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Glass-eating over student drinking Jesica Hurst News Editor Although most bars in London thrive on student business, one club owner has made it clear he wants the specific demographic to stay far away.

John Scott-Pearse, owner of Club Rouge on Piccadilly Street, recently put up a 10-metre sign on his building reading, ‘Re-open for Students?? We’d rather eat glass!!’

The club, which closed last spring, plans to re-open in the coming weeks, but Scott-Pearse would like to make it clear that Club Rouge will now be catering to a new crowd.

“The reason I did it was because I ended up in court in June for the second time on a permitting drunkenness charge,” he explained. “The student involved spent no money at my place, and I got involved in a court case that cost me thousands of dollars, and somehow I’m responsible for how much he drinks.”

“I put the sign up because I wanted to tell my new customers that I’ve told the old customers to fuck off.”

According to Scott-Pearse, Club Rouge will not be having a grand opening—they will be re-opening for people they know and custom-

ers they already welcome.

“My sign clearly says there’s no money in students. I wanted to get out of that part of the business because you can’t make money off of them,” he explained. “Do I dislike students? No. Would I let students into my new place? No problem.

But I’m not really worried about it because students don’t even come out until midnight—the new place will be packed by then.”

Josh Stall, owner of UpFront at the Market, couldn’t believe a business owner in London would take this kind of action against students.

“As a business owner, it irks me.

I mean, are you nuts?” Stall said.

“This city benefits immensely from the student population. We have an opportunity to expose students and future adults from all over the country to what London has to offer.”

“I think what he may have done is lost sight of what it’s like to be a student away from home in a new city. I can’t imagine what it would have been like being in a city where bar and business owners put up signs saying, ‘go away.’”

Instead of shooing students away before they had a chance to settle back into the city, Stall decided to put up a sign outside of UpFront reading, ‘Students are people too! We welcome everyone.

Cameron Wilson GAZETTE

ROUGE WITHOUT THE ‘E’. Club Rouge, located on Piccadilly Street, recently banished students from their establishment, erecting a 10-metre sign stating they’d rather eat glass than serve students.

We will eat glass for you.’”

“It would be terrible if students didn’t think they were welcome,” he added. “I wanted to let students know that not all restaurants and bars are averse to having students.

Obviously, we are liable if we let students go crazy, but the people that are working can identify

which students should be cut off.”

Hoda Mahdi, a third-year social science student, agreed it is the bar’s responsibility to manage their customers.

“If they’re closing because of rowdiness, it’s their responsibility to manage things and calm people down,” Mahdi said. “At the same

time, I do understand that students should be more respectable and responsible when they’re out drinking.”

“I mean, it’s definitely a rude approach, but then again who wants to go to Rouge?” she laughed. “We have a number of different places in London to go.”

Western management wails against bikes on rails Aaron Zaltzman News Editor Students biking to campus will have to confine their bikes exclusively to the racks this year. Western’s facilities management has prohibited students from chaining their bikes to railings, like the one running along UC Hill.

“The bicycles being locked on railings and lampposts and trees have been an issue for several years, and we’re getting more complaints about bikes restricting traffic,” Jim Galbraith, supervisor grounds and recycling for facilities management, said. “It’s a concern for pedestrian traffic on the sidewalks.”

Signs have been placed at various trouble spots around campus, such as the railing at the bottom of UC Hill, the ramp near the University Community Centre and the Saugeen walkway. “[The procedure] is something that needs to be worked on. We Andrei Calinescu GAZETTE

>> see Signs pg.3

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BEFORE I DIE… I WANT TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE GAZETTE. Students wrote excerpts from their personal bucket lists on a giant blackboard on Concrete Beach Monday. The wall on campus is an initiative by Trinity United Church, located in the city’s east end.

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Solar panels a bright idea A greener London is just around the corner.

London’s investment and economic prosperity committee plans to pilot a solar power project, which will lead to the installation of solar panels on 10 city buildings.

“I think it’s a priority for this council to demonstrate our stewardship for land, air and water, and to continue to make London a

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good place to live,” Joe Swan, ward 3 councillor and chair of the committee, said.

According to Swan, the committee is working towards the creation of a London-based solar panel manufacturing plant, as well as the use of solar panels to contribute energy back onto the grid, keeping consumer costs low.

In addition to striving toward sustainable energy sources, other green initiatives are being considered.

“We’re looking at new projects,” Swan said. “Everything from how to conserve and protect water to […] the Green Bin Project for home composting.”

Swan said residents could expect the solar power pilot project to launch by the end of October.

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If you’ve been using your Westernizer to keep track of looming midterms and assignments, you’d better double-check your dates.

The November 2012 page in the Westernizer, the free agenda handed out to students during OWeek, shows the wrong dates. On the page, November 1 is shown as a Sunday, but this year November 1 falls on a Thursday. The individual day pages have the correct dates.

The Westernizer is produced by the University Students’ Council Advertising & Composing department, but according to Ian Greaves, office manager, the error was seen and missed by several people up and down the chain of command.

Greaves said he regretted the error. “It was just one of those things where you look at it so many times that you stop seeing it.”

Alyse Wasserman, a fourth-year classics student, found out about the mistake the hard way in her class yesterday. Thinking her professor had scheduled a quiz for a day without class, she corrected him on the date—only to be corrected herself by her classmates.

“It was just a little embarrassing,” Wasserman said. “I’m very dependent on it.”

Jeremy Santucci, vice-president communications for the USC, said there were no plans to notify students or print a new edition.

However, the official USC Twitter account acknowledged the error yesterday afternoon.

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Western ranks mid-tier Psychology department top performer Cam Smith News Editor In a new subject-based ranking organized by QS World University Rankings, Western ranked in the top 200 schools in the world in 21 of 29 categories. Notably, Western’s psychology department ranked 50th in the world. “[The QS ranking] shows something that we’ve known at this university for a long time, and that is that psychology at Western is among the best in the world,” Albert Katz, chair of psychology at Western, said.

While getting ranked 50th in the world is a remarkable achievement, Katz insisted it was only the start for his department.

“Yes, we’re proud of number 50, but we’d like to get higher,” he explained. “What we have to do, is continue what we’ve been doing. We have excellent people, they publish in the best journals in the world and do cutting edge research.”

“I suspect if we do what we’ve always done, which is to hire the best people, we will continue to rise in the rankings,” he continued.

While ranking systems like

the QS World University Rankings provide valuable insight into where a university lies in the competitive academic sphere, Janice Deakin, provost and vice president academic, contended the results from one survey are far from quantifiable.

I suspect if we do what we’ve always done, which is to hire the best people, we will continue to rise in the rankings.

— Albert Katz

Chair of psychology at Western University

“Ranking something as complex as a university is a significant challenge, yet there are a growing number of national and international surveys that make the attempt,” Deakin explained. “Because each survey uses its own unique selection of measures, methodologies and data weightings, there tends to be a wide variance in results from

News Briefs

Emergency siren touches down on campus The first emergency omni-directional weather siren was activated last week. The siren, located above Alumni Hall, was installed in response to the tornado that touched down in Goderich last year, according to Elgin Austen, director of the Campus Community Police Service. The tornado resulted in one death and millions of dollars worth of damage.

“It’s a severe weather warning—emphasis on the severe part.

What we don’t want this to be is [for] every little storm that comes along,” Austen said.

Austen explained in the past the only way to warn students of danger was limited to alarms within buildings. The new siren, however, is able to warn thousands of students outside buildings to take cover.

The warning system relies on both Environment Canada to release a severe weather warning for London, as well as a radar system for notifications of tornados and electrical storms likely to hit London. Austen said a communications piece was released during O-Week notifying the 6,000 first years of the warning system. It also informed students that London is located in tornado alley, which stretches west of the city and down into Michigan.

The cost of the siren, according to Austen, was roughly $100,000, which included strengthening the roof of Alumni Hall, the crane involved in lifting the siren and other work involved. He added maintenance costs would be low as there is relatively minimal upkeep required of the siren.

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one ranking to the next.”

However, she also contended that Western would consider the results from the QS survey and act on it accordingly.

“The QS ranking provides some useful data on how we stand relative to other global institutions, and it may have some influence on how we are perceived beyond our national borders,” Deakin said.

“Improvements on some select measures, such as citations and publications, and international student and faculty recruitment, could enhance our standing.”

Yet, Deakin reaffirmed ranking well was not the primary goal of Western.

“Boosting our standing in the rankings is not a strategic driver behind our academic mission,” Deakin explained. “Rather, we focus our attention on continually improving things that will enhance teaching and research for the benefit of our students, faculty and society at large.”

Signs warn cyclists to use racks only >> continued from pg.1

would like to put a tag on the bike saying to please remove it,” Galbraith said. “If it’s a safety issue, the police will assist us. The lock can be cut and the police will store it in their compound.”

However, the prohibition has irked some members of Western’s biking community. Kevin Yaraskavitch, president of Purple Bikes, said he felt bikers were simply responding to a lack of bike racks in these areas.

“The one bike rack in that area is hidden in a stone garden next to the entrance that’s very uneven, difficult to get to and fills up quickly,” Yaraskavitch said. “A lot of people have taken to parking their bikes [at the rail], and it used to get really full. Now they’ve taken that opportunity away and haven’t installed a new bike rack to compensate for it.”

Galbraith said facilities management would consider adding more bike racks. “We would look into that—our bike racks are spread out all over campus and we watch how they’re being used,” Galbraith said. “We respond with

what we think is going to work best and it changes every year.”

Yaraskavitch explained far from understanding the concern, he liked the sight of bikes chained to the railing on UC Hill. “I personally enjoy seeing that people are biking to campus and leading healthy active lifestyles.”

He did, however, agree with the prohibitory signs at the Saugeen walkway. “There’s a bunch of bike racks there, so it’s probably reasonable.”

Galbraith urged students to obey the prohibition regardless of consequences, or lack thereof.

“Students have to realize when they lock a bike to a tree it can restrict our grounds keeping program. It can cause a lot of issues for people walking along the sidewalk,” Galbraith said. “It creates a hardship for a lot of people on campus.”

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Arts&Life

saywhat? @TheEllenShow I didn’t feel the earthquake in Beverly Hills last night! Portia and I were too busy teaching our elephant how to crump.

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Canadian artists unite in the spirit of love One Love Rally brings Steven Page and Justin Hines back to Western

Ritchie Sham GAZETTE

CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT? Steven Page and Justin Hines brought a powerful musical element to O-Week’s One Love Rally last Wednesday night, returning for their second year to play the event.

Brent Holmes Arts & Life Editor A testament to last year’s positive reception of Western’s One Love Rally, former lead singer of Barenaked Ladies Steven Page and Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Hines returned to campus Wednesday to play the O-Week event for a second year. Both Canadian artists were enthusiastic about returning after the success of last year’s rally.

“It’s really nice, I had no idea what to expect last year and I was a little bit nervous because who knows my music?” Page comments. “I don’t know if they do or don’t. But to see that audience so positive and singing along was

such a great feeling.”

For Hines, the event has been something he has been looking forward to since the last time he played Western. He notes the importance of the event to first-year students.

“We talked about this show for a really long time after last year.

Everybody celebrating the same thing was pretty magical. We are so honoured to be invited back,” Hines says. “[First year] is an unbelievable time—it’s a time of transition, change and hopefully optimism for the time ahead. It’s a pretty big deal.”

Both musicians stress the importance of reaching out to firstyear students and letting them

know about the support networks available to them. They can also relate to the feeling of isolation that can evolve out of being away from home for what may be the first time.

Reflecting on his own university experience, Page praised how O-Week, as a whole, has evolved, commenting on how its organization provides a better experience for new students.

“The events [weren’t dry] when I was [in first year,] which was really weird for me in university because I was 17,” Page reflects. “When they started proposing it would be dry, it just sounded boring or fake— all that stuff happens behind the scenes. But here’s an opportunity

to do something positive and fun.”

The link between music and One Love’s theme of acceptance was central to Hines, who emphasizes the use of music to help students realize a more open-minded environment.

“Music in general is something that most people connect to and relate to,” Hines observes.

“Through music, you have to have a specific message you want to spell out to the world— it’s just an amazing thing to be able to do that.

It’s a beautiful tool, the one tool that is always filled with love.”

While the future of the One Love Rally is yet to be determined, both artists looked forward to the possibility of returning in coming years.

“Just to be asked to sit in the audience would be an honour for me,” Hines concludes. “It’s awesome, it’s just an awesome thing— it kind of makes me wish I’d come here.”

When they started proposing it would be dry, it just sounded boring or fake—all that stuff happens behind the scenes. But here’s an opportunity to do something positive and fun.

— Steven Page

Former lead singer of Barenaked Ladies

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O-Week concert outshines poor weather Kevin Hurren Arts & Life Editor

Performance Openers Set List Crowd

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The sky may have been shrouded in dark clouds Saturday night, but the energy and talent of the OWeek concert performers shone bright on stage.

As an end to the week-long orientation festivities, the closing concert featured performances by Canadian artists Jesse Labelle, Anjulie and These Kids Wear Crowns.

Labelle started the show off strong with his best known single “Heartbreak Coverup,” and quickly won over the audience with a sincere charm that made the firstyear students in attendance glad they braved the rain. Following up with tracks like “One Last Night” and “Won’t Let You Down,” Labelle provided a slower, more melodic opening to the show. Along with frequent crowd interactions, he left the stage at the end of his set with more than a few new Western fans.

Anjulie, an Oakville native, followed Labelle’s performance with dance tracks that brought the

crowd out of the sways Labelle had initiated. Opening with “Soldier Girl” and “Everything I Do,” the crowd may not have expected such vulgarity to come out the mouth of this little performer.

Taking a small break from the dance tracks to perform the slower “Stand Behind The Music,” Anjulie returned the crowd to high energy with a “Rack City” remix of her best-known single, “Brand New Bitch.” Ending with her newest single, “You and I,” produced by DJ Benny Benassi, her set ended on a high note.

The Western Marching Band accompanied These Kids Wear Crowns on stage, and shared some of their uniforms with the band.

While these tattooed and pierced performers may not have looked the most natural in the Western band’s jackets and hats, their effort to incorporate some purple pride was much appreciated by the crowd.

The band’s well-known cover of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” opened the set and was received warmly.

The crowd’s excitement continued as These Kids Wear Crowns went through old singles “Jumpstart” and “Break It Up.” In addition to the band’s consistent high levels of

Andrei Calinescu GAZETTE

SOLDIERING THROUGH THE RAIN. The rainy weather didn’t stop first-year students and sophs from attending Saturday’s O-Week concert, headlined by Canadian pop rock band These Kids Wear Crowns.

enthusiasm, the boys of These Kids Wear Crowns certainly know how to make a joke, and they shared their humourous side with the crowd, which triggered more than a few laughs.

Jokes weren’t the only thing shared as the band also threw merchandise to the crowd. Though grabbing for the t-shirts caused

the usual skirmish, the crowd was relatively tame compared to past O-Week concerts and events.

All in all the show was a great

way to end Orientation Week and first-year students walked away satisfied, if also a little damp.

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Featuring howling, twangy vocals from the iconic Gord Downie, and a more raw guitar sound from guitarist Rob Baker, “Cemetery Sideroad” has a road-rock sound that precurses future Hip songs, such as “At the Hundredth Meridian” and “Looking for a Place to Happen.”

A guitar solo followed by a drum-heavy bridge accompanying Downie’s voice marks the high point of the song.

This song is meant to be loud— catchy, poetic lyrics, a rough-rock sound and a distinct atmosphere make “Cemetery Sideroad” a potent Canadian song.

—Brent Holmes “Wildest Moments” —Jessie Ware

“For You” —Angus & Julia Stone This brother and sister duo from Sydney, Australia has received worldwide acclaim for their distinctive vocal style. Their track “Big Jet Plane” has been their best-recognized single—however, “For You” is like a hidden treasure in their album Down the Way. If a song could turn your head, this song would be it.

The two siblings have been gaining popularity through television. “For You” has been featured on Revenge and Pretty Little Liars, and other tracks have made it onto shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, Skins and One Tree Hill. However, Angus & Julia Stone have humble origins. They started making music independently, performing at local events.

Despite the success they’ve found, the duo hasn’t strayed too far from their roots. They still make acoustic folk music, collaborate and although their audience has grown, they still continue to impress with tracks like “For You.” —Sumedha Arya

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Opinions

I’ve never been drunk, but often I’ve been over-served.

— George Gobel, comedian

Eating glass lacks class, business smarts Club Rouge owner John Scott-Pearse had students seeing red last month when the bar erected a sign reading, ‘Reopen for students?? We’d rather eat glass!!’ in an attempt to discourage students from flocking to the establishment.

With many bars anticipating the return of students and an increase in business, this decision may prove disastrous for Rouge. Love it or hate it, the majority of business downtown bars receive is largely student-based. The fact Rouge is closed during the summer—when students aren’t around—doesn’t speak strongly of this new business strategy. Furthermore, if Rouge is aiming to attract a more mature demographic, the presence of stripper poles may be detrimental to that goal.

While Scott-Pearse cites fights as a reason to ban students, it seems unfair to blame students for occurrences that may not be linked to the student presence at bars.

There are a number of reasons for fights to break out, and they can’t simply be blamed on students. As a bar, customers are likely under the influence and more likely to engage in physical confrontation. In fact, it could be said such scuffles come with the territory of owning and operating a bar near the student strip.

Rouge does have the right to ban students since it is a private business, but how ageist policies will help to keep business booming is a mystery. The campaign seems designed to target young, undergraduate students, but as a demographic, students represent a wide range of ages. Do they intend to drive away graduate, PhD and mature students as well? If this new advertising strategy is about banning 19 to 25-year-olds, why wouldn’t they just ban that age group?

With such a hostile tone regarding their new policies and cover cost, only the most rebellious and determined students are likely to want to get in. How Rouge plans to enforce a policy of no-students remains to be seen—their aggressive cries for publicity may be enough. However, it’s unlikely bouncers are going to filter through people’s wallets looking for student cards, and it’s even more unlikely the staff will be throwing people out who look young enough to be students.

Either way, if Rouge’s new policies aim to discriminate against Western and Fanshawe students, they may have to go back to school to study business to stay afloat.

—The Gazette Editorial Board

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Cover charges at bars have long been a favourite complaint of students. I know people who refuse to go to bars with cover—their favourite line is something like, “I’m a student, I can’t afford it.”

Here’s a news flash for you—if you can’t afford to pay a miniscule cover charge, you shouldn’t be going out in the first place.

As much as people gripe about it, bars have every right to charge you for entering. Many bars and clubs offer entertainment such as DJs or musical performers. Most of these entertainers want to be paid. It makes sense that they would ask you to pay a small fee to supplement alcohol-related profits.

I mean, you’d pay to go see a DJ or musician—and you’d pay a hell of a lot more than five bucks—so why is it such a big deal to do it at a club? It’s more of a mindset that students have—other students are opposed to paying cover, so we should be too!

Another thing—with students predrinking in order to save cash, bars are losing money. Why do we expect them to let people in for free, especially when those people are sometimes already drunk, meaning they don’t need to buy as much booze at the bar? Not only is it an invitation for fights to break out, it’s not very profitable.

“Cam, you’re a real dick for being in favour of cover charges,” is something that most of you are probably thinking right now. Well, I am not in favour of them—I, like everyone else in the world, would rather not spend money that I don’t have to.

However, I do think that bars have the right to charge. As students we’ve been coddled for far too long, with bars letting us in free of charge and suffering for it. It’s kind of hard to justify saying you can’t afford a cover charge when you’re buying a Starbucks coffee every day, wearing a $200 pair of boots—don’t even get me started on those—or toting around a MacBook.

For me, I’ll continue to go to the bars and clubs I like regardless of the cover.

Hell, I went to a bar in Toronto and paid 20 bucks to get in, so we should count ourselves lucky that we’re only paying $10 or less.

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There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned money to get into a club that is as empty as outer space. The only thing more depressing than watching the DJ spin tunes for an empty dance floor is the obligation to stay because of the investment you put in at the door.

As a general rule, bar patrons tend to prefer smaller cover during a night on the town—the lower, the better, but preferably none at all.

It’s simple mathematics—the less money it takes to get into a bar, the more money you have left over to spend at said establishment. Not only that, but it is far more affordable for students who have completely dried up their bank accounts. No cover charge means it’s quite possible to have an exciting night on the town without spending a cent.

Charging cover also causes congestion at the front door by slowing down the line. Although the weather is nice now, the bulk of the school year lies within the dead of winter, and waiting for every single person to rustle through their pockets to find cover keeps everyone in the cold for that much longer.

There is also absolutely no commitment involved when getting in a bar for free. If the bar is not to your standards, all that has been lost is time, as opposed to the loss of time and money.

Even though you can leave a nocover club without any loss of money, it probably won’t happen because everyone and their dog can afford something that’s free—ideally, the dog will follow dress code. Even the emptiest club will fill up throughout the night if it’s a free alternative to the long lines that tend to build up.

While cover may seem to give bars and clubs the opportunity to charge less for drinks, this rarely seems to be the case. Even if there is a difference, the drinks are still wildly overpriced.

When you really take a step back and look at the situation, there is no possible way that paying cover is better than paying no cover at all. Our society uses money as a quantitative way to trade for positive utility. If you don’t pay cover, you have more money, and although money can’t buy happiness, in a bar setting it can go a long way to buying more drinks.

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Sports

factattack Peyton Manning’s 400th touchdown pass came on his 7,226th career throw. It took Brett Favre over 400 more passes (7,699) to reach the same plateau.

Rundown >> The Mustangs women’s rugby team lost their first game of the season to the Queen’s Gaels by a score of 31-17 > Coming off of a 52-22 season opening victory over the York Lions, the unranked Mustangs proved overmatched by the fifth-ranked Gaels squad > The Mustangs women will be back in action next Saturday to take on the Brock Badgers.

Mustangs leave U of T singing the blues Strong start leads to convincing win in home opener Ryan Stern Sports Editor

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THE NOSE KNOWS HOW TO FIND THE ENDZONE. Mustangs quarterback Donnie Marshall dives towards the end zone in the Mustangs 62-7 beat down of the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. Marshall also added two touchdowns through the air as the Mustangs improved their record to 2-0 in the young season.

haven’t had an opponent, so I think everything played in their favour.

It was just pure domination. Every aspect of the game we took it to them— offence, defence and special teams.

—Garret Sanvido

Running back for Western Mustangs

They’re a really good football team and if you add all that up, there is a very good chance you’re going to get beat like we got beat today. I

mean, I wish we played better, but we’re going to regroup and we will play better against Windsor.”

Looking for a strong start, the Mustangs attacked vertically with great success. Just 55 seconds into the game, quarterback Donnie Marshall found freshman receiver Evan Buchanan for a 67-yard touchdown reception.

“It was a double move. We knew they were going to be in man coverage on first down and we just ran an up and out and got it. First and ten we knew we were going to get a shot,” Donnie Marshall said.

With the field seemingly tilted the Mustangs’ way throughout the game, the quick strike was the first of many. Playing pitch and catch all game with his young group of receivers, Donnie Marshall finished with 202 yards passing and

two touchdowns through the air, while also rushing for 77 yards and another score, before coach Marshall mercifully pulled his son for top recruit Will Finch.

“You could see Will’s confidence got that much better today,” Donnie Marshall said. ”I am trying to do as much as I can [to mentor him]—especially [in] games like this where we can get him into the game and let him play. He is young, and first year is tough, but he is doing a great job.”

With majors from Yannick Harou, Sanvido, Buchanan and the three Marshall brothers—Tom, Donnie and Brian—the Mustangs were able to spread the ball around nicely, while keeping the Varsity Blues defence guessing.

Along with the decisive victory, the Mustangs escaped the game

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The stands were rocking, the sirens were blaring and the horse was getting his share of work as the Mustangs demonstrated an offence that looked like it belonged in a video game.

Checking into TD Waterhouse Stadium for their first home game of the season, the Mustangs gave the Western crowd of 9,500 frosh and alumni something to cheer about. With a dominating performance against the University of Toronto Varsity Blues from wire to wire, the Mustangs advanced their record to a perfect 2-0 in the young 2012 season with a 62-7 win.

“We played Toronto last year and they were a good football team.

I thought this team was better and we played very well. This win was important for us,” Greg Marshall, Mustangs head coach, said.

Starting on the ground, Garret Sanvido carried the rock with success, making Mustangs fans forget about the loss of star running backs Nathan Riva and Tyler Varga earlier this year. With 109 yards on the ground, Sanvido got his share of rest as the Mustangs were able to give their backups some playing time thanks to an insurmountable lead.

“It was just pure domination.

Every aspect of the game we took it to them— offence, defence and special teams,” Sanvido said. “I am just happy we came out with the win. We have a couple tough weeks ahead of us and we plan to play the exact same way every week.”

Marred by penalty flags, the Varsity Blues offence was never really able to get their feet under them. With 15 penalties totaling 134 yards, the Varsity Blues were playing themselves into a hole for the entirety of the afternoon.

“I think our program can learn a lot from this game,” Greg Gary, Varsity Blues coach, said. “Western is still in the driver’s seat—they

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The Good

The Bad

Fresh off of obliterating the competition to win the PGA Championship, Rory McIlroy entered day four of the BMW Championship in a tie with Webb Simpson, Bo Van Pelt and Canada’s own Graham DeLaet for the lead. If that wasn’t enough for McIlroy to handle, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood were mere strokes away from dethroning the recent PGA champ. But the pressure didn’t phase McIlroy at all, as Boy Wonder only shot one bogey the entire round to win the BMW champ and make history. McIlroy joins the likes of Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only three players to win six tournaments before the age of 24. Next up for McIlroy is the Tour Championship, and the $10,000,000 bonus prize for the winner of the Fed Ex Cup.

Much like last year’s Toronto Maple Leafs, the Boston Red Sox have been freefalling down the standings during the second half of the MLB season. Boasting an atrocious record of 1-9 in their last 10 games, the Red Sox have become the bottom-feeders of the American League East division. The team’s lack of offence seems to have stemmed from trading Kevin Youkilis to the Chicago White Sox. Although Youkilis was by no means their only offensive weapon, Boston has struggled badly since his departure. Though it is doubtful this trade is the beginning of another curse for the Red Sox, this is still a team in shambles. The team is such a mess right now that they are already starting to look for a replacement for manager Bobby Valentine.

Athletes to watch With the new Mustangs season getting underway, many new faces will be donning the purple and representing our university. Some sports have already started while others are still in the training camp process. The following players are highly regarded newcomers—either via transfer or recruiting— who should have an immense impact on their respective seasons.

Despite their relative lack of experience, this group of athletes could be the difference between a successful season and an average one.

Camilla Paluch The highest touted recruit for the women’s basketball team, Paluch looks to inject some life into the .500 squad from last year.

Yanick Harou To be featured in the backfield along side sophomore Garret Sanvido, Harou will have the tough task of replacing Tyler Varga and Nathan Riva.

Craig Jaques A transfer student from the Brock Badgers, Jaques has already made an impact on the Mustangs roster. His talent will aid the Mustangs baseball team in their quest to top the Ontario University Athletics podium.

—Ryan Stern

The Ugly The current Collective Bargaining Agreement between the team owners and the National Hockey League Players Association is quickly approaching its September 15 expiration date. Well, time is almost up, because in four days the CBA will conclude and the players will officially be locked out. With issues like the players wanting increased revenue sharing between the teams, the owners not willing to part with their cash and players fighting for guaranteed contracts, negotiations between the two sides have halted. Much like the lockout that prevented the 2004-2005 season, hockey fans everywhere are weeping because they know that with negotiations currently at a standstill, the possibility of losing the game they love draws ever closer.