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lainey lui “It comes up in small ways,” she explains. “I went to school in Toronto, and everybody else had sandwiches, and I was bringing what they called ‘weird Chinese shit.’ ... As you get older, it’s silly stuff, too. It’s like the most popular, pretty girls at school are typically not Chinese.

They look a certain way.”

Looking back, Lui has no regrets. The endless questions posed by her younger self formed the foundation of her character. She owes much of her resilience to her “warrior mother,” who always supported her and encouraged her to be herself.

Lui explains her earlier confusion translated into many stories to tell in adulthood, particularly through her work within the media industry.

“I have found that those experiences have helped me stay strong in an industry that doesn’t typically welcome people who look like me,” she says.

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Growing up, Lui doesn’t recall seeing many members of the Asian community on television. For this reason, she believes she has an obligation to be seen and heard.

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As a co-host of etalk and The Social, she feels grateful to be part of a diverse work environment. However, this diversity also results in significant pressures for Lui and her co-workers who come from a variety of backgrounds.

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She explains that members of visible minorities working in the media industry are often held to higher standards than the average white person. They get fewer chances to make mistakes because the comparisons are too easy, and stereotypes are quickly formed.

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Lui emphasizes that the pressure of this monolith, a set of stereotypes that paint members of a visible minority group with the same brush, weighs down on these individuals within the media industry every day.

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“Sometimes being prominent or having a profile and being Asian or black or South Asian … can be a monolith,” she explains.

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“If I screw up, I don’t just screw up for me. I screw up for perhaps a generation of other Asian media personalities who are coming up behind me. That is totally unfair,” she says.

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“What are you wearing? What’s with your hair?

Why do you talk like that?”

Like many international students, Western University alumna, prominent media personality and celebrity blogger Lainey Lui heard these questions over and over as she was growing up.

The daughter of immigrants, Lui spent half the year in Canada with her father and the other half in Hong Kong with her mother since she was six years old. As Lui moved back and forth between the two continents, she became torn between two distinct cultures, never quite meeting the expectations of either. As soon as she adapted to the language, fashion and norms of one culture, she was quickly thrust back into the other.

Naturally, Lui struggled to form an identity amid these circumstances.

“For a long time, especially through my childhood and early adolescence, that was confusing in a way that I couldn’t articulate,” says Lui. “It can be scary to figure out that you are half this and half that.”

“You can’t decide not to put that pressure on yourself, but also, the audience and people out there — our friends, our communities — they have to stop identifying one person as representative of a whole,” she says.

“Politically, we have seen the danger of only knowing one story and identifying another story as ‘other.’”

It has become a primary focus for Lui to address issues of inclusion and representation within her work.

She notes progress is being made with the success of films such as Black Panther and Crazy Rich Asians.

However, she points out the fact that she can still name them means they remain standouts within the industry.

Lui is often met with sighs of exasperation and rolling eyes when she speaks about these issues, but she believes people have no right to get bored with this conversation until there is no longer a need for it.

She emphasizes the importance of telling diverse stories to break down the monolith — stories that could only be made possible with a more open-minded, empathetic approach.

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Western building $20 million health centre AARON LEUNG NEWS CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE Western is moving forward on a one-stop location for mental health services one year after the USC said the university should foot the bill.

Thames Hall will be renovated to house the Health and Wellness Centre in early 2019. Of the estimated $35 million for the entire Thames Hall renovation, $20 million is for the wellness centre.

Currently, Western University’s mental health services are spread around campus, leading to calls for their consolidation. Student Health Services and Psychological Services are managed separately in two different physical locations; the wellness centre will be the new physical location for both.

In September 2017, Western went to the University Students’ Council to fund roughly half of the $20 million renovation cost, which would increase student fees for 10 years. That proposal was ultimately rejected, as councillors thought another increase in student fees was unreasonable; Western’s student fees were already one of the highest among Canadian universities.

Additionally, much of the USC argued that the wellness centre is an essential service, which they said should be funded by Western and not the USC; Science Students’ Council president Danny Chang (now USC vice-president) led the charge in refusing the university’s motion.

But in April of this year, seven months after the USC rejected

the plan’s initial funding model, Western’s Senate and the Board of Governors approved the renovations being funded entirely by Western.

Chang said he is glad to see the centre becoming a reality under its current conditions.

“It wasn’t about the actual centre.... It was about the proposal,” he said in an interview.

Student Health Services and Psychological Services, the centre’s main units, are now managed under Western’s Student Experience portfolio, which includes services such as Indigenous Services, Propel, Sport and Recreation Services, Student Success Centre and Western Chaplains.

Associate vice president of student experience Jennie Massey explained the wellness centre is crucial for students’ success at Western.

“Our vision is for more students to be thriving more often. To achieve this, we need to be more proactive and broaden our responsive care solutions, ensuring students who need additional help and support receive the appropriate type of care in a timely fashion,” she said.

She said one of the main goals of consolidation is to make Western’s various services more organized and accessible.

Chang agreed the relocation of the two services cuts confusion for students struggling with wellness, including mental health issues.

The idea for the physical renovation and administrative changes to Student Health Services and Psychological Services began back in 2015. Along the way, consultations

with more than 500 staff, senior leaders and students were made in addition to 1,500 received responses from a campus-wide email survey.

Some of the development process coincided with the release of Western’s comprehensive Mental Health and Wellness Strategic Plan in 2017, which made recommendations to the university for dealing

with wellness on campus.

Western is going to measure the centre’s effectiveness in three-year assessment cycles by measuring the university’s “Thriving Quotient”.

The quotient assesses factors about students like engaged learning, academic determination, positive perspective, social connectedness and diverse citizenship.

The renovations will start in early 2019 and are scheduled for completion by early 2021. All of Thames Hall will be renovated. Roughly one-third of Thames Hall’s square footage will be for the Health and Wellness Centre, while the rest will remain for Kinesiology and general use.

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Senate gains approval of free speech policy MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR @MTRALLEN

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Western’s Senate reasserted its jurisdiction over a free speech policy racing for approval for January, bringing the school’s balance of powers into question.

In September, Ontario universities were ordered by the provincial government to create a freedom of expression policy by their standards, starting a four-month process to draft and approve it before the deadline — Jan. 1 — with budget cuts hanging over slow or unwilling schools. Western University originally planned to have a Senate subcommittee write the policy the larger Senate body make amendments while giving the Board of Governors the last chance to change and approve it.

Now, if the Board also wishes to change the policy, a new committee between the bodies must be convened to iron out disagreements in the days before the deadline.

In their last meeting, senators debated whether they had fair sway in the procedure. The Board

is Western’s financial body, and they could touch the policy due to its potential budget penalties; the Senate, the university’s academic body, argued free expression was an issue of academic freedom and was also in their purview. In Friday’s meeting, only a handful of senators voted against giving Senate approval power over the policy alongside the board.

Amanda Grzyb, a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, brought the motion forward.

“This is something that affects our teaching, our research, our expression, students’ expression and the ability of students to organize events,” she said in an interview.

Michael Milde, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was the chief voice of opposition. He said Senate could bring any concerns forward after the policy was passed by the Board, so allotting approval power to the senate was unnecessary. But he, Grzyb and other senators did not disagree over the policy’s substance: like last meeting, members were only complementary of the work that the

subcommittee, of which Milde is the chair, had produced.

As Milde stood before Senate to take questions, no members directly agreed with him. President Chakma largely abstained from the debate, who, as a member of both the Board and the Senate, is now responsible for recommending the Board assent the policy as Senate has approved.

Senator Sam Trosow became particularly upset with Milde’s objections to the motion, calling them “bureaucratic and depressing.” He and Grzyb cited The University of Western Ontario Act, a sort of constitution for the university, which allows Senate to influence any matter that affects the academic reputation or effectiveness of the university.

As she raised the motion, Grzyb raised concerns that the Board will disagree with Senate’s choices on the policy. In particular, the government mandates the speech policies must also bind student governments; the Senate policy does not stipulate that.

She said the Board’s financial prerogatives may cause them to try and abide Ontario’s order to the letter, else Western may face budget cuts.

Western prof leads U.S. marriage gap study JUDY BASMAJI NEWS EDITOR @JUDYBASMAJI A recent study led by Western University economics professor Elizabeth Caucutt explored the reasons underlying the growing divide in marriage rates between white and black American women.

The study showed the gap between marriages for white and black women has been gradually increasing for several decades.

From 1970 to 2013, the racial marriage gap increased by nearly six times for women between 25 and 54 who were ever married.

While marriage rates for the general population have been decreasing, taking increasing rates of cohabitation into account partially mutes this decline. However, adding cohabitation to marriage does not significantly change the racial marriage gap.

Caucutt and colleagues highlighted several factors leading to these differences in marriage rates between white and black populations.

Between 1970 and 2013, rates of incarceration and unemployment for black men have increased at a significantly higher rate than those for white men. Incarceration rates increased to 1.5 per cent from 0.3 per cent for white men compared to

an increase to nine from 2.1 per cent for black men. Unemployment rates increased to 16 from 7.1 per cent for white men compared to 30.9 from 14.6 per cent for black men.

Further, there are 15 per cent more black women than black men in the U.S. population, mainly due to higher chances of premature death for black men. On the other hand, the numbers of white men and women are about even, explained Caucutt.

These explanations — incarceration, unemployment and premature death — of the racial marriage gap were originally outlined in the Wilson Hypothesis, found in William Julius Wilson’s 1987 book, The Truly Disadvantaged. Expanding on this hypothesis, Caucutt and colleagues used a computational model to test the effect of changing the differences between black and white individuals on marriage rates.

“The principle finding is that how likely men are to move between employment and unemployment is very important for the racial gap in marriage,” she said.

According to Caucutt, the analysis showed that equal chances of unemployment between black and white men closes the racial marriage gap by almost 40 per cent.

Further, if the number of black men and women in the U.S. were the

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same, the racial marriage gap would be reduced by 20 per cent. Finally, equal chances of incarceration of black and white men reduce the gap by another 10 per cent.

“Putting all of these explanations together, the racial marriage gap is reduced by just over 80 per cent,” explained Caucutt.

She added that the work does not take into account racial differences in preferences for marriage, which may be important. However, marriage rates prior to the 1970s were similar between white and black populations.

Caucutt highlighted the implications of marital status on the economic and personal stability of a household.

“Understanding marriage differences is important, because marital status can impact things like whether children go to preschool, ability to insure against labor market or health shocks, economies of scale in running a household, et cetera,” said Caucutt.

Caucutt explained the next step in this line of research is to take children and investments in children into consideration.

“This will allow us to have a better understanding about how the racial marriage gap can have intergenerational impacts,” she said.

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Suffering for school isn’t for bragging Alina and the Diamonds ALINA KLEINSASSER COPY EDITOR @UWOGAZETTE “I haven’t showered in four days,” a study partner once told me. At the time, I listened to statements like this with slack-jawed awe. If only, I thought, I could be that dedicated.

There’s an idea on university campuses that you aren’t really trying your hardest unless you neglect basic physical and mental needs.

Sure, it’s a practice that’s more prevalent in certain programs than in others, but even in more relaxed faculties, this mindset isn’t completely absent. The spectre of the suffering student hangs over every classroom; we are supposed to torment ourselves for good grades.

Taking care of myself in first year was easy. Living in residence catered to me more than living at home had. I could eat five-course meals whenever the cafeteria was open. If I was tired, I could go back to Delaware to snooze between classes.

I had sophs and an RA to give me concerned looks if I had bags under my eyes and to offer advice any time I needed it.

Second year was different; nobody held my hand. It was eight months of caffeine and granola bars.

When school got busy, I stopped sleeping through the night and substituted my good old eight hours with sporadic naps.

School is tough, and I’m not saying I never do this anymore, or even that avoiding times like this entirely is possible. What disturbs me, though, is that these habits are

rarely seen as a problem. They’re always something students seem to brag about. It isn’t polite to tell our friends how exciting it is that we got an A on that essay we slaved over, so we settle for second-best: our horror stories.

Maybe narratives like these are even exaggerated at first. Maybe your late-night study session is recounted as an all-nighter. But these inflated stories lead to a string of problems. Repeating them leads to believing them, making you feel guilty that you aren’t actually doing all you supposedly could. You’re also spreading these beliefs to your friends, who may take them at face value and feel pressured to conform.

Exaggerated complaints like these can also diminish sympathy toward genuine requests for help.

There are legitimate reasons why some people prioritize school over a healthy lifestyle, and for people sincerely struggling to find balance, it can be frustrating to have their real problems diluted among a sea of faux-catastrophic cries for the spotlight.

While habits like this can appear positive in the short-term because they save you a little time, in the long-term, they can do more harm than good. Ignoring your physiological needs can do a whole lot more than make you catch a cold.

For example, getting too little sleep can wreak havoc on your attention span (not to mention your ability to stay awake in class), among a host of other cognitive functions, working against the very reason you’re putting yourself through this: instead of helping your grades, it ends up hindering them.

So take care of yourself. And remember to shower: your grades — and your roommates — will thank you for it.

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On feelings Re: “McGill should change ‘Redmen’ nickname” (Nov. 9) This piece is a direct response to the recent editorial board article entitled “McGill should change ‘Redmen’ nickname,” with which I hope the reader is already familiar.

To be frank, this doesn’t strike me as a serious issue. While actual Indigenous peoples in Canada still struggle with inadequate housing and health care, high unemployment, high child mortality rates and extremely high suicide rates (five to seven times higher than the national average among First Nations youth), it seems silly to be concerned with a nickname. But nonetheless, the discussion has begun, and so it must be had, and the arguments made must be properly considered.

Let us first acknowledge the facts. The nickname “Redmen” was invented and popularized without a whiff of racial bias. Over the years, it has become associated with Indigenous peoples, so much so that depictions of Indigenous peoples have been put on jerseys.

Some students have been upset and called for a change.

The right to be offended is fundamental and not what I want to criticize here. The issue of importance is the main argument put forward in the article, that

the subjective feeling of the listener is more important than the actual intent of the speaker and is thus grounds for demanding the changing of language.

This idea is not just wrong, but potentially dangerous. One protester at McGill was photographed holding a sign that reads “Intent Doesn’t Erase Impact.” Let us imagine the personification of this line of thought, the morally outraged protester who says, “It does not matter what you actually meant by saying such and such, I don’t need to understand your intent, I only need to know that I feel bad about it, and thus you must change your language.” By acquiescing to such unreasonable arguments, and I mean literally arguments based on feeling rather than reason, we run the risk of letting our language, our necessary method of thinking and debate, be controlled by whatever wave of feeling is currently in fashion. Any point, no matter how serious, can be justifiably delegitimized by a response no more thoughtful and nuanced than, “I feel bad about it.”

Notice how the original article said that the actual intent of the nickname is “no consolation to past and present McGill students who feel persecuted by the university’s continued use of the term”; not students who are persecuted,

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University’s responsibility to improve sports attendance

BY GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD Western University’s sports and recreation department gave free food and drinks to Western students who showed up to last weekend’s Yates Cup game and Saturday’s Mitchell Bowl in an effort to combat low student turnout.

Poor student attendance is an issue that has plagued Western athletics for years. And if Western’s athletic department can’t catch the student body’s attention now, with its football program on the precipice of 24 straight wins and a second consecutive national championship, they may never.

Western has long touted student experience as one of its primary attributes. Yet with empty bleachers and student disinterest rampant, one of the main features of university life has been left by the wayside.

A part of each student’s fees to Western goes to athletics on campus. The school’s head football coach earns over $140,000 a year. Athletic operations at Western are big business, and the school has an obligation to bring attention to its teams and athletes to encourage student engagement.

Simply providing free food isn’t the whole answer. Athletes and teams need to be promoted.

Students need a reason to care enough to attend games, especially on cold Saturdays in the fall or on nights when they could be out partying at the bars or finishing up homework. The school needs to create a buzz around the teams through increased promotional material and marketing campaigns.

The names of high-performing athletes should be far more common on campus, and a social media strategy bent on promoting these athletes could make it happen.

In a digital age where students can consume sports content from around the world, Mustangs athletics needs to set its games apart from the rest.

By highlighting the success of its teams, along with piquing students’ interest with tailgating and entertaining in-stadium experiences, Mustangs athletics

might be able to combat the general apathy of Western’s student body.

Schools from across Canada are also facing this same issue, and a few have found ways to overcome it. Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary’s annual hockey game at the Scotiabank Saddledome and the Panda Game between the University of Ottawa and Carleton University have become must-watch events between inner-city rivals. Perhaps a hockey game at Budweiser Gardens between Western and Queen’s University, with the proper marketing centred around the history and vitriol of the rivalry, could become an event that Western students would actually attend. Schools like Brock University and Ryerson University have masterfully promoted their basketball teams, leading to large crowds and rabid fan support. In short, simply being a university athletic program in Canada isn’t a death sentence. There is a possibility for success.

The onus certainly isn’t entirely on the university.

Local and campus media should tell the stories of Western’s athletes and teams. Western students should try to support their classmates who are representing their school on the field of play. But at the end of the day, it’s the athletic department itself that has to make people want to care.

This isn’t all to say that Canadian university sports are broken. Unlike at the highest levels of American college sports, with its million dollar coaches and endless carousel of scandals and controversies, Canada has maintained a pure, amateur intercollegiate sports landscape, untarnished by money and power.

But it’s important that, like other aspects of student life, an effort is made to maintain a supportive and robust environment for Western’s varsity athletes to thrive in. The university has taken steps to address attendance issues, and hopefully they will continue to do so. You can’t force students to care about things — it’s up to the university to encourage them to.

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merely those who feel persecuted.

Apparently, feelings, not facts and arguments, are all that is necessary now to justify demanding the majority to change its language to comfort the minority.

This line of thinking does not make for real and productive discussion. Of course, times change, and nicknames go out of fashion.

Since I began work on this piece,

the students at McGill have voted overwhelmingly in favour of changing the Redmen name. What is disconcerting is that a majority of McGill’s students now believe that even the most trivial and inoffensive language, regardless of its original intent, should be altered at the whims of the subjective feelings of the minority.

My only hope is that students

at Western and elsewhere don’t fall for these unreasonable politics of feeling. If they do, we are on track to trade a vibrant and challenging intellectual atmosphere for one in which “argument” consists of nothing more than angry protestors shouting their feelings at each other.

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ASHVINDER SURI CULTURE CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE With rising tuition costs and ludicrous textbook prices, it’s not on the top of most students’ lists to invest in anything but their daily coffee.

If looking at your latest credit card bill has you thinking about investing some of your funds instead of watching them dwindle away every month, you might be interested in Western Crypto, a club focused on cryptocurrency investment and exploring its potential in areas in and out of the finanical sector. Chances are that you’ve probably heard about cryptocurrency before and how there’s money to be made in the industry. If you haven’t, this might be a good time to start.

Adam Khimji, a fifth-year political science student and president of the newly founded cryptocurrency club, says the club intends to educate beginners on the intricacies of cryptocurrency and to facilitate a discussion between students.

“We want everyone to have an understanding of what the technology is and what the potential for it is,” says Khimji.

Khimji says that student interest has been surprisingly diverse, with members coming from a variety of both undergraduate and graduate programs, suggesting that cryptocurrency holds widespread appeal.

The most well-known cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, gained immense popularity last year after a staggering price surge, which peaked at a value of roughly $25,000 CAD for one Bitcoin. While the global financial effects were limited, such a sudden rise in value prompted increasing curiosity in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Professor Manosij Majumdar, an instructor at the Ivey Business School, has experience with cryptocurrency investment and says it’s not as complex as it may seem.

“Currency is something that is commonly accepted as a way to store value and as a way to transmit value. The difference between your traditional currency and cryptocurrency is that cryptocurrencies typically don’t have a centralized issuer of currency,” says Majumdar.

Cryptocurrency has become popular among those who value total anonymity with their finances because no personal info is linked to users’ funds. Since cryptocurrency has no backing agency, it can’t associate funds and transactions together; instead, everything is assigned a public alphanumeric identification. There are more

practical benefits as well: most cryptocurrencies change very little in transaction fees and completing international transfers are as easy as domestic ones.

Typically, the government, as the sole issuer, controls the creation of currency. But cryptocurrency is created in a non-traditional way through a process called “mining,” which involves the completion of a complex mathematical computation by a network of computers.

Once the network completes the computation, the system awards the generated currency unit to the user who completed the computation.

This reward system incentivizes miners to contribute their computer processing power to the network.

Although some simply purchase and trade cryptocurrency, others are directly involved in its development. Without a central issuer — with the responsibility placed on the users — cryptocurrencies are termed “decentralized” currencies.

However, because cryptocurrencies are digital in nature, crypto “coins” are susceptible to the duplication of their file.

The solution is blockchain technology.

Despite an intimidating moniker, blockchain is a fairly simple concept. To prevent users from duplicating a cryptocurrency coin and spending it multiple times, a public ledger records all transactions between users in the network. Each new transaction adds a “block” to the chain of records. The record is accessible to everyone in the network, so anyone can verify the transactions. Essentially, blockchain technology verifies the authenticity of currencies without the need for a third-party company or government. Blockchain security is one of the most exciting areas of the cryptocurrency boom, and due to the ledger’s public accessibility and the nature of real-time transaction updates, its potential for ancillary applications is immense.

In most tech circles, blockchain is considered to be the real innovation behind the cryptocurrency boom.

Many tech firms are investigating in the use of blockchain technology to create “smart” contracts that can administer and fulfill themselves if a correct set of conditions are met from the involved parties. Blockchain can also be used to maintain a detailed list of company assets and to verify any changes for security purposes by consulting the network’s ledger. All transactions and any asset movement is immediately updated within the network;

the resulting streamlined approach can reduce asset management costs enormously.

“Instead of thinking of it as blockchain,” says Majumdar, “ask yourself a question: What if I had a way of absolutely guaranteeing authenticity and anonymity within a system? What sort of systems could I come up with?”

But if something like Bitcoin could potentially be worth so much, why aren’t more people clamouring to make a profit?

“The thing about cryptocurrency that is perhaps a little worrying is that other currencies are almost guaranteed a certain level of demand,” explains Majumdar.

“With cryptocurrency, it’s not clear why there should be a natural demand, especially as a store for value. Why currencies have value at all is that other people will accept it.”

Unfortunately, Majumdar says that “cryptocurrencies are not accepted in most places.”

Furthermore, Bitcoin’s fiscal instability makes it a risky investment. However, that doesn’t mean that cryptocurrency, and more importantly, blockchain technology, has nothing to offer. In fact, this may be the best time to get started on educating yourself. “[In the 1980s], you could’ve made money by speculating on Microsoft, but you could’ve also lost money by investing in Atari,” says Majumdar. “The best thing for you to do might have been to just invest in educating yourself about computers. Even if your employer didn’t work on it, you still have the skills, and you could do something with it, and I think crypto coins are in the same place.”

If you’re looking for a way to diversify your skill set, or you think the concept of digital currency is fascinating, there’s no better time to start learning about the technology behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The real value is behind the scenes.

“Whether it’s crypto coins as a concept or blockchain as a concept within business, that’s somewhere students can make real money,” says Majumdar. “I think the best thing a student could do right now is to try and understand the technologies behind Bitcoin and try and imagine up new ways of using these technologies.”

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Mustangs earn return to Vanier Cup CHARLIE MARSHALL SPORTS EDITOR @CWMARSHALL98 For the second straight season, the Western Mustangs have a perfect record and are on their way to the Vanier Cup against the Laval Rouge et Or. The Mustangs took down the Canada West conference champion Saskatchewan Huskies by a score of 47–24 on Saturday afternoon in the Mitchell Bowl at TD Stadium.

Saturday’s playoff contest wasn’t

quite the offensive blowout seen in the Yates Cup, but Mustangs’ stars were equally impressive.

Chris Merchant threw for 251 yards and two touchdowns and ran for an extra 82 yards and one rushing touchdown. Alex Taylor rushed the ball 12 times, picking up 141 yards and two scores. Harry McMaster hauled in 11 receptions for 152 yards and two majors. Fraser Sopik led the defence with 11 tackles and half a sack.

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Despite incredible performances all around, the MVP of the game was awarded to Merchant. However, the quarterback wasn’t satisfied with winning the award, feeling that others deserved the honour more.

“I don’t really deserve this award,” said Merchant. “It was all the other guys. They all deserve it, and if you could give it to the whole team you should.”

However, a key factor in the game was the fourth-year quarterback’s willingness to return to the field despite an ailing hip. While Merchant wasn’t impressed with his own performance, fifth-year running back Taylor certainly found Merchant’s showing strong.

“Listen, this guys is nails,” said Taylor. “He hangs in there and takes some shots that I don’t think a lot of quarterbacks could take in this league.

He’s one of the toughest guys on our team, and [he] really keeps us going.”

Alex Taylor put on a show of his own, ripping off a 57-yard rushing score with 10 minutes to play in the fourth quarter. The late touchdown eventually served as the game-winning score for the Mustangs.

As has been the case all season, the Mustangs defensive corps shone throughout the game, especially in the second half, allowing just seven points in 30 minutes of play.

Taylor explained that Saturday simply showcased what has been a strength of the Mustangs all season.

“All year, it’s been the same story; our defence is just lights out,” said Taylor.

In total, the defence allowed 380 yards of total offence to Saskatchewan. Two Huskies, Tyler Chow and Colton Klassen, provided problems for the Mustangs defensive squad all afternoon, though.

Chow finished with 21 rushes for 143 yards and one score. Klassen grabbed nine passes for 107 yards and two majors. The two players stood out against the Western defence, according to Sopik. “[Chow is] a really good back,” said Sopik. “He’s physical, he’s got really good feet. Best back we’ve played. Him and [Klassen] are two of the best players that we played.”

Marc Liegghio, one of the most under-the-radar stars that the Mustangs have relied on this year, also put on a show on Saturday. The kicker finished the game with one field goal and three punts within the opponents 20-yard line.

After the game, head coach Greg Marshall lauded the effort of his third-year kicker. “[He] boomed the ball,” said Marshall. “[He] kicked the ball long on kickoffs, made that clutch field goal. That field goal was huge for us at the end of the second quarter. To tie the ball game up and give us a little boost going into halftime was huge. And then his punting; he just out-punted the other punter. [He] consistently… put our defence in a really good position.”

In addition to winning the Mitchell Bowl, the Mustangs also tied the McMaster Marauders for the U Sports record with their 23rd consecutive win. The record means nothing without a win next weekend, though, according to Merchant.

“It’s just another week and another win,” said Merchant. “It really doesn’t matter what our overall record is if we don’t win the next game.”

Western will look to defend their title as defending national champions next Saturday in Quebec City at the 54th annual Vanier Cup against the Laval Rouge et Or.

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Greg Marshall one of the greatest ever MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @UWOGAZETTE Let’s be real here: The greatest coach in Canadian university football history is surely some guy whose name none of us know. He toiled with scant resources. He won something about which only next of kin and a few other dedicated stragglers cared. Actually maybe he went winless, but his players improved cohesively from absolute scratch.

But the most successful coach in Canadian university football today might just be Greg Marshall. He’s won nearly as much as anyone in the sport ever has — in less time. He’s rebuilt the nation’s greatest program, historically, into the nation’s greatest program, currently. He’s won 10 Yates Cups and a Vanier Cup, and by the end of November, he could add a second national title notch to his belt.

He’s one of the greatest program builders the sport has ever seen; when he arrived in Hamilton in 1997 to take over the McMaster Marauders, the program had won two games in two years. Within four seasons under Marshall, they were a six-win team, and within five, they were Yates Cup champions.

When he returned to his alma mater, it needed a turnaround. With eight years since its last Yates Cup title, Western’s administration hoped Marshall would reconstruct the Mustangs making them a championship contender again. The spring after his hiring, the Yates Cup was back in London.

Wherever he’s gone in the university game, Marshall has won — 158 wins, in fact; good for fourth most in the history of U Sports football. While he’s behind such titans of the sport as Brian Towriss, Glen Constantin and Larry Haylor, two of those coaches have at least three years on him, and Constantin coaches with unlimited resources and rabid support from both boosters and fans at Laval.

Marshall has done the nearly impossible;

he’s built a program once marred by underachievement into one that exudes an air of inevitability so strong that it rolls over teams like a tidal wave. Under Marshall, Western has every expectation of winning provincial and national championships every single season, no matter how many CFL draft picks left the year before.

For so long, the only blemish on Marshall’s storied career was that empty spot on his shelf where the Vanier Cup was meant to go. While programs like McMaster and Queen’s won national titles and then quickly faded from the national conversation, Western always contended but could never reach the pinnacle.

Years and years went by since Western’s last title — 23, to be exact, which was, for context, the same age as The Lion King and the original Sony PlayStation.

Finally, with the billowing smoke of Hamilton’s steel mills providing the perfect backdrop, Marshall ended that streak.

In the argument of “Greatest Coach of All Time,” the very kind of useless discussion that helps people get through life, big bouquets should go flying Marshall’s way these days. His team is on the precipice of a second straight national championship and their 24th straight win. His offence is rolling, and his defence is the best in the country by a long shot. His program is beyond rebuilding now; when this batch of Mustangs greats hang up their cleats, a new batch will take their places.

If Marshall, who is 59 years old now, coached for another decade, it’s safe to imagine he’d win 60 more games, at least. That would get him to over 200 victories. No coach in the game has ever reached that milestone.

With 200 wins, a dozen Yates Cups and two or three Vanier Cups under his belt, one would be hard-pressed not to rank Marshall as one of, if not the, greatest coaches in Canadian university football history.

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ISSMAM HALIM GAZETTE A room in Ontario Hall dorm room, Nov. 6, 2018.

SAMANTHA BLOOM CULTURE CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE Western became famous, or infamous, when Playboy wrote an article listing it as a top party school in 2011.

Students were drawn in from all over the world to the Saugeen “Zoo” where the party supposedly never ends. Western was the only Canadian school listed as a top party school, and Saugeen-Maitland Hall was depicted as “notorious for partying.”

Seven residences house thousands of students throughout their first year at Western University, but which is the best of the best? Is Saugeen really as crazy as it once was, or have other residences taken the top party spot since Playboy’s article?

single room, but I just don’t think I would get the same experience.

Meeting more people, sharing a room with some is actually sort of fun. People see it as a con, but I think it’s a pro,” he says.

According to Ferguson, O-Hall is top of the line in terms of food but won’t be taking the title of the top party rez anytime soon. Maybe that’s because people are getting lost on the journey there.

PERTH HALL Emma Reily, first-year health sciences student, lives in Perth Hall.

Perth was her fourth choice, but in retrospect, she says it should’ve been her first.

“I hear lots about the other residences, and they all sound great, but I’m really happy I’m at Perth,” Reily says.

However, she does have her res-

SAMANTHA BLOOM GAZETTE A lone student studies in Elgin Hall’s cafeteria, Nov. 6, 2018.

ONTARIO HALL Getting to Ontario Hall is a hike.

This oasis of delectable cafeteria food, due to its recent renovation, and floor-to-ceiling windowed common rooms, lies what feels like miles past Brescia. If any residence could be compared to a hotel, it’s Ontario Hall.

First-year computer science student Finn Ferguson lives in Ontario Hall; however, it was his third-choice residence.

Ferguson didn’t know what to expect from O-Hall, especially because the bedrooms connected by a common bathroom ensure that each student’s life is entwined with another’s.

“I honestly didn’t really expect much, other than living with someone else, so your lifestyle is kind of shared with someone else. I’m more of a private person, so I was expecting it to be a big change,” Ferguson says.

What Ferguson didn’t realize, however, is that that change would be for the better.

“Originally, I wanted to live in a

ervations, especially considering the food and the quiet nature of the residence. She describes the food as less than ideal and says that a major con of Perth is that the building is quiet. Reily explains a lack of community in the residence that makes the building so quiet.

“A lot of the kids, we don’t see them very often,” she says, regarding her floor.

Yet for Reily, anything is better than Saugeen.

“I really only knew the reputation of Saugeen,” she says. “So I knew I didn’t want to be there.”

Despite having a quiet floor, Reily has made some amazing friends, and she wouldn’t trade them for anything, even the food at Ontario Hall.

ESSEX HALL Essex Hall is known for its privacy according to Scott Adams, partially because it’s an apartment-style residence and partly because its reputation allegedly attracts more private people.

A first-year management and organizational studies student and

Essex resident, Adams explains that he’s at Western for one reason and one reason only: “Partying. You can get the program anywhere.”

The reason he chose Essex was because a friend from home wanted the residence. Luckily, Adams knew what he was getting into when he took the proverbial leap.

“I knew it was gonna be quieter than the others, like Med-Syd, but I kind of wanted that. I can just go party in Med-Syd,” he says.

Despite spending (a lot of) time at Medway-Sydenham Hall, Essex still feels like home to Adams. He has privacy and a close friend, both of which give him comfort.

SAUGEEN-MAITLAND HALL Walking down the narrow, low-ceilinged halls of Saugeen-Maitland, lights flickering, it feels as if you’re among the ghosts of parties past.

The things that have happened in Saugeen, however mysterious, are legendary.

Saugeen resident Iman Naveed, first-year psychology student, gives her impression of Saugeen. In coming to Western, she wanted school spirit and community. Although Naveed thought she would find this living at Ontario Hall, she ended up with her third-last choice: Saugeen.

“Even my guidance counsellor was like, ‘Stay away from Saugeen.’

I said, ‘Yeah, don’t worry. It was like my last choice,’ ” says Naveed. “I still ended up with it.”

However, she says it hasn’t been all bad.

“Honestly, I can truly say being in Saugeen, I could not see myself in another rez: I love it here.”

Saugeen is known for non-stop partying, but according to Naveed, the legendary parties are merely legends. Saugeen is just like any other residence. Although Naveed does love the residence, she still doesn’t feel 100 per cent at home in Saugeen.

“I wouldn’t say that it feels like home,” she says. “But I would say when I go home, I do miss it.”

DELAWARE HALL Lindsay Morrison, first-year media, information and technoculture student, says Delaware Hall’s friendly atmosphere has lived up to her expectations.

Morrison came to Western looking for the “university experience.”

Part of that experience, she says, is apparently getting very little sleep.

“Last night, I went to bed at four, and I haven’t been to bed earlier than two, which is so weird,” Morrison says. “Usually, I stay up with a whole bunch of friends. I

just stay up talking. It’s kind of like being at a sleepover — but all year — which is kind of fun.”

Delaware provides a comforting environment, but that’s not to say Delaware isn’t missing out on a few key aspects — namely, the food.

“Cons: the food. Our caf just sucks,” Morrison admits. She explains that this is largely because of the small size of the cafeteria.

Morrison also takes issue with the lack of rez parties and study spaces. But overall, Delaware is still a great place for Morrison.

“I love it. I wasn’t expecting to love it this much,” she says.

MEDWAY-SYDENHAM HALL Medway-Sydenham Hall is known as the up-and-coming party residence. Medway resident Benjamin Lewis, first-year science student says Med-Syd was his first-choice residence, despite knowing its reputation.

“I knew that it was sort of becoming the new Saugeen, just because it was becoming more of a party rez, and I didn’t really mind that so long as I was surrounded by good people,” he explains.

Lewis seems to have found the people he was looking for, as he describes Med-Syd as an intimate community.

However, Med-Syd doesn’t necessarily foster a scholarly environment. Finding refuge can be difficult, as residence parties can take place at least twice a week.

“I usually get up pretty early to do sports, so that ends up cutting into my sleep a bit, so I try to go to bed earlier. But because people are often partying, it makes it difficult,” he says.

Even still, this doesn’t get to Lewis too much, as he describes Med-Syd as a great place to live.

ELGIN HALL No one seems to know much about Elgin Hall, as first-year psychology student and Elgin resident Alessia Zappia didn’t even know much about Elgin before moving-in. This suite-style residence appears to be louder and less private than Essex but still more subdued than the traditional residences like Saugeen.

“I didn’t really know much about the reputation because I was counting on getting into Essex, but I’d say that it’s pretty quiet,” she explains.

“There’s not much that really goes on, at least not in the East side; the West side is where all the parties happen.”

Zappia finds that all the people on her floor are exceptionally nice and friendly, which has helped to make Elgin feel like home. However, there’s not usually much to do around rez.

“Weeknights [are] usually in the study room and then weekends [are] usually going to the West to look for something [to do]. There’s one room that always has stuff but that’s pretty much it.”

Luckily, Med-Syd is right across the street!

The consensus is that, although each residence has its own reputation, residence life is what you make of it. You can find your people anywhere, whether you’re in a quiet or rowdy residence.

Still, traditional-style residences do make it a bit easier to socialize and party simply because everyone is so packed together, whereas hybrid and suite-style residences offer a little more privacy and the opportunity to get some quiet time.

Every Western residence has something to offer, especially if you make an effort to get to know your floor and the people around you.

ISSMAM HALIM GAZETTE Organized and decorated with some greenery, this Essex Hall room is ready for a study session,.

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In 1944, when Germany invaded Hungary, the already-oppressed Jews faced further persecution.

Within a few weeks, the Jewish populace was forced to wear yellow badges, patches representing the Star of David, to denote their religion. By the end of the war, over 550,000 Hungarian Jews had been killed.

Nash’s family did not survive unscathed.

Her father, Szilard, did not see the end of the war. “In life, you make decisions, every minute of every day,” says Nash, “and you never

know whether that decision is going to be the best for you or the very worst for you.” Her father refused to return to his unit in a labour camp in Hungary when he heard that the war had been declared over; as a result, he was reported to authorities and taken from his family. His family still does not know where he was taken.

Nash never saw her father again.

He was the only one from his unit to have not been seen at the end of the war. She knows that he died in April of 1945, but she doesn’t know where.

There were many times that Nash, too, would have faced a similar fate, but as she puts it, many miracles saved her.

Nash expresses that all who survived the Holocaust did so through similarly miraculous moments.

Firstly, Nash, her mother and the 38 other people they shared a bedroom with were ordered down to the courtyard of their “protection house” for a count. Her mother lied and said that Nash was ill and that she and Nash would prefer to be counted in their room. The officer agreed and left them in their room.

The 38 other people were added to a group of hundreds of others who were shot by the Danube River, a number nearing 20,000 by the end of the war.

The second miracle occurred when Nash and her mother were in hiding. Her mother had taken on an alias, but at one point, someone recognized her and the ensuing discussion threatened to reveal her

true identity. Nash’s mother denied the continued probes, and the man eventually gave up, sparing the family from immediate danger.

The third and final miracle concerned Nash’s ill grandmother. Her family took her to the hospital, but the doctor did not have the medicine to cure her. As chance would have it, Nash’s mother had happened upon the exact medicine in a recently abandoned drugstore, and her grandmother made a fully recovery.

After the war, Nash stayed in Budapest with her mother for another 11 years before she left for Canada in 1956. She elaborated on how she began to see the world differently upon her arrival, reconciling with her abandoned Jewish heritage and even marrying a Jewish man. She now describes herself as a non-practicing Jew “who feels very Jewish.”

To end the night, Western Hillel conducted a candle-lighting ceremony to honour those who passed away during the Holocaust. Ten candles were lit by various members of the Western community and Nash.

The night ended on a poignant note, with Nash telling those in the audience that by hearing her story, they were now witnesses to what happened and could make an impact on the future.

“By being able to talk about it, by talking to you guys, you will be helpful to make sure that nothing like this ever, ever happens again,” says Nash.

the presidential race in the club or the namesake of the club, Lord Ryott, coming back as a ghost to possess a patron previously passed out from intoxication.

The elegance of club member Hugo, played by Theatre Western

veteran Ray Reid, stood out among a sea of black tuxedos. He delivered monologues, speeches and sonnets with ease and stuck true to his character, even through the winding ups and downs of the show.

Naveen Gupta, playing the angry and

riot-inciting Alistair, gave a strong and truly terrifying performance, showing the dangers of privilege.

While the show featured insightful performances, the action lacked substance, overall presenting more pish than posh.

NOUSHERWAN SIDDIQUE GAZETTE Georgine Nash speaks to her audience, Nov. 15, 2018.

Holocaust survivor shares her story with Western NOUSHERWAN SIDDIQUE CULTURE CONTRIBUTOR, SARAH RHYDDERCH CULTURE CONTRIBUTOR @UWOGAZETTE On Thursday night, Western students had the privilege of hearing from Holocaust survivor Georgine Nash during Holocaust Survivor Testimony presented by Western Hillel.

Born in Budapest, Hungary, Nash was just three years old when the Second World War reached her country. She left for Canada 16 years

later.

Nash now travels from place to place, sharing her first-hand stories in an age where there are very few left to tell these accounts.

Western Hillel, an organization dedicated to promoting Jewish identity on campus, hosted the event in the Arts and Humanities Building.

Nash’s speech began with a recounting of the history of the Second World War in Hungary. Allied with Germany, her country saw the implementation of anti-Semitic laws and the deportation of Jews leading into and during the war.

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More pish than ‘Posh’ EMILY TAYLER CULTURE EDITOR @EMTAYLER16

Grab your tailcoats and perfect that British accent: Theatre Western’s Posh takes the audience on an intimate journey into the lives of the University of Oxford’s wealthiest of the wealthy.

Playwright Laura Wade’s show, Posh, opens with members of the Riot Club, a fictional Oxford dining club, finally gathering to initiate new members after having not met for two semesters. The 10 men toast repeatedly and eat luxuriously as they discuss politics, and drugs and try to hire a prostitute.

The night quickly turns violent as the landlord of the bar tries to hold them accountable for their actions and the men can’t seem to agree on how to reclaim power from their middle-class oppressors.

Shona Casserly, fourth-year management and organization studies student and Theatre Western coordinator, explains that this season’s shows are meant to appeal to a wider audience.

“We’re really allowing ourselves to be more prominent in the Western community,” she says. “And that’s what I want. I want people to know Theatre Western is a production company that puts on really strong shows.”

Director and third-year international relations student, Trisha Kershaw, has been a part of Theatre Western since her first year.

Kershaw was able to take her years of experience acting, directing and stage-managing, and apply it to directing the company’s fall play.

Kershaw believes she offers the script a new perspective since she

is removed from the posh arrogance of the story.

“I thought that it would be a really good story for someone like me to be able to tell. I think that I am the complete opposite of these boys of the club. I’m a woman, a person of colour, middle class,” she explains.

“This is something that is so foreign to me, but it’s something that I had so much fun trying to envision and represent.”

The show deals with many difficult topics, including a depiction of sexual assault and blatant, angry classism.

Due to these potential triggers, a content warning was supposed to appear before the show began; however, a technical mishap meant the warning was delayed until intermission on opening night.

A counsellor is on call during and after the show for audience and cast members who want to talk.

At no fault of the actors or the creative team, Wade’s modern play is not subtle in its societal critiques. The show attempts to tackle hard-hitting issues, but it takes on too many and, as such, is not able to effectively communicate the nuances of any of its themes. The show gives a glance into the lives of the absurdly rich and privileged — but doesn’t give them any consequences. Without a counter-narrative to offer a rational and moral voice or to create problems for the men to face, the show is reduced to a series of monologues exclaiming, “I hate poor people!”

Many of the scenes were idle and without purpose, drawing out the first act for almost an hour before presenting the main plot of the story.

The lacklustre first act brought inside plots that were never explored, like

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