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When 13-year-old Najwa Zebian first put pen to paper in a little Lebanese village many years ago, she didn’t know her words would resonate with hundreds of thousands of people worldwide a decade and a half later.

Unfortunately, Najwa’s experiences with social rejection were far from over. As her career was taking off, Najwa decided to finally speak out about a 2015 workplace sexual harassment and power abuse experience, which resulted in public backlash and legal threats, and brought her to the forefront of the #MeToo movement.

The renowned Lebanese-Canadian poet and inspirational speaker channels her painful experiences into profound words that remarkably articulate people’s most personal and intense feelings. As a result, she connects a rapidly growing community of nearly one million people who find in her words a healing salve and a guiding light for their shared struggles.

“I’ll never forget that moment. It was months upon months of me saying, ‘Today’s the day.’… I would literally sit in front of my screen, and all I needed to do was hit post, and I couldn’t do it,” she says. “When I finally did it, all of that pressure and fear and pain and weight that I felt in my whole body went [away].… That was a lifechanging moment for me.”

Najwa started writing at a young age in search of a sense of belonging and a voice. The youngest of five siblings, she was constantly displaced between relatives’ homes due to her parents’ work conditions.

Najwa faced a second incident of public outcry more recently when she decided to no longer wear her hijab.

She estimates she lost over 20,000 followers in the aftermath, as the focus on her account became all about why she was no longer wearing the hijab.

This longing was amplified by her forced move to Canada at 16 as the 2006 war broke out in Lebanon.

Overwhelmed by her experience, Najwa abandoned the written word for a long time.

“Writing to me meant feeling, and it meant that I was very aware that I haven’t solved the problem of feeling like I belonged,” she says. “I didn’t want to feel anymore, so I just ripped up my journals and said, ‘I’m never writing again.’ ” Her high school and university years went by with little to no “human life” outside of academics. A highly sensitive and empathetic person, Najwa recalls being emotionally bullied for this, something she blamed herself for.

“When you feel excluded, you automatically assume something’s wrong with you, because why else would people exclude you?” she explains. “You’re constantly looking for someone to tell you whatever it is that you think about yourself is not right. You’re building homes in other people, waiting for them to welcome you.”

Six years later, Najwa found the will to write again when she saw her displaced 16-year-old self reflected in the eyes of a group of young Libyan refugees — her first teaching assignment at Western’s teachers’ college.

Through writing to help them, she was also helping herself, she says.

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She self-published her first poetry book, Mind Platter, in 2016. To her great surprise, her words were soon highlighted on social media by celebrities like Mathieu Kassovitz, Lisa Rinna, LeAnn Rimes and Hilary Swank, bringing her writing to public attention. She was later invited to speak at different events.

“I wanted just to be myself, be true to who I am, and that involved not wearing it anymore,” she says. “People were making accusations, they were making assumptions that weren’t true about me, being very mean [and] very demeaning. I just didn’t feel like that was fair, but with time, I let go of that.”

Najwa’s bold decisions may have put her out of favour with some of her readers in the past, but they have liberated her from the fear of others’ judgment and allowed her to live authentically at only 28 years old.

In just a few years, she went from feeling invisible and being a people-pleaser to conquering her pain, sharing her vulnerabilities with the world and helping countless others heal their own wounds.

She lives by one of her own most famous lines: “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”

“I believe that any burden or struggle that comes our way is … meant to not only teach us something, but to elevate us somehow,” says Najwa.

“I love helping people. I love saying you’re not alone, and I’ve experienced something similar in the past.… It feels like this is my life’s mission and purpose.”

Her second poetry collection, The Nectar of Pain, was published last October, and her third book, Sparks of Phoenix, is coming out in March. Currently on leave, she plans on returning to Western to complete her doctorate in education within the next couple of years.

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University bridge to reopen to traffic on March 1 MARTIN ALLEN NEWS EDITOR

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Western plans to reopen the University Drive bridge by March after what will be nearly six months of work.

After closing on Oct. 18, construction began yesterday, the first day of class. Facilities Management said pedestrians and cyclists will still have access to the bridge “with some restrictions.”

“Pedestrians will use the walkways along the outside of the deck and cyclist[s] will have access to a section of the roadway,” reads an update on their website.

“Equipment and supplies lay down space will take most of the roadway west of the bridge.”

Major bus routes have detoured from the busy east-west passage between downtown London and campus during the closure. Buses were also detoured in 2016, as the 91-year-old bridge was unsafe for large vehicle traffic.

The bridge’s bearings, which allow it to flex safely under pressure, are unfit for cold weather, according to two inspections conducted since September. Engineers forecasted some repairs for three years after they finished their work

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Facilities Management clarified that the construction is not out of concern for the bridge failing, but minimizing long-term damage to the structure.

Elizabeth Krische, the department’s associate vice-president, said in an email that the construction costs will be greater than last time, which cost $400,000, but a full estimate has not yet been specified.

Western announced on Oct. 10 that the bridge would be closing in eight days and said it would remain closed “for several months.” According to Facilities

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Western Stem planning drive for Jocelyn McGlynn MICHAEL CONLEY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @MIKECONLEY4 The Western Stem Cell Club is planning a stem cell donor drive for Jocelyn McGlynn, a fourth-year medical sciences student who was diagnosed with myelomonocytic leukemia in November.

The drive, while without a specific date, is planned to run over back-to-back days in late January, and will occur on campus. The club will provide Western’s community with specifics through social media and campus posters upon finalization of dates and location.

McGlynn explained that, in her current condition, she will require a stem cell transplant. Community support, which included a donor drive on Dec. 22, 2018 in her native Chatham, has sought a compatible donor for McGlynn.

CAMPUS DRIVE The Western Stem Cell Club is one chapter of the Stem Cell Club organization, a group dedicated to enlisting Canadians as stem cell donors.

As the club’s vice-president of communications, Elena Kum wants to eliminate misunderstandings around stem cell donation.

She explains that potential donors, such as Western students looking to support McGlynn, won’t donate on site. Individuals will fi ll out medical consent forms and have the inside of their mouths swabbed. Their DNA will be retrieved from this swab and they

will be entered into the OneMatch stem cell donor system. If a patient matches a donor, Canadian Blood Services will reach out to them.

The Western Stem Cell Club hopes that students will recognize the immense benefit that being a stem cell donor can have, such as in lives like McGlynn’s.

“We’re trying to rally the whole Western community to come out and support a cause like this,” explained Kum. According to Kum, up to 75 per cent of patients needing a stem cell transplant don’t match with a family member. She said this highlights the club’s desire to enrol as many students as possible, from any background, to grow a more robust donor system.

WIN ROCKY WIN Currently with her leukemia in remission and her spirits up, McGlynn is out of hospital.

“I am feeling so much better than before. I got discharged from the hospital on New Year’s Eve, which was a great way to start the new year,” said McGlynn.

When she first received her diagnosis, McGlynn felt guilty for bringing her support system, which includes family and boyfriend Alex Puddifant, who’s also a fourth-year medical sciences students, sad news over the holidays.

But McGlynn says she’s gotten over that feeling, focusing on hospital-room Mario Kart and now spending time with family and friends.

Similarly, Puddifant says the experience grew his perspective on what’s important, and it challenged him to see the good in McGlynn’s situation.

“Exams seem so fi nal and so important, … but I think for a lot of students — and especially in our program — the worst thing that can happen is you get rejected from medical school,” said Puddifant.

McGlynn’s best friend, Olivia Pomajba, fourth-year political science student, attended class with McGlynn since they were in a Chatham kindergarten class together. Pomajba said the diagnosis was scary, but she knows McGlynn has the character to manage her ordeal.

“Jocelyn has the best attitude of anyone I know and she has a great support system,” said Pomajba.

Pomajba’s family had a leading role in the Dec. 22 donor drive, where they collected blood donations — that McGlynn will also require — and collected information for potential stem cell donors. The drive also sold T-shirts designed by McGlynn and based off a nickname her grandfather gave her, which are available on her “Win Rocky Win” Facebook page.

Proceeds from the sales go toward Canadian Blood Services.

For McGlynn, taking this semester off and preparing to enrol again next September, she’s looking forward to community support with the help of family, friends and the Western Stem Cell Club.

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WESTERN’S 2018 IN REVIEW

2018 was a challenging one for journalism. In America alone, 11 journalists were arrested, 42 were attacked, 21 were subpoenaed and five were killed. Across the world, journalists faced verbal harassment, physical assault, arrest, seizures and searches of their equipment, threats to their credibility and employment, and death — simply for doing their jobs. Yes, 2018 was a challenging year.

But through it all, journalists persisted. They continued to pursue truth, hold those in power accountable and provide information to the public no matter the obstacles they faced. They did their jobs, day after day, and served as role models for the thousands of student journalists across the globe.

We are proud of the work journalists did in 2018. We are proud of the stories they broke and the tales they told, the voiceless that they gave voice to and the truth they shone light on.

And we are proud of the work we did here at the Gazette in 2018. We are proud that you chose to read us and support us. We thank those who engaged with us, whether positively or negatively. And we hope that, in 2019, we continue to do our jobs with honour and integrity, to provide you with the information you deserve to access.

Here are some of the words we gathered that offer a glimpse into the year that was for Western’s community:

“I don’t kn ow if it’s a mix BUT I FEEL of excitement, happine ss or lack o LIKE I’M O There are s N o many pe C L O UD NINE. f sleep, ople who fe el separate that’s a big from the U demograp I guess we h SC, and ic we wanted ’ve been su to talk to. ccessful, a nd it’s an A WESOME feeling.”

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“We’re just excited that there’s actually policy.

Something that we can use to move forward with our inclusive sports approach. That our trans athletes

CAN PARTICIPATE IN WHATEVER [SPORT], IN THE GENDER THEY IDENTIFY WITH.” CHRISTINE STAPLETON

WESTERN UNIVERSITY’S DIRECTOR OF SPORTS AND RECREATION ON U SPORTS’ NEW INCLUSIVE POLICY FOR TRANS ATHLETES, SEPT. 27, 2018.

“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.”

KATHRYN SLACK FOURTH-YEAR CRIMINOLOGY STUDENT ON HER PETITION TO BAN ANTI-ABORTION PROTESTS INSIDE BUILDINGS ON CAMPUS, APR. 2, 2018.

thing r every e t f a es ened — crowd, mak p p a h of t’s is type ing tha h h t t y o r t e y v a .” to pl after e HOWS S ing — l l e back T e m v N o a A r c T to ur t IMPOR ng able g and all of o i T e S b t O s “Ju RM doin e were his one of OU w t PACE a h t Y t JOE DE LUXUR , 2018 29 F LOUD SEPT. ALF O FEST, E L P ONE H R PU TERN’S G WES IN Y A L ON P

“I see Fire at the table, I see EMS at I see Police, by-law the table, officers — I even see the student go developing strate vernment at the gies to deal with tabl th IF WE DON’T DO is. There is someone missing from the e, table.

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“WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE RATIFIED A NEW CONTRACT WITH UWOFA, and I commend the commitment and collegiality demonstrated by negotiators for both sides throughout several months of bargaining and discussions.”

ANDREW HRYMAK WESTERN UNIVERSITY’S PROVOST AND VICE-PRESIDENT (ACADEMIC) ON THE RATIFICATION OF A LABOUR DEAL BETWEEN UWOFA AND WESTERN, NOV. 29, 2018.

“In Dr. Shepard, we found someone who is a clear, innovative, forward-looking thinker,

SOMEONE WHO IS UP TO NOT ONLY MEETING THESE CHALLENGES,

but moving Western forward in the direction that we all wish to see this great university proceed in.”

PAUL JENKINS BOARD OF GOVERNORS’ CHAIR AND HEAD OF THE PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION COMMITTEE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF ALAN SHEPARD AS THE 11TH PRESIDENT IN WESTERN’S HISTORY, NOV. 29, 2018

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Thomas Harry Hill, a third-year nursing student in the Faculty of Health Sciences, died on Friday, Feb. 16.

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’Stangs topple Brock, take division lead

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MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @SPORTSAT GAZETTE In what could become a defining moment for a program quickly ascending the ranks of Ontario University Athletics, the Western Mustangs men’s basketball teamtoppled the Brock Badgers 80–75 on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Hall.

Omar Shiddo, who has again proven himself to be the face of the program throughout the season, scored a game-high 24 points as the Mustangs took control of the OUA West Division.

Now at 8–4 on the season and atop the competitive OUA West standings, a Mustangs program that lost to Brock by a combined score of 66 points in two meetings last season

have now claimed their first victory over their division rivals since 2016.

It was a pivotal win for a program at a crossroads of sorts: no longer in rebuilding mode, eyeing a spot among Ontario’s elite programs.

“This was obviously a big win for us in a lot of ways,” said Mustangs head coach Brad Campbell. “It puts us in first place in our division, which is nice, but now we have to be even sharper because every team is going to have us circled on their calendar.

We’re the target, but we’re ready to play with those expectations.”

The fact that this team is a target, in a loaded division with the post-holiday playoff push in full swing, is a testament to the work Campbell has done in building this program after an 8–13 season in 2016–17.

“We’re happy to be on top of our division right now, and we know we deserve to be there,” said Shiddo on the team’s performance. “Now we just have to keep executing and make sure we stay there.”

Shiddo was aided in the effort

by Julian Walker, who dropped 21 points and seven rebounds, while Aryan Sharma added 10 points of his own. Aaron Tennant also continued to be a versatile defensive presence for the Mustangs.

“We have a lot of guys that have played big-time roles for us this season, like Aaron and Julian, and all their work paid dividends for us tonight,” said Shiddo. “We have a deep team and a ton of talent, so it was good to see that come together today even though we didn’t always

play our most disciplined basketball. We needed guys to step up, and they did.”

The Mustangs came out firing against one of the best defences in the OUA thanks to early buckets from Walker, while the Mustangs put up a solid defensive effort, particularly in the paint, as Western came out of the opening quarter with a 19–12 lead.

The Badgers took advantage of fast break opportunities in the second quarter, however, cutting into the Mustangs lead with an up-tempo attack that left the Mustangs reeling defensively. Yet Western was able to survive the onslaught and slow Brock down holding the Badgers to 38 per cent from the field in the first half, while heading into the second half with a 39–26 lead.

The third quarter saw the Badgers once again speed up their offensive tempo and cut into the Mustangs lead, eventually finding themselves just six points down midway through the third quarter. However, a pair of threes from Shiddo would keep the Mustangs in the lead as they headed into the final frame with a 58–54 lead.

Again Brock tried to pull off a comeback in the fourth quarter, but the Mustangs fought their push off. While the Badgers took a lead after a run late in the game, Marko Kovac scored to tie the contest at 75 points apiece with under a minute remaining. The Mustangs then shut the Badgers down on defence before Shiddo hit his potentially season-defining shot with 18 seconds left to all but guarantee

the Mustangs eventual win.

“It’s a shot I work on all the time in practice, and my teammates trust me, so I knew it was the right shot to take in that moment,” said Shiddo.

“They were pressuring me all game long, but that’s what’s going to happen against great teams, and this is the type of team we’ll be playing against later this year. It was a great learning experience for us to go up against that kind of pressure.”

While Shiddo’s shot eventually won the game, the Mustangs’ ability to survive onslaught after onslaught from a team that has had their number over the last two seasons on an all-aroundteam effort. The win was a testament to the team’s depth and tenacity.

“Obviously, Omar’s play stands out, but all those rebounds, steals and shots led to this win, including Marko’s final layup,” said Campbell.

“We were getting outplayed in that second half, and this certainly wasn’t our best basketball, but all those little victories added up for us in the end. Omar’s shot was huge, and that’s what he does, but we just had to keep believing that we were the better team leading up to that play.”

The Mustangs are now heading into a favourable stretch of the season that will see them play six straight games against teams with losing records, four of which will be at home.

A strong showing over a winnable stretch could position the Mustangs well as they battle the Laurier Golden Hawks, who are also 8–4, for the division crown.

The Mustangs will be back in action this Friday as they host the 4–8 Algoma Thunderbirds at Alumni Hall.

Women’s hockey splits weekend slate MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @SPORTSATGAZETTE The Western Mustangs women’s hockey team shut out the Ryerson Rams 3–0 to kick off the 2019 calendar year before losing to the Toronto Varsity Blues on Sunday afternoon, gaining three points on the weekend and moving to 8–2–0–4 on the season.

The Mustangs opened the scoring on Saturday against Ryerson halfway through the first frame as an Edie Levesque shot from the point was redirected by Emma Suitor past Ryerson goalie Fanny Vigeant to give the Mustangs a 1–0 lead.

Almost midway through the second period, Western’s April Clark evaded the Ryerson defense and put a backhander past Vigeant to extend her team’s lead to 2–0. With the goal, Clark also extended her lead atop the Ontario University Athletics scoring race and put herself into a tie atop the U Sports goal scoring list.

“We’re one of the later teams coming back, so we really had to work hard this week to prepare,” said Clark. “[Leading the OUA in goals] is a good achievement, but I owe it all to my teammates; I couldn’t do it without them.”

With seconds remaining in the second period, Shailyn Waites scored her second goal of the game as the puck came loose in the Ryerson crease putting the Mustangs up 3–0 on the day.

Mustangs head coach Candice Moxley was impressed with her team’s compete level throughout the game, especially considering their lengthy time away from each other over the holidays.

“With our first game coming back after the break and only having a couple practices under our belt, the girls battled, and they showed up tonight,” said Moxley. “It’s going to be about refining things as we move forward, but our power play responded tonight, too,

so it was really exciting to see those things happen for us.”

Mustangs goalie Carmen Lasis had another solid showing on the afternoon, stopping all 19 shots she faced for her third shutout of the season.

“Carmen saw a lot of shots from the outside tonight which played into our game plan,” said Moxley on her goaltender’s performance. “Our [defense] was a bit shaky, but only having a couple practices in it was still pretty strong.”

Western returned to action on Sunday afternoon as they hosted the Varsity Blues, where they dropped a 4–3 contest in a shootout. Toronto’s Cristine Chao opened the scoring three minutes into the first period on the powerplay, putting the Blues up 1–0.

The second period saw another Toronto goal less than a minute into the frame, as Kassie Roache scored to extend her team’s lead to two goals. However, Clark scored her second goal of the weekend seven minutes later to cut the Blues lead to 2–1.

The lone goal of the third period came from Western’s Shana Alexander, who tied up the

game five minutes into the frame. Neither team could pull ahead in regulation as the game headed into overtime.

Overtime couldn’t decide the game, so the game went into a shootout. Rachel Armstrong scored for the Mustangs, while Louie Bieman answered for Toronto. Sydnee Baker was unable to put away her shootout attempt for the Mustangs, while Chao scored for Toronto.

When Clark missed her attempt in the third round, the Blues left London with the shootout win.

Lasis again had a solid start, continuing her impressive season in net for the Mustangs.

She’s kept the Mustangs in many a game, and her teammates and coaches recognize how pivotal she’s been to the team’s success.

“When you have a strong goaltender, you’re in the game every single night,” said Moxley.

“She’s been a rock for us; we didn’t help her by any means tonight, but she still kept us in the game.”

The Mustangs will be back in action on Saturday as they take on the Laurentian Voyageurs at Thompson Arena.

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Mustangs drop to 1-11 with loss MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @SPORTSATGAZETTE The Western Mustangs women’s basketball team kicked off the new year with a 70–57 loss to the Brock Badgers on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Hall.

Laura Graham led the Mustangs, who dropped to 1–11 on the season with the loss, with a team-high 12 points, along with four rebounds and two steals. She was aided in her efforts by Emma Johnson, who scored

11 points and five rebounds.

Broch point guard Melissa Tatti led the Badgers to their win, as she scored a game-high 14 points along with a pair of steals in an impressive two-way effort. The Badgers improved to 5–7 with the win as they attempt to approach the .500 mark on the year.

The Mustangs came out in the first quarter with a staunch defensive effort, heading into the second frame with a slim 13–12 lead.

The second quarter was a different story,

however, as the Badgers found their footing on offence and clamped down defensively, forcing the Mustangs to turn the ball over on multiple occasions. Brock went into halftime with a 30–21 lead.

The Badgers began pulling away in the third quarter, as the Mustangs offence went dry. Western faced a 51–37 deficit as the fourth quarter began. The final frame saw more of the same as the Mustangs couldn’t forge enough of a comeback to meaningfully cut into the Brock lead.

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YEAR IN REVIEW KYRA KARAKATSANIS GAZETTE

MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @SPORTSATGAZETTE 2018 was an incredibly successful one for Western Mustangs athletics.

From the football program’s second straight trip to the Vanier Cup to OUA medal finishes from a number of programs across both men’s and women’s sports, Western solidified itself as one of the best athletic

schools in the country.

Among the highest highs Western’s athletic department experienced in 2018 was the success of the Mustangs football team, its crown jewel in U Sports’ primary showcase sport. Greg Marshall’s squad won 11 straight games in 2018, riding their perfect record to a Vanier Cup rematch with the Laval Rouge et Or. Although they

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lost to Laval in front of a raucous and hostile Quebec City crowd, the Mustangs again reaffirmed their place at the top of the Canadian university football hierarchy.

2018 also saw a massively successful season from the women’s hockey program, which won the McCaw Cup as Ontario University Athletics champions before hosting the nation’s best women’s hockey teams as the U Sports women’s hockey national championship came to London in the spring.

The Mustangs made a deep run in the tournament, rattling off back-to-back wins over the Montreal Carabins and Saskatchewan Huskies before falling to the Manitoba Bisons in the gold medal game. The team continued their success into the 2018–19 season, laying the foundation for another OUA title run in 2019.

The men’s basketball program took major strides in 2018, at one point winning nine of 10 games in January and February en route to a 15–10 finish to the season and a return trip to the OUA playoffs. They

also started off the 2018–19 season on a high note, winning seven of their first 11 games during a challenging schedule that saw them run through a murderers’ row of OUA opponents. For a program nearing the culmination of a rebuild, their impressive 2018 calendar year proved pivotal to the health and revitalization of a program trying to reach the top of the OUA. Other Mustangs programs saw successful seasons in 2018. The cross country programs both captured bronze medals at the OUA championships. The figure skating team won an OUA silver medal. The men’s golf team also captured an OUA silver medal, with Mac Carter winning the individual championship. The men’s lacrosse team won their third straight Baggataway Cup as Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association champions, while the men’s and women’s soccer teams both medalled at the OUA Final Four.

The softball team won its 11th provincial title all-time and ninth in a row, the men’s and women’s

swimming teams earned OUA silver medals, the men’s squash team won its 35th consecutive OUA championship while the women won a bronze medal. The tennis teams both won OUA golds, and the men’s track and field team earned a second place finish at the OUA championship.

The women’s volleyball program won an OUA bronze medal, while the men’s volleyball team had a successful year in 2018 despite missing out on an OUA medal.

There were certainly lows as well, but none of such disastrous proportions that they shook the foundations of Western athletics. Certainly a mediocre run by the men’s hockey program, a tough 1-11 start to this season for the women’s basketball team and unremarkable finishes for the men’s and women’s rugby teams were far from the highs other teams experienced in 2018.

But with a plethora of medals in OUA and national competitions ,and the football program’s sustained excellence, Mustangs athletics will look back at 2018 as one of the most successful in the school’s history.

’Stangs OC hired as Queen’s head coach MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @SPORTSATGAZETTE The Western Mustangs will be looking for a new offensive coordinator for next season as Steve Snyder has been hired as the next head coach of the Queen’s Gaels football program.

The London native and St. Francis Xavier University alum spent the last two seasons at the helm of the Mustangs offence.

Snyder brought stability and an up-tempo approach to a Mustangs offence that had long been under the control of head coach Greg Marshall. After Western’s heartbreaking loss in the 2016 Yates Cup, Marshall decided to bring in an offensive mind whose sole responsibility would be to lead the team’s offence.

So, he brought in Snyder, who was St. Francis Xavier’s offensive coordinator from 2014 to 2016 and who had spent time as an assistant at London’s St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Secondary School and with the London Junior Mustangs youth football program.

Snyder’s offences dominated Ontario University Athletics during his two-season stint at Western, as

the Mustangs led the province in total yardage and scoring both seasons. He also proved pivotal for recruiting, playing a crucial role in bringing in two strong recruiting classes that have already provided key pieces for Western’s back-toback national championship game appearances and should continue to be crucial for the Mustangs in the future.

As one of the hottest young names in Canadian university football coaching, Snyder’s arrival in Kingston is much-needed for a Queen’s program that has fallen far from its once-prominent place among Canada’s elite football programs. The Gaels have missed the playoffs three times in the last five seasons and haven’t won a postseason game since 2013. Their last Yates Cup came in 2009, which was also the last season the program won a Vanier Cup. Pat Sheahan, who had led the Gaels since 2000, stepped down at the end of the 2018 regular season, paving the way for Queen’s to move its football program in a new direction. Snyder will now be tasked with returning the Gaels to the upper echelon of U Sports football.

“We are thrilled to welcome Steve to the Gaels family and look forward to the energy, passion and commitment to excellence that he will bring to our football team,” said Leslie Dal Cin, executive director of athletics and recreation at Queen’s University.

“Steve has a profound interest in and respect for our football history as well as a strong, compelling vision for the future of our team; we look forward to seeing him bring that vision to life in the coming months.”

Snyder’s resume is an impressive one. In his five seasons as a U Sports offensive coordinator, Snyder boasts a 43–12 record with 35 consecutive wins against conference opponents, and he led offences that helped Western win his first 23 games with the program. His offences were the best in the country in 2017 and 2018, and Snyder helped win four consecutive conference championships, along with Uteck and Mitchell Bowls and the 2017 Vanier Cup title.

As the fifth head coach in Queen’s history, he will have the resources and support to lead his own program to similar success.

“I am honoured to be named the head football coach at Queen’s University,” said Snyder. “This is

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a very special opportunity for my family and me. This football program has an incredible tradition of excellence; when we think of football in this country, we think of programs like Queen’s. The passion and commitment to football here at Queen’s is second to none.”

Moving forward, Marshall and the Mustangs will have to find a replacement for Snyder. They return a number of key pieces to the offence next season, and the Mustangs will

be expected to contend for conference and national championships moving forward.

With a star-studded offensive roster and national championship aspirations, Western’s offensive coordinator position should be an enviable one for a coach looking to move up from a smaller school or use the job as a springboard to head coaching positions in the future.

Marshall should have no issue finding a capable successor to Snyder.

Mustangs take four points over weekend MIKE DEBOER MANAGING EDITOR @SPORTSATGAZETTE The Western Mustangs men’s hockey team earned four points over the weekend with a pair of wins to kick off the new year.

On Friday night, the Mustangs beat the Guelph Gryphons 4–1 at

home to extend their win streak to six games.

Trailing 1–0 early in the first period, Western’s Mitchell Fitzmorris scored his first goal of the season to tie things up at one goal apiece.

The Mustangs then jumped out to the lead later in the first, as Ethan Szypula scored his seventh of the

year with a powerplay goal to put the Mustangs up 2–1.

The Mustangs extended their lead in the second period as Alex Di Carlo scored on a backhand to put Western up 3–1. The Mustangs added an empty netter in the third period to secure the win.

The Mustangs earned their

seventh straight win on Saturday as they shut out the Toronto Varsity Blues 3–0 at Thompson Arena.

Spenser Cobbold, Rylan Bechtel and Kyle Pettit scored goals for the Mustangs in the win, while Luke Peressini earned his first shutout of the season with a 28-save performance.

With the pair of wins, the Mustangs improve to 11–6–1–1 on the year and currently sit in third place in the Ontario University Athletics West Division, five points behind the division leading Brock Badgers. The Mustangs are back in action on Friday against the Laurier Golden Hawks.

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Make SMARTer resolutions

KRISTIN LEE GAZETTE Writing specific, measurable, agreeable, realistic and tangible goals can help you achieve your resolutions this year, Jan. 7, 2019.

KRISTIN LEE CULTURE EDITOR @KRIIISLEE Sleigh bells have stopped ringing, and it’s time for a new kind of jingle: “New year, new me.”

If the holidays were a time to snooze until midday, binge on turkey and gravy, and make the most out of satisfying your bad habits before the year ran out, then you might have decided it’s time to create a new you, which is likely already in its first stages.

Your resolutions determine how you envision yourself in the future, whether it be to stop biting your nails, to spend less money, to drink

more water or to find a stable job.

To achieve these, one of the most powerful motivational techniques is goal-setting, which is what people do when setting New Year’s resolutions.

However, not all goals are equally effective, according to John Meyer, professor and chair of the graduate program in industrial and organizational psychology at Western University.

Effective resolutions, says Meyer, are SMART: SPECIFIC Your goals must be specific, even if you have to list out what you need to do every day of the week. Instead

of saying you’ll drink more water, set a tangible goal, like drinking eight glasses of water a day for three days a week.

MEASURABLE Make sure your goal is easily verifiable.

“It’s better to set behaviour goals that can be controlled,” says Meyer. For example, doing 200 daily jumping jacks or cutting calorie consumption is better than setting outcome goals, such as losing weight.

AGREED UPON These resolutions are a commitment you’re making to yourself.

Your agreement to commit should be reflected in a true desire to meet

Boho Bars by Western alum CARMEN MALLIA CULTURE EDITOR @CARMMALLIA Take one look at the packaging on your protein bar and you may find a daunting laundry-list of ingredients, revealing an excess amount of sugar and saturated fat. To top it all off, many brands don’t even offer tasty products.

This was a problem that Western alumna and founder of Boho Bars, Nicole Haney, ran into when she was looking for a delicious snack to bring on a business trip years ago.

“I had gone to the grocery store and looked up and down the energy bar aisle, which was ridiculously huge,” says Haney. “I couldn’t find anything that just had clean ingredients and that I knew would taste good.”

Instead of opting for a product that Haney knew she wouldn’t enjoy, she made her own protein bars — a decadent almond cranberry bar — using simple ingredients, threw them in a Ziploc bag and went on her business trip.

Her colleagues, intrigued by the items, asked Haney if they could try a piece. After they took their first bite, they were blown away.

“That’s when I knew that was what my passion was. This is what I had been looking for,” says Haney, who quit her full-time job in the career management department at Ivey Business School in 2015 to make the bars a full-time gig, despite lacking experience in the food industry and formal business training.

“I had a really good job. I had stability, pension benefits, salary — the whole bit — but I wasn’t feeling super driven and fulfilled with what I was doing,” says Haney, who wanted to carve her own path in the business world.

Now, the bars have taken a life of their own — selling all across Ontario and Prince Edward Island and making waves in the healthfood industry.

What sets Boho Bars apart from most other protein bars is that they’re gluten-free, dairy-free and made without any artificial ingredients, like additives — substances added to food to preserve flavour or enhance its taste and appearance — or preservatives.

According to Haney, the bars are made with a strict adherence to just using real food: starting with a base of gluten-free oats, adding a nut or seed butter as the protein source, and sweetening with maple syrup or pure honey.

“So we’re never using a protein powder because often times those are overly-processed and have added, hidden things in them,” says Haney. “When you read [our] ingredient list, you’re literally just going to see food.”

Now, her homemade almond cranberry bars can be found in over 100 retailers alongside five other unique flavours that Haney has handcrafted: apricot coconut, chocolate coconut, mocha, seedy tahini, and peanut butter.

Just last month, the budding entrepreneur and Western alumna signed a deal that will bring her bars to Sobeys and Foodland starts across Ontario, and she’s hoping to expand even further.

“It’s a time for humongous growth and expansion for us because, as we continue to take on these clients, we’re going to continue to further our reach across Ontario, and we’re probably going to be across Canada within the next year or so,” says Haney, who took advantage of Western’s Propel Entrepreneurship and Western Accelerator to learn how to drive sales and make meaningful relationships.

These days, the London-native spends most of her time working with her team of just under 10 staff members in a 1,700-square-foot facility in Old East Village, cooking up the delicious treats for health buffs far and wide.

Now she’s cooking up a brand of

her own, one bar at a time.

Students can find Boho Bars at Grocery Checkout in the University Community Centre and in residence buildings.

your self-set goals. If you want to spend less money, you’re going to have to really want to meet that goal, even if those new Nike’s are calling your name from the store’s window.

REALISTIC You need to actually be able to accomplish your set goal. You can’t become a heavyweight champion overnight.

“It might be best to start easy and build up to a more difficult goal over time,” says Meyer.

For example, start with decreasing the number of cigarettes you have each day over the next few months. If you have three a day, cut down to two the next month, and so on.

TIME BOUND Set a time frame for when the goal should be achieved. Meyer says it’s best to set short term goals that will lead to the attainment of a longer-term goal, such as being able to complete a marathon. Or if you’re goal is to find a stable job, you might set short-term goals like refining your resume, networking and studying so that you can work towards achieving your longer-term goal of getting that job.

In addition to setting SMART goals, Meyer says it’s a good idea to

set “implementation goals.” These describe the way you will go about meeting your goal.

“Rather than simply setting a goal of exercising for 20 minutes three times a week, you should be specific about when and where,” says Meyer. “I will go to the gym Monday, Wednesday and Friday on my way to/from work. Then, put it in your calendar and identify ways you will deal with obstacles or scheduling conflicts, such as what you will say when friends want to go out after work.”

Finally, Meyer says using cues or nudges to facilitate the desired behaviour is helpful. For example, having your reusable water bottle packed in your backpack every night will help you remember to refill it and drink it when you can. Setting an alarm to remind you when it’s time to go to the gym is another example.

Creating manageable resolutions can be as challenging as meeting them, but you don’t have to wait any longer to start. If you don’t know where to begin, maybe your first short-term resolution should be to make SMART resolutions before you start proclaiming you’ve become a new person.

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Once on the path to becoming the leader of 1600s Amsterdam’s small Jewish community, free-spirited Baruch de Spinoza has since left his religious studies in favour of fraternizing with non-Jews about his new loves: mathematics, philosophy, and a Dutch girl, Clara. When Spinoza’s best friend exposes Spinoza’s sacrilegious communications with Christians, Spinoza is tried for atheism, the punishment of which is excommunication from his home and his people. To appease his Christian overlords, Rabbi Mortera, Spinoza’s former mentor, attempts to dismantle Spinoza’s ideas and bring his star pupil back into the fold; however, fuelled by his love of wisdom and his unwavering belief in freedom of expression, Spinoza dodges and parries each ideological offensive with irreverence, humour and wit, painting his interrogators into a corner with irrefutable logic. Faced with an enraged Dutch magistrate and flowering doubts of his own, Rabbi Mortera must make a decision that will seal the fate of his community, himself, and the son he never had. Show times: January 30, 8pm; January 31, 8pm; February 1, 8pm; February 2, 2pm; February 2, 8pm.The Arts Project Centre for Creativity. Cost $15 TIPS ON HOW TO AVOID BEING PHISHED Visit banks’ websites by typing the URL into the address bar. Phishers use links within emails to direct victims to a fake site. If you suspect an email is bogus, do not follow any embedded links within it.

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