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hen Jessica* logged on to her UMentioned account last semester, she never expected to be faced with a homophobic comment. The second-year psychology student at King’s University College thought the UMentioned community was ostensibly accepting and tolerant. The comment read, “How are you liking vagina?” and was posted anonymously recently after Jessica got into a relationship with a girl. “It was inappropriate and homophobic and it bothered me,” Jessica said. She was upset that her sexuality had been brought into the public eye to be scrutinized by her peers. “That’s a terribly inappropriate thing to say. You would never say that to someone that was straight,” she said. Others commented on the post, saying things like “LOL,” and “tell it how it is.” Jessica was shocked that someone would ever commend anyone else for posting such a thing. “As somebody who’s the victim, there’s not much you can say without incriminating yourself more,” she said. The comment made her feel frustrated and hurt, and she wasn’t really sure what to do about it. We’ve all heard of the playground bully. But in the digital age, not only can that bully follow you home over the Internet, but they can follow you to university, too. Ryan Broll, a PhD candidate at Western studying cyberbullying, said that the phenomenon is gendered. “Females are more likely to be cyber-bullied. It is often sexual. Females are often cyber-bullied because of their appearance or their perceived sexual prowess,” he said. Nora*, a third-year student at Western, also ran into bullying issues last semester. It started when she saw something written on a bathroom stall, bearing her full name. “It basically said I was a fat slut who was incredibly selfobsessed,” Nora said. One week later, she was attacked online. The attack came in the form of a comment on one of her Instagram photos. “Once again, they said I was a huge slut, but this time they added I had a bad habit for drugs. This is a lie,” she said. “[The attacker] wasn’t following me on Instagram. I don’t even know how she thought of searching me up, or what made her

think to write something mean and hurtful to me,” Nora said. The episode left Nora shaken. “I never thought someone would ever say something like that about me because it’s never happened before. No one’s ever tried to bully me or hurt my feelings,” she said. In elementary and high school, where anti-bullying efforts are usually focused, students are encouraged to report harassment to an adult — usually a teacher or a guidance counsellor. However, when a student arrives at university, the authority figure may not be so clear. In fact, students should report online harassment to the police, Sergeant Ryan Austin of Western’s campus community police service, said. According to Austin, one of the most common online harassment issues is the sharing of intimate pictures after a breakup. “The initial part is where we encourage people to be a little bit safer with how they present themselves online,” Austin said. “That includes things like photos, texts and e-mails that they send out. You want to encourage them from the beginning to assume that it potentially could get out to anyone.” Historically, there wasn’t much police could do about such a breach of trust, since the photos had originally been shared consensually. But new legislation in the works may give the police more teeth when dealing with such cases of “revenge pornography.” “A new criminal legislation that is being brought in right now is going to make that a crime for someone to distribute it even after the fact even if it was originally sent consensually,” Austin said. Currently, all police can do is lay a child pornography charge if the person in the picture was underage when the picture was taken. Otherwise, they have virtually no power. However, online harassment, or cyber-bullying, stretches much farther than intimate picture sharing. Austin defined it as anything that makes the victim feel uncomfortable. He said it could be as extreme as repeated, threatening messages, or as basic as a rude, insulting post made about a user that that user didn’t like. “We have resources on campus that some normal police services don’t have. We have an extensive IT department at Western, which gives us the ability to delve into some of these >> see CYBER pg.3

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a search for new entrepreneurs for the show’s ninth season. “Every year one of our most popular shows ratings-wise is the student episode,” said Michelle MacMillan, producer of the show. “In the student episode, we have […] college and university students who come through and often, those people have the very strong pitches [with] actual businesses that the Dragons can take a bite out of.” MacMillan added that students should not be deterred from auditioning just because their idea is not yet fully formed. “We want to see everyone and we want to have time to see people who just maybe have the [beginnings] of an idea, or are just starting a prototype.” “Don’t fear the audition. If you get on the show, you still have a bit of time to put together that perfect prototype. You don’t have to come on to the audition level being completely ready.” However, auditioners are being advised to remember to consider the business aspects of their ideas. “Start thinking about the business beyond just the idea,” MacMillan said. “I mean, we’ll want to hear about the idea, but anyone who’s watched one episode of the show knows that eventually it turns to numbers.” She stated that business plans do not have to perfect or exact but it is a good idea to get that process started. Contestants should have at least a vague idea of the investment they are looking for and what they are going to be asking of the Dragons. “You don’t need to know how you’re going to spend all the money, but it’s a good idea to start having thought of that stuff. Even if you have no sales, know at least who your market is; just start doing a bit of that research.” MacMillan added that a great idea and a business plan are not the only important aspects of your pitch. “How can you make it come to life? If you have a website, how can you kind of make it be visual? ‘Cause it’s a TV show at the end of the day.” On January 25, open auditions are being held in London at the Windermere Manor at 200 Collip Circle from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. —Usamah Memon

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technical issues in terms of tracking people down,” Austin said. The police are able to trace anonymous posts and messages, since a post can be traced back to a computer’s unique IP address. In addition, cell-phone companies have security departments set up to help with police investigations, and information about a sender can be traced as long as a judge issues an assistance order. However, Austin didn’t want to scare students away from reporting incidents for fear it would just lead to the perpetrator’s arrest. He explained the process for dealing with online harassment complaints is very victim-centered. The police can start by contacting Facebook and deactivating a user’s account. If the harassment continues, and is perpetrated by a fellow student, a student code of conduct charge can be invoked. “[It] basically puts them in front of the vice-provost and there can be academic sanctions all the way up to them being expelled,” Austin said. Once expelled from one university, it is much more difficult to gain admittance to another institution. Other sanctions include suspension, academic probation, and being removed from residence without refund. “Bullying is an offence that the university takes pretty seriously,” Austin said. “We want anyone that’s here to feel comfortable in being here and safe.” Cyber-bullying is less common than other forms of bullying, but the psychological impacts are worse. Victims of cyber-bullying are more likely to be depressed and have anxiety. They are also two times more likely than non-bullied youth to have attempted suicide, according to Broll. The anonymity associated with online interactions is one of the key factors fostering aggression. Jackson Katz, an anti-sexism activist who spoke at Western’s conference on Sexual Violence and Social Media in November, said that abusive language is very common online. “There’s very little accountability. There’s menacing commentary directed at individuals, really misogynistic language and cruel language in chat rooms and

comment sections,” Katz said in an interview. Jessica, the King’s student, echoed that statement. “Online we have this mask and we can say whatever we want to whoever we want with essentially no consequences,” she said. Carol Todd, mother of the late Amanda Todd, also came to Western to speak at the Sexual Violence and Social Media Conference. The story of Amanda Todd is one of the most well-known and heartbreaking stories of a teen that committed suicide after extensive cyber-bullying. “No one institution can work on solving the problems on their own. Schools get blamed a lot and the healthcare system gets blamed a lot, but everyone needs to have ownership to the problem,” Todd told The Gazette in November. She also mentioned social media sites as a stakeholder in the issue. “As much as we talk about social media sites and we want them to go away, they’ll never go away,” she said. One way of combating online aggression, Katz said, is using the bystander approach. The idea is to engage everyone in the discussion about cyber-bullying, not just the victims and bullies. If everyone else keeps ignoring it, he said, it will never go away. “The bystander approach is engaging everyone in the peer culture, not just the perpetrator or victim, in addressing abusive behavior,” Katz said. “Our silence becomes a form of consent and complicity.” Jessica also agreed with this strategy. In her view, anyone on UMentioned who saw the post on her wall and did nothing was a bystander. “If you’re actively on the site and you’ve looked at the post but done nothing about it, you’ve not even flagged it, then you are a bystander,” she said. However, Carol Todd had faith that the current generation of Internet-savvy kids may have the power to combat online violence. “I have a funny feeling that as current post-secondary students become parents they will be much more aware and much more cognizant and much more proactive in bringing back family rituals, social media intervention, and being more aware,” she said.

News Briefs Western research among top 100 The new year brought a welcome surprise to a quartet of Western professors whose research earned them a spot on Altmetric’s list of the academic world’s best 100 articles of 2013. Lisa Archibald and Janis Cardy — communication sciences and disorders professors at Western — collaborated with psychology professors Marc Joanisse and Daniel Ansari on the to uncover trends that 1,200 children had in math, reading and language. Their paper, “Language, Reading, and Math Learning Profiles in an Epidemiological Sample of School Age Children,” ranked 82nd on the list. The polling company determined the rankings by the online articles’ popularity throughout the year and not

necessarily traffic within the academic community. “This [research] should help give us a clue what underlines difficulty in students’ generally,” Archibald said. The unique interdisciplinary collaboration may have led to the article’s popularity. “Normally the different disciplines are analyzed separately, and [researchers] usually don’t communicate with each other. And we got information that couldn’t get from looking at one subject alone.” First place went to Toshiaki Mizuno and Hideya Kubo of Shiga University in Japan, with an article finding that freshwater fish near Fukushima Nuclear plant, which suffered a catastrophic failure in 2011, had become “highly contaminated.” —Jeremiah Rodriguez

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n a white winter day, second year music student Niko Chan stands out in his dark, cool outfit. His slim-fit, navy, polka-dot dress shirt matches the dark blue of his ankle boots, and the black of his strap-back hat goes with his skinny jeans. It’s an immensely composed outfit. “I used to wear a lot of crewnecks and I’m trying to get out of that,” Chan explains. “I’m going for a more mature look this year.” Even his coat is subdued — albeit, with a dash of earthy green, which serves to provide a bit of variation to the rest of his reserved clothing. “Be minimalist. Minimalism is key,” Chan says. “You don’t want to wear too

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many words or stuff like that. I think it takes away from the outfit.” Only Chan’s strap-back hat connotes a serious level of casualness, something he uses to add a personal flair. “I like strap-backs better than snapbacks because not everyone has a strapback,” he says. While the rest of his outfit is undoubtedly good, it’s Chan’s shoes that really distinguish him. He admitted they were his favourite piece and even notes, “Shoes always make the outfit.” To emulate Chan’s styles, keep things simple and well fitted. A coat with a bit of colour, a simple pattern for your collared shirt and a personalized accessory like a hat are all you need to keep it classy. — Cam “Smoth” Smith

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saywhat? “One day my best friend said to me ‘Jess, you rock a lot of polka dots’ and that was the deal breaker, now we’re mortal enemies.”

— Zooey Deschanel, New Girl

2014 is here! Whether you’ve already made a list of New Year’s Resolutions or think they’re a waste of time, it’s hard to argue with the fact that the beginning of the year is a great time to get healthy. When we get back to a routine after weeks of celebrating and enjoying holiday food, fun and festivities, we might as well make it a healthier routine. Lots of people decide to overhaul their lives and get healthy in the New Year and end up failing at their resolutions before the end of the month. Why not try something different in 2014? Here are my suggestions for four simple things to consider as we start the New Year to make it your healthiest one yet! What is one habit you’re ready to leave in 2013? Think about your habits you know are unhealthy. What do you justify to yourself? Maybe it’s the burger you grab more times than you mean to because you overslept and didn’t have time to pack a healthy lunch. Maybe it’s the sugary — and expensive — late night latte that you rely on to keep you studying into the wee hours of the morning. Once you know the habit you’re ready to release, come up with something to replace it and make sure you set yourself up for success. If you know you need to pack healthy lunches, how can you ensure you’ll make it happen? It could be as simple as prepping your food on the weekend when you have the time so you’re ready for the week. What is one small daily activity or practice you can start that will have a big impact over time? As nice as it would be if one hard workout made us super fit, getting

fitter or healthier doesn’t happen overnight. Our day-to-day actions over the long term are what determine how healthy and fit we are. The little things — adding a piece of fruit to your breakfast, walking to campus instead of taking the bus — add up over time. What is your pie in the sky fitness or health goal? Most of us have a dream when it comes to our training or health, whether we’ll admit it or not. If you’re a triathlete, it could be racing in Kona at the Ironman World Championship. If you’re a new runner, it might be finishing or placing in a race you’ve always dreamt about participating in. The goal itself is less important than having one — with big dreams comes a tall order of motivation and a reason to keep moving in a fitter, healthier direction. What is one word that will keep you focused on your goals for 2014? Choosing a word that describes the way you’d like to live for the next year gives you a theme for the year that you can come back to when you’re faced with obstacles or challenges. What kind of a person do you want to be this year? Motivated? Driven? Consistent? Inspirational? Strong? If you’re still not sure, taking a look at any more specific goals that you have and trying to see the kinds of feelings that they’re getting at can help you choose a word for yourself. Once you’ve decided on your theme, remind yourself of it. Your desktop background or the lock screen on your phone are great places to put an image of our word to serve as a regular reminder of what you’re hoping to create in your life this year. — Cheryl Madliger

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Rolling out spirited Knocking on comedy’s Dore art by the foot Jenny Jay GAZETTE STAFF

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Janice Fung CONTRIBUTOR When browsing through the various pieces of artwork hanging on the walls of The ARTS Project (203 Dundas St.), one would never guess that the artist actually paints with her feet. Simona Atzori, a Western alumni, discovered her passion for arts at the young age of four years in her hometown of Milan, Italy. Despite being born without arms, Atzori did not let that get in the way of pursuing her desire to draw. Atzori later studied visual arts at Western, which she now considers her “second home.” Currently, Atzori resides in Italy drawing during her spare time while also pursuing her passion for dance. In her current art exhibition entitled “Spirit of a Dancer,” Atzori has displayed many pieces from different periods of her life. Her portraits depict memorable moments she has spent with her friends and family. Her drawings of nature are inspired by her travels. Her figure drawings of hands and feet tell a story of her personal struggles. And finally, Atzori’s drawings of dance allow her to capture the emotions she has when dancing. Perhaps the most compelling piece in the exhibition depicts Atzori wearing a red dress as she dances for the opening ceremony of the Paralympic games in Turin in 2006. “That was a very special moment

for me,” Atzori says. “[This painting] is one of my favourites.” Atzori’s ability to capture a special moment in her life and express it through visual arts is true for all her pieces. “When I dance, my emotions last only for a few seconds. After that, I only have the photographs, videos and my memories. Painting allows me to capture my emotions and memory,” she says. This not only applies to her dance pieces — Atzori’s ability to get inspiration from everything around her has allowed her to tell a personal and real story behind every piece of art, allowing viewers to understand her emotions as well. Displaying pieces from moments in her life has allowed Atzori to share with audiences the growth that she has experienced as an individual, an artist as well as a dancer. Some paintings were from Atzori’s childhood, and others were drawn during her time spent at Western. And some were painted to express her emotions as a professional dancer today. From the beautiful images that tell her life story, Atzori has been able to share with audiences who she has become over the course of her colourful life. “Spirit of a Dancer” truly reveals the spirit of Simona Atzori. “Spirit of a Dancer” will be running at The ARTS project until the January 18. Your Weekly Horoscope The week of Jan. 10 – 16

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Allison Dore thought she was only “sort of funny” and didn’t intend to go into comedy. After three years of her brother bugging her to try standup, Dore ended up as not only a stand-up comedian and the cohost of a show on Sirius XM, but also addicted to making people laugh. “Once you start making people laugh — that’s addicting — but I started believing that I was really funny a few years later,” Dore says. Originally an actor who performed in school plays, theatre, and Canadian TV, Dore was thrown out of her comfort zone when she decided to perform at her very first stand-up comedy show. “My friend Jenny […] had to hold my hand all the way until I stepped out on stage,” Dore explains. “The first time I was scared as hell until I got off stage, and then I felt really good about things.” That’s not to say every show went smoothly, as Dore says, “the first time I bombed [a show], it hurt so bad.” She did, however, meet many successes, including what she considers to be her most successful show when she opened for the Sklar Brothers in Toronto. “When you meet a comedian you admire and you tell them you’re a comedian it’s one thing, but when you actually work with them and they see what you can do it’s kind of a whole other ball of wax — it’s proving yourself,” Dore says. Dore’s success in comedy, however, is only second to her personal success in making a life choice that has brought her to where she is today. Quitting drugs has allowed Dore to emerge back into the world of stand-up comedy when she nearly went off track, and brought her to becoming closer to her dream. “It got to the point where I just never left my house anymore, and I wasn’t really doing comedy — I was just staying at home and doing

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drugs all the time — comedy was on the backburner for three or four years,” Dore says. “When I look at my life back then versus my life now four years later […] I refocused on what I wanted to do and the goals I had for my own life and things started to work out.” Dore says that her realization came about when she acknowledged that she had a dream that she was straying farther away from because her “priorities were fucked up.” Dore takes from her personal experience and advises students striving for their goals to simply know how much they want it and trust themselves. “People will tell kids in [the creative or arts field] all the time that it’s going to be harder than they think,” Dore says. “What makes it so hard that is that there are times when you doubt yourself and life is hard, you’re not getting the gigs or you’re working a job you hate to pay the bills, while you try to focus on what you want to do, [and] you’re going

to get scared that it’s not going to work out.” For students and individuals in this predicament, Dore reminds them that individuals should know that it is worth it to keep on going — sometimes comedy being the route to take. “When things are miserable if you find a way to make fun of something it also makes it easier to deal with” Dore explains. However, while comedy can be a coping mechanism, “there is something wrong with every comedian,” Dore says, as she admits that she’s “weird.” With public speaking being the number one fear in humans, the additional desire to not just speak to people but also make them laugh — “to want to do that there has to be something a little bit messed up in your brain.” Allison Dore will be performing her stand-up comedy routine in London tonight at 9 p.m. at Hideaway Records and Bar. Tickets are $15.

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The Gazette asked students whether they thought cyber bullying was a problem in university.

Health Sci I “It is, because we have UWO Confessions, and websites where people can hide behind their anonymity. It’s not as prevalent as high school but it’s still present.”

— Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino

It’s better when it’s slow Students should take time to mature first Miszczak Your Privilege

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“Get off my lawn.”

Chris Miszczak ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR In September, waves of bright-eyed teenagers come to university for the first time ready to start their adult lives. In my eyes, with some youth only 17 years old, these students are often far too young to be going through university. I’ve had a unique experience of coming back to school now at an older age — and when I was 17 I wasn’t concerned with anything more than the simple pleasures in life. At that time, I busied myself with enjoying my youth — watching anime, playing video games

and reading every fantasy book I could get my hands on. I can’t help but wonder why young adults today are so eager to grow up fast, desperate to finish school and start a new life paying off mortgages. Are these students really ready to start their adult lives at such a young age? When you’re younger, you’re bound to make stupid decisions. The longer you have to make these mistakes, the more you’ll learn from them — and the safer you’ll be in adulthood. Looking at the school system as a whole, I doubt its value. When I was in high school, there was a grade 13 or an OAC year still in place. That is now gone, but this additional year in high school made an important difference in young students’ lives and produced a more mature group of undergraduate students. The way things are now, we’re

expected to decide what to do for the rest of our adult lives at such an early age and then speed through our education. People should be taking time to explore who they are and what they like. For example, a four-year BA doesn’t necessarily need to be four years. You should be able to spend as much time as you want to pursue whatever you like. Take time in your youth to pick up a hobby, join a club and maybe even write for The Gazette. Pursuing those interests are more valuable than becoming an adult and joining the workforce as soon as possible. Speaking from the perspective of someone who took years off to attend other classes and college programs before going to university, I can’t help but reflect that waiting to become a more mature student would be a better decision for many.

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MIT I “I do think it is, because social media sites exist and students are still on them. I think some people haven’t outgrown that high school mentality.”

Dear Life, I heard a rumour that Pat Whelan is thinking about running for USC president again. Dear Life, Chemistry should be cheMYSTERY because no one has any idea what’s going on.

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MOS I “I don’t think it’s an issue as much as it was in high school because people have gotten more mature and they will solve conflicts face to face rather than doing it on the Internet.”

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gameday The Mustangs men’s volleyball team will be welcoming Windsor on Saturday night at Alumni hall. The match will follow an away game in Hamilton tomorrow.

Rundown >> After closing out the fall season with seven provincial championships and four national titles, the Mustangs are jumping back into full swing, with nine sports competing > Most teams are on the road this weekend, with the exception of the men’s volleyball and men’s hockey teams, who will welcome Windsor and Lakehead, respectively.

Western topples Guelph on the road Mustangs’ trio leads team to first win of the new year Max Stone CONTRIBUTOR In the team’s first game of the new year, the Western Mustangs men’s basketball team earned their first road victory of the season and snapped their two-game Ontario University Athletics losing streak with an 84–79 victory over the Guelph Gryphons. “The win versus Guelph was important. With only four home games left, any road victory is big,” Brad Campbell, Mustangs’ head coach, said. The win comes on the heels of back-to-back exhibition wins against the defending United States Collegiate Athletic Association champion Rochester College Warriors at the end of December. Offensively, the Mustangs were led by a trio of 20-point scorers. Greg Morrow scored 28 points and also contributed 10 rebounds and three assists, while Peter Scholtes added 21 points and seven rebounds of his own. Eric McDonald, Mustangs’ second-year guard, scored 20 points in his first return to Guelph’s W.F. Mitchell Centre since transferring to join the Mustangs. “Eric [McDonald] and Greg [Morrow] had big games,” Campbell said. “Both shot the ball well and created for others.” Throughout the course of the

game, the Mustangs’ aggressive defence in pick-and-roll situations caused problems for Guelph’s perimeter ball-handlers, resulting in 26 points scored off of 19 Guelph turnovers. “Unfortunately, I think we made a lot of unforced mistakes and it is just a question of being more aggressive taking care of the ball, and showing more composure to try and create more mismatches off the screen,” Chris O’Rourke, Guelph Gryphons’ head coach, said.

The win versus Guelph was important. With only four home games left, any road victory is big. — Brad Campbell, Mustangs head coach

The Mustangs trailed 18–10 after the first quarter while shooting just 36 per cent from the field, but an early second-quarter rally capped off by a Cameron Morris jump shot with 4:37 remaining in the first half tied the game at 25. The Mustangs ended the first half on a 17–3 run, and never lost the lead for the rest of the game. As the game progressed, tempers

Mustangs win again Western clinches 10th straight Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR The Western Mustangs women’s basketball team picked up exactly where they left off by welcoming the new year with their 10th straight win of the season over the Guelph Gryphons. The 78–69 final was highlighted by a sensational 36-point performance from Western’s Jenny Vaughan. Vaughan was 11-for-20 in field goals, 75 per cent from three-point range and perfect from the free throw line. Vaughan’s 100 per cent free throw shooting contributed to Western’s near perfect performance from the line as the team hit all but one freebee. The Mustangs took a convincing lead in the first half until it was cut down in the third quarter. Only leading by three going into the fourth, the Mustangs were able to outscore the Gryphons 23–17 to close out their opponents and secure the win. “We have a saying we use, it’s that we have won one game 10 times. We can’t go into games worrying about whether we are going to win or lose and if we can keep our streak going.” Melissa Rondinelli, Mustangs’ forward, said.

Katelyn Leddy and Rondinelli, Western’s fifth-year seniors, were key members of the team’s supporting cast. Leddy hit five of 11 field goals for 12 points, and had a strong performance under the basket as she hauled in nine rebounds — six of which came on defence.

We have a saying we use, it’s that we have won one game, 10 times. We can’t go into games worrying about whether we are going to win or lose and if we can keep our streak going. — Melissa Rondinelli

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Rondinelli, who also finished with 12 points on the night, was perfect from the free throw line, and was a monster in the paint as she led the team with eight defensive rebounds and two blocked shots. “It’s important for us to focus on >> see ‘STANGS pg.8

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NOT A DEFENDER IN SIGHT. Mustangs’ guard Eric McDonald was a top scorer in Wednesday’s game. The Western Mustangs traveled to Guelph to play the Gryphons in what was largely a back-and-forth match. The Mustangs pulled through in the end with a score of 84–79.

began to boil over, resulting in two separate sets of offsetting technical fouls called midway through the fourth quarter. “I saw Scholtes walk through and kind of shoulder one of our guys when he was walking past them and that’s how it escalated from there,” O’Rourke said. Guelph’s full-court press and clutch three-point shooting

challenged the Mustangs late in the fourth quarter, as Western’s lead was reduced to as few as three points with just 19 seconds remaining in the contest. However, clutch free throw shooting from Morrow, McDonald and Scholtes — who collectively shot eight-for-eight from the free throw line in the final minute — clinched the Mustangs’ victory.

With the win, the Mustangs improve to 3–8 on the season, and leap over both Guelph and Brock to move into fifth in the OUA West division, and are just a half-game behind Lakehead for fourth place. The Mustangs will look to extend their winning streak on the road on Saturday against the 5–5 Laurier Golden Hawks — Western’s second of four straight road games.

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what we need to get done offensively and defensively, each and every possession, and if we can win that breakdown of the game then we will be successful,” Rondinelli said. While the final score appeared one-sided, the Mustangs struggled to maintain possession. The Gryphons outshot the Mustangs 72–63, and hit 26 of their 72 shots. The Gryphons’ inability to be consistent at the free throw line proved to be the difference. The team only converted on 11 out of 16 from the line, which was eclipsed by Western’s 22 successful free throws. Katherine MacTavish, Guelph’s top scorer, was 11-for-18 in field goals

and dragged down 11 rebounds, but missed two of her six free throws. With Wednesday night’s 36-point performance, Vaughan increasedher stranglehold on the Ontario University Athletics leader-board with 270 points in 11 games — 45 points ahead of second. At 10–1 the Mustangs are tied for first in the OUA West division with their regional rivals, the Windsor Lancers. The team’s victory over the Gryphons was their first road win of a four-game road trip. The red-hot Mustangs will look to extend their already impressive win streak to 11 games in Waterloo where they will take on the Laurier Golden Hawks who only sit a game back in the OUA West.

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HAND IN THE COOKIE JAR. Mustangs forward Melissa Rondinelli gets in position to take a shot on Wednesday in a game against the Guelph Gryphons. The Mustangs made 22 of 23 shots from the free throw line, boasting a 95.7 per cent connection rate. The Mustangs won the game by a score of 78–69.

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