, a trophy wife or lacking ambition. But I don’t think I would be any of those things if I was a housewife.

I grew up with a dad who worked a typical “real” job and a mom who stayed at home. My dad worked hard and so did my mom. My mom cooked us big meals every night, cleaned the whole house, did laundry, went grocery shopping and drove us to school, soccer practices and appointments.

She babysat her friends’ kids and always made sure we had a great time. My favourite thing about my mom was — and still is — that she went all out decorating for holidays.

Staying home wouldn’t mean I lack ambition and it would definitely not mean I’m lazy.

It would mean I would spend every minute of everyday making my household and my family as happy and efficient as can be.

Her job as a housewife was not easy. She had to deal with my brother and I constantly fighting and laborious housework, but all in all, she loved it. Looking back on it, there’s no time in her life that she enjoyed more than staying home with her babies — and no other time was more gratifying.

If she worked a typical 9-5 job she wouldn’t have been able to do all those things. She would

definitely have been able to do some of them, but not all of them and not with such grace.

Mothers stay at home for a large variety of reasons. A mother might stay at home to take care of a child with disabilities, to save money on daycare or to homeschool her kids.

An article published in the Telegraph claims housewives deserve a salary of £159,137— or $319,133. The number was calculated by adding together the costs of services that would have to be paid if there was no housewife.

These included a nurse, a driver, a house cleaner, a chef and a live-in nanny. Although I feel this number is exaggerated, I think it’s useful in showing the value of a housewife.

I believe what it all comes down to is finding a purpose in life and doing what makes your life most meaningful to you. If I can get one of my top career choices such as working for the United Nations, being a journalist for CNN or being a civil rights lawyer then there’s no way I would give my career up to be a housewife. But, staying home wouldn’t mean I lack ambition and it would definitely not mean I’m lazy. It would mean I would spend every minute of everyday making my household and family as happy and efficient as can be.

Even now as a youth, I love so many things that a stay at home mom does. I love being creative and making costumes and would make new ones for my kids all the time (they’ll have the best Halloween costumes!). I love to bake and my house would no doubt always smell of something sweet. Evidently, it would be rewarding to me to take care of my family.

Strains of feminism talk about how women should be able to work and get paid the same as men and I completely agree. But, what is often overlooked is that women should have the choice to work or to not work. Just because a mother stays at home and calls that her work does not mean she’s lazy or against other women getting “real” jobs.

I think we should all follow our passions. For my mom and I, our family is one of our biggest passion. I don’t necessarily want to be a housewife, but it’s a lot better suited for me than other jobs that society deems “real.” n

The decline of democracy at the USC

BY GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD

The University Students’ Council unveiled substantive proposed changes to their executive structure late last week.

The major changes are: cutting the executives from six to five; electing a president and vice-president as a slate; hiring secretary-treasurer and communications as they did this past year; and, “community” hiring a third, student programming, where students-at-large can give “recommendations” to the hiring committee.

The root of all these changes is a desire to reform the electoral process and the ineffective “slate system,” where students currently elect a team of three candidates and the other three executives are elected by council (up until last year) or hired by committee.

The one change we can all get behind is cutting the number of executives — there just isn’t that much work to go around to justify six of them.

But that’s about as far as it gets before the proposals face serious questions.

The slate system survives in a two-person slate running for president and a general vice-president role. This is a mistake. While it might be easier to find one person to run with you, it doesn’t get a diversity of voices the USC needs, or the voices that an individual election would get.

It’s also problematic because this vice-president is on the same level as the other hired vice-presidents.

How come someone that students elected directly has the same voice as those that are hired? If there’s a clash in ideas, who gets the deciding vote, someone who’s hired or an elected politician?

And that’s the crux of the problem with these changes — you will no longer be electing the majority of “your” USC executives.

The executives are proposing to “community” hire the student programming position whereby a committee will whittle down the candidates to a limited number who will then attend a town hall.

Students can ask the candidates questions and submit recommendations to the hiring committee who will then hire one of the candidates.

Students barely come out to vote; now the USC expects them to come up with recommendations for a committee? On top of that, we will never find out what the recommendations said or if they were taken into account — so what’s the point of the pretending the community is involved in the decision?

There are arguments for and against hiring the secretary-treasurer and communications positions.

On the one hand, you might get better candidates, there’s potentially less politics involved and the roles become less political and more practical.

On the other hand, in practice with the hirings this year, politics is no less involved in the decision of who to hire. The decision-making process is also opaque, critical debate about the executive roles and the direction of the USC is lost, and there’s decreased accountability.

The roles are also still political — they still sit on council and must answer to councillors, whereas other hired full-time staff do not. There’s public speaking, debate and quick thinking skills that executives need and that’s only proven in an open forum, like an election.

Combined with these other changes, it now means that the president will now in effect be hiring every single one of their executives — just two years ago, they only had choice in two of them and four years ago, they had no control in who their executives would be.

Furthermore, where’s council in all of this? In two years, they will have given up two of their major responsibilities — authority over the budget and electing the executives. Who will hold the executive to account if council is removed from the equation?

Councillors also provide a direct link to studentsat-large so the loss of their input is again a loss for democracy and students-at-large.

And perhaps the most problematic consequence of these changes outside of the loss of students’ input in their executives is the elevation of associate vice-presidents.

They’ll receive more hours, more responsibility and even be in charge when an executive is away.

So now we’re in a scenario where a hired executive leaves a hired AVP in charge and nowhere in this equation is the voice of students. It’ll also be way easier to hire a USC insider for an exec position — after all, what candidate will know more about a portfolio than its AVP? The executives’ fix for a broken democratic process is to throw democracy out the window altogether. They don’t trust council (see their failed attempt to have the speaker of council hired) and they don’t trust students-at-large to make decisions about the future of the USC because they might not agree with it.

But that’s democracy. You don’t always get what you want. n

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olours are difficult. You have to think about contrast, complementing, clashing. What makes black so great is that it goes perfectly with more black.

Second-year philosophy student Daniel Arkadyev is avant-garde personified in this unconventional ensemble and he clearly understands the value of the shade. It’s hard to pin down a particular look — there’s a touch of Paris, a little cowboy and a dash of Lennon in there.

The round sunglasses are perfect for that retro-chic look.

They work well with the black bowler hat to keep out the glare and channel the inner fashion designer.

Arkadyev’s fringed shawl drapes over his shoulders, the fall of the fabric creating an interesting silhouette. The rose detail on the side and the warm colour blocking contrast perfectly with the black throughout the rest of the outfit, adding a splash of eye-catching red.

Black jeans, ripped at the knee, add an unusual streetwear vibe to the outfit.

“I’m enjoying the high-waisted jeans,” Arkadyev says. “I feel very Parisian in them. [They] add that extra character that I like in what I wear.”

Finally, the black leather strapped boots add a little leather shine and a hint of badass. Usually, you’re supposed to match the leather of your shoes with your bag, but Arkadyev isn’t much for rules. Besides, the brown leather complements the warm tones on the shawl.

“Just embrace what makes you feel good, what makes you comfortable walking out the door,” he advises. “For me, style is an expression of my inner self, so I’d say just express yourself how you want.”

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HAT: Borderline Plus, Toronto boutique. Bowler hats are another nod to the past, but they’re getting increasingly popular on the runways. It’s the power of retro in action.

SHAWL: Black Market Vintage Clothing. The legendary centre of vintage clothing in Toronto, the Queen Street store carries every quirky piece of apparel you would never find in the mall.

GLASSES: Another piece from Black Market. Anyone shopping in Toronto should check it out — fascinating, unique clothing at a reasonable price.

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JENNY JAY GAZETTE SHIRT: Goodwill. Mock-neck and velvet, this isn’t your average t-shirt and you’d have trouble finding it outside a thrift store.

Unique pieces like these, though, are what makes thrifting worth it in the end.

JEANS: Urban Outfitters. Whether you rip them yourself or Calvin Klein himself does it for you, distressed and ripped jeans aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. It’s great for just a touch of streetwear.

BOOTS: Little Burgundy. There’s a positive correlation between the number of straps on your footwear and your badass quotient. Remember that.

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