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In the 2016–17 season, Victoria was the top rider in the Ontario University Equestrian Association’s West Division (which includes the universities in western Ontario). She was also the competition’s champion in the open division.

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In the OUEA, you don’t compete with your own horse.

Every rider meets their equine companion at the moment they start competing.

Getting this good at horseback riding took time though.

Victoria first rode a horse at summer camp when she was seven, and it took off from there.

“You’re going in cold: you don’t know what to expect,” says Victoria. “It’s about learning how to adapt to different situations. It’s just based on skill.”

Victoria began with weekly lessons, and soon, the hobby blossomed into a passion. She started competing when she was nine. Victoria and her older sister Kristen, who recently graduated from Western, travelled to horse shows all over the province and, occasionally, to the United States.

Riding with Western’s team has given Victoria a new kind of experience that was very different from competing with her family’s horse, Max.

“It turned into a whole family thing. My sister and I did it together,” she says. “Most kids do soccer when they’re younger. We did things like that but put them aside to continue riding.”

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In second-year, though, Western’s equestrian captain approached Victoria and her sister to encourage them to join the team. Victoria agreed and didn’t regret a thing, even though the university circuit is a very different experience.

At Western, though, Victoria wasn’t immediately sure she wanted to join the team. She was competing alone as she always had been, trying to qualify for the national championships, and she hadn’t really considered adding a team commitment.

This year, though, Victoria had to make a very difficult decision: she stepped away from the university equestrian team. She’s still involved as the team’s social media and marketing executive, but she chose not to compete.

In fourth year with school pressure mounting, she found that she wouldn’t be able to commit to the team fully as she had in the past two years. She didn’t think it would be fair to take up a spot on the team if she couldn’t be there as much as she’d like.

Victoria isn’t done with horseback riding by any stretch though.

She says she’ll continue on with it as a hobby for years.

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That first year was tough, as it is for anyone new to university. Going home to Toronto most weekends to practice while keeping up with school gave her a crash course in balancing her commitments.

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Fourth-year sociology and criminology student Victoria Anderson was one of Western University’s most successful athletes last year in a sport you don’t hear about often. As a member of the equestrian team, Victoria brought Western to the top of university horseback riding.

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Halloween 1952 RITA RAHMATI MANAGING EDITOR OF CONTENT @RITARAHMATI

Hank Pratt BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS. Gentlemen having their fortunes told at Friday’s party enjoyed very much holding hands with these Brescia gypsies, but a wet lizard from the witches’s brew was a different matter.

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Witches laughed, dead men moaned and ghouls roamed the halls of Western University on the night of Halloween, 1952.

Western’s Thames Hall was the venue for the annual Halloween Hop. A slogan on an ad for the event proclaimed it was “Your chance to ‘spook it up’.” For just $1.50 per couple, students could enjoy a spook-tacular Halloween. The Thames Hall gym was covered with pumpkins, cornstalks and witches’s brooms. The main draw was a dance at the gym from 9 p.m. to midnight with a live band. Attendees were also invited to enter a haunted house, partake in activities like apple bobbing, eat candy kisses and watch a variety show.

Available to students with a strong stomach was the “infamous” hall of horrors. Run by male “meds”, the hall of horrors was gorefilled as students hoisted a fake bloody hammer and patients gushed blood made from ketchup.

At Brescia Hall, the female students hosted fortunetelling séances. Students dressed as gypsies predicted the futures of curious individuals.

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All quiet on the Western front AMY O’KRUK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @AMYOKRUK Western University’s official Homecoming was quiet for the second year in a row, with only low-key student celebrations and a modest turnout for the football game.

BROUGHDALE Broughdale Avenue was empty throughout Saturday, with a few students periodically checking out the street before moving on.

Stopped on Broughdale, secondyear linguistics student Julia Wakelin said she was on her way to Luxe condominium for a friend’s birthday party. She said she wasn’t surprised by the low turnout.

“We already kind of had our Homecoming, so this was anticipated,” she said. “If you don’t have an exam, I think it’s going to be better tonight. For FOCO, the morning was when people really went out.

So I think it’s going to be kind of reversed this year.”

Caleb Emerson, a second-year bachelor of management and organizational studies student, said the student turnout for HOCO was a little disappointing.

“I just got out of an exam, so I think it could get busier later in the day and maybe even at night.

I don’t have plans tonight. I have another exam on Monday, so we’ll see how the day goes.”

Broughdale On Saturday was a far cry from the avenue during “Fake Homecoming” earlier this year. Approximately 11,000 people attended the event on Sept. 30, protesting Western administration’s decision to move Homecoming to late October in an effort to curb

unsanctioned street partying. This year, police labelled FOCO a “danger to public safety” and in total, 37 party-goers were hospitalized and 60 participants charged.

LONDON POLICE SERVICE Throughout Sunday, London Police Service said most Homecoming festivities were confined to Western’s grounds. At 6 p.m., Constable Caitlin Norman said the police had attended a few house parties in the university area because of noise complaints, but all of the students were courteous and responsive.

“We’re happy that everyone was behaved and cooperative, and as the night goes on, we hope that continues,” Norman said.

She said LPS put additional resources toward policing Homecoming.

THE HOMECOMING GAME While the streets around Western were mostly undisturbed, the Homecoming football game drew thousands. About 5,200 fans showed up for Saturday afternoon’s game, with the Mustangs beating the Ottawa Gee-Gees 63–10. The win capped off a perfect regular season for the Mustangs, who will next take the field for the Ontario University Athletics semifinals on Nov. 4.

While ticket sales were up compared to last year’s 4,107, game attendance is still only half of what it was before Western changed Homecoming’s date from late September to late October.

Two years ago, 10,291 fans turned out to cheer on the Mustangs for Homecoming, and in 2014, the number was 11,459.

Western rethinking research chair limits, equity targets KAROLINA JALOWSKA NEWS EDITOR @KJALOWSK New national recommendations mean dWestern University will reassess its research chair limits and equity targets.

The Canada Research Chairs program recently established seven recommendations for Canadian universities. Two major recommendations include new research chair term limits and equity targets.

Universities, including Western, are looking to come out with new plans on how to meet those recommendations.

The Canada Research Chairs program spends $265 million annually to help Canadian universities draw top experts from around the world.

The old system had two different types of research chairs: tier one and tier two. Tier-one research chairs are world leaders in their fields and receive $200,000 each year for their salary and research.

These position last for seven years and are renewable indefinitely. On the other hand, tier-two research chairs are emerging researchers and receive $100,000. They last for five years and are renewable once.

The idea behind the change is to place a limit on the number of times a researcher can renew their

tier-one status.

Karen Campbell, Vice-Provost of Academic Planning Policy and Faculty, notes that although term limits and equity targets are not directly related, they are not completely unrelated.

“Term limits are not unrelated to equity because of the way women and the other three designated groups are more numerous in the junior professoriate than they are in the senior professoriate,” Campbell said. “By restricting the terms of the tier-one [research chairs], it provides opportunities for the tier-two researchers to move into tier-one slots. Tier-two [research chairs] are more likely to be meeting the equity targets than the tier-ones are.”

The CRC program’s equity targets match the number of academics eligible for the positions.

As such, chairs are supposed to be 31 per cent women, one per cent indigenous people, four per cent people with disabilities and 15 per cent members of visible minorities.

Western has 64 CRCs with 31 tierone chairs and 33 tier-two chairs.

Western has created its first equity, diversity and inclusion committee in September that is specifically considering the university’s CRC program with national recommendations in mind.

MAX MAO GAZETTE HOCO WITH THE POPO. Barely any students showed up on Broughdale Avenue on Saturday to celebrate Western University’s official Homecoming. Many said they got the festivities out of their systems by celebrating FOCO instead.

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Student leaders ask gov’t to help end Ontario college strike GRACE TO NEWS EDITOR @GRACEKTO Student leaders are calling on the government to help get Ontario college students back to the classroom.

On Friday, Oct. 20, student representatives from eight Ontario colleges penned an open letter to the provincial government. It called on the provincial government to encourage the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and the College Employer Council to continue bargaining and to come to a settlement.

Currently, the college faculty strike is affecting nearly 500,000 students. At Western University, many students enrolled in WesternFanshawe collaborative programs, such as nursing; media, theory and production; and music recording arts have lost access to their Fanshawe courses.

“The strike has impacted the quality of education,” said Morgana Sampson, Fanshawe Student Union’s president. “Colleges are different from universities — there are more hands-on materials that can’t be covered outside of the classroom, and they require time that can never be made up with condensed

content.”

In the letter, the student associations highlighted three main concerns that they have received from student feedback: • Students want to be in their classrooms, receiving the education they paid for.

• The quality of education will eventually decrease because course materials will have to be condensed to make up the semester.

• Any extension or compression of a semester will cause stress for both domestic and international students, which will potentially include undue financial hardship.

The letter concludes with a meeting request with Ontario’s premier, the minister of advanced education and skills development and the chairs of the bargaining teams.

The strike began because the OPSEU asked for better pay, freedom over course curriculum and an even split of full- and part-time faculty. In response, the CEC denied their request as the demands were projected to cost millions of dollars.

“We hope that the government will see the importance of students needing to be back in class,” Sampson said.

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Event pushes for more free, online textbooks at Western MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR @_MARTINALLEN More free textbooks may be coming to Western University.

Free textbooks are part of a campus push for open educational resources. The University Students’ Council, the Science Students’ Council, Western Libraries and eCampus Ontario (a government non-profit for online education) are hosting a keynote speech and a luncheon on Nov. 17 to talk to professors about the benefits of teaching from free course materials available on the eCampus website.

Resources from the eCampus library can be read in-browser or downloaded for free. The texts are from around the world but are approved by the library as fit for teaching in Ontario. Danny Chang, SSC president, said that while the textbooks are free, they are also more accessible.

“With open educational resources, all a distance or rural student

needs to study is an internet connection,” Chang said.

The organizing parties are planning on hosting around 100 faculty members and course coordinators from all Western faculties. The chair of the Western Student Senators, Courtney Hardy, also announced the event at Friday’s senate meeting.

The Nov. 17 event will begin with a keynote speech from Rajiv Jhangiani, a professor who has worked with British Columbia’s open educational resources organization, BCcampus.

Chang said that B.C. is years ahead of Ontario in terms of the accessibility of its textbooks. While many Ontario students have to pay for quiz packages or online programs to model assignments, these things are offered freely online in other parts of Canada. Chang said the University of British Columbia now considers the usage of open educational resources when a professor is up for tenure, as it’s seen as a innovation in teaching.

The CEO of eCampus, David Porter, will also be in attendance throughout the day. The event is also endorsed by Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance, which speaks for 150,000 students and has expressed its support for open education resources before.

Chang said there’s a stigma about the quality of free, online textbooks that the event is trying to dispel. He said he will feel the event is a success if even two or three professors decide to switch to eCampus resources, given how many students will not have to pay.

Chang said that open educational resources are a “win-winwin” for students, faculty and the institution; faculty are given more options for teaching, and the institution is seen at the “cutting-edge of pedagogy”.

“With open resources, everyone starts with textbooks — it’s the gold standard,” he said. “It moves from open textbooks to all open educational resources.”

Pro-life club holds antiabortion demonstration on Concrete Beach MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR @_MARTINALLEN

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Hundreds of small pink and blue flags flew in representation of aborted fetuses on Western University’s Concrete Beach on Oct. 17.

The pro-life demonstration was orchestrated by Western Lifeline, a University Students’ Council sanctioned, secular, anti-abortion club on campus.

Several club members were standing on Oxford Drive, handing out flyers. The print-out showed a six-week-old and eight-week-old fetus and an abortion instrument, captioned with “growing, growing, gone”.

Fifth-year English literature student and club president, Maria McCann, spoke to students in front of the University Community Centre and said the flags showed the number of children whose human rights are being violated every year in Canada and the magnitude of that injustice.

Students had mixed reactions to the demonstration. Gabriel

Barbosa, a PhD student who spoke to McCann, said their discussion was fruitful and he was glad Western Lifeline was protesting.

On the other hand, third-year Social Science student Aubrey Kutas said the flag display and the flyers were an attempted guilt-trip to “play on people’s heartstrings”. She said her discussion with McCann was disjointed and shallow and saw other students experiencing difficulties engaging.

Lifeline has protested on campus before.

In 2015, the club’s messages written in chalk on Concrete Beach were erased by Western’s administration, though the campaign was approved by the USC. Lifeline isn’t the only pro-life group to promote its message on campus. Last year, another pro-life group, London Against Abortion, stood around campus with posters bearing photographs of dismembered fetuses that had been aborted. In 2016, the group also left flyers with the images at doors in the largely student-populated neighbourhood around Broughdale

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Lifeline began the approval process for the event through the USC’s WesternLink, an online communication service with sanctioned clubs.

In a statement, the USC’s student programs officer Mac McIntosh said the USC’s main focus is student support.

“We respect that students want to have difficult conversation and engage in intelligent conversation as long as it is done in a safe and respectful manner,” he wrote.

He added that anyone concerned about the Lifeline demonstration can reach out to the USC.

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Remembering Gord Downie, Canada’s truest ambassador Nick of time

NICHOLAS SOKIC CULTURE EDITOR @NICKATGAZETTE I was maybe six or seven when I first heard Gord Downie. Downie was my older cousin’s musical hero, and that made him mine as well for a time. Yet I think even at that young age, I realized there was more to it than that. Listening to Downie sing about Bill Barilko, Hugh MacLennan and Tom Thomson was something I had never heard before or since in a media landscape so dominated by American iconography.

For thirty years, Downie and his quintet of Kingston native musicians have gifted Canada with nothing short of a national mythology. It’s no surprise that the man who rhymed “Jacques Cartier” with “right this way” is a capital-C Canadian. The same way that our southern neighbours have their brand of Americana, I would argue it’s primarily thanks to Downie and The Tragically Hip that we have anything resembling “Canadiana” at all.

We’ve heard thousands of songs about Los Angeles and New York, but there’s only one about Bobcaygeon, Ont. Still, though, he was more than just a simple chronicler. He used his platform to speak for those who cannot, like in “Wheat Kings” speaking on the wrongfully imprisoned David Milgaard. He took no part in burnishing the harsh truths of Canada, like the treatment of indigenous peoples. There was no hint of the baseless and empty patriotism that exists in much of American music.

I’m barely a musician, but Downie has long been in a pantheon of true national artists, elevating Canadian stories to the level of the Alamo without becoming a mouthpiece for jingoism, while writing truly excellent poetry that spoke to an entire nation. Indeed, the closing show of The Hip’s final tour last summer was viewed by

around a third of the country, something the New York Times described as “an unparalleled moment of national pride laced with sorrow.”

If you’re aspiring to any kind of artistry, you can look to Downie as a way to do it right. Better than any Canadian artist, he understood the difference between community and individuality, being both proud and uncompromising in his view of his home and native land.

It’s this unyielding view that in turn yielded a hopeful vision of Canada’s future. Far from a cynic, his compassion was boundless, and The Hip’s brand of everyman rock remained grounded even as he ascended as Canada’s unofficial poet laureate.

In a tearful statement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau eulogized Downie: “Gord was my friend, but Gord was everyone’s friend.

He knew, as great as we were, we needed to be better than we are.”

Often times Canadian artists get drowned out by a swarm of American culture. It’s against this swarm that Gord pushed me and many other Canadians to be more, giving us all something to be proud of.

He took no part in burnishing the harsh truths of Canada, like the treatment of indigenous peoples. There was no hint of the baseless and empty patriotism that exists in much of American music.

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October HOCO is never going to happen

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“Real” Homecoming came and went, but you probably didn’t even notice.

This surprised exactly nobody. Students have already had their yearly bout of jam-packed, spirited festivities — Fake Homecoming, or FOCO, had a massive turnout, despite Western University’s desperate attempts to move the date to late October and otherwise distance themselves from it.

The university’s decision to change the date of Homecoming two years ago was overwhelmingly criticized at the time — and time has proven these critics right. Let’s take a look at the long list of ill effects rising from this decision.

First, moving the date — and the threatening emails — have done nothing to stem the tide of students going to Broughdale Avenue in late September. In fact, this year, the “unsanctioned street parties” have grown in scale. This year’s celebration was even larger than last year’s; it also resulted in 37 hospitalizations and over 60 charges. London Police Service labelled FOCO a “danger to public safety.”

The administration’s tone-deaf condemnation before FOCO also made it an anti-establishment movement. Students exemplified a “stick it to the man” attitude.

Secondly, Western’s administration wasn’t thinking about the football players when making these changes. The Homecoming football game was historically the one game a year with a completely packed stadium, where the whole school was out to celebrate our biggest sports team. But now, with the date change separating the Broughdale

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crowds from the football game, the attendance has plunged by half. Football players don’t want to play for empty seats and students don’t want to go to a football game in the middle of exam season.

Additionally, there’s the issue of cost. Not only did Western’s Sports and Recreation Services lose thousands of dollars in revenue from the lack of tickets sold for the football game, FOCO has cost London taxpayers an estimated $55,000. It’s patently unfair and unfeasible to force London police to divert resources to two separate Homecoming parties, not to mention the emergency services monopolized by drunken students.

As an off-campus event, this is partially the city’s responsibility: in distancing itself from FOCO, Western has made that painfully clear. But the fact remains that moving Homecoming has had a huge range of negative effects, and many of these problems would be solved if Western moved Homecoming back to September.

It’s time for Western’s administration to admit their mistakes and bring back September HOCO. Until then, it seems pretty clear these “unsanctioned street parties” aren’t going anywhere. So work with students, not against them, to solve the issue: initiatives like HOCO on the Hill, alternative programming and even the football game will all reduce the number of students on Broughdale and improve town and gown relations.

This is a fight that admin has unequivocally lost. It’s time to face this problem head on, and make sure FOCO 3.0 isn’t bigger and badder than this year.

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Whatever happened to satire?

Filthy Rich RICHARD JOSEPH OPINIONS EDITOR @RJATGAZETTE People throw around the term “satire” like a monkey throws its own feces.

Don’t like my opinion? Wham, it’s satire. My unequivocal racism?

Oh, that’s just satire. No, I don’t hate women; I’m just an accomplished satirist.

The latest issue of the Purple Arm, the Undergraduate Engineering Society’s newspaper, provoked some offence with its contents, and the president of the society apologized

to those offended. Predictably, the usual defenders of freedom wriggled out of their caves to denounce the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, safe spaces and sensitive snowflakes getting offended by the obviously satirical content of the Purple Arm. Except it’s not satire. Nothing about the Purple Arm is satirical in any meaningful sense — the president of the UES wisely stopped short, calling it “comedy” — but the very fact that it’s being misrepresented as such, and thus a banner for “free speech,” is testament to how muddied and abused the concept of satire has become.

The term has taken on a nebulous, undefinable aspect in recent years: it’s now a vague catch-all (and a defence) for any form of derision or mockery. Don’t take it so seriously;

it’s just satire.

Thing is, the actual medium is more complicated than “making fun of people you don’t like.”

Even halfway decent satire is damn difficult to write. It’s a delicate tool, not a sledgehammer, meant to caricature vice and folly to change society. As an effort in social criticism, it’s as serious as it gets.

More importantly, satire punches upwards.

Throughout history, satirists like Aristophanes (Lysistrata), Jonathan Swift (A Modest Proposal) and Molière (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) always targeted the ruling classes of society. Contemporary sources, like Stephen Colbert and The Onion, go for the same anti-establishment uppercut.

“Traditionally,” writes satirist and Doonesbury cartoonist Garry

Trudeau, “satire has comforted the afflicted while afflicting the comfortable.”

But “ridiculing the non-privileged,” he continues, “is almost never funny — it’s just mean.”

That’s exactly what the Purple Arm does; it punches down.

The article “Freedom of Speech Under Attack” describes a “homophobic slur” which “triggers our LGBT students and makes them uncomfortably horny.” There’s a flowchart for dealing with women which makes the hilarious and original point that women are defined by their periods. The “Racist Candy” article bravely ridicules both the gay community and oversensitive black folks, asking whether “Black Lives Matter will deem snow racist and a symbol of white supremacy.”

Putting aside the eye-rolling

puerility of the content, the argument that it is “satirical” collapses when you observe the targets of derision. The articles in the Purple Arm are generally sneering at the perceived oversensitivity of women, the LGBT community and minorities; they are not caricaturing sexists, homophobes and racists.

It’s a symptom of a larger problem. The same old bigotry is being peddled, now in the clothes of an edgy counterculture, but it lacks both the stylistic polish of real satire and violates its basic tenets: heaping vitriol on the disenfranchised goes against the very spirit of the medium.

It’s also supremely unfunny. And if only the powerful and privileged are laughing, you’re not being subversive — chances are, you’re being a dick.

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Undaunted by defeat SABRINA FRACASSI NEWS EDITOR @SABFRACASSI Tobi Solebo takes a deep breath. Campaigning is finally over, and the results — for better or worse — are out of his hands. It’s time to relax.

Or so he thinks.

His phone rings: it’s his campaign manager. “Check your emails,” he says. “Now.” Tobi’s in a race for the University Students’ Council presidency, a 12-month position leading one of the largest student governments in Canada. The competition is fierce, and his campaign manager tells him his competitors, Team DiBrina, have thrown a Team Tobi win into jeopardy. They’ve accused Team Tobi of a number of bylaw violations, such as posting campaign messages in residence Facebook groups and unauthorized doorto-door campaigning.

The USC’s rules are clear: If a team racks up 31 demerit points — points awarded for elections rule violations — the candidates are disqualified.

Already saddled with 13 demerit points, Tobi and vice-presidential candidate Landon Tulk, wait for the elections governance committee to decide their fate.

“When we were waiting for the announcements to come out, me and Landon were texting each other the whole time. First it was eight demerit points, and then our total was 21. Oh my god there’s no way we can do it,”

Tobi remembered. “Holy crap, another two. We’re at 23.”

Tobi is so close to the presidency, but he’s been here before. In 21 years, he’s become well acquainted with being knocked down.

Growing up in a suburb just outside of London, England, Tobi lived a normal life. His parents were born in Nigeria and moved to England to pursue university degrees. Growing up with his sister, Simi, Tobi spent his days after school playing with neighbourhood kids, racing bikes or playing soccer.

At the age of nine, Tobi’s family moved to Canada.

Tobi’s parents drove him and his sister to school in Richmond Hill every morning, an hour’s drive from where they were living, before they eventually settled in the city.

“My dad would always play this one CD because it had all of his favourite songs on it, so my sister and I can literally sing word for word every single song on the entire album. Songs by Marvin Gaye and Michael Jackson,” he said.

At Richmond Hill High School, Tobi threw himself into extracurriculars — he joined the high school student council in Grade 9 and started playing football.

But four years later, everything fell apart.

After years of committing to the student council, Tobi decided to run for student president. The decision seemed like the natural next step. “I was the institutional candidate,” Tobi said. “In high school, I had been on student council longest. I was that guy.”

The next half-hour or so, I was just hugging everyone that was in reach. I wasn’t looking at people’s faces anymore because I was just so happy TOBI SOLEBO USC PRESIDENT

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He lost to a friend and took on a smaller council role.

At the same time, he had been playing football as a running back. He pictured a career as a college football player, choosing Western because he watched the Mustangs play for the Vanier Cup. But the summer before first year, he was tackled by three players during a game, blowing out his knee and breaking his tibia.

“After I hurt my knee, it forced me to find other things that I was really interested in,” Tobi said.

Tobi’s final blow came in his second year at Western. He was studying economics and applied for the HBA program at Ivey, imagining a career in business. His application was rejected.

“That was the first time that I really wanted something I didn’t get, and I really could only blame myself,” he said. “It taught me to work harder for everything else, so for every mistake, there’s a learning opportunity.”

After being denied his dream once again, Tobi decided to take a step back and focus on his friends, having already opted out of student politics since high school. After having joined the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, better known as FIJI, in first year, he spent more time with his brothers.

Still, while Tobi was done with student politics, the people around him had other ideas.

Tobi met Tulk during O-Week, and later they joined the same fraternity. The summer before third year, Tulk approached Tobi with the idea of running as a USC slate.

“I said absolutely not,” Tobi said. “I had done student council in high school, and I really didn’t

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But the idea lingered. Things kept happening on campus, like program cuts and the administration’s Homecoming changes, and Tobi realized that maybe this really was an opportunity for him to make a change. And by the beginning of third-year, he had made the decision to run — again.

His decision to run this time was different.

It wasn’t institutional knowledge. It wasn’t pressure. This time, he wanted students’ voices to be heard.

The decision definitely didn’t come without challenges — some that Tobi and Tulk knew they were going to face and others, not so much. They anticipated push-back for being in a fraternity. They didn’t anticipate the demerit points.

With the campaign over, the team has only racked up 13 demerit points — a far cry away from the clean campaign they envisioned but nowhere near the 31-point limit. Then the email arrives. Tobi knows it’s going to be a long night.

Finally, at 3 a.m., the numbers stop growing.

When he gets the message that he won’t be disqualified, he and his roommates are ecstatic.

Twenty-six demerit points. Team Tobi is still in the game.

A few days pass, and Tobi and Tulk are sitting next to each other at the front of The Spoke as the election results are about to be announced.

The bar is packed, especially with people wearing Tobi’s campaign colour, red.

The results flash on the screen: Team Tobi wins by a landslide, getting close to 1,000 more votes than the closest runner-up, Team DiBrina.

“The next half-hour or so, I was just hugging

everyone that was in reach. I wasn’t looking at people’s faces anymore because I was just so happy, and I was literally hugging every single person,” Tobi said. “That time is such a blur: I don’t even remember it, but it was the happiest feeling in my life by far.”

When his family calls, he can almost hear them smiling over the phone. They call him Mr. Obama.

Eight months later, Tobi is sitting in the president’s office. The window faces Weldon Library, and a massive photo of New York City decorates his wall.

He is the first black male president of the USC. Tobi said people get excited about things that haven’t happened before, but he doesn’t focus on it.

On his accomplishments, Tobi points to the strength of his team. He also points to tangible things like consistent executive office hours, a completed Spoke renovation and round table meetings.

For the future, Tobi wants to further develop the Wellness Education Centre by making it a triage point for other mental health services on campus.

Tobi’s come a long way from the guy who had given up on student government.

“He’s grown into a real leader,” Tulk said.

“He just has such an ability to rally people together, and now he’s actually doing it in a formal setting.”

Come next September, Tobi will return to Western for his fourth year. Now only halfway through his presidency, he’ll undoubtedly face more challenges. But if Tobi has proved anything, it’s that nothing can keep him down.

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Softball and women’s lacrosse crowned provincial champions JORDAN MCGAVIN MANAGING EDITOR OF DESIGN @JMCGAVIN13 This was a big weekend for the Western Mustangs with several teams wrapping up their regular seasons, others entering Ontario University Athletics playoff competition and some just starting their seasons.

FIELD HOCKEY The Mustangs field hockey team

finished their regular season in Toronto with a pair of losses. The Purple and White lost 1–4 to the York Lions and then 0–5 to the Toronto Varsity Blues, ending with a 3–7–1 record and a fifth-place finish. The team heads back to Toronto the weekend of Oct. 27-29 for the start of the OUA playoffs.

FOOTBALL The Mustangs football team ended their regular season with a

commanding 63–10 victory over the Ottawa Gee-Gees. With only a perfect 8–0 season at risk, the Homecoming football game was less about securing a playoff spot and more about putting on a show for over 5,200 fans that turned out. In the second quarter, starting quarterback Chris Merchant injured his non-throwing wrist, forcing him out of the game. Merchant would return in the second half however, to relieve his replacement, Stevenson Bone, who broke his arm. The Mustangs will be back in action on Nov. 4 at TD Stadium for some semifinal action against an undetermined opponent.

HOCKEY (WOMEN’S) The Mustangs women’s hockey team opened their OUA season this weekend with a pair of wins. The team was in North Bay on Friday to take on the Nipissing Lakers, coming out triumphant with a 6–3 victory.

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again on Saturday, posting a 5–1 win over the Laurentian Voyageurs. Next up for the Mustangs is their home opener against the Brock Badgers on Oct. 27.

HOCKEY (MEN’S) With a win and a loss in their home-opening weekend, the men’s hockey team now sits at 1–2 in OUA competition. On Friday, the team fell 4–3 against the Carleton Ravens, a game that saw the Ravens score thrice on the power play. Saturday was a different story as the Mustangs defeated the University of Ottawa 7–3.

LACROSSE (WOMEN’S) After they were dethroned in last year’s controversial loss to Trent Excalibur in the championship game, the women’s lacrosse team is back on top. The team won 11–3 over the McMaster Marauders in the quarter-finals, 10–4 against the Varsity Blues in the semifinals and then 9–7 in the championship game against the Queen’s Gaels. The provincial title is the Mustangs’ seventh in the last eight years.

LACROSSE (MEN’S) The men’s lacrosse team concluded their regular season with an 11–10 overtime win over the Guelph Gryphons. The team wrapped up their season with 20 points, good enough for second in the West and tied for third in the league. Next up for the team is the playoffs where they will compete for the Baggataway Cup, the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association’s highest honour. Playoffs are scheduled to begin the week of Oct. 23.

RUGBY (WOMEN’S) After going 0–4 in their regular season, the Mustangs turned things around and finished 3–0 in the relegation rounds. They capped it off this weekend with a hard-fought 31–22 win over Brock University. The Mustangs will remain in the elite Shiels Division while the Badgers are forced to remain in the tier-two Russell Division next year.

RUGBY (MEN’S) The final game of the regular season for the men’s rugby team was a disappointing one as they failed to register a point. The University of Guelph won the game by a score of 56–0. The Mustangs finish the season with a 5–3 record and a fourth place finish in the OUA standings heading into the playoffs.

SOCCER (WOMEN’S) First in the West with 43 points and a 14–1–1 record is where the women’s soccer team sits comfortably. The team finished their regular season with a commanding 11-point lead over Guelph who finished the season second in the West. The Mustangs have been dominant all year, allowing only five goals while scoring 36 in their 16-game season.

Having received a bye through the first round of the playoffs, the team will be back in action on Oct. 28 for an OUA quarter-final matchup against a yet-to-be-determined opponent.

SOCCER (MEN’S) The Mustangs men’s soccer team lost their final game of the regular season 1–0, falling short to Guelph. The game was almost a 0–0 draw, until, in the final minute of play, Guelph’s Mitchell Lefebvre scored the lone goal that propelled them to victory.

The Mustangs will be back in action on Oct. 25 where they will host Brock in a first-round playoff matchup.

SOFTBALL After the provincial championship game was rained out on Oct. 15 in the bottom of the fifth inning with both teams locked at 0, the Mustangs and Laurier Golden Hawks met again this weekend. The Mustangs reigned supreme as they captured their eighth consecutive provincial title with a nail-biting 1–0 victory.

Emma Murray scored the only run of the game on a drive from Briar Balas.

Pitcher Rachael Jacques pitched all seven innings, striking out eight batters and allowing only two hits to earn the shutout for the team and Championship MVP for her efforts.

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

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

The responsibilities of the Provost & Vice-President (Academic) are diverse and multifaceted.

The portfolio includes senior executive oversight of all Academic Units, Faculty Relations, Registrar’s Office, Student Experience, Institutional Planning & Budgeting, Western Libraries, Western International, the McIntosh Gallery and Western Technology Services.

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COURTESY OF THE @UWOSOFTBALL’S TWITTER PAGE The Mustangs softball team won their eighth consecutive provincial title on Sunday, the 10th in the program’s history.

Submissions should be forwarded to the Secretary of the Committee, Kathleen Kwan by November 20, 2017 at kkwan63@uwo.ca or mailed to: K.Kwan, University Secretary Rm. 4101, Stevenson Hall Western University London, Ontario, N6A 5B8 COURTESY OF WAYNE TAKEUCHI / MUSTANGS ATHLETICS The women’s lacrosse team captured the seventh provincial title in the program’s history this past weekend.

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Perfect so far, Mustangs look ahead to playoffs MIKE DEBOER SPORTS EDITOR @MIKEDBOER It’s all there for you, Western Mustangs.

Your running game, led by two capable rushers, Alex Taylor and Cedric Joseph, dominating defences. Your offensive line, winning the push play after play. Your defence, forcing turnovers to offset the ever-so-rare mistake.

Your kicker, Marc Liegghio, never missing. Your quarterback, Chris Merchant, consistently reliable.

Your coaching staff, one of the best in the league.

Your perfect season, a reality after clobbering the Ottawa Gee-Gees 63–10 to improve to 8–0.

Your team, poised for the championships in November. Two more big wins, and a Yates Cup title will be yours.

The Mustangs have all the momentum they need heading into the Ontario University Athletics playoffs. They took on all challengers this year, from contenders like the McMaster Marauders and Laurier Golden Hawks to basement-dwellers like the Windsor Lancers and York Lions.

But while Saturday’s win over Ottawa, in front of a Homecoming crowd of over 5,200 fans, was impressive on paper, the Mustangs know there’s still work to do before their coronation as champions of Ontario.

According to Mustangs head coach Greg Marshall, the win over Ottawa wasn’t perfect.

“I thought it was a little sloppy, but I thought overall we played very well,” said Marshall. “We settled into it. I don’t know if it was just not having played in two weeks, but the first couple minutes we were not as crisp defensively and certainly not offensively, but we settled into a very good game.”

You see, the Mustangs have a different standard of excellence than most other programs. To find imperfections in a 63–10 dismantling of a team that is 5–3, is what sets this team apart.

The Mustangs wanted to see improvement in the Ottawa game. They did that. They wanted to finish off a perfect regular season. They did that too.

They also wanted to stay healthy. But that was a bit more of an issue.

Merchant, who threw for 168 yards and three touchdowns on Saturday, hurt his non-throwing

wrist. Backup Stevenson Bone broke his arm coming in to relieve Merchant, effectively ending the fifth-year’s season.

Merchant came back in, appearing healthy.

Eventually, the Mustangs took him out for the day, giving an opportunity to third-string quarterback Kevin John, who performed admirably in his own right, going 6-for-7 with 78 passing yards and a rushing touchdown.

But while John could very well be a reliable starting quarterback in the future, the Mustangs need Merchant to stay healthy in the present. His connection with receiver Harry McMaster in particular is of considerable value to the Mustangs offence.

Those two have been a dominant duo all season long and connected three times in the Ottawa game for touchdowns. They’ll need to continue that in the playoffs.

“I think we knew that a lot of the stuff we had would work, and we were just going stick to the basics and just take it to them,” said McMaster on the Mustangs commanding performance on Saturday. “I think we are always confident, and we know we are going to have success.”

As a football coach, Marshall will always keep expectations tempered. The Mustangs consistently dominate OUA regular seasons, but their post-season performances of late have left much to be desired.

But this year’s team feels different. It’s been so dominant on both sides of the ball that it’s hard to see any team in Ontario giving them a legitimate challenge.

With the regular season now over, the OUA quarter-final matchups are now set. The third seeded McMaster Marauders (6–2) will meet the sixth seeded Queen’s Gaels (4–4), while the fourth place Gee-Gees will face off with the fifth place Guelph Gryphons (5–3).

The Mustangs and second place Laurier Golden Hawks (6–2) both get a bye to the OUA semifinals.

Since the OUA reseeds in the playoffs, the Mustangs could play the Gaels, Gee-Gees or Gryphons in the playoffs. The Mustangs beat the Queen’s Gaels 48–10 in Kingston on Sept. 23, while the Gryphons gave them all they could handle in a 41–34 overtime thriller.

The quarterfinal games kick off on Oct. 28, while the semifinals will be played on Nov. 4.

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Walrus Talks tackles belonging GABRIELLE DROLET CULTURE CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE What do a former CFL player, a novelist, a YouTuber and an engineer have in common? At Walrus Talks: Belonging, it became clear: they’ve all struggled to find their own sense of acceptance.

Western University and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities hosted the third-annual Walrus Talks event on Tuesday night this week. This year’s focus was “belonging,” and as always, the goal of the event was to present multiple perspectives about a single topic, encouraging audience members to consider unfamiliar ideas.

Each of the eight speaker approached belonging in a distinct way, speaking about what it means to belong in a community how they found their own sense of identity.

Kamal Al-Solaylee, an associate professor at Ryerson University and a best-selling author, discussed what it’s like to identify as an “Arab Muslim Canadian who also happens to be gay”. He said at times it’s easy to feel alienated from either the Muslim community or the LGBTQ+ community.

“These are two identities that are often seen as incompatible, at best, and sometimes antagonistic of each other,” he said.

Novelist Heather O’Neill explored belonging in the fashion and media industries, focusing on the commodification of violence against women. She described her experience as a woman who is aware of the misogyny present in magazines and ads, making her weary of her own identity.

“Female passivity has always been highly prized in art and fashion as an ideal of beauty,” she said.

For Jonathan Hood, a former CFL linebacker and Western PhD candidate, finding a sense of belonging has been integral to his success.

He compared being an individual to being a seed that can only grow in the right environment. He said, when he was in high school, he felt like a young man that didn’t belong.

He was in a school that didn’t have enough outlets for his energy — “a good seed in the wrong soil.” When Hood moved to a school that was a better fit, he was able to flourish as both an athlete and a scholar.

On the other hand, Molly Burke, a YouTuber who lost her vision due to a genetic disease, told the

audience that she has never felt a sense of belonging at all.

“I live in a world that’s not made for me. The world is made for the average, but that’s not who I am,” she said.

She explored belonging within the scope of disability, explaining that it’s hard to feel like she belongs when her surroundings aren’t always accessible to her.

Walrus Talks: Belonging also featured Hanny Hassan, the chair of the board of governors at Western; Erik Mandawe, artist-in-residence; Kim Samuel, a scholar specializing in social isolation; and Carol Todd, the founder of the Amanda Todd Legacy Society.

Shelley Ambrose, the executive director of The Walrus Foundation, hopes that the event spiked intellectual curiosity in its audience, pushing them to think about belonging themselves.

“We want everyone to learn something different,” she explained.

“Every audience member that we have brings their own perspective, so what resonates with people varies.”

If you missed Walrus Talks: Belonging, you can watch it, as well as all past Walrus Talks, online.

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Provost & Vice-President (Academic) Western University Western University is seeking an exceptional academic leader to join our vibrant community as our next Provost and Vice-President (Academic) to provide a key leadership role in the advancement and ongoing success of one of Canada’s top universities.

Founded in 1878, and considered Canada’s most beautiful university, our main campus encompasses 400 acres and includes a unique mix of gothic and modern architecture. Our students come from over 100 countries and are characterized by high academic achievement and a broad world view. They benefit from “The Western Experience,” a philosophy that emphasizes an innovative learning experience and challenges students to meet the highest standards in and out of the classroom, preparing them for future success. Our alumni network of over 260,000 graduates make significant contributions around the world in every walk of life.

Western has established itself as a destination for academic excellence and we are home to over 1,350 distinguished faculty. The depth and breadth of our research, from fundamental to applied discovery, is extraordinary. Our Strategic Plan, “Achieving Excellence on the World Stage,” has guided the institution in recent years and helped strengthen our University’s national and international reputation. We are on pace to surpass our $750-million goal for our “Be Extraordinary” fundraising campaign in 2018.

Our incoming Provost will be a visionary leader with the highest academic standards and the ability to oversee a broad and dynamic portfolio. We are looking for a collaborative leader with exceptional interpersonal skills who engages the academic community; has compelling academic standing in their field of study; significant experience in recruiting, training and supporting high-achieving faculty across a range of disciplines; a highly developed history of leadership and management experience, and strong financial acumen gained in a major academic institution at the Dean or Vice President level. Working together with our University community our new Provost must be able to develop and implement a compelling vision for our academic future which leverages our unique strengths and proud history.

Western is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace and welcomes applications from women, members of racialized groups / visible minorities, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons with any sexual orientation, and persons of any gender identity or gender expression. Accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process by contacting our search consultant (see below). In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents will be given priority.

Western is partnering with the executive search firm Perrett Laver on this search process.

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Spoke’s Battle of the Bands hopes to foster local music NICK SOKIC CULTURE EDITOR @NICKATGAZETTE This September, Patrick James Clark, a third-year popular music studies student took the stage at The Spoke, ready for his act.

Except, he wasn’t the headliner.

It was another Wednesday night for Rick McGhie. The room was packed, with students lined up out the door.

It was then that Clark realized the scope of the community surrounding Rick McGhie, and he sought to build that same community around all of Western University’s student musicians.

Having already been approached

by The Spoke in the summer for a regular Battle of the Bands, Clark realized the potential of the event that night with Rick.

Over the summer, Clark and a few of his team members met with The Spoke’s manager, Ben Lollar, and together, they hashed out their ideas for the battle. Initially, Clark figured he would just host.

It was only after taking stock of his position in Western’s music community that he realized he would be able to program it as well.

This sort of regularly programmed battle is a first for The Spoke. Previously there had only been the occasional battle, like the USC Battle of the Bands with a larger lineup. Here, the lineup is smaller but more consistent. Clark notes, however, that their battles are already evolving.

“We wanted to start out with one versus one, king of the hill style, but we found that we could program a lot more of the night with a fuller bill,” says Clark.

Clark introduces each act, and they are allotted a thirty-minute set. Afterwards, a panel of judges

decide the winner. He’s looking to build towards a three-to four-act bill. That means longer nights, more variety and possibly more battles.

September’s battle featured Megan Levine, who Clark had met at a songwriter’s circle last year, and John Muirhead, another friend of his. Although there is only one night to go on, Clark is hopeful it will be a continuous success.

“Obviously a Tuesday night is not going to be the most popular at any establishment, but the crowd was really great,” says Clark.

“People came out to see the artist specifically, and people stayed who didn’t know the event was happening, which I think is the goal.”

While Clark has plenty of friends in Western’s music community, he says he is still hearing from plenty of new artists he had never heard of before. He credits this to Western’s tight-knit group of musicians. According to Clark, Western’s music scene creates an environment where the competition between acts is lessened; everyone tries to be more collaborative and helpful with each other.

“I think the nature of how busy this community is allows you to help each other and makes you better friends,” says Clark.

Clark encourages anyone interested to reach out to him, as he aims to make the events as inclusive as possible, with different styles, genres, solos, bands and instruments. The more that apply, the bigger the battles will get: hopefully, many of these acts will find new fans along the way.

Anyone interested in playing in a battle can email Patrick at info@ patrickjamesclark.com

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Western’s Undergrad journals annual Consent in the spotlight and Sexual Violence Awareness Week underway VIVIAN CHENG CULTURE EDITOR @VIVIANCHENG20

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VIVIAN CHENG CULTURE EDITOR @VIVIANCHENG20 To highlight the gravity of consent and sexual assault, Western University is hosting a Consent and Sexual Violence Awareness Week from Oct. 23 to 27.

To start off the week, the Women’s Issues Network, a University Students’ Council service, hosted a free showing of The Hunting Ground, a 2015 documentary about rape culture on American campuses and its effects on victims.

Women’s Issues Network coordinator Carina Gabriele says that the film is an education piece.

Although the film shows statistics from American campuses, its major takeaways are important for Canadian campuses too.

After the event, students debriefed and discussed the material.

“Watching this movie exposes us to a reality we’re not comfortable with. You don’t typically have statistics about assaults on campus because it takes a lot of research, and so I think it’ll force us to confront this reality on campus,” says Gabriele.

Gabriele hopes this week will raise awareness about the increase in sexual assaults that tends to happen around Halloween and also encourage students to refrain

This week isn’t just applicable to Halloween, but everyday life. Although some events are specific to Halloween, the themes can be translated to everything. Respecting someone’s body is key.

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For students who want to take their class work to mean more than just a good grade, there’s Western University’s undergraduate journals.

Currently, Western has nine faculty-specific, undergraduate-run journals. The content is written by and for undergraduate students, and these journals are open to the public online.

Library and information science student Emily Carlisle says that with Open Access Week taking place from Oct. 23 to 28, libraries are raising awareness for students to get involved with these journals. Open Access Week aims to shed light on different platforms for information and support the dissemination of barrier-free research.

“A number of these journals have opportunities for students to be editors,” says Carlisle. “Alternatively, you can submit your work there, and the editors will reach out to you if you need to make changes.”

Carlisle says the student submissions must relate to the journal’s area of focus. She explains that some journals may ask for papers with a certain mark, but the requirements depend on the journal.

Kristin Hoffmann, a librarian at Weldon Library, says that getting involved with the journals gives students a chance to experience the scholarly publishing process.

She mentions that, like graduate

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Bianca Huang, a third-year media, information and technoculture student and co-editor of Kino, a film journal, finds working for the journal a rewarding experience.

“Discussing and sharing your ideas about film with other academics and students is gratifying. Also, just getting your work published online and in print, I don’t think you get a better ego-booster than that,” says

Huang.

Huang adds the process for contributing to Kino is highly collaborative so that students can improve their writing and editing skills.

Hoffman thinks that contributing to journals is a great way to participate in the community.

“It goes further than writing the paper that’s in the class because you’re contributing to the knowledge that’s out there,” she says.

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The rest of the week will showcase events like “My Costume is Not Consent” and a pornography literacy talk by London’s Anova — a women’s shelter and sexual assault centre — to spark discussion and educate students about consent and sexual assault.

“This week isn’t just applicable to Halloween, but everyday life. Although some events are specific to Halloween, the themes can be translated to everything.

Respecting someone’s body is key,” says Gabriele.

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41. Emergency first aid worker 44. Canadian law enforcers 45. Fathers 46. Drain of resources 48. An awkward stupid person 49. Home of the Wolverines 51. Chinese 52. Gives a hoot 54. Emaciation 56. “Sam Malone” 60. Horses do this 61. Hillsides 62. River in Florence 63. Republic of Ireland 64. Lapse 65. Blemished 66. Backside 67. Woman (French) 68. An edict of the Russian tsar

CLUES DOWN 1. The Bird of Paradise 2. Emit coherent radiation 3. Above 4. Passover feast and ceremony 5. Commercial 6. Rome is on its banks 7. Kershaw and King Felix are two 8. Seaman 9. Stores an electronic charge 10. Teething babies need _ __ 11. Threaten persistently 12. Not fresh 14. Presides over 17. Astronomical period 20. Harding’s self-proclaimed mistress Britton 21. Nocturnal primate 23. Patriotic American women 25. Vietnamese river 26. Suspect 27. Heroic tales 29. Fences of wooden stakes 30. Venzetti’s partner 32. Outermost parts of an area 34. Type of student 35. Noncoding RNA gene 37. Frocks 40. Sunscreen rating 42. Opposite of women 43. Needed to play games 47. A partner to carrots 49. Absolute 50. Disgraced French aristocrat Antoinette 52. End 53. Food eaten between meals 55. Cold wind 56. Streetcar 57. Soluble ribonucleic acid 58. Singles 59. Intersecting point 61. Beats per minute 65. Gold

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