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There’s an adage that tells us if you can turn your hobby into a career, you will never work a day in your life. For Savio Joseph, magic is his hobby.

Savio, a first-year computer sciences student at Western, has been studying the art of magic and illusion since he was 10 years old. It all started with learning a couple of simple tricks when Savio received a magic kit from one of his friends. By the age of 17, he had turned his hobby into a business, specializing in close-up magic.

“I think the best part of it is just the reaction and the feeling of joy that people get,” says Savio. “Just the feeling of being able to make the impossible possible, even if it’s just for a few seconds.”

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Savio recalls the very first time when he was hired to do a magic show. Revelling in amazement that he was able to earn money from doing something that he loves, he began reading about how to start a company and create his own brand.

Inspired by Canadian magician and illusionist Shawn Farquhar who won the Grand Prix World Champion of Magic, Savio believes that his personality is what sets him apart from other magical entertainers.

“The reason why people call you over and over again is because you left a lasting impression on them,” says Savio. “Magic is just tricks and if you can do the tricks great, that’s awesome, but the other part of it is being able to connect with the people.”

Besides magic shows, Savio also gives talks as a

motivational speaker. Sharing his life experiences, he uses hypnosis as a metaphor to motivate his audience that anything is possible.

Last year, Savio performed at his own sold-out event Nothing Up My Sleeve in Mississauga, and he reveals that he plans on bringing the show to London at the end of May this year. Organizing his own theatre production had been one of his dreams from the very start.

“It was my very first theatre production that I put on with tickets that people could come out and buy,” recalls Savio. “There was a lot of support that came my way, there was a lot of preparation, a lot of practice. It was just a really fun and memorable time of my life.”

Now in university, Savio acknowledges that balancing his studies and his hobby can be difficult. Relying on his time management skills, he makes sure that he’s completing school work while taking breaks to practice and brainstorm new ideas for his shows.

Uncertain about the future, he shares that he likes the idea of starting his own business or creating his own app. However, he hopes that he will be able to continue growing as a magician.

“Magic keeps me sane even though I have so many hours of class and exams,” says Savio. “It’s my way out to just forget about everything else and just focus on that one thing that I love … If you’re passionate about it, really go and chase the dream.”

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Huron and Brescia announce presidential winners

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Dylan Matthews was acclaimed as Huron’s student council’s president-elect.

Rachel Ogilvie edged out her opponent, Emily West, to become Brescia’s student council’s president-elect.

MOSES MONTERROZA NEWS EDITOR @MOSESMONTZ Only in his second year at Western’s founding affiliate college, Dylan Matthews was humbled when 180 students came out to vote for him in Huron University College Students’ Council’s (HUCSC) presidential election.

Matthews, who is currently HUCSC vice-president communications, ran unopposed and was acclaimed as president for the 2017-18 term.

“I really only needed one vote to win, but people still turned out to do it,” said Matthews.

“It shows Huron students are still committed to the politics and the political process.”

There were 12 non-confidence votes against him in the polling held on Jan. 24 and 25 online.

Matthews realizes his win will pose new challenges moving forward, but he will prove himself worthy of the role once his term kicks off.

“It’s always going to be proving that, yes, it was acclaimed but it was also because I was fortunate enough to have people that believed in me — more importantly, believed in the shared idea that we had.”

During his term, Matthews wants to focus on community outreach and engaging

students with activities outside of Huron.

One particular program he feels passionate about is the World University Service of Canada (WUSC), a student refugee program that allocates $15 of each Huron student’s fee towards sponsoring student refugees.

“I really think that Huron’s student council can play a greater role in the community around it,” said Matthews. “And that’s what I want to strive for ... that idea of making us a bigger part of the community.”

Matthews believes in fostering human and personal relationships. He said that once he’s president, he will get together with next year’s USC executives to find common ground and work towards building Huron’s relationship with main campus.

“I don’t think the relationship between Huron and main campus should be defined by an agreement,” said Matthews. “An agreement is certainly crucial to the relationship that we have to the USC and main campus but that’s also a byproduct of the relationship we form.”

For now, Matthews will be planning for next year’s term.

“The hard work starts now — I felt very good the day after I received the news but now it’s about how I will work hard to prove myself each and every day.”

MOSES MONTERROZA NEWS EDITOR @MOSESMONTZ With the polls closed and votes tallied, Rachel Ogilvie is being welcomed as the new president-elect of the Brescia University College Students’ College (BUCSC).

It was a close result with Ogilvie winning 88 votes to her opponent Emily West’s 77. Polling was held on Jan. 23 and 24.

“I’m so overwhelmed with happiness, I didn’t even know what to do when I got the call,” said Ogilvie.

Currently a second-year BMOS student and BUCSC vice-president student events, Ogilvie aims to use her term to finally incorporate the BUCSC, a long-standing issue that may finally come to an end. By being incorporated, BUCSC will be able to operate as a not-for-profit corporation.

“It will give us a lot more legitimacy as an organization,” current BUCSC president Deanna Vezina explained in Nov. 2016. “Right now the bank just sees us as a really big club that handles thousands of dollars every year.

So this will allow us to get a credit card and things like that.”

In Dec. 2016, Brescia students voted in a referendum in favour of incorporation, setting the stage for the process to begin for next year.

“This is the first year that anybody really knew how long we’ve been trying to do this for,” said Ogilvie.

Both Ogilvie and her opponent, Emily West, third-year family studies student, had similar platforms which made it challenging for them to prove to students they were the right choice for the job.

“It was definitely interesting to distinguish ourselves at the beginning,” said Ogilvie. “The debate went really well, but at the end of the day it just kind of came down to who did the best job.”

Ogilvie has also stated that she will focus on making the BUCSC more transparent, especially with regards to the Affiliate Appeals Board, a contentious topic prompted by King’s recent debate on the BDS referendum.

Before her election, Ogilvie said she wants to ensure the Brescia student body’s voice is heard at USC meetings on main campus by establishing expectations that both organizations have of each other from the beginning.

She believes starting off the year with strong communication will avoid hiccups in the middle of the year.

Moving forward, Ogilvie hopes to rebrand the BUCSC not only by incorporating it, but also by giving it a fresh new look.

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CHRW fee to be decided via referendum in 2018 DRISHTI KATARIA NEWS EDITOR @DRISHTATGAZETTE CHRW/Radio Western’s funding will decided in a referendum put forward to students at the 2018 USC elections, according to a motion passed by council at Wednesday night’s meeting.

CHRW’s finances are left up to students at large after a long debate where councillors leaned towards reducing undergraduate funding towards the station.

The Radio Western motion, which passed with 73 per cent in favour, will bring a referendum to students with a decision to reduce CHRW student funding to an amount between $10 and $11.50. An approximately 15-25 per cent cut as the current fee is $13.15.

As part of the motion, the USC secretary-treasurer and the governance and finance committee have been tasked to determine the specific dollar value by Nov. 2017.

Councillors, including science representative Jack Whelan, argued that council should give the relevant parties a range so a more informed decision on the cut can be made.

Council originally was to debate on three options to move the CHRW motion forward: to reduce student fee funding for CHRW, to put a referendum to students to remove the CHRW fee entirely or to remain with the current CHRW fees.

Tim Glasgow, CHRW station manager, and Andrew Barton, CHRW’s program director, ran a

presentation before council explaining how new management at the radio station is leading to changes.

However, they couldn’t meet the 25 per cent student funding reduction as council had asked them to do last year.

During the meeting, there was a general feeling of disappointment among council members regarding CHRW not bringing forward proposals and alternative funding models as they were asked to. Many councillors expressed frustration with the same results from CHRW year after year.

After much initial discussion amongst council, there was agreement that CHRW did provide value to students at Western and shouldn’t be cut entirely. However, USC president Eddy Avila asked whether CHRW has made any internal goals or a tactical plan to decrease their reliance on student funding.

Glasgow said there hasn’t been any goal setting in terms of gaining grants or advertising revenue yet.

King’s president Nate Little echoed council’s sentiments as he worried about the lack of progress in terms of CHRW failing to design an alternative funding model at the council’s request since last year’s meeting.

In the meantime, councillors expect CHRW’s management to make sufficient changes and engage more students so they can fare well when then referendum comes around.

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Western approves campus rapid transit amid speculation HAMZA TARIQ EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @HAMZATARIQ_ Western Board of Governors have officially passed the final Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route that will pass through campus at a much anticipated meeting on Thursday.

The room was packed with local and campus media as Western’s “conditions” to the city for the BRT to go through campus had generated speculation as to if the city and the university were on the same page with rapid transit plans.

Western originally outlined 15 demands to London before allowing BRT on campus — with many of them putting the onus on the city.

The document with all fifteen conditions can be viewed below.

Some conditions included the city bearing the cost of pedestrian-safety infrastructure on the BRT’s route, including at Western and Sarnia roads, which has been raised as an issue on campus. The condition included provisions to build underground tunnel crossings.

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cleaning, infrastructure repairs and maintenance/snow removal as well as that the BRT must not be converted to light rail in the future.

Board member Michael Lerner, said during the meeting that the city believes rapid transit is perhaps the most important issue for London currently as well as being a crucial issue on campus.

In attendance was London Mayor Matt Brown, who is an ex-officio member of the board. He said that BRT was something the city council fully stands behind.

He emphasized that it was an important day as the University’s highest body considered the rapid transit motion and it was important to him that all parties worked collaboratively.

Lerner added that negotiations with the city have been ongoing and it was unfortunate that those conversations were being labelled as “us versus them.” The route chosen to go through campus was neither Western’s or the city’s first choice but compromises were made.

Lerner acknowledged that the original wording of the motion could have been seen as more adversarial.

The original motion stated: “The Board of Governors approve the Lambton Drive routing of Bus Rapid Transit through Western’s campus, subject to the list of conditions provided in Annex 4.”

Lerner said an updated version of the motion will reflect the “conditions” as issues that can be negotiated between the city and Western — with the University taking a hard line on certain issues and reaching a compromise on others. The conditions won’t be a prerequisite for approving the proposed route.

The updated motion states: The Board of Governors approve the Lambton Drive routing on Bus Rapid Transit through Western’s campus, subject to resolution of issues all to the University’s satisfaction.

The board membership, including Mayor Brown seemed happy with the updated wording as it passed through without further extensive debate.

Board chair Hanny Hassan addressed a media scrum after the meeting where he largely reiterated Western’s plans to work with the city on issues as they come up.

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Western ITS tightens up password security for emails BRYN SMITH GAZETTE STAFF @NEWSATGAZETTE If your UWO account is over five years old, check your email — Western is tightening up its digital ship.

At the beginning of January, Western’s Information Technology Services (ITS) began emailing users to let them know that it’s time to update their security. Specifically, they are targeting accounts over five years old.

“This summer we had about 10,000 passwords that were five years or older, we had 2,000 that were 10 years or older, and we even had some that were 20 years and older,” according to ITS central information security officer, Jeff Gardiner.

According to Gardiner, ITS is working to improve security awareness with the eventual goal of having students regularly update their passwords without prompting.

Currently, the primary method used to access student email accounts is phishing. Gardiner notes that the rate of phishing incidences is alarming. Emails that ask you to reply urgently with your full account details, demand personal information, or seem “too good to be true,” he says, are never legitimate.

Cyber attacks are also a serious concern, and can escalate once attackers have access to email accounts.

“Once they have a little bit of information about a person they can get a whole lot more information about a person,” says Gardiner.

“They can ramp up the attack on your identity by basically following the little clues they get.”

Once users receive the email asking them to change their password, they have 28 days to complete the task before the ITS automatically changes it for them. If this happens, users simply have to contact the help desk to learn their new password.

“We’re trying to do this to help people out. There are some people that get quite angry that we’re asking them to change their passwords but we’re really trying to do it to help people,” Gardiner says.

Having a strong, unique password is important, because even if Microsoft’s security is broken, your password can’t be used anywhere else, such as your online banking system or on other accounts.

While Western’s password policy requires a password to be at least eight characters long and include a mixture of numbers, punctuation, symbols, and upper and lower-case

letters, there are alternatives that can be more secure and easier to remember.

Gardiner noted that putting together a collection of unrelated words to form a password can actually be just as secure as jumbling letters. Using just four or five random words creates a password that is not only effective but easy to remember. Password managers can also be an effective way to create secure passwords.

Thus far, the program has been a successful one, and students and faculty alike are beginning to make efforts to be more secure online, Gardiner said.

“Once they have a little bit of information about a person they can get a whole lot more information about a person.

They can ramp up the attack on your identity by basically following the little clues they get.”

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A vigil to give support to those affected by the shooting at the Québec City mosque on Sunday evening will be taking place at Victoria Park on Feb. 1.

Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) vice-president of public relations, Asiya Barakzai, and vice-president communications, Nida Ahmad, have organized the event on Facebook.

“This is our community response,” said Barakzai. “It’s a solidarity vigil, bringing together people of different ethnicities, of different faith backgrounds and just showing support for our Canadian Muslim brothers and sisters that were affected by the shooting.”

The event has only been live for one day but has already garnered over an immense amount of support. Over 1,200 people are interested or planning to attend the solidarity vigil.

Barakzai feels grateful for the overwhelming support and further expresses that the Québec City incident hits very close to home.

“Especially with all these anti-Islamic rhetorics,” said Barakzai. “The Muslim ban that is happening in the United States and hate crime incidences happening across Canada, it’s something we definitely need to speak out about ... it will show that we are united against all forms of hate that exist.”

Everyone is welcome to attend to the vigil and to offer support to the Muslim community in London.

Due to Parliament resuming this week, many of London’s local politicians will be unable to attend.

However, a number of them have spoken out about the recent

events, expressing their thoughts on the shooting and reminding the London community to stand together.

Member of Parliament for London West Kate Young’s remarks have been read aloud at a gathering at the London Muslim Mosque on early Monday.

“London is an inclusive and fair community that has a proud Muslim history,” she wrote. “We must come together as a community and a country to lean on one another for support during this difficult time.”

In association with the MSA, USC’s ethnocultural support services coordinator Temi Olasehinde is working closely with MSA president Hassam Ansari to organize an on-campus awareness event for this Wednesday and Thursday.

The purpose of the event will be to start conversations with students as they pass by in the UCC atrium and to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community at Western.

USC president Eddy Avila states that his primary focus is to ensure student safety at Western while addressing these issues as a community.

“I think it’s important to note that we can’t take a look at it as just a singular event,” said Avila.

“This is what you get when you start normalizing hate ... From our perspective, we really want to just make sure that students are aware but also Muslim students on our campus understand that it’s totally valid to feel worried.”

Individuals will be gathering at the main entrance of Victoria Park at 6 p.m. on Wednesday night this week. MSA will provide candles and set up a booth where attendees will be able to sign cards for the families of the victims.

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Online gaming helps you become tech savvy Ellis in Wonderland ELLIS KOIFMAN CULTURE EDITOR @ELLIS_KOIFMAN Contrary to popular belief, the hours spent as children on online games aren’t a waste of time.

I’ve met a good deal of people who have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to technology. The majority of those people didn’t play video games as kids. Beyond giving opportunity for escapism, playing video games, especially those based online, force people to figure out bits and pieces of the tech world.

Beyond the scope of simple tasks, the skills you develop and the introduction to technology that online gaming provides might inspire you to pursue a tech-related career.

It wouldn’t surprise me if many people who study computer engineering and science (and game development) played video games as a kid. By no means is it a necessity, but an introduction to the online world puts you right in the

middle of the evolving tech industry.

There are negatives, such as dopamine addiction, excessive escapism and ignoring responsibilities. These are amplified by media’s distrust of video games and the stigma surrounding play (having no life, being an overweight “nerd” living in your parents’ basement).

Moderation is key in combating these negatives; just let video games be another hobby.

I’m sure many students are familiar with the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) Runescape. If not Runescape, then surely one of many others from childhood.

Other than providing a fun way to spend your time, Runescape and other online video games people play as kids can teach a wide variety of useful skills, especially given the technology-focused world in which we live.

Let’s break down what goes into playing a game like Runescape: You go on the website, go through the signup process, download the local client, set your graphics settings, then finally go through the tutorial and start playing.

You type messages to other players, learning your way around the keyboard and mouse. As games

receive updates, you learn about upgrading your computer’s RAM, HD, graphics card, CPU and more.

These basic computer skills help you in your future interactions with technology, such as navigating your way around new operating systems with ease. The time spent also builds up your ability to type quickly.

I myself have benefitted greatly from playing online video games as a kid. In addition to Runescape, I also played quite a bit of Minecraft.

The latter game led me to open a public server and motivated me to learn basic java and HTML to develop an online platform for players’ interaction and community building.

My time on this game caused me to end up applying to Queen’s Computer Science program and, while I didn’t end up going, programming has always been an aspiration of mine — one I plan to pursue in some form after undergrad.

Even if you don’t put too much personal value into learning about technology, tech will play a big part in society. With the growing market for tech-based jobs, the foundational knowledge and skills that playing games provides is invaluable.

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MIKE DEBOER SPORTS EDITOR @MIKEATGAZETTE If you scrolled through your social media feed on Thursday you probably saw photographs of women across America and the world marching in solidarity, raising awareness for the problems faced by women, minorities and other marginalized groups in our society today.

Considering the march was held just a day after Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States, many of the scenes from the day were moving and inspiring.

This is in no way condemning the concept of the Women’s March, nor am I looking to delegitimize the fears many have of living under a Trump presidency.

But the braggadocio on Twitter claiming that the Women’s March represented all women was comical considering pro-life feminists were removed from the list of official event sponsors.

Now, as a man, I know some readers will immediately order me to keep silent on the issue. But if I have daughters I want them to have access to healthcare and jobs and have the opportunity to lead.

And I want them to have all these things no matter what their views on social issues happen to be. I don’t want their voices shut down in the name of policing the boundaries of permissible thought.

Disregard your stance on abortion for a moment.

These were women who choose to hold a view on a social issue who also wanted to march on Washington, D.C to take a stand against Donald Trump. If the fundamental theme of the Women’s March was about inclusion and equality, the steps taken to silence the voices of pro-life feminists is disturbingly hypocritical.

The message I understood from the march was clear: Inclusion and acceptance only applies to women who step in line and conform to the perceived ideological purity of “left-wing” feminism. All dissenting voices will be shown the door.

While it’s certainly the case that most women at the march probably believe that abortion rights are a vital aspect of the feminist movement, this isn’t the case for hundreds of women who planned to march in a show of solidarity and unification.

The Women’s March should have been about women from all walks of life, creeds, races, faiths, colours, classes and political ideologies coming together to protest a president who has made appalling and misogynistic comments about women.

Women will play an integral role in the next four years in forming an opposition to Trump and his party

in Congress. But in any democratic country successful political movements need to be inclusive and ecumenical. Compromise is necessary and people will need to come together under partial commonality to make meaningful and lasting change.

Women will play an integral role in the next four years in forming an opposition to Trump and his party in Congress. But in any democratic country successful political movements need to be inclusive and ecumenical.

The rise of Trump is, understandably, shaking the traditional Republican Party supporter base at its core. Pro-life women who have seen their party allow a misogynist to lead it are now disenchanted and looking to voice their frustrations Debates broke out on social media between women on both sides of the abortion debate. Among the women who were opposed to the inclusion of pro-life feminists was Jessica Valenti, a blogger and writer who took to Twitter to voice her disdain.

“Horrified that the @womensmarch has partnered w/an antichoice org,” tweeted Valenti. “Plse reconsider - inclusivity is not about bolstering those who harm us.”

However, despite the vitriol, some pro-life women still decided to attend the March. And to be fair, they received mixed reactions from their fellow attendees.

Some open-minded pro-choice marchers practiced the inclusive message that they preach by welcoming pro-life marchers with open arms and thanking them for joining the movement.

But others had a different experience, at times fearing for their safety.

According to an article in USA Today, one group had a particularly difficult time.

“One of our girls was spit at, someone tore my sign in multiple pieces, we had people just yell at us but the main response was people just said ‘my body my choice’ when they walked past us,” said Reagan Barklage, a regional director for the group Students for Life.

These women were told that despite their fears, the Women’s March was not a place for them to feel safe and united.

The Women’s March mission statement says it “will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.”

Well, judging by their decision, not all women are going to be defended.

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Time to bring your security into the digital age Amy, Myself and I AMY O’KRUK FEATURES & GRAPHICS EDITOR @AMYOKRUK The Gazette office can be chaotic.

When a deadline comes up, we rely on rapid-fire collaboration.

A few weeks ago, I asked a coworker to send me photos for a news story, and from across the office I heard his voice ring out: “I just sent you them!”

Great, I thought, but then I paused — To where?

I had half a dozen messaging apps open including Facebook messenger, Slack, iMessage, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Gmail. Further, Skype and my UWO email account were a few clicks away. And as a student, I know I’m not alone.

Besides the fact that it’s dead easy to spot a legion of Snapchatters around campus, research shows messaging apps are especially popular among young people, particularly those 18–29 years old.

So after finding those photos in my Gazette Gmail account, I felt uneasy. I thought about the tremendous amount of information I was sending to so many places that I wasn”t keeping track of. Although the Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year was “post-truth,” it could easily have been “cyber threat” I mean, Russian hackers, compromised email servers, that movie about Snowden — welcome to the information age, am I right?

And as I began to pry my head out of the sand, my uneasiness grew.

Many articles pointed out that all it takes is one insecure device or app in your network — just one — to potentially give someone access to pretty much everything else on your network. In terms of how this affects surveillance, Wired.com writer Moxie

Marlinspike explains it as in a shift from when organizations created technologies to gather information themselves to “oblique surveillance,” an era in which organizations more often just goes to the places where information concentrates on its own, like email providers, social networks and yes, messaging apps.

As a broke student with negligible influence, I don’t think I’m a likely target of financial hackers, governments or otherwise. But the argument “I have nothing to hide” falls apart under scrutiny.

As Marlinspike writes: “If the federal government had access to every email you’ve ever written and every phone call you’ve ever made, it’s almost certain that they could find something you’ve done which violates a provision in the 27,000 pages of federal statues or 10,000 administrative regulations.

You probably do have something to hide, you just don’t know it yet.”

Further, you also never know when the rules will change, so to speak. It’s not a bad idea to evaluate technologies by how they could be abused, even if that abuse isn’t happening right now.

With all of this in mind, I decided to begin by making one small change.

I downloaded Signal, an opensource, secure messaging app. Signal doesn’t keep any of your data, and because its open-source, anyone can verify its security by checking out the code. Sweetening the deal is the fact it uses your existing phone number.

Apps like Signal are proof you don’t always have to sacrifice convenience for privacy and security — you have choices.

And if you still can’t get on board with cybersecurity, I’ll leave you with the now famous quote by Edward Snowden: “If you think privacy is unimportant for you because you have nothing to hide, you might as well say free speech is unimportant for you because you have nothing useful to say.”

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Two different directions on the USC ballot this year

BY GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD

During this USC election, each slate has said the biggest problem facing the organization is disengagement. Two teams offer different paths: Is the solution a series of bold policy changes or a plan to reach out to more students?

Team DiBrina comes to the table with plenty of experience and a series of plans that offer real change.

Despite this, the slate has been unable to assert itself as successfully as many would’ve expected at the beginning of the campaign.

Then we have Team Tobi who bring a lot of positive energy to the election with two personable candidates. But their platform isn’t the most original and maintains the status quo of past USC slates.

Team Jan/Mohammad is well-intentioned and really wants to connect with students. But in terms of leadership experience and ideas, they lag behind the other two slates.

In our view, the 2017 election boils down to ideas versus personalities.

Team DiBrina’s vice-president candidate, Harry Orbach-Miller, has a strong track record of advocating for students on the University Senate as well as on USC council. He has shown willingness to stand up to the University administration repeatedly — a refreshing quality for a USC executive.

Similarly, Team Tobi’s vice-president candidate, Landon Tulk, has lots of experience with external political advocacy — a big part of the vice-president’s portfolio. If elected, he is competent enough to learn the workings of the USC on the job while doing justice to the role.

The two vice-president candidates are the driving force behind both the slates. But the teams are incomplete without the two presidential candidates.

David DiBrina is driven and passionate about things he believes will improve student life. While a strong

leader at the helm can be a huge asset, DiBrina’s passion can sometimes come across as aggression, not an endearing quality to voters and those who will work under him if elected.

Tobi Solebo promises to be the students’ president.

He’s personable and approachable and his focus on USC engagement with the larger student body is something that is strongly needed. On the other hand, the USC presidency is a busy job and whipping the bureaucracy in shape needs strong leadership and at least some experience — you can’t learn everything on the go.

There’s two things the USC needs year after year.

Real change that can directly benefit students, and increased student engagement, so among other things, we can move past the 20 per cent turnout problem.

This year, there are two slates offering the two solutions — but individually.

Team DiBrina has shown potential for new ideas and backed it with research, whether it be the Purple Store closure or free movies at Western Film — they’re not afraid to start new debates.

Team Tobi is charismatic. They have drawn in previously disengaged students to the USC and have not only maintained their own support base, but have gained new followers on the way — many of whom have followed or have been involved with USC politics for a while.

We believe both Team DiBrina and Team Tobi have their strong suits, but it’s up to the students to decide what they value more of their student government. Are big changes needed to bring more students into the USC’s fold or should status quo be maintained with more energy funnelled into student outreach?

Make sure you make your voice is heard by voting.

Editorials are decided by a majority of the editorial board and are written by a member of the editorial board but are not necessarily the expressed opinion of each editorial board member. All other opinions are strictly those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the USC, The Gazette, its editors or staff. To submit a letter, go to westerngazette.ca and click on “Contact.”

Busybodies by habit lose sight of what matters

“I’ve had three extra large coffees today.”

“Well, I pulled an all-nighter and still have two assignments due.”

Walking through campus, students can be overheard discussing their hectic schedules — it’s almost a competition. Who is busier? More overworked? More caffeinated or stressed?

I’m guilty of comparing myself to others this way. But I believe we

can improve the quality of our days as students by placing more value on relationships and leisure and see them as markers of success, too.

When I step away from my work and make time for friends, family or exercise I always return to work happier and more productive.

Busyness is a point of commonality for students, but talking about it all the time doesn’t help lower anybody’s stress levels. Rather than focus on our to-do lists, it can be beneficial to enjoy conversations with friends when we are away from our daily work and mentally set work apart from leisure.

University students are generally a high-achieving population who tend to put pressure on themselves to remain in a state of productivity for the sake of good grades. When

we have free time or deliberately create free time for ourselves, it can create the image that we are lazy.

Students in fourth year, for example, may be seen as lazy if they don’t have plans upon graduation.

But when we set aside our valuation of productivity, what’s wrong with taking time off?

The short answer is: Nothing.

But in our achievement-oriented lives, it is difficult to shut off this need to be busy or create an image of busyness. And by no means is this phenomenon limited to students.

Social psychology professor James Olson explains that our focus on busyness and productivity is related to the Protestant work ethic, which iterates that work is a good thing in North American society.

“When people say, ‘I haven’t

slept for two days,’ it’s a comment or it communicates that: first of all they work very hard. Secondly, they are working to achieve success — not even consciously necessarily.

It’s just that there is an assumed connection between being busy, working hard and success,” Olson explains. “So by saying that they are working hard, it implies they will be successful.”

Olson himself struggles with being able to fully enjoy downtime.

“In my own case, I have a lot of trouble taking a day off. If I’m not working I feel I have to be doing chores,” Olson says. “So sitting and doing nothing is uncomfortable actually.”

So, with that subconscious drive to fill our time with work, how do we win?

Although the connection between hard work and success won’t change, we can make deliberate efforts to turn off the busybody in the back of our minds and be aware of how much we work and how much we think about work.

Yes, it can be comforting and natural to share in the misery of being swamped. But it can also be beneficial to discuss something other than the events coming up our iCals. Let’s get deliberate about making time for what matters — I’m trying it myself.

Take a cue from Amy Poehler’s character Leslie Knope in Parks and Recreation: “We need to remember what’s important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work. Doesn’t matter, but work is third.”

Endorsement Process Newspaper editorial boards regularly endorse candidates in elections and The Gazette is no different in that regard.

The Gazette endorsement process for this year’s USC elections was as follows. Each slate was given a 35-minute

question and answer period with 15 members of The Gazette editorial board on Friday, Jan 27 from 3 to 4:45 p.m. Each slate answered six predetermined questions, followed by an open question and answer period with the editors. Candidates were not informed

of the questions beforehand.

Following the slate presentations, the editorial board discussed the important issues of the campaign and how the candidates stacked up in terms of their platforms, ideas, leadership styles and their presentations to the editorial board

in more than an hour-long discussion.

Following that, a vote was held by secret ballot. The minimum threshold to endorse a candidate was 60 per cent, which was agreed upon before the editorial board’s discussion began.

The votes were counted in front of the

editorial board and none of the slates received the nine votes needed at the minimum for an endorsement. The vote breakdown was: eight votes for Team DiBrina, fives votes for Team Tobi and two abstentions.

The Rueter Report ANNIE RUETER CULTURE EDITOR @ANNIE_RUETER

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AMY SKODAK CULTURE EDITOR @AMYSKODAK Lauren O’Donnell steps into an altered skirt from the ‘50s that’s lined with green and blue ribbons. She tucks in a white button-up blouse, ties a ribbon in her hair and smiles at her reflection in the mirror. She walks out of the change room of Hamilton’s Value Village twirling so much she nearly falls over.

“I’ve never felt more ‘Rosie the Riveter’ than when I wear it,” she says “It’s just so fun.”

This is her favourite outfit, and it was all bought secondhand and altered by her grandmother. By revamping used clothing, O’Donnell was “upcycling” without even realizing it.

For the second-year English student, thrift shopping and upcycling clothing is a means of self-expression and a way to save money. Having worked at Value Village herself, she also feels uncomfortable knowing how much waste clothing generates.

Wastefulness seems to be as much of a student tradition as O-Week. We follow everchanging fashion trends, grow out of things, or simply decide we don’t want something anymore. We then donate or throw them out, and the cycle continues.

But those bags of stained crop tops and shrunken jeans you drop off at Value Village or the new H&M recycling program won’t all be given the second life you might expect.

The afterlife of most unwanted garments continues to generate buildup in landfills like London’s 142-hectare W12A Landfill located south of London.

“Upcycling” and thrift shopping however, creates a more sustainable alternative which O’Donnell stands by.

Almost without thought, O’Donnell has been upcycling and thrifting just by adopting habits that, to her, made the most sense. But she’s not the only one. Students and businesses alike have been adopting these sustainable habits, and the aftermath is creating a trend in unique fashion.

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UPCYCLING 101 Upcycling is a trend that re-imagines thrift shopping by taking unwanted garments and turning them into unique fashion pieces. It’s becoming more prevalent in London as well: Within the past four years, thrift and upcycled clothing stores have been popping up and attracting students — like the Filthy Rebena and Plato’s Closet.

Creating a fashion trend out of secondhand or upcycled clothing is something that the social venture, Voguabond, is particularly passionate about. Ivey Business School graduate Emily Dixon created the business during her undergrad as a way to “connect fashion-forward consumers to independent designers who are creating one-of-a-kind fashion.”

Over the past two years, Voguabond has paired with local thrift store Filthy Rebena to organize clothing swaps and educate the community. The store is known to take “ugly maxi dresses and cut them into cute cocktail dresses … using the extra fabric to make scrunchies and pillow cases,” according to MIT graduate Julia Sobkowitz.

“Taking something that would otherwise just be wasted, altering it and giving it a new life is a rewarding experience,” says Filthy Rebena co-owner Natalie Bradshaw. As more students like O’Donnell have taken on sustainable clothing options as a trend, Bradshaw says that their clientele has grown, with many students from Western showing particular interest.

Sobkowitz spent her fourth year developing support for the Filthy Rebena on social media and the store has since seen notable growth in its popularity.

“We’re in a climate where vintage and upcycled clothing is very trendy right now,” she says.

Like O’Donnell, who claims to thrift shop nine times out of 10, Sobkowitz admits that 90 per cent of her clothing is secondhand.

“I find the fit is really good and the fabric is well made. People used to take a lot more pride in tailoring and craftsmanship, so it’s mostly about the quality but also that the pieces are unique.”

According to Dixon though, her work developing Voguabond has made her see the need to not only promote sustainable clothing options, but also to re-evaluate the fashion industry as a whole.

passed on in a sustainable and meaningful way.

Dixon explains how it may seem tempting to browse sales racks at mainstream stores, but in doing so, a shopper is only doing more damage on their wallet and the environment.

“Because I did work at Value Village, I know that there’s a huge amount of waste of clothing which is why I always donate mine when I’m done with them,” says O’Donnell. “But I know that a lot of the clothes end up in landfills.”

According to Dixon, people have gotten themselves in a cycle of constantly buying the things they see on others, only to throw them out soon after in pursuit of the next hot trend.

This trend-chasing dilemma of the “fast fashion” industry remains a topic of concern.

In light of an ever-changing set of fashions, clothing is of poorer quality, generating more buildup in landfills and using up or polluting natural resources.

O’Donnell admits that leggings from Joe Fresh are one of her “secret favourite things” because they only cost $10. However, she’s since realized they don’t last as long and aren’t as good of quality as thrifted or upcycled clothing.

It is generally understood that recycling, taking shorter showers and reducing the use of plastic water bottles are habitual changes needed to be made for a healthier planet. So why isn’t sustainable shopping a part of that mix?

O’Donnell admits that she’s not as environmentally conscious as she should be when she shops at places like Joe Fresh, she realizes the implications of the fast fashion industry.

She regretfully recalls trips to the mall; while many second-hand stores advertise their initiatives toward lessening the build up of clothing in landfills, mainstream stores do not. O’Donnell says that for this reason, she doesn’t think about the environmental impact of buying fast fashion in a mall until after she gets home.

Nevertheless, it’s something that should be top of the mind.

As an example, Dixon notes, “One pair of jeans takes 1,500 gallons of water to produce.”

The fashion industry also uses a significant amount of the world’s pesticides,” she added.

Only this is just one part of the puzzle.

FAST FASHION AND ITS EFFECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT As an Ivey student, Dixon says she never intended on pursuing fashion until she discovered that to make a positive change on the environment, she would need to address one of the big sources of pollution on earth — the fashion industry.

“The whole reason why I wake up and am excited to work on this social enterprise is because of the impact that meaningful fashion can have,” she says. Instead of people throwing away an article of clothing, she wants it to be

THINK BEFORE YOU DONATE Working at Value Village, O’Donnell admits that she saw a lot of donated clothing end up as waste rather than being re-sold on the shelves.

According to Dixon, this is the underbelly of donating and recycling programs – like H&M’s recent initiative – that many are unaware of.

It’s a common misconception that your donations will go to someone in need.

ABC News reported that most of what gets donated is being sold by charities to textile recycling firms who transform the clothing

into cloth or industrial items. Other excess garments are shipped to third world countries and sold at reduced prices.

“I’ve spoken to the founder of TenTree who actually is an Ivey grad too and he has seen the waste firsthand in Haiti,” Dixon says. “He’s seen the piles and piles of clothing that we send there.”

Although this means that some clothing is still being reused, Dixon stresses that this negatively impacts economy in struggling countries. “In a number of African countries, 80 per cent of their labor force in the textile industry has declined,” she says. Dixon explains that dumping these countries with our old clothes takes away their jobs. “Their skills in the textile industry have been passed down from generation to generation and we’re putting them out of work.”

As a result, part of Voguabond’s initiatives has included a partnership with a Tanzanian company that incorporates recycled products in their clothing. Dixon says that this is their attempt to both remedy environmental concerns and bring back Tanzanian artwork to the forefront of production. She also recommends becoming educated on the charities you choose to donate your old clothes to, noting that the Salvation Army and church organizations are safe bets. As these groups are generally more local and trustworthy.

PAVING THE WAY FOR SUSTAINABLE FASHION O’Donnell predicts that sustainable fashion will continue to grow as this generation embraces upcycling as a popular trend.

“I think at Western there’s this stereotype of the Western girl that dresses the exact same as everyone else, but I think a lot of people wear really cool clothes that aren’t necessarily keeping with the trend,” she says. “Specifically in the arts and humanities faculty.”

Voguabond, too, has picked up on the search for unique and ethical clothing options. While they support clothing swaps and secondhand finds, Dixon says that she aims to change the perception of secondhand goods entirely.

“We have designers now that are quite well known and their clothing is really high quality,” she says, hoping to showcase the art that can be made from sustainable fashion.

O’Donnell says that this concept is exciting, and she now aims to buy high quality, upcycled fashions that will last forever. “I want something that doesn’t fall apart, doesn’t rip easily; something that will last and will look good for years at a time.”

A distinct characteristic of upcycled clothing is the story that a repurposed garment tells.

When you invest in an upcycled wardrobe, just as O’Donnell has, you’re not only investing in cleaner, ethical habits, you’re also building a style that is rooted in individuality and timeless appeal.

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Royce White at home in London MIKE DEBOER SPORTS EDITOR @MIKEATGAZETTE The YMCA of London Centre Branch sits on Waterloo Street, tucked away just past the main core of the city.

It’s like any other YMCA elsewhere — full of squash courts and swimming pools and saunas. Walk down a flight of stairs and you’ll find a windowless, nondescript basketball court. It’s a far cry from Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa, and an even further cry from the arenas of the NBA. But for Royce White, former Houston Rocket and Sacramento King, it’s home.

White, who joined the London Lightning of the National Basketball League of Canada in December, suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and a fear of flying. At 16 years old he suffered a panic attack the first time he smoked marijuana that took a catastrophic toll on his body and mind for four

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months.

“It was a blessing and a burden because from that day I had a ‘no drugs’ kind of policy for myself — not that I had really done drugs before that, but that was kind of my one and only time,” White recounts. “That’s helped me stay out of trouble and not walk that line that a lot of people walk between addiction and mental illness.”

In the months following that episode, White would suffer from an average of three panic attacks per day. It got to the point where he would plan his entire day based around those panic attacks. But the basketball court was his escape.

“Whenever I would have a practice, that would clear my mind for the time being,” White explains. “Oftentimes what we see with anxiety disorders, or any types of disorders like that, are people who are trying to find distractions for themselves. Some people find good distractions, some people find bad ones. I was fortunate enough to be playing intense basketball at a really high level, so it provided a great distraction.”

As a senior at Hopkins High School in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka, White was named Minnesota’s Mr. Basketball in 2009 and led his team to a 31–0 record and a state title. Ranked as one of the top high school power forwards in the United States, he decided to stay home and play college basketball at the University of Minnesota.

But things didn’t work out at Minnesota.

“I didn’t feel pressure basketball-wise, performance-wise not at all. The politics of college basketball bothered me,” White says.

He is open about his disagreements with the university and its treatment of players and the coaching staff. As someone who grew up in the Twin Cities, White had a number of close friends who wanted to continue being a part of his life while he was playing for the Golden Gophers. But according to White, he felt the racial divides at the university made him feel like he couldn’t continue there anymore.

This perturbed White. By February of 2010, he had officially left the university.

“For me, to say, ‘Okay, well you’re one of the best 10 players in high school basketball, and you’re going go to college, and because you’re in college and play at a major school, the friends you grew up with no longer can live with you or be a part of your life,’ I didn’t believe in that,” White says.

White decided to transfer to Iowa State University (ISU), a school of 36,660 students located in the town of Ames, a quaint and quiet town located in the middle of the state.

White was ineligible to play in his first season at ISU due to NCAA transfer rules, but when he got the chance to play during his second season, he took the college basketball world by storm. Travis Hines is the sports editor at the Ames Tribune, and has been around the Iowa State program since 2009.

“People loved him when he was putting up crazy numbers here,” Hines said. “He was a fan favourite because he’s a very bright guy — a very articulate guy — that can not only be intelligent when he speaks, but he can be funny and engaging and warm.”

Everything that went wrong at Minnesota went right at ISU. According to both Hines and White, this can be attributed to current Chicago Bulls head coach and former Cyclones bench boss, Fred Hoiberg, who grew up in Ames and was a star for the Cyclones in the early ‘90s.

As a local legend Hoiberg dictated the pace of the university’s basketball program — which essentially gave him a strong hold over the entire city.

Hoiberg built a trusting relationship with White, especially significant considering that White’s panic attacks are often triggered by the insensitivity of those around him. Hoiberg knew that White was suffering through something real and wasn’t being overdramatic. The culture Holberg built at Iowa State allowed for White to thrive on and off the court.

“Knowing Royce a little bit, like I do, I think for him trust is a big part of what makes him comfortable and what makes him able to manage his relationships with people he works with or plays with,” said Hines. “So when [White] said something was a problem, or wanted to drive to a game or had an issue, they trusted that he wasn’t making that up or being overdramatic and they said okay and made accommodations to make it work.”

White had an incredible statistical season that year. He chose to forgo his junior and senior seasons at Iowa State to enter

the 2012 NBA Draft.

The NBA career many expected from White never came to fruition. His struggles after being drafted by the Houston Rockets with the 16th overall selection have been well-chronicled.

“It didn’t work out because I represent a number of evolutions in human beings,” tells White. “I represent the idea that money is not more important than human welfare.

Not only do I represent it but I live it and I act that. I looked a $100-million-dollar career in the face and put it on the line just to say that mental health is important for 15 minutes.”

White had serious issues with the lack of adequate mental health protocol in the NBA, believing that mental health should have parity with physical health. But he believes that the league can change its policy regarding mental health, just as perceptions of issues surrounding LGBTQ rights and racial inequality have changed over time.

And with advocates like White leading the fight there is hope that one day professional sports leagues will begin to properly deal with mental health awareness.

If you wanted to disappear from the bright lights of the NBA, London, Ontario would be a good place to do it.

But that’s not what Royce White is doing in this city. White signed with the Lightning on Dec. 8, 2016, a move that gave the league its first truly big name player in its six-year history.

White’s goal is to change the world with London as his home base.

“This city has embraced me and I love it,” said White. “London is a growing city, and any time a university as big as Western is with that many young people in the city who make up the vibe and the fabric of the city on an annual basis, there’s an opportunity for a city to grow and expand and be a part of something; be a part of a movement.”

According to the London Lightning head coach, Kyle Julius, White’s contributions in London reach beyond the court, where he’s been putting up incredible numbers since joining the organization.

Julius believes that White’s tenure in London, however long it will be, can be transformational. And it’s a transformation that Julius is proud to be a part of.

“I think it’s life changing and game changing,” said Julius. “Young kids who have these issues and older people that have these issues see a guy like [White], who otherwise wouldn’t be in our community, playing basketball at a high level, speaking out, supporting people and pushing advocacy. It’s an honour to be a part of and it’ll do nothing but help people.”

Maybe a return to the NBA is a possibility one day for White. But with his mental health awareness organization, Anxious Minds, and his holding company, Alexander North, both online and global, White is in no rush to go anywhere else. He’s committed to London.

“There’s nowhere that I need to be that has me rushing out of London,” White said.

“Only building in London and seeing just how much London has to offer and what I can do here in the community.”

As the London Lightning practice on the court, down the set of stairs in the YMCA, Royce White smiles and laughs with his teammates.

Right here, right now, he’s where he wants to be.

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Mustangs lacrosse players find success in the NLL CLAIRE PALMER SPORTS EDITOR @CLAIREATGAZETTE

Courtesy of the Western Engineering Faculty The Western Engineering Toboggan Team (WETT) poses with their sled for the 2017 race.

Engineering Toboggan Team set to compete in Winnipeg ARYAN EFTEKHARI CONTRIBUTOR @SPORTSATGAZETTE The Western Engineering Toboggan Team (WETT) is once again poised to compete at the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR).

Every year, a team of over 100 Western students work to design and build a massive, fully functional 350-pound toboggan with concrete skis and compete for top prize against schools from across Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

“Historically, we’ve done pretty well actually,” said fourth-year captain Adam Del Rosso. “In my four years previously on the team, we have placed 1st, 4th, one year we placed 14th, which wasn’t too great, but we placed first overall again last year.”

The toboggan has to seat five passengers and teams are scored on a combination of speed down the hill as well as team spirit.

Del Rosso, a fourth-year mechanical engineering student, has been on the team since his first year.

He joined after being exposed to the

team during O-Week, and chose toboggan over the formula team because of its more accessible size.

Del Rosso wanted to make an early impact, so he joined one of the sub teams, and worked his way up from there.

“I put a lot of work in my first year so I was lucky enough to go to the competition and represent Western, and then I kind of never looked back from there,” said Del Rosso. “I pretty much fell in love with the club and got more and more involved every year that I’ve been a part of it.”

The team is split up into five subteams each with their own areas of responsibility integral to overall team success.

The superstructure team is in charge of designing the frame, steering and breaks. The construction team deals with the actual building of the toboggan while the concrete team is tasked with building the skis.

There is the theme team, which is responsible for deciding on a team spirit theme for the competition and finally, the sponsorship team is responsible for procuring funding from various available avenues.

“I’d say in terms of dedicated team members, we’ve had 40-50 very dedicated members this year,” Del Rosso said.

The 30 top contributing students are selected by the executive committee to represent Western at this year’s competition held in Winnipeg on Feb. 8–12.

After taking home five total awards and first place overall last year; not to mention three top four finishes (including another first place in 2013) Del Rosso is confident that his team will perform well at the upcoming competition in Winnipeg in February.

“You never really know how you’ll perform until you’re at the competition and you see the quality of the competition,” said Del Rosso. “That being said, I believe the toboggan we are bringing this year is just as good if not better than the one we brought last year. I’m very confident in our ability to perform and do well.”

The team will put their sled to the test from Feb. 8–12 during the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan race in Winnipeg.

For most athletes, dreams of going pro means travelling south to the U.S. to compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and receive the best training possible.

Playing in Canada is often seen as second rate, with Canadian leagues boasting low rates of players making it to the big leagues.

However, there is one Canadian post-secondary league that has been turning out pro players who can compete with NCAA level athletes — the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association (CUFLA).

After winning the Baggataway Cup in the CUFLA championship against Trent this past season, the Mustangs were ready to shut it down for a well-deserved off-season. However, for Reid Reinholdt, the season is only just beginning.

Reinholdt made his debut with the Toronto Rock, a pro box lacrosse team that plays in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). He scored one goal and contributed two assists against the Saskatchewan Rush on Jan. 14.

“It was a lot of fun — it was pretty cool playing in the Air Canada Centre,” said Reinholdt.

“There was a lot of people there, and I’ve never really played in a venue that big before.”

Reinholdt is in his first year of law school at Western and was a rookie on the championship team this fall. He signed with the Rock team this past summer after going undrafted. Reinholdt is joined on the Rock by Jesse Gamble, a former

Western Mustang, who graduated in 2015. “[Gamble] is good; he’s a really friendly guy, he’s a good teammate and a good leader,” said Reinholdt.

“He’s been really helpful, he’s been talking me through getting used to the team.”

Making the jump from the field lacrosse team at Western to the box lacrosse played in the NLL hasn’t been hard for Reinholdt.

Reinholdt grew up playing box and cheering on his local NLL team: the Vancouver Ravens. Although his road to the pro league has had its up and downs, Reinholdt has enjoyed overall success throughout his career.

“In box it’s a lot more physical, there’s less guys on the floor compared to field, you have to make decisions quicker and things like that,” said Reinholdt. “I was pretty successful growing up in minor, and then when I went to school in that States, we had a pretty bad loss my first year in the semi-finals and that motivated me.”

Reinholdt wasn’t the only Mustangs making his debut this season. Matt Spanger, who was a CUFLA All-Canadian and graduated in 2015, will be making his debut when he joins the New England Blackwolves as a rookie.

Having Mustangs in the NLL isn’t something new. Jordi JonesSmith, a current Mustang, was drafted by the New England Blackwolves last season, although he has yet to make his debut. The Toronto Rocks are scheduled to face off against the Blackwolves on March 3, 2017, in a showdown of Western alumni.

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Mustangs hang onto playoff hopes with win over McGill CHARLIE O’CONNOR CLARKE SPORTS EDITOR @CHARLIEJCLARKE Western’s men’s hockey team came out of their final home stand of the season far more optimistic than they were going into it last week. With two wins in three games, the Mustangs have a vicelike grip on their last ray of hope for a playoff spot.

Saturday night’s spirited 5–4 shootout win over the first-place McGill Redmen came as a surprise to those who have watched the Mustangs this year. The home team played with a fire they’ve been lacking for months, at times dominating the OUA’s best team.

“It’s just confidence,” said assistant coach Steve Benedetti. “Get bounces here and there and all of a sudden things go your way.”

Western was either in the lead or tied all game, coming out of the gate hot with a quick goal by Ray Huether — who also won the game with the only successful shootout attempt.

Both teams were in and out of the penalty box all night, Western and McGill both scoring twice on the power play with 48 combined penalty minutes.

Benedetti was unhappy with some of the refereeing decisions, pointing out some calls that went against the Mustangs, but the penalty kill made up for it.

Goalie Greg Dodds made the difference for the Mustangs, though, stopping 44 shots and all three shootout attempts to shut down McGill’s lethal offence.

“We know what’s on the line here,” said Huether.

Making the playoffs is no longer the pipe dream it was a week ago.

Western will play twice in Québec next weekend, against Concordia University and Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), before a two-game showdown in Thunder Bay against Lakehead, who currently hold the eighth and final postseason spot in the OUA West. “[Head coach Clarke Singer] did the math for us, and basically said if we won three of our five before Lakehead we’d have a shot at those

games being meaningful,” said Dodds. “We’ve got two wins out of the way now and we still have two games to go.”

On paper, the Mustangs look like a playoff team. A deeper look suggests they haven’t had their fair share of lucky bounces this year. Western has just 61 goals, 16th in the OUA, but they’ve taken the sixth-most total shots with 823.

In recent years, hockey statisticians have used a team’s PDO (shooting percentage plus save percentage) as a crude indicator of luck. Anything under 98 suggests a team has been a little unluckier than the rest of the league. Western sits third-last in the OUA with a PDO of 96.3.

Many stats suggest the Mustangs should probably be closer to a playoff spot than they are. A metric called Estimated Fenwick Close (EFC%) roughly measures how much a team possesses the puck by tracking shots in situations where the score is close (when both teams are playing at their hardest).

Western sits a solid 14th in the OUA in EFC%, holding onto the puck about 47.6 per cent of the time. That puts them ahead Lakehead, giving them an advantage in Thunder Bay two weeks from now, and just behind UQTR. Concordia is the third-strongest team in the OUA by this measure, and will definitely pose the toughest challenge.

Western will not play against a better team this year than McGill.

The Redmen are one of the top sides in Canada, and the Mustangs matched them in every area.

All this suggests the Mustangs are in with a fighting chance for this season-ending road trip. They beat Concordia last year and fell heartbreakingly in the Queen’s Cup final to UQTR, so there are no unfamiliar opponents to come.

“At the end of the day you’ve got to look in the mirror and do what you can do,” added Benedetti. “Hopefully we can write our own destiny.”

The Mustangs will indeed control their own fate if they win this weekend. Beat a Québec team, and it’ll be a tooth-and-nail battle the week after against Lakehead.

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Paying tribute to Hayley Wickenheiser Coach Clarter CLAIRE PALMER SPORTS EDITOR @CLAIREATGAZETTE The year is 1994 and Team Canada is lacing up their skates in Lake Placid, New York for the world championships.

Canada’s women’s hockey program is still in its infancy, having only played in international competitions for seven years. Despite this, the team has still managed to pick up two consecutive gold medals at the World Championships and are gunning for their third. The team is young, and women’s hockey isn’t as established as it would later become. During this game, a 15-year-old Hayley Wickenheiser is making her international debut.

Nicknamed Highchair Hayley by her teammates, she would record her first international point in three games en route to Canada’s third consecutive gold.

In Jan. 2017, Wickenheiser has announced her retirement from hockey. She’s come a long way from her 1994 performance: Wickenheiser retires having played the most games of any Team Canada member, is the player with the most goals and is the highest scorer in Team Canada history, a far cry from her three game, one point performance 23 years ago.

Wickenheiser has done a lot for women’s hockey. Competing at

almost every level from Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) to the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) to becoming the first nongoalie female player playing professional hockey full-time when she played men’s pro in Europe, she has served as an idol to many girls who love the game. She showed that hockey could be a career for girls, and paved the way for Canada to become the home of one of the most elite female hockey programs in the world.

She has also shaped the idea of what women hockey players are. She has defined the past, present and future of Canada’s national women’s hockey program by influencing and inspiring countless young girls to take up the sport. Women’s hockey is one of the fastest growing sports in Canada over the last 20 years, in part due to Wickenheiser’s success on the national stage.

Wickenheiser has become an icon in Canadian hockey overall.

Nobody will forget when a fiery Wickenheiser asked if the American national team wanted her to sign the Canadian flag for them after Team Canada claimed their first ever Olympic gold in women’s hockey over the Americans. Nobody will forget when she captained her team to gold on home ice in Vancouver in 2010. Nobody will forget Wickenheiser.

Wickenheiser put a spotlight on USports hockey, formerly referred to as CIS, and shone a light on Canadian university athletics. She showed that it was an elite level of sport and that it was possible to continue towards an elite athletic

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In a time where young female athletes are dropping out of sports at alarming rates, Wickenheiser has become an idol that they can look up to. She is a role model who has done an incredible amount for women’s hockey and women’s sports overall.

Many people forget that in addition to her time with Hockey Canada, she also represented her country on the world stage with the national softball team.

Hayley Wickenheiser has paved the way for many future athletes by being a pioneer in t women’s hockey.

Although she will no longer be competing on Team Canada, her legacy lives on through her influence on young players who will come to the team because of her efforts. It’s time for the Wickenheisers and the Ouellettes to step down to make way for the Spooners and the Poulins, athletes who grew up with women’s hockey thanks to the effort of Wickenheiser.

Ask any young male hockey player who he wants to be when he grows up, and he’d say players like Sidney Crosby or Wayne Gretzky.

Women players? We have Hayley Wickenheiser, whose career and legacy demand as much respect as her male counterparts.

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Smartphones bridge amateur and professional film worlds SAMAH ALI CULTURE EDITOR @SISTERSAMAH Making films may be daunting to young visionaries but the Western Smartphone Film Festival (WSFF) pushes students to think beyond high-priced equipment and turn to their phones for filmmaking.

Back again for their second year after a successful launch last year, WSFF will be showcasing these smartphone-made films on Feb. 4 in the UCC’s McKellar Room.

WSFF is a student-run film festival pushing students to produce five-minute films recorded on their smartphones. This year’s festival focuses on the two themes of misinformation and technology, branching off major themes seen in contemporary television with shows like Black Mirror, Mr. Robot and The OA. What makes this year special is that the festival’s submissions range across Ontario universities and even spill over from out-ofprovince universities like McGill University and the University of British Columbia.

Promotions executive Angela He points out that this is a big deal, showing WSFF has grown substantially over the past year.

Seeing students use their everyday resources to make a film shows the team their festival’s message is

inspiring students to jump into the industry with what they already have.

“Having only a smartphone to film really pushes people’s creativity,” He begins. “When you have that more limited and simplistic resource you really have more area to dream, not only because you don’t have to worry about the technicalities of it but people get very creative with it.”

Running from 1:30 to 4 p.m., the festival will screen the top 10 films submitted to the festival in front of a panel of industry judges where they will offer critiques to the aspiring filmmakers.

Among these industry professionals is decorated director and cinematographer Dale Sood known for his work in Pandora’s Box and It’s About Time. The judges will also determine the top prize of $500 to the winning film.

There will also be an audience award for $100 that will be conducted day of through a ballot system. Other perks will go towards attendees of the festival.

Since WSFF is free entry, there will be concessions given to the first 50 students in attendance, a chance to win a $150 dinner for two at Glassroots and Fist Fight prize bundle gifted from Warner Brothers Canada.

He also speaks of a collaboration

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with Forest City Film Festival where the top three films will be eligible to submit to their festival. This further promotes their ambition to encourage students to express themselves with what they have available to them and see what happens.

After witnessing the success

of Tangerine, a breakout movie filmed on a smartphone, there’s no boundaries of what qualifies as a legitimate filming device.

WSFF builds off this by bringing both aspiring filmmakers and professionals together in a theatre to show the power of creativity that surpasses high quality cinema

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With 32 submissions spanning different university campuses, it’s clear their mission is shared with students across Canada and their festival will continue to grow as more people dabble with the art of smartphone filmmaking.

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There’s more to science than medicine BRENDEN DIXON CONTRIBUTOR @GAZETTECULTURE Robert Nanni was in his first year in Western Science when he settled down into one of his first biology lectures. Professor Tom Haffie began by asking the students who want to go to medical school to raise their hands.

Nanni’s hand went up along with hundreds of others in the lecture hall. Prof. Haffie then asked all but 10 or so people to lower their hands.

“That’s who’s getting into medical school,” Haffie declared.

This experience stuck with Nanni, who is now a fourth-year chemistry student at Western.

Nanni, like many others, came to Western with the intention of attending medical school. Having always excelled in math and science, medical school seemed like the obvious path for him.

“All my life, I guess I was just predisposed to thinking that a science degree should culminate in medical school,” Nanni says. “That’s what I always worked for.”

The summer after his second year, Nanni spent dozens of hours studying for his MCAT. That August, he wrote the test. But during the process, Nanni began to question whether medicine was what he wanted to spend the rest of his life doing.

Suddenly, despite years of preparation, he realized that although he enjoyed chemistry, physics, psychology and sociology, he absolutely hated biology.

“It was very scary because I didn’t know what else JENNY JAY & AMYO’KRUK GAZETTE I could do,” Nanni explains. “I had never pursued things outside of science.”

Nanni isn’t alone — many science students who once aspired to go to medical school either change their minds or don’t get in.

From there, their choices may seem limited due to the widespread notion that medical school is the apex of science.

This fixation with medicine can create a student culture where those who think outside the medical field are often questioned and insulted for their ‘less ambitious’ goals.

Unlike Nanni, fourth-year medical sciences student Christina Arsenault never wanted to go to medical school. She’s had her eyes on optometry since high school.

“I do hear a lot of people who are applying to med school say, ‘Oh, I’m going to use optometry as my fallback,’ and that’s kind of insulting,” Arsenault says.

Over the years, Arsenault has loved every minute of her time spent volunteering at optometrists’ offices and shadowing an optometrist.

AMY O’KRUK GAZETTE “I’ve honestly tried to consider Source: Service Canada alternatives, but I couldn’t think of anything I would like better than optometry,” she says.

But for those pursuing medical school, the odds are it’s a really hard job — it’s hard to be a superhero every day,” Starr says. against them.

While not explicitly promoted by science faculties, In 2014–15, only 17.9 per cent of Canadian medical school applications were accepted nationwide. medical school is highlighted in other ways. In most Western’s Schulich School of Medicine reported an instances, medicine is used as the default example, Arsenault says. acceptance rate of just over six per cent in 2016.

“That makes it seem like med school is the big, top This means that outside of the small fraction admitted, most aspirants will have to choose a new career choice of our program,” she adds. path at some point in their degree. And although profesMadeline Jeffery, a former biomedical sciences stusors often present research as an alternative, academic dent at Western, has witnessed similar behaviour.

“If you’re a competitive person with good marks, research only represents six per cent of science jobs. you do care about the expectations of others,” Jeffery says, “which I think applies to everyone.”

A MEDICAL (SCHOOL) MYSTERY For many students, the pressure to go to medical school She adds that students who openly consider alternais constant from day one. tives to medicine are generally seen as “taking the easy “It’s an uphill battle for us because it’s cultural – it’s way out.” not just the students that want to go to med school, it’s These attitudes, regardless of motives, may have their parents and their grandparents,” says Lauren Starr, some influence on a student’s scholastic decisions.

“I probably didn’t consider many other alternatives a career services officer for science students at Western.

Society, she says, places a lot of emphasis on doctors’ because of the social status of those jobs,” says Jeffery, high salaries and job security, as well as their unique who is now at Ivey Business School.

But Jeffery and Nanni aren’t the only students to position to help people.

“It actually floors me that there are as many people change their mind about medical school. So where that want to do [medicine] as there are, because I think are the majority of science graduates actually going?

THE SILENT MAJORITY In reality, most science students actually end up in (usually) science-based companies and industries.

In fact, a 2011 Statistics Canada survey found that only 16 per cent of workers with backgrounds in biological and applied sciences worked in healthcare, and only six per cent in university research departments.

Starr says many find work in chemical, environmental and bioinformatics firms. Others end up in manufacturing, helping to produce new foods, beverages, paints or biotechnology devices, or developing new kinds of puffers, vaccines or cures.

Students who want to make meaningful contributions to public health can still influence medicine from within these companies, Starr says.

“This idea that you can only help people if you’re a doctor or an academic researcher, that’s not true at all,” she continues.

Ashleigh Lerch, a career counsellor at the Student Success Centre, believes the focus should be on students finding a career that best fits their identity.

“There’s not necessarily a ‘better’ career option, but maybe there is a ‘better fit’ for different people,” Lerch explains.

Western offers many services, events and programs to help science students find the right jobs.

But even for students who seem certain of their career path, having a contingency plan is always a good idea, Lerch says. She has met students who have earned medical degrees and later decided that they didn’t actually want to practice medicine.

Lerch explains that the challenge has always been advertising these alternative careers — professors, TAs, and students alike are already busy enough, so sacrificing class time to discuss alternate career paths isn’t always an option.

“It comes down to balancing different priorities of not only students, but also educators,” Lerch says.

A VIABLE CURE? Jeffery knows first-hand what would have helped expose her to applications for her science degree.

“I think it has to do with getting people’s honest experiences,” Jeffery says.

Jeffery faced a situation similar to Nanni after finishing her second year in science. After an uninspiring foray into research and writing the MCAT, she too questioned her commitment to medicine and science.

One of her professors used their final class to talk honestly about his lacklustre time in medical school.

“I’d never heard of someone having that experience,” Jeffery explains. It was not the picturesque narrative that she was used to.

Drawing from that classroom conversation, Jeffery suggests that more professors should use some class time to discuss a wider range of career paths.

“If you had those experiences more accessible to students, maybe they would realize med school is not a perfect situation; it’s a fit for certain people,” Jeffery says.

Jeffery, during her time at Ivey, discovered a newfound love for finance. She’s much more interested in classes and enjoying her program.

Speaking from experience, Jeffery asks students to be open to switching paths.

“Even if you’ve told all your friends and family for years that you’re going to do this,” Jeffery says, “this is only going to affect you.”

Nanni, too, found a new passion and was recently accepted to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. For him, law represents the perfect mix of what he loves most about the analytical process of chemistry and the social aspects of psychology.

To all students going through something similar, “embrace it,” Nanni says. “There’s more to life than just one path that leads to medical school.”

Editor’s note: Robert Nanni was previously an editor at The Gazette during Volume 109.

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Art in the Public Sphere brings DIY to students ANNIE RUETER CULTURE EDITOR @ANNIE_RUETER

Do It Yourself (DIY) can evoke images of too much glitter floating in mason jars and burning glue guns left on corners of craft tables.

But visual art professor Christof Migone has a different vision of DIY. Migone is the organizer of this semester’s “Art in the Public Sphere” lecture series and has selected DIY as the theme that inspires his wide selection of guest artists, curators, and scholars.

The weekly lectures invite all members of the public to learn about visual art on a broad scale that appeals to students across disciplines.

“Contemporary art nowadays is very much connected to what is going on socially and politically,” Migone says. “So the hope is that, let’s say you’re in political science, or maybe you’re in medicine or law, that there will be some point of connection.”

“It might not be readily obvious,

but I think as people who live in this world we share some concerns, and art in its broadest sense can be one of the ways to approach it.”

Thursday evening was the first of the weekly lecture series of this semester. The evening featured a round table discussion between guest artists/curators Jenna Faye Powell (Forest City Gallery), Taylor Doyle and Sophie Quick (Good Sport) and Christine Negus (London Ontario Media Arts Association - LOMAA). They discussed the topic of artist-run centres, which evoke the spirit of doing something yourself. Next to Ace Space in Toronto, Forest City Gallery is the second oldest artist run centre in Canada and opened in 1973.

The four women also discussed London’s small but mighty arts community, funding challenges and the invaluable experience of volunteering in galleries.

Future lecturers include Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Toronto-based curator and writer; Helen Fielding,

The search for healthy food on Western’s campus JEN TOMBS GAZETTE STAFF @GAZETTECULTURE

Western has a huge range of eateries across the University, but when you’re on a campus that has a Tim Horton’s around almost every corner it can be difficult to eat healthily.

Many students feel that despite the range of food, it’s hard to find nutritious options.

Second-year MIT student Katie McDonald says she wouldn’t look for a healthy meal on campus.

“It depends on what you’d call healthy, but I think for me Tim’s isn’t cutting it,” says McDonald.

But Anne Zok, Western’s nutrition manager, stresses that there is, in fact, choice when it comes to campus food.

“We do provide some comfort food but I think that we provide countless healthy options,” Zok says. “If [students] are seeking out healthy options they can find them.”

She names the Centre Spot salad bar, Booster Juice and Pasta By Design as good lunch choices.

Zok also states that students never have to eat unhealthily at any eatery, as they all provide a range of options.

“Students want to be able to customise what they’re eating, and places like Quesada and Mucho Burrito are good for that,” says Zok. “So you can choose your veggies, choose whether you want a whole grain wrap or a white wrap

or whether you want to get salad.”

Even when there are choices, though, they can often be too expensive to be practical for students.

“A salad can be $10, and for that price you can get a feast from Manchu Wok”, says Jason Sinukoff, a third-year law student. “If you’re hungry it’s hard to go that route on campus.”

Similarly, McDonald will sometimes spring for a healthy snack in the UCC, going to Centre Spot to “grab a fruit cup.” But she adds, “I think it’s so overpriced that I end up bringing my own Pop-Tarts and stuff.”

However, there are alternative places to eat far away from the UCC’s sea of coffee, subs and stir-fry.

Green Leaf Café in Somerville House is one such healthy place. Zok says “it’s got a beautiful lunch buffet with locally inspired composite salads, homemade soup and entrees.”

However, Zok adds that “a lot of students forget about it.” Sinukoff agrees, reasoning that because the restaurant is “tucked away” people haven’t heard of it.

In fact, Green Leaf Café is absent from the campus eateries website; it certainly harder to find than the less nutritious eateries in the UCC. This lack of awareness and affordability of alternatives can mean students end up eating less healthy or just passing on using campus eateries altogether.

Western philosophy professor; Shelly Nero, multimedia artist; Simone Jones, multidisciplinary artist; Peter Flemming, artist; and a Toronto-based six-person artist collective called VSVSVS. The lecture series is connected to a second year course Migone teaches called Art Now II: DIY (From Sctratch to Share). As part of the coursework, students need to attend the lecture series.

“There is a whole range of approaches that [the speakers] will present, and so I hope that students will get an idea of the infinite set of possibilities that art can offer,” Migone says.

Migone emphasizes that art doesn’t need to be confined to a frame, and hopes that this lecture series will bring about the possibilities art offers to students outside his class.

Lectures take place in North Campus Building, room 113 on Thursdays at 7:00pm. For a full list of lectures, see the Visual Arts website.

Huron University College will host a classic Broadway musical on Feb. 2: Stephen Sondheim’s and George Furth’s Company, performed by the Huron Underground Dramatic Society (HUDS).

Premiering in 1970 on Broadway, Company is known for being a groundbreaking musical for its time, challenging audiences’ ideas of marriage and relationships.

“It’s a musical that explores the scenes of contemporary relationships, societal views of marriage and … the theme of uncertainty,” explains musical director Sean Yauk.

The play focuses on the character of Robert, who will be played by Matthew Patterson in the HUDS performance.

“The show details his struggles to decide on what he needs to be happy and what he wants out of his life and relationships, but through the fun of a musical comedy,” Patterson says.

“The last person to play Robert in a major production was Neil Patrick Harris,” he adds. “So those are some pretty big shoes to fill.”

Company continues to explore relationships in new and relevant ways. An upcoming production of the show in London, England

features a gender-swapped protagonist, putting a new spin on the character of Robert, who is normally portrayed as a disillusioned bachelor.

HUDS is also providing a unique take on the play.

“We’re going to be doing things like scaling down some of the intricate set pieces that were involved in the original production and trying to make an effort to portray the characters as more relatable individuals,” says Yauk.

“Audience members can expect to have more of a relatable and intimate theatrical experience.”

HUDS has previously performed original student-written sketch shows, such as The Godfather-er.

“The Huron Underground Dramatic Society has never actually produced a full-scale Broadway musical before, so this is the first time that we’re staging something of this caliber,” says Yauk.

Patterson is prepared to rise to the challenge. “As much as it is more challenging, it is also a lot more rewarding to see the full show come together and to really engage with a play in a meaningful waym,” he says.

Company runs from Feb. 2–4 at The Beaver Dam at Huron, and doors open at 7:30 p.m.

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