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Matt graduated with a bachelor of management and organizational studies in 2006 but decided to see where his love of comedy and entertainment could take him.

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“My brother is a comedy writer, and he’s been in the comedy scene forever,” Matt says. “He’s been making comedy shorts since I was a kid, so basically he’d put me in a bunch of his videos, and I got to work with him and his friends.”

“I slowly sort of coerced him into joining and being my business partner, so we both co-own the company now,” Matt jokes.

He adds that The Amazing Gayle Pile “put them on the map,” winning 10 awards to date, including a Canadian Screen Award.

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Much of Matt’s early experience in comedy and production, though, is thanks to his brother Andy King.

Today, he and best friend Andrew Ferguson have partnered to create the digital media production and distribution company: LaRue Entertainment.

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The Western University grad is based out of Toronto and has produced music videos alongside Feist and Kevin Drew as well as award-winning comedy series including The Amazing Gayle Pile, Filth City and I Thought I Told You to Shut Up!

Matt thanks his passion for comedy for some of his international success. In his opinion, it’s a genre that can easily spread online and reach a larger audience.

“Comedy works really well on the internet. It’s a lot easier to break in and make a show as a comedy show than it is to make a dramatic show where you need a huge budget and a big star,” he says.

Previous bitterness aside, Matt encourages other students interested in production to heed the advice Kenny Hotz gave him on the set of Kenny vs Spenny: just go make stuff.

He remembers spending his time at Western volunteering for CHRW, DJing downtown on Richmond Row, partying in Saugeen and ordering burgers at the Spoke. Though a trip down memory lane isn’t something he’s done in a while.

“It’s so easy now,” he says. “With an iPhone, everyone can make a movie basically. So just go through the motions of that, and then every time you do it, you’ll just get better at doing it; you’ll refine your method and find your voice.”

“I honestly haven’t even thought about Western for so long,” he says. “I’m just one of those people who’s not an academic, and I learn by doing. So much of what I learned at university is great, but it’s just not really applicable.”

Matt is unapologetically honest about the working world but has a simple outlook:

Matt wishes he could tell his university self not to sweat the small stuff. He adds, “have fun and don’t really worry about your grades. At the end of the day, university is just an experience.”

“At the end of the day, work sucks, and I like to laugh.”

To learn more about Matt King’s current projects, visit laruedigital.com.

Matt doesn’t sugar coat his career either; he says the only way to really make it is to be successful outside of Canada. His advice to students hoping to pursue a career in the entertainment industry is to pursue banking instead.

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While his attitude may seem disparaging, he recalls there were still moments at the beginning of his career that made it worthwhile, hanging out on the set of Kenny vs.

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“If they wanna make money, it’s really tough. It’s a really hard business,” he says.

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If you think a dry O-Week is rough, just imagine being a frosh in 1979 when the legal drinking age was first raised from 18 to 19 years old.

You would’ve just missed out on the chance to legally attend alcohol-filled frosh events, which were scheduled by coordinators at the time.

O-Week in 1979, then solely referred to as Orientation Week, looked a lot different than in recent years. Adding a “new twist,” students and parents in 1979 had a parent orientation program day on the Monday. It was the first Orientation Week to cut the then traditional march from Alumni Hall — where frosh still attend a welcome ceremony today — to London’s Centennial Hall. 1979’s Orientation Week proudly hosted the first Annual Bum

Judging Contest inspired by the University of Saskatchewan. Yes, it’s what it sounds like: a contest in which frosh’s bums were rated.

Originally, contestants were meant to participate entirely naked, but because public nudity is illegal, contestants had to wear some articles of clothing.

Timing wasn’t on the side of these frosh as they were the first victims of Ontario’s recently raised legal drinking age — from 1971 to 1979 the legal drinking age was 18. Consequently, 600 frosh weren’t legal that year, so alternative programming was set up for them, which included watching a movie. University Students’ Council representatives were worried it would be difficult to convince students to go to dry Orientation Week events, interesting given that now all O-Week events are dry.

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Over 2,500 Western prof appealing for Western students better bike infrastructure participate in firstever O-Serves day MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR @_MARTINALLEN

HILL DU NEWS EDITOR @HXDU638 Over 2,500 students left the Western bubble today to participate in the first-ever Orientation Serves.

Orientation Serves capped off O-Week, letting first-year students learn about the London community through a day of hands-on experiences at local non-profit organizations. O-Serves replaced Shinerama this year after student leaders raised concerns that Shinerama’s door-todoor soliciting may have made some participants uncomfortable.

With 30 different organizations participating, students took part in volunteer activities ranging from car washes to community cleanup.

“I think often our students don’t always feel like they are part of the London community, and I feel that this is a great start for them,” said Mac McIntosh, University Students’ Council student programs officer.

Western students will still support the Shinerama fundraiser to a degree. Seven of the car wash venues took optional donations with proceeds going to the Shinerama foundation, according to USC charity orientation coordinator Richelle Aikins.

Life*Spin, a community economic development organization, was one of the many places students served Saturday. Students helped harvest the organization’s garden

and clean its store, a “free store” that distributes donations of new or clean, used clothing, household items, toys, sporting equipment, books, tools and more to relieve poverty.

“I love O-Serves so far, and I think it is important because we’re helping give back to the community which we now live in,” said Hilary Pomajba, a first-year kinesiology student, while volunteering at Life*Spin.

Local non-profit organizations were also happy to receive Western students’ support.

“With students helping, it takes a lot of load off us so that we can help our clients further,” says Amanda Kerrouch, volunteer and financial literacy project coordinator at Life*Spin.

Kerrouch says that she hopes students will gain a better sense of community through their volunteering experience. For some, the O-Serves experience is already leaving a mark.

“For me, it helps me to connect with the city and really be part of the community,” said Parker VanBelleghem, first-year integrated sciences student.

Students who enjoyed O-Serves can look out for other opportunities to get involved in the community during the school year.

“This is a really big opportunity for them to expand their horizons as people for different causes across London,” said McIntosh.

Western offering first indigenous-focused rez floor SABRINA FRACASSI NEWS EDITOR @SABFRACASSI A small group of students will live on Western University’s first indigenous Living-Learning Community floor this year in Delaware Hall.

According to Western, LLCs are themed floors that offer students with similar interests the opportunity to live near each other. These floors have generally been interest -lifestyle-or faculty-based, such as a music floor or a leadership floor.

Other post-secondary institutions including Queens University and Simon Fraser University offer indigenous-centred floors as well.

The project is the culmination of a partnership between Western University Housing and Indigenous Services, with the purpose of creating a sense of community between those who have a shared experience.

Sean Hoogterp, Indigenous Services program director, said this is the first LLC floor dedicated to a specific culture.

According to Peggy Wakabayashi, acting associate vice-president of Western’s Housing and Ancillary Services, Delaware Hall was thoughtfully

selected as the indigenous LLC floor location.

“Delaware Hall was identified as an ideal location for this project due to its close connection with nature, being situated on the banks of the Thames River, surrounded by a wooded area,” Wakabayashi said.

“The residence is also closest in proximity to Indigenous Services, which is located in Western’s Student Services Building.”

Apart from the proximity to like-minded peers, at times the residence will also welcome a visiting elder and hold smudging ceremonies — activities that an Indigenous Student Services focus group identified as something that would contribute to a sense of community.

Darr Sands, a third-year film studies student and a member of Walpole Island First Nation, came to Western four years ago. Sands immediately noticed that the city ran at a faster pace than he was used to.

“Students that come from reservations into the city, they definitely experience culture shock, and I think having something set up where they can feel more comfortable and at home is a great thing,” Sands said.

A Huron professor is calling for better bike safety and accessibility on campus after he collided with a car on Sept.5.

Assistant professor of history at Huron University College, Thomas Peace, was riding in the bike lane through a green light at the University Drive and Perth Drive intersection when two cars turned left and cut off his path. He swerved to avoid the first car, lost control while braking to avoid the second and was thrown from his bike, falling onto the car.

Peace sustained only minor injuries but damaged his bike and clothing.

“If the car had been going faster, or if I hadn’t seen him, I would’ve been hit by him … and that’s pretty scary,” he said.

Peace acknowledged he was “pretty banged up” after the experience but often faces difficult bike rides through campus, saying that a near-miss with a car occurs on a bi-weekly to monthly basis. After his collision, he sent a letter to Western University, the city, London Police Service, CBC London and the London Free Press calling for more bike- and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure.

Marco Prado, a Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry professor who cycles to work at Western, agrees that campus and city bikers often face dangerous circumstances.

He said he has “no doubt” that more people would bike on campus if cycling infrastructure improved.

Both Prado and Peace raised the issue of the University Drive bridge over which both men frequently commute. The bike lanes on either side of the road dovetail onto the narrow bridge, leaving no room for traffic between them. As such, passing cyclists on the bridge is prohibited.

Despite this, Peace said he sees drivers squeeze past cyclists almost daily.

“The bridge is like a nightmare,” Peace said. “It’s pretty terrifying as a cyclist on the bridge to hear someone speeding up behind you.”

Both faculty members also cited intersections throughout their commutes with traffic lights relying on sensors that don’t register bikes, meaning that a biker must dismount and use the crosswalk. Examples of these lights on campus are at Western Road and Elgin Road and in the city at Victoria Street and Richmond Street.

In the past, cyclists have also pushed for more protected bike storage and bike lanes on campus.

“Vehicle collisions with and without bikes are more common in the fall,” said Keith Marnoch, Western’s director of media and community relations. He argued that people who

MAX MAO GAZETTE GEAR UP. Cyclists ride through Western University’s Perth Drive and University Drive intersection on Sept. 7, 2017.

are unfamiliar with the campus and its infrastructure cause more accidents. Over the last year, Campus Police recorded four bike collisions, although others may have gone unreported.

Western’s 2015 Campus Master Plan asserts that the campus is “generally safe” for bikers but admits that its cycling network is incomplete.

For example, the plan outlines the benefits of adding bike lanes to Western Road.

Marnoch added that the administration also receives pressure to amend infrastructure for cars, such as by increasing parking space on campus, and that the pros and cons of bike and car projects must be carefully considered.

Outside of Western, London’s city council is aware of and constantly working on biking infrastructure, according to Ward 6 councillor Phil Squire. However, he said they face budgetary difficulties and resistance from local land owners.

“This council really supports the issue he said. We have constant bike lane work going on.” “It’s not quick enough, but I’ve never seen a bike project turned down.”

The city has recently added bike lanes on Cheapside Street between Adelaide Street and Highbury

Avenue and from the south of Oxford Street to Colborne Street.

Council also has an advisory committee for consultation on the issue.

Squire emphasized the importance of the Thames Valley Parkway, a biking and walking pathway entering from the city into campus’s southern and eastern ends.

Following a federal grant, the city plans to extend it.

Prado claimed the TVP was “good but not well planned,” and argued it was difficult for cyclists to share the pathways with pedestrians.

“If you have more people who bike, you have better health, you have less emission of pollutants and you are decreasing the environmental impact of students,” said Prado.

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SERT carrying Naloxone in response to opioid crisis GRACE TO NEWS EDITOR @GRACEKTOE With fentanyl found laced in London street drugs and national opioid use on the rise, Western University’s Student Emergency Response Team is carrying Naloxone kits this year.

In August, Middlesex-London Health Unit trained SERT members to recognize the signs of opioid toxicity and to administer Naloxone, a live-saving medication that can reverse the effects

On SERT, we are very fortunate to have two fantastic medical directors who have a great understanding for our response and the demographic with whom we work and review all of our medical protocols, including Naloxone.

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of opiate overdoses. The measure came after London health providers reported fentanyl was showing up in London street drugs, such as marijuana and cocaine. Currently, the health unit has provided SERT with four Naloxone kits, according to director of Student Health Services Cynthia Gibney.

Recognizing the gravity of the opioid crisis, SERT’s outgoing executive director, Mike De Wit, helped devise a strategy with the team to prepare for the possibility of opioid toxicity on campus. Due to the intense high from opioids, opiate drugs are extremely addictive and overdoses can be fatal.

Western’s proactive approach also differs from other Ontario universities, notably the University of Ottawa. The university made headlines last week after it forbid its student leaders from using Naloxone because the student federation determined it may be held liable if the antidote was administered improperly.

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understanding of the demographic with whom we work and review all of our medical protocols, including Naloxone,” wrote Pardis Baha, student and executive director of SERT, in an email.

Baha assured that SERT continuously evaluates and updates their services to meet the changing safety needs of the campus.

Contrary to the University of Ottawa, SERT has no concerns with

liability because the organization developed their protocol with the support of the Middlesex London Health Unit, Western’s Student Health Services and Western Housing.

Campus Police operations leader, Jean-Claude Aubin, said that Campus Police does not carry any Naloxone kits and has no plans to implement them. Since SERT and Thames Valley EMS are often

the first responders for on-campus medical emergencies and are already trained in Naloxone administration, he sees no need for Campus Police to stock them.

According to Baha, SERT works with the university, Student Health Services, Campus Police and other services to ensure the safety of all Western students during Orientation Week and throughout the year.

BRIEFS USC LAUNCHING WEEKLY BREAKFAST BUFFET

To help students beat morning stomach growls, the University Students’ Council is introducing a weekly breakfast buffet.

Dubbed the “$6.99 Stack,” students can fill up on breakfast dishes like pancakes, french toast, hash browns, eggs, fruit and pastries starting Thursday, Sept. 14. The breakfast buffet will be available every Thursday from 8 to 11 a.m. at The Wave, located on the second floor of the University Community Centre.

According to Jana Cernavskis, USC communications officer, the project is a cost-effective alternative to eating on campus.

“With breakfast being the most important meal of the day, it’s a really great way for students to get something that’s cheap that they can eat quickly between classes and then have energy to go about the rest of their day,” said Cernavskis.

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The first Feast Fest is coming to London, offering a weekend filled with food, drinks and entertainment.

London will be the last stop for the multi-city festival after it visited Sudbury and Midland, Ont., earlier this summer. The free-admission festival will take place at Victoria Park from Sept.

22 to 24 and looks to appeal to all ages and tastes with an operating kid’s zone, and a myriad of food vendors to choose from.

“We have close to 20 food vendors, … so there will be a wide array of food options,” said Paul Fairley, festival partner of Feast Fest.

Attendees will also have free admission to the evening concerts where Jojo Mason and Honeymoon Suite will be playing on Friday and Saturday respectively.

According to Fairley, organizers look forward to doing business in London and hope to make Feast Fest an annual event.

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Prof. David Bentley: on attending at university Near the beginning of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the wizard Prospero gives his daughter Miranda what sounds a lot like a lecture. In it he explains how the two of them came to be stranded on an island, and why he has used his magic to raise a tempest to bring a ship and its passengers to shore.

For him, time is of the essence, so he is worried that Miranda is not paying attention to the story that he is rapidly unfolding. “Do you attend me?” he asks urgently, “Do you hear?” “Sir, most heedfully,” she replies, “Your tale would . . . cure deafness.” She has indeed been listening and attending: she has been fully present in the moment and heard every word.

To my mind, one of the most interesting words in the dialogue between Prospero and Miranda is “attend” — and it is the word that bears most on success at university.

First of all, and most obviously, attend lectures, labs, tutorials and review sessions. At university most of these things are not mandatory, and for countless reasons — tiredness, laziness, “no one will notice,” “the professor is boring,” the TA “doesn’t like me,” “I can borrow the notes from someone,” “I had to do the readings or an assignment for another course” — it is tempting, at least from time to time, to avoid the very things that your substantial fees are providing for you. Don’t: you will miss out on possibly crucial stuff. As a meme I read recently puts it: “The world is divided into two types of losers: Those who can’t extrapolate from incomplete knowledge.” Don’t be one of them.

But to attend in the sense of being physically present is only the beginning. The Oxford English Dictionary gives one meaning of “to attend” as “to direct the mind or observant faculties, to listen, apply oneself” — in other words, to be fully present in the moment or, as Miranda says, to attend “most heedfully.” If you come to a lecture with a cell phone and decide to check your text messages, or to go on Facebook, or to browse the internet, or to watch porn, you are not heedfully present in the classroom. You have absented yourself — put yourself in another dimension and damaged, or even destroyed, a part of your learning experience. And you may well have done the same for students sitting

beside or behind you.

Since you ask, another way of attending at university is what I think of as the Western way of studying. So you’ve been out with friends, binged on TV, had a few whatevers (it happens) and you get back to your room at 2 a.m. happy but befuddled.

Splash some cold water on your face and crack the books, jot down some ideas, sit in creative contemplation on an assignment for half an hour or so. You’ll be amazed at how much you remember and how good you feel about yourself in the morning.

Believe me, it works: I’ve been there, and still go there.

Finally, you should take care to attend to yourself — to your mental and physical wellbeing, and even, strange as it may sound, your appearance. “Dress for success” is not an empty slogan, and in Mean Girls wearing sweatpants on a Monday (when, as everyone knows, you should look your best) doesn’t work out well for Regina.

“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat,” says the European designer Karl Lagerfeld; “You lost control of your life, so you bought some sweatpants.” (Apparently, Lagerfeld doesn’t know many athletes.)

The English poet John Keats puts a more positive spin on the matter: “Whenever I find myself growing vapourish [i.e., depressed],” he wrote in 1819, “I rouse myself, wash and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly and in fact adonize as [if] I were going out — then, all clean and comfortable, I sit down to write.”

For Keats, attending to his appearance was a key to banishing depression and to being in the right frame of mind to write what we now know to be some of the finest poems in the English language.

For Lagerfeld, caring about how you look is a sign of having control of your life. To both Keats and Lagerfeld, neatness and slovenliness are the outward and visible signs of the states of mind that are conducive to success – or failure.

Attending at university is not just a physical act. It’s a way of using your time, in Prospero’s words again, “most preciously.” Indeed, it’s a way of being.

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Western sweeping OWL changes under the rug

BY GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD An internal memo, 16 days after students lost past OWL content, just doesn’t cut it.

The OWL courses removal initially happened without warning or explanation from Western, leaving many students without essential study materials and their own past work.

Western University’s provost Janice Deakin sent an internal memo, subsequently published by the Gazette, stating the change was meant to make the OWL system more efficient and improve students’ access to current course materials.

To be blunt, the situation was handled unprofessionally altogether. No information was initially released, and when students did pose questions online, Western administrator Courtney Hern posted on Facebook that the course content removal was due to a loosely defined “change in copyright laws.”

Mistakes are understandable, forgivable, even for an institution as large and well-staffed as Western.

The real problem is the administration’s continual refusal to take responsibility for the issue and their disregard for the student body as evident throughout the entire process. The content was taken down without any sort of prior warning to the students affected — no announcements, not even an email.

Furthermore, attempts by the Gazette to reach a university representative were met with weeks-long evasion, ending in an outright refusal to comment.

This stonewalling of an organization working to seek answers on behalf of Western students points, again, to disrespect of the student body. To date, the administration has not offered a full explana-

tion of what happened and why to students.

This issue highlights a grave discrepancy in power at Western, not to mention a severe lack of transparency on the part of the university itself. Despite the fact that students pay for articles of instruction, such as OWL, it’s clear that the university can revoke this access on a whim and with complete impunity.

If students want answers, one other avenue to explore is the University Students’ Council. The USC, as elected representatives of the student body, has a responsibility to advocate for undergraduates.

The USC published a statement last Friday expressing their disappointment that students’ content was removed without their consultation. The student executives said they’re “working with the administration to make sure the student voice is heard.”

Beyond advocacy, this is an opportunity for the USC to take action. They need to push for tangible change and press for answers.

Going forward, one solution is for Western to temporarily release the course content again — at least long enough for students to retrieve their material.

But this appears to be a futile hope. The administration’s evasiveness, refusal to comment and the generally dismissive attitude towards the whole situation signals they seem to be waiting for the situation to blow over before they resume business as usual.

When the administration makes decisions that dramatically impact students, they should be at the table. For Western’s administration to discount the student voice is unacceptable. We deserve better.

we get letters Re: Frosh Slosh, published in the Gazette’s Aug. 29 Frosh Issue.

Dear Editor of the Gazette, I’m writing to you to express my concern about the “Frosh slosh” drinking game that appears on page 30 of the Frosh magazine put out by the Gazette. I find this game to be inappropriate in the context of a publication specifically written for first-year students.

1. This game encourages drinking: more specifically, binge drinking. It has been shown that binge drinking is a serious problem for public

health, as described in a fact sheet from the Centre for Disease Control.

2. Many first-year students are not even of drinking age. Publishing this game makes it seem that you are condoning underage drinking.

3. Some students might feel pressured to drink, when in fact they don’t want to.

4. I wonder if you have thought about how this game would make the parents of a prospective student feel.

5. I find it odd that this piece appears just before a three-page article about why O-Week at Western is

now dry. The message is confusing.

On one hand, the game encourages students to drink until they can’t remember what happened; on the other, the article ends with the comment “there is no point in trying to have a memorable O-Week if you can’t remember it”.

I strongly encourage the editorial board of the Gazette to consider these issues more carefully in the production of future issues.

— Ileana Paul associate professor, french studies and linguistics

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.”

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AMY SKODAK CULTURE EDITOR @AMYSKODAK Western University’s class of 2021 ended O-Week in its traditional fashion, sitting atop University College Hill Saturday night. But unlike opening ceremonies, floormates sat a little closer together.

They now shared inside jokes and could make out familiar faces in the crowd. After a week of orientation, this year’s frosh seem ready to call Western their home.

O-Week also wrapped up with a bang. Student anticipation for O-Week headliner Marianas Trench was high, and before the Canadian pop punk band took the stage, students shared stories of their own memories listening to the band years ago.

First-year business student Kurtis Hackett said Marianas Trench was his favourite band in grade eight. “I haven’t listened to them since, but I spent the entire weekend looking up what they’ve been doing since, and I’m super excited,” he said before the show.

For others, seeing Marianas Trench was a long-held dream.

Fourth-year criminology student and social science soph, Peri Brosemer, waved a sign that read, “Can I come on Stage. #1 Fan.” “It’s only my second time sophing, but I literally have been waiting for four years to see Marianas Trench,” Brosemer said. “When I found out they were coming, I was so excited.”

Brosemer said she even got a tattoo for the band and she had been trying to see if orientation staff would let her go onstage to meet them.

Just before 10 p.m. lights erupted from the stage and Marianas Trench arrived, opening with “Astoria”.

Among the mass of bodies that piled around the stage, Brosemer’s sign caught lead vocalist Josh Ramsay’s eye. To Brosemer’s delight, he invited her to come up on stage with three friends. She performed the social science soph dance to “Celebrity Status” while taking snaps with the band.

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fourth-year experiences I could have,” Brosemer said afterwards.

But O-Week’s closing night wasn’t all Canadian pop punk music.

Before Marianas Trench took the stage, closing ceremonies finished with a Western Charity video, using students’ own statements to hit home the importance of community service and gratitude.

While Western Charity’s message was lost on some — many students took it as a chance to leave UC Hill before the upcoming concerts — Marianas Trench’s opener Wild Rivers brought back the audience.

The indie-folk quartet from Toronto turned out to be a highlight.

“I’ve never heard them in my life but they’re really good, and I’m actually happy I came early,” said first-year student Kurtis Hackett.

Mathew Felato, a King’s University College student, also heard the band for the first time and was impressed. “I really enjoy their music: it’s a chill vibe,” he said.

Wild Rivers was vocal about wanting to “slow things down” with a love song, and invited anyone in

the audience who had fallen in love during O-Week to share in a slowdance. As testament to the close bonds that grow out of O-Week, some sophs obliged.

The second opener, Kasador, brought the crowd’s energy back up. The five-person indie rock band brought powerful vocals to the stage.

Of the band’s mix of original tracks, “Talk About It” was particularly impressive with vocalist Cam Wyatt dominating spikes in pitch.

In tune with the theme of the night, Kasador finished off with “Never Alone”, a song meant to inspire camaraderie.

“The people around you now are gonna be there for you for the next four years,” they reminded the crowd.

There was a sense of closeness on UC Hill brought on by something more than chilly bodies seeking warmth and a good view of the stage. O-Week brought frosh together as strangers and was now sending them off to excel in their first year as family.

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Jill Moffatt representing Canada at World Rowing Championships MIKE DEBOER SPORTS EDITOR @MIKEDEBOER Pursuing your master’s degree is a challenging endeavour. Pursuing that master’s while balancing a career as an elite rower is another ordeal entirely. But Jill Moffatt hasn’t let the challenge prevent her from representing Canada on the sports’ greatest stage.

Moffatt, 24, is a master of health information science student, and she’s heading to Florida for the World Rowing Championships from Sept. 24 to Oct. 1.

Since arriving in London in 2011, Moffatt’s become one of the pillars of Western’s program.

In July of this year, the Bryant, Ontario, native previously raced in a World Cup event in Lucerne, Switzerland, , competing in lightweight doubles and winning the B final, a type of consolation championship.

Moffatt believes it was her appearance in this World Cup event that propelled her to the national team for the World Championships.

“It was definitely integral in preparing us because that was my first kind of Senior A [senior international] experience. We raced against the best of the best and girls who raced in the Olympics, so that was a really good experience,”

said Moffatt. “It was surreal to see people who broke world records and who have been my idols but then to race against them….”

After receiving the news that she was heading to the Sunshine State to compete in the World Championships, she felt it was a kind of fulfillment after years of hard work on the water.

“Definitely feels rewarding and definitely feels like I’m kind of taking a step up, which is really exciting,” said Moffatt. “I also feel really nervous, but I’m really looking forward to the race and to see where we stack up.”

Moffatt has represented Canada on the junior level, having

competed in the World Rowing U23 Championships three times.

She finished 15th in the lightweight doubles in 2014 before improving to ninth in 2015.

Moffatt credits much of her success on the international stage to the Mustangs program. She says she learned how to row at Western, adding that her national-team training experience was really similar to what she did at Western: specifically, learning to be part of a team.

“The biggest thing is learning how to be accountable to your teammates, and that goes a long way to take the next step. So I think Western taught me how to be a

team player,” she said.

Moffatt admits being an elite rower while working toward her master’s degree is a tough act. She relies on her time management to put in work on the water and in the classroom as efficiently as possible.

“It’s tough to miss the first month of school, but I’m lucky that I only have one class this semester, and my professors have been really accommodating,” said Moffatt.

“So I do a lot of my readings on my own, and it actually gives me a break from rowing, which is nice.

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It wasn’t always pretty; it wasn’t always easy. But after another dominant defensive performance in a 29–14 win over the McMaster Marauders on Saturday afternoon, the Mustangs football team remains perfect on the season.

The Mustangs offence had a tumultuous afternoon at Ron Joyce Stadium in Hamilton, with Chris Merchant and Stevenson Bone combining to throw three interceptions.

Even the running game, which has been dominant throughout the season, stalled in the first half, compiling only 29 yards. Without the help of an undisciplined Marauders squad that committed 12 penalties for 110 yards, the Mustangs could have dug themselves into an early hole.

In a game that was poised to be a fight in the trenches between an overpowering Mustangs defence and a McMaster offence built around the run game, Western came out on top. The Mustangs stopped McMaster three times on third down, recovered two fumbles and contained McMaster quarterbacks Andreas Dueck and Jackson White to 138 combined yards passing.

The Mustangs defence looks championship-ready, but the offence needs some tweaking after Saturday. Although the second half saw a major turnaround for the Western rushing attack, finishing the game with 162 yards, the game got off to a slow start, with a conceded safety from McMaster providing Western a 2–0 lead in the first quarter.

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The Mustangs offence answered quickly: Merchant connected with Alex Taylor on a 44-yard bomb and extended the Mustangs lead to 9–0 three minutes into the second quarter.

Western’s special teams unit provided the next points for the Mustangs as a blocked punt from Fraser Sopik led to Adam Preocanin recovering the ball and taking it back for a touchdown with just over five minutes remaining in the second quarter.

The inconsistency of the Mustangs struck again as the Marauders picked off a pass from Merchant, leading to a one-yard run from Jordan Lyons on the ensuing drive cutting Western’s lead to 16–7 at halftime.

The Mustangs changed heading into the second half, replacing Merchant with Bone to start the third quarter. Bone led the Mustangs to an impressive opening drive, taking them 75-yards downfield before Marc Liegghio made a 27-yard field goal, putting the Mustangs up 19–7.

In the fourth quarter, Bone threw an interception that resulted in White making a touchdown on the next drive to cut the Western lead to 19–14. The Marauders wouldn’t make the score any closer as Western broke away with a touchdown and a field goal to cap the game off with the 29–14 win.

The win proved again that the Mustangs can overcome adversity and come away with wins in close games, but the fact that the game was close at all raises questions about the team. After a slow start against Guelph last Monday, the Mustangs offence sputtered in the first quarter again. Against a Yates Cup contender like Ottawa or Laurier, poor early starts might be impossible to come back from.

Next up, the Mustangs head to Windsor to take on the Lancers on Saturday, Sept. 16. The Lancers are currently 0–3 and have given up 155 points so far this season. The Mustangs offence should have every opportunity to return to form against the porous Lancers defence.

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Mustangs teams sweep home games CHARLIE O’CONNOR CLARKE SPORTS EDITOR @CHARLIEJCLARKE Pretty much every Western fall team was in action this weekend, playing their first games since the official beginning of the school year. Things went almost entirely to plan, with all but two of the 16 games featuring Mustangs teams resulting in a win for the purple and white.

The baseball, softball, football and women’s rugby teams all hit the road this weekend, as did both the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams.

Both soccer teams and men’s rugby held down the fort at home.

MEN’S RUGBY (1-1) The Toronto Varsity Blues visited Alumni Field on Saturday to play in the Mustangs’ home opener.

Western rebounded intensely after a tough road loss to McMaster the weekend before, shutting out Toronto 78–0.

Western physically dominated the whole game: Western’s forwards repeatedly drew Toronto’s defenders into the middle of the field with their strength, allowing the Mustangs to move the ball quickly and attack down the wings.

“Our fly-half, Will Sauder, did a great job shipping the ball wide,” said winger Trevor Noskiewicz, who scored two tries. “If our forwards are running hard, it just creates more openings on the outside for us to capitalize on.”

Head coach Tom Dolezel mentioned some of the little things the team has been drilling in practice, complimenting his side on their improvement.

“We’ve been working on footwork in contact like crazy,” he said.”We’ve been getting faster ball which has been stretching the defences.”

MEN’S SOCCER (3-0-1) In the second match of a WesternBrock soccer doubleheader, the men’s side took the pitch at Mustangs Field for a spirited clash.

Despite great chances at both ends, nobody could find the net in the first half: Western keeper, Kody Thomson, and his Brock counterpart, Matthew Haggith, were perfect through 45 minutes.

Forward Reza Nafar led the offensive effort, taking five shots and

scoring the Mustangs’ only goal.

The sophomore pointed to Western’s organization and possession as factors in the victory.

“We dictated everything,” he said. “We made the other team run more, and I think they played two days ago so we were more fresh than them, and we used that advantage.”

A lack of capitalizing on their chances was a concern for the home team. The Mustangs dominated the shot count, taking 13 attempts at the net, but poor accuracy meant that they only challenged the goalkeeper on four of them.

Coach Rock Basacco wasn’t too concerned, asserting that the most important aspect is getting chances.

WOMEN’S SOCCER (3-1-0) The Mustangs improved to 3–1 on the season with a 1–0 win over Brock on Sunday. Veteran striker Sabrina De Nard scored in the 32nd minute, after which the home team’s defence stayed strong to preserve a clean sheet.

WOMEN’S RUGBY (0-1) Women’s rugby had a tough outing against a powerful Queen’s side, falling 57–12 in their season opener.

The Mustangs managed to score two tries, but their defence couldn’t withstand the Gael onslaught.

BASEBALL (3-1) The defending OUA champions played four times, with doubleheaders against both Guelph and Queen’s.

They split their series with the Gryphons on Saturday, winning 9–6 then losing 8–2. Western then swept the Gaels, winning 11–8 and 5–4.

SOFTBALL (4-0) The Mustangs were almost perfect, beating Ottawa 7–0 and 5–2 before blanking the Carleton Ravens 16–0 and 7–0.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE (2-0) Western withstood some tenacious opposition, beating Brock 12–7 and Laurier 7–5 in St. Catharines. Rookie Shay VanEvery played a huge role, scoring a handful of goals, as the Mustangs opened the 2017 season perfectly.

MEN’S LACROSSE (2-0) The Guelph Gryphons hosted Western on Sunday, falling 7–6 to the visiting Mustangs. Thomas Masterson led the effort, scoring four times to secure his team’s victory.

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Western’s newest garden provides community produce and learning VIVIAN CHENG CULTURE EDITOR @VIVIANCHENG20 The campus vibrancy in September is unparalleled by any other month: the sun is shining and the gardens are blooming.

Western University’s gardens not only provide aesthetic value but also spur research and sustainability initiatives.

Western has a greenhouse, several rooftop gardens and an indigenous food and medicine garden. Along with those gardens, the newest addition is an outdoor food garden created by EnviroWestern, a student service on campus.

The garden opened at the end of August outside of the Health Sciences Addition building.

Olivia Ly, a third year medical sciences and health sciences student, says that, although the garden is still in its planning phases, the group plans to distribute some of their produce to the London community where it’s needed.

The food could also be sold in the farmer’s market on campus that runs every Tuesday on Concrete Beach.

With the rise of the wellness trend in our culture, the garden’s opening provides a unique opportunity for students to learn more about healthy eating as well as food sustainability.

Ly believes that the garden will

prompt students to think about the source of their food. Because it’s on campus, the garden will make learning about the environment accessible.

“Our goal is to teach people about environmental actions, especially how to plant a garden in their own homes,” says Ly. More specifically, Ly says the group will teach students about gardening in pots and in the winter during their greenhouse meetings at the end of September.

EnviroWestern will be hosting educational events at some of Western’s gardens during the year.

The food garden aims to grow more varieties of plants than the greenhouses already on campus because it’s not restrained by the unique conditions of it, such as temperature and humidity. Ly highlights that the garden offers more space for plants.

Currently, kale and green onions grow in the garden plots, but as the months become colder, the vegetables will be replaced with garlic.

Ly expresses that gardening promotes a more authentic coexistence with the environment.

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The realness behind so-called fake Instagrams, Finstagrams Claire Davison sat in a classroom and started writing the wrong exam. She filled out the first page of the scantron before realizing her mistake. Instead of dwelling on it for too long though, she took to Instagram to make a post about it.

But this post wasn’t made on her curated Instagram account, it was posted to her private “Finstagram” under the alias “Clizzle” and featured a grainy, close-up selfie with unabashedly honest text.

“My Finsta is just like straight up me roasting myself,” Davison a sedond-year social science student admits.

Finstagram, or “Finsta”, is word play for “fake Instagram” and has the opposite premise of the popular photo-sharing app. Instead of a selective social media presence — like posting infrequently and especially never more than once a day — Finsta users happily spam their private list of followers with inside jokes, memes and selfies, usually unflattering.

“I feel like on my real Instagram it’s a lot more pressure,” says Alyssa Wall, a second-year criminology student. “You can’t just post anything; you have to post good things that will get a lot of likes. I say I don’t care, but you always care.”

In line with the Finsta trend, some Instagram users have spoken out about the inauthentic reality of their posts. Australian Insta model Essena O’Neill changed the name of her account to “Social Media Is Not Real Life” and began re-captioning her photos to reveal the truth behind the perfect veil.

What appears to be lighthearted, self-deprecating humour on Finstagram is actually a coping mechanism, according to Davison.

“Second year was a really bad year, so it was kind of nice … to be able to actually just peace the fuck out of it with a joke,” Davison says.

“Honestly when I post to Finsta, I end up feeling better about myself because it’s just so me, and it’s fun.” she adds.

This transformation in social media from curated to authentic material appears to be a refreshing new handle on Instagram’s online community. #StatusofMind, a 2017 report conducted by the Royal Society for Public Health studied multiple social media platforms including Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook, reported that Instagram had the biggest negative impact on mental health, especially among young women. The primary reasons cited were increased levels of anxiety, depression and negative body image.

At surface level, having an Instagram aesthetic might not seem

to be a leading cause of stress, but the insecurity, self-doubt and fear of missing out that ordinary Instagram accounts instil has led students to seek Finstas as a new platform for self expression.

Alyssa Wall and her friend Alexa Maude, also a second-year criminology student, created Finstagrams to enjoy the freedom of posting without having to worry about the photo and caption quality.

“For my real account, I feel like I try to project a certain image of myself,” says Maude.

Ironically, this new era of fake Instagram pervades more realness than most social media platforms.

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Strumbellas Hundreds of alumni draws crowd involved in visual arts department exhibitions to 2017 Purple Fest AMY SKODAK CULTURE EDITOR @AMYSKODAK

NICHOLAS SOKIC CULTURE EDITOR @NICKATGAZETTE Wrapping up the first week back at school, the University Students’ Council hosted its third annual Purple Fest on Sunday night, a more relaxed — albeit no less successful — iteration of the popular event.

Students of all years flocked to University College Hill for a night of carnival games and music led by The Strumbellas, Terra Lightfoot and Fat Chance.

Attractions at the carnival included inflatable obstacle courses, basketball hoops and rock climbing. Students could load up on free popcorn, cotton candy and snow cones as well as goodies handed out by sponsors.

The six-piece Strumbellas dominated the night, adding liveliness to the chilly Sunday. Composed of two guitarists, a drummer, a keyboardist and a violinist, their set was built on foot-stomping rock like “Shovels and Dirt,” with the occasional piano-led jaunt over warbled vocals. They closed with their Juno award-winning song “Spirits.”

While the band’s music was enjoyable, their between-song banter eventually turned into filler, including a race between a band member and a concertgoer.

Regardless of the filler, many people seemed to enjoy the concert.

“Didn’t really know the Strumbellas, and it was cold as balls, but it was worth it,” says third-year geography student Chris Branting.

Last year, we were all new, and now we all know each other, so it’s a nice experience.

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There were also many returning Purple Fest attendees. Second-year political science student Kayla Fiala and Melissa Wong, a second-year BMOS student, returned to see the Strumbellas, as well as to support their friend playing in Fat Chance.

Others showed up for the fest itself.

“Last year, we were all new, and now we all know each other so it’s a nice experience,” said Petra Samardzija, a second-year medical sciences student.

Before the Strumbellas took the stage, Terra Lightfoot performed and was backed by two guitarists, a drummer and a keyboardist. Her more bluesy tone and rhythm took the fest into the night time, as she mixed in a little varied, faster rock into the set.

Fat Chance’s three guitars and drum setup was accompanied by the bongo and tambourine, while their music sounded like the lovechild of Brian Wilson and Pearl Jam. Outside of a few mic issues, it was a good showcase.

With Purple Fest out of the way, it’s officially back to business for Western University students.

In celebration of the visual arts department’s 50th anniversary, Artlab Gallery is presenting the alumni exhibition Past Forward as well as Despite a sense of loss there was an air of optimism exhibited in the Visual Arts Centre’s Cohen Commons area.

The exhibits are meant to discuss the progress and importance of the arts program.

“It’s all about reflecting on what we’ve done,” says Artlab Gallery Director, Susan Edelstein.

Past Forward features over 300 images and text submitted by past graduates of Western University’s studio and art history programs.

Over the past year, the department contacted alumni for submissions for the show, asking for personally meaningful images and either a short text or a single word about their experience with the arts at Western.

The resulting collection is a tribute to the impact that arts education has had for alumni from the program.

“People who are still practicing artists responded with their most recent art works,” says Edelstein, noting others took an alternative approach.

“Somebody sent in a picture of their newborn baby, somebody else sent a picture of their wedding and then other people sent pictures of what

eyes to what they can become and have a fuller life then I think that’s really successful,” she says.

Located outside the entrance of the Artlab Gallery, the Cohen Commons area creates a nice introduction to Past Forward with its exhibition, Despite a sense of loss there was an air of optimism, guest -curated by visual arts PhD student, Ruth Skinner.

Also making use of image and text, this second exhibit showcases a selection of graduate artworks and thesis essays gathered from Skinner during her work with curatorial ideas and archives. It complements Past Forward through its analysis of the past and present growth of the arts.

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The images are displayed side by side along the perimeter of the gallery’s dimly lit walls, encouraging visitors to step close and experience each piece intimately as they tour the space. The alumni’s messages are projected against a back wall and continue onto the floor like rolling credits.

“Some people mentioned certain profs and how it changed the direction of their lives,” adds Edelstein.

“Other people wrote in that it was challenging but rewarding.”

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