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Break-ins bad this time of year: police Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR The London Police Service is urging students to lock their doors and windows at all times after a high number of break-ins in and around the university area in recent weeks. Break-ins don’t only occur when students aren’t home. “There have even been incidents when residents are home […] say in the back or the front of the house, and rooms wherever they’re not are getting broken in,” constable Jennifer Hodgert, a media relations officer with the London Police Service, said. Hodgert said the LPS just wanted to encourage students to take proactive measures to prevent break-ins — such as locking exterior doors, bedroom doors, and windows. Jeff Hendler, a recent Ivey graduate, had his house broken into last year while he was taking an afternoon nap. Hendler, who lived in the basement of his home, admitted to not remembering whether he locked the door or not when he came home from class on the day of the break-in. Upon waking late in the afternoon, Hendler and his roommates discovered their Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 were missing from the living room. “The person must have been in a bit of a rush, because he left the power cord for the PS3,” Hendler said. Hodgert stressed that students should keep their doors locked at
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all times, even when they are home, and to ensure that all residents have keys. She also encouraged students to call the police to report any suspicious activities they see, such as a person in the neighbourhood or outside their home they feel doesn’t belong. “We’d rather come to investigate than to come a couple hours later when the homeowner calls because they’ve found out their home has been broken into,” Hodgert said. Since multiple students often live together in a single house, thieves get more reward for their effort. “It’s just a greater area for a
person to break in and steal things like laptops because there are multiple opportunities within one residence to do so,” Hodgert said. She also told students not to leave accessories leading to entry lying around the property, advising against leaving keys under mats or notes on bedroom doors saying when a resident will be back. However, sometimes locking your door isn’t enough to prevent a break-in. Nicole Marcotte, a third-year science student, had her home broken into over the winter break last year. Intruders broke into her home through a window and knocked
down two of the residents’ bedroom doors. Marcotte’s Fossil watch as well as some money was stolen, but she said she was lucky since she had taken most of her valuables home for the break. However, what she found most irksome was that her landlord demanded the girls pay upwards of $400 in damages for the break-in. Marcotte refused, and gave her landlord the number of the police officer in charge of the case. “It was quite scary living there afterwards,” Marcotte said. “Now I live in an apartment.”
If you want to ensure you’re drinking quality water, be prepared to pay for it. On Monday, London’s Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee reviewed a report that recommended a hike in water rates and a hike for the city’s wastewater budget for 2014. Water rates are expected to climb eight per cent this year, while the wastewater budget is expected to increase by seven per cent. Harold Usher, London city councillor for Ward 12, summarized the content of the report. “It says that we are proposing to continue our strategic plan, with respect to hydro and water rates, and the development of the hydro and water with respect to meeting the standards that the provincial government set for us, and to meet all the operating costs that we need,” he explained. “We’re increasing the water rate by eight per cent and the sewer rate by seven per cent for another two years.” “We’ve been doing that for a few years now, it’s a plan that we have — it’s not anything new,” he continued. Usher explained that the increase was necessary in order to cap the annual increases at three per cent starting in 2016, which is a city goal. In addition, the added funds >> see HIKE pg.3
USC meets with police over Project LEARN concerns Iain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR USC officials met with the police yesterday to discuss student concerns with Project LEARN. Amir Eftekarpour, vice-president external for the USC, and Pat Whelan, president of the USC, said the meeting with police chief Brad Duncan to discuss the police’s annual anti-party crackdown was very productive, lasting over an hour and a half. According to Eftekarpour, the London Police Service has acknowledged that Project LEARN does not work, and are going to work with the University Students’ Council to build a better relationship between the police and students.
“We went into the meeting wanting to raise the perspective of students, both specifically and at large about Project LEARN — both those that have been affected by it and the general principle of it and the engagement aspect of it, to those who were directly responsible for it.” Eftekarpour explained the USC had many problems with Project LEARN, including enforcement tactics and the perception it creates among students of the police targeting them. “If a student, for example, is having a noisy party, the protocol for the police is to give them a ticket right away, whereas a 40-year-old who has a noisy party with other 40-yearolds would get a warning,” he said. The police declined to comment
on this story, though Duncan has scheduled a press conference to discuss Project LEARN tomorrow. The police, after holding fast on their enforcement practices, including canvassing student neighbourhoods for students’ personal information, finally conceded that work can be done to improve the student-police relationship, according to Eftekarpour. “After some discussion, the chief acknowledged that Project LEARN practices — like zero tolerance, strict enforcement, canvassing — don’t work,” he said. Eftekarpour said the USC will be involved in the community process to find a solution to dealing with student behaviour in London. That will start with the next Town and Gown
committee meeting. “In the next couple of months we’re going to be working very hard to get the student voice at these events — like Town and Gown — and before the next major police presence, which is really St. Patrick’s Day, I really want for the community to come up with a solution to this.” The USC is going to continue the Good Neighbour campaign, and the police and the USC agreed that students need to take a larger role in engaging the community. Some of the proposals the USC brought to the police were the shutdown of police canvassing for students’ personal information, and changes to the operations of Project LEARN — going from targeted patrols and zero-tolerance with
large fines, to community service and apology letters as punishment. A proposal is also being considered to mimic what police do in Hamilton, where students get a 30 minute warning before a party is shut down and students are fined. The student union at McMaster University, located in Hamilton, has said that policy is very effective. Eftekarpour said the USC is working hard to get students to have a relationship with their neighbours. Police agreed that the best solution would be to have neighbours have a relationship where police would not need to be involved at all. He added that he is increasing the relationship the university has with the off-campus advisors.
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GETTING READY FOR THE MONSTER MASH. A student tries out his Halloween costume in the Mustang Halloween store in the basement of the University Community Centre. Halloween is a week tomorrow — better get moving if you’re still looking for a costume.
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Western among Canada’s top 100 employers This week, Western was named among the top 100 employers in Canada for 2014 on Mediacorp Canada’s annual list. Western was one of four companies in London to receive this recognition. This award is in recognition of the many benefits, rewards and possibilities that the university has continually granted for its employees. “It’s a great thing for the university, it helps us position ourselves as a top employer and a desirable place to work,” said Keith Marnoch, Western’s director of media relations. The university offers its employees a competitive compensation and benefits program along with a stable
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Helping Londoners Rise out of mental illness Earlier this month, the Rise Asset Development initiative was launched in London, which provides microcredit loans to individuals with mental health and addiction. In 2009, philanthropist Sandra Rotman began the project in Toronto. With the launch in London, it will be the third city participating in the program after Ottawa joined earlier this year. “We feel that having good work is always healthy and a good predictor of recovery for the individuals [with mental health and addiction],” Geff Stutman, an associate at Rise, said. “There are barriers that the population faces for traditional employment and access to traditional financing and we hope to provide jobs and cultivate micro-entrepreneurs.” Rise Asset Development and Ivey Business School designed plans to suit the community’s needs and will be used in partnership with several agencies that provide social services for youths and adults in London. “Social inclusion is important and we want the population with mental health and addiction to be included economically as a part of stronger, healthier community,” Stutman explained. —Emory Liu
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Report finds secret meeting was illegal Ombudsman alleges that city councillors illegally met outside of chambers Kaitlyn McGrath ASSOCIATE EDITOR The Ontario Ombudsman determined a meeting involving seven London city councillors, including Mayor Joe Fontana, held in the back room of a London restaurant last February was illegal. According to Ontario’s watchdog André Marin, the meeting, which occurred at Billy T’s Tap and Grill restaurant, violated the Municipal Act which requires meetings discussing “city business” to be held in public, he wrote in a 48-page report released on Tuesday. The investigation was sparked after the Ombudsman’s office received 60 complaints, the most they’ve ever received regarding a secret meeting, Marin said. While the councillors who were in attendance claim them all meeting at the restaurant was a coincidence, the evidence Marin gathered suggests otherwise. “The evidence all points to a deliberate attempt to conduct business under the guise of a social gathering,” Marin said during a press conference Tuesday afternoon. “This is exactly the kind of mischief that the Act seeks to prevent.” Marin acknowledged it’s not illegal to talk about city matters outside of meetings, but it is not okay when “a quorum of council or a standing committee improperly gathers outside of council chambers, to the exclusion of the public ear and eye,” the report stated. Along with Fontana, the councillors present at Billy T’s were Dale Henderson, Stephen Orser, Bud Polhill, Joe Swan, Paul Van Meerbergen and Sandy White, all members of the group dubbed the “Fontana Eight” due to their
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BILLY T’S TAP AND GRILL AND SECRET HEADQUARTERS. In a report released yesterday by Ontario Ombudsman André Marin, seven city councilors, including Mayor Joe Fontana, were found to have held an illegal secret meeting at Billy T’s restaurant in February.
tendency to vote as a bloc. “There was no formal agenda for this meeting, but there was an informal agenda,” Marin said, adding there were discussions about issues that were before council at the time. The meeting occurred on February 23, five days before a budget vote where Fontana sought to keep his promise of freezing taxes. Three councillors admitted to Marin that they talked about the tax freeze. According to the report, Fontana testified that once five or six council members showed up, “someone suggested they move to the back
room.” The meeting ended quickly after the London Free Press got word of the secret discussions and several councillors left through the back door, Marin said. “It was a reaction that was somewhat like lifting a rock and seeing all the insects scatter,” Marin said at the press conference. “To me that shows consciousness of guilt.” Chris Williams, a lawyer with the Toronto firm Aird & Berlis, who was representing the councillors, said he disagreed with the Ombudman’s ruling. “It doesn’t meet the definition of meeting as the courts in Ontario
have established, so it was something else, but it wasn’t a council meeting or a committee meeting,” he said. “It was a get-together.” And this is not the first time the Ombudsman has probed city council. A year before the Billy T’s incident, five of the same councillors met at another local restaurant ahead of a budget meeting, but there was not enough evident to suggest it was illegal. Following the release of this report, Ward 5 councillor Joni Baechler, who was not at the meeting, said she would like to see fines established. “I would think that we could have
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word of the day Exudation Noun. The act or instance of oozing forth.
Everybody poops. And pees. And sometimes these natural body functions have to occur on campus (whether we like it or not). That leaves students with a serious decision: Where am I going to do the deed? More often than not, it’s a matter of proximity. You’ll go in the nearest vacant stall and get in and out as quickly as possible. But occasionally, there’s a washroom that leaves such a good impression on you that you’ll return time and time again to make the most of the luxurious lavatories. There are many important qualities that define a great washroom. Pristine porcelain, quiet isolation, and odour-free air are all hallmarks of fantastic facilities. While rare, these gems do exist, scattered amidst the many stinkers on campus. Finding them is the trick. Here at The Gazette, we make it our mission to share with you our discoveries. So what are the best washrooms on campus, and what are the stalls to stay away from? Join us on our journey to the johns, as we explore the best bathrooms on campus.
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Best Washroom: King’s “Mansion” I have always approached public washrooms with apprehension bordering on dread, with only a single exception on campus — the luxurious private room at King’s Dante Lenardon. Originally a private mansion before being repurposed for classrooms and faculty offices, the ancient majesty of the building has remained. And that extends to its washroom. The tiled floors, hand towels and ambient lighting will convince any newcomer that this one-person washroom is off-limits — precisely the reason it’s kept in such pristine condition. Here, no one will disturb the sanctity of your most private moments as you sit atop the mansion’s throne.
Best Washroom: Basement of the UCC across from Travel Cuts A good public washroom is like a good wine — it needs a nice smell and a finish that makes you feel cleansed. In finding the best washroom for myself, the urinals need to be void of the few drops of piss that inevitably tinkle out and fall on the floor, the stalls need to be wide enough that I don’t crush my balls trying to squeeze onto the toilet, and it needs to be traveled infrequently enough that I can release a vigorous bowel movement without feeling like everyone from here to King’s College heard me. This undoubtedly describes the washroom in the basement of the UCC. It is big, spacious, and when I’ve been there, infrequently visited.
Best Washroom: Second floor University College The best washroom is on the second floor of University College. Hidden behind the commonly used ones in the main hallway, this gem is located in the nooks and crannies by the modern language professors’ offices. Fully loaded with a foot bath, cleaning products, and watering cans for optimal hygienic needs, this washroom easily takes the cake. The best part? Constantly seeing positive sticky notes on the mirror. If you lose your watch here, chances are some great person will leave you a note with a phone number to get it back. The only disadvantage to this washroom is its ancient sink knob, which will definitely leave a dripping faucet if you don’t use full force to squeeze the sucker shut.
Best Washroom: Physics and Astronomy, outside of the atrium These are so beautiful! First, they’re laid out just the way I like ‘em — they’re single-person washrooms that you go into and lock. In PandA, you don’t have to walk through a line of stalls all the way to the end for that private spot because the bathroom itself is a private spot. The technology and newness of these washrooms is incredibly evident; they have those neat little buttons on the toilet where you can denote if you’re taking a number one or number two. Also, the automatic flush is accurate which is incredibly fantastic — no longer will you unwillingly have a bidet. If you’re looking for comfort and forward thinking, the washroom in PandA is for you!
Best Washroom: Third floor UCC, by the conference rooms Peace. Quiet. Serenity. All are paramount features of a premier pooping palace. This washroom, tucked away from the bustling hordes on the ground floor, is my number one pick for best washroom on campus. Its relatively low lighting adds an aesthetic ambience to the experience of dropping your deuce. Furthermore, it’s remarkably under-advertised door means any of the potential bathroomgoers could walk right past it leaving you undisturbed. It’s perfection in porcelain. I’d honestly consider walking from my home to school just to sit on this throne.
Shittiest Washroom: Basement University College Sometimes, a washroom goes the extra mile to make your experience particularly shitty. For this reason, the washroom in the basement of UC next to room 85 is probably one of the worst washrooms on campus. At several degrees hotter than the rest of the building, this washroom can turn even the tiniest, most delicate bowel movements into sweat-fests reserved normally for those times after eating spicy Mexican food. You can’t play Angry Birds or pretend to read The Gazette’s sports section here — it’s get in and hope you don’t run into anyone you know on the way out.
Shittiest Washroom: Basement University College Just two floors down, you’ll find the worst washroom ever in the University College basement. You can’t miss it — it’s the big washroom in the main hallway that looks like something out of The Ring. Not only does it smell like you were just transported to an 1800s outhouse, this washroom is also fully loaded with cockroaches. The doors creak as if you’re in that scene of a horror movie before the villain jumps out, chainsaw and all. Seriously, I fear one day I’ll discover a decaying body in the vent; that would explain the smell. On top of that, the towel dispensers barely work, so there are always rolls of paper towel drenched in water lying around.
Shittiest Washroom: Weldon Library These are perhaps the most atrocious looking washrooms in which I’ve ever had the misfortune of defecating. “Wait a minute, Weldon is huge! Surely not all of the washrooms are that bad!” You could be saying this and you would be horribly wrong. My first grievance has to be the oddity of the way the washrooms themselves are laid out. Why is there an odd, compact space for the sinks and then another equally odd, compact space where the stalls are? Moreover, there is this strange, almost fluorescent glow to these bathrooms at Weldon — it feels like something ripped from a Soviet Union government building. Enough said.
Shittiest Washroom: Weldon Library You isolate yourself on the fourth floor of Weldon, caffeinated on the verge of overdose for some serious study time. And hence the perfect storm is created — stranded eight flights of stairs away from any respectable washroom with a full bladder of coffee, there is no choice but to enter the grimy shit-hole of the library defecation zone. The dank, dimly lit room reeks of the excrement of hundreds of students. The toilets are filthy, floors and stalls covered in suspect fluids, soap and paper towel receptors perpetually empty so it’s not even possible to wipe the disgusting experience from one’s hands — or mind.
Shittiest Washroom: First floor UCC by the Starbucks Ever wanted to void your bowels to the sound of steaming milk, loud voices and a screeching blender? Neither has anyone else, but that’s exactly what you’ll get using this washroom. Not only is the noise intolerable, but the cleanliness as well. It’s no fault of the custodial staff, it’s just such a high-traffic location that flecks of urine, crumpled paper towels, and a wet sinkarea are common here. Using this washroom should be an absolute worst-case scenario. It wouldn’t be entirely unreasonable of you to go in your pants rather than enter this cesspool.
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Two weeks ago, Canadian political satirist Rick Mercer returned to the air with the 11th season of The Rick Mercer Report. The popular program features Mercer satirizing Canadian politics, traveling across the country to events like the Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championship in High River, Alberta or going on dates with Jan Arden, and giving his popular rants. If you don’t watch this show, you aren’t Canadian enough. Over its 11-year history, The Rick Mercer Report has featured several highlights in Canadian specific humour including Canadian author Pierre Burton providing instructions on how to correctly roll a joint, and Rick Mercer having a sleepover with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Oh yeah, we can hear her roar! That’s right, Katy Perry’s long awaited follow up to Teenage Dream is here. Considering it has already spawned a number one hit, people are going to pay close attention. “Roar” won’t be the only song that will be blasted on the radio either. “This Is How We Do” is an upbeat song, almost as barn-burning as “Roar.” Due to this dance inducing nature, it’s definitely one that will likely be wailing through your radio the next time you’re driving down the highway. The look that Perry has adapted for Prism is not nearly as fun as the one for Teenage Dream. There are no cupcake breasts or fluorescent colours but rather a much more muted and down-to-earth style. Surely it will work out.
The Conjuring was the name of a film that was seeping from everyone’s mouths this past summer as they whispered in muted horror. Indeed, the movie has been praised by critics and audiences alike who both believed it was totally freaky. Not freaky in a Saw: Seemingly Endless Sequel kind of way, where assorted body parts are severed in mass pools of blood, but freaky in a way where psychological horror is valued. Unfortunately, there seems to be a sequel that is in development. The Conjuring has seemingly lost the allure of being a stand-alone horror. Whoops. That’s okay, this DVD is surely worth picking up — as long as it’s with someone else. You certainly will need a cuddle buddy because this is scary!
Ender’s Game marks continued work for Viola Davis which is incredibly amazing. Davis, who was infamously robbed of an Oscar in 2011 by the dastardly Meryl Streep will hopefully deliver a great performance. Anyway, about the actual movie, it’s based on a very popular science fiction novel from the the 80s so it will already have a built in audience. Interestingly enough, the author of said novel, Orson Scott Card has been very defensive of the rights for his novel. Card has slowly been developing this movie for years now and it’s finally come to fruition. (Fun fact: Card is also a raging homophobe!) Ender’s Game will surely draw a lot of people into theatres with its special effects and epic story.
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ON THE CHARTS “Heartbreaker” by Justin Bieber Whenever Justin Bieber releases anything new — a song, an album, a fragrance, a fascinating piece of literature that has the critics swooning — there will be intense interest, not just from pre-teen girls but from the media at large. In this case, “Heartbreaker” is a little bit of an odd song. It has that typical Bieber feel to it but it just seems a little different from what we would expect. It’s got a slow tempo and perhaps Bieber is aiming for the sexy thing (which he can somewhat do), but for the most part: Meh. The single is weird because it features a lot of electric sound and at parts of the chorus, it even sounds like young, sweet Justin is gargling with a synthesizer. Of course, people will still always talk about Bieber.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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Secret meeting Profs need to slide needs penalty their slides online Yesterday, Ontario ombudsman André Marin released his long-awaited report on the closed-door meeting of seven city councillors at Billy T’s restaurant last February. In his damning assessment of the gathering, Marin deemed that the secret meeting of councillors, including Mayor Joe Fontana, was illegal. In his report, he said the meeting was “a betrayal of public trust, and diminished the credibility of the council participants in the eyes of London citizens, other council colleagues and all Ontarians.” Based on the evidence presented in Marin’s report, including the dubious testimony of the seven councillors who insist they met at the restaurant by chance (in the windowless back room, no less), the Billy T’s meeting was undoubtedly a betrayal of public trust. The Ontario Municipal Act prohibits members of city council from meeting in private to discuss public matters in order to reach future decisions — and it does so for a reason. Citizens have a reasonable expectation to be privy to the decision-making process of their elected representatives. As far as law-breaking goes, a secret lunch meeting is admittedly not that bad — not like, say, fraud or embezzlement. But Londoners should still be upset at the principle. If Marin’s report is true, seven London councillors knowingly broke the law for political reasons. We accept that back-room meetings and shady dealings will always be part of politics, but that doesn’t mean they should be overlooked when revealed. So where do we go from here? The ombudsman’s report made three recommendations that can be summed up as: Make sure you don’t do it again. In other words, after all the speculation and media reports and hype about the investigation, and despite the fact that councillors were found to have broken the law, there will be no penalty for doing so. We find this somewhat puzzling — why have a law at all if there are no penalties for breaking it? We realize the Ombudsman does not have the power to impose strict punishments on city council, but if we expect reports such as this to carry any weight then the councillors should face more than a slap on the wrist. They did a disservice to their community — perhaps, at the very least, some community service is in order.
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Jeremiah Rodriguez NEWS EDITOR In first year, I quickly learned the various routines if lecture notes weren’t posted online or even used in the course. If lecture slides aren’t used, you frantically scribble down everything the teacher spits out, hoping to some almighty being that you made the right decision on what to write down and that your teacher’s anecdote about a boyhood trip to Michigan had no bearing on the midterm. On the other side, the best professors are the ones who post lecture slides online so you can focus more on what the professor is saying — even if those slides are bloated and use a font like comic sans. But then there are those professors in the middle, those down the centre who make my blood boil. The lukewarm, namby-pamby teachers who make lecture slides but refuse to post them online, expecting you to know what’s on those slides while also taking notes from the blubbering they’re doling out. Students are then caught in an awkward position, writing down what they see while nodding their heads pretending to be listening to what the professor is saying. After that class is over, you only hope
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that the textbook connects the lesson’s scribblings with the professor’s examples. In the heat of midterm season, before I can even begin to study coherently, I start the process of piecing together words I wrote down in a National Treasure-like search for the truth. And why do some professors behave this way? In my four years at university, I usually find that this has more to do with the teacher’s ego than “enriching” any kind of university experience. Some teachers are so high on themselves that in their perspective, to post lecture slides would be inciting students to skip class, and if they don’t come to lecture, how would they experience the brilliance of the professor? I also disagree with the notion that posting lecture notes would lead to a drop in attendance, since students would gain twice as much background because they’d have what the teacher thinks is important and could also pay full attention. The bigger disservice to students is to force them to filter through two streams of information at once. Will there be students who zone out because the notes are already online? Obviously, but there will always be students who can’t muster the enthusiasm to care in class, no matter what teaching strategy the professor adopts. When we as students dump about $7,000 a year into our education, it’s our job to decide whether to listen or not — and it isn’t helping when you make it harder. Now, I would express my frustration more, but I have to get started figuring out what the hell I wrote in class.
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Dear Life, Do people in the library actually think throwing their textbook onto a desk to make the space look “occupied” really fools people? Dear Life, The Gazette needs more sassy editors like Kevin Hurren. Enough said. Dear Life, Thank you for blessing me with unprecedented eye candy on campus today. I really need a pick me up. wgaz.ca/dearlife Letter to the editor
Health coverage needs check-up To the Editor: This is in response to the advice and claims I have seen made by many health experts and personal trainers in this newspaper that have been so shamelessly wrong. The fact that these people who should know better keep repeating the same myths is somewhat puzzling and strange. After all, what we know today about health is different from what we knew twenty years ago. For instance, “stoking the metabolic” fire by eating every two to three hours is a complete farce. Studies have shown that there is no difference between nibbling and gorging when it comes to metabolism. I’m limited by word count but anyone interested should look up “intermittent fasting.” Also, the idea that skipping breakfast is bad and will make you “fat.” Correlation is not causation, and the reason why breakfast-skipping is associated with higher body weight is similar to that of lower meal frequencies and higher body weights. Breakfast-skippers generally have deregulated eating habits and thus show a higher disregard for health. Additionally, keep in mind that most people who resort to skipping breakfast are not the type that sit around and read about nutrition. They are most likely people who diet in a haphazard manner — the type of person to go on an 800-calorie crash diet and then rebound, gaining all the weight (and then some) back. The Gazette’s health & fitness section = Fox News’ coverage of American politics. James Allen Political Science III
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saywhat? I will always cherish the wonderful memories I have of my time spent in North America while playing the game I love, making sacrifices and pursuing my hockey dreams.
>> Defenseman Roman Hamrlik on his retirement from hockey after playing 20 seasons in the NHL
Rundown >> The Mustangs women’s lacrosse team won both of their games against Waterloo and McGill this past weekend > They are going into the playoffs this weekend in third place seed > Wrestler Steven Takahashi was named one of the 2012-2013 season Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s Top eight Academic All-Canadians.
Lirim Hajrullahu, Will Finch break CIS records Mustangs football finishes undefeated after 50–10 win Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR In their final game of the regular season, two Mustangs cemented their names in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport record books. The Western football team’s 50–10 win over the York Lions capped off their first undefeated regular season since 1998, and was highlighted by Lirim Hajrullahu’s alltime scoring record, and Will Finch’s single season passing yard record. The two records were among eight broken or tied Saturday’s week nine finale. Eight points shy of the CIS record, Hajrullahu made an early dent with two field goals and an extra point for a combined seven first-quarter points. His feat came late in the second quarter, however, when the Mustangs were stopped six yards short of the red zone on the second down. From 26 yards, Hajrullahu hit his target and broke the record previously held by Ottawa’s Neil Lumsden. “This last week everyone’s been mentioning them a lot so it kind of got to me. That whole time I was just trying to be mentally ready for the game. That was the most important thing and it turned out well,” Hajrullahu said. The 26-yarder was part of a five field goal, and five extra point performance. His combined 20 points sets the new record at 422 points. Sitting well behind the national record at the start of Saturday’s game, Finch completed 32 of his 48 passes for 547 yards, which put him ahead of the 3,033-yard record previously held Western’s Michael Faulds. “It’s a cool individual accomplishment, that’s for sure, but honestly I personally thought I had a bad day with three picks against a team that’s not necessarily the best,” Finch said. “It’s a cool individual thing to have but at the same time I just want to get better and keep improving.” In pursuit of the record, the Mustangs ran the ball only 15 times out of the 70 total plays. “We were just down to one running back,” Greg Marshall, Mustangs head coach, said. “With everything that York had done — they’d given up yards in the air, and not on the ground — they were one of the stingiest teams partly because they blitz so much. I just expected they would have brought a little more pressure.” Finch’s accomplishment came late in the third quarter on a 40– yard bomb to Brian Marshall. Along with the single season passing yard record, Finch inched past Kyle Quinlan’s 68.9 Ontario University Athletics completion percentage record with a season average of 69.7. “I felt that it would be easier on everyone physically if we threw the ball more,” Marshall said. As the Mustangs took off to an early start, their big first half put
It’s a cool individual accomplishment that’s for sure, but honestly, I personally thought I had a bad day with three picks against a team that’s not necessarily the best. It’s a cool individual thing to have but at the same time I just want to get better and keep improving. — Will Finch
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the team well in position to begin breaking records. The 50 points put up against York also marked a new CIS record for most games with 50 or more points in a season. As a team the Mustangs dominated on both sides of the ball. Finch’s 547–yard performance was 13 yards short of the single game record — put up in only three quarters. To keep their Vanier cup hopes alive, Marshall removed Finch from the game after setting the record at 3,047 yards in favor of the Mustangs’ back-up Blake Huggins. George Johnson, Western’s rookie wide receiver, gave Finch a helping hand as he hauled in 13 passes for 226 yards, with a touchdown. His
200-plus yard effort was his second of the season. “We knew what we were getting into this week — they’re the number one team in the country, probably the most powerful offence in the country, and I’m pretty proud of the way our kids handled it,” Warren Craney, York Lions head coach, said. Although nobody was sure if Finch could throw the 200 yards in the game to surpass Faulds and cement his name in history, the Mustangs opened the second half with a short pass to Johnson, who took the ball 80 yards for the score. The huge catch and run brought Finch within striking distance of the record, and was a major part of the
team’s decision to push for it. “We hit Georgy on that hitch and it was an easy 80, 85 and I was like, ‘okay, now we’re close,’” Marshall said. Johnson saw a lot of success in the shallow field where he could make catches and fight for extra yards. With Saturday’s performance, Johnson finished the season as the top-ranked wide receiver in the OUA with 982 receiving yards. Demoralized, the York secondary continued to break down as they failed to provide over the top safety help leaving the back end of the field open for Finch to exploit. “They’re a very talented receiver
core, Will is an unbelievable quarterback, so we made a commitment — we wanted to change up a lot of coverages, we wanted to mainly play them in zone because we thought we couldn’t handle the matchup in man coverage and I think it benefited us,” Craney said. Despite the lacklustre performance, the York secondary managed to pick off Finch on three occasions. Finch’s three interceptions were half of his season-long total. “Anytime you throw that many times there’s going to be opportunities — give credit to the York safety, we may have underestimated him a little,” Marshall said. “Will is a fantastic talent, he throws well and he makes good decisions. Part of learning is sometimes on first down, if it’s not what you see, throw it away.” In his first game back, Matt Uren, the third-year utility player, stood out as an effective number two option. Lining up in the slot, Uren had 10 receptions for 170 yards without a touchdown. Uren did, however, stretch out for a ball thrown way over his head, which he caught. Also among the records was Hajrullahu’s OUA career field goal total now set at 77, and his tied OUA single-season field goal total of 22. With an 8–0 record the Mustangs have earned the top seed in the OUA playoffs, and secured home field advantage up until the Yates cup. The stage is set — the Mustangs have the first week bye and will return to action on November 2, to take on the lowest-seeded winner of the quarter-final matchup starting this weekend. This means that depending on the winners, the Mustangs can either face off against the Windsor Lancers, the Ottawa Gee Gees, or the McMaster Marauders. As Finch prepares to lead the Mustangs on the road to the Vanier Cup, one can only wonder how the week off will affect them.
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Lacrosse team beats U of T to make playoffs Mustangs finish winning streak at home in last game Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR The Western Mustangs men’s lacrosse team cruised to their sixth straight home victory over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in Friday’s 11–4 final. While the scoreboard stayed relatively still for the better part of the first quarter, the heavily favoured Mustangs dominated possession. It was only a matter of time before Western opened the scoring. The Mustangs enjoyed multiple goal performances from two of their top scorers. Shane Morlock, the first-year attacker out of Whitby, Ontario, netted four goals, and tacked on an assist to complete his five-point effort. After a big save by Mustangs’ goalie Zach Grace, Western moved the ball back up field on the counter attack. Morlock finished the tic-tactoe passing play on the short side to give Western their first lead of the game. “The transition game wasn’t our best today — we had three transition goals but we also blew a few chances. We lost possession and gave the ball back to them a few times,” Jeremy Tallevi, Mustangs head coach, said. “It’s one area we’ll have to clean up this week and be better at for next weekend.” Also appearing on the scoring sheet was Western’s veteran middie, Dylan Ham. The third-year had three goals in Friday night’s win. In 11 games played, Ham has 15 goals and five assists. Together, Ham and Morlock had a combined eights points — more than the game’s entire margin. As the Mustangs found success from the perimeter, the Varsity Blues began to open up in their defensive end, leaving more space for the Western attack to exploit the inside zone. “Once we got up a few goals they kind of spread out on defence and it opened up a bit more room on the inside for us. We had some great plays and the guys capitalized,”
Tallevi said. Late in the second quarter, Ham and the Western attackers applied forward pressure on the Varsity Blues’ goaltender trying to clear the ball out of his defensive end. Slashing at the goalie’s pole, Ham jarred the ball loose. The loose ball was scooped up by Morlock and fired into the empty net. “We sort of let up a little bit. We got away from doing some of the things we were successful with,” Eric Pitre, Mustangs defenceman, said. “I think we got back to it a little closer to the end and sort of were able to close it out.” While the Western attackers placed a significant amount of pressure up front, their long pole defencemen played equally as strong in their own zone. Andrew Masson, the Varsity Blues rookie attacker and division one transfer from the University of Vermont, was held to only a single goal and two assists. Western’s veteran defence kept Toronto’s leading scorer away from the inside zone, and forced him to make plays from the perimeter. “I think our top 10 guys against their top 10 guys is probably fairly even, but they’ve got more depth than we do,” Joe Nizich, Varsity Blues head coach, said. Widely considered as one of the most talented defenders in the league, Western’s Eric Pitre saw the greater part of the team’s matchup with Masson. “Western’s a good team, they’re very disciplined, they play good defence, they’ve got some great poles,” Nizich said. “Pitre is an all-Canadian.” Friday’s win improved the Mustang’s record to 9–2, and moved the team into second place in the West ahead of the Guelph Gryphons. As they reach the tail end of their regular season, the Mustangs now prepare for the Baggattaway playoffs set to kick off this weekend. The Mustangs’ second-place finish will give them a favourable matchup in the first round of the playoffs.
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