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Student voice to be heard at city hall Students to act as advisors on London city committees Iain Boekhoff News Editor Despite some city councillors wishing to keep the noise level from students down, they might soon be hearing from students a whole lot more. Last night, city council approved a motion to add students to council advisory committees as non-voting members. The motion amends the terms of reference for the committees so that eight students, four each from Western and Fanshawe, will act as advisors. Pat Whelan, president of the University Students’ Council, said students’ voices would be added into important city issues that affect students, like transportation. “Having students on these advisory committees will ensure that the voice of students is being carried in the decision making process, and showing city council is getting advice that is encompassing the needs and wants of students — which before this move has sometimes been easy to be lost due to the nature of student life,” Whelan said. Joe Swan, Ward 3 councillor, said that having students as a part of city council was a “Great idea and long overdue.” “The collaboration is another step forward in designing a city that students will enjoy during their studies and will foster the development
of a community in which they will have many more opportunities to apply their skills, be entrepreneurs or contribute as valued members of our workforce,” he said. The proposal is a joint effort from the USC and the Fanshawe Student Union in an attempt to get students more engaged and have a bigger role in the city. Whelan said the city is missing an important voice in their decision-making process, and having students involved in city council builds a stronger relationship between the city and students. “Students make up a huge portion of the city population and they can sometimes be treated as visitors to the city, and so this is a great statement by city hall and city councillors to say that students are more than visitors,” Whelan said. “They are citizens of London and their voice is sometimes missed and this is a great way to ensure that it’s being heard loud and clear.” The new framework will make students’ voices heard on a regular basis and will formalize their role within the city, according to Swan. “Students already participate in many forums and decision making processes but to formalize a channel with consistency and high impact will be of benefit to the community,” Swan said. Whelan concurred, saying that issues like transportation can benefit from having a student voice.
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“When they’re talking about transportation in the city, having a student in the room can help provide context about the specific interests of students,” Whelan said. It will be up to the respective student councils to decide who their representatives to city council will
be, unlike past attempts at involving students where the city would appoint students. “The student council is best suited to determine the individuals to be their representatives and council should determine the number and structure of their valued
input,” Swan said. Whelan said the student representatives from Western would be a mix of commissioners, coordinators and councillors and the process of selecting them will begin soon.
New transcript to record student involvement Hamza Tariq Gazette Staff
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Western students will now have the opportunity to formalize and record their co-curricular involvement with the newly launched Western co-curricular record. By allowing students to record their co-curriculars online, this program will give students a formal document, similar to a transcript, to prove their involvement to potential employers. The program was coordinated by Dave Cano, community engagement coordinator at the Student Success Centre, in collaboration with representatives from the University Students’ Council, the Student Development Centre, housing, campus recreation and the affiliate colleges. “WCCR provides a framework
that students can use to better convey the message when talking to recruiters, or in their applications to professional or graduate schools,” Cano said. “It also provides a tool to plan ahead their co-curricular involvements throughout their academic studies.” The record will only be available for co-curricular activities and not extra-curricular activities. The distinction is one between on-campus and off-campus involvement — most involvement opportunities on campus would count as co-curricular. However, volunteering at an offcampus charity, for example, would be as extra-curricular and would not count. The WCCR will start this year meaning upper year students cannot add co-curricular involvement from previous years. Citing an example of the
usefulness of the WCCR, Cassie Anton, student engagement programs coordinator at the Student Success Centre, explained in previous years students did not call themselves a soph on their resume out of concern their employer would not know what that entailed. However, the WCCR can change that. “The WCCR not only has the position and a validator that can confirm that you were a soph, but it has a professionally written description of what a soph does and it really provides some backbone and structure,” Anton continued. Adam Smith, vice-president student events for the USC, lauded the launch of the WCCR. “It’s very exciting that Western will now be officially recognizing the work of involved students and volunteers as part their overall education,” he said.
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Western competition offers $1k scholarship Western International is inviting Western students to participate in the World’s Challenge during International Week in November. Melissa Smith of Western International said the challenge is for students to find solutions to global problems. “The students choose the challenge. They get to choose whatever global issue they would like to solve on their own, and then based on that they will come up with a solution that they will present to a panel of judges as to how they would solve that problem,” she explained.
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The idea for the World’s Challenge came from a speech made by Western president Amit Chakma in 2010 at the University of Waterloo. “If you embrace a global vision, your talents and creative minds hold the potential and the power to solve [enormous world challenges] and improve the human condition right across our global village,” he said in the speech. Each member of the winning team will be awarded a $1,000 scholarship. Smith suggested that teams looking to win should demonstrate Western’s international perspective and show their problem solving skills on a global scale. “A winning team would demonstrate the internationalization that Western has to offer and demonstrate how Western students are learning to solve these challenges in the world.” The challenge is open to any Western students who want to participate. Applications for teams of three are due on October 7, and can be submitted at surveys.adt.its.uwo. ca/default.aspx?surveyID=1358. Semifinals will occur on November 8 and the finals will be on November 12. The finals are to be judged by Janice Deakin and two Western deans. —Jessica Ellig
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The University Students’ Council plans to lobby police and city council to put an end to Project LEARN. Amir Eftekarpour, vice-president external for the USC, said talks between the USC, police representatives and members of council were set for October 8, but have been rescheduled for the middle of October. Sure to come up during talks is the police treatment of students during Western’s Homecoming. Project LEARN faced international media scrutiny when the Western cheerleading team was fined $140 for spontaneously erupting in a cheer on their way to the football game this past weekend. Police are not backing down on their issuing of that specific ticket or any of the other hundreds that they issued to students. —Iain Boekhoff
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Medical Marijuana to be mass produced Now might be a good time to start investing in marijuana. Earlier this summer the federal government introduced a new set of regulations regarding the growth of medicinal marijuana, the highlight of which is that private corporations will be allowed to mass produce the plant. “The regulations aim to treat marijuana as much as possible like any other narcotic used for medical purposes by creating conditions for a new, commercial industry that is responsible for its production and distribution,” Sean Upton, speaking on behalf of Health Canada, said in an e-mail. “The regulations will provide access to quality-controlled marijuana for medical purposes, produced under secure and sanitary conditions, to those Canadians who need it, while strengthening the safety of Canadian communities.” Under the program, applicants for medicinal weed could obtain it in one of three ways. Either they could receive dried marijuana produced by Health Canada, or they or an approved third-party could grow a personal supply for the applicant. Upton explained the reason for the change was a fear of abuse of the old system. He also cautioned against reading too much into the change with regards to its impact on recreational marijuana. “It is important to note that these regulations deal exclusively with the medical use of marijuana,” Upton said. “They do not address the issue of legalizing marijuana.” So the free market marijuana industry will still only apply to medicinal marijuana — even so, could Canada only be a few years away from the opening of the first KushCo? —Aaron Zaltzman
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Huron re-branding Western students study crater adds purple flair Richard Raycraft News Editor Western’s oldest college is also the one with the newest image, as Huron launches a re-branding campaign designed to change its image and emphasize its relationship with Western. Stephen McClatchie, principal of the college, said the re-brand was necessary to emphasize Western’s closeness with Huron. “We discovered that students who were thinking about Huron didn’t know how old we were, and I think there has been some confusion in the Ontario system around ‘college’ in a way that a couple decades ago didn’t enter into it,” he said. “Not everyone understood the closeness of our relationship with Western and the fact that our students graduate with Western degrees.” “So we wanted to come up with a new visual identity that signaled some of those things,” he continued. Launched in May, the re-brand introduces a new logo and a new website for Huron, with Western purple being merged with Huron’s red for the first time to show its Western connection. The logo features the “Hellmuth” font, the same type used for Western’s
recently re-vamped logo, which is also named after Huron’s founder, Isaac Hellmuth. The new logo also includes Huron’s founding date — 1863 — to demonstrate its long history and its identity as the founding college of Western. “Of all of the affiliates it’s probably Huron that has the closest connection to Western, as the founding college,” McClatchie noted. “That’s what we were trying to do — make the identification with Western clearer.” The new logo is currently being phased into Huron signs and paraphernalia. McClatchie explained that the new image was designed to make an impact for the incoming recruitment year. “We would like to continue to get the best students applying to Huron […] we’d like to see strong recruitment and retention, we’d like to see people understanding the relationship with Western a little bit better, and at another level we want to have a professional look and feel and consistency in our public face,” he said. “We’re able to offer students the best of both worlds in that they’ve got the small immersive, intensive environment and the supports we can give, but close to a major research university.”
Debaters take first place at nationals Julian Uzielli Editor-in-Chief While the Mustangs football team was busy trouncing the Queen’s Gaels amid the cheers of thousands of drunken fans on Homecoming weekend, another Western team was winning their own, quieter victory in Montreal. Teams from the Western Debate Society won first and second place at the national novice debate championships at McGill University last weekend, a tournament put on by the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debates. Only first-year students compete at the annual event, which this year hosted around 70 two-person teams from universities across the country. Western sent three teams of debaters to the tournament, two of whom made it to the final round, composed of four teams on two sides. In the finals, the two Western teams, taking the government or “pro” side, faced two teams from the Hart House Debating Club at the University of Toronto, to debate the motion “This house would never ban books.” After an hour of debate, the two teams from Western were declared victorious in a 3–2 split decision from the judges. Western’s Katrina Dods and Sam Shadowitz took first place overall, followed by Ryan Howson and Christian Taylor in second. Dods, a first-year economics and politics student, was happy with the victory, but acknowledged it could have turned out differently. “It was a lot of luck, that’s what debate tournaments usually are, to be honest. It’s whether or not you get the right position, and the right
It was a lot of luck, that’s what debate tournaments usually are, to be honest. —Katrina Dods
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resolution. The first few rounds were kind of shaky, but once we started hitting the out rounds, like the quarters and semis, it was kind of smoother sailing,” she said. Sam Jowett, the fourth-year vicepresident communications for the Western Debate Society, was less humble about the victory — this tournament has been dominated by the University of Toronto for several years. “We’ve had a bit of a lull, the last few [years], so this is probably the biggest victory of the last couple of years,” he said. Though Western’s novices can now rank themselves among the best first-year debaters in Canada, their next contest will be more challenging. The North American championships take place the weekend after Thanksgiving, but this time the competitors will be older and more experienced. “I fully exect to be crushed but I think I want that so I know what it feels like,” Dods said. “Learning how to refute some of the best arguments and case constructions in the world, I think that’s what I want to learn from.”
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Thanks to the collaboration of Western and NASA, top Canadian planetary geologist and Western prof Gordon Osinski and 30 graduate students are in the midst of a six-day exploration of the eminent impact crater structure in Sudbury, Ontario. This excursion marks the second time Osinski, associate director of Western’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), is leading the Impact Cratering Short Course and Field School, after overwhelming positive feedback from the previous year. “You see something in a book
and it may not make sense until you actually see it out there,” Osinski explained. “A lot of planetary scientists tend not to go into the field. If you don’t look at the features on Earth, it’s really hard for you to get a good understanding of what’s going on.” Organized and sponsored by the Canadian Lunar Research Network, the NASA Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute and the Lunar and Planetary Institute, the course allows students to study impact cratering through a mixture of lecturing, field excursions and hands-on laboratory sessions.
The location of a 1.85 billionyear-old, 200 km-plus diameter impact structure, Sudbury offers a prime setting to study craters, which strongly impact the geological evolution of countless planets. The focus on on-location research is one of the reasons NASA is sponsoring this course. “As NASA celebrates 55 years of space exploration, training the next generation of scientists is obviously vital to our future,” said Greg Schmidt, Deputy Director of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, in a statement. —Christine Bonk
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London is getting blocked TV shows that faced their curtain call Seven Minutes in Kevin Kevin Hurren Opinions Editor
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Sara Mai-Chitty Gazette Staff Londoners looking for a laugh close to home can find it in a brand new Rogers TV program called The Block, which takes place in London. The first episode of the new show aired September 7, and producer Adam Zess is incredibly stoked for the show’s potential. “I am absolutely thrilled to be working with the people that I do work with,” Zess explains. “It’s always amazing to take on a project with friends — people you can trust creatively.” The Block was conceived as a pipe dream for a group of co-workers at Rainbow Cinemas. Zess and co-creator Jamie Dean discovered they both had affection for sketch comedy, and their combined arts backgrounds convinced them they were capable of getting their own sketch project off the ground. “It’s been a labour of love for about a year, it happened pretty fast,” Zess explains. “Jamie and I were just starting to be friends and he was talking about how he wanted to do more art stuff. In a very short amount of time, we got people to
write for us and started filming.” The sketches are born of the inspiration from legendary Saturday Night Live skits, but the team draws on multiple influences and creates original characters and storylines based on politics, life and strange scenarios. Working with a low budget, the team films and writes every week, and releases the half hour show on a monthly basis. Dean’s sound design education combined with Zess’ theatre experience and strong creative writers landed the Rogers TV proposal and the team is stoked for the show’s potential. “We want to see how far it can go. We want to do a lot of stuff for the Internet, we want to do a lot of stuff continuing with Rogers,” Zess says. “I know this can be said for any workplace, but I think we have a lot of really talented people, and there’s a lot of creativity and inventiveness that, I don’t think, are being utilized to their full potential,” Zess elaborates. “When we got on this project, it was amazing how few people could create such a cohesive television program in under a year.” “Our key demographic for this show, where we think our humour
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lands the best, is between 18 to 35. If you are a returning student or a new student, it hits Western perfectly. We’re kind of dorky, we’re kind of hipster, we’re kind of everything,” he laughs. Zess is also calling out to local musicians and artists who might have collaborative ideas or want to contribute to the show, to promote London’s local talent. The group does not necessarily create London specific content, partially to appeal dually to a wider YouTube audience and Rogers TV viewers, but may turn to London-based politics and goings-on to breed local affinity. “Mostly what we cover right now, are political events — a huge part of sketch comedy. We cover things that are funny to us — brainstorming bizarre situations or just really weird people and making scenarios around them,” Zess says. The sketches can be compared to anything from Air Farce to Portlandia, and perhaps through its diversity, The Block may very well become yet another creative endeavor that will keep London on Canada’s cultural map. The next episode of The Block airs Saturday Oct. 5 at 11:00 p.m. on Rogers TV.
As TV’s fall schedule gears up again, we’ll finally be reunited with our favourite series. While some of these shows spent the summer months filming – basking in the glow of their Emmy nominations or wins – others weren’t as lucky. But before we grab the remote and change the channel, let’s take a moment to mourn four great shows that won’t be returning to us this fall. Smash After a measly two seasons, this musical drama had to face its final curtain call. The show follows the lives of theatre lovers in their struggle to put a show on Broadway. Smash not only capitalized on 2012’s renewed obsession with the iconic blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe, but the show also brought together a stellar cast of Katharine McPhee, Megan Hilty, Debra Messing, Christian Borle, and Anjelica Huston. Cast aside, Smash wasn’t able to survive the move to a Saturday night timeslot and has been snipped from the NBC family. Though no more episodes will be airing, the show’s original music is sure to find a home in the music libraries of fans and non-fans alike. Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 When it comes to this show, the only real bitch is ABC. Don’t Trust the B- was renewed for a second season, but after ABC pulled the plug midway the comedy couldn’t finish airing its filmed episodes.
The show features Dreama Walker as June Colburn, a sweet Indiana girl who goes to New York City in pursuit of her dream job. As she moves into apartment 23, June quickly learns that her new roommate is less sorority and more satanic. Krysten Ritter plays “the bitch” Chloe to perfection, and it’s a shame that audiences won’t get the chance to see Ritter’s charmingly evil character develop. Not leaving fans in complete depression, Don’t Trust the B- has released the remaining episodes of the second season online. The New Normal NBC dropped this touching sitcom after only one season — a move that some saw coming. The New Normal profiles a same-sex couple, played by Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha, in their decision to have a child. When the couple does find a surrogate mother, their lives become intertwined becoming one big family. Because of the show’s depiction of the “new” family unit, several groups protested. It’s hard to tell if this outcry made an impact on the show’s cancellation, but either way, TV is losing out on this sitcom with a heart. Happy Endings Compared to the other shows on our list, Happy Endings is in the best spot with three seasons under its belt. Still, this show about six best friends living in Chicago was taken down in its prime. After ABC cancelled the show, rumours flew that the witty and charismatic series would be saved by Sony TV. After that deal fell through, several other distributors stepped forward wondering if they should take a risk on this indie version of How I Met Your Mother. As of now no one has picked it up, making it look like the ending of the show might not be so happy.
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An art exhibit becoming an experience Kevin Heslop Gazette Staff At the McIntosh gallery, the blackand-white picture of Brenda Wallace was captured while she was smoking a cigarette, dressed darkly, dark hair tied back; her eyes betray a glimmer of profound creative vitality. One should think she spoke vigorously, enlivened and enraptured, gesticulating her cigarette as sharply as insight would permit, but also that she spoke softly at times, perhaps in her reclining years, released of the eager impatience her early adulthood wouldn’t have been able to stifle. Following her training at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts School of Art and Design, Wallace taught in Germany, Canada, Austria and Japan before holding positions at the Institute for Art and Urban Resources in New York, the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Gallery of Canada. When Wallace came to London she worked alongside and compelled a book titled Passion and Panache from Judith Rodger. Rodger, referred to by Alexandra Jesus at the conclusion of her essay “Incandescent Leadership” as “A one-of-a-kind, incandescent essential character within the London art community,” has worked at what was at one time the London Regional Art and Historical Museum and is now Museum London for more than a dozen years. After a fruitful relationship with Rodger, Wallace died at the age of 80 in L’Île-du-Grand-Calumet, Quebec, donating part of her private collection to the McIntosh Gallery, the
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official gallery of Western University. The creative hands responsible for the 40 works contained within this exhibition, donated from Wallace’s personal collection in 2009, include those of Claude Tousignant, Jerry Pethick, Stephen Andrews and Aganetha Dyck. Most of the works are conceptual in nature, as in the case of P+L+P+L+P=VSI, VSI Formula No. 10 by Lain and Ingrid Baxter, which is simply a piece of typewriter paper with the words: “a photograph becoming a lithograph becoming a photograph becoming a lithograph becoming a photograph”
Many of the pieces contain words in combination with images, sketches or photographs which compel one to think and feel. William Burroughs once said, “The job of the artist is to show people what they know and what they don’t know that they know.” Whether they know it or don’t know it, the audience of each of these works comes away smiling, perplexed, unified, devastated, none or all of these at once. Other pieces compel one to question and prod, such as in the case of Wyn Geleynse’s “We Never Knew Her Past Than Through Her Photos,” which contains a series of five pictures. One in particular is the image of a conservative looking
woman of perhaps 45 years standing before what is evidently her collection of pans hanging neatly in a row as if on display above her stove and oven. She is smiling, evidently proud to have amassed such a worthy garble of steel and aluminum. With this picture, Geleynse is perhaps showing us that feminism is only as subtle as you allow it to be. At first Greg Curnoe’s “Self Portrait in Banff Mirror” strikes you as a sketchy portrait of a peculiar, unassuming man one concludes is a prisoner, indicated by his striped garb. But when you begin to dig deeper you see above his face rendered in dark strokes the words “here it comes” written backwards. The title strikes you — ah, “In banff
mirror”. And if you look closer still you see also written backwards, but much smaller, the words “razor blade used,” and you begin to see what Curnoe saw and what he evidently aimed to express. Whatever imaginings one attempts to prescribe to Brenda Wallace without having had the privilege to know her diminish when compared to her history which — at least pieces of it — is alive and wondering still behind the red door here on campus. The exhibit Passion & Panache: Remembering Brenda Wallace runs at McIntosh Gallery until November 16. A public reception is being held on October 6, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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Janney’s press secretary CJ. Her character’s dryer-than-a-desert wit and precise intelligence make her a favourite for many fans. In addition to this approval from the masses, Janney also picked up a staggering four Emmy awards for her role. While certain cast members may rise above the rest, the strength of the entire cast in unison is still unbelievable. Stronger elements of the cast can be singled out but a weaker link cannot. Also notable about the show is its pioneering of the “walk and talk” camera style. As various characters cut in and out of the scene, more information is piled on. It’s definitely a series that requires paying attention. Even though the majority of these characters would not be furloughed and would actually be working during a government shutdown, throwing back to The West Wing is still pretty timely. — Bradley Metlin
GTA Five steals the show Mark Staniusz Contibutor GGGGG Grand Theft Auto V For Xbox 360 and PS3 The Grand Theft Auto series has been surrounded by controversy since its inception in 1997. Excessive violence, drug use and sexual content are still prominent in this latest addition to the series. Sometimes, these elements are used tastefully to create a witty commentary on contemporary, post-economic crisis America. Other times, it seems like they are there just for the sake of causing controversy, adding very little to the game or story. However, before the forty-hour story is complete, you realize that Grand Theft Auto V is simply the perfect escape and an absolute joy to explore. In terms of gameplay, not much has changed from 2008’s Grand Theft Auto IV. The game takes place in Los Santos and the surroundiong countryside, a parody of Los Angeles, and the player is free to explore the living, breathing world. The player can do practically everything: Fly a plane over the city, ride a bike through the hills, explore the ocean floor, play a round of golf or a game of tennis. As relaxing as those may seem, most of your time will be spent robbing banks, engaging in intense shootouts with cops, and attempting to get away by any means necessary. GTA V, much like its predecessor, controls beautifully. There have been a few tweaks, which are subtle, but much appreciated. The spotty cover system has vastly improved
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and the auto-aim is noticeably more responsive. Cars seem to have more weight to them while driving, yet still offer the potential for impressive stunts and getaways. Most noticeable is the improved checkpoints system. The days of having to repeatedly drive to a mission and suffering the same conversations are over; each mission has multiple checkpoints, strategically placed to eliminate frustration. The plot revolves around the game’s three main characters. Michael is a retired con man, struggling with a deadbeat son, an airheaded daughter and an unfaithful wife that all contribute to his mid-life crisis. Franklin is a young man who embodies the gang member stereotype, looking for his big break. And last, but definitely not least is Trevor. A career criminal from Michael’s past, Trevor’s psychotic antics are fueled by his disturbed history and
love for methamphetamine. The three-character element might be GTA V’s most innovative addition. At any time outside of a mission, you can switch to the character of your choosing. The world will stylistically zoom out, and then on to the chosen character wherever he might be at that time, be it on the golf course or in the strip club. During some missions, all three characters are at the player’s disposal, often each with their own responsibility. Each character also has a unique special ability, making each feel truly different from each other. Grand Theft Auto V bleeds innovation and breathes life into a gigantic world that the player can make their playground. Rockstar Games’ latest achievement will be remembered as a true swan song to this generation of game consoles.
Those Republicans and Democrats just can’t get along south of the border and because of that, the American government has now been shut down. While jokes might suggest that they try turning the government off before turning it back on, why not treat yourself to a smart political drama where government is anything but dead? The West Wing has routinely been declared one of the best television shows of all time. So why not witness Martin Sheen as president Josiah Bartlett lead one of the most eloquent governments of all time. Seriously, people might praise president Obama’s oratory skills but head writer Aaron Sorkin makes his politicians’ words sound truly illuminating. In addition to this written finesse, the series also includes some incredibly delectable performances. Standing above all the rest is Alison
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The Gazette asked students what they thought about students on city council standing committees as non-voting members.
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BMOS I “It feels like Western is a really big contributor to the city, so obviously it is really important that students are there to influence their decisions […] It is much better if a student from Western actually communicates the ideas rather than [city council] just assuming what our needs are.”
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MIT III “I think that there is definitely an age-gap [between students and city council] — there are certain things that we know that we need more than other people who aren’t in our shoes at the moment. I think this is definitely something all of us here at Western would love to have.”
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If you happened to witness Tuesday’s opening of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens game then you would have heard a crowd of Canadians, fueled by one of the greatest rivalries in sports, put aside hockey loyalties and (in English and French) sing as one. It was a moment when you realized no matter what hockey team you cheer for, or what corner of this vast nation you reside in, or how many generations of Canadian ancestors you have or don’t have, there is a continuous chord flowing throughout our nation that unites us all. However, despite my patriotic prelude, there is an issue with our anthem, and right now a group of prominent women are taking a stand — and I, for one, stand with them. Recently a group of women, including Margaret Atwood and Kim Campbell, have started a campaign to change the lyric, “In all thy sons command” to, “In all of us command,” — launching a website for the project, restoreournation.com. The goal, the group says, is to make the anthem more accurately reflect the original non-gender specific lyric, “Thou dost in us command,” which was inexplicably changed in 1913 to “sons” and has remained that way since.
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I’m all for tradition, and when I first heard about this proposed change I wasn’t on board. It’s a toss-up between the anthem and the “ABC’s” for the most influential song of my upbringing, and changing the anthem’s lyrics would be like changing my DNA. Plus, I’m a woman and I’ve never been offended or felt slighted by the song — so is it really necessary to rewrite two measly words in a 63-word song that’s ingrained in generations of Canadians just for the sake of feminism? Then I shoved my stubborn traditionalist views aside and thought, of course it’s worth it, precisely for that reason — it’s two measly words. Two measly words that, if changed, would incorporate more than 50 per cent of the nation’s population back into the anthem. And it’s not just about including women, but the proposed lyric is non-gendered, meaning it excludes no one. If a group proposed a complete overhaul then I would blast the anthem through a boom box while holding it over my head to show the world how vehemently I disagreed. But this isn’t the case. In fact, the group is arguing to restore the song to its original, not change it. And not only are the lyrics more progressively accurate — women are wellrepresented in the Canadian forces today — but also more historically accurate, considering females were active in the Canadian war efforts in both the First and Second World Wars. Singing the national anthem is how we celebrate our inclusion in this country — it’s about time everyone was included in the lyrics.
Dear Life, Every campus garbage can has a colony of bees surrounding it. Not impressed. Dear Life, I think Ivey could have saved several thousand dollars on glass windows since they cover them all with blinds as soon as the sun comes up. Kind of defeating the purpose of all those nice windows. Dear Life, Blasting Soulja Boy at 8 AM is not a good way to make friends with your neighbours. Dear Life, I pay the equivalent of 5,800 litres of gasoline per year to attend this education institution. Please make the wifi reliable! Dear Life, Everyone knows that the award for the most homoerotic scenes should be awarded to Harry and Draco. wgaz.ca/dearlife
Letters to the editor
Healthy eating comes at cost
Debra Felsher
Social Science I “Why do we need to have our voices heard? I think it’s necessary for us to have our voices heard within the university, but maybe not so much in the city council because why should we influence what the city decides?”
Monica Matow
Finance and Economics III “Western is a big part of London, and obviously our student opinions should be represented and heard. London is amazing — they already do take care of us, but they should also hear what we have to say about issues.”
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To the Editor: I was under the impression that society was starting to become more aware of the necessity of eating healthy, and that Western was trying to make healthy choices more accessible to its students and staff. However, today when I went to purchase a container of approximately 10 baby carrots from the cafe in Natural Science, I was shocked to see that they were priced at $2.79. How is that accessible? How is that encouraging students to live a healthy lifestyle? If anything that pushes students towards the fattening pizza and chemical-filled fast food options on campus. I understand that there is human “labour” involved in sorting 10 carrots (or 15 grapes) into a plastic container, but that by no means justifies the ridiculous prices. Something needs to be done to reverse this and make healthy options the more affordable ones. There are always posters on campus stressing that
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healthy eating plays a crucial role in our success as students, especially around exam time — I think it is time that our hospitality services work to make this possible for us. —Kate Faith BMOS IV
Solidarity shunned
To the Editor: Tuesday’s Gazette featured two articles about students facing consequences for actions during Homecoming. One group was the Western Cheerleaders, ticketed for a performance on Broughdale. The other group was the Western Solidarity Network (WSN), ejected from Homecoming for raising awareness about soaring tuition fees. Given the relative seriousness of these two issues, I’ve been disappointed that public outrage and media coverage, including The Gazette, have focussed on the cheerleading ticket while saying virtually nothing about the suppression of student protests on legitimate issues. While The Gazette saw fit to give frontpage billing and an editorial to the cheerleading ticket, the WSN ejection was
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Sports needs some (base)balls To the Editor: I am wondering why other sports, and in particular baseball, get virtually no coverage in your paper. I am always interested in knowing how the ball team — a playoff team every year of its short existence — is doing, but I would never know they existed if I relied on your paper for information. I know football is king, but you could at least post the results of their games. The same goes for many of the other sports played by Western students. —Harvey Brown Social Science
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tweetoftheweek Thanks for all the well wishes everyone #classyfollowers >> George Parros (@GeorgeParros) of the Montreal Canadiens after falling hard on the ice in Tuesday’s season opener.
Rundown >> The Western’s women’s lacrosse team dominated in their last game against the Queen’s Gaels by a score of 14–4 | The Mustangs women’s rugby team lost their last game against the Waterloo Warriors by a score of 12–19 > they will be facing off against the Laurier Golden Hawks this weekend.
Mustangs split field hockey weekend Western dominates York but falls to Guelph Gryphons Anne Wozney Contributor The Western Mustangs once again met York University on the pitch Saturday to prove they were a force to be reckoned with. After defeating York earlier in the season, the Mustangs knew this was an important opportunity to gain points for the season. “Although we only played them a couple weeks before, we knew we had our work cut out for us,” Katie Feagan, co-captain of Western’s women’s field hockey team, said. “York has been improving drastically.” Western struggled to find the back of the net early in the game and worried head coach Jeff Pacheco by leaving the first half still tied at 0–0. “The girls came out stale but we checked ourselves at the half and were able to build pretty quickly in the second frame,” Pacheco said. In the second half, the Mustangs tried to keep the game simple and worked the ball from sideline to sideline in order to maintain possession. “We were successful when we used the entire field, and switched the ball,” Safia Mohamed, Mustangs second co-captain, said. “Once the second half started, we were able to play our style of game and let the ball do the work.” After the half, forward Katelyn Roganowicz was able to find a seam and bury Western’s first goal to regain the team’s momentum. Mohammed reaffirmed the Mustangs’ position by finishing on
a penalty corner. After winning a penalty stroke, Roganowicz put in Western’s final goal and her second of the game. Their depth and experience shone through in the second half and helped the Mustangs earn a final score of 3–0. The Mustangs came out strongly on Sunday against the Guelph Griffins, refusing to repeat their slow start from the day before. Roganowicz found an early goal in the first half followed by a second from forward Lindsay Borrell to put the Mustangs up 2–0 at half time. “We don’t take any team lightly, but we were taken back a little to be down by two goals 15 minutes into play,” Gryphons’s head coach Michelle Turley commented. “Western is a tough opponent which always makes for a very competitive contest and we struggled to capitalize on our attacking opportunities.” At the start of the second half, Guelph’s Laura Straus converted on a corner opportunity to put the Griffins on the scoreboard. “The Mustangs had the momentum early in the game but we came out as a different team after the break,” Turley said. “At intermission, we talked about [how] our comeback could only happen one goal at a time.” Guelph continued to capitalize on opportunities by getting backto-back goals from Crystal Stubbs and Daniel Jalec to take the lead in the second half. The Griffins’ comeback allowed them to defeat the Mustangs 3–2. “It’s a tough lesson for our team,” Pacheco said, “but we didn’t make
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excuses about the loss. We took it on the chin.” The mistakes from Sunday’s game are areas for improvement that Pacheco believes the team can learn to control. “You have to be able to hold onto the lead and know how to win. The
change has to come from us,” he said. With over half of the season gone, the Mustangs’ upcoming matches are even more critical as the team tries to earn a good seed for the Ontario University Athletics championships. Next weekend the
Mustangs will try to find success against Toronto and Queen’s for the second time this season. Be sure to continue to follow the Western field hockey team on their road to the championships.
Mustangs are on fire and refuse to retire Caitlin Martin Newnham Sports Editor The Mustangs baseball team has obliterated the league with a 10-game winning streak starting with their 10–9 win against Waterloo
on September 17. Their games this past weekend against the Queen’s Gaels and the Ryerson Rams left their two opponents pointless. Queen’s came away with zero points from all three games this weekend on Friday and Sunday. The Mustangs
claimed 16 points in Friday’s game, and eight and nine points respectively in the two Sunday games. “I think the team has finally started to gel. It’s tough to develop team chemistry with a lot of new players and in a short season, but
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this past week, everyone seemed to come together,” Adam Paish, pitcher for the Mustangs, said. “Hopefully we can continue our recent success against tougher teams like Toronto and Guelph.” Paish is pitching for the Mustangs for the sixth year in a row and has excelled in his position. And now the two-time winner of the Ontario University Athletics Top Pitcher Award is boasting a 1.80 ERA and 23 strikeouts in the 2013 season thus far. Paish’s accomplishments as a pitcher and the team’s 10-game winning streak lead the Mustangs into a promising weekend against Toronto on October 5 and Guelph on October 6. “Hard work is important, but at the end of the day, you have to believe that you are the best to be the best,” Paish said. “We started the season playing apprehensively, but now I know that the team feels like it can beat anyone. The newer guys have stepped up and are playing at a high level, as is the rest of the team. […] It will ultimately come down to our team’s execution and mental toughness, because talent-wise,
we are a perrenial favourite to win.” Western’s current winning streak has prepared them mentally for success, giving the team the chance to take the OUA championship. Brandon Banaschewski, first batter for the Mustangs, has five years of Mustangs baseball under his belt. Banaschewski was a first-time player in 2009 when the Mustangs’ baseball team won the OUA championship, and, therefore, knows what it takes for a team to claim the OUA title. “With the double-knockout playoff format, all a team has to do is sneak into the playoffs and win a couple games at the end to win it all,” Banaschewski said. “All we can do is keep playing the way we are, taking advantage of the errors […] and hopefully it will all work out.” Western has a fantastic team this year that proves itself game after game and will hope to continue to do so when they take on Toronto and Guelph this weekend. “It’s a lot of fun to see a team like this, with the amount of talent we have, playing up to our potential and playing some great baseball,” Bananschewski said.
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The allure of sports Abracadabra Al-Azem
Nusaiba Al-Azem Sports Editor I’m not your typical sports person. In fact, most people are shocked upon learning that my role at The Gazette is in the sports section, both because I don’t seem like a sports enthusiast and because I don’t usually jump into that conversation at work or in class about last night’s game. But I’ll have watched it nonetheless, because sports are awe-inspiring to me for a multitude of reasons. Sport is determination. Every goal scored, ball dunked, record broken — it is not a meaningless number added to a scorecard, but years and years of training manifesting itself in one moment in time; one second that is worth a lifetime of preparation. Sport is a testament to the power of dedication. That may sound sensational, but really think on it. An athlete’s job extends far beyond each match — athleticism is an entire lifestyle. Waking up before dawn for practice, maintaining body fitness by working out routinely, regulating diet, getting enough sleep — athletes have sports seeped into every area of their lives. They must be perfect vessels, always. Breaking their regimen or missing practice catches up with them and they acknowledge that consideration with every decision
made in favour of their sport. Every time they turn down that party invitation or double cheeseburger because it’s not in accordance with their regimen, they reaffirm their choice that sport is more important to them. Not all athletes do this all the time of course, but they must do it enough to keep in range of their goal. That is integrity worth admiring, to consistently be thinking about your end goal at every step of the way. And this is true for athletes of any level, whether it be varsity, professional, or even little league kids who come home to practice again and again. Sport is art. During a game, any offence must be strategically thought out. Timing is everything, and a basket that goes in two seconds too late is just that — too late. Rowers, for example, must plan their race carefully. If a rower is falling behind, he or she cannot just respond to the other boat with increased force, because longer strokes go further. Even responses like that of rowing, which may seem counterintuitive, are built into an athlete’s instincts. Sport is fun. Somehow, despite all that grit and hard work, athletes still love what they do, and you can see it in their demeanor. It comes across in conversation. So, yes, I’m not your typical sports person. I’m not going to join you at the water cooler or take part in your fantasy football league. But I’ll be standing next to you on the bleachers, and watching these athletes do what they love in awe.
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