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Every year, Schulich Leadership Scholarships are awarded to high-achieving high school students. The scholarship provides recipients with $80,000 to $100,000 in funding to study science, technology, engineering or economics at the post-secondary level.

Last June, Joy was sitting at Tim Hortons with his friends when he received an email with the subject line “Congratulations.” Little did Joy know, he had just won $100,000 to fund his university career.

“I just applied for the sake of applying, just so I can cross it off the list…. I wasn’t really expecting to win,” Joy said.

Joy is now approaching the end of his first year as an engineering student at Western. Being from Corunna, Ont. — a small town outside of Sarnia — immersing himself in Western’s tight-knit student community seemed like a great way to transition from a small town.

According to Joy, receiving the scholarship has helped him tremendously. The money will help him cover all his tuition costs and most of his living expenses.

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“In the summers, I don’t have to worry about getting a job. I can focus more on other opportunities, like going on exchange or taking summer courses in something I’m interested in. It opens up other opportunities,” he said.

Joy currently wants to pursue mechatronics, a field of engineering that combines software engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. He draws his hardworking efforts and inspiration from his parents, who immigrated to Canada from India in 2005.

“They were well-set in India, and they decided to take a risk and come to Canada, and they both struggled a lot,” Joy said. “My dad tells me stories how he would have to walk 15 to 20 kilometers just to get to work in the cold because he couldn’t get a bus at 4 a.m.”

Joy hopes to one day work for Google or start his own company.

Joy also plans to travel Europe someday because of his interest in ancient history. Italy, Germany and Greece are just some of the countries on his travel bucket-list.

One of his more surprising hobbies is acting. Having acted in Grade 10, Joy likes the aspect of being able to perform his work. “The work that goes into it, and then you finally present it and show all the work you’ve done, I think that’s the best part about it,” Joy said.

“Engineering just really clicked with me from high school.

I liked science, but I wasn’t really interested in the research side of it. I was more interested in how can I use it,” Joy said.

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Running the “naked mile” after losing a game of beer pong might be common in 2018, but back in the early ’70s, streaking was a new phenomena. In 1974, five first-year Western students initiated a streaking fad after running a couple of laps around campus in their birthday suits.

According to one Gazette article, “close to one hundred denizens of the women’s residence voiced their squeals of delight as the streakers ran three laps around [Delaware Hall’s] circular driveway wearing only smiles in the mild evening air.”

The five culprits, overjoyed with liquid courage, received applause from a vast majority of the student population. In the ’70s, running around campus naked was a carnivalesque attraction. Students were honoured that the trend had reached Western University after hearing

rumours about it taking place across American campuses.

After an article about the noble streakers made the front page of the Gazette in early spring, more students hopped on the bandwagon.

Fifty-eight Mustangs streaked from Thames Hall to Oxford Drive.

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TAs to vote on university’s final offer PSAC Local 610 will hold vote on April 11 and 12

KAITLYN HAN CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE With no settlement reached on March 27, teaching assistants will vote on the university’s final offer starting April 11 — and a TA strike’s still on the table.

The TA union, Public Service Alliance of Canada Local 610, met with the university for 11 hours yet the parties did not reach a settlement.

The union, representing 2,000 TAs, has been in negotiations with the university since fall. With bargaining at an impasse, union members voted yes to a strike mandate last week. A strike mandate — a majority vote in favour of a strike — authorizes the union to initiate a strike. However, it does not guarantee TAs will hit the picket line; rather, it indicates the members are prepared to do so.

At the March 27 meeting, the university presented its final offer. At this point, both parties have made concessions.

“Our discussions were productive and the new proposal on the table is significantly different than that shown at the strike vote meeting,” said the union in a public statement.

Despite this, the union is recommending its members reject the employer’s last offer. PSAC Local 610 said the new agreement does not satisfy their top three demands: • To bring wages above the forecasted inflation

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UNION BARGAINING TEAM MEMBER • To extend employment periods • To include tuition rebates In an email to students on March 28, Provost Janice Deakin said the university remains hopeful the TAs will accept their last offer. She said the bargaining teams have resolved many differences, and the university remains hopeful there will not be a labour disruption.

“We value the work of [TAs], and we have worked hard towards a reasonable and responsible collective agreement that reflects their employment role and the fiscal realities that exist in the post-secondary sector in the province,” Deakin said in the email.

Nadia Ivanova, a member of the union’s bargaining team, agrees gains have been made at the table.

However, the union believes key issues still need addressing.

“The only thing is that all those gains will not change the financial hardship of our members right now,” Ivanova said. “It won’t change the situation of a majority of our members being below the poverty line.

Ivanova explained TAs have a net income below $11,000, which

MALLORY THOMPSON GAZETTE SIGNS IN THE SUN. Western’s graduate teaching assistants met on Concrete Beach around 4 p.m. to make signs in preparation for a potential strike.

doesn’t match the cost of living in London.

With negotiations stalled, the university has filed a no board, a move that puts the parties in a legal strike or lockout position by mid-April. After a no board is issued, workers can strike, or their employer can lock them out 17 days later.

“We still want to talk about this with the university and have this

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conversation, but we also want them to hear us, and we want them to understand,” said Ivanova. “We are asking for basic fairness.”

Recently, members from the Society of Graduate Students, The University of Western Ontario Staff Association and The University of Western Ontario Faculty Association have sent letters of support for the TAs to president

Amit Chakma and the chair of the Board of Governors, Paul Jenkins.

PSAC Local 610 will hold a vote on April 11 and 12 to decide if they will accept the university’s final offer.

Students can get more information from PSAC Local 610’s website or the university’s contract negotiations website.

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Western Rhodes Scholar denounces upcoming speech MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR @_MARTINALLEN Western University Rhodes Scholar Levi Hord is condemning a psychologist’s visit to the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry this coming May. A gender psychologist, Kenneth Zucker, is set to speak at Western’s 2018 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Conference on May 4.

Hosted by the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the event is focusing on gender identity development in children and youth.

Hord, who researches the use of genderless pronouns in transgender communities, criticized in a public Facebook post last week Western’s decision to invite Zucker.

“I’ve borne witness to several trans youth who were treated by Zucker. It was a traumatizing experience for most of them. It was delegitimizing for all of them,” Hord wrote in the post. “What’s more, not a single openly trans person has been invited to share their experiences with clinical practice, either as patient or practitioner.”

Zucker’s lawyer, John Adair, said they cannot comment on Hord’s statement beyond stating its accusations are false.

Two years ago, Zucker was fired from his Toronto clinic, the Child Youth and Family Gender Identity Clinic — one of the most wellknown clinics in the world for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria. Zucker

was fired in December 2016 by his employer, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, following an external review.

While Zucker advocates for transitioning through surgery and hormone therapy for adults, he more often treated children to be more comfortable with adhering to the gender identity associated with their birth sex until they were older and could determine their sexual identity. This view has led to accusations that he supports conversion therapy for transgender children.

Ultimately, while the CAMH’s external review said it could not prove the presence of conversion therapy at Zucker’s clinic, it simultaneously apologized for Zucker’s views not being “in step with the latest thinking.”

Schulich’s event planners said the conference aims to provide attendees with a space to have an open and enriching dialogue in order to inform best practices.

“A diverse group of speakers was chosen who bring a range of expertise including ... Ken Zucker.... There are different practice approaches for gender dysphoria, specifically with respect to children,” said Schulich media relations in a statement. “To date, the research has not identified one single best practice approach.

Dr. Zucker was invited by the committee to address each of the current approaches during his session, all of which are in-step with practice guidelines set out by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.”

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Still, members of Western University’s LGBTQ2+ community agree with Hord, saying Zucker’s visit is problematic.

Layne Clarke, president of Spectrum UWO, said Zucker’s methods have a place in history, but they should remain there. Clarke added they were concerned that the Schulich conference is also hosting Devita Singh, a former student of Zucker’s, whose dissertation was written about their time in Zucker’s CAMH clinic; it cites 45 of Zucker’s works.

Clarke said, as a non-binary person, that their feelings towards Zucker’s appointment were similar to last March’s speech by Jordan Peterson — the University of Toronto professor who rose to fame by rebuking legislation that included gender identity in the Ontario Human Rights Code.

“It feels very invalidating and negative,” they said. “We’ve taken a few steps forward this year on campus, but it feels like you’re taking 10 steps back at the same time.”

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McInnes is the only student chosen from Western University.

“Writing and storytelling are the strongest skills I’ve always had,” McInnes said. “A lot of people told me not study English, but I followed my passion and stuck with it.”

When she finished her English degree at King’s, McInnes went on to study communication and public relations at Fanshawe College, and she interned in the communications department at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry.

She wrote for the Interrobang, Fanshawe’s student newspaper. She is currently in the Master of media in journalism and communications program at Western.

“I loved talking to people and writing stories about what was happening in the city,” McInnes said.

“After that, I decided I liked the journalistic aspect of communications more, and that’s why I went into the MMJC at Western.”

The application for the Donaldson scholarship is highly competitive. Each participant sendsa work portfolio and cover letter to be considered for selection.

McInnes met with the scholarship’s coordinators, told them about her passion for journalism and waited a month until learning she received the scholarship.

“I never thought I would get into MMJC, and I never thought I would have this opportunity to work with the CBC,” McInnes said. “It is unbelievable how lucky I am.”

student refugee funding, scholarships SHAMIR MALIK GAZETTE STAFF @UWOGAZETTE Next year, Huron University College student refugees will receive more support in two forms: increased funding for one student and up to five new full-tuition scholarships.

Currently, all Huron students contribute to a Student Refugee Program fund. Huron students voted to increase the SRP fee from $15 to $20 per person to support student refugees’ access to post-secondary education.

Effective next school year, this will increase the Student Refugee Program fund by 33 per cent.

“That’s what the students voted for — to open the door for many more students to study in Canada and get a liberal arts education,” said Jonathan Munn, director of marketing and communications at Huron.

“The Huron University College Students’ Council really pushed for this change.”

With this change, Huron grants more funds toward its student refugee program than most other Canadian schools, according to Munn.

Waseem Kazzah, president of the World University Service of Canada local committee at Huron, credits Huron’s student

council and administration for their support.

“I think it’s the least we can do to help people who are in need.

We as students have the highest obligation to support our fellow students around the globe by affirming their right to education,” Kazzah said.

Huron also announced that up to five student refugees who have already relocated to Canada will receive a full-tuition scholarship when they register.

These scholarships will be made accessible to student refugees in the London area.

Munn explains that Huron challenges students to be leaders with heart: to stress social responsibility, to serve the community and to serve social justice.

“Huron creates a university experience unlike any other that prioritizes ethical leadership and community engagement as much as the pursuit of academic achievement,” Munn said.

Huron has yet to advertise these scholarships and is currently exploring different avenues to promote the scholarships to the London area “I am so proud to be part of a university where their students have ethical leadership and social responsibility at the top of their mind,” Munn said.

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have your say The Gazette asked students their thoughts on the best and worst things about leaving university.

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“The best part about being in fourth year is realizing you’ve come to the end of your degree, and it’s just a big accomplishment. It’s a big milestone in your life.

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“The best thing about being in fourth year is that my caffeine addiction is shortly going to be over. My addiction started right before final exams in first year. I would go to a 24/7 Starbucks and pull all-nighters there with the help of caffeine drinks.

Ever since then, I drink two large coffees a day usually.”

“It’s no longer socially acceptable to go out on a Tuesday … but I probably still will.”

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Rachel Bidulka

“I’m gonna miss the social aspect of school, but the academic aspect, I’m not gonna miss at all. And I will also not miss London. Could use a change of scenery. I find it quite small here, and there’s a lack of culture, I find. It’s very white, and there’s not a lot to do other than go to the bar.”

“The best thing is you take advantage of everything because you know you’re going to be gone. And the worst thing is just not being able to have these opportunities next year. I kind of wish I could go back and explore more of my options in my first, second and third year.

“The worst thing about fourth year is that I realize how real senioritis is,” says Bidulka. “And it doesn’t just end in grade 12, it’s terminal in fourth year.”

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#DeleteFacebook opportunity for students to re-evaluate use, push for tougher laws

BY GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD It’s been a rough few weeks for Facebook, and its millions of users are left with a question: should we keep using it?

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie came forward last weekend to say that his data firm, Cambridge Analytica, was responsible for one of the largest data breaches in Facebook’s history: the firm had used information gathered from some 50 million Facebook users to engineer targeted ads and to influence the 2016 U.S. election.

In a way, this isn’t surprising. Facebook has long been under scrutiny for their profit model: selling user information to corporations for targeted ads and the like. We’ve known, for a while, that the social media giant has access to a ludicrous amount of personal data that they can resell at a premium.

But what is surprising about this data-gathering is the sheer scale of it and the extent to which it can influence politics.

As a result of the data leak, one information technology expert downloaded all the information Facebook has collected about him.

It was roughly 600 MB, equivalent to about 400,000 Microsoft Word documents. This includes every message sent or received, every file sent or received, all audio messages sent or received, and all phone contacts, among other things.

What’s worse, Cambridge Analytica used millions of Facebook profiles to create a software program to predict and influence U.S. voters. During the 2016 election, it was generally expressed that Facebook had far too much political sway; now, there’s concrete evidence.

As a result of this information, many users are deleting their accounts in a global #DeleteFacebook campaign, and Facebook has dropped nearly 18 per cent in value since the scandal broke.

As students, it’s difficult to abandon Facebook.

The platform is so integrated into every aspect of our lives, from networking to event planning to job opportunities, that it’s regarded as almost essential. Many of us have used it since grade school, and these days, Facebook groups are the go-to option for group projects in class, as well.

But even if you don’t delete your account, the #DeleteFacebook movement is an opportunity.

It’s an opportunity for users, like students, to push for change. Canada’s acting minister for democratic institutions, Scott Brison, said he would be open to strengthening federal privacy laws. With a provincial election in June and a federal election on the horizon for 2019, there are openings for students to use their ballots to pressure governments to crack down.

Further, the data leak highlights the need for caution in social media use. One survey suggests 73 per cent of Canadians plan to change their Facebook habits, and there are concrete steps users can take. Canadians can opt out of Facebook’s targeted advertising through the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada’s website.

The site will check to see how many companies have enabled customized ads for your browser and to allow you to opt out of some, or all of them.

You can also remove Facebook from connected apps. This turns off the platform so third-party apps can’t access your information. Want to kick it up a notch? Turn off Facebook’s data collection on other websites, and block the account data your friends and family take with them to other apps.

Zuckerberg’s empire isn’t likely to crumble anytime soon, but we can use #DeleteFacebook to strengthen federal privacy laws and reevaluate our Facebook use. Users want change — let’s make it faster than we can say Myspace.

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Hey London, could you please turn it down?!

Filthy Rich RICHARD JOSEPH OPINIONS EDITOR @RJATGAZETTE London may be a bland, grey, inequality-ridden, overwhelmingly white city, but at least there’s a bar scene — right?

Despite our fair city’s reputation as a booze-lover’s paradise, there are painfully few compelling options for a drink. The problem, for me, is a simple one: it’s just too damn loud.

If you want to head downtown with your friends, you have a few

options. One is an hour-long wait in the freezing cold with a $5 cover to gain entry to one of Richmond Row’s caves of wonders, where you can gyrate alongside first years and local drunks alike and where your feet are glued firmly to the syrupy floor as the speakers rupture your eardrums.

Or you can pay even more to go to some upscale, stuffy restaurant where throngs of old, white businessmen hobnob and talk about the Dow Jones. That’s it. Those are your two poles: nightclub or networking.

Look, I’ll take my licks. The occasional night of debauchery, pounding music and overpriced booze is fine by me. I take my vodka shots like medicine and wake up beside a stranger’s toilet in due course

— such is university.

But more and more — and I don’t know if this is aging or if I’ve always been a curmudgeon — I just want a place where I can order a drink, sit down with some friends and have a conversation without screaming the whole time. Every bar which caters to younger people (and, more importantly, features younger prices) blasts their top-40 trash so loudly that talking to somebody is impossible.

This has even extended to restaurants now: I went with a few friends to Warehouse recently for the cheap apps, and they parked us next to the speakers. It was like eating dinner in a jet turbine: HOW’S THE CALAMARI?!

There’s actually a business-savvy

reason for this. Studies show that loud music means less talking, less talking means more drinking and more drinking means more money.

Ultimately, my ears are suffering so their profit margins don’t.

Isn’t it time we ushered in a more moderate, socially-focused drinking culture? I have no quibble with binge-drinkers — to each their own — but it strikes me that one simple preventative measure is to turn down the damn music.

Even practically, let’s think longevity here. I’m more likely to return to a place where I feel comfortable and to spend more money there in the long term. Dedicated clientele are an investment.

For a while, I was convinced that this was simply the standard,

that drinking and talking was just an impossibility in the contemporary Canadian bar scene. But then I went to Toronto, and lo and behold, there was the Imperial Pub: featuring comfortable couches, reasonably-priced drinks and, most importantly, quiet music — just loud enough to be heard and soft enough to allow for conversation.

The Imperial is usually full of university kids who are obviously there for the same reason. So it is both possible and sustainable. If you build it, they will come.

So come on, London. I’m begging you. Take it easy with the decibels, and give me a decent bar I can talk in. Or I’m doomed to frequent the goddamn Poacher’s Arms for the rest of my London drinking life.

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Students bustle around Western University on a typical day in October. As they filter in and out of the University Community Centre, one of the busiest buildings on campus, they can’t miss the hundreds of little blue and pink flags dotting the lawn on Concrete Beach.

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In front of the flags is Western Lifeline, a University Students’ Council ratified pro-life club.

According to Maria McCann, a fifth-year English literature student and president of Western Lifeline, each flag represents an aborted fetus. She views the number of flags as the number of children whose human rights are violated every year in Canada by abortions. Lifeline’s mission is to “make abortion unthinkable on our campus.” Besides education, McCann said the group wants to support students who are facing difficulties as a result of a challenging pregnancy or who are struggling after an abortion.

The flags marked the first of four controversial Lifeline’s controversial displays since September, three more than the previous academic year. McCann said a growing membership has allowed the club to increase the amount of events they host. The group has 27 active members this year.

Students’ reactions to the group have been varied but consistently passionate, tapping into the ongoing debate about free speech on campuses. Many students and community members have taken to social media in fervent protest or in affirmation of the group.

“I would like to know why a ‘group’ shaming women for choosing what is right for THEIR OWN bodies & a ‘group’ that makes students feel uncomfortable is something that is allowed on campus,” said one user, tweeting at Western on Feb. 13.

In charge of the USC’s club system, Mac McIntosh, USC student programs officer, said he’s heard over 50 complaints from students regarding Western Lifeline over the past year. On March 27, Kathryn Slack, a third-year honors specialization in criminology student created a petition: “Ban ‘pro-life, anti-abortion, etc.’ protests from inside buildings at Western University.” At the time of this publication, the petition has 428 signatures.

“My intention as of right now is not to de-ratify the club or to not allow them to protest peacefully or have their freedom of speech: it’s to consider the appropriateness of their location and the impact [the displays] have on the general Western population,” said Slack in an interview.

Western Lifeline is far from unique. Similar groups exist at most Canadian universities, and depending on the institution, student unions treat them very differently.

ANTI-ABORTION GROUPS AT OTHER CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES

Flag displays, such as Lifeline’s, can be found on university campuses across the country, including at the University of Victoria and at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Several universities have denied anti-abortion groups any official status. In November 2017, the University of Victoria Students’ Society spoke out against their university’s anti-abortion group.

“We at the UVSS stand together with the majority of students in saying that we fundamentally disagree with [Youth Protecting Youth] on this issue. We wholeheartedly support the reproductive freedom of women in making their own decisions surrounding abortions,” the society said in a public statement.

A student union in Ottawa took a similar approach. In October 2017, the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa refused to ratify a pro-life group, citing that its mandate was not in compliance with the student union’s principles.

The question of whether anti-abortion groups should be allowed on campuses has made its way to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. In 2015, when Ryerson University’s student union denied a pro-life group club status, the group claimed they were discriminated against for their ideological beliefs and that their right to freedom of expression as outlined in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was violated. Ryerson Students’ Union said the club violated their policy on women’s issues.

About a year later, a judge dismissed the case, ruling that as a private non-profit organization, RSU could deny a club funding based on whether the clubs’ mandates and ideologies complied with RSU’s policies, Ryerson’s policies and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Similarily in February, another judge ruled in favour of the Student Association at Durham College and UOIT, as well as the University of Toronto Mississauga Students’ Union in their decisions to deny official campus club status to a pro-life group.

In these cases, the student unions’ mandates, rules and regulation played an important role.

According to McIntosh, there is nothing in the USC’s clubs policy that explicitly bans Western Lifeline. Under the policy, a club may be ineligible for ratification only if its sole purpose is to fundraise or support a specific charity, if it’s an extreme sports club (due to the USC’s insurance) or if it violates Western’s student code of conduct.

John Doerksen, vice-provost of academic programs, said the administration works with the USC, when sometimes a student club sponsors a controversial speaker, demonstration or display coming to campus. In these cases, he said the university consults leaders across campus, including the USC, Campus Police and Facilities Management. He said Western is committed to providing a welcoming environment where students feel safe to

discuss and debate difficult issues in a way that is re “We are aware that some topics can have a signifi effect on some students, and we have supports in students who have concerns,” he said in an email McIntosh said the USC’s bylaws wouldn’t explic controversial clubs, like men’s student unions or w clubs, both of which have been topics on Western’s the past two years. In those cases, though, McInt likely defer to the university’s administration and guidance.

McIntosh noted that Western Lifeline adheres bylaws very diligently, and McCann said that the U of their displays ahead of time.

“Any student is welcome to report the club thro versity, through the student code if they feel they’re thing wrong,” McIntosh said. “But at the end of the follows the rules of the club system.”

However, there have still been missteps. In Janu approved a Lifeline booth in the UCC basement nex macy and Wellness Education Centre and near St Services. Many students criticized the booth’s lo it as potentially damaging to students trying to a services and mental health and wellness resource As a result, USC president Tobi Solebo said We booths will only be upstairs for the remainder of the he said the USC will extend the Peer Support Cen needed and alert campus partners to Lifeline ev can better support students. In February, the US Issues Network began posting on Facebook and Lifeline booths are in the UCC.

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Still, some students want to see more from the university.

Robyn Schwarz, history PhD candidate and c Pro-Choice London, started using Twitter in Janu Western students about Lifeline’s on-campus even Schwarz said the USC does not notify her or the Wo Network when Lifeline will hold displays, and sh to warn community members after the displays started.

“I shouldn’t be finding out at 10:30 a.m. that d had that space booked before,” Schwarz said.

The USC’s main social media accounts have any alerts about Lifeline’s presence this year nor University. McIntosh said the USC typically co Lifeline will be in the UCC 10 to 12 days in advanc At other universities, such as the Universi Columbia, the university administration consiste

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Slack agrees.

“If it has to continue like this, the USC should do a better job at putting out trigger warnings and letting students know the resources they can access if they’re affected by it,” Slack said. “I know Western talks a lot about wanting to protect students and mental health, and I think, if they want to take that route and preach that, they should be more diligent in helping students.”

Both Schwarz and Slack also wants the USC to bar Lifeline from hosting displays in the University Community Centre, citing its centrality as a difficulty people will have avoiding the displays.

“Their regular display in the UCC is upsetting to people who had to make that choice, and society still has so much stigma and shame around [aborting],” Schwarz said. “They make you feel like you did something wrong and that you’re a bad person, and that’s not true.”

McCann said she encourages Western students to try not to silence discussion. Instead, she encourages them to take a look at the science of human development and what happens during an abortion.

Schwarz thinks the USC’s bylaws should be revised and cites Ryerson Students’ Union as an example to follow. The RSU bans groups that don’t adhere to its specific policies on women’s issues and student rights.

Ultimately, McIntosh and Solebo do not think it’s the role of the USC’s executives to intervene in political issues and to influence how students should think.

“Even with things like Jordan Peterson, we tend not to get involved in political issues, and I don’t think that it’s our role to decide,” McIntosh said. “But with that being said, it is our role to make sure students are feeling supported and being heard.”

McCann believes a university campus is a place where students should be able to have discussions about difficult topics.

“If people are upset about the USC’s ratification of Lifeline, I would encourage them to remember that doesn’t mean that the USC necessarily agrees with us at all.”

Solebo said students should understand there are two sides to the issue and that some students fully believe Western Lifeline should exist. At this point, Solebo said no decisions have been made to remove Western Lifeline from the UCC, but he’ll be reaching out to Slack to discuss the change.org petition.

“It’s important that we continue to be an institution that allows educational conversations and discourse, but we also need to be really mindful of people and their experiences and how we can ensure we’re supporting them,” Solebo said.

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Thames Hall renos forces relocations

LIAM MCINNIS GAZETTE Thames Hall is scheduled for renovations set to begin in September.

MIKE DEBOER SPORTS EDITOR @MIKEDBOER Six varsity Mustangs athletics programs are being forced to find new homes for the 2018–19 season due to the Thames Hall renovations scheduled for January 2019.

The renovations will result in the creation of a new integrated Western Health and Wellness Centre.

The wellness centre will serve as “a single point of entry for health and wellness services on our campus,” according to the university. The renovated Thames Hall building will also house the School of Kinesiology and general-use student study spaces.

Construction is anticipated to begin in the spring of 2018, but current programming in Thames Hall will continue until Dec. 31, 2018.

Right now, Thames Hall houses sports and recreation facilities, including a gym, change rooms, coaches’ offices and team rooms.

The project will force the fencing, badminton, and men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams, to move from Thames Hall to other facilities across campus. Some of these teams will have their practice locations changed to the Western Student Recreation Centre and Alumni Hall. Other teams, including

the badminton and fencing programs, will have their practice locations changed to the Althouse Faculty of Education Building. The volleyball and basketball programs will move their operations into Alumni Hall.

To accommodate the athletic programs’ moves, the university will also renovate Alumni Hall and the WSRC. According to an internal memo sent by Chuck Mathies, Manager of Intercollegiate Athletics, a sixth gym will be built in the WSRC to provide space for the programming that took place in Thames Hall.

Further, the WSRC’s current gym floors will be refinished to enhance its playing surfaces.

Alumni Hall will also undergo construction, which is set to be completed by December 2018. While planning is still underway, Alumni Hall is set to house coaches’ offices, team and general change room areas, visiting team room access, therapy rooms, rowing ergometer rooms and equipment storage.

Additionally, plans are set for the construction of new coaches’ offices in the WSRC’s Thompson Arena.

Construction on the WSRC is expected to commence in April and will be completed by the end of October. The memo said construction will be limited to the five gyms. The Blue Gym will remain

open, and the WSRC will increase the number of free fitness classes during the construction period “to provide an increased variety of fitness options for students.” Outside of the five gyms, no other programming in the WSRC will be affected.

“I feel like it would’ve been really nice if we were a part of [the decision-making],” said Nathan Roberts, a member of the fencing team. “Thames Hall is a beautiful facility for fencing because it gives us a lot of room to move around. It will be a bit of a learning curve for us to move to Althouse, considering the smaller size.”

For Roberts, the lack of communication continues to be a problem that plagues many of the school’s less-glamorous varsity programs.

“The fencing team seems to not be included in a lot of stuff, at least from my perspective. We’re not included as much as the other varsity sports,” added Roberts. “We’re kind of forgotten and are left out of the major conversations.”

Mathies’ memo also addressed concerns that the construction comes at an inopportune time with exam period approaching.

“While beginning this project just prior to the exam period and moving mid-season is far from ideal, beginning the project in April

will minimize the overall impact to the campus community,” wrote Mathies.

While construction is ongoing at the WSRC and Alumni Hall, the teams that currently use the Thames Hall facility will continue doing so.

The university’s plans include a tentative completion date for construction at the WSRC set at the end of October. The transition of teams from Thames Hall to Alumni Hall will occur later in the fall semester and will conclude by the end of the 2018 calendar year.

According to Ruban Chelladurai, Western’s vice-president of planning and budgeting, the administration’s initial plan was to partner with the Society of Graduate Students and University Students’ Council to fund the project. However, those plans fell through.

“Initially we were very excited about the positive reaction we got from the USC and SOGS, but the way it played out, they didn’t support us in terms of a referendum to help finance part of the wellness centre,” said Chelladurai. “We were disappointed.”

The move is uprooting a number of varsity teams from their decades-long homes. However, while the change isn’t ideal, student athletes like Roberts will just have to adjust.

Rowers vying for positions on Team Canada CHARLIE MARSHALL @UWOGAZETTE Maintaining an academic life while competing as a student athlete is difficult. Training for a national team while keeping up with school work, however, requires an extra level of commitment.

Such is the case for Larissa Werbicki and Curtis Ames. Both

are members of Western University’s rowing team who share the ultimate goal of competing for a Canadian national rowing team this summer.

Ames, a second-year engineering student, has set a goal of making the Canadian U-23 men’s eight — an event that’s widely considered the pinnacle of men’s rowing.

Werbicki, a fourth-year kinesiology student at Brescia University

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At the 2017 World Rowing U-23 Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Werbicki finished sixth in the women’s lightweight double event.

Upon graduation, Werbicki is committed to moving to Victoria, B.C., to train with the senior national team.

For now, both Werbicki and Ames compete with the Western Mustangs rowing program. And with 18 to 24 hours of training per week during the winter season, the pair have busy schedules to manage.

Western’s men’s rowing head coach, Daniel Bechard, explained that both athletes have the personalities to persevere through the arduous training schedule.

“Both Ames and Werbicki are special individuals because they have a clear understanding of how hard you need to work,” Bechard said. “They are held to a high standard and ask what more they can do.”

For Ames, a key aspect of his training regiment is setting goals “at the beginning of each year, at the beginning of each training period.”

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“Individuals with expectations of wearing a maple leaf must commit more to their everyday schedules than the typical [student],” explained Bechard. “Objectively, the effects would be like taking the typical class schedule and doubling it, or more.”

“It definitely impacts [me],” explained Werbicki. “Just because it’s so much running around, and I feel like I don’t have much downtime or time to put towards academics.”

The lack of downtime is understandable, given that she regularly exercises two or three times a day.

But for Werbicki, having both her schoolwork and rowing is something that helps her through her most difficult moments.

“I think what has helped me so much is just having that balance and completing my degree while training,” Werbicki said. “If training doesn’t go well, at least you have school later on to look forward to.”

Ames explained that, with the long training hours required to make a national team, sometimes even the most successful athletes need to take a break.

“When you’re feeling in the

dumps, just take a moment, call your family or do something and just try to reset,” Ames said. “You don’t want to say, ‘Don’t worry about it. You’re fine. You’re just having a weak moment.’ That’s what makes it hard.”

The ultimate goal of competing for Canada would make it all worthwhile for the pair. Werbicki is almost at a loss for words when describing what it feels like to represent Canada.

“It’s amazing,” Werbicki said.

“Representing Canada is such a different feeling than competing for a school. Sitting up at the start line, it’s such a great feeling knowing that you have everyone’s support in Canada.”

Ames’ hunger for this amazing feeling is what motivated him to strive for such an ambitious goal.

“I think right off the bat, when I joined rowing, the reason I fell in love with it was because it was the sport I could see myself going the furthest in.”

While not currently in the spotlight at Western, both of these athletes have chosen paths that will hopefully one day lead them to greatness on the international stage.

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From Guitar Hero to centre stage VIVIAN CHENG CULTURE EDITOR @VIVIANCHENG20 Singer-songwriter John Muirhead developed the first inklings of his musical career when he was 12 years old by rocking out on Guitar Hero’s imaginary guitar strings.

Muirhead is a fourth-year student majoring in both management and organizational studies and popular music studies — a dual degree that intertwines his passion for music and his desire to understand the music business industry.

Now, he’s about to release his second EP, Passenger’s Side. The EP’s sound combines an indie folk sound with Muirhead’s other modern indie rock influences, like Frank Turner. He recently performed some of his originals on CBC Radio London.

He explains that the lyrics on the album offer an introspective look at his life and thoughts. “[I wrote about] lots of stuff that students may relate to. There’s one song called ‘Ambition,’ a song that talks about the struggles about having the ambition to succeed in something and the struggles of balancing other commitments,” says Muirhead.

“Ambition” hits especially close to home for Muirhead.

Muirhead admits that he struggles finding time to write music.

“There’s so many commitments — between social life, family obligations and being a student,” says Muirhead.

He tends to write songs in small segments. In a week, he might write a line or two or an entire song, often jotting down random lines on his phone or laptop when inspiration strikes.

Muirhead also muses about “Doubts”, a song about overcoming self-doubt. Muirhead realized that doubt and writer’s block were a

natural part of the writing process and decided to write a song about the impact this experience had on him.

Muirhead first began writing original music for his contemporary rock band, Casual Disaster, when he was in high school. Although this was out of necessity, he developed a love affair for lyric writing during this process.

As a solo artist performing at coffee shops and open mic nights around Western University, he has a softer, acoustic sound than his old rock band. Last year, he placed third in the Chinese Students’ Association’s Western Voice.

Outside of Western, he’s performed at several folk music festivals, such as Live From the Rock Folk Festival, Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival, and Sesquifest.

He describes all of these festivals as open environments that encourage collaboration.

As a budding musician in the music community both at Western and across Ontario, he encourages aspiring artists to push themselves beyond their comfort zone, even when they don’t feel ready.

“Maybe don’t wait until you’re absolutely ready because you learn so much by being out and having that feedback,” says Muirhead. “When I started pursuing a career as a solo artist, I wasn’t ready, and sometimes, I would cringe at previous performances,” admits Muirhead.

As a professional musician, he hopes to thrive in the Ontario folk community and, eventually nationwide.

“I really just plan to jump in and do as much music as I can,” says Muirhead.

Passenger’s Side comes out April 6, 2018 on iTunes and Spotify.

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Writer-in-residence talks creative careers NICK SOKIC CULTURE EDITOR @NICKATGAZETTE Daniel MacIvor is not precious about creative work. This year’s writer-in-residence says one must put in the work instead of just dreaming.

The playwright, screenwriter, actor and producer’s position gives anyone curious about his work the opportunity to come in and have a chat with him. One day of the week, he’s sequestered in a cubicle in the Arts and Humanities Building. On another, he takes hold at the London Public Library.

MacIvor first came to the position

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after delivering a talk to professor Kathryn Mockler’s poetry class last year. He was wooed over dinner with Mockler and English professor Steven Bruhm, during which he fell in love with the “Chaucerian” qualities of the Forest City. Namely, their full-on imitation of London, England with the Covent Garden Market and Thames River. Now at the end of his eight-month term, MacIvor says the position has granted him a new understanding of the writer’s approach.

“The work that you get is a very small part of the conversation that you’re going to have,” says MacIvor.

“It’s not about, ‘How do I set this scene?’ or ‘How do I get this out there?’ It’s about me hearing them and responding.”

According to him, most people he saw weren’t looking for improvement. The conversation received on the subjects they were writing about, which often involved personal traumas.

“I can’t even articulate it fully yet. I think I’m going to need some time away before I can. Somehow, it makes me realize what writing is. I’ve become so used to writing being my job, but it’s so much more than that for people,” says MacIvor.

That being said, MacIvor revealed he didn’t have many students come by for creative work. Instead, they preferred to discuss their options in creative careers. He attributes these cases to the many different directions students are pulled in during their time in university. MacIvor often finds that they discuss expectations and futures in the arts with a dose of realism.

“I think it’s important to express that I’m not depressed in a garret writing with a feather,” says MacIvor.

While his student conversations are more practical than idealistic, he remains impressed with their dedication. He says that one of the changes he has noticed since his time in school was that there has been a shift to “DIY” focus for anyone aspiring to the creative fields. Now, he recommends finding like-minded individuals to generate art together.

“People will see that. They’ll see the work and not just your ambition,” says MacIvor.

He has also seen this practicality

in the academia he has surrounded himself with this year. Other than Vivian Foglton, his secretary, he has not met with a lot of other faculty here. He sees a lot at stake for them to keep their position or to get a new position, something that clashes with the collaboration he encourages in students and community artists.

“Not a lot of potlucks. It’s not chummy,” says MacIvor. “I can’t tell you how different it is to be here than at the library.”

He describes the library as a “real cross-section of humanity,” filled with people who have nowhere else to go, as well as those who are fulltilt into the artistic community. It’s where the bulk of his artistic conversations in London took place and where he feels most grateful to have been of service.

To the students who feel that they are too busy being students to focus on their artistic endeavours, he recommends treating those endeavours like any other important part of your life: “I think that you have to understand that the whole person is important and you have to value and tend to the brain, the mind, and you have to tend to the spirit. That is the creation time.”

Despite his reservations, he stresses the importance of the writer-in-residence for facilitating these artistic conversations. Previous residencies, stretching all the way back to 1972, have included Gary Barwin, Emma Donoghue and Alice Munro. But his is the first year that the position may be in jeopardy.

MacIvor says the funding models had changed. Previously, the Canada Council for the Arts would match the university’s funding, but MacIvor had to apply in competition with other writers to get his.

“It may not be able to exist the way it has for the past 45 years. It’s valuable for the artist, valuable for the people who participate,” says MacIvor.

As for the man himself, he’ll be continuing on his collaborative libretto with Rufus Wainwright called Hadrian, a script for Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald entitled Winter, as well as his in-development musical with the Barenaked Ladies’ lead singer, Steven Page.

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Rising country star talks career after Western NICK SOKIC CULTURE EDITOR @NICKATGAZETTE When Genevieve Fisher was two years old, she sang “You Are My Sunshine” at the Ilderton Fair. The performance set off a spark in her that has never gone out. Now, she sings her own creation “Take It On Home,” a song that has broken into the Canadian country Top 20.

Fisher graduated Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music in 2014 with a degree in popular music studies. With her latest single, she is experiencing her biggest success yet. She had four singles in the Canadian Top 50 between 2012 and 2014, but “Take It On Home” has taken her to previously unrecorded heights.

After its release in late 2017, the song built enough recognition for her to be nominated for the Canadian Radio Music Awards’ Best New Solo Artist in the country genre.

“It’s crazy as an independent female artist in the industry to be nominated,” says Fisher. “It’s been really hard for female artists in the

Canadian country music scene, actually, in the whole country music genre.”

Fisher has seen plenty of highs and lows in her climb up the charts.

While performing in London she was discovered by Remo DiCesare, who asked to manage her and who remains her manager to this day.

Like any working musician, Fisher struggled to balance her art with her university life. She often had to get special accommodation from professors so she could travel to her recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In essence, any time not dedicated to academics was used writing and recording her music.

“There are times when I was in the midst of all that where I wasn’t bitter or anything,” says Fisher. “But I had moments where I wished I was just doing a regular university career where you get to experience the university culture and be a part of different clubs and all that kind of stuff.”

These doubts didn’t subside after graduation. She singles out her first year after Western as a low point in her career. She began

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VICKY QIAO @UWOGAZETTE “The hunter rolled onto his back, his arm blazing in fiery pain, and his bolt-pierced shoulder suddenly aching like never before, all made worse by the shock of the impact.... He shot up from the ground and, with all his might, thrust his blade into the beast’s jaws, retracting it just as quickly.”

Andrzej Gieralt, a third-year computer science and catholic studies student at King’s University College, imagines a world of dragons and hunters in his novella The Dragon Slayers. Published through Amazon earlier this year, the book takes place in the fictional land of Navgarin, where bounty hunter Telan Valdynir risks his life to slay a dragon.

Gieralt’s passion for writing started in Grade 7, when he started writing stories outside of school.

Since then, he has been engaged in creating fantasy worlds and building characters. The idea of The Dragon Slayers has lingered in his mind for years, and Gieralt finally started

putting his fantasies down on paper last May. “Writing this book has been the single most fulfilling thing I’ve done.

I’ve realized that I have much more passion for this than computer science,” says Gieralt. He emphasizes that the imagination and world-building capacity essential for creative writing are completely different from the skills required for computer programming.

However, Gieralt believes that science and creativity are not mutually exclusive — students majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs shouldn’t be afraid to pursue artistic passions. Though Gieralt admits that he had to sacrifice writing for academics, especially during exam season, he says that writing stories is doable if one effectively balances school work and personal passion.

For student writers who are put off by the complicated publishing process, Gieralt recommends direct publishing services like Kindle Direct Publishing. These free services omit the hassle of looking for and dealing with an agency.

“All you need is a [Microsoft word] document and a cover for your book,” says Gieralt. Direct publishing offers writers more freedom, as well as responsibility, since the writers are responsible for editing their work.

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to work part-time with Western’s Indigenous Services as an administrative coordinator to support herself while she continued her artistic pursuit.

“To have community support at Western and to be able to also pursue my music and give back to Indigenous Services was really great,” says Fisher.

She began to work there fulltime last November and says the balance between work and art is the best of both worlds. Her busiest performing time is in the summer, which is when there’s the least to do at Western’s Indigenous Services.

Fisher recorded “Take It On Home”

with her producer Jason Massey back in 2016. The song is rooted in her country-style vocals but has a pop sheen. Add easy-going lyrics about a bar hookup, and it’s no wonder it was so easily accessible to audiences.

Originally, Fisher wanted the song to be sappier and to be about a girl taking a guy home to meet her family for the first time. After Massey played around with melodies, they decided to switch directions and take a sassier approach. The reception has obviously pleased Fisher, and she’s really proud of “the whole production side” of the song.

For anyone mired in the struggle of making music amidst other

pulls of life, Fisher advises to stay grounded.

“It’s hard in this industry, and if you start changing who you are, then who do you go back to? Be the artist you want to be; stick to your guns.”

Fisher won’t be resting on her newfound laurels either, as she has plenty planned for the summer, including opening for Thomas Rhett at Trackside Festival and playing at Boots and Hearts Music Festival, at Havelock Country Jamboree, and at Chaps and Spurs Country Fest.

She’s kicking off her summer performances with a show at Cowboys Ranch in London, Ont. on April 14.

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LIAM MCINNIS GAZETTE Members of Autism Awareness Western served cotton candy in the University Community Centre to help raise awareness for autism, April 2.

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1. Storage device 4. Disagree with 10. Political organization 11. Playoff appearances 12. Collection of cops 14. Balkan mountain peak 15. Island north of Guam 16. Seizure of someone’s property 18. Repeat 22. Beautiful youth 23. Bullfighters 24. Charges a fare 26. Not off 27. Where skaters ply their trade 28. Meson 30. Guru 31. Cycles/second 34. Alternating turns 36. Soviet Socialist Republic 37. Mound 39. Boxer Amir 40. Away from wind 41. Exist 42. Working man 48. British soldier 50. Scrounge 51. Upset 52. The act of escaping 53. Poet Pound 54. Confederate general 55. Midway between south and east 56. Becomes hot from the sun 58. Fictitious poet Mailey 59. Not yet purchased 60. Intersperse

1. Bathing suit 2. Poignantly different from what was expected 3. A person with the same name as another 4. West Siberian river 5. Of the membrane lining the abdominal cavity 6. Has a positive electric charge 7. Fish-eating mammal of the weasel family 8. Offerers 9. Spanish be 12. Chilean province Capitan __ 13. Father 17. Pestilence 19. Songs 20. Grilling tools 21. Long, winding ridge of sand and gravel 25. Court game 29. __kosh, near Lake Winnebago 31. Variety of beet 32. Caps 33. Rides in the snow 35. Took without permission 38. Tall stand to hold books 41. Spanish neighborhood 43. Spanish dance 44. Countries of Asia 45. Make fun of 46. Elk Grove High School 47. Network of nerves 49. Greek apertifs 56. Unit of volume 57. South Dakota

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OXFORD DRIVE @ WELDON FOR FULL ROUTE MAPS, VISIT

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A late night Shuttle Service is being provided by the USC offering students a safe way to get home.

From April 10 to 20, Robert Q Shuttle Busses will be departing from Oxford Drive in front of the Weldon/UCC Building.

Pickup at Weldon Library

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