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Western researchers discover ALS mutation Iain Boekhofff Gazette Staff Researchers at Western University have discovered a new genetic mutation for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, generating new hope for treatment of the deadly disease.

Michael Strong, dean of the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and scientist with Western’s Robarts Research Institute, was the leader of a team of researchers who discovered mutations within a specific gene are present in virtually all cases of ALS. When the researchers looked at both familial and sporadic forms of the disease, they found abnormal inclusions of the protein that arises from this gene.

ALS, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a progressive and fatal disease that affects the motor neurons connecting the brain to the muscles throughout the body. ALS symptoms include muscle weakness in the arms and legs, slurred speech, twitching and cramping of the muscles and eventually paralysis. According to the Robarts Research website, approximately 80 per cent of patients die within two to five years of diagnosis, and between 1,500 to 2,000 people in Canada have ALS.

“We’ve been working for quite a period of time in trying to understand the basis of Lou Gehrig’s disease,” Strong said. “When we look under a microscope at the cells that are involved, in a number of cells we see these accumulations of proteins that shouldn’t be there. They can look like rock-or snake-like structures within the cell, but they shouldn’t be there.”

“They’re normal under most circumstances but aggregating is not a good thing. And it turns out one of these rocks is due to an alteration in what we call a stability messenger RNA.” According to Strong, RNA is the link between genes and the proteins those genes produce. He also explained every gene will make thousands of RNA and every RNA will make thousands of proteins.

“What we found was that the RNA for one of the components of the proteins that we were seeing deposited in the cells was unstable and was less than what you would expect to see in that cell,” he said.

“We showed that this protein, RGNAF, actually interacted with the RNA that we were interested in. It only interacted in the ALS cases and when it did so it destabilized.”

“We then went on to show that if we looked across a range of ALS

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cases, virtually every ALS case we looked in we could find that this new protein was deposited within the cells where it shouldn’t be,” he continued.

Strong explained the next step was to examine how these proteins worked. He also noted this experiment was one of a kind and is not something that would be taught in

science classes.

“This was an experiment you’d have to be nuts to do because most genetic studies the way that they are done nowadays is that massive groups get together they contribute thousands of DNA samples and you go looking,” Strong said.

“This wasn’t that. We found the protein first, we showed that it

was abnormal, we showed that it was in the ALS cases and we looked in those cases where we found the protein being deposited and asked, ‘can we find a genetic abnormality?’”

Further research based on this discovery could lead to new targeted therapies to help treat Lou Gehrig’s disease.

U of T club invites students to “sexy social” Alex Carmona News Editor

University students looking for some erotic excitement may want to consider heading to Toronto next Monday for the University of Toronto Sexual Education Centre’s upcoming ‘Sexy Social’. The event, aimed to kick off SEC’s annual Sexual Awareness Week, will be hosted at the Oasis Aqua Lounge, a water-themed sex club where only the hot tub and pool are off

limits for those looking to get down and dirty.

Some corners of the Internet are billing the event as an orgy, decrying it as perverse or risky. However, Kayla Wright, executive director for the SEC, stressed the event will be more of a sex-positive social gathering, rather than a straight-up sex scene.

“Basically, it’s a social that just so happens to take place at a sex club. We felt that it gives people the option, if they want, to go have sex

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in a clean, safe, positive environment,” she said.

“Or to just hang out and meet people and hang out in a hot tub, which is totally why I’m going to be there.”

The club typically has fairly stringent entrance policies, only allowing single men in one night a week and charging a whopping $80 per couple for regular entry.

On Monday, however, the SEC will be taking over the entirety of the space and opening it up to any and

all Canadian university students aged 19+ for just five dollars.

Wright said the group has been flooded with positive feedback, lauding them for their progressive stance on sex education.

“To whoever is planning this week: I just want to send a virtual props your way. Hosting an event at a sex club is probably the best idea I have ever heard from campus group doing work around sexuality,” one member of the SEC Facebook group wrote. “But

it’s wonderful and clearly a lot of people appreciate that you’ve made this investment in promoting sexual awareness and also non-normative sexuality. It’s really a beautiful thing to see, especially from a campus like U of T.” Others, however, are more skeptical about the appropriateness of the event. One commenter raised concerns about the possibility of rape and STI transmission at the >> see Social pg.3

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Western’s coordinator of Chaplains’ Services has come out against the proposed relocation of The Gazette office and multi-faith space.

“I have been involved with the University Students Council regarding the design of the space before even the referendum. This is the first executive that I’ve dealt with that makes decisions regarding a multi-faith space without even consulting me,” Michael R. Wagenman, coordinator of Chaplains’ Services, said.

He explained the main complaints he had heard regarding the current multi-faith space involved the room being locked, as well as students studying in the space and not being used for prayer.

Wagenman explained he was in touch with hundreds of students.

“We’re talking about a significant student population that doesn’t relegate their faith to the margins of their calendar,” Wagenman said.

When asked if he thought such students would be in favour of moving, Wagenman responded, “I’m going to say no for two reasons. First is the noise. The second issue—I hear a lot of students of faith who say the university and the USC are trying to marginalize people of faith.”

“The topics of moving the multi-faith room to the back corner of this building is terrible if you want to constructively address that criticism and concern. You’re putting them in the back corner,” he continued.

“I would be very much against this move,” he concluded.

—Gloria Dickie

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Survey to study campus health Sex-positive social NCHA introduced to Western for first time Aaron Zaltzman News Editor

A new survey is being introduced to Western students that could serve as the cornerstone for any future changes to the University’s health program. The National College Health Assessment, which Western will participate in for the first time, will assess health-related behaviours, risks and perceptions among university and college students.

“In order to figure out how to plan programs or offer services, we really need to know what the needs are,” Nicole Versaevel, health promotion manager for Western health services, said. “We’re doing this almost as a needs assessment to see what the issues are and then how we can use that information to serve our students better.”

The survey, which starts Monday, will be sent to 6,000 random Western students, and will assess drug use, sexual health, nutrition, exercise, mental health, personal safety and violence.

Versaevel said she expects the results will influence which services and programs are implemented or

changed in the future.

“I think the most important reason for students to do this is to get their voice out there, so we’re trying to engage our students to understand the health priorities,” she explained. “This information can inform conclusions such as why we need certain programs and services on campus.”

In order to figure out how to plan programs or offer services, we really need to know what the needs are.

—Nicole Versaevel

Health promotion manager for Western health services

The survey will also examine student perceptions on healthy behaviours, and how they match or differ from the reality.

“It’s enabling us to have the information to look at how people are perceiving things, as well as if that perception is accurate or not,

and how we can fix that is it isn’t,” Versaevel said.

She also said it was important to ensure students understand what “health” really means, as many, in her opinion, do not.

“We typically think of health as merely the absence of disease, when, in actuality, it encompasses one’s physical and mental health, social life, environmental conditions, as well as health behaviours,” Versaevel said. “I think we need to define health broadly and use that information. In a lot of ways, this tool is being looked at as the gold standard for assessing student health.”

However, Versaevel said the survey results would not just be for the benefit of student health services.

“We’ve got people from […] all across campus that we’ll be sharing this information with, as well as sharing it with students, asking them for their ideas,” Versaevel said. “We would even like students here to use it as part of their thesis work.”

“It’s really a tool to get a lot of conversation going and bring health and wellness to the forefront on campus.”

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“Arguing this event as a safe forum to experiment sexually is bull. People experiment safely without needing an organized event like this in order to do so,” the commenter wrote. “With students, it is natural to expect that there will be alcohol or substance abuse linked to this party [...] which so often leads people to do things they regret, don’t remember, or weren’t completely lucid. Bad combo when it comes to sex.”

Wright argued these comments overlook the high level of importance the SEC is placing on participant safety.

“We’re going to be bringing in a ton of safer sex supplies and

encourage by scattering them throughout the upper floors.

As with all situations, we cant force people to use them but we would like people to make the best informed decisions that they can,” Wright said. “We also have security employed at the venue in case something does go wrong and someone maybe gets a little belligerent or too drunk we can ask them to leave the premises.”

Wright also noted fears of a preponderance of single men overwhelming the event proved unfounded at last year’s Sexy Social.

“Last year, when we had the event, it was almost an even split, not to exclude the trans people who were there. But it was close to 50-50, possibly even tilted a little toward female identified people.”

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thespianthursday No legacy is so rich as honesty.

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Sahaja yoga meditates on mental silence Sumedha Arya Arts & Life Editor

This Saturday morning, practicing members of sahaja yoga are launching a five-week meditation program at the Downtown Yoga Holistic Centre. The program, which requires prior registration but is free of charge, will be held weekly on Saturday mornings until February 16.

While free classes of sahaja yoga have been offered Canada-wide since 1978 and within Ontario since 1982, this is the first time sahaja yoga is being offered in London.

The implementation of this program locally is primarily due to London resident Glenda Patterson.

It helped me stay balanced, and I was able to absorb information that was important much faster. It kept me calm.

—Mohit Verma

Founder of Sahaja Yoga Meditation Club at the University of Waterloo.

Patterson, who first learned about meditation 12 years ago, became interested in sahaja yoga upon finding an online sahaja yoga meditation course. “[Sahaja yoga] made perfect sense to me in an imperfect world,” says Patterson of her developing interest.

After completing the course and reading more about this yoga,

Patterson contacted members of sahaja yoga to learn how to earn qualifications to teach meditation. When sahaja yoga members learned Patterson couldn’t go to Kitchener-Waterloo to attend sahaja meditation meetings, the group decided to host a course in London.

“I guess I became their motivation to have a course here,” Patterson muses.

Andrew Tyas, who will be giving an introduction to the course this Saturday and playing the Indian flute during the meditation session, agrees Patterson was a critical person in bringing sahaja yoga to London. Tyas, who has been involved with sahaja yoga for 15 years, hopes others in London will be able to gain benefit from the yoga.

“It can be difficult because people get wrapped up in their thoughts and it can be hard to let go,” says Tyas, acknowledging a potential obstacle the program faces. “However, the requirements are easy to meet, and the yoga is not physically demanding.”

For Tyas, the number one benefit of sahaja yoga is being able to expel tiredness, frustration and anger that may build up over the course of a day.

“Meditation is the number one way to press the reset button.

Sometimes, I just achieve this mental silence,” Tyas says.

With this statement, Tyas touches upon the greatest difference between sahaja yoga and other types of yoga—the achievement of mental silence. Tyas believes that while other types of yoga do provide a “good feeling” and a feeling of relaxation, they don’t allow one

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to build upon their mental silence.

He also emphasizes that, for registered participants to gain the greatest benefit from sahaja yoga, they need to practice regularly.

“In a five-week guitar course, you’ll get a little bit and enjoy, but you have to go home and practice— and you have to practice for years,” says Tyas, who tries to meditate every day for at least 20 minutes.

Many members of sahaja yoga show the same commitment as Tyas does. Having found that this type of yoga has transformed their own lives, members volunteer their time and expertise to help

teach others. They do this with the hopes that other people will also be able to utilize sahaja as an outlet to escape their daily worries. Tyas, for example, works at a school—for him, sahaja is purely a hobby.

Within a university setting, students are also finding the utility of regularly practicing sahaja yoga. Mohit Verma, who has been practicing sahaja yoga for eight years, founded the Sahaja Yoga Meditation Club at the University of Waterloo. In his third year, Verma found sahaja yoga to help him stay focused during his studies.

“It helped me stay balanced, and

I was able to absorb information that was important much faster. It kept me calm,” Verma says of his early experiences with sahaja yoga.

Verma and his friends started their campus club in spring 2011.

Since then, they have found a positive response to sahaja yoga, and have hosted campus events with guest speakers—including a professor from Alberta who presented the cerebral science behind how meditation works.

Perhaps sahaja yoga will eventually find its place on Western’s campus.

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ON TV American Idol “Let’s get it poppin” thunders new judge Nicki Minaj in the promotion for the new season of American Idol.

Keith Urban and Mariah Carey also join Randy Jackson to round out the judge’s table. Sure, the singers will probably be alright, but let’s be real—if the TMZ reports are to be trusted, then we are in for an awesome season with tonnes of feuding between Carey and Minaj.

American Idol airs Wednesdays and Thursdays this season on Fox and will surely be more colourful than Nikki’s wigs.

ON DISC Kidz Bop 23 If you’ve always wanted to hear adolescents grunt their way through Cher Lloyd, then you’re in luck with Kidz Bop 23. One must wonder how these children sing some of the songs on this album because they have to be around 12 years old.

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Won’t Back Down Viola Davis stars as a teacher recruited by Maggie Gyllenhaal to try and create a school that helps struggling students shine. While the film as a whole is undeniably flimsy, it offers both Davis and Gyllenhaal some meaty parts to work with.

After The Help, I think the masses are starting to realize that Davis is smart, she is kind and she important.

Seeing her act in anything is a treat and Gyllenhaal isn’t too bad herself.

Mama Speaking of The Help, Jessica Chastain trades in her high-heeled shoes and giant blonde hair in that film for something a little different.

In Mama Chastain plays Annabel, a mother whose children vanish.

After the children show up five years later after being found in the woods, Annabel worries they may be possessed. If only her children were raised by wolves—who wouldn’t want to see that movie? Hopefully this horror movie doesn’t fit the mold and isn’t savaged by the critics.

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GGGFF Gangster Squad Starring: Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte Director: Ruben Fleischer

Gangster Squad takes place in a post-World War II America, when the country tried to decide what it wanted to stand for after the horrors of war. Unfortunately, the U.S. found new horrors on its own shores. Gangster Squad shows what happens when a few cops decide to fight back, with predictably violent results.

The film portrays the reign of mobster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) over the city of Los Angeles.

A few incorruptible officers, marshaled together by Chief Bill Parker (Nick Nolte), decide Los Angeles must be redeemed and Cohen must be stopped. These offices, led by John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan

Gosling) take the fight directly to Cohen. Along the way, Wooters falls for Cohen’s girlfriend Grace (Emma Stone).

There is plenty to admire about Gangster Squad. Cinematographer Dion Beebe has created a Los Angeles that is at once lush and vibrant as well as grimy and shadowy. The action scenes, though consistently over-the-top, are exquisitely shot. As well, the performances are solid around the board. Penn in particular imbues Cohen with ferocity.

One thing any potential viewer should know about Gangster Squad is that it’s violent. It is violent in a way that its trailers and advertising do not suggest. While the hyper-violent actions of the protagonists are presented in a more sympathetic light, the film itself often falls into this very trap.

America faced many challenges in the 1940s and 1950s, and while this film identifies them, it does not actively engage with them, preferring to construct visuallystimulating violent confrontations

between cops and mobsters.

Many veterans who came home from the war felt alienated in the advancing American society, and rather than dwell on this important issue, Gangster Squad allows its military veteran characters to fall right back into soldiering against a new enemy. In addition to being a competent action flick, Gangster Squad could have made a substantive statement about any of these issues, but instead chose to pay them lip service and paint over them in blood.

The film is blessed with a talented cast and a compelling quest to send them on, but unfortunately, the sum is not equal to the parts. Actors like Brolin and Gosling use all of their considerable talents, but there is only so far their character can go when hindered by such a shallow script.

Ultimately, Gangster Squad tries to evoke predecessors like The Untouchables, but it is missing the heart and depth of those films. It is a second-rate version of what could have been a first-rate film.

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Re: USC to replace Gazette with multi-faith To the Editor: The article from the Wednesday’s edition of The Gazette implies that University Students’ Council has yet again blown money on a useless space.

The article points out that the new renovations to The Gazette office will be done at the expense of students across campus. Did we not just get bumped for the gym and multifaith space only two or three years ago?

Why are non-faith students and faith-based students alike being charged yet again by USC for a blunder originally made by the USC council?

Perhaps council should have put more thought into the current multi-faith space before it was built instead of wasting millions of dollars on a room that the USC said “is not meeting the needs and requirements of multi-faith groups on campus.”

While you’re at it, why not move USC somewhere and rearrange those rooms to accommodate a non-faith space (atheist/agnostics) to make sure you waste yet another large sum of student fees and tuition on useless blunders.

—Scott Jones History IV Re: USC to replace Gazette with multi-faith To the Editor: The possibility of The Gazette being downsized made me so distraught that I could not focus on my third-year applied math class for the hour after reading the article.

In fact, I am so distraught that I am experiencing difficulty writing this letter.

Western can boast that it is home to Canada’s only daily newspaper run entirely by students—so why is the University Students’ Council giving The Gazette the shaft?

The Gazette is something the entire student body can engage in. It doesn’t make sense why the entire student body should suffer for the needs of approximately 800 students.

Why are these students’ needs put above the collective opportunity to practice journalism, stay informed and have a venue for critical discussion about the USC and other aspects of student life?

Considering the accolades one could bestow upon The Gazette, I think it deserves a little more respect.

I sincerely hope the USC members responsible for this decision read my letter. I was under the impression that the USC acted in favour of the entire machine that is the student body of Western.

—Demetri Pananos Science III

An open letter to all interested parties: It has come to my attention that the University Students’ Council is planning to move The Gazette and its 24 editors from its 40-year-old location to a much smaller office currently occupied by four people.

As I understand, this plan was made surreptitiously without due consultation with The Gazette, its staff, or even multi-faith stakeholders at the centre of the issue. As former editorin-chief of The Gazette, I have many grave concerns about this plan, not least of which is The Gazette’s ability to function as a key part of campus democracy, should this plan proceed.

The publisher-newspaper relationship is a tenuous one, to be sure. As such, it’s always prudent on the publisher to be as open, transparent and accountable as possible so political influences and personal vendettas are not allowed to interfere with the newspaper’s autonomy and freedom. The decision to move from one office to another is not a direct threat on press freedoms. But when the decision is made without due consultation and fair review of the consequences, the motivations become suspect. Is the publisher acting in the best interest of the newspaper? Is the student council acting in the best interest of its constituents? A review of the available information leads to me to conclude it is not.

The decision to move offices to a significantly smaller space has several consequences likely not considered in the publisher’s calculations. As a journalist now employed at The Globe and Mail, I can only credit The Gazette, its training, its welcoming environment and its community for my success. Many young volunteers use The Gazette as a launching pad for their careers, based in large part on the community fostered inside its space. The walls emanate tradition from dozens of previous editors who are now employed in the industry around the world. A newspaper is a collaborative effort made possible by

an open space that fosters creativity, sparks imagination and enables collaboration. This is necessary for several aspects of its operations, from group story meetings, to cross-section collaboration, to daily editorial board meetings, which can involve 20 or 30 editors and volunteers gathered to discuss important issues of the day.

All of this and more has been threatened by the publisher’s decision.

And I suspect none of it has been duly considered. The proposed space— which contains one receiving area, three small offices and one storage space—would quell collaboration.

Editorial board meetings could not function. Volunteers would not have space to work, forcing them home or elsewhere, disrupting the editorvolunteer dynamic that was so crucial to my success.

The publisher must be exceedingly careful here—decisions against the wishes of the newspaper can be easily (mis)understood as sidelong political punishments. The recent turbulence between the student government and the campus newspaper is well documented. These same politicians are now in a position to affect The Gazette. And they appear to be doing so.

This controversy requires open, productive conversations between all interested groups. The furtive decision-making process by the publisher cannot continue.

I implore Western to review these decisions now affecting its campus newspaper, which would have grave consequences on its role in campus democracy. I ask the University Students’ Council to suspend its plan until a more thorough review of consequences and alternatives can be evaluated. I ask The Gazette’s editor to work in consult with the publisher to ensure transparency and accountability on all sides.

Please proceed with much caution.

The decisions you make now will affect students, journalism and press freedoms for decades to come.

—Stuart Thompson Gazette Editor-in-Chief, 2010–11

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Elite or not, Joe Flacco is still a valuable asset The Tables Have Sterned Ryan Stern Sports Editor

Is Joe Flacco elite?

It is a joke around NFL circles that never seems to go away.

Though the question has viable answers from both sides, the question itself does not address the root of the problem that the Baltimore Ravens face in the coming off-season.

Flacco may be elite, he may be average—I tend to lean towards the cop-out answer of ‘above average’—but the question isn’t whether he belongs on Mount Rushmore, it is whether his value above the average quarterback is

easily replaceable by the Ravens.

The answer is an emphatic no.

An elite quarterback is not always necessary to win the Super Bowl, and though the Ravens have yet to reach the pinnacle of NFL success under Flacco’s tutelage, they have come a lot closer than most teams in the league. If Trent Dilfer can win a Super Bowl, so can Flacco. If Brad Johnson can win a Super Bowl, so can Flacco.

Having won a playoff game

every season of his career, and having made the AFC championship game for the third time, it would be in the Ravens best interest to lock up Joe Flacco to a sizable contract.

I understand the argument that Flacco is not the sole reason that the Ravens have had post-season success, but even if his aboveaverage play is only sporadic, he is still getting the job done.

When the season ends for the Ravens, whether it be with a Super

Bowl victory or a loss this Sunday, the Ravens can’t really afford to lose Flacco without a viable attempt at getting a contract.

The Ravens and their fans need to realize that elite quarterbacks don’t just grow on trees, and with the measure of success that Flacco has enjoyed over his short tenure with the Ravens, I think the Ravens will be hard-pressed to find a better solution than the above-average Flacco.

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tweet of the week Had my 2nd catch session with @RADickey43 today! That thing sure does dance in the air! #OnlyGotHitOnceToday

Toronto Blue Jays catcher J.P Arencibia (@jparencibia9) on catching R.A Dickey’s knuckleball

Rundown >> Six Mustangs varsity teams have cracked the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Top 10 Rankings > these six teams are both of the Mustangs hockey teams, both track and field teams and both of the Mustangs wrestling teams.

Rankings on the line for ‘Stangs at Guelph open Wrestling team sends top wrestlers to high-caliber contest Richard Raycraft Sports Editor On Saturday, members of the Mustangs wrestling team will head to Guelph for the 2013 Guelph Open tournament. The high-calibre event will attract some of the top wrestlers from across the nation, ensuring the stakes will be high when the Mustangs take to the mat. The Mustangs come into the event following a strong performance at the Brock invitational in St. Catharines last Saturday.

“It’s an open event, which means that you could be in university, you could be graduated or you could be an open person,” Ray Takahashi, wrestling team coach, explained.

“It’s a provincial and national carding point tournament, which means the results will be used to assess provincial and national team status.”

The tournament will also be an opportunity to prepare for the Dave

Schultz Tournament, another highprofile competition for which the ‘Stangs will be sending athletes to Colorado.

Ranked fifth for women’s wrestling and third for men’s wrestling by the Canada Interuniversity Sport, the Mustangs are in contention for a number of medals in the tournament. These include standouts Steven Takahashi and Brianne Barry.

Coach Takahashi explained that the team will send some of its best in order to put on a strong showing and benefit from the experience.

“It’s really important for some of our top team members,” he said.

“We’re probably not going to send everyone, just the ones that will be competitive and who will benefit from the experience.”

“So it will be tough, but it will be a good tournament for us,” he continued.

The tournament will be an opportunity for many members of the Mustangs wrestling squad to

continue working on getting back to form after the holiday break lay-off.

Despite this, Takahashi is confident in his wrestlers due to some good preparation.

“Coming back at the beginning of school, we’ve really only had two weeks to really buckle down, to prepare,” he commented. “But we’re not unlike many other programs, we’ve been preparing, but it’s one tournament in the whole process.”

In addition, the Mustangs will compete in a number of other highprofile tournaments in the coming weeks, including the Ontario University Athletics Championship.

With the competition getting steeper and with the Mustangs looking to climb the rankings, Takahashi emphasized the importance of personal goals for his athletes.

“There are a lot of individual goals,” he said. “We have some good team members and we have some solid medal shots in some of the weight classes.”

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REMINDER — Board & Senate ELections — 2013 Elections for membership on the Board Governors and Senate will take place in February 2013.

Nominations for membership on the Board of Governors in the administrative staff and undergraduate student constituencies are now accepted until 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 2013.

Nominations for membership on the Senate in the faculty, administrative staff, graduate student and undergraduate student (academic) constituencies are also accepted until 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 24, 2013. Nominations for Senate undergraduate student At Large constituency close at 5:00 p.m. on Monday, January 28, 2013.

Full information on the Board and Senate elections (including the election procedures and schedule, the nomination form and voting procedures for each constituency) can be found at:

www.uwo.ca/univsec/elections.html

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