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Contributions have not poured in “but dropping like the gentle dew from heaven,” they have brought relief to our editorial heart and we trust they will bring enjoyment to our readers.

There has very truly been “nothin doin” since our last issue at least nothing seemingly has been — shall we say — worthy of being written up for “In Cap and Gown.” We can sympathize with an editor in a small Western town who is in despair over the dearth of news, disguised, timely and committed robbery in order that there might be a sensation for his journal.

We cannot commit robbery or rather we wouldn’t but we might create a ghost who would siege every student and make a contribution to “In Cap and Gown” the prize of release.

It is rather soon to assure our readers that the magazine desires to be their Valentine. However, when that auspicious day arrives they may remember that if matters would have been arranged with the calendar, “In Cap and Gown” would have been delighted to be their “kind and loving Valentine.”

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As I went through microfilms of old Gazette volumes in Weldon, I smiled when I came across this gem of an editorial from 1904. I knew we were definitely reprinting it. A lot has happened since these words were handwritten 113 years ago but that campus paper spirit and humour lives on.

The Gazette is owned and published by the University Students’ Council.

I feel extremely privileged introducing the 110th anniversary issue of this publication.

Putting this issue together is like watching history unfold, whether it is campus and the Gazette during World War II or during the civil rights movement.

The bounds show changes in how different generation of students think, act and evolve but also how some things never change and cycle back every few years.

The Gazette’s 110th anniversary has been eventful.

From being a daily in 1991, to twice a week in print until last semester, we’re now — once again — a

All articles, letters, photographs, graphics, illustrations and cartoons published in The Gazette, both in the newspaper and online versions, are the property of The Gazette. By submitting any such material to The Gazette for publication, you grant to The Gazette a non-exclusive, world-wide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to publish such material in perpetuity in any media, including but not limited to, The Gazette‘s hard copy and online archives.

weekly paper. But I’m happy to say we’re bringing the same spirit and humour to our readers on newer platforms in exciting ways.

This issue, like everything we produce, is for our student readers. You are and will always be our Valentine. But these pages are a dedication to everyone who has helped put this paper out for 110 years. Editors, volunteers, support staff, printers and delivery guys — old and new — we won’t be able to call ourselves the best campus newspaper (as every EIC loves to do) without everyone’s time and contributions.

So, thank you.

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A brief history of the Gazette

GAZETTE MARCH 5, 2015

When the Gazette began, it bore almost no resemblance to the newspaper on stands today.

Indeed, the first incarnation of a student publication at Western was called In Cap and Gown. First appearing in 1901, it was a handwritten monthly that was read aloud to the Literary Society and then stored in the library for anyone who wished to peruse it.

Early stories took on a more personal feel that sounded much

more like a diary than a proper newspaper. There was lots of creative writing, poetry and the covers featured artistic ink illustrations.

What was clear, however, was that students had a platform for their voices to be heard. Faculties like the Arts and Meds wrote their own section of the Gazette.

1906 marked the first printed edition of In Cap and Gown. After two years, the publication’s executive committee changed the name to

The Western University Gazette. The name was said to better represent the interests and mandate of the publication. While Gazette stayed in the name since then, it has gone through minor changes over the decades.

Publication wasn’t easy back then. It took two weeks to get the paper to newsstands. Editors regularly struggled to find enough content to fill the pages. Given that Western was a small community back then, campus gossip was sometimes used to ensure there was enough to publish.

The Gazette took three years off and did not publish during World War I. After the War, however, the paper focused on the roaring twenties and the boisterous student life that followed in the next decade.

While it began to resemble more of a newspaper, it still mainly covered student events, sports and the arts.

As the Great Depression hit, The Gazette finally became a true newspaper, publishing in-depth stories that aimed to inform Western students about what was happening locally and around the world. As World War II hit, the focus shifted to coverage of the conflict and its implication. Afterwards, students just wanted a more light-hearted publication so The Gazette morphed again.

As The Gazette entered the 1960s, they became more likely to stir discussion on campus. Throughout the first 50 years of the newspaper, the publication schedule was

erratic but a weekly edition was secured. Writers during this time were unafraid to delve into student politics, news on campus and wider political debates of the time. The 60s are often noted as a decade of great change and The Gazette continually infused this into the publication.

In 1969, a two-page centrespread on worldwide poverty was run with photos of malnourished children from third-world countries. The headline was simple — “Give a damn!” The Gazette bolstered its reputation with investigative reporting and its lack of fear when it came to tackling taboo topics such as abortion and homosexuality.

By the 1970s, the Gazette continued to be politicized but shifted its focus to be a bit more local, covering student politics more. Social issues continued to lose prominence and importance among readership, with stories becoming more about everyday student life issues. The 1980s featured talk about new technology such as computers and video games.

As advertising sales continued to rise, the Gazette became daily in 1991. While writers began to practise more investigative reporting, the 1990s were also a time of the tabloid generation; protests and sensationalism were prominent fixtures.

By the 2000s, the Gazette began to structure the paper very consistently with a daily page count given to each section. Unafraid to be irreverent, cutlines and headlines frequently took on a mocking tone

that poked fun at their subjects.

Entering the 2010s, the paper transformed again, becoming a more serious publication that covered hard news. Original on-campus reporting was prioritized and arts coverage was focused more on the local London community. While the stories featured in the Gazette became more local, the publication was affected by wider circumstances in the journalism world.

With many newspapers facing declining advertising revenue and the threat of becoming more obsolete from the blogosphere, the Gazette recreated itself yet again. A “digital first” mandate was established. Breaking news and live reporting were prioritized like never before.

The Gazette began to reach out to its audience on various social media platforms, becoming one of the most prominent and largest student publications in Canada.

While print publication was phased down to weekly, publishing online occurred seven days a week.

Over the 110 years that the Gazette has been publishing, it has undergone a number of reinventions, always striving to reach its audience. Whether it’s publishing more light-hearted fare after a World War, covering the societal changes of the '60s or staying relevant in a digital age, the Gazette has continued to soldier along.

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UCC PROTESTS HAVE HAPPENED FOR DECADES. March 1994: A student from Students for a Green Society took issue with the grand ceremony opening a new wing of the UCC. The protestors in attendance argued that the UCC should be making education more accessible — not renovating the UCC.

LADY’S CHOICE. November 1963: Fran Berkoff appeared to be choosing her date for a co-ed ball set to take place at Middlesex College. We all want to be Fran.

MIDDLESEX HIT BY BULLET. December 1971: Around 10 p.m. on a Saturday night, police believed a .22 caliber rifle was used to shoot through a window in the map room. No one was injured.

A FORMER STAR QUARTERBACK AND ALBERTA PREMIER. November 1954: Don Getty and Murray Henderson celebrate after winning their league’s championship. Getty would subsequently enter Albertan politics where he served as premier from 1985-92.

IS WESTERN DISNEYLAND NORTH? November 1980: The ever-clever engineers repelled down Middlesex tower and replicated a Mickey Mouse watch on the clock face. It stands out today as one of their most daring pranks.

IT’S FASTER THAN TAKING THE LTC. February 2007: Someone just decided that UC Hill would become their own personal snowboarding hill.

Selection Committee Vice-President (Finance & Operations) Call for Submissions A Selection Committee for the Vice-President (Finance & Operations) has been struck in accordance with the Appointment Procedures for Senior Academic and Administrative Officers of the University.

The Committee is seeking input from the community as it begins the search.

The responsibilities of the Vice-President (Finance & Operations) are diverse and complex. They include, among others, responsibility for Financial Services, Housing & Ancillary Services, Facilities Management & Capital Services, Internal Audit, the Bookstore, and Campus Community Police. Approximately 30% of the university's full-time administrative and support staff and many part-time staff work in divisions reporting to the vice-president.

Your advice will be helpful in guiding the development of the position profile for the new vice-president, including the qualifications, experience, skills, and leadership and communication attributes we should be seeking in the successful candidate.

THIS IS A PEP RALLY. October 1952: While this may seem like some sort of strange ritual, this was a typical pep rally on a Friday night, full of energy led

by Purple Spur and Western’s cheerleaders.

LOOKING FOR LIQUID GOLD. March 1964: Drills digged deeply near Sydenham Hall in search of an oil pool — no oil ended up being discovered as it turns out.

The following documents may be of assistance when formulating your submission: • Roles & Responsibilities of the Vice-President (Finance & Operations) http://www.uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/board/special_resolutions/spres12.pdf

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• Mission, Vision & Values of the Portfolio http://uwo.ca/vpresources/vp_operations/mission.html Submissions should be forwarded to the Secretary of the Committee, Irene Birrell by March 10, 2017 at ibirrell@uwo.ca or mailed to: I. Birrell, University Secretary Rm. 4101, Stevenson Hall Western University London, Ontario, N6A 5B8

WHERE’S THE HOODIES? November 1954: The bookstore looked very different over 60 years ago.

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Pages 6 – 12 contain letters from past Gazeditors reminiscing the time spent at their favourite campus newspaper.

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Celebrating the past and the future

JAY MÉNARD is a content strategist at Digital Echidna and freelance reporter for various publications. He was editor-in-chief of the Gazette in 199697 and currently serves as the chair of the Gazette Publications Committee.

“Looking at next year’s front office and knowing what I know about this paper, I have no doubt that I’ll always be proud to call myself Jason Ménard, Gazette Staff.”

That was how I ended my final column for the paper, after four years and over 400 papers of involvement. It was hard to imagine leaving after spending years as a

sports editor, news editor and finally editor-in-chief.

The funny thing is, the Gazette always stays with you. And, sometimes, you stay with the Gazette.

As EIC back in 1996-97 for Volume 90, I was at the helm of the paper when we first hopped aboard what was then known as the Information Superhighway. Thanks to then-USC president Dave Tompkins, we were able to bring the Gazette to the masses online. Sure, there was no real CMS, updating was a challenge, but we did it — and continued to do it.

And now, as chair of the Gazette Publishing Committee, I’ve been involved in another period of transition. Over the past few years, we’ve had to make some tough decisions.

Though many of us rightly took pride in the fact that the Gazette was published four times a week, it just didn’t work in today’s environment.

The paper has transitioned to a digital-first strategy, complemented by one printed version a week.

But those are just numbers; the Gazette is, and always has been, about people. This issue is a celebration of

some of the people who have walked through the paper’s doors (which have moved around from time to time).

Not every student is going to be a full-time reporter. Some may go into corporate communications or public relations, others may find their way into marketing and many more will find other applications for their creative skills. But at the root of it all, the relationships they make, the people they meet and the talents and skills that are afforded the opportunity to flourish on the pages (whether print or online) of the Gazette will last a lifetime.

Back in the day, we learned to manually size photos, cut and paste layouts and run back from events to hammer out a 2,500word article before deadline.

Today’s Gazette staff are learning the skills they need for the workplace of today — and tomorrow.

Social media, video capture and production, filing stories across multiple channels targeted to diverse audiences — it’s not enough to embrace what it was. The Gazette is creating the content producers of the future.

COURTESY OF RICHARD GILMORE The greatest sports section ever.

L-R: Jason Natale, Dan Skeen, Chris Lee, Jay Ménard and Craig Courtice.

What hasn’t changed in 110 is the need to tell stories. The Gazette has long been a strong voice for students, serving as a benchmark for the student experience, and addressing the issues that matter most to its readers. But in the process of telling these stories, Gazette

staffers have also developed their own. This issue is a celebration of 110 years of the Gazette, the changes and transitions it has made, and the people who have played a large part in making paper what it was, what it is and what it will be for years to come.

Committing the act of journalism fill a gap in your program

SUSAN DELACOURT is one of Canada’s best-known political journalists. She was editor-in-chief of the Gazette in 1982-83. Over her long career she has worked at some of the top newsrooms in the country, from the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail to the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. She is a frequent political panelist on CBC Radio and CTV. The author of four books, Delacourt’s latest — Shopping For Votes — was a finalist for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Canadian non-fiction in 2014. She teaches classes in journalism and political communication at Carleton University.

A wise editor once told me that people who work for a student newspaper

will spend their careers trying to recreate the life they had during that first, heady plunge into journalism.

I saw his point — I still keep a picture of an old, tattered-leather chair from the Gazette above my desk, as a reminder of all the times I sat looking out on the newsroom, thinking I probably had the best job in the world.

But I’m not sure I ever had to recreate my Gazette experience of the early 1980s through the subsequent decades — in many ways, it never left me.

Being a political journalist in Ottawa is a lot like reporting at a university campus: looking for stories amid all the smart people who find themselves working and living in those big, historic buildings. The politics of university life is great training for the politics of Parliament Hill and so too is the journalism. Being a foreign correspondent may be a wonderful way to ply the craft, but there’s a special kind of discipline you learn when you have to report on the same people you’ll meet in the corridors the next day.

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GAZETTE FILE PHOTO THEY ARE ALL IN SUSAN’S COURT. The masthead of Volume 76 in 1982-83.

political parties and government; friends made in those years who I’m still in touch with today.

At one point not so long ago, the fourth floor of the National Press Building could have been designated as a shelter for former Gazette staffers. Between Maclean’s magazine and the Toronto Star, who had adjacent offices in that building across from Parliament Hill, we had representation from at least three decades of Gazette editors. We were kind of proud about how we’d infiltrated the press gallery so completely.

I don’t actually remember when I made the decision to walk into the Gazette and sign up to do a story.

I’d like to see it as a strategic career decision, but I think it was the fun and excitement that lured me into that second-floor office of the UCC. These days, I’m asked a lot by students about how to get into the journalism business. I still say the best way to be a journalist is to commit the act of journalism: walk into the student paper and start writing or editing, or both. And though I don’t have that big battered chair to sit in anymore, I still say that working at the Gazette is probably the best journalism job in the world.

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The best journalism school in the country is The Western Gazette. It certainly was for me and many others before and after.

Flipping through the pages of my four years at the paper I was reminded of what a microcosm of the real world the Gazette is and was. We had the government — two of them actually: the administration and the student’s council.

Elected and unelected people to hold to account. The arts scene, sports and special interest groups to cover. And tension, lots of it.

Some days it seemed the entire Middle East conflict was waged verbally in my office as groups on both sides would arrive to

coming to London to promo his book, Looking for Trouble, a Journalist’s Life and then Some.

Would the Gazette be interested?

I said sure and a copy of the book arrived. A big document. I stayed up all night to read it. It was a great book about his escapades in Canada and overseas. The next morning I arrived at 7:30 a.m. to a newsroom messier, if possible, than normal. Before I had left the previous night I implored my colleagues to tidy. In the true spirit of university journalism it looked like there had been quite a party.

I brewed coffee. Seeing nothing but a dirty beer stein, I raced down to the Picadilly store to get Styrofoam cups and cream.

Returning, I found a diminutive but clearly important man drinking black coffee out of the beer stein, his feet on my desk. Peter Worthington. Halfway through the interview he stopped. “You read my book.” It was a statement.

“Isn’t that the idea?” I responded.

Worthington said that few reviewers do. “What are you doing after this gig, kid?” I told him I did not have a clue. He sat back and thought for a moment. “Well, I know a guy of my vintage, the managing editor of the Toronto Star, Ray Timson. I’ll give him a call and see if he has a spot.”

Read the document. Interview the sources. Do your homework. Simple lessons that the Gazette taught me. Happy 110th Anniversary Gazette!

In 1982, I was part of the Gazette editorial board which helped organize the newspapers 75th anniversary celebration. The after party ended up at the house I rented with other students. I remember being in a circle with former Gazette luminaries, drinking beer and listening enthralled to their stories about how they made it to the Toronto Star, to the Globe and Mail and about their triumphs at the student newspaper.

A life in journalism to me, then, seemed so out of reach, yet so tantalizingly close.

But let me backtrack a bit. I went to Western in 1979 to play football for the Mustangs. I played on a Quebec championship team the year before and I wanted to play on a winner. I made it to the end of training camp only to get cut. My whole reason for being at Western was gone, and classes hadn’t even started yet! I don’t think I’ve had a mid-life crisis, but I know I had a start-of-life crisis. I could have gone back to McGill, where I was also accepted, but I chose to stick it out in the land of purple and white.

And it was then, in a directionless funk, I found myself at the door

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KEVIN DONOVAN is an award-winning investigative reporter and editor for the Toronto Star. He is the author of The Dead Times, a mystery novel, co-author with Nick Pron of Crime Story and author of ORNGE: The Star Investigation That Broke the Story.

Donovan was editor-in-chief of the Gazette in 1984-85.

complain about our coverage.

Then there was Fred Guilfoyle, the aging Creationist, who would muscle his way past the Middle East scrum to call me an “apist” and insist on us publishing his latest, um, position paper. There were the late-night editing sessions with my wonderful managing editor Catherine Zuill and all the spirited, talented editors and writers.

You do not get that in journalism school. We learned about writing, advertising, photography, layout.

Not computers of course but we did upgrade from manual to IBM Selectric typewriters. I painted the whole office too, one summer. I do not think it has been painted since.

Publishing a product (we had libel suits too) is the best training for the hurly burly world of journalism.

When I arrived at the Toronto Star the next month the only reason I was able to even begin to hold my head above water is the training I received at the Gazette. Susan Delacourt, who was my editor when I was news editor, taught me a valuable lesson. Dig in and read the document. That’s how I got hired at the Star.

In late November of my year as editor I was busy. My father had recently died and I was winding up his renovation, landlord business while working full time at the paper. No thought given to what I would do when April came and my job as editor ended. The phone rang. Peter Worthington, a true giant of journalism, was

JOHN MCKENNA is the executive producer of CHCH News. He was a writer and sports editor at the Gazette from 1979-82.

to the Gazette office during Frosh week. I was invited in. I told them I was interested in writing. They told me they needed someone to write about the football team. After two and a half weeks of two-a-day practices, the football team was pretty much all I knew and I accepted the assignment. For the next three years I went to, and reported on, every game. And I wrote and wrote and wrote: columns, profiles, the occasional editorial, news, entertainment and even an advice column (where I surreptitiously supplied my own outrageous questions).

When they decided to broadcast Mustang football games on CHRW, I was asked to do the play-by-play.

Interestingly, Kevin Newman was the producer, Stephen Brunt was the sideline reporter and I was the talent.

But not for long. I turned out to be pretty good at producing and I’ve spent my news career behind the scenes. First at Global, then CTV, CBC and now CHCH. Add them all up and you’ve got 35 years.

And I think back to that 75th anniversary party that was a mix of my fear of the future with my wanting to succeed and I realize what was then is also now. The people. The challenges. The craziness. The fun. The hope that you made a difference, an impact, in the grand scheme of things (Yes, Gazette editor, grammatically incorrect sentences).

Little did I know that on that first day in 1979, I was being invited in to join a journalistic continuum, a group that has made its mark for 110 years. The Gazette opened a door for me to both a life and a career full of possibilities. One of the best decisions I ever made was to walk through it.

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Insofar as I’ve grown up (not all that noticeably far), much of the work of making me an adult human, and one able to function in a world of words, occurred at the Gazette in the late ’60s.

I arrived at the Gazette offices a staggeringly shy first-year student from Owen Sound, enrolled in what was at the time the university’s undergraduate journalism program.

A high school teacher had advised that since I could string together coherent sentences, I might consider a career that involved writing.

Even as a teenager, I knew

eyes, it’s not hard to see we weren’t always as clever as we thought, and sometimes were disgraceful, but there was certainly passion.

Still, the thing about journalism, as I increasingly learned as I moved from Western into paying newspaper jobs (in London, Windsor, Toronto), is that a reporter only dips into and out of people’s stories.

Sometimes this is at a high point of somebody’s life, sometimes at the lowest, most tragic.

And what happens to them then?

A journalist isn’t going to find out. She can present a moment, a glimpse of a life, but she can’t properly pursue its causes and effects, its shadings and meanings.

So that’s where fiction comes in: 11 novels, some prize-winners, some prize-nominees, some neither, but all of them my own intensive efforts to see truthfully into certain created individuals’ lives. (Truth, by the way, takes a couple of forms, and one of them can be fictional — which isn’t remotely the same as ‘alternative’.)

There’s a certain arrogance in presuming somebody out in the world might be interested in the fictionalized contents of another person’s brain. That, too, has been a gift from those rampaging Gazette days (and nights): confidence that can sometimes usefully tip over into a productive sort of arrogance. Not the end of a shy kid, but an expansion of possibilities, and of things to be wondered and known.

Also: most fun ever.

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JOAN BARFOOT is the author of 11 internationally published novels.

She has won the Books in Canada (now Amazon) first novels award, the Marian Engel award for body of work, and been long listed for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller and Trillium prizes. She was an editor of the Gazette in the late 1960s.

paycheques would be a useful aspect of free, independent, adult life. So I decided to give newspaper journalism a whirl. (That possibly wouldn’t be a smart choice for an 18-year-old now, but it was then. Is it cruel to mention that good jobs in print were everywhere at the time?)

But it was at the Gazette, not the classroom, where I learned not only the basics of who-what-wherewhen-why, but also the fundamentals of fun. Of how to balance the shyness with boldness. How to ask question after question to get to interesting answers. How — and this has probably been both most useful and most troublesome in subsequent years — to balk at authority.

It was a pretty insular little universe, the Gazette. It was a weekly then, and all staff, bottom to top, were unpaid. Which made everybody an amateur, although some less than others. My roommate became entertainment editor.

Eventually I became co-editorin-chief with my boyfriend of the time. Other couples, some considerably longer-lasting, also formed as people worked, played and far too often skipped classes together.

We undertook lots of good journalism on subjects like birth control and abortion rights (hello, 2017!), the effects of marijuana (hello, 2017!), the interlocking corporate connections and London Club memberships of board of governors members — all that sort of thing.

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PAUL WELLS is a national affairs columnist with the Toronto Star.

He worked as political editor for Maclean’s Magazine. He moderated the 2015 Maclean’s national leaders’ debate. He won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, the John W. Dafoe Book Prize and the Ottawa Book Award for his book The Longer I’m Prime Minister.

In my day only a few of us were hardcore Gazette people. Maybe 20. We were outnumbered by dozens who floated in and out of our orbit. Milan, the guy who’d been doing cartoons for a decade. Maybe much longer: stories conflicted. We were pretty sure Milan wasn’t his real name. Cameron, impossibly welldressed and aloof, his copy so clean we struggled to find a word or two worth changing. He went on to run TIFF. We’d see these sorts of people maybe four or five times in a year.

For the rest of us, the ones who didn’t escape, life at the Gazette quickly expanded to fill available space and time. I was at the paper’s

office for twice as many hours in a week as I was in any lecture hall or tutorial. Most of our dating lives were encompassed — too easily; most of our dating lives were pathetic — within the confines of the staff list. My diet shrank to what I could reach from the Gazette without putting on a coat. The sports editors took several months to build a wall of empty Jolt Cola cans (“All the Sugar and Twice the Caffeine” of regular colas) around their dank enclosure.

Student journalism appealed to us because we could walk into any event, go right up to whoever was in charge, and ask any question, unconstrained by conventional courtesy. Journalists are surprisingly shy, as a breed. Doing this work allowed me to act like the guy I would have been if I were fearless.

Steve McKinley and Dean Tweed, photo and graphics editors, started a band called Backbone (two guitars, no other instruments: Backbone).

Later they conscripted me to play Motown horn lines on trumpet. We changed the name to Backbone With the Tower of Personal Hygiene Horn Section. We’d play staff parties. I announced I would be the designated driver for one party. I ended up throwing up into a case of Dave Kilgour’s beer and making out with somebody it took me weeks to shake. That became the joke for the rest of the year. “Paul says he’ll be the designated driver for this one.”

Guffaws.

The work has changed in important ways, I’m told, since we were

Student journalism appealed to us because we could walk into any event, go right up to whoever was in charge, and ask any question, unconstrained by conventional courtesy. Journalists are surprisingly shy, as a breed.

Doing this work allowed me to act like the guy I would have been if I were fearless.

PAUL WELLS

there in the ’80s. For years a major logistical challenge was keeping up with the torrent of advertising revenue. We had to put out dozens more pages in a month than we knew how to fill (Jeff Brooke: “Photo quiz time!”) That problem has gone away and it’s never coming back.

But the basics never change. We learned — from one another, and from studying professional newspapers (we called professional journalism “The Show”) and from alumni who’d toss us the occasional bone — the rudiments of news design, story construction, interview technique. We’d barge in anywhere and ask any question. We’d make or break student politicians’ careers. Along the way, almost by accident, a few of us made our own.

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Falling in love with what you’re passionate about

Scott Colby is currently the Opinions Editor at the Toronto Star.

He’s the co-author of an upcoming book being released by Random House “How We Did It” with NHL hockey dad Karl Suban. He was Editor-In-Chief of the Gazette from 1988-89.

In September 1984, during my first week at Western, I walked into the Gazette office to sign up as a volunteer. It was a decision that would change my life. I fell in love with the Gazette, every aspect of it. At first I was a photographer, but then I wanted to try writing, so I did. That led to editing and then

design. We got to do it all. I couldn’t believe how much fun it was, how important it felt, and how amazing — and talented — the other volunteers were. The diversity of the paper’s coverage, from news and sports, to comics and entertainment, attracted an eclectic group of people with diverse interests and backgrounds.

After four years as a student volunteer, the last two as co-sports editor, I was elected editor-inchief following a nail-biting election with co-news editor Steve Bernstein. Steve and I were deadlocked after two votes. Vol. 81 editor-in-chief David Kilgour decided the only option was to have more speeches followed by a third vote and see if anybody changed their mind. Then, miraculously, one of my sports writers, Bruce Deacon, a star cross-country runner who would later represent Canada at the Olympics, walked through the door and cast the deciding vote in my favour.

That’s how life works sometimes.

I was fully committed to being a journalist. Steve became the

From left: Vol. 82 Managing Editor Steve Bernstein; Vol. 81 Editor-in-Chief David Kilgour; Vol. 82 Editor-in-Chief Scott Colby; Vol. 81 Associate Editor Jeff Brooke; Vol. 82 Associate Editor Chris Woods. Missing; Vol. 81 Managing Editor Chris Walters. Photo by Vol. 81 photo editor Jim Rankin.

managing editor and chose academia as a career. He is now a political science professor at U of T. The other front office editor, associate editor Christopher Woods, dabbled a bit in journalism but quickly moved to Japan, got married, started a family and teaches kindergarten and English.

We all still keep in touch, as do others we knew from our years at the Gazette. A few of us are still

Pay attention to journalism

Jim Rankin is currently assigned to the Toronto Star’s features team and specializes in investigations, data journalism and features.

You can reach him on Twitter @ jleerankin. He was a Gazette photographer from 1985 to 1988, and served as photo editor for a couple of those years.

When I arrived at Western 32 years ago this fall, the plan was to continue on a path to medical school by starting with a bachelor of science in biology.

While I got the degree — just barely, as I recall — I am not a doctor today because of the Gazette, and supportive parents.

Because of this student newspaper, I am a journalist. The Gazette’s storied title has certainly churned out a lot of us accidental hacks. We’re pretty much everywhere, at media places big and small.

At the Toronto Star, where I’ve worked as a reporter-photographer for the past 23 years, the Gazette served as a training ground for many of my colleagues.

A desk away from me sits Paul

Hunter, one of Canada’s greatest hockey writers who now churns out beautiful feature stories. There’s photographer Rick “Maddog” Madonik, national affairs columnist Paul Wells, political observer extraordinaire Susan Delacourt, investigative editor Kevin Donovan, Queen’s Park bureau chief Rob Benzie, the fearless reporter Peter Edwards, editor and mentor to Gazette editors Scott Colby, and, until she was recently laid off and found work at the CBC, reporter Lauren Pelley.

You want to hear Gazette stories? They are legion, and many involve debauchery. Really entertaining stuff.

But with Lauren and the current crew of Gazette journalists in mind, I’d like to use this anniversary and writing invitation, not to reminisce, but as an opportunity to beg you, dear readers and future shapers of our country, to pay heed to what’s happening to journalism and democracy.

In The Shattered Mirror – News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age, Ed Greenspon’s recent study of the state of Canadian journalism, it is noted that the “digital revolution has made for a more open and diverse news ecosystem — and a meaner and lest trustworthy one.”

That, combined with a failing, advertising-based business model, are cause for serious concern for all of us.

Mainstream news media organizations, writes Greenspon, “have been left gasping, while native digital alternatives have

failed to develop journalistic mass, especially in local news.

The financial degradation has been insidiously incremental, but one whose accumulation and now acceleration has brought to the fore the issue of sustainability of newsgathering in our democracy.”

“Fake news” has become a thing. Newsrooms staffed by professional journalists are shrinking and going dark. City Hall in smaller towns and cities is going unwatched. Without the accountability that paid journalism brings, it’s been said that this is the best era in recent memory to be a corrupt politician.

The Washington Post has just added a pointed message to its masthead: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” No, it’s not all about the new U.S. president. These are problems that predate him.

If all of this bothers you, there are a few things you can do to change the direction we seem headed. Talk to your friends, family and neighbours about what’s going on. Urge educators to add media literacy to curriculums, at an early age. Seek out trusted news sources and opinions from a variety of viewpoints. Where it is an option, pay for your news and, if you do nothing else, subscribe to an actual newspaper. They are the bedrock of local journalism.

All is not yet lost.

Despite the sorry state of the journalism business these days, I suspect few of us Gazette alumsturned-hacks have any regrets.

But we certainly worry about our future — and yours.

journalists. Some became lawyers, one is a judge. At least one has died, Vol. 83 editor-in-chief gentleman Mike Martin. We still miss you Mike.

I played sports throughout my childhood and was part of a lot of teams, but I never experienced a place where I felt I was truly accepted, where I knew I belonged, than I did at the Gazette. I credit the incredible chemistry among

the staff but it was also because journalism was a calling. Now, 28 years after leaving Western, the industry is being slowly brought to its knees. The job is not as much fun. The people are more cynical and weary. But the calling is still a clear as it was in September 1984.

And journalism, though threatened by a broken business model, is as important as ever.

Did I go to Western or The Gazette University?

Ian Denomme is the Web Editor for The Hockey News. He Previously worked at Yahoo Canada as a Sports Editor. During his time at the Gazette he was, at different times, a Sports, Opinions and News Editor from 2003-06.

I’ve often said to people, “I went to Western, but really I went to Gazette University.” The Gazette, for me, really was the school of hard knocks. You can’t ask for a better training ground for a wantto-be journalist.

Throughout my professional career working at the Globe and Mail, Yahoo Sports, and now The Hockey News, I’ve known many colleagues who had to cut their teeth for years at small-town newspapers after going to journalism school. It’s a great and necessary experience, they say, because you learn to do a little bit of everything, get a lot of bylines, work on deadline, and learn the ins and outs of the business. But that’s what we did at the Gazette every single day.

I remember one day during my year as news editor, I went downtown to report on a bomb threat at the police station. There was a suspicious package and they brought out a robot to inspect and detonate it. Of course, it turned out to be

nothing. But I spent the afternoon there, took a couple photos, spoke to some people, and wrote a short story. It may seem insignificant but that’s the kind of on-the-job training you get when you commit to the Gazette. Every other media member there doing the same thing as me was a “professional.”

Over my four years I wrote about everything from volleyball games to student council meetings. I copy edited, I wrote headlines, I did layouts, I took a few photos. All those skills prepared me for the professional world.

If you’re serious about journalism as a career, use the Gazette to immerse yourself in as many different elements as possible. Don’t just show up and say you want to write about football. Step outside your comfort zone and do a little bit of everything. That’s especially true now in the digital age. My very first year at the Gazette there was one computer in the corner that had internet access. It wasn’t until after my time that digital became a real priority. Now, at almost any publication in the world journalists are expected to be able to write for the web, publish on multiple platforms, or even shoot and edit video. So embrace the changes the Gazette is going through, because they are the same changes — and challenges — you would experience at a major publication.

As much as the Gazette helped prepare me for the professional world, the personal and social aspects were just as important, and what I remember most fondly.

The friends I made while at the Gazette are still my best friends to this day. I hope the Gazette continues to exist, in whatever form, for another 110 years.

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From local music reviews to reporting from the Middle East

MEGAN O’TOOLE is a reporter and editor for aljazeera.com in Doha, Qatar. She has previously worked with the National Post, the Globe and Mail, London Free Press and Telegraph-Journal in Canada. She was editor-in-chief of the Gazette in 2004-05.

The Gazette was where I learned the basic tools of the trade: how to file clean copy to deadline, how to cover a council meeting, how to write a punchy headline and bolster a story with strong visuals. Some of my most visceral memories of Western are of the late nights our team spent hunched over the layout table, mapping out lines and column inches for the next day’s edition with a pencil and paper.

Journalism today is not what it was then. We have resurfaced in the digital age. Deep fissures have emerged in the foundation upon

which newspapers were built, swallowing and transforming more of the industry with each passing day.

As journalism evolves, so do we.

Yet the fundamentals of the job — shedding light on the policy decisions, public battles and human stories that bind us — remain constant.

Over a decade working in Canadian newspapers, including the National Post, the Globe and Mail, London Free Press and Telegraph-Journal, I watched the metamorphosis of our industry in real time. In the early days, my task was to dig into one or two stories and file a report for the next day’s paper. By the end of the decade, I was immersed in digital journalism, updating each story perhaps a dozen times a day from the courthouse steps or city council; filming supplementary video and audio clips; and contributing to podcasts and live streams. (The contentious debate over this immense shift in the role of the journalist is a topic for another forum.)

In 2013, I relocated to the Middle East to work as a reporter and editor for aljazeera.com, the digital arm of Al Jazeera English. From the company’s headquarters in Doha, I have traveled throughout the region — standing within firing distance of ISIS snipers in Iraq, watching a Palestinian child climb through the

rubble of her old bedroom in Gaza, and documenting the devastating stories of Syrian refugees, such as the man who today begs for death after losing his leg in an Aleppo firefight.

None of this would have seemed possible on that day, more than 15 years ago, when I first summoned up the courage to set foot in the Gazette’s offices, aiming to cover local music, films and cultural events.

Looking back, the stories I wrote during those formative years were formulaic and cringe-worthy, filled with clichés and bland quasi-insights, to wit: “This band is about more than just music.” These were the stories I told as I found my footing in an industry already hurtling inexorably towards an era of dramatic change.

Looking back, I would not change a word.

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The allure of the student newsroom

NICOLE MACADAM is an editor for the Financial Post. In the past, she has worked with the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star as an editor. She was a news editor at the Gazette in 1995-96.

The Gazette was housed in a trailer when I joined. The student centre was under construction and the paper had been temporarily relocated until the work was finished. It was difficult to find and not the classiest environment, but as soon as I walked in I knew I was somewhere special, from the James McCarten memorial sweater hanging on the wall, to the smell of stale coffee and the surly editors who viewed me with suspicion.

I was assigned about the most boring story possible. The university was considering adopting a student code of conduct, and I was to contact other schools that had similar policies and see whether they had any impact. Jeremy Barker turned my 500-or-so-word story into a brief.

I didn’t care, it had my byline, right

there in black and white, and from that day forward, my path was set. I returned, again and again, eventually becoming news editor.

I learned everything I needed to know about reporting and writing from the Gazette; it was the best journalism school I attended (with apologies to Ryerson). I gained an education in how to interview hostile subjects (usually — ahem — from the USC), how to come up with a great angle on Yet-AnotherUniversity-Administration story, how to write a lede that sang, how to write a great headline — and how to piss off just about everyone by writing an offensive one when you’re high on coffee and candy (and possibly other substances).

I wrote big, important stories (travelling to Montreal just before the 1995 Quebec referendum) and smaller, less consequential ones (so many student politics story).

I was pushed harder and worked longer than I ever thought possible.

I learned how to develop black and white film thanks to Ricky Gilmore.

I gained a love for editing and design that has never waned.

Most importantly, I gained a network of lifelong friends and contacts, a few of whom would later become colleagues. Were it not for the Gazette, I would not be a journalist. It was my first newsroom, my first taste of how critical this business is, even on a small scale, and how dedicated the people are who make a life out of this job.

Learning skills that help you diversify

Emmett Macfarlane is a political science professor at the University of Waterloo who specializes in rights, constitutional law, public policy, and Canadian politics. He was editor-inchief of the Gazette in 2003-04.

I was proud to serve at the Gazette not long after the turn of the millennium. Internationally, the world

was dealing with the fallout of 9/11, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Nationally, we were in the final years of Jean Chrétien’s time as prime minister, as the Progressive Conservatives and Canadian Alliance parties merged to form the new Conservative Party of Canada (under the leadership of some guy named Stephen Harper — who knows what happened to him?). And at Western, the University was dealing with the infamous “double cohort” year, following the elimination of OAC in Ontario.

At the Gazette, we strove to be informative, entertaining, and irreverent. We had our battles with the administration (the vice-president of housing had thousands of copies of the 2001 Orientation Week issue tossed in the garbage because

they dared to joke about drug use, something that soured the relationship for a few years), covered the usual University Students’ Council spending scandals and riled various campus groups anytime the issue of the Middle East came up (some things never change).

I recall some great, serious features we did, including a story on animal research on campus, where we successfully pushed the admin to admit that, in addition to mice, rats, and other animals, “non-human primates” were also present in labs. And we revelled in controversy, causing a stir with our Valentine’s “Sex Issue,” in part because it featured a cover of six barely-clothed women on a bed, which ended up making for the best April Fool’s issue in Gazette history, as we had six of our dorky male staff members

replicate the pose for the cover.

Mostly I recall, with fondness, two things: working with great people (some of whom are lifelong friends), and the long days of hard work to put out what was, at the time, the only daily student newspaper in Canada. Although I did not end up pursuing a career in journalism — I remain thankful for the realization it was not for me, especially given the current state of the industry — the lessons I learned and skills I picked up remain with me today.

The ability to digest complex information and write about it clearly, accessibly, and quickly ended up being one of the most relevant skills for my eventual career as a political science professor at the University of Waterloo. If this sounds obvious, what makes

it somewhat less so is that academic writing is a completely different beast: academic publishing is slower than molasses flowing uphill, and academics often seem compelled to overlay their writing with complexity and impenetrable jargon. The journalistic skills I absorbed are ultimately what allowed me to develop a little bit of a public persona as a political scientist, as I regularly write op-eds for outlets like Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail and the National Post.

These in turn led to collaboration with other academics, non-partisan consulting for the government, and a small media profile. I’m able to pursue a career in research and teaching while keeping a foot in the journalism world, and I owe it to my time at the Gazette.

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Utilize the freedom of campus media

STUART THOMPSON is graphics director at the Wall Street Journal. He has worked as an editor at the Globe and Mail and was editor-in-chief of the Gazette in 2010-11.

Working at the Gazette can land you a job. I know, because it landed me several jobs: first at the Globe and Mail and now as graphics director at the Wall Street Journal. There were some steps in between, but you can trace a pretty direct path from my job today back to my life at the Gazette.

When I stepped into the Gazette’s offices as a nervous volunteer in 2009, I had already graduated from a print journalism course and was entering my third year in Media, Information and Technoculture.

Despite all that, my real journalism education was just beginning.

That’s a sentiment you hear a lot from alumni, and for good reason: working at the Gazette is perfect training for the real world.

After six years working at national newspapers, I’ve seen how reporting and editing in a student newsroom is the same as reporting and editing in a national newspaper. In many ways, it’s better.

You can make mistakes. You can try

new beats. You can find what you’re passionate about. You can even run the entire paper, if that’s your thing.

Never again will you have that much freedom.

Working at student media is a must for many internships. That’s because newsrooms are full of people who worked in student media, so they understand the value. When I’m hiring people for my team, student media experience is the first thing I look for.

At the Gazette, like most of university life, you get out what you put in. I started as an arts writer, shifted into news and eventually created a new role for myself as web editor.

In those days, the Gazette’s website was manually updated by a computer science student named Shawn whenever he felt like it (which wasn’t very often). I pitched my editors on creating a bigger web editor/news editor role. By 2010, I had redesigned the newspaper’s website using Wordpress, launched Twitter and Facebook accounts, and started Gazette Video. By the following year, I was running the newspaper as editor-in-chief.

These experiences went directly onto the resume. When Sylvia Stead, the Globe’s internship coordinator, interviewed me in 2011, she remarked about my resume: “Well, you’ve certainly been busy.” And she was right.

I think back to those days as a nervous volunteer and imagine my life without the Gazette. I wouldn’t have made the lifelong friends I still have to this day. I wouldn’t have matured as a journalist. And I definitely wouldn’t have the job I have today. So thanks, Gazette, and happy 110th birthday.

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AARON WHERRY is a senior writer with the CBC. He has covered Parliament Hill since 2007 and has written for Maclean’s, the National Post and the Globe and Mail. Wherry was editor-in-chief of the Gazette in 2001-02.

I have this vague memory of covering a student council election night in my first or second year at the Gazette. A few of us were sitting around a table at the Wave and one of the editors remarked about how funny it was that we all took this stuff so seriously. But, it was noted, it was also perfectly good and right that we took it all so seriously.

Somewhere in there is probably a decent summation of The

Gazette and student journalism and various facets of human existence. My four years in that newsroom, and around the people who gathered there, was a ridiculously good education. And I say that not only because I spent significantly more time in that newsroom than in the classes I was nominally at Western to attend.

I walked in during my second week at Western and became an arts writer. I went for a spot as an arts editor, didn’t get it, but then the guy who was going to be the opinions editor quit and I got that job.

Then I was a news editor and then, in my fourth year, editor-in-chief.

(At the end of it all, no one would offer me a job. Then someone gave up a spot at the Globe and Mail and, thanks to a fortuitously placed former Gazette editor and friend who had the ear of an editor at the Globe, it was offered to me.)

From the ancients were passed on traditions about how things were done. Editors (who seemed so wise and worldly) guided and moulded. Talent was discovered and encouraged. I owe many people my gratitude, and some my apologies. Risks were taken.

Mistakes were made. I laughed, I cried (at least twice that I can remember), I managed to not get sued. I was humbled, and am humbled anew as I think back on it. I took it so, so seriously. Too seriously.

We treated student politics like it matters (which it does! at least sometimes!). My first anonymous source helped me uncover my first political scandal (a dance party that lost $30,000!). And one year we decorated my mother’s old Taurus station wagon and used it to chauffeur two students we set up on a blind date so that we could write about it (I think I still have one of the plastic doves that was affixed to my mother’s car by an editor who remains a dear friend).

We also used that car to deliver the paper one day.

It was a sacred trust, a lark and a regular excuse to stay out eating terrible food in the company of intoxicated people. It was a brilliant gift and, of course, an opportunity to do some pretty good journalism. It was a lot of fun.

I suspect, whatever has changed, that it is still all of those things.

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The Gazette is an awesome launchpad for journalism I went home euphoric.

The next morning, there it was.

My name in print. I couldn’t believe it. I was published! Seeing it there in black and white had me hooked.

I went back to the office that day.

And the day after, and the day after that. I kept going back, and I started falling in love with the Gazette and the people who worked there, some of whom became lifelong friends.

Today some of us are journalists.

Others are professors, teachers and CEOs. But back then we were all Gazetters.

Over my three years at the Gazette, I was a news writer, news editor and eventually deputy editor.

I learned to craft a good story, edit copy, choose a great photo and layout newspaper pages (using paper and pencil!). We learned from our mistakes, worked to be better and laughed a lot along the way.

Eventually I was hired at the National Post. It felt like being back at the Gazette (the large number of Gazetters working there at the time may have had something to do with that). The Post was a scrappy newsroom full of great people telling great stories. Over my almost nine years there, I did work that seemed awfully familiar. I was crafting good stories, editing copy, choosing great photos and laying out newspaper pages (not using paper and pencil).

If you had told 21-year-old me that writing one news brief would kickoff a career as journalist that would include working as a copy editor, designer, art director and now design manager, I wouldn’t have believed it. Today I work in digital at the Toronto Star. The medium is different, but the skills I use remain the same. The Gazette influenced my professional life, my personal life and had a huge influence on who I am. I’ll never forget it.

PAOLO ZINATELLI is the design manager, Digital at the Toronto Star, where he oversees design of the Star’s digital products, including the Toronto Star Touch tablet edition. He previously was a copy editor, senior designer and production editor at the National Post. He was deputy editor of the Gazette in 2003-2004.

I’ll never forget my first day at the Gazette. It was 2001, and I had spent the first couple months of third year building up the courage to walk through the doors of UCC 263. As soon as I did, a Gazette news editor asked me if I was interested in writing. The Gazette office was chaotic and full of noise, papers and students. I was overwhelmed, but I said yes. I had wanted to be a journalist since I was a kid (although I had also wanted to be, in no particular order, an architect, city planner, lawyer, teacher and Harriet the Spy).

After taking down my name and information, I was tasked with writing my first news brief. Just like that. I don’t recall what that brief was about, or who I called or what I asked. But I do recall the thrill of saying I was calling from the Gazette.

I spent that afternoon carefully writing every word of that news brief, then filed to the editor. The editors told me they hoped I came back and

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KALEIGH ROGERS currently works at VICE Motherboard. She was previously a reporter at CBC and The Globe and Mail. She has covered everything from Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to homicides to elections. She was a news editor and multimedia director for the Gazette from 2010-12.

Don’t tell my professors this, but I learned more about journalism at the Gazette than I ever did in journalism school. I earned my master’s degree in journalism at Western after wrapping up undergrad. That program helped me to refine my skills, and it opened a lot of doors. But if I’m

being honest, my three years at the Gazette taught me much more about what it takes to be a reporter than any class ever could.

There were the basics: how to write a lead about a boring subject that captures readers’ attentions, how to track down sources on a deadline (while juggling a full class load), how to write a headline that sells your story without being sensational. But my experience was much broader than the basics.

Covering the USC taught me the mix of diplomacy and aggression necessary for covering politics (trust me, politicians and student politicians are very similar).

Reporting on student issues taught me the value of community journalism, and how to find stories in unexpected places. The Gazette’s culture of passion and dedication taught me that hard work pays off: I’ll never forget breaking a story about the USC elections website getting hacked while I was at home for reading week. I even beat out the London Free Press, and one of their reporters ended up calling me asking for some help. It was the kind of rush you only get from working your butt off.

There was also a spirit of experimentation and evolution at the Gazette, which may not be as apparent to those outside of the newsroom. Each year, the staff pushes one another to try new things — a new special issue, a podcast, music videos — and make the paper better in even a small way. At my time there, I was constantly spurred to be creative.

Sometimes the experiments failed, but other times it led to real innovation. This, even more so than the hard news basics, is the part of my Gazette experience I most try to capture in my work at VICE, where experimentation and creativity are also valued and encouraged.

This spirit is something that more professional newsrooms, frankly, are sorely lacking.

The Gazette made me a stronger reporter as I started my career, and my experiences there remain a well of inspiration that I still tap into today. If you’re reading this, and you’re at all considering working in journalism, go volunteer for the Gazette. It may be the single most important decision you make in your career. It was for me.

Sometimes you never know where the Gazette takes you

NICOLE GIBILLINI is a digital producer at Business News Network.

She’s previously worked as a researcher in newsrooms as CBC and Global Television. She was the deputy editor of the Gazette from 2012-13.

A question I’ve been asked in almost every job interview since graduating from Western is ‘professionally, where do you see yourself in five years?’

It’s always a tough question to answer, especially when you’re a journalist, because the industry is evolving at such a rapid pace. Rarely do you end up where you thought you would, and for most young people entering the workforce in any field, it’s unlikely they will have linear career path like their parents might have.

As a business journalist working on the digital desk of a national TV station, I’m far from where I started at the Gazette as an arts & entertainment editor.

Four years after writing my first concert review, I became the deputy editor of the Gazette, when the

paper published a print copy four days a week. In that role, I oversaw all things arts-related, managed the paper’s budget and spent the day editing copy until our 10 p.m. printer deadline. I was told the job would give me more work experience than most people would gain in 10 years, and they were right.

But I never could have guessed I’d be working in business news five years later.

I often wonder how this happened, how I got here. I didn’t study business in school, and before I started my current job, I barely knew the difference between and a stock and a bond. But for me it’s always come back to the Gazette.

As a Gazette editor, you become well-positioned to take on seemingly impossible challenges. You live and breathe the paper. In between classes, you forget about your studies and pour your heart and soul into something that you come to realize is bigger than you. You become so entrenched in the paper that the Gazette office becomes your second home.

You begin to feel differently about work. You don’t look at the clock wondering when you can finally go home for the night. You quickly realize that anything is possible — that every problem can be solved, a philosophy I still carry with me today.

With each day become more confident in yourself, even if you were incredibly shy and awkward when you first showed up. Your answer to everything becomes ‘yes’

whether it’s your editor asking you to stay late, taking on an extra assignment, or if you’re given a challenge you didn’t think you could handle.

Saying yes got me to where I am now. I found myself taking a job in a subject area that was outside of my comfort zone — one that five years ago I never thought I’d like.

I will always redit the Gazette with any success I may achieve, whether it’s related to journalism or not. The job taught me the necessity of time management, the importance of finding a way to work with your colleagues, even if you disagree, the power of saying ‘yes,’ and the absolute importance of persistence and hard work.

Leaving the paper after five years was tough. I was walking away from one of the most unique and humbling opportunities I would ever have. I was heading into a world of unknowns. In spite of landing a permanent job that I like in a tumultuous, sometimes disheartening industry, I know there are still many uncertainties that lie ahead.

Since leaving the Gazette, I have faced a number of hurdles, like any aspiring journalist will, but I have yet to be challenged in the same ways I was in those formative years at the paper. The Gazette helped me build a foundation I can always rely upon throughout my career, and five years down the road, my path will likely have shifted in an unexpected direction again.

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A third of Gazette history has been witnessed by this man It’s a special thing. It’s like we are family and it’s striking me now as I’m getting towards the end of this job just how much it has affected me and just how much it has been my life.

IAN GREAVES GAZETTE MANAGER

JENNY JAY GAZETTE

WILCOX JENKINS GAZETTE STAFF @UWOGAZETTE Ian Greaves came back to university to study history. Thirty-three years later, he is as much a part of Gazette history as the stacks of newspaper bounds in the backroom.

Spending little time on the actual studying and most of it in the Gazette offices, Ian got involved with the production side of the Gazette and was soon hired on support staff.

“It was more fun working at the Gazette than it was doing essays,”

he grins.

Soon after, he fell in love and met his future wife playing playing intramural volleyball. The couple has been married for 29 years and have two adult daughters.

By his third year in university, the school had lost as much interest in him as he had in his lectures and he was asked to take a year to consider his options. Luckily, he got hired fulltime by the Gazette that year and he has never looked back since. Today, he’s the manager of advertising and composing.

To say Ian has seen everything at his time with the paper would be an understatement. He was around when typewriters were a valued commodity in the newsroom. He helped the original digital transition of the Gazette by introducing Macintosh systems at the paper. He helped the Gazette transition into the only daily student newspaper in Canada. He saw print advertising revenues skyrocket in the ‘90s and then plummet in the 2000s.

But for Ian, the excitement and fun of putting together a paper and

the comradery with editors is what has made him stay.

Only in his 20s when he started off at the Gazette, he got along really well with the student editors running the paper and he’s developed lasting friendships with many of them over the years.

Over the years, he has been constantly been moved by how strongly people involved with the paper feel about it.

“It’s a special thing,” he says, “It’s like we are family and it’s striking me now as I’m getting towards the

end of this job just how much it has affected me and just how much it has been my life.”

He sees his role as providing help and guidance as needed to the student editors. While there are good and bad years, for most students, the Gazette is a place which brings people together and provided a home away from home — a feeling that he shares with them.

“It has been 33 years I have been here and well, sometimes you look back and think, maybe I’m there because I belong there.”

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The Gazette has informed and entertained the Western community for 110 years. Headlines over a century reveal the different period of rebellion, pain and happiness shared by the student population of the time. Here are some of our memorable headers.

Editorials: Mid-year Exams.

• 1909 – 1911 Western students may owe a relaxed Christmas break to their earliest alumni. In the early 1900s, holding midterm exams in January was the norm and it caused a lot of friction between the student body and the faculty. The Gazette editorials year after year argued against spoiling the little self-love time students got over the winter break.

The student feeling at the time is aptly summed up in the lines of this 1909 editorial, “We contemplate our Christmas holidays with a rueful smile, and when asked how we intend to spend our holidays, a feeling of utter disgust comes over us as we find ourselves forced to confess that we have to study.”

“Western grad killed in air crash: John Lee member of class ‘39 victim of fatal accident in training at Trenton Air Base.”

• DEC. 1, 1939 Pilot Officer John Lee of the Royal Canadian Air Force was the first Western graduate to lose his life during World War I as his bombing plane crashed near Trenton on Nov. 29, 1939. Lee had graduated in the spring of the same year and joined the RCAF right away.

Soon after, over 700 Western students enlisted with the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC) and by 1941, 200 of them were serving overseas. The Gazette followed up on most of them and printed pieces on those leaving the university or killed in action.

“76 per cent of students vote in USC elections.”

• FEB. 13, 1953.

Apparently student engagement wasn’t an issue at Western in the 1950s. The Gazette front-page story reported it as the highest turnout in recent years as students elected 12 people who would be today’s equivalent of councillors. These days, the voter turnout hovers around an average of 25 per cent.

In the 1953, 98 per cent of Brescia students, 90 per cent of medicine and 65 per cent from the business faculties cast their ballots in the USC elections. Not to be one-upped by the USC, the Hippocratic Council — the governing body of the medical school — had a 94 per cent turnout the week after.

“Letters to editor prompt poll on birth control: Majority of students favour artificial birth control.”

• FEB. 25, 1955.

After intense debate on the opinions pages about birth control, the Gazette decided to poll Western students to get a better idea of where most of them stood. As it turns out 74 per cent of those polled favoured birth control, but maybe not exactly for the reason you might think.

The reason given by the majority was that it “would offer a partial solution to overpopulation and food shortage, in countries such as India.” Some students preferred it for planning parenthood reasons. And the majority of those against birth control believed it to be “against natural law.”

“Begin freedom fight here.”

• OCT. 22, 1963.

As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the U.S., the first Canadian chapter of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized on Western’s campus. The SNCC would organize protests against racist and segregationist policies and advance the civil rights causes of blacks in the U.S. According to the 1963 article, the person who worked towards bringing this civil rights movement to Canada was a 22-year-old Japanese Canadian and former Western student, Tom Wakayama. He said his goal was to bring knowledge of the racism in the southern U.S. to Western students. As the

JOHN F. KENNEDY, 1963

VANIER CUP, 1971

Western-based “Friends of SNCC” group asked the USC for funding, it led to heated debates on the council floor. But the SNCC chapter was ratified by council a month later after it produced a constitution for itself.

“John Fitzgerald Kennedy.”

• NOV. 26, 1963.

The front page of the Gazette issue four days after President Kennedy’s assassination was a large picture of him, followed by an emotional editorial mourning the death. On the same day, the Gazette reported that the USC honoured the president by observing a moment of silence before their meeting and then USC president, Doug Auld, paid a tribute to Kennedy in a short talk.

“Mustangs are no. 1.”

• NOV. 23, 1971.

That’s all the front page headline screamed, in bright purple typeface. The Western football team had just won their firstever Vanier Cup, beating the Alberta Golden Bears in a tight 15-14 game. The Mustangs would go on to win another five championships (though the last was in 1994) but the first is always special, as the Gazette writer at time would make it sound with his lede, “I suppose there are some people who will maintain that Western is not number one in Canadian college football … but then again, some people never learn do they?”

in the 2000s and the “zoo” even got a special mention in Playboy in 2011 when Western was placed number four on the list of top ten party schools in North America.

“Innocence lost: There are no words to describe the enormity of these attacks.”

• SEPT. 12, 2001.

On Sept. 12, 2001, the Gazette’s first four pages were almost entirely dedicated to 9/11 coverage. The front page carried wire stories from the Canadian Press and the Associated Press but it also had a photo of a UCC filled with students watching the tragedy unfold in horror.

On the second page, there were stories of Western students who potentially had loved ones in the World Trade Centre buildings. The editorial board wrote about the disturbing and frightening future but also called for restraint over actions out of fear or anger.

“The University of Western Ontario must not become a battleground in what could soon be classified as a war. We must strive to maintain this institution’s standards of respect, freedom and safety for all people who walk this campus.”

“Frustrated profs consider laptop ban: Students playing games, surfing the Internet or chatting on MSN lead departments to debate the necessity of laptops.”

• OCT. 20, 1981.

The quintessential Western Homecoming story which can be recycled every year with a few minor changes. Two parties on Wharncliffe Rd. and Stanley St. had to be broken up by the police when hundreds of people showed up uninvited.

Not only did these ‘80s Western heroes manage a massive gathering without a Facebook event, they also caused the police to break out the riot gear. A London Police sergeant at the time predicted that the parties would die down as winter approached, but the last 36 years have put a dent in that theory.

• MARCH 5, 2008.

While students still get those side glances from their professors when loafing around on Facebook, for most classrooms laptop use has become so common that no one gives it a second thought. But less than 10 years ago, when MSN and Myspace were still popular, professors were getting annoyed to the point of seriously considering banning laptops altogether.

While things have changed since then, sitting in a lecture hall behind someone catching up on their Netflix show is still distracting. Or as one student from 2007 summed up another student in his class, “In one of my classes, one girl always plays Tetris. It is incredibly annoying and sometimes it’s hard to not look over.”

“Rushton paper links AIDS to race.”

“USC to replace Gazette with multi-faith space.”

“Police break up party … again.”

• MAY 17, 1989.

The notorious Western psychology professor, Philippe Rushton, was on the Gazette’s front pages repeatedly for his outrageous claims and disputable research. In this particular article, he claimed that “blacks are more at risk from the AIDS virus because they are more sexually active than whites and Orientals.” The very same year, David Suzuki came to campus to debate Rushton in a nationally televised event. While the USC voted to ban Rushton from teaching, the university administration, while reprimanding him on instance, largely stood by him.

“Western bans Saugeen nickname: The zoo is now ‘the geen.’”

• SEPT. 26, 1989.

Western has chronically suffered from its party reputation and the university administration has tried every trick in the book to curb it. Whether it be moving Homecoming to a later date in 2016 or banning a residence nickname in 1989. Western’s rowdiest residence had a reputation of its own and, as expected, the big brotherly interference only caused more trouble.

The USC passed a unanimous motion calling the ban a threat to free speech. There was “zoo” graffiti around the building and custom “zoo” clothing was made. Flyers were distributed so new frosh would know the history of the “zoo.”

And Saugeen still went on to feature the “Saugeen stripper”

HOMECOMING, 1981

SAUGEEN, 1989

• JAN. 16, 2013.

In 2013, the USC executive of the time had the bright idea to move the Gazette from offices it had been in for forty years for a multi-faith space they had done little consultation for.

The USC did not have support from large faith groups who would have utilized the space. Tensions had been simmering between the Gazette and the USC that year and the move was seen as a weakening campus press freedom. After the move went public and the USC decided to sit down with all the stakeholders, an alternative prayer space was agreed upon.

“Chakma refunds ‘double payment’: President returns $440k.”

• APRIL 2, 2015.

The controversy involving President Amit Chakma’s salary, when he made almost a million dollars in a calendar year, caused an uproar on campus and led to changes being suggested towards public salaries at Queen’s Park. Even though the president received the payment as part of his employment contract, the campus environment at the time, which included non-confidence votes being held within the faculty union as well as the University Senate, made the political climate extremely intense. Underlying resentment that many campus stakeholders felt towards the administration also spilled over and two years later Western is still working on recommendations from a special committee formed in the aftermath of the controversy.

INNOCENCE LOST, 2001

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The Gazette… TRIVIA! • During In Cap and Gown’s run, only one copy of each issue was produced; it was kept in the library for all to read.

• In 1913, it took two weeks to print each instalment of the Gazette • the Gazette published its first spoof issue in 1933. Back then, it was called “The Nut Issue,” under the “GazJette” masthead. The main headline read: “Lecture system abolished.” Many students thought it was real and chaos ensued.

• In 1936, the Gazette sued Ian McKenzie for distributing back issues; students grabbed the back issue expecting new issues. Enraged, they tore the papers to shreds.

• After the med students failed to meet deadline for a February issue in 1944, the Gazette left an entire page blank except for the inscription “No Material for Page 5 Was Handed In From the Medical School In Time To Make This Week’s Issue!”

• 1962 saw pranks galore: the engineers stole all the toilet seats on campus. A group of students built a mini Berlin wall across Western’s University Drive Bridge, blocking traffic for over a day. A group of women ran through the men’s dorm in their underwear. the Gazette had all of these shocking events covered.

• the Gazette initiated a march protesting the threated purchase of Labatt’s Brewery in 1964.

• Hoaxes and parody articles used to be common place in the Gazette but perhaps none were as famous as 1970’s articles about the town of Petrolia. Late one night, to fill space, a Gazette staffer wrote a story detailing that the town was discontinuing their opera house renovations to turn the building into a bullfighting arena. A few days later, an angry phone call came in from someone purporting to be the mayor of Petrolia.

A few months later, a follow-up story was written in which Petrolia allegedly offered to annex the Caribbean islands of Turks and Caicos. the London Free Press picked it up and put it on the Canadian Press newswire. The New York Times, Reuters and the Associated Press also pounced on the totally false story.

• Controversy occasionally comes to the Gazette and in 1972, letters poured in after a feature on the anti-abortion group Birthright.

Accompanying the feature was a photo of an aborted fetus in a trashcan. Pro-lifers and pro-choicers both had strong opinions on the matter.

One person wrote the photo would “drive any woman who had an abortion to commit suicide.” Another accused the paper of “covering up the real issues.”

The Gazette ultimately stood by the decision, writing “if you get a queasy stomach from the hard facts of reality, then maybe you’d better not look at the rest of the paper.”

• Another letter writing influx hit the Gazette in 1987. Trekkies began a furious debate in the opinions section of the paper that continued to drag on so much that the editorial board at the time refused to print any more Star Trek-related letters.

• In 1993, the first-ever sex issue was published in January. The cover featured a naked couple intertwined. The spirit of the issue was to break taboo about sex and encourage conversation about sensitive topics on campus. Articles included one on condom use, an interview with an exotic dancer and the story of a gay Western professor and student who both came out during their time at Western.

Then-Western president George Pederson was not a fan. He called the issue appalling, offensive and out of step with the times.

Nonetheless, many academics on campus appreciated the sex issue. A few days after the issue ran, the Gazette published comments from five professors praising the issue.

• The 2002 issue of the Gazette’s annual frosh issue was described as a guide to “sex, drugs, pirates, residence life, local entertainment, sports, academics, shopping, bitching and much, much more.” It was pulled from stands by Western’s Housing and Ancillary students who said it was an attack on the spirit of Orientation Week.

Articles in the issue included: “Sex at university: your guide to banging,” “Beaver? Dank? Water buffalo? Western’s got it all” and “Get your uppers, get your downers.”

• In 2013, the University Students’ Council announced that they were moving the Gazette’s office — with its 24 editors — to a space that only had four people working it in at that point. the Gazette’s office would become a new multi-faith space but many of the student leaders of various faith groups on campus supported the Gazette.

The National Post picked up the story and many notable Gazette alumni took to social media and chastised the USC. Then-USC president Adam Fearnall said, “On occasion, perhaps [The Gazette] is overdramatic.” He noted the decision had not been finalized. Shortly after the story, the USC backed away from the decision and the Gazette office received a long-overdue renovation that summer.

• Another frosh issue controversy hit the Gazette in 2014 after a satirical article, “How to date your teaching assistant” drew a fair number of critics. Western provost and vice-president academic Janice Deakin wrote to the Gazette and said, “the time is long past when these kinds of articles can be defended as being either satire or humorous.”

London’s Abused Women’s Shelter director Megan Walker labeled the article sexist and called for the resignation of then-editor-in-chief Iain Boekhoff. At first, Boekhoff stood by the issue as the controversy began to make national news but as criticism persisted, he apologized and the issue was pulled from stands.

An investigation afterward found that the Gazette engaged in no wrongdoing and noted that the article was “surprisingly called sexist.”

• the Gazette’s slated student fee for 2018 is the same as it was in 1920 if you adjust for inflation.

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