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What rivalry? Western crushes Queen’s Western clinches their 30th Yates Cup with 51-22 win

FESTERN WUCKED QUEEN’S. The Mustangs football team trampled the Queen’s Gaels in the Yates Cup finals at TD Stadium on Saturday. The Mustangs defeated the Gaels to win their 30th Yates Cup. The purple and White will now move on to the Mitchell Bowl where they will face the Calgary Dinos for a berth to the Vanier Cup finals at Laval. Read the full story on page 10.

Western eyes graduate rez development Richard Raycraft NEWS EDITOR A plan to develop housing for Western graduate students near Platt’s Lane and Western Road is drawing commentary, both positive and negative.

The university hopes to tear down several of the townhouses currently contained within the Platt’s Lane Estates and build apartment buildings for graduate students,

mostly international students. The hope is that on-campus housing will help the students in their transition.

Gitta Kulczycki, vice-president resources and operations at Western, explained the rationale for the project.

“We’ve developed a plan that includes the re-development of a section of townhouses there that are currently townhouses, and instead developing them to be a multistory, more of an apartment-size facility,”

she said. “We have gone forward with a zoning change in order to do that, but at this point in time the only part of the development that we are hoping to proceed with is 60 units, so one building that would have 60 units as part of it.”

Though only one building is scheduled to go up, the university hopes to get the zoning change done to implement a longer-term plan in which up to seven apartment buildings could be built.

The goal is to demolish the Platt’s Lane townhouses, which are currently vacant, by December of this year and then begin development of the first building.

Michael Tomazincic, manager of planning review for the City of London, explained the political process behind the developments.

“Under Ontario law, before council can approve a zoning bylaw amendment or an official plan amendment there must be a

public meeting on the matter, where members of the public can voice their opposition or support for the project,” he said. “The venue where that happens here in London is at the planning committee, and it’s made up of six members of council, and then there’s a presentation done by staff and the applicant and then the floor is opened up for members of the public to speak.” >> see HOUSING pg.3

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REMEMBERING THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. At the Remembrance Day ceremony in the Mustang Lounge yesterday, Western president Amit Chakma applauded Western students serving in the armed forces.

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Unemployment stuck at 7.9% Statistics Canada has released the data on October’s unemployment rate and found that London’s unemployment numbers have remained unchanged.

With unemployment stalled at a rate of 7.9 per cent, London stands as an anomaly amongst other cities in Ontario. Barrie, Thunder Bay, Kitchener, and Waterloo had a slight increase in their unemployment rate. Only Guelph, Windsor, and Sudbury managed a decrease.

Robert Collins, director of workforce development at the London Economic Development Corporation, was able to shed some light on the significance of the unchanged rate in London.

“Our most recent results say that we’re stable,” he said, pointing out that this is a reflection of the national trend, and ultimately a good sign.

Collins also commented that looking at data accumulated from the past year that London has had an increase in the goods producing sector. This allows for growth in the service sector to follow.

“There is a lot going on behind the numbers,” Collins said. “It requires looking at some longer term trends.”

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New housing set for grads Development will be south of campus

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The meeting of the City’s planning committee will take place today, where councillors will receive a recommendation for the project from city planners in a report.

“What we heard from people then is that people appreciate the fact that Western is growing, and Western will be attracting students from international destinations,” Tomazincic said. “But what they want to see is that students are housed in appropriate and safe buildings, and so the most desirable

form of development to house students has been purpose-built student housing that’s on campus, and the least desirable is houses in single detached dwelling forms.”

Though some residents have expressed to the city disapproval of living closer to more students, Tomazincic added that the Planning Department does not distinguish between students and other residents, and that the location of the developments would help intensify city transportation.

Kulczycki said that the closeness of the vicinity would be beneficial

to students coming to London from far away. “[What] we’re hearing from graduate students is there is a need for accommodation for students who are coming from away, so elsewhere in Canada or internationally,” she explained. “So it’s a place for us to transition them to Western by having them basically live with us for a period of a year in a residence setting, where we would have even programmable or student-type space as part of the building.”

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Western hosts conference on teen online sexual violence Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR Last weekend, Western hosted the Sexual Violence and Social Media conference featuring well-known speakers like Jackson Katz and Carol Todd, mother of the late Amanda Todd.

The conference integrated issues of cyber bullying, sexual violence, and mental health, and focused.

“It’s about time we start thinking about all those issues as a group model, because they can’t all be looked at in isolation,” Todd said in an interview after the conference.

The event kicked off with speaker Jackson Katz, an educator, author and social critic, on Thursday night.

He gave a talk on how violence against women was really a men’s issue.

Katz said the phrase “violence against women” obscures the active agent — men.

He spoke of social binaries that don’t acknowledge the power of the dominant group — how when we hear the phrase “gender issues” we automatically think of women, and men in the room tune out.

Katz said more attention needed to be paid to men. When women act out violently against women it is framed as a gender issue, yet this is not the case for the other 98 per cent of violent acts.

In his view, the violent masculinity created by society is to blame for the gender violence pandemic.

Katz critiqued sayings like “boys will be boys,” which attribute violent acts to biological differences.

I have a funny feeling that as current postsecondary students become parents they will be much more aware and much more cognizant and much more proactive in bringing back family rituals, social media intervention, and being more aware.

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He said this view is reductionist and ignores our society’s construction of masculinity as linked to violence.

On Friday, the conference featured several speakers and an interactive play, Tuned Out, which explored how media desensitizes us to violence.

In the afternoon, participants attended breakaway sessions exploring other issues surrounding social media and violence in schools.

One such presentation, given

by Mark Allen of Ontario Respect Group, revealed that school shooters, from Columbine to Jokela, Finland, revealed their violent

intentions online months before the massacres.

Another keynote speaker at the conference was Carol Todd, mother of the late Amanda Todd, a B.C. teen who committed suicide after severe cyber-bullying.

“It’s because I have a story, because I’ve been there. I have a daughter who I lost […] that’s why they listen to me,” Todd said.

She emphasized the need for community and healthier teen-toteen and teen-to-adult relations in coming together to combat the issue of cyber-bullying.

“No one institution can work on solving the problems on their own.

Schools get blamed a lot and the healthcare system gets blamed a lot, but everyone needs to have ownership to the problem,” Todd said.

She even mentioned social media sites as a stakeholder in the issue.

“As much as we talk about social media sites and we want them to go away, they’ll never go away,” Todd said.

She said she was impressed both with the speakers at Western’s conference and with the scope of attendees. She was impressed by the number of youth who attended, and found it heartwarming that her story could have an impact on them.

“I have a funny feeling that as current post-secondary students become parents they will be much more aware and much more cognizant and much more proactive in bringing back family rituals, social media intervention, and being more aware,” she said.

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number 59 on the Forbes Top 72 Most Powerful People List. She earned a bachelor of arts in home economics at Brescia University College and her medical degree at Western.

She is one of only nine women to make the list this year.

Chan has been the directorgeneral since 2007. Previously, she was the director of health of Hong Kong where she faced the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak in 1997 and the 2003 SARS outbreak. She was credited with bringing the H5N1 epidemic under control by the slaughter of $1.5 million chickens in

the region.

Forbes said Chan was the most powerful person in general public health and the only person with the authority to call a worldwide pandemic. They also noted a recent WHO report showed increased life expectancies worldwide, and declining infant mortality rates in the world’s poorest countries.

The four conditions Forbes editors use in calculating its list are: whether the candidate has power over lots of people; the financial resources controlled by the person; whether they have power in multiple spheres and if the person actively uses their power. —Iain Boekhoff

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Kevin Hurren OPINIONS EDITOR When students say they want to check out Symposium, they may now mean something very different than the downtown eatery.

The Arts and Humanities Students’ Council launched their student publication, Symposium, at The Wave last night. The new art and literary magazine will be joining the ranks of Premier and The Semi Colon as publications run under the AHSC. But unlike Premier and The Semi Colon, which feature papers and academic writing, the pages of Symposium will be populated with student art and literary work, including poetry, prose, drama and fiction.

Published by the council before, Symposium is returning from a twoyear hiatus. “Before, the quality of Symposium wasn’t as good,� Sarah Emms, AHSC president, explained. “So we decided to take a break, come back and revamp the publication and its focus [rather] than trying to rush something out.�

Now reinstated, Symposium will

be taking the place of Propaganda — the council’s former publication for artistic student work.

The switch came from a desire to include submissions at a greater frequency, said Symposium editorin-chief Stephanie Grella. “Initially, Propaganda published once per year and what we found was that we had to reject a lot of student submissions and art,� said Grella, who believes that the bi-monthly printing schedule for Symposium will allow for more flexibility. “Now we don’t have to reject something from being published because out number one goal is promoting student work.�

Another main goal for the council is community cohesion. Within Symposium’s eight pages, there is a two-page spread dedicated solely to events and showcases within the Western and greater London area. “We wanted to use Symposium as a bridge from Western to the London community because we find that students can, on their own, research events going on in London, but there’s not enough promotion of those events,� Grella said.

Emphasizing the London art

scene, however, doesn’t come without its challenges. Both Emms and Grella discovered that while the call for submissions was followed by an enthusiastic response from students, it’s been difficult to coordinate with other London art scenes. “We want to include as many events as possible, but things are happening all the time so we might miss a lot,� said Grella, who continued to find out about great events in the days following Symposium’s first printing session.

But with room in next year’s AHSC budget already allotted towards the magazine, Grella hopes that the eight pages might be upgraded to 12 to include even more of these on- and off-campus events as well as student work. “I think we could evolve this magazine into something that will stand for the Arts and Humanities faculty in future years to come,� she said.

The remaining issues of Symposium will publish in January and March. Those interested in submitting can contact ahscpublications@gmail.com.

‘Staches lead to “slacktivism�

Jeremiah Rodriguez NEWS EDITOR

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With men beginning to avoid the razor this month, a new study says people growing facial hair for prostate cancer awareness might not be more likely to fork over any dough to the cause.

In the Journal of Consumer Research, scholars from the University of British Columbia have published findings that support the idea that small public token forms of support lead to “slacktivism.� “What we find is that symbolic token action is very public in nature.

We find that when people are asked to donate something more meaningful like time and money they aren’t any more likely to help,� said Dr. Katherine White, co-author and associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at UBC. “Organizations like charities and social causes have to think about what their goals are,“ White added. “If your goal is to generate a certain amount of monetary donations then it’s suggested that public forms of support might not lead to an increase of donations down the road.�

She added that if it’s just an awareness campaign, maybe creating visibility and making a visual statement to others is enough.

White and her co-authors Kirk Kristofferson, a PhD student in marketing at Sauder, and John Peloza of Florida State University, were inspired to understand the rise in the public perception of “slacktivists� who may incorrectly associate a click with financial support which

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campaigns may be gunning for.

In the experiment, participants offered a private token form of support were more inclined to donate time and money when prompted afterwards. “We do find that find that if people can make their first act more private or if they really think about how their own values align with the cause, you can flip the effect so that the small act of token support can make them more likely to support later,� White said.

Adam Hahn, a post-doctoral student in social psychology at Western, said that this type of

symbolic support without engaging is nothing new, but outlets like Facebook, hashtags and other public tokens of supports have certainly made it easier. “Media forms like Facebook have created new ways to engage in impression management that we didn’t have 20 years ago,� he said.

Hahn added that the study didn’t necessarily mean that Movember moustaches had a harmful effect on fundraising, or that public supporters of awareness campaigns are any less supportive than people who did nothing.

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Said the Whale sets London in its sights Sarah Botelho CONTRIBUTOR Vancouver-based indie rock band Said The Whale, seems to constantly be on tour and this year is no exception. With the release of their fourth studio album, hawaiii, Said The Whale is busier than ever.

Concerts are scheduled almost every night across the country, even featuring a few stops in the United States. With all this touring, their album has reached new levels on stage.

“It’s louder,” says Tyler Bancroft, singer-guitarist for the band. “It’s often sloppier. But that’s cool that it’s not perfect. It’s more live.”

Said the Whale’s three previous albums have all had titles that draw back to classic B.C. locations, but this newest addition to the band’s discography strays away from that.

“We think that word [Hawaii] is an evocative word, and we found that the songs were evocative.

We just wanted to choose a word that was sort of fitting,” Bancroft explains. “And hawaiii was that word.”

Bancroft admitted that there was no difficulty when putting hawaiii together. The band’s members are becoming more seasoned in the art of recording an album, trying out different, more relaxing techniques. Fans would be happy to hear that Bancroft revealed there is the potential to compile four or five B-sides with the songs that didn’t make it on to hawaiii.

“The process of recording this time around was very casual — we’d

Real Housewives of Atlanta “Girl Code Breakers” The Housewives of Atlanta are undoubtedly quite real. Yet, as they gallivant around the bustling streets of Georgia, a viewer will undoubtedly question whether some of the things they see are actually real life.

This episode focuses on the conflict between Kenya and Phaedra, which has been brewing for quite some time. Centering on a conflict on last season’s reunion show in which Kenya waved her phone in the air accusing Phaedra’s husband of trying to “sext” her.

Apparently, in Kenya’s eyes, this actually did not happen. Of course, this theory is lost on anyone who has eyes and ears, including the

just kind of go in, record a couple songs, make them as good as they can be and let them marinate for a couple of months before road-testing them. It was a very freeing way to make an album,” Bancroft says. “We haven’t finished [the B-sides] yet.

We’ll see what happens with those.”

As for the influences of the record, Bancroft disclosed that he and Ben Worcester (guitar and vocals) each put their own personal spin on it.

“Ben and I are the songwriters in the band. Everyone else has their influence on the song, but for me, a lot of it was just approaching 30 and feeling inadequate. That’s sort of where my angst on the record came from,” he says, with a laugh.

Recently, Said The Whale released a new music video to one of the songs from hawaiii called “Helpless Son.” With the popularity of music videos in today’s society, the videos themselves are often seen as distracting from the original message of the song. Bancroft confessed that he feels very strongly about the video staying true to the essence of the song itself; this accounts for the simplicity used in the “Helpless Son” video, which features everyday people beside their presumed family members, holding up lyrics to the song as it progresses.

“This song in particular is a very meaningful song and I just wanted to make sure that people were getting the message,” he says. “We tried to make a lyrics-video style for this song. I think it’s helpful because you don’t need to listen quite as closely if you’re reading the lyrics along with

increasingly famous NeNe Leakes.

Kenya organizes a lunch with NeNe to discuss her life problems.

Arriving in a full camouflage outfit, it’s uncertain whether NeNe is trying to land an appearance on Duck Dynasty or pass this outfit off as fashionable. NeNe has seemingly little patience for Kenya, articulating her opinion pretty clearly.

“I’m this friend: I’m going to tell you when you’re right and I’m going to tell you when you’re wrong,” says NeNe. Wouldn’t the world be better if everyone clearly laid out who they were just like that?

The Real Housewives of Atlanta is ultimately slightly maddening but goodness! It’s so entertaining.

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SAID THE WHALE NOT UP IN SMOKE. Despite the band’s increasing success, it seems Said the Whale has the unfortunate experience of having blue smoke encircling them. Potential health risks of this blue smoke are unknown.

There’s a definite over saturation of artists, which is an amazing thing as a listener and there’s a lot of really awesome music you’d never be able to listen to [...] technology. But then, there’s just so much competition.”

— Tyler Bancroft

it. We put a lot of importance on lyrics, and ideally we’d like you all to be able to follow along with the lyrics of the whole album. A video like this certainly helps with that.”

While videos helped get their message across, Tyler Bancroft mentioned how technology has had its advantages, but also made it a lot harder to “make it” in the industry.

“There’s a definite over-saturation of artists,” Bancroft admits.

“Which is an amazing thing as a listener and there’s a lot of really awesome music you’d never be able to

listen to if it weren’t for technology.

But then, there’s just so much competition. It’s just more difficult for anybody to get noticed and kind of separate themselves from anyone to make a living.”

Said the Whale seems excited to return to London.

“I like London, it’s cool!” Bancroft said, adding, “[The venue] is all ages, so that’s important. It’s a cool city and we’re stoked to come back!”

Said the Whale will be playing at London Music Hall on November 20 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $12.

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A well deserved spike in populari-tea Jenny Jay GAZETTE STAFF Amidst all the coffee lovers, the desire for tea is rapidly expanding. While tea has been around for thousands of years, the love for tea is spreading, with an appreciation for it growing within the younger population.

New marketing strategies such as bright colours, fun flavours and unique blends have allowed for a wider audience to be interested in the world of tea.

“Our marketing approach to how we make tea fun and accessible really resonates with our younger audience,” says Bradley Grill, spokesperson for David’s Tea. In fact, making tea approachable for the younger generation is what the company aimed to do when it was first established.

“When Hershel Segal […] and his cousin David Segal, started the company, they set out to make tea fun and accessible,” Grill says.

Being a tea drinker isn’t simply about consuming a beverage — it’s about the experience and knowledge that comes with every single tea. With multiple varieties under each of the main categories of tea, every stream and blend has a set of qualities that make them unique.

“Getting tea in people’s hands and having them experience different blends and different types is crucial to how we educate people about tea and get new tea drinkers,” Grill says.

This is something that tea drinkers are noticing too — and using to their advantage. When individuals learn about the different benefits the range of teas can hold, it is easy to

make the switch to tea and still feel great about what they drink.

“There is compelling evidence to show that it does have some health properties. [Tea] can be a good source of antioxidants, and antioxidants can potentially prevent some cancer-forming cells,” says Anne Zok, nutrition counselor for Hospitality Services.

In addition to antioxidants, some teas have been found to have something called phytochemicals.

“Research around phytochemicals is still in the infantile stages but they have been identified as nonnutritive components of food that can elicit health benefits […] tea has been identified as having phytochemicals,” Zok says.

With increasing research showing the health benefits of drinking tea, it is quickly becoming a staple for the health-conscious.

However, not just the health conscious, but a wide range of individuals are becoming aware about the positives of drinking tea, and feeling good about their beverage choices.

“My favourite part about drinking tea is just how refreshing it is, and how it can be used any time of the day,” says Scott Buttenham, a third-year Media and the Public Interest student at Western. “Each tea has its own kind of function.”

While it is said that you can’t please everyone, tea has a tendency to disprove this claim. There are eight main categories of tea: White, green, oolong, pu’erh, black, mate, herbal, and rooibos — there really is something for everyone.

“Some people enjoy caffeine in the morning, some people like to have caffeine in the afternoon, some people cannot have caffeine, so we

really tailor and target the experience based on the tastes and likes of our different customers,” Grill says.

What proves to be most interesting, however, is while tea has been around for centuries, it is starting to make a comeback as a social drink — beyond the upper class British stereotype.

“Tea is sort of showing up in places that it hadn’t been before,” Grill affirms. “[Tea] has definitely grown in popularity, in virtue of the fact that there are so many stores dedicated just to tea and subjectively we’ve noticed an increase in the sale of tea in both the residence operations and in the campus outlets,” Zok adds.

When there’s demand, there’s supply, and with tea specialty stores sprouting up not just in London, Ontario, but across the country, there is a noticeable spike in the demand for this plant-based drink.

“Just meeting people who love tea, it gets the conversation going, and I find that throughout the year I find more and more people that have their little tins, their little collections at their places, and it just gets things going,” Buttenham says.

While the world of tea is definitely expanding, it’s proving to hold a sense of community that is capable of bringing people of all ages together, showing individuals that it can truly be soul satisfying.

“When you think about a social drink, a lot of people just think about alcohol — they think about the tequila, and the vodka, and the beer — I think this is one of those social drinks that has so many more benefits health-wise, [is] a lot cheaper, and doesn’t have you wondering

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where your wallet is in the morning,” Buttenham says.

For students who are known for having low budgets and a desire to socialize, tea parties and bonding over favourites is seemingly

beginning to do the trick. Who needs alcohol when one can have something warming for the soul, healthy and social all at the same time? After all, tea was never known for giving a hangover — only curing one.

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Medscape, Virtual Dentist, Blood Pressure Companion — these are just a few of the 43,689 mobile healthcare apps that were available for download from the iTunes store as of June. While the majority of these apps promise to help have a positive impact on their consumers’ health in one way or another, a recent study conducted by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics explains that may not necessarily be the case.

According to the report, titled “Patient Apps for Improved Healthcare: From Novelty to Mainstream,” an assessment of functionality of available apps finds that healthcare apps available today have both limited and simple functionality — the majority do little more than provide information.

However, Murray Aitken, executive director of IMS Health and one of the authors of the report, explains that doctors might be inclined to actually recommend some mobile applications — provided there was evidence proving they could really help patients.

“We heard from the doctors we spoke to in the course of this research that apps which help a patient be more engaged in their own health are very useful, and they would like to be able to recommend them,” Aitken says.

However, with only 16,275 of the apps available actually relating to patient health and treatment, and no evidence to confirm whether or not they function well, it could

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obviously be difficult for doctors to differentiate between what works and what doesn’t.

Aitken suggests some sort of “curation” of the available apps could make it easier for doctors to find and recommend ones that work to patients.

Even though consumers play a role in finding health-related apps that work for them, Aitken explains others play a bigger role in pushing these apps into the mainstream.

“For apps to move from being a novelty to being a mainstream part of healthcare, the app developers, physicians and payers need to develop more evidence that the apps work, look to design apps that meet the areas of greatest health cost or need, and address the other barriers we describe in the report,” he says. “That will help provide greater guidance to consumers, as well as healthcare professionals, about which apps are good and

which are not.”

“This will lead to more effective use of apps.”

Even though these apps may not currently be living up to what they claim, Aitken says he and his co-author of the study are very optimistic about the potential value that apps can bring to the healthcare system and patients.

“The prospects for this changing rapidly over the next five years are great, so that we will see much more frequently apps being ‘prescribed’ along with a medicine in a doctor’s office, or for hospital discharge papers to include a recommended app or two to help the patient with the return to community-based care, or for an app to be providing remote monitoring of a patient’s vital signs and that information being integrated into their electronic health record held by their physician,” Aitken says.

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Brent Holmes ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Thor: The Dark World GGGHF Directed by: Alan Taylor Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman, Christopher Eccleston, Idris Elba, Stellan Skarsgård, Anthony Hopkins, Kat Dennings, Rene Russo

If Marvel’s cinematic universe has proven anything, it is that if one keeps hammering at something like a person on a Red Bull binge playing whack-a-mole eventually one will end up with something interesting. Thor: The Dark World joins Iron Man and Iron Man 3 as one of the legitimately good movies to come out of this nerdgasm of superhero movies.

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has been cleaning up the Nine Realms since destroying the Rainbow Road level from Mario Kart at the end of his first movie. When Jane Foster — Natalie Portman channeling all of the skills from her days doing Star Wars — stumbles upon a mysterious weapon called the Aether, Thor must take her to Asgard to protect her from the Dark Elf, Malekith (Christopher Eccleston).

Thor: The Dark World is a vast improvement on the original entry in the series. Its biggest disadvantage is that it doesn’t get to spend enough time on its subplots. Frigga’s (Rene Russo) relationship with Loki, Jane’s interaction with the Asgardian world, and Thor and Loki’s team-up to take down Malekith would have benefited from more time being spent on them. The film puts the hammer down too fast. Another 30 minutes to an hour would have been a welcome addition, but if the film can leave one wanting to see more it must be doing something right.

In some areas, the characterization has become a lot stronger, but in others the film drums the same beats — Odin (Anthony Hopkins) ceases to be the all-seeing father figure and becomes a character half-blind to the world around him; Loki continues to be the most complicated character and the one everyone is really rooting for; and Idris Elba continues to be significantly underused.

Unfortunately, Thor himself continues to be a thundering bore of a character when not around Loki — which makes his pairing with Jane and love rival Sif (Jaime Alexander) a tragedy of mythic proportions.

Once the story gets beyond the

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rather lengthy expository opening, the dialogue is quick-paced, funny, and well-written. The bromance of Thor and Loki as well as the comic relief scenes from Darcy (Kat Dennings) and Erik (Stellan Skarsgård) are some of the film’s best written moments and a Norse funeral provides one of the emotional and visual high points.

The final fight scene in London featuring characters jumping in between several of the nine realms is one of the best-choreographed and organized fights that the Marvel cinematic universe has designed thus far.

Thor: The Dark World continues to be a stereotypical Hollywood film — women and minority characters are sidelined to Thor’s central role.

Maybe it’s a limitation of the source material, but when stuck with a kid who insists on banging his head against everything he sees, sometimes the only option is to hope he will smarten up after he blacks out.

Despite its flaws, Thor: The Dark World is a solid and entertaining film —whether lightning can strike twice for the Marvel films remains to be seen, but for now the god of thunder can hammer proudly.

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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The Gazette asked students why they did or didn’t wear a poppy for Remembrance Day.

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Because I think that it’s important to remember what people in this country have done for us and it’s important to commemorate and give them the respect they deserve. And I think that it’s to show solidarity and it’s a good way to show your patriotism.

Jasper Kang Science III

I guess the biggest factor is laziness. Too lazy to get the poppy and actually wear it. To add on to laziness, when you change your clothing you have to change the poppy onto different clothing.

Kristen Turner Social Science I

It’s to honour the soldiers and everything. It’s as much social pressure as it wants to be a good human being.

Emma Grimes MIT IV

I just like to wear it for respect for the veterans, and I always wear it all the time for November 11 for Remembrance Day. I just think it respects everyone who was in the war and who fought in all the wars, and who are still serving our country today.

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Yesterday was November 11. Yesterday marked the end of the Great War, the war to end all wars. Now, the day is known as Remembrance Day in Canada. It’s a day to remember all the men and women who lost their lives in the service of their country and of all of humanity.

In honour of Remembrance Day, Canadians wear a red poppy on their breast, over their heart, for the days preceding November 11. It is a visual reminder of those lost overseas fighting for human freedom, and those who have come back, forever altered. We, as a nation, are in debt to these people.

Why do we wear a poppy on Remembrance Day? Because the poppy has become a symbol of death in war and the symbol has a direct connection to Canada. The poem “In Flanders Fields” was written by John McCrae, a Canadian soldier in the First World War, after his friend was killed in battle. It describes the poppies growing between the rows of crosses that mark dead soldiers.

The poppy is a symbol of death. It is a symbol of loss, regret, humiliation, suffering, heartbreak, and most importantly, a profound reminder of the need for peace. People need visual cues to remember something and when we see a poppy, it helps us to remember why we have the freedom to go to school, the freedom to say what we want, and the freedom not to live in fear.

Wearing a poppy on my chest for two weeks is much better than the alternative yellow star. It’s also a hope that we can never go through what the courageous Canadian men and women who served their country both overseas and at home had to endure in times of war.

You don’t have to be born and raised here to wear a poppy either. The symbol is also something immigrants to Canada can wear. They have the opportunity to live in one of the freest and safest countries in the world because of the heroism of each and every one of our nation’s veterans. My father — who emigrated from Germany in the 1980s — wore a poppy every November and he too felt the sadness and respect for the people who keep us safe now and in the past.

The poppy campaign is not only one of remembrance; it also directly impacts veterans today. The donations raised fund many veterans programs in addition to helping those fighting today.

I’ve said a lot about what a poppy is, but I should say there are two things it isn’t. It is not a political statement or a glorification of war. There is nothing political about wearing a poppy, despite the efforts of those who think it is. We wear it for everyone who has been in a war for Canada. You can agree or disagree with war, but not wearing a poppy is not the way to protest it. The poppy is the direct opposite of a glorification of war. It is a reminder of the horrors of war. It is a reminder of why we are all here in Canada today. It is a memento mori of the thousands of men who lay beneath poppies, people who sacrificed their lives for no reason but the greater good. It is necessary to remember the horrors of the two World Wars, the Korean War, the Bosnian War, the Afghanistan war, and everything in between.

So please, wear a poppy. Lose your poppy and donate more money to get another one. Do it every year. It’s the easiest thing to do, and the very least you can do. Lest we forget.

I grew up learning about the history of the Great Wars, and Canada’s participation in them. I grew up pinning a poppy to my chest and sitting in Remembrance Day assemblies. I grew up thinking that to be Canadian was to wear a poppy, thinking that it was a national symbol. Thinking it was an obligation.

Let me start by clarifying that I am not against remembering Canada’s fallen soldiers, and I understand the immense sacrifice the men and women in our armed forces made to make the country what is it today.

But the poppy no longer symbolizes respect for the fallen.

Maybe it once did, but now, it symbolizes war. This is clear when you ask most people why they wear the poppy. Answers will range from “for the fallen in [insert past war]” or “for our troops in [insert current war]” to “because I love Canada.” There is no consistent answer. There is only the vague association of war.

That is the legacy of the poppy, as I’ve witnessed it.

Growing up, I began to notice the poppy being used as a scapegoat — a quick-fix method for people to fulfill the prerequisite of respecting the fallen rather than actually taking the time to respect them. People would pin a poppy, and perhaps donate some money, one month in a year. That month would act as a pass.

I know that if I were to die in battle, I would want my memory to consist of me as an individual. In fact, I would feel cheated that people claim to remember me via a symbol that is not mine and does not represent me. While I recognize that it’s unrealistic for us to know each and every fallen soldier, I think that knowing one is better than none.

Rather than pinning a red flower to my chest, why don’t I visit the veterans and hear first-hand experiences of war? Why do I not research the names of the fallen, learn each soldier’s likes and hobbies, quirks, hopes and dreams? Does wearing a poppy truly mean I remembered these men and women, or does it mean that I pinned a flower to my chest?

This brings me to my major issue with wearing a poppy — the reification of glorifying wars through a symbol.

I argue that if you actually want to respect and remember the people who have lost their lives for their country, a poppy is not necessary. I remember fallen soldiers, by name, almost every day of my life. A poppy doesn’t help me do that.

In many cases, a poppy exploits their deaths in order to further agendas. I’ve had people use the poppy as leverage to demand that I whole-heartedly, unwaveringly support the military. I don’t believe that support should ever be unwavering, especially not something with so high a cost. Support for something this critical should constantly be in check.

Because if we really thought about the sacrifice these people have made, we would treat war as the absolute last resort ever taken. We would be completely and utterly reluctant to engage in violent solutions.

With this in mind, I know as a Canadian my obligation is not to wear a poppy. Now I know my obligation is to remember, and to use that memory to critically evaluate the necessity of any war. Now I know the obligation is to respect, not be submissive to a system that propagandizes a symbol of war.

Now I know I choose not to wear a poppy because I remember.

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factattack New Jersey Devils’ goaltender Martin Brodeur extended his own previous NHL record with his 123rd career shutout against the Nashville Predators on Sunday.

Rundown >> The Mustangs women’s soccer team was eliminated from the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national championship when they fell 2–0 to Laval in a consolation match > The Trinity Western Spartans defended their title and claimed gold in the tournament | The Mustangs women’s volleyball team lost 0–3 to the Ottawa Gee Gees on Sunday.

Mustangs are Yates Cup kings once again ‘Stangs crush Queen’s to clinch Western’s 30th Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR After two long years, North America’s oldest football trophy has returned to Western. With a 51–22 win over the Queen’s Gaels, the Western Mustangs football team secured their 30th Yates Cup and Greg Marshall’s eighth as a head coach.

In a game that for many was their last at TD Stadium, the Western Mustangs dominated the stats sheet.

After conceding five points to start the game, the Mustangs responded with 45 unanswered points to secure the victory.

Will Finch, playing in his first cup final as the Mustangs’ starting quarterback, completed 20 of his 27 passes for 252 yards and three touchdowns. Through head coach Greg Marshall’s aggressive play calling, Finch also carried the ball 12 times for 77 yards.

“This has been my goal ever since watching the ‘09 Yates Cup with [Michael] Faulds and [Danny] Brannigan,” Finch said. “It means a lot and it’s one more step to the Vanier cup.”

On the first play of the game, Matt Uren, the third-year slot back out of London, Ontario, was hit hard on a kick return and left the game with an upper body injury. Uren returned to the game shortly after and took on his role as Finch’s primary red zone target.

“Matt is an outstanding player.

He’s the type of player that I thought all along he could be,” Marshall said.

“You look at it now and you say, ‘oh well he missed 80 per cent of the season,’ but maybe with the way he plays, and with the number of hits he takes, maybe he’s saving up for the playoffs.”

Uren caught seven passes for 128

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

JUST YOU AND I, DEFYING GRAVITY. Mustangs slot back Matt Uren making an almost-impossible catch in last moments of the second quarter of the Yates Cup finals.

Uren finished the game with 128 receiving yards on seven receptions in Western’s 51–22 victory over the Queen’s Gaels.

the Mustangs capped off a drive with a 16-yard touchdown pass to Uren who made an incredible diving catch. The touchdown was Uren’s first of the game, and one that increased the Mustangs’ lead to 16 going into the half.

Brian Marshall, Western’s fourthyear slot back, had five catches for 45 yards and a touchdown in Saturday’s final.

The Mustangs also found a lot

of success with their ground game as Yannick Harou rushed 20 times for 98 yards and put up a pair of touchdowns.

Scattered between their five majors, the Mustangs enjoyed another consistent outing from their veteran kicker. Lirim Hajrullahu, the Canadian Interuniversity Sport alltime scoring leader, went four-forfour in field goals — his longest from 49 yards out. Hajrullahu also had the

game’s first score on Western’s opening drive with a 23-yard field goal kicked into the wind.

“They took the wind right off the start but that first drive for us was huge,” Marshall said. “Even though we only got three points, getting three points in the wind was pretty strong in the first quarter.”

While the offence stole the

#17 YANNICK HAROU Running back

#16 MATT UREN Slot back

#70 LIRIM HAJRULLAHU Kicker/Punter

#12 PAWEL KRUBA Linebacker

Yannick Harou carried the ball 20 times leading to a gain of a whopping 98 yards. These 98 yards comprised most of the Mustangs’ total of 220 yards overall. Harou’s longest gain was an impressive 15 yards.

Defensively, Harou contributed to one tackle.

Matt Uren rushed four times, gaining 21 yards in total. His longest gain rushing covered 13 yards. Uren caught the ball seven times, covering a total of 128 yards with his longest reception spanning 47 yards.

Despite one fumble, Uren scored two touchdowns in the game.

Lirim Hajrullahu had six kickoffs that covered a total of 440 yards.

He punted four times totaling 135 yards. Hajrullahu scored five extra points in the game. In addition, he kicked four field goals in the game — highlighted by a 49-yard bomb.

Pawel Kruba successfully tallied eight tackles in the game. The score sheet, however, did not properly represent Kruba’s standout performance in the competition against Queen’s. Kruba was constantly present in plays, impressively supporting his teammates in every way.

yards and two touchdowns. With Saturday’s performance, Uren was awarded the Dalt White trophy for the Yates Cup’s most valuable player.

“We know we have a great team here and the sky’s the limit, really,” Uren said. “We just got to come out and execute every week. As long as we take care of assignments, we know we can accomplish anything with this team.”

At the end of the second quarter

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Key players in the Yates Cup win

#4 WILL FINCH Quarterback What they did

Will Finch succeeded in completing 20 of 27 pass attempts for 252 yards, with three leading to touchdowns.

He also covered 77 yards in 12 carries for a total of 329 yards. His longest gain in the air was an impressive 47 yards, with his longest gain on the ground totaled 19 yards.

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Fifth-year Mustangs say farewell to field Graduating Mustangs finish career with Yates Cup win Kaitlyn McGrath ASSOCIATE EDITOR The mood on the field after the Mustangs claimed this year’s Yates Cup with a emphatic 51–22 win over the Queen’s Gaels was complete jubilation.

“It’s amazing, especially that this is our last game on this field as a senior and the way we’ve been playing this year,” said Mustangs fifth-year kicker Lirim Hajrullahu.

But beneath the sweat and the grins, perhaps, some of those senior players were feeling another emotion.

“It hasn’t kicked in yet and I don’t want tears to go down right now,” Hajrullahu said about playing his last game as a Mustang at TD Stadium.

Hajrullahu along with five other fifth-year players had just played their last game in front of a home crowd. According to Canadian Interuniversity Sport eligibility restrictions, after five years on the roster, players are not allowed to report to training camp the following year.

Considering the rigorous training regime players maintain throughout the football season and beyond, these soon-to-be-retiring Mustang players have spent hundreds of hours on the TD turf. Leaving it behind is like leaving the comfortable confines of a childhood home.

But at least the last memory of playing on their field is a good one.

“It’s pretty crazy,” said Pawel Kruba, the fifth-year linebacker who had eight tackles in the game.

“It’s pretty surreal to end it like this on this field. It’s something that was obviously on my mind going into this […] and I’m pretty happy with the way it went.”

“Going undefeated, winning it here, I couldn’t ask for anything better,” Kruba continued.

It’s true. For the graduating class of Mustangs, even a Hollywood screenplay couldn’t have ended this perfectly.

This season, the Mustangs went 8–0 in the regular season — the first Western team to remain unblemished since 1998 — and thanks to the Yates Cup victory, they remain perfect in the 2013 playoffs. The

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

REMEMBER THE TITAN. Mustangs kicker and punter, Lirim Hajrullahu, on the sidelines during the Yates Cup finals. Hajrullahu scored four field goals in the game, which helped the Mustangs beat the Queen’s Gaels by a score of 51–22. The Yates Cup finals marked the final game Hajurllahu will play in TD Stadium.

It’s pretty surreal to end it like this on this field.

It’s something that was obviously on my mind going into this […] and I’m pretty happy with the way it went.

— Pawel Kruba

Mustangs fifth-year linebacker

team completely dominated every opponent, scoring at least 50 points in eight of their 10 games — the first team to do that in the CIS, ever.

And this year has also had its share of individual narratives. In his final year, Hajrullahu cemented his name in the record books as the all-time CIS scoring leader with 422 career points. Kruba, too, was named the OUA’s best defensive player.

Along with Kruba and Hajrullahu, Sean Blake, Andrew Thibaudeau, Eric Armitage and Jerod McCrory will be hanging up their jerseys after the season.

With the departure of some of the roster’s regular fixtures, the Mustangs will also lose some stalwart leaders. However, Kruba says he hopes his example has rubbed off on the younger players.

“That’s one thing we wanted to

do, we wanted to set the tone this year […] being a fifth-year, you want to send them off in the right direction,” Kruba said. “They’ll continue to get better and better every year after that.”

And while the seniors have

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FEAR THE BEARD. Mustangs linebacker Pawel Kruba (behind) making one of his eight tackles in the Yates Cup finals. Kruba has been a staple of the Mustangs’ defence for the past five years, including the past two years in which he was the team’s defensive captain.

played their last game at home, it’s not their last as Mustangs. Next week, the team will travel to Calgary to take on the University of Calgary Dinos. So for at least one more game, the seniors will continue to lead the team.

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FACING OFF FOR IT ALL. The Western Mustangs challenged the Queen’s Gaels in the 106th Yates Cup finals at TD Stadium on Saturday. The Mustangs walked away with the Cup and the glory after defeating Queen’s by a score of 51–22. Next up for the Mustangs is the Calgary Dinos in the Mitchell Bowl next week at Calgary.

downfield but seemed to have their drives cut short by all the pressure from Western’s front four.

Justin Chapdelaine and Doug Corby racked up 82 receiving yards and a touchdown apiece for the Gaels. In response, the Mustangs’ defence tallied five sacks and five tackles that resulted in a loss of yards for Queen’s.

“Our whole team played awesome,” Finch said. “Me personally, my O-line bought me so much time and the receivers made fantastic catches so that’s all you can ask for as a quarterback.”

In their game winning performance, the Western offensive line did not allow Finch to get sacked or turn the ball over.

The stage is now set for the Mustangs to take on the University of Calgary Dinos in this year’s Mitchell bowl. The Dinos earned their spot with a 43–28 win over the University of Manitoba Bisons.

While the Mustangs now prepare to take on the Dinos in Calgary on November 16, their chances of playing in the Vanier Cup final have

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show, the Mustangs defence was flocking to the ball. The Mustangs intercepted Gaels’ quarterback Billy McPhee twice on the day.

McPhee threw a ball that was tipped into the hand of Preston Huggins, the second-year linebacker, who picked off McPhee for the second time this year. It was a déjà vu of sorts, as Huggins had an interception that he returned for a touchdown against Queen’s in their Homecoming tilt. In the Yates Cup final however, Huggins was in to replace Beau Landry, who dressed but didn’t play. Huggins had eight tackles and an interception in what was without a doubt his best game of the season.

“Maybe I said last week that it was as good of a defensive performance as we had — this might have been better,” Marshall said.

Pawel Kruba, Western’s defensive captain, also had eight total tackles in Saturday’s win.

Statistically, the Queen’s Gaels were finding ways to move the ball

steadily increased — a thought that will sit in the back of their mind.

“We always take it one game at a time. Last summer we were looking at winning the Vanier Cup. So we’re looking at it like that,” Finch said.

If the Mustangs bring the same well-rounded performance to Calgary it will be hard for the offensively tailored Dinos to stop them, meaning a trip to Quebec City definitely in the making.

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