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Meeting Matt Richard Raycraft NEWS EDITOR

“Thanks Richard. And if anything else comes up today, don’t hesitate to call me.”

I hang up the phone puzzled. I had phoned Matt Helfand, a Western political science graduate student and former Social Science Students’ Council president, to get some background on a possible story lead involving the SSSC. What was going to come up that day that I would need to contact him again for?

Three hours later, Helfand announced his candidacy for University Students’ Council president. The next day, he was on the front page. A couple of months and a campaign later, and he was the USC president-elect.

“When I was about seven years old, I remember telling my mom ‘I want to be the first Jewish Prime Minister of Canada,’” Helfand recalls.

“Being the first Jewish president of the USC is a pretty close realization of that goal to some smaller extent,” he says with a laugh.

Even in an informal interview, Helfand exudes intensity. He speaks directly and concisely, immediately addressing questions — even joke ones like what animal he’d be (Dolphin) — with seriousness and depth.

“Much of what you saw during the campaign is really how he is,” says Emily Addison, Helfand’s running mate and vice-president internal-elect. “He’s a bundle of energy and has a million ideas.”

“He gets very easily excited,” Dan Bain, his campaign manager, admits.

Growing up in Toronto, Helfand never imagined he would end up where he is now. His twin brother Jesse, also a Western student, was the athletic half. That seemed to count for more in the early years.

“I think that to some extent I would say

a level of friendly competition between me and my brother kind of spurred on some of the things that I’m doing now,” Helfand says.

“He was always the athletic one, and in middle school and elementary school that’s where the money is.”

Helfand’s own strengths might not have counted for much among his childhood peers, but they were already beginning to show. His mother Judy Rapkin remembers his political nature becoming apparent early.

“Matt was very similar to how he is now,” she remembers, while acknowledging differences from his twin brother. “He loved to engage in arguments all the time, and he was always right.”

“He was a challenging kid for teachers because he was always right,” she continues, sarcasm evident in her tone.

Rapkin remembers taking Matt, who was in second grade at the time, to a provincial riding debate. Matt asked a question to one of the candidates, which eventually turned into a war of words.

“This guy actually took him on, and [Matt] must have been seven or eight. It was bizarre,” she recalls. “In the end Matthew and I left the room — Matthew in tears, but he had the confidence to do something like that.”

“I definitely had these sorts of ambitions when I was younger, but I never had a way to realize them,” Helfand says.

That chance would come with his enrollment in Western — the only school he applied to. Despite his obvious talent, the road to success in student politics wasn’t easy. In Helfand’s second year, he made a plan to become SSSC president. Hoping to gain experience and knowledge as a councillor first, Helfand missed the all candidates meeting and was immediately disqualified from the election.

“I had to say to myself either put the plan on hold or skip to phase two […] I ran for [SSSC] president the next year,” he says.

With no name recognition and experience, Helfand wasn’t exactly a favourite. Campaign posters were ripped down, mistakes were made in debates. It all worked to motivate him ever more.

“It was an uphill battle, but it just sort of strengthened my resolve,” he says.

Energy and communication skills paid off, and Helfand was elected SSSC president in his third year, serving in that role in his fourth.

Despite speculation that he might run for USC president, Helfand took a pass and enrolled in graduate school in political science at Western.

Soon, though, the political life came calling again.

“My life just felt stagnant,” Helfand says of life after the USC. “I didn’t feel that there was anything fun that I was doing. I was just playing video games and not really enjoying myself.”

Sitting in class one day, Helfand realized he might be able to run for president despite being a graduate student. Just like that, life wasn’t so stagnant anymore.

“I just jumped on it — at that moment it just clicked,” he remembers gleefully. “That was the most exciting moment […] it was even more exciting than winning was.”

Eligibility meant campaigning and reaching out, and there’s nothing Helfand does, or loves, better.

“When I got this opportunity to do the campaign it was just awesome to listen to other people and make connections with them and to try to come up with solutions to problems on campus,” he says.

“It’s so dynamic — you’re on your feet a >> see HELFAND pg.3

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>> HELFAND continued from pg.1

lot and I have a hard time sitting still.”

This campaign, as expected, wasn’t an easy one. Helfand went up against a USC veteran and policy expert in Brian Belman. The challenge was exhilarating for Helfand, who credits his experience in the SSSC presidential race two years prior for preparing him.

For all of its other benefits, winning the USC presidency made his mother very proud.

“You see a kid who loves to argue and you sort of wonder why, and then you see that there’s a reason for it all and that he’s using it functionally,” she says.

“We’re all really proud of him, he’s a great kid.”

Though he likes to talk, debate and discuss, his friends and colleagues agree it doesn’t take away from his ability to listen.

“The Matt you see on stage is not what you get in the room,”

Bain says. “Matt listens first whenever we talk […] in a private conversation he wants to hear everyone’s input before he makes a decision.”

“I was just amazed working at the booth every day, and just seeing his ability to talk to anyone about anything,” Sarah Emms, another campaign manager, adds.

Though he’s an ambitious personality, Helfand likes to keep his head out of the clouds, constantly focused on the here-and-now. A camp counsellor once gave him some advice — advice that would stick with him for the rest of his life.

“Keep your head where your feet are,” Helfand quotes with a smile.

“That’s the mantra that I go by, because the best thing to do is to focus on the task at hand rather than looking to the very next thing,” he continues. “You can’t necessarily define yourself by your future ambitions.”

While some of his platform points during the campaign may have seemed far-fetched, Helfand already has a clear plan of how to implement them with the help of his vice-presidents. Homecoming on campus, building a better student-police relationship and advocacy are what’s on Helfand’s mind these days as he awaits taking up the leadership role of Canada’s largest student government. His occasional zeal coats an underlying eager pragmatism of working to get things done.

It all gives meaning to his election victory quote, “Today we celebrate, but tomorrow we get to work.”

“The campaigning is done now, and now we have to try and win the hearts and minds of Western students through our actions,” he says firmly.

“The work starts instantly, because people are looking to you.”

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1 in 5 undergrads has been cyber-bullied, study finds One in five Canadian undergraduate students may have experienced cyber bullying while at university, a new study has found.

The study, conducted at Simon Fraser University, involved four universities across Canada, two in British Columbia, one in the Prairies and one in Eastern Canada. The study involved surveys for both students and faculty members.

Researchers found that students were often targeted for their gender, race, physical appearance, or to simply in order to humiliate them.

“The primary reason students in our study gave us for cyber bullying other students was that ‘the person upset them,’” said Wanda Cassidy, the principal investigator in the study. “They stated their intention was to insult or humiliate the other.”

Even many professors and other faculty members have been subjects of cyber bullying on sites such as RateMyProfessor.com.

“These sites are not useful at all, because they are anonymous, leaving it open for anyone to say what they want — even it if isn’t true and can really harm the reputation of a faculty member,” Cassidy said.

For victims of cyber bullying, there are many places to seek assistance. Students and faculty may seek help from Human Rights Office or the Office of the Ombudsperson located at the Western Student Services Building. In the most serious cases, it is recommended to contact the police.

“We have found that current policies at universities across Canada may not have kept up with developments in the online world, and therefore these policies could be updated. We also need more services for victims and for cyber bullies,” Cassidy said.

Cyber bullying is an ongoing conflict within Canadian universities and as Cassidy states, it ought to be taken seriously.

“Cyber bullying doesn’t just happen among adolescents. We each need to play a role in making this a kinder online world, by modeling cyber kindness, encouraging it and dialoging about it,” Cassidy said.

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Arts&Life

badwriting “I like watching you sleep. It sorta fascinates me.”

— Stephanie Meyer, Twilight

CAISA through the fashion looking glass

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Scarf — Ardene Densely patterned scarves are hot right now, so they’re relatively easy to find, but Atkinson got hers at Ardene.

Bag — Kate Spade You pay for what you get, and if you don’t mind shilling out a bit of coin, Kate Spade designs some of the classiest understated bags money can buy.

Jacket — Love Sick Vintage While Atkinson picked up her jacket in New York, you may be able to find similar vintage pieces in London’s very own Love Sick Vintage.

Belt — The Sentimentalist Another authentic vintage shop in London, The Sentimentalist is where Atkinson purchased her distinctive belt. It’s unlikely you’ll find one just like it, but there may be a similar accessory here.

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ou can dress vintage or you can wear vintage, and Bailey Atkinson, a fourth-year Women’s Studies and Film student, opts for the latter.

Anyone can make the trip to Urban Outfitters and buy a vintage-esque piece of clothing in an attempt to emulate an era.

It requires far more patience and dedication to truly pay homage to a time period by shopping for authentic vintage pieces. When it’s done successfully, the results can be wonderful, as Atkinson displays in her meticulously crafted outfit.

It’s a deft blend of the classical

Boots — Doc Martens Atkinson purchased her boots online, but if you like the rugged look of combat boots, Doc Martens makes several styles in multiple colours.

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and the contemporary, the bold and the understated, the feminine and the masculine. A simple leather jacket covers a densely lipstickpatterned blouse, both bought from boutiques in New York. On her waist, Atkinson wears an imitation-pearl belt, atop a pair of basic black jeans ending in brown combat boots. Her scarf is as densely patterned as her bag is simple, and rather than appearing cacophonous Atkinson is able to blend her outfit into a kind of harmony.

For her, fashion is more of an exploration than just a necessity. It acts as a means of identity expression.

“Pick something because you like it, not because that is what your friends are wearing,” Atkinson says.

“There is so much more to explore in terms of London fashion in areas like Dundas and Richmond than Masonville.”

Frankly, pulling off Atkinson’s look isn’t easy. It requires diligence and confidence, and can’t simply be picked off the rack at a mall.

It requires experimentation and a honed sense of pattern awareness.

If you’re going to attempt a look like this, prepare to wear it with confidence and expect to turn a few heads.

— Cam “Smoth”Smith

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Courtesy of Emily Yip and Tianlin Ziu

Sarah Bothelo GAZETTE STAFF Didn’t catch New York Fashion Week on TV this year? Don’t worry, Western’s Canadian Asian and International Student Association is hosting the next best thing.

Jennifer Kim, the public relations manager of the annual CAISA fashion show, reported that the team has been working hard on this event all year long.

“We’ve been planning since October, when CAISA recruited their executive team during clubs week,” Kim says.

This dedicated team of students has been meeting every Tuesday night since then orchestrating this event. And Kim revealed that the members have left no stone unturned in this process.

“I’m a front of the house executive member, meaning I deal mainly with public relations and promotions. The back of the house executives are more focused with the actual organization of the show itself,” she says. “They do an immense amount of work. Every single thing that happens is done

by CAISA members, from making the props, booking the venue, the photo-shoots — they put so much passion into it.”

Recently, CAISA held a launch party to announce the theme of this year’s show — Arcadia, inspired by Alice in Wonderland. But that’s all Kim was willing to disclose at this time.

“I don’t want to give away the surprise component of the show,” Kim says. “But what you can expect is a very innovative production. It’s going to be a magical time where audiences won’t even realize what they’re watching is a fashion show because it’s a collaboration of music, art and performance.”

In addition to approximately 50 models from the Western student body, there will be a selection of dance and music, creating a theatrical production.

As was the case in previous years, the show will be held at Centennial Hall — a lavish venue seating up to 1,600. And with this being the 16th year of CAISA’s fashion show, the executive team hopes to make this the biggest, best and most unforgettable show yet.

“For me, personally, I’ve seen everyone work so hard and I’m just excited to see how it all comes together and presents itself to the audience, all in the name of charity of course,” Kim says.

This year, all proceeds from the show will go to the Children’s Health Foundation — an organization that CAISA has been supporting for 13 years now.

“That’s why we’re all very passionate about this event,” Kim says.

“That’s why we put hours into this event’s production, because we want to make a positive difference in the lives of these children.”

Specifically, CAISA will be supporting the neo-natal intensive care unit. This department currently needs updated equipment to ensure the safety and care of infants. All donations from the show will be going towards purchasing this equipment for children who need it most. In previous years, CAISA has raised over $100,000 for the charity, and they hope to do so again.

Last year, CAISA’s fashion show housed over 1,200 attendees, a number Kim and her team are hopeful to surpass this year.

“I guarantee everyone will have a blast!” she says. “Watching art, music, performances, your friends that are extremely gorgeous models, audiences can definitely expect some high-quality entertainment.”

CAISA’s fashion show will be Saturday, March 15 at Centennial Hall (550 Wellington St.) Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 for general admission (show + after party) and VIP tickets are $45 (line-bypass to show + after party + swag-bag of sponsored samples).

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Mediating body image Image sensitivity can arise in 60 seconds Cheryl Madliger GAZETTE STAFF For lots of people, stepping on the scale first thing in the morning is just as much of a habit as brushing their teeth. For some of us, the number on the scale can determine whether or not we have a good or bad day and whether we think of ourselves as successful or as a failure. Especially for those of us who have made it our goal to get in shape or to lose weight, the scale is an easy method to measure progress. Convenience and ease aside, the scale can lie.

Weight gain can come from plenty of things that aren’t worth getting upset over. Eating salty food and retaining water is a common culprit that pushes the scale up. So is putting on muscle. Say you’ve set your goal to lose weight, but do you know if you want to lose it at all costs? If you start weight training and gain muscle, the number on the scale might go up even if you’ve lost fat. It could be worth it to rethink your “weight loss” goal and set a goal around your body composition instead. While it’s a little trickier to measure body composition directly — Western has a bod pod, one of the most accurate ways to measure body fat level, and most gyms will have a set of calipers to give you a fairly good estimate of where you’re at — it can be a better measure to use, especially if you’re bringing exercise into the mix.

Beyond measuring your body fat, you can track the changes in your body using a simple tool most people have in their junk drawer: A tape measure. Taking regular

measurements of your body, especially your hips and waist, can be another way to quantify whether or not you’re moving in the right direction. If you’re not the numbers type, having a pair of jeans that you use as a barometer or just noticing the way your clothes fit in general can give you an indication of how you’re doing.

While it would be nice if we could constantly see changes in our bodies when we’re working towards a goal, sometimes we need to look beyond what’s visually apparent and look at the way our bodies are feeling and looking to see that our hard work is paying off. How well are you sleeping? What are your energy levels and mood like? What do you feel like during your workouts? These are all important, as are things like the way your hormones are working and how healthy you are when you go for a checkup at the doctor.

If you’re really set on using numbers to measure your progress, choosing a performance measure to keep track of is a great idea.

Whether it’s how quickly you can run a mile, how many push-ups you can do or how much weight you can deadlift, performance measures can be good trackers and encouraging ways to keep yourself going and notice your hard work paying off.

Regardless of the progress you make, according to the measure you choose, give yourself credit for setting and working towards your health or fitness goal. Every time you work out or choose a healthier meal is worth celebrating, not just a lower number on the scale.

Jesica Hurst ONLINE EDITOR Ladies, we’ve all been there: You’re feeling hot, cute or even just comfortable with the way you look, and then you see an advertisement featuring a Victoria’s Secret model.

Not the best feeling, right?

Perhaps the perception you have about your own body changes a little?

Well, according to a recent study published in PLoS ONE, a public access peer-reviewed journal, you’re not alone. Researchers Ian D. Stephen, senior lecturer of Psychology at Macquarie University and A. Treshi-Marie Perera, a PhD student at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, have found it takes only 60 seconds to change a woman’s opinion of what an attractive body type is.

“Our study exposed participants to 60-second slide shows of plus-size or light-weight models who were previously rated as attractive or less

attractive. They were then asked to use a computer to manipulate the body size (BMI) of photographs of women to make them look as healthy as possible and, separately, as attractive as possible,” Stephen explains.

“We found that women who were exposed to light-weight models chose significantly smaller body sizes for the attractive trials than for the healthy trials than women who were exposed to images of plus size models, especially when the plus size models were attractive,” he adds.

According to Stephen, the study had two main aims: To test the hypothesis that healthy and attractive body size would be similar, and to test if even a short exposure to images of models could affect people’s body size preferences.

While Stephen could not comment on whether or not these findings are temporary or long lasting, he says that they explain there has to be some other component to attractiveness, such as media influence.

“I would be a bit hesitant about

making policy recommendations based on this one study, since we don’t know if the effects are long term or just temporary,” Stephen says. “It does add some support to the idea that the media helps to shape women’s views of ideal body shape though.”

Stephen also noted that men seemed less susceptible to media influence, always preferring lower body size for attractiveness than healthy appearance.

While society has grown used to seeing images of the “ideal” or “perfect” body size everywhere in the media, and we assume that it has a detrimental effect on people’s views of what is attractive and what isn’t, Stephen says it is still an important topic to study — especially focusing on the question of body image in young women.

“If the media is influencing perceptions of attractive bodies, and affecting young women’s body image, it is important to try to do something about it,” he says.

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Opinions

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

– Nelson Mandela

From the desk of the Editor in Chief

Credit where it’s due Uze Your Brain

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Julian Uzielli EDITOR-IN-CHIEF It may have taken a few months, but on Monday, the University Students’ Council redeemed themselves.

In late November, the USC held their second One Love event. It was supposed to take the One Love Rally, the event that has been the crown jewel of O-Week for the past four years, and make it accessible to all students. Alas, it didn’t work out so well. But whatever went wrong, it appears the USC learned from their earlier mistakes to put on a hit event.

On Monday, actress and transgender activist Laverne Cox appeared on campus to speak to a sold-out crowd of 500 students in the Mustang Lounge. By all accounts, the event was a success, and where we criticized the USC for the flop that was One Love, they deserve credit for making Laverne Cox a hit.

So what did they do differently? Why was Laverne Cox such a bigger draw than Jessi Cruickshank and the rest of the One Love speakers? Both events had similar themes of overcoming adversity and promoting universal acceptance, but one was successful, and one was not.

For starters, Cox is recognizable. After her fantastic performance in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black as a transgender inmate trying to survive in a women’s prison, anyone familiar with the show would recognize her face.

Promotion for One Love was vague, with an unclear message of what the event actually was — a rally? A speaker event? A Bob Marley tribute concert? — while the promotion for Laverne Cox was clear: Come see an accomplished transgender woman speak about her journey to womanhood.

Cox’s face was featured prominently in the event’s promotional posters, which seemed to be omnipresent around the UCC atrium in the weeks leading up to the event. Add that to the fact that Laverne Cox hadn’t just done the exact same speech here three months earlier, and the event was bound to be more successful.

Timing may have been a factor as well; One Love round two was held right before December exams. Mid-march isn’t necessarily an easy time of year to be a student either, though, with midterms and deadlines lurking around every corner, which leads me to believe that Cox’s success was thanks to the combination of good promotion and a unique opportunity to see an engaging speaker — as opposed to a redundant event with haphazard promotion.

Incoming USC executives, take note.

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Nusaiba Al-Azem SPORTS EDITOR

Aaron Zaltzman ASSOCIATE EDITOR

The facts of Israeli occupation and violations of international law are undisputed. I will not bother in this short editorial to tackle the issue of whether or not Israel as a nation state is carrying out human rights violations — if you do your basic research, by way of the United Nations, Amnesty International or any other reputable source, you will find it is not a contested issue that the country is guilty of these offences.

Rather, what I want to focus on is the issue of Israeli Apartheid Week, or IAW, which is an international series of events held on campuses in late February or early March and has just ended at Western. IAW attempts to raise awareness about Israel’s apartheid policies towards Palestinians and build support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

First and foremost I’d like to dispel myths about IAW and the Israel-Palestine struggle, namely the concept of Palestinian activism as a religious one. Nor is it related to Zionism. While Islam and Judaism might value the Holy Land of Jerusalem, IAW is not a matter of Muslims versus Jews. IAW consists of a collection of change-seekers (from all races, denominations and social locations) resisting a specific political ideology (again, to which people of all races, denominations and social locations subscribe).

In fact, this year Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights UWO made extra effort to highlight IAW’s intersectionality by working with organizations such as the Vegan Society, Tamil Student Association and the Film Studies Department.

Speakers for the week’s events reflected a wide range of perspectives, including South African (a former ANC representative), Jewish (a member of Independent Jewish Voices), feminist, anti-colonial and queer, among other diverse speakers.

Another myth: Pro-Palestinians are strictly anti-Israel. ProPalestinians are not anti- any people — in fact, it is precisely because they are “pro” all people that they take part in the movement in the first place. Have a conversation with one and see.

But perhaps what’s most important to note about the discussion of IAW’s validity on campus is that this discussion must take place at all. While many other social justice issues are sensitive or incriminating against oppressors, the question of whether or not activists should try to raise awareness about them never arises. When Aboriginals across Canada initiated the Idle No More movement, the underlying tension of “is this appropriate” was not present. If I wanted to campaign against Saudi Arabia’s treatment of women on campus, I doubt I would be met with more than a “good job” — though that very well incriminates the numerous Saudi men who support oppressive legislation. So why is this different when it comes to Israel?

If you are somebody who prefers to sweep this issue under the rug, you should take a good, hard look at yourself. Do your values support ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and apartheid walls? If not, then at some point it seems you’ve demonstrated some sort of hypocrisy and/or inconsistency.

If they do support those things, then it becomes all the more important that events like IAW exist.

May walls, physical or figurative, never stand in the way of justice.

We love simplicity, don’t we?

As humans, we crave it in our lives. We look for clear answers and simple paradigms. Even as university students, we’re hardwired, almost desperate, to seek the simplest view to a situation. We want meaning, we want lessons, and most importantly, we want good guys and bad guys.

Because of this desire, this need of ours for clarity, simplicity is a weapon — an incredibly effective one, too. And at Western and many other universities, it is a weapon being used by the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week. It’s used, with great effectiveness, to disguise IAW as political activism — as a protest, as education — instead of what it really is.

The simplicity is devious, because it’s so easy as the viewer to look at the pictures of attack helicopters and destruction, or hear about the suffering of the Palestinian people, and feel empathy. It’s easy to feel anger, and to let it influence your conclusions and your judgment. It’s easy to let outrage dictate your opinion.

That’s the point of IAW. It’s education towards a purpose, and activism with a slant — in short, it’s manipulation. It’s the use of half-truths and one-sidedness to influence your opinion on the conflict towards one simple conclusion — Palestine good, Israel bad.

The organizers use snapshots with no context and employ heart-wrenching images and emotional arguments to shortcircuit your critical thinking. Their goal is to manipulate you into viewing the conflict in those simplest of terms.

Because we seek simplicity, the strategy is effective — when we see a photo of a dead civilian we want to believe that those responsible are evil. Explaining that the situation is murky, that maybe this civilian was killed by accident or by friendly fire, just sounds like excuses. It’s so much easier to feel outrage than to consider context and background — it’s harder to employ critical thought than give in to simplicity.

It feels strange to have to say this, because it seems like the most obvious thing in the world, but the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is not simple — it is in fact very complicated. In its current form, it has been evolving for over a century — every small episode of the situation is rooted in the history of the conflict. It’s impossible to gain a true understanding of the causes and facets of the conflict from one photo or story, and yet that is exactly what the organizers of IAW want to happen.

Even the name itself is geared towards this purpose.

Apartheid, aside from conjuring up images of persecution and violence, implies that the conflict is one-sided — that it is solely the fault of the evil Israelis. It is meant to colour your perception of the situation not as a bilateral conflict, but as some sort of nefarious Israeli design.

None of this is to say that IAW should not be allowed, or that Western students should not get educated about the conflict, but rather that as a viewer you should approach IAW with the utmost skepticism. You have to recognize that you are being sold an incomplete narrative for the sole purpose of demonizing one side. And before drawing conclusions you have to resist the pull of simplicity and force yourself to think critically about what you’re being shown — not education or awareness, but an insidious, well-crafted smear campaign.

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gameday The Western Mustangs ringette team gets set to play their third game of the Ontario Ringette Association Provincial Championships this morning at 10:30 p.m. in Oshawa.

Rundown >> The Mustangs squash team competed in the 2014 Jesters Event this weekend at the National Squash Academy > the men’s team earned the overall title while the women’s team walked away with bronze.

‘Stangs sweep OUA championships in Waterloo Western’s badminton team take banner in landslide win Nusaiba Al-Azem SPORTS EDITOR The Western Mustangs badminton team travelled to Waterloo this weekend to compete in the Ontario University Athletics championships, and successfully brought home the banner.

After losing in a tie breaker in the team championship last year to the University of Toronto, the Mustangs came strong this year to redeem themselves by defeating all other teams with a massive 52-point lead ahead of the Ottawa Gee-Gees’ second-place 34 points.

“Every single player on our team played amazingly,” Mustangs badminton player Christina Giuffre said of the event. “Everyone got out of their pool play this year, which means each person gets one point and then in the main draws the points are worth more.

We then had at least one person in every semi-final and final so our points started to accumulate very fast. We trained hard this year and we wanted to bring the trophy back home.”

This marks the 10th time in history that Western has taken home the trophy since OUA badminton moved to the team format.

In four out of five event finals, the Mustangs had representatives competing. These finals consisted of the men’s singles,

This week badminton superstar Martin Giuffre adds a Purple Pipe to his brimming trophy mantle.

The fifth-year Kinesiology student defeated fellow teammate Daniel Paulson in straight sets to defend his title in the men’s singles event at the 2014 Ontario University Athletics badminton championships in Waterloo this past weekend.

Giuffre led Western to a dominating team performance, claiming gold with 86 points while the second place Ottawa Gee-Gees managed just 34 points. He dropped only one set the entire tournament in men’s singles competition and teamed up with Allen Chee to defend his men’s doubles gold against Waterloo.

Greatness runs in the family as his sister Adrianna teamed with Olympian Alex Bruce to claim the women’s doubles crown in another all-Western final.

For his double-gold triumph, Giuffre was named the OUA MVP

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REDEPMTION TASTES SO SWEET. The Western Mustangs badminton team competed in Waterloo this weekend and brought home first place. Four out of five team finals featured Mustangs players, and four out of five individual OUA awards were given to Mustangs. After coming coming in second due to a tiebreaker last year, the Mustangs finally brought the trophy back home.

won by Western’s Martin Giuffre, women’s singles, won by Ottawa’s Qufei Chen, men’s doubles, won by Western’s Allen Chee and Martin Giufffre, women’s doubles, won by Western’s Alex Bruce and Adrianna Giuffre, and mixed doubles, won

by Western’s Chee and Bruce.

Western also picked up four out

for the fifth consecutive season.

His impressive 2014 campaign — his third as team captain — comes after representing Canada at the 2013 World University Games for the third time in Kazan, Russia, and scoring another double gold in men’s singles and mixed doubles at the U23 Badminton Nationals in Saskatoon.

It would be an understatement to say Giuffre has established an illustrious career. He’s earned OUA all-star honours and men’s Most Valuable Player every year since debuting for the Mustangs in 2009, when he won OUA rookie of the year, gold at the 2013 UniversityCollege National Badminton Championships in men’s singles as well as mixed doubles and a “Western Mustangs Goodlife Fitness Athlete of the week” award fill out the trophy case. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

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of five major awards at the event.

Bruce earned the women’s MVP award, Martin Giuffre earned the men’s MVP award, Daniel Paulson earned the men’s rookie of the year award and Mustangs’ head coach Rob Fowler received the coach of the year award.

“Our team had tremendous

depth this year on both the men’s and women’s side. Furthermore, a few of the other teams lost a few valuable players this year so we had a big window of opportunity to perform,” Martin Guiffre said of the win. “Despite knowing that we had a good chance this year, everyone on our team competing

just tried to control what was in their power and to have fun.”

There was an interesting dynamic on top of the regular team camaraderie that accompanies a team of good depth — three members are, in addition to being teammates, siblings.

Martin, Christina and Adrianna Guiffre, originally from Calgary, all attend Western and compete in varsity badminton.

“I think it’s pretty rare for athletes to be able to compete with their family, so it’s something I’ve really cherished the last few years here at Western and won’t forget,” Martin Giuffre said.

This is the last year for both Martin and Christina, while Adrianna has two years remaining as a Mustang. Adrianna, along with teammate Alex Bruce, edged out older sister Christina and fellow teammate Margaret Cameron for first place in women’s doubles.

“Adrianna will be taking on a coaching role next year, something that I never did, so I really admire her for that and I think she’ll be a great leader and mentor to the team,” Martin Giuffre said.

The siblings, along with seven other Mustangs, move on next week to compete at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport national competition in Quebec City. Be sure to follow the badminton team on their way to nationals.

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