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“If you’ve ever seen the movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, there’s a scene in it where Will Smith solves the Rubik’s Cube,” says Thompson. “Ever since I saw that, I just thought it would be a fun party trick to learn.”

Thompson recalls his parents gifting Rubik’s Cubes to him and his brother that Christmas. His mom offered a dollar to the first person who could solve it, and after trying relentlessly for a couple days, Thompson turned to YouTube to learn the solution. He was 11 years old when he first solved his Cube and won the dollar.

Within a month, Thompson managed to go from an average of 10 minutes per solve to one minute. At that point, Thompson began to get involved with Rubik’s Cube forums and community sites to find resources to help him get faster.

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“What draws me to the [Rubik’s] Cube, more so than any other hobby that I’ve gotten into, is the sheer complexity of it but, at the same time, its simplicity,” muses Thompson. “If you know how to solve it, you can solve every single one of those 43 quintillion possibilities every time.”

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Thompson admits that he’s still chasing after the national record for the 3x3 Cube, but the competition has gotten tougher since he started.

Instead, Thompson is currently focused on giving back to the cubing community. He is the founder of the Western Rubik’s Cube Club, which hosted the first officially recognized Cube competition of London, Ont. last year.

“People would often assume that I must be good at math or problem-solving or creative puzzles,” says Thompson. “But the main thing that cubing has helped me with is proving to me what the power of hard work, perseverance and dedication can do for you.”

Besides helping to grow the Canadian cubing community with the club, Thompson is also hoping to pursue work in consumer brand management. He plans to bring the mentality that as long as you put your mind to it, accomplishing the impossible is possible.

The Western Rubik’s Cube Club meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Somerville House.

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Eight months after successfully solving the Cube, Thompson went to his first official speed-solving competition at Seneca College in Toronto. Since then, he has been a contender at 53 Rubik’s Cube competitions from Montreal to Las Vegas, winning national titles and attending world championships. His fastest average solving time for the cube is 8.09 seconds, placing him 86th in the world.

As students returned to Western University in the fall of 1956, a heated topic on the table was the dress code. According to archives, student dress standards were rapidly changing in the 1950s as suits and dresses were being replaced with more relaxed articles of clothing.

Jeans and t-shirts rose in popularity amongst male students, and high heels were becoming a relic of the past for female students. Western’s administration and the University Students’ Commission — the University Students’ Council’s predecessor — were at odds over tightening campus dress standards.

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Thompson Clarke, a fourth-year Ivey student, is always eager to check things off of his bucket list, like solving the Rubik’s Cube with his feet in one minute and thirty-six seconds to secure a national record. While his many other interests include juggling, playing guitar and breakdancing, Thompson says his true passion is the traditional 3x3 Rubik’s Cube.

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in favour of a more formal dress code found that students were overwhelmingly against stricter standards, with 155 of 200 students surveyed responding “no”. In the survey, students said that they would get more out of lectures if they were in comfortable clothing and that it was more economical to dress less formally. USC representatives noted that some students could only afford one nice suit and to be expected to wear that to every class was unreasonable.

In the same poll, students were asked whether they would adhere to a stricter dress standard if it was required by the administration or another regulatory body. Of 200 students, 118 of them said they would adhere to the requirements, noting that they wouldn’t have a say in the matter.

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First USC meeting of year talks new wellness centre, FOCO, student senators SABRINA FRACASSI, NEWS EDITOR @SABFRACASSI The first USC meeting of the year, which took place on Wednesday night, saw councillors discuss everything from a new student wellness centre to FOCO during the six-hour session.

NEW WESTERN WELLNESS CENTRE One of the most significant motions brought to council floor concerned a potential, one-stop-shop facility for student physical and mental health support services. Western University had preliminary plans to renovate Thames Hall to create a new Western Wellness Centre, consolidating Student Health Services and Psychological Services into a single space. The motion asked the University Students’ Council to support a referendum asking students to decide if they would be willing to add $40 to their annual ancillary

Western gifted $5M scholarship for women in engineering and biz KAROLINA JALOWSKA, NEWS EDITOR @ KJALOWSK The $5-million gift from the Linamar Corporation and family members of CEO, Linda Hasenfratz, will help women looking to complete a dual-degree in business and engineering at Western University.

The Linamar Scholarships for Women in Engineering and Business will help pay for half of the tuition of 10 female students each year who are enrolled in the dual-degree program. In addition, a summer internship will be offered along with a potential job offer upon successful graduation.

Alumni Linda Hasenfratz graduated from Western with a science degree and an MBA from Ivey Business School. She is now the CEO of Linamar Corporation, a global manufacturing company that started in Ariss, Ont. in 1966.

The company now has 59 plants around the world employing 25,000 people.

“Western is the only school that offers a dual-degree program in both of those areas,” Hasenfratz said. “I think that we’re seeing fantastic levels of women in business and in science and engineering … [but] what I’d like to see is momentum building on the combined degree program.

It’s a great step in progress that’s already been made.”

Hasenfratz also offered advice to Western students interested in the fields of business and engineering.

“My advice would be getting a combined degree either through the dual-degree program or concurrently,” Hasenfratz said.

“It’s an excellent way to prepare yourself for your career because it’s a great balance of technical skills and knowledge with great business and leadership skills.”

fees for 10 years to help finance the $35-million renovation.

After some debate, the motion was shut down by council, with 67 per cent of the councillors opposing the referendum.

USC president Tobi Solebo, who seconded the original motion, said he was disappointed but understood councillors’ concerns.

“It’s unfortunate. It was something that we were excited about, but council spoke very clearly that it’s something they don’t think students should have to pay for, and it is a very fair stance,” Solebo said. “We’ll go back to the drawing board and see what else we can do for Western.”

USC AND WESTERN STUDENT SENATORS COLLABORATION Eighty-nine per cent of councillors voted in favour of a memorandum of understanding between the USC and the Western Student Senators. The agreement lists several commitments for both parties to uphold, including

monthly meetings between the USC vice-president and WSS chair. Other commitments include collaborating on joint projects, WSS presentations at council meetings and a $1,500 annual budget for WSS. The annual budget will help fund promotional items for student outreach.

Some of these joint projects include the implementation of pass/ fail courses and the introduction of an online database of course syllabi.

FOCO During the new business portion, councillors also discussed how they should respond to the Homecoming changes made by Western administration last year.

Debate revolved around Homecoming issues like whether or not the USC should recognize the official Homecoming date and how they refused to call the event on that day “Homecoming.”

Proponents argued that these

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decisions would reflect the student population. However, the discussion ended without councillors making any concrete plans. Notably, instead of USC representatives, Red Frogs, a volunteer organization, will be distributing food and water to students on Saturday.

ELECTION RESULTS Lastly, councillors elected a deputy speaker and Western’s eight Ontario Undergraduate Students Alliance representatives.

The deputy speaker helps the speaker manage council proceedings. Corrine Codina, a Faculty of Social Science student, was chosen to be deputy speaker for the year.

The OUSA representatives will attend the two general assemblies this year, along with USC vice-president Landon Tulk. Those chosen to be the representatives this year are Megan Bietel, Danny Chang, Catherine Dunne, Hadia Fiaz, Mitchell Pratt, Pyung Ha Ryu, Inam Teja, Trevor Wright and Frank Ye.

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Two posters at Imaginus, Western’s annual poster sale, have some students concerned about cultural appropriation.

The first poster is of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album cover, Axis: Bold as Love. In the image, three band members’ faces are superimposed over Hindu deities.

At the time of the album art’s release in 1967, guitarist Jimi Hendrix had also publicly expressed his disapproval, condemning the artist’s design. In 2014, Malaysia implemented a country-wide ban on the Axis: Bold as Love cover art, including CD covers, posters and other print materials.

Nanditha Iyer, a third-year health sciences student, said that she found it upsetting that the poster company was selling the image on Western’s campus.

“It felt like they didn’t respect certain students’ needs or beliefs,” expressed Iyer. “I think it’s important that students know that it’s important to respect other people’s beliefs, and culture should not be appropriated.”

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student, Kush Joshi, was made aware of the poster by Iyer, who messaged it to him via Facebook.

Like Iyer, he said that he was surprised and disappointed when he first saw it because he believed the poster was disrespectful to what Hinduism represents.

“It’s the first time that I’ve seen it,” said Joshi. “If I’ve seen it before, then I probably didn’t pay much attention to it. But this is the first time when I actually took time to analyze it and form an opinion.”

Joshi said that he had advised his friend to talk to University Students’ Council executives to address the issue and hopefully remove the poster.

According to Jana Cernavskis, USC communications officer, the poster was taken down as soon as students’ complaints were brought to the USC’s attention.

The Hindu Students’ Association’s executive team released a statement that expressed their concerns, writing the poster’s presence denounced Western’s support of culture diversity.

“We don’t think it’s appropriate to reduce a religion to a disposable marketing tactic by sticking a face on the front of a visual design that holds deep value to millions of people,” the statement read.

We don’t think it’s appropriate to reduce a religion to a disposable marketing tactic by sticking a face on the front of a visual design that holds deep value to millions of people, THE HINDU STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE TEAM However, the HSA said they were pleased to see the poster had been taken down in a timely fashion. In the future, HSA would like to see a better screening process for posters to promote an inclusive campus environment.

“It says that the USC cares about its students,” said Iyer. “I appreciate the USC for respecting the students’ concerns and beliefs. That’s what our campus needs to be doing.”

The USC later confirmed a second poster was removed after a student complaint. The poster depicted South Park characters stylized as attending The Last Supper. The student complained the poster was offensive to Christian students.

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Many students enjoyed London’s recent streak of warm weather, but it may also mean less vibrant leaves at Western this fall.

Students may not see autumn’s bright red leaves on campus anytime soon, according to Danielle Way, a biology and geological science assistant professor at Western University.

Way explained some tree species respond to less sunlight exposure by breaking down chlorophyll, leaving behind the usual reds, yellows and browns that adorn trees in the fall. However, due to London’s recent warm, dry weather, species of trees containing anthocyanins — the pigment that is responsible for fall’s vibrant red hues — will look like a muddied brown this year.

“I’m still seeing some good fall colour out there, but there are some areas where it looks a little muted,” said Matt Robinson, Western’s lead horticulturist. “The heat wave and the lack of water we’ve had for the the past two and a half months have definitely made it stressful on the trees.”

Robinson said Western tries to plant tree species appropriate for our climate and that can withstand droughts, but the current drought is pretty significant.

Western lies in the northern Carolinian forest zone, an ecoregion known primarily for its abundant broad-leaf trees. Western contains a wide variety of hard and softwood trees, like sugar maple, silver maple, sycamore, hackberry, oaks, tulips trees and more. Robinson said getting rain before the trees go dormant would help them endure the winter.

“You can never tie any weather event to climate change, but these types of week-long heat stresses are the kind of things we expect to be seeing more frequently,” she said.

While nothing can be done to stimulate leaf colour or vitality, Way advised students interested in strengthening the environment to get involved in sustainability initiatives on campus, such as with the Biology Undergraduate Society. Way also suggested getting involved with the community, participating in cleanups

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“It’s one of the most fabulous shows we have in this part of the world,” said Way. “For a single year, it’s a little disappointing, but it would be a shame for this to be a continuing trend.”

Christopher Harasym, a second-year bachelor of management and organizational studies student, usually enjoys the autumn colours.

“It’s always nice to see the colours, but there’s not a lot to be done about it. It’s unfortunate, but there will be other falls,” Harasym said.

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There’s more to life than your MCAT score Viva la Viv

VIVIAN CHENG CULTURE EDITOR @VIVIANCHENG20 It’s difficult to shock me at 9:30 in the morning, but a friend of mine managed. He said: “Who needs Netflix, friends or a girlfriend? Whenever I feel unhappy, I look at my MCAT score and everything’s OK.” My brain could only react in a series of question marks. I sat there with my eyes wide and mouth agape, astounded by his completely bizarre view. On reflection, though, I realized I’d heard it before.

In fact, coming from the medical sciences program, I’ve seen this mindset time and time again.

Why do so many med-sci students make this same joke? It seems as if students in my program use humour to cope with the stressful realities of pursuing the medical field and the workload-life imbalance that can come from being in the program.

Funny as these jokes may be, there’s an underlying attitude to them that I find troubling.

Take my friend for example. He was fine being miserable, as long as he was one step closer to achieving his goals — and ultimately, that’s no way to live a fulfilling life.

Don’t get me wrong, a goal-oriented mindset can be extremely useful for fulfilling life-long ambitions. But in unhealthy proportions, the attitude of “A’s before baes” or “med school or die” can impair our

well-being and erode our sense of identity — even if we end up successful by our own metrics.

Giving up or severely limiting enjoyable activities, like Netflix or social interaction, results in isolation. Numerous studies have shown that isolation and loneliness can lead to unhappiness and a plethora of mental health disorders.

But even more concerning is this: if we only see our lives in milestones, we’ll be unhappy the whole time we’re chasing our goals. And when we do achieve our goals after a lengthy and sustained effort, we’ll feel exhilarated — only to become indifferent and wonder what’s next.

It’s a perpetual cycle of misery, and we need to learn to recognize it before we fall down that rabbit hole.

It’s unfortunate that so many young people, especially those angling for stable, profitable professions in the sciences, have this bleak outlook on life.

For students, university is a transitory period in which they prepare for the next step of life. With the daunting thought of “real life” ahead of us, it’s easy to get shortsighted with our own life’s master plan. But we can strike a happy balance as long as we prioritize our own well-being and the people we care about.

Just as Victor Frankenstein became delirious from his obsession with monster building, we, too can become trapped in our own horror tale if we don’t keep our ambitions in check. So indulge in some Netflix, go out for dinner with friends and, whatever you do, don’t use your MCAT score as a means of finding happiness.

FOCO isn’t budging, nor is the administration Dry Martini

MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR @_MARTINALLEN Western University’s administration works on a simple philosophy: when the going gets tough, the students get ignored.

Take the relocation of Homecoming into the frigid, midterm-laden weekend of October 20-22 for example.

At this month’s University Students’ Council meeting, USC President Tobi Solebo said he has made students’ position — who are nearly unanimous in support of the original date — clear to the administration.

By the nature of the admin’s relationship with students, they are seldom obligated to respect the will of the student body. If their goodwill fails, there’s little between the administration and their end game, least of all students.

So, if things get real, the admin need only wait: with each year, the student body recycles and forgets, and Homecoming’s great leap forward into October will become the status quo.

If we do remember, some of us will still try to do something about it, but if you want too much, you are

no longer a stakeholder — you’re an obstacle.

A determined administration can easily overstep an obstacle. Students are being as difficult as they can in their resistance to Homecoming’s ugly twin. But the admin will continue to discourage attendance in the short-term and plan for the long-term, hesitant acceptance of the October Homecoming that no one wants.

Thus far, the short-term strategy has been intimidation theatre.

A statement released by president Amit Chakma warns that students will be slammed with the Criminal Code and the Code of Student Conduct should they violate them.

One party-planner from King’s University College received multiple messages from the school, which escalated to a dean waiting outside his lecture. Another student was invited to the campus police station to “discuss” a Facebook comment they made about FOCO months prior to the weekend of the event.

I urge you all to hold no hope for “discussion” on this issue. Certainly not with the professionals who sat around the adult’s table and decided, in lieu of student approval, what the students’ school should look like.

What is the recourse? Perhaps a protest, maybe on University College Hill — but I doubt anyone would come once it gets rescheduled to exam season.

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USC missed opportunity to spark discussion with poster removals

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The University Students’ Council removed two posters from Western’s popular Imaginus poster sale last Thursday, missing the opportunity to start a campus dialogue.

The first poster was The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s second album cover, Axis: Bold as Love. In the image, three band members’ faces are superimposed over Hindu deities.

There’s no question the poster is inappropriate and legitimately offensive. A group of concerned students — members of the Hindu Students’ Association — approached the USC to take it down, and their reasons were clear: cultural appropriation. The poster has no hint of satire or self-awareness: the album cover rips off a deeply meaningful religious and cultural symbol to make money. Even Jimi Hendrix himself condemned the album cover in 1967.

However, the USC’s decision to take down a second poster seemed like a knee-jerk reaction, and students missed the chance to have an important discussion. In the second case, a single student complained about a poster — a picture of South Park characters mocked up as if they were attending The Last Supper. The student said the poster may be offensive to Christian students.

We’re not saying the student’s point isn’t justified, but both posters illuminate that it’s currently unclear how the USC monitors vendors’ materials and when it decides content is inappropriate enough to be removed from the University Community Centre.

The television show South Park has long been known to satirize elements of mainstream culture, and its lampooning social commentary is meant to be outrageous.

Regardless, these types of situations are an opportunity for students to have a conversation about where we, as a campus, draw the line. To remove the posters without any kind of public acknowledgment sweeps these issues under the rug.

Students with different perspectives, backgrounds and attitudes need a space to come together to discuss what we consider unacceptably offensive and why. Some students may argue a line doesn’t exist, others may say it does. But these types of conversations are increasingly important. In an era of deepening political polarization, it would be great for students to not only learn about cultural appropriation and political correctness in the classroom, but to also see and discuss how these issues manifest on campus.

Cashing in: FOCO hypocrisy Filthy Rich RICHARD JOSEPH OPINIONS EDITOR @RJATGAZETTE You know, for an event that doesn’t exist, Western sure is selling an awful lot of t-shirts.

The crackdown on “fake” Homecoming parties hasn’t stopped students from throwing their own parties, but Western has made it clear that this FOCO is unsanctioned, dangerous and strongly discouraged.

But, oddly enough, they don’t seem to mind profiting from it.

If you go to the basement of the University Community Centre, the university-owned bookstore is filled with students buying Western merch for the upcoming FOCO. The store is mobbed with customers, so much so that they’ve expanded

their stock well into the entrance area outside of the store. While I was down there, one employee sighed and told me it’s “been an absolute madhouse” all day.

So here’s the million-dollar question: how can you condemn an event as unsafe and morally unsound while actively making wads of cash from it?

It’s naked hypocrisy. Nicely done, Western: one hand raised in sanctimonious rejection of FOCO and the other grasping at the profits.

And oh, God, the moralizing.

“University is a time of learning, including what it means to be a good citizen in a community,” says President Amit Chakma in a mass email sent out to students. “Taking part in an event which may constitute blocking a public road and jeopardizing safety is totally contrary to what is expected of Western students.”

It’s hard to disassociate Western University from FOCO, or take the moral high ground, if you’re openly

selling merchandise branded with Western’s logo to students headed straight to these “unsanctioned street parties.” Like, hey, we absolutely denounce gambling, but we’ll happily sell you a roulette table.

Here’s the thing: “it’s not as if Western issued some vague, halfhearted bulletin about drinking safely and then just accepted the influx of student customers into the bookstore. They sent out a foreboding email and university members approached students personally, warning them on an individual basis against hosting street parties.

When I asked an employee why all the merchandise was out and about, he replied, “FOCO,” without a hint of irony. I said I thought FOCO was expressly forbidden by Western, and his response was a perfect summation of the admin’s attitude.

“We’re not going to not sell it to them,” he said, shrugging, washing his hands of the whole thing. “What they do with it — well, that’s up to them.”

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tepping onto the streets of Broughdale Avenue this year, you would have been greeted by the scent of booze, a sea of purple clothing and ubiquitous school spirit. For the second year in a row, Western University students engaged in rambunctious Homecoming festivities on its former late-September date, despite administration moving the event to the end of October. With more people attending the “unsanctioned event” than last year, FOCO was a testament to Western students commitment to celebrating their purple pride.

Despite warnings from the university and local law enforcement about attending the event, Western’s FOCO lived on. Like past years, alumni and students from other universities came to Broughdale to party. Even internationally-known Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes could be spotted roaming the streets of Broughdale in a black sweater and a grey Western t-shirt on Saturday.

Recent honours business administration graduate Chris Kim said Western administration’s warnings “didn’t do much to deter students from partying. If you look around, you can see that it’s pretty busy, but it’s a good time.”

Many students could be found dancing, cheering, standing on rooftops and playing drinking games. Mendes was spotted posing for photos with Western students as he partook in FOCO celebrations.

Throughout the day, fights had also broken out. By late afternoon, empty alcoholic beverages and pizza boxes were found littered on the floor.

Many first-year students also celebrated FOCO, despite not having been in university when the official Homecoming was in September.

“All our sophs were saying it was something you couldn’t miss,” said Victoria Ashey, a first-year

psychology student. “It was everything I expected and more.”

According to the London Police Service, 11,000 people came to celebrate the event — more than the 10,000 that came last year. At 11:30 a.m, LPS media relations officer said they did a good job this year of urging people to stay off the sidewalks.

But the partying wasn’t all fun.

By 6 p.m., Bough said that there had been notable delays getting to individuals in distress.

Paramedics had received 33 calls from around campus. Many ambulances had to park at least a block away and provide help on foot. At least three pedestrians were hit by vehicles on Richmond Street, accounting for a few of the EMS calls. The victims’ conditions are still unknown. Most EMS calls were related to excessive alcohol consumption and unconscious individuals.

The police are still processing charges made on Saturday, with Bough saying that many people were charged because of criminal and Liquor Licence Act infractions.

Although the university delayed the official Homecoming celebration to deter partying, many students are attending both FOCO and HOCO. “I attended FOCO last year when I studied here. It’s interesting because Western created two occasions where we could party,” said Kim. Ashey said she would attend the other homecoming as well.

Not everyone is happy with the creation of two homecomings. Bough said that the city had to use more resources to control the rowdiness because there are now two events instead of one.

The future of FOCO may be uncertain, but some students believe the celebration will continue in the years to come.

“FOCO will probably continue in the future,” said Madison Ereaut, a first-year psychology student. “Western knows how to party.”

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CHARLIE O’CONNOR CLARKE SPORTS EDITOR @CHARLIEJCLARKE JORDAN MCGAVIN MANAGING EDITOR OF DESIGN @JMCGAVIN13 Eleven of Western University’s varsity teams spent their FOCO weekend competing, with some big wins and upsetting losses coming from all over the province.

BASEBALL The baseball team played their doubleheader on Sunday against the Laurier Golden Hawks, the top ranked team in the OUA. The Mustangs fell short in both games, losing 3–2 and 10–0. The team is now fourth in the OUA having won seven and lost seven. This weekend they play the second-to-last ranked Waterloo Warriors.

as the only undefeated team in Ontario University Athletics football after toppling the Laurier Golden Hawks by a score of 29–13. The game was a rematch of last year’s Yates Cup which saw the Golden Hawks win the game in an upset 40–3 victory. The Mustangs are 6–0 on the season. Their next game is this weekend at home against the Carleton Ravens.

MEN’S LACROSSE The men’s lacrosse team won both their contests this weekend, topping the Laurentian Voyageurs 24–13 on Saturday in Sudbury and then the Toronto Varsity Blues 16–6 on Sunday in Toronto. The team is now 7–1 on the season and sits in first place in the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association West division. The team has four more games to play before they have a chance to compete for a provincial title.

FIELD HOCKEY The Mustangs field hockey team dropped both of their weekend games and now sits third in the OUA with a record of 3–3–1. They lost 2–1 to the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday and then 2–0 to the Guelph Gryphons. The team has four more regular season games to play before Provincials at the end of October.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE The women’s lacrosse team played three games on Saturday and went three-for-three, winning against the York Lions, the UOIT Ridgebacks and the Toronto Varsity Blues. The team now sits at 8–1 with four games left in their regular season until provincials.

FOOTBALL The Mustangs football team remains

MEN’S RUGBY After losing a tough rivalry match

at Queen’s last weekend, the men’s rugby team was in Kingston again on Saturday for a 38–31 win over Royal Military College. The Mustangs’ 3–2 record has them fifth in their tenteam league, with three games left to play.

WOMEN’S RUGBY The women’s rugby team wrapped up their regular season on Friday at Alumni Field, losing 33–20 to the York Lions. As a result, they finish their season winless and will now compete in a playoff against teams from the second-tier Russell Division for the right to stay in the top-tier Shiels Division in 2018.

MEN’S SOCCER After losing both of their games last weekend, the men’s soccer team has bounced back to win one and tie one this past weekend. The team won 2–0 at home against the Windsor Lancers before traveling to Toronto on Sunday to take on the York Lions in a game that resulted in a 1–1 tie.

The team sits fourth in the OUA West division with 21 points and a record of 6–2–3. Ahead of them are three teams with 25 points and a threeway tie for first place. This weekend, the team travels to Toronto to take on the Algoma Thunderbirds who sit last in the division with three points and a 1–9 record.

LIAM MCINNIS GAZETTE The men’s tennis team finished their season 4–2 and will compete at the OUA championship from Oct. 6 to 8.

WOMEN’S SOCCER The women’s soccer team won both of their weekend contests, beating the Windsor Lancers 3–0 and then the York Lions 2–0. The team has now won nine consecutive games and continue to dominate the OUA West division with a record 10–1.

They have a 10 point lead over the second-placed Guelph Gryphons.

This weekend the team travels to Sault Ste. Marie for a doubleheader against the last-placed Algoma Thunderbirds who are winless on the season at 10–0.

SOFTBALL The women’s softball team has swept the regular season, capping it off by winning all six of their of their games this weekend — by impressive margins. They got the ball rolling on Friday with a couple of wins against the Guelph Gryphons, winning 9–0 and 13–2. Their assertiveness continued into their weekend play with wins against the Toronto Varsity Blues (12–0 and 8–1) and then against the Ryerson Rams (8–0 and 11–3). The team has won all 22

Mustangs spoil Laurier Homecoming MIKE DEBOER SPORTS EDITOR @MIKEDBOER It may not have been revenge, per say. It certainly didn’t win the Western Mustangs football team a Yates Cup title. But a 29–13 win over the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday exorcised a number of demons for the Mustangs, at least temporarily.

Right now, at this moment, the Mustangs are the best team in Ontario University Athletics.

And above anything, the rematch between the top two programs in the OUA had the number one overall seed and home field advantage in the playoffs on the line.

With a crowd of over 7,500 fans on hand for Laurier Homecoming, the Mustangs opened the scoring early in the first quarter, as Marc Liegghio hit a 39-yard field goal to put the Mustangs up 3–0. The

Hawks responded with their own field goal two minutes later, with Nathan Mesher making a 21-yard kick to tie the game.

The first quarter was a kicker’s duel, as Liegghio hit his second field goal of the night with four minutes left in the first quarter, putting Western up 6–3.

In the second quarter, Liegghio and Mesher exchanged a field goal each, as the Mustangs had the 9–6 lead with six minutes left in the first half.

The Mustangs scored the first touchdown of the game, as Cedric Joseph found the end zone on a five yard run, increasing Western’s lead to 16–6.

In the third quarter, Joseph again found the end zone, this time on a 34-yard rushing touchdown that put the Mustangs up 23–6.

In the fourth quarter, Lieggio

hit his fourth field goal of the game, this time from 39 yards out to increase the Mustangs’ lead to 26–6. The Hawks would answer back, as Michael Knevel found Daniel Bennett with a sixyard touchdown pass to cut the Mustangs lead to 26–13.

That was as close as the Mustangs would make it, however, as a fifth field goal by Marc Liegghio put the Mustangs up 29–13 for good.

Mustangs quarterback Chris Merchant threw for 109 yards on 10-of-16 passing and rushed for 134 yards on the ground, while Joseph ran for 80 yards and fellow running back Alex Taylor had 124 rushing yards. Malik Besseghieur had 44 yards on three receptions to lead all Mustangs.

With the win, the Mustangs improve to 6–0 on the season while the loss drops Laurier to 4–1.

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of their regular season games and is poised for success as they head to Nationals in Ottawa this weekend.

MEN’S TENNIS With a win and a loss, the men split their weekend games to finish the season 4–2. Their loss came at the hands of the Montréal Carabins who topped them by a score of 3–4.

The team was in action again the following day and won against the McMaster Marauders 7–0. Next up, the team heads to Toronto for the OUA championship where they will compete for their chance at a provincial title.

WOMEN’S TENNIS The women’s tennis team has concluded their regular season with a 5–1 record. They finished off the season with a 6–1 win against the Montréal Carabins at home on Saturday followed by a 5–0 win over the McMaster Marauders in Hamilton on Sunday. The team will travel to Toronto this weekend for the OUA championship and play for their chance at a provincial title.

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Western kinesiology prof speaks at international Paralympic conference CHARLIE O’CONNOR CLARKE SPORTS EDITOR @CHARLIEJCLARKE Western University kinesiology professor, Laura Misener, took to the stage Sept. 23 at the International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference in Toronto.

As a keynote speaker, Misener discussed some of her research, which focuses the societal influences surrounding disability sport — influences often removed from the playing field itself.

The conference, which has been held eight times since its inception in 1993, attracted over 300 researchers from around the world. As one of the premier disability sport science events in the world, 41 countries were represented at the four-day event. According to IPC president Andrew Parsons, this year’s VISTA Conference was the largest yet.

Misener’s address provided a fresh perspective on an event that’s generally more focused on physiology and medicine than social implications. She spoke about some of the challenges in disability sport that aren’t strictly physical.

According to Misener, the Paralympic Games are typically aimed at advancing societal understanding of disabilities and improving accessibility through new infrastructure and more positive local attitudes. That said, most of the research into parasport revolves around technological advances and athlete classification in various levels of competition. Misener’s work, though, provides more opportunity to be more critical of something like the Paralympic Games.

“Rather than just thinking that, if you host an event, all these wonderful things are going to happen, everybody’s going to have a better attitude. We’re going to feel better about disability sport — we actually need to be doing something strategic to create those outcomes,” said Misener.

Through her involvement with an IPC social impact committee, Misener has done research involving several large-scale sporting events, including the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

At the Olympic Games in Rio,

Misener’s work revolved around the media’s representation of athletes with a disability.

“Media uses a narrative about overcoming disability, something we call the ‘hero’ or ‘super-crip’ narrative,” she explained. “Given the context of disability, particularly in a country like Brazil where disability is very poorly understood, it shapes disability from one singular lens and doesn’t really construct it in a way that’s accessible to all individuals.”

Misener saw her speech at the VISTA Conference as a kind of call to action more than anything. She hopes her more socially-conscious perspective will help people look at disability sport from a broader point of view.

She insists that, good as it may be to talk positively about disability sport, it’s also important to evaluate the system critically so that progress can be made in the wider community.

“It’s not enough to just sit back and hope it’s going to happen,” said Misener. “We have to actually be strategic about doing something about it.”

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Uncovering Brescia’s hidden labyrinth AMY SKODAK CULTURE EDITOR @AMYSKODAK If you aren’t careful, you’ll miss it.

Looking through the patch of forest at the top of Brescia University College’s hill, it becomes obvious that finding Brescia’s labyrinth won’t be as easy as I expected. Located behind the St. James building, what’s known as the Circle Labyrinth is nestled in a small clearing high enough above campus to glimpse tree tops and parts of the city below.

The seclusion seems to be a fitting location. Despite some initial skepticism, I can’t help but feel a sense of calm standing at the labyrinth’s east entrance. The brief separation from classes and crowds of students is a welcome break from my otherwise busy afternoon.

“To walk the labyrinth is a meditative experience,” says Sister Theresa Mahoney, former Brescia chaplain. She has been walking the labyrinth on her own and in groups since it was built in 2001 by The Circle Women’s Collective for Spirituality, Activism and the Earth.

Mahoney says that some Brescia classes visit the labyrinth as a spiritual exercise but otherwise, it is largely unknown to the student population.

The path is constructed in a circular pattern of stones around a tall sycamore tree but Mahoney clarifies that it is not a maze and has no dead ends. Instead, the path leads from the entrance, towards the centre and back again. Its twists and turns are meant to mirror the different directions we are pulled in throughout life. The labyrinth is a space of

exploration and self-reflection.

As I walk along the well-worn path for the first time, I can start to see why; historically, labyrinths have been used as a contemplative tool.

Early examples of labyrinths date back to the Middle Ages and were used as part of spiritual practices among pre-Christian and Christian traditions. Today, there are approximately 121 labyrinths in Ontario according to the World Wide Labyrinth Locator. But as Mahoney points out, their modern impact is much more diverse.

“You don’t even have to have any faith tradition to walk the labyrinth and have that kind of focusing, quiet, meditative moment,” she says. “It gets rid of all those boundaries.”

Unique to Brescia’s labyrinth is the sycamore tree in its centre. As I approach it for myself I notice strands of colourful ribbon and cloth tied around its branches.

Mahoney explains that these ribbons represent a walker’s intention and have become a customary ritual. “People will say, ‘I left my intention there’ or ‘I tied my ribbon to another person’s ribbon, wishing them well.’ So there’s a communality that develops from that,” she adds.

Something about seeing all the ribbons tied to the tree, all the intentions of people who visited the labyrinth seeking comfort or answers, made the experience all the more meaningful. Who were the people who’d come before, seeking comfort through walking Brescia’s labyrinth?

I wouldn’t know, but being there myself, I understood why they felt compelled to leave a souvenir of their walk behind.

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Comedy, censorship and campuses

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NICHOLAS SOKIĆ CULTURE EDITOR @NICK@GAZETTE North American campuses have developed a reputation for being hypersensitive, censorious places where students can’t take a joke.

Whether that’s true or not, there has always been a unique relationship between comedy and colleges.

At Western University, comedy thrives in the form of the Western Comedy Club. The club hosts weekly improv meetings and less frequent sketch and stand-up meetings. But how does the club approach the murky waters of what is and isn’t OK in comedy? As vice-presidents Thomas Valade and Wyatt Anderson explain, most comedy swings back and forth on the line between offensive and entertaining.

They cite Dave Chappelle’s recent Netflix special, which generated controversy over his jokes about transgender people, as well as SNL writer Katie Rich’s tweets about Barron Trump, which resulted in her being fired.

“We’re not here to shut people up,” says Anderson, a third-year science student. Yet at the same time, he noted, “Everyone has to feel welcome.”

“You can push both sides of the issue in that comedy is inherently about pushing boundaries,” adds Thomas Valade, a third-year Ivey business student.

Mark Kearney, humour writing professor at Western, notes the

historical relationship between stand-up and students.

“Traditionally [campuses] were seen as the place comedians could go to be more open in the ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s,” Kearney says. “Having the college crowd was a sign of being edgy.”

Now, many famous comedians like Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld have decried campuses as comedic outlets.

Given the freeform nature of the Western Comedy Club’s improvised sets, there’s a risk in letting a freshfaced comedian out on the stage untethered. That’s why the club uses a writers’ room, which acts as a buffer zone for potentially disastrous routines. They consider how funny routines actually are and whether or not they would be appropriate.

Even with that writers’ room in place, Valade says there have been a few instances where someone went on stage with material that crowds considered inappropriate. However, there was no discussion of bans.

According to the vice presidents, the comedy club approaches these concerns on a case-by-case basis, considering many complaints have to do with who you are, where you’re performing and current events.

Kearney shares this view of the intense subjectivity of comedy.

His class includes a week where he discusses boundaries with his students in terms of language and content, showing them clips like George Carlin’s “Seven Things You Can Never Say On Television.”

“Boundaries all change, and it’s all fluid,” Kearney says. “I’ve had students who say there should be nothing off limits and others who say most things are game, except certain topics like, for example, genocide and abuse.”

Given the relative openness of the humour in Kearney’s class, he doesn’t see Western as typifying the stereotype of the coddled campus.

Kearney says no one in the class has reported feeling threatened by another person’s comedy.

At the same time, he points to the Gazette’s spoof issue as a yearly source of offence for some on campus. Kearney notes jokes are subjective. The notion of going too far or making a joke too soon varies from person to person.

“In some cases, it’s always going to be too soon. When 9/11 happened, comedy didn’t know what to do, and it took a while for someone to figure that out,” Kearney says.

To the professor, it’s a never-ending debate between the right to offensive speech in a publicly-funded space and the university’s historic role of exhibiting freedom of speech. In some ways, it seems that no matter what your routine is, someone will be offended.

“Comedy has always been a way to expose things that are wrong in society,” Kearney says. “Any kind of societal issues have been fodder for comedians to make the audience think.”

Nuit Violette is back: bigger and better AMY SKODAK CULTURE EDITOR @AMYSKODAK Sometimes art needs to be enjoyed outside the white walls of a gallery space in order to truly engage and inspire its visitors. Western University’s upcoming Nuit Violette event — a new take on the popular “Nuit Blanche” festival — is set to achieve just that on Oct. 4.

“Nuit Blanche” French for “white night” is an outdoor, evening arts festival. It’s a concept that has spurred similar events worldwide, including one here on campus.

While London Fringe hosts their own Nuit Blanche event, Western’s Nuit Violette, French for ‘purple night’ is more intimate to

the Western community.

University Students’ Council public affairs coordinator, Vanshika Dhawan, explains that the event will feature an array of student artwork. The fourth-year medical science student hopes the mix of musical performances, sculpture installations, short films and large photography prints will help showcase different mediums of art and improve upon previous attempts at hosting the event.

“The first Nuit Violette was two years ago, and then it didn’t run last year, so we’re reviving it and hopefully establishing it as a tradition for years to come,” she says. The USC public arts commission is aiming to promote and provide spaces for students to display their work, gain

portfolio experience, express their creativity and foster art appreciation on campus.

Dhawan adds that the venue for Nuit Violette will be expanding to include spaces like Concrete Beach and McIntosh Gallery.

“We’re getting more live performances this year so we’ll be using the stage on Concrete Beach to support larger bands,” she says. “We also have a smaller stage for spoken word artists and acoustic performers, and we want to put it far enough away from Concrete Beach so that visitors can still enjoy [each of ] the performances.”

Artworks will be displayed primarily surrounding McIntosh Gallery. The gallery will extend its

hours to allow students to visit the current exhibition, Futurisms.

While the spread-out environment for the event will allow for more student engagement, Dhawan also aims to improve the experience of performers and curators.

“Personally, something that’s really important to me is to ensure that artists don’t feel exploited,” she says. As a spoken word artist herself, Dhawan wants to make sure contributors are compensated for their efforts.

“I feel like often, especially with campus opportunities, people tend to take advantage of artists by saying, ‘oh this will be great exposure for you’,” she says. “I felt that in the past … once you establish yourself

in the community people always expect you to perform and expect you to perform for free.”

Dhawan wants to use part of their budget to give back to the artists and performers with a free Spoke coffee and muffin. “It’s not huge, but it’s a start,” she says.

In keeping with the original Nuit Violette tradition, not turning any artwork away and maintaining an inclusive atmosphere is also important for Dhawan.

“The experience that I had was really supportive ... and comfortable, and I’m trying to create that for our contributors and performers this year as well,” she adds.

Nuit Violette will take place Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m.

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Entrepreneurship Western students go wild on the rise as biz for cult-classic ‘The Room’ and arts mix GABRIELLE DROLET CONTRIBUTOR

VIVIAN CHENG CULTURE EDITOR @VIVIANCHENG20 University of Waterloo graduates created billion-dollar names like BlackBerry and Wish, helping the region earn the moniker: “Canada’s Sillicon Valley.” Now Western University is looking to get in on the action.

Western’s entrepreneurial culture is young. Western’s campus business accelerator, Propel, is only three and a half years old after all. It came into the world after Western converted a business club called BizInk into a well-funded resource centre for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Braden Ream-Neal is a first-year honours business administration student and co-founder of popular tech startup Flare. Flare is a social media app that allows students to see nearby events that are happening in real-time, unlike Facebook or Instagram. Flare went through Propel’s accelerator program and now has over 3,500 Western students on the app, along with students from other universities.

“Western has a young ecosystem,” he said. “Over the past couple of years, there’s been more budding tech startups.”

Propel coordinator Michelle Stanescu says that unlike other schools, Propel has a business analyst available from Monday to Friday to talk to students about their business ideas, regardless of what stage the business is at. She also mentions that Propel can provide funding for certain student businesses as part of Propel’s accelerator program, which was something Ream-Neal was able to take advantage of.

Western’s expanding start-up culture can also be seen through its programs, like the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities. English professor and former entrepreneur Joel Faflak created the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities in 2012, hoping it would prompt students to think entrepreneurially about their education. To this end,

SASAH combines interdisciplinary study with experiential learning, and students get to take on creative projects as part of this program.

For example, last year for a project, Haley Everitt, a fifth-year SASAH student, created Reuseology, a sustainability initiative that reduced household waste.

Increasingly, Faflak has seen more students combine their arts degree with the science and technical field. It’s a combination that’s proven to work. McMaster University just created a program combining business with the humanities. In the business world, employers are looking for leaders with skills like critical thinking, communication and cultural perspective. That’s where the humanities comes in.

Faflak says that bringing together people who have diverse ways of thinking allows a business to thrive.

“In a business, it’s not just you alone — you’ll have a team of people. Although there needs to be people who are more technical, there also needs to be someone who is visionary to think up an entity and make it happen.”

Ultimately, Western may not have a co-op structure or tech-focused education like Waterloo, but Western’s entrepreneurship spirit is perking up. In recent years, a growing number of entrepreneurship clubs have sprung up on campus, like W5 and Western Founders Network, bringing the total to 14 official and unofficial entrepreneur-focused clubs. With the unique initiatives that Western has started and the focus on interdisciplinary learning, Western’s culture may give us an edge in years to come.

“Whereas Waterloo was established as an engineering and technical school to fill that gap in the Canadian market, Western is kind of a more broad-based intellectual environment,” said Nick Elder, a firstyear HBA student. “I think our advantage is bringing people together from different backgrounds.”

It’s midnight. A hoard of youth gather in a theatre with hundreds of spoons in hand. Throughout the screening they yell, boo and throw their spoons at the screen. The cult-classic The Room played for the first time this year at Western Film on Friday night in front of a packed audience.

Since its 2003 release, Tommy Wiseau’s The Room has gained a reputation as one of the worst movies ever made. Every aspect of the movie, from camerawork to scripting, is nonsensical and hard to follow. But despite being awful, The Room has become a cult classic which continues to be played in theatres internationally. Here at Western University, midnight screenings of The Room have become a tradition for many students.

Over the past five years, it’s been the movie that Western Film plays the most often, with screenings held at least four times a year.

“People come more for the audience participation than to watch the movie because the movie is horrible — and that’s the whole point,” explains James Waite, the coordinator of Western Film. “People enjoy seeing [The Room] because it invites you to laugh at it, and you get to see the audience reaction around you.”

As most viewers have seen the movie before, they say infamous lines along with the characters such as “You’re tearing me apart Lisa!” Some movie-goers even run up to the front of the theatre to act out scenes as they’re happening. As the cast awkwardly throws around a football, audience members run up to the front and pass around footballs.

“It feels like a community experience,” says Joshua Thompson-Persaud, a third-year creative writing student who has seen The Room in theatres three times.

“Everyone is together throwing spoons at the same stock image of a spoon on the screen … I mean, it’s just such a weird and fun cult classic.”

As it turns out, The Room’s showing at Western Film attracts more than just Western students. Zen Carriere, a high school student from London, attended the screening dressed as one of the movie’s main characters.

“I think people love to see a garbage-fire that just

keeps on burning but takes itself too seriously,” he explains. “It’s just a great time for everyone involved.”

After over a decade of being played in theatres around the world, The Room has inspired a blockbuster film about it. James Franco’s The Disaster Artist is set to be released in December and will follow the process of making The Room. Though there’s no set release date yet, Western Film plans to do a double screening of The Room and The Disaster Artist when it comes out.

Until then, the next screening of The Room is on Nov. 24 — bring your spoons.

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15. Trio 16. Jelly-like algae substance 17. Malaysian coastal city 18. ___ Christmas!

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56. Spiritual leader 60. Dismounted 61. Isaac’s mother (Bib.) 63. Southern constellation 64. Not often found 65. Extremely angry 66. Individual article 67. They congregate at hives 68. Regenerate 69. Plaster

CLUES DOWN 1. “Mad Men” actor Jon 2. Samoan capital 3. Singer Anthony 4. Sign of the Zodiac 5. Short-term memory 6. Larcenies 7. Side-neck turtle 8. Blissful 9. __, you!

10. Species of macaque 11. North-central Indian city 12. Common street name 13. Weaponry 21. Counsels 23. __ student: doctor-to-be 25. A bachelor has one 26. Women’s __ movement 27. Leaders 28. Chinese sea goddess 29. Caps of mushrooms 32. Papier-__, art material 33. Hmong 34. Uneven 36. Resinous secretion 37. Pocketbook 38. Political action committee 40. Health care for the aged 41. Metro Goldwyn __: film company 43. A gossip 44. Where wrestlers work 46. __ Squad 47. Self-defense 49. Muslim brigands 50. Saudi Arabian island 51. Goliath’s foe 52. Hurtful remark 53. Wings 54. Beget 57. Second Greek letter 58. Blue mold cheese 59. Unstressed-stressed 61. Title of respect 62. Chop or cut

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PASTURE PESTS TRADITIONAL

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