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No Israel boycott planned for Western Julian Uzielli EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Despite a growing number of Canadian student unions calling for boycotts of Israel, there are no plans for an official Israel boycott at Western, The Gazette has learned.

BDS is generally an institutionalized boycott, so that would be something that would be passed overwhelmingly as Western, and we haven’t got any kind of campaign like that. It’s more individual consumer boycotts. — Marie Rioux

An SPHR organizer

The University of Windsor Students’ Alliance was the most recent student union to join the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, when students voted in favour of an institutional boycott of Israel in a referendum earlier this month. The

BDS movement, which has been endorsed by student unions at York, University of Toronto, Carleton and other universities, aims to divert funds from Israel in response to perceived human rights violations. In light of it being Israel Apartheid Week, the annual campaign run by Western’s Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights club, The Gazette asked SPHR if they had plans to initiate a BDS referendum at Western. Marie Rioux, an SPHR organizer and Social Justice and Peace Studies student at King’s University College, said while the club has been encouraging students to participate in boycotts on an individual level, they had no plans for an institutional boycott. “BDS is generally an institutionalized boycott, so that would be something that would be passed overwhelmingly as Western, and we haven’t got any kind of campaign like that. It’s more individual consumer boycotts,” she said. When asked if a BDS-style boycott at Western was an eventual goal for SPHR, Rioux said they had no firm plans. “I think, to be honest, all proPalestinian, anti-apartheid organizations do have that goal in the long run, but right now we don’t have anything actively working on it right now,” she said.

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BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, AND SANCTIONS. Students at the University of Windsor recently approved a boycott of Israel, making Windsor’s the latest of several Canadian student unions to adopt a boycott. Western’s Students for Palestinian Human Rights club, however, said they are not planning a push for a similar referendum at Western.

Western’s Israel on Campus club, the traditional rivals of SPHR during Israel Apartheid Week, strongly condemned the BDS movement. “BDS is a reprehensible tactic,” said Benjamin Green, president of Israel on Campus. “It’s hugely marginalizing […] There are better ways to be constructive than holding a group of students and state to a much higher standard than others.

Where is BDS Russia? Where is BDS Syria? Why is it just Israel?” “I have full confidence in the University Students’ Council this year and next year to recognize that there is no place for such divisive and hateful referendum and language at Western,” Green said. In Windsor’s referendum, there were 785 votes in favour and 585 against, out of a possible 14,000

students eligible to vote. Windsor’s referendum was pushed for by that university’s Palestinian Solidarity student group. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel last made headlines when the York Federation of Students passed a council vote in its support last March. — With files from Soheil Milani

Student loans expansion benefits students Iain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR A Western study has found that the student loan system is severely flawed and recommends changes to be made to Canada’s Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP) to help students repay the debts that they incurred for their education. The study, from Western’s CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, found that nearly 15 per cent of students defaulted on their student loans and low-income students were 10 times more likely to have some form of repayment problem. CHCP director Lance Lochner, who co-authored the study, said that there are challenges with resolving the issues with the loans system in Canada. “The real challenge is to come up with better ways to deal with students who have problems finding jobs and have lower earnings when

they leave school to provide them with some sort of relief while at the same time maintaining feasibility of the program or financial stability of the program,” Lochner said. The study found that expanding income-based repayment to automatically cover all borrowers would reduce average student loan payments, and program revenues, by roughly half for borrowers early in their repayment period. Lochner said RAP can be expanded, but there are fears that the program could start to lose money if reforms aren’t instituted. “I think what you’d like to do is provide more relief, in economic terms, more insurance against bad labour market outcomes for all those students that have trouble finding a job,” Lochner said. “They could be opening up lending less on a need basis, just opening it up to more students to borrow from,” Lochner continued. “You’re going to have more outlays, but the

types of individuals from middle and higher income backgrounds that might borrow from it are also probably more likely to be good bets to pay it back.” He said it is very hard politically to make reforms to RAP, such as changing the borrowing limits, but in theory it’s not hard to expand RAP. However, bigger issues facing reforms are the lack of data on some of the effects changes can make. He noted that families have a huge impact on loan repayment, whether parents help students or not, but that the effects of them haven’t been studied. He also said there was a lack of data on how students would respond to changes, such as expanding the program or offering relief in some payment periods. More and easier access to loans could affect where students attend school, what major they choose and what job they search for after school.

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SENSHEATIONAL SHOP SELLS SKINCARE SALVES. Students were greeted this week with a stand offering 100 per cent pure shea butter. The store is run out of Guelph, Ontario by Thomas Amoah and he uses all natural supplies to provide solutions to skincare woes.

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Trans people less likely to use ER: Study A study involving Western professor Greta Bauer is finding that health care may be failing to serve transgendered people. Bauer, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, published a paper in the Annals of Emergency Medicine as part of a larger study on the issue. Bauer explained the motivations for the study. “The overall study was really

driven by the fact that there’s very little knowledge on trans health, and almost nothing in a Canadian context,” she said. “At the same time working within trans communities we knew there were issues with access to health care and with some particular health issues.” “We knew that people were avoiding emergency care, but we had no idea how common that experience was,” she continued. The study, which examined 408 transgender people in Ontario, found that 21 per cent avoided

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John Doerksen was recently appointed to a second term as Western’s vice-provost academic programs. He was first appointed in October 2008, and will go on to serve a second five-year term. “I’m delighted and I’m honoured to be able to serve with a great team, that’s for sure,” Doerksen told The Gazette in an interview. He said he was excited to support student success at Western and the university’s strategic priorities. Doerksen said focusing on student academic experience and giving attention to continued innovation in curriculum and pedagogy were among his key goals for the coming term. He said also felt student pathways and mobility were a key priority. Doerksen received his PhD in systematic musicology from Western, and has been involved with the administration for many years holding positions including associate dean academic of music and chair of the senate committee on university planning. — Megan Devlin

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London: Killer place to live? Ivey makes it rain Western prof documents local murderers IS LONDON THE SERIAL KILLER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD?

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for wrong reasons Students this morning were delighted to find a couple of new decorations lining the halls of the new Richard Ivey Building. Two garbage cans have been set out to catch water leaking through the ceiling of the $110-million building, which had its grand opening in September. On the ground investigation by The Gazette confirmed that the two trash cans are on the building’s main floor along with a trio of “slippery when wet” signs. Reactions from future student business leaders ranged from mildly inconvenienced to slightly annoyed. A formal complaint had been sent to the facilities management department of Western but the

issue has not yet been resolved. However, the urgency of the situation demanded that someone resolve the issue immediately, according to Dan Trudgeon from client services. He went on to report that Western’s facilities management’s resident roofing mechanic would be dispatched. “Because the complaint was just filed this morning, no one has officially charged time to it,” Trudgeon said. But he had a strong hope that the issue would be addressed soon. The roofing mechanic was in the field and could not be reached for comment. — Jeremiah Rodriguez

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three collections based on “signatures” that imply three different unidentified killers Naira Ahmed GAZETTE

Olivia Zollino GAZETTE STAFF A Western professor’s new book suggests London, Ontario may have had the most serial killers per capita in the late 20th century. Michael Arntfield’s book, Murder City: A Social History of the World Capital of Serial Homicide, states that anywhere from six to eight serial killers were acting in London from 1960 to 1985. “These crimes baffled investigators, and even by today’s standards, they’re horrific and remain unsolved,” said Arntfield, an interdisciplinary criminology professor at Western. Being a police officer for 15 years, Arntfield is no stranger to the field. However, after becoming a professor and offering a cold case course at Western, victims’ families began to approach Arntfield for his help. “That’s what really got me interested in the London cases. These people were still out there looking for help and I became their conduit,” Arntfield said. As it stands, there were three confirmed serial killers in London from the 1960s and 1970s that have been caught. However, Arntfield estimates there were three to five more, due to clusters of evidence that were established by DNA, crime scene evidence, and offender signatures. But what causes London to be so susceptible to serial killers? For one, London was one of the first cities to be surrounded by the King’s highway system. “In the U.S., they now know the

creation of the interstate created a new breed of serial killer. Serial offending and highways went hand in hand,” Arntfield said. “Offenders were able to come and go with impunity and anonymity.” Additionally, London is what Arntfield called a “consumer testmarket society.” Companies like to use London as a basis to test out their new products. For example, Tim Hortons recently released their new dark-roast coffee in select markets, London included. This is due to the city’s unique combined population. But what appeals to large companies also appeals to serial killers, said Arntfield. “It’s an ideal place to try out drinks — also the ideal place to come and experiment with developing various criminal paraphernalia,” he said. Unlike other cities, where there was a certain level of watching out for your neighbour, London communities were heavily segmented, according to Arntfield. Other test market cities that Arntfield looked at, including Rochester, New York, have alarmingly similar trends. So why did it take so long for this information to come to light? “No one wants to acknowledge that it happened,” Arntfield said. He noted a case of a 15-year-old girl who, on her way home from her part-time job, was murdered, sexually assaulted and disposed of in a field. Yet, the archived yearbooks from her high school make no mention of her, not even an in-memoriam.

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There are other factors, including the problem of jurisdictions and city limits. While London has expanded, the issue of whose responsibility it is has become complicated. Not to mention, many bodies were disposed of in various locations. However, Arntfield noted some good has come out of a terrible situation, including the institution of the block parent program. While London’s formerly high serial killer population is in the past, it’s not any less relevant. “We’re catching them faster — that doesn’t mean there are any less around. It means there’s better safeguards in place to try and stop them,” Arntfield said.

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Arts&Life

saywhat? “We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”

— George R.R. Martin

Olenka Krakus trades east for west Jenny Jay GAZETTE STAFF When it comes to the indie-folk music scene in London, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers are no stranger. Having been an active part of the music community for the past six years, lead singer and songwriter Olenka Krakus is leaving with a heavy heart, back to her hometown of Vancouver, BC, performing her farewell show tomorrow night at the Aeolian Hall. Krakus, having lived in London for almost nine years, admits that she is both scared and looking forward to going back to Vancouver, but is sad about leaving her friends and the London community behind. “It’s frightening […] I have a ton of close wonderful friends here, and to think that I won’t be able to walk to somebody’s house in 10 minutes and if I want to see them I have to drive for five days or fly — that’s a little crazy,” Krakus says. Although Krakus’ move is a combination of circumstance and logical decision making, she also adds that there are benefits to the move. “As a musician or an artist sometimes you need to shake up what you do because it’s so easy to fall into patterns and experiences [and] that’s a dangerous place to be if your career is a creative one,”

she says. As Krakus reflects on her time here in London as a musician, she notes that London itself as a musical community and the musicians she has met and worked with has influenced her as an artist and allowed her to grow. The city she says, and simply being so far east from where she grew up, has imploded her senses in the types of song writing and musical arrangements she could create. It also shaped attitudes that are subtle yet present in Ontario as a result of harsher climates and winter blues. “In every place that you live in — if you’ve lived there long enough — you’re going to accumulate a whole range of experiences and ups and downs, but I’m glad that I have had that time and it has manifested in my writing and my composition,” Krakus says. “I’ve become a professional musician in this place, so I feel a lot of gratitude — I don’t think I would have the same career as I do now, if I didn’t come here.” While Krakus is grateful towards London, she plans to begin work on her next album the moment she sets foot in Vancouver. “I’m excited about trying to write it as a concept or at least have a stronger theme around which I am composing consciously,” Krakus explains.

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OLENKA KRAKUS BIDS LONDON FAREWELL. After being a strong presence in the indie-folk music scene in London, Olenka Krakus is performing her last show in London tomorrow, before leaving to Vancouver.

Krakus’ excitement regarding her upcoming album with a stronger sense of theme stems from the values she places into her song writing — while enjoying the music is one aspect, she also aims to stimulate the listener by tying her lyrics to subjects of socio-political issues

or works of literature. “I like to turn [iconic heroes from classical literature] into female characters a lot of the time. I would like to think about how different it is for us to hear the same sort of stories with a heroine instead of a hero,” Krakus says. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers

will be performing their farewell show at the Aeolian Hall (795 Dundas St.) on Friday March 14 at 7 p.m., where she will be showcasing songs from throughout her career. Tickets are available online for $10 for students, or $15 for general admission.

Game of Thrones linguist conquers campus Brent Holmes ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Game of Thrones fans have had a year to recover from the traumatic events of last season, just in time as HBO’s popular television series returns with its fourth season on April 6. The television series requires more than just actors, writers, directors and special effects workers. It also requires com-liners — people who create fictional languages. For Game of Thrones, a language creator was required for the show’s two major fictional languages, Dothraki and Valyrian. Language creator David Peterson has been working on the show since its pilot episode and is coming to Western to speak about his work on Game of Thrones today at 5:30 p.m. in Spencer Engineering rm. 2100. “For Game of Thrones, which is the first show I worked on, what happened was they contracted an organization called the Language Creation Society and then the Language Creation Society put together an application process and announced it to various com-lining communities,” Peterson says. The Language Creation Society is a non-profit organization that holds a couple conferences annually and helps promote created languages. When they sent out the call for language creators for Game of Thrones, Peterson put together an extensive outline for the language of Dothraki.

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I WILL TAKE WHAT IS MINE WITH FIRE AND WORDS. Com-liner David Peterson talks creating languages for HBO’s Game of Thrones — his favourite line of High Valyrian was when Daenerys revealed her tri-lingual qualities with the line, “a dragon is not a slave.” (Pictured above.)

Since there was no limit on how much information that com-liners could submit, Peterson spent two months putting together a 300-page outline of Dothraki. “Dothraki would have to incorporate the few words and phrases that [Game of Thrones author] George R.R. Martin had created for his books so I had to make those words and phrases fit in to what I was creating,” Peterson explains. “Unlike other languages I had created in the past I was starting with this material and building around it so that all of that would still work and wouldn’t have to be changed. At that time, George R.R. Martin was quite a bit bigger than the show, which only had a pilot green lit.” The previous season of Game of Thrones introduced a new

language, Valyrian, adding to the show’s expansive world-building. Peterson’s favourite moments from the show came from his creation of this language. “My favourite thing from high Valyrian — just because of how the scene worked and was executed — was where Daenerys says ‘a dragon is not a slave,’” Peterson says. Like Dothraki, Peterson had to work off George R.R. Martin’s novels to create Valyrian. However, he had less material than he did for Dothraki. “The process is very similar because there are a couple of words of Valyrian [in the books] — remarkably less. Dothraki had a lot of material but Valyrian did not. The goal was to make the languages sound appropriate with Valyrian [...]

there were a lot of names and they were supposed to have a particular phonological character to them so I wanted to make sure to honour that so the language sounded like the names were supposed to come from them,” Peterson comments. “In addition, George R.R. Martin had intended Valyrian to occupy a place in his universe somewhat like Latin does ours. He wanted an older, magisterial language that would still be used by scholars but had largely died out. I tried to create it in such a way that it would honour that idea,” he adds. As well as Game of Thrones, Peterson also worked on the language of the Dark Elves for Thor: The Dark World, which took on a different approach to language creation. “Thor and Asgard take all of their

names directly from Norse mythology, the concept being that the old Norse gods actually existed but they weren’t gods, they were aliens. In talking with the director, what he wanted to do for the Dark Elves was to stay within the same kind of universe so that where you had a kind of Norweigan and Scandinavian roots for all of the Asgardians and Thor, for the Dark Elves, he wanted something that would be close by but distinct,” Peterson says. “What I did was I created a language with a sound very similar to Finnish. The grammar is very different but if you hear it, it can kind of remind you of the sound of Finnish, and for that to make the Dark Elves distinct and separate from the Asgardians and something that would make sense within this mythology,” he says. Peterson has finished his work for the upcoming season of Game of Thrones and is awaiting news for the show’s fifth season, which will be starting production soon. “Unfortunately, there is no news for season five as of yet. There have been no discussions beyond what I’ve done for season four,” Peterson says. “For season four, there is a new dialect of Low Valyrian but not a new language. If we get a season five, there might be but I couldn’t say for certain.” David Peterson will be speaking at Western today at 5:30 p.m. in Spencer Engineering rm. 2100. Admission is free.

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ON DISC Going To Hell — The Pretty Reckless This new album from Taylor Momsen and her gang will surely have all the girls gossiping. As a whole, the album reeks of blatant sexuality and borderline sacrilege with songs such as “Follow Me Down” and the titular song “Going To Hell.” Though this doesn’t take away anything from the album, it really doesn’t add much either. With a sound that fuses elements of Paramore and Evanescence, Momsen’s powerfully seductive vocals suit the theme well. The lyrics are edgy, the genre is hard-rock, the cover art is racy — everything about this disc basically screams “trying too hard.”

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Hell’s Kitchen

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Frozen

Back for its 12th season is 42 Minutes of Cursing, otherwise known as Hell’s Kitchen. Once again, a pool of 12–20 contestants will partake in challenges, such as taste tests, preparing menus, running a full service dinner and sitting through Gordon Ramsay’s insufferable “I am better than you, so shut up and listen” attitude. While the prize is a position as head chef at a highend restaurant, the ends may not always justify the means. So if you enjoy ritualistic humiliation, an oven-hot temper and the occasional preparation of a fancy dish, be sure to tune in!

As far as Tyler Perry movies go, this one is no different: A film with serious undertones beneath a cover of comedy and sass. This time, a group of five single mothers with unappreciative, ungrateful children seek happiness and a sense of achievement in their mundane lives. After being brought together by their children acting up in school (really, what are the chances?) they initiate a support group for women attempting to raise children on their own. Together, they help each other find love and completion — although let’s hope that they find a new way to discipline their cruddy children.

For the first time in forever, you will be able to (legally) own your very own copy of Frozen. Watch and rewatch as Anna, a fearless optimist, attempts to save her sister Elsa from her self-induced isolation resulting from innate icy cold powers. Having created an eternal winter (see: London, Ontario) and shot her ice magic into her sister’s heart, Elsa continues to hurt Anna over and over again. Nevertheless, Anna teams up with Kristoff, his reindeer Sven and Olaf the loveable snowman to save her sister and the world — finally a Disney movie that isn’t all about Prince Charming.

“The Man” — Aloe Blacc This song has skyrocketed Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III (do you see why he has a stage name yet?) to his 10th week on the Billboard Hot 100. Having seemed to come out of nowhere, he is most known for his vocals in Avicii’s “Wake Me Up,” Remember him now? Sprouting from the underground of indie rap, Blacc released “The Man” as a power anthem. The beat is uplifting, quite reminiscent of gospel praises, and the message embraces a positive, encouraging “yes you can!” attitude. That being said, don’t be surprised if you hear it during your next experience with a gospel choir.

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No meat diet is not all that bad — yet

Iain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR So I’ve been vegan for a week and I’m sure you will all be glad to hear that I am still living. Although I may have lost some sanity, I seem to be coping well. So what are the biggest changes? Obviously, not eating meat and other animal products means a lot of food — really delicious and easy food — is off limits. The biggest change I (still) have to go through is having to plan and really think about what I have to eat. Having to read ingredients labels at the grocery store and not being able to go to most restaurants on campus is a bit of a pain in the ass. And it does feel a little empty at times. Not as in I’m hungry, but that I’m missing something. Yes, animal products, obviously, but it’s maybe something more intangible than that. I honestly haven’t really had a craving for a burger or anything, more like just a craving to eat at will without having to think about it.

healthy. My breakfast didn’t have to change, which is really good. I have oatmeal every day, with a banana or an apple. After that, it gets tricky, for a few reasons. One, I still don’t have a good supply of food, two, for the food that I do have, I have no idea what to do with it, and finally, I haven’t made the time to prepare lunches and dinners far in advance. So far, I’ve mainly been wolfing down peanut butter sandwiches, pitas, salads and raw carrots without much variety. Which is fine, but probably not the healthiest. Solving these problems just means having more time, time I haven’t been able to find. I have to first plan meals for a few days, then figure out what ingredients I would need, buy what I don’t have and then cook it all up, which is currently a long process. I think that having a system for planning and making meals is something that vegans need and I don’t have yet. What I’m going to work on in the next week to week and a half is getting a couple days where I make a lot of food and then save it up to eat over a few days. That will provide variety and hopefully will mean I eat healthier. Hopefully I will be healthier this week and there will be another column about my vegan adventure.

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But, overall, going vegan hasn’t been as hard as I expected. It’s actually kind of easy to avoid the foods you can’t eat; I’ve just completely written off most places and things to eat. That being said, I haven’t been totally healthy the whole time. I caught a bad cold last week and caved one day and ate a bag of chips, which is still vegan, but not at all healthy. And that, I think, is the challenge — to actually be healthy. Being vegan means it’s a whole lot harder to find food and requires a constant effort, at least at first, to be healthy. There’s a lot of food out there to eat, true, but it doesn’t seem healthy to just be eating raw carrots 24/7. I expected to have to plan meals and to cook meals more, but I may have underestimated the amount of effort that would take. I’ve eased into this experiment. I haven’t gone fully healthy all in one shot, cooking all my meals and eating things such as “Tofurky.” I wish I was making that last one up, but I’m not. That actually exists. The main reason for not going all-out healthy is that I don’t think I would stick with it. I would last a week and then be back to devouring succulent steaks and greasy pizzas. So I’ve been eating kind of

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Opinions HAVE YOUR SAY

The Gazette asked students if student loans should be needs-based, or available to all students.

Amina Dibe Politcal Science II If your parents aren’t willing to support you, you should still have a way to get support, especially because our tuition is so high — Ontario has one of the highest in the country.

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Celebrity moments more fake than real Cool Story Broekoff

Daniel Au Engineering I I think there are some students who want a sense of individuality from their parents, want the responsibility and don’t want to put that burden on their parents. But I don’t think it should be to the extent that it is for parents who can’t pay for them because I don’t think it’s financially responsible for them to be taking out so many loans right now.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

Iain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR Ellen Degeneres taking a selfie at the Oscars, Olympians Instagramming a picture and viral videos of frisson-inducing acts of kindness or spontaneity. What do these things all have in common? They’re all increasingly fake, and are used only as marketing tools. Yes, I know I may be shattering some people’s worlds right now. No, that Oscar selfie wasn’t proof that cool celebrities are just like us. It was a staged ad for Samsung, the brand of phone Degeneres used to take the picture. What about that Olympian chilling in their half-built Sochi hotel room? Most likely ordered by one of their sponsors. That video of strangers meeting and kissing for the first time? Actors and models, every last one of them — all in the name of advertising for a clothing company. It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even watch TV, but instead hear about the “amazing” events or segments in the news and then waiting for the article explaining how it was set up by a corporation looking to advertise something. Even the Olympics, where countries collectively stop to watch events and where national heroes are made, have been used for subtle product placement. Many athletes had certain social media requirements written into their contracts. They had to tweet about their sponsors or take Instagram photos while wearing a sponsor’s logo. Even more

perverse, some actually had to turn over their Twitter account to companies to tweet on behalf of them. Rabid Olympics fans, I’m sure, wouldn’t expect it was a company tweeting, not their favourite athletes. I understand that from an athlete’s point of view, they have to cash in when they can because many Olympians are not professional athletes. But, they train like professional athletes and deserve to be compensated for it. The fact that companies sponsor athletes isn’t even that big of a problem and certainly something that is not going to stop. Rather, it is the pervasiveness of the marketing campaigns that I think is something we should think a little longer about before we decide it’s a good thing. I think we should re-evaluate how we relate to celebrities and how we allow corporations to influence us. Marketing has become so pervasive that I don’t think we realize a lot of our experiences are a direct result of advertising campaigns and subtle product placement which we read as genuine moments with people or our favourite celebrities. Nothing seems to be immune to advertising ploys, and marketers are getting more and more creative with their strategies. There are no limits to what they are allowed to do and there is nothing that they won’t use as an opportunity to get their brand out there. We can no longer enjoy such events or shows without thinking in the back of our heads if any of it was actually real or if it was all just a big marketing ploy. The adulation we bestow upon celebrities and everything they do is now basically one huge marketing stunt. It’s time to turn our attention to the world that is in front of us, rather than the superficial, fake world of celebrity and marketing.

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tweetoftheweek It’s not quite Christmas (that would be the draft) but it’s pretty darn close #NFLFreeAgency.

>> Daryl Waud (@dwaud99), defensive end for the Mustangs’ football team, on the free agent frenzy that started on Tuesday

Rundown >> With almost all Mustangs sports seasons coming to an end, one still remains. The Western Mustangs ringette team is still in action this week as they get set to play six games for the Ontario Ringette Association Provincial Championships, which takes place from Thursday to Saturday.

The plight for Paralympian appreciation Why do Olympians get more coverage than Paralympians? Pistols at Newnham

Caitlin Martin Newnham SPORTS EDITOR Did you know there are four days left in the Paralympics? A better question: Did you know that the Paralympics are happening right now? The Olympics are over and everyone knows because each medal won and all controversies from the competition were plastered in the media around the world. However, as soon as the closing ceremonies were over, the world turned their back on Sochi and put the spotlight on the political issues between Russia and Ukraine. Back to the question of why no one cares about the Paralympics. This may be a sweeping generalization, but based on media coverage and the topics of conversations overheard in classes and at work, it is evident that people are not interested in the Paralympics. If nobody is talking about the games, then no one is going to care because humans are social beings. I did not even watch the Olympics this year (I know, shame on me), yet I engaged in conversation about several events simply because friends had an excited

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interest in them, and I didn’t want to be left out of the conversation. My Facebook newsfeed turned into an Olympic live feed via statuses, but crickets are chirping now that Para- has been added to the name of the game. Even the name ‘Paralympics’ screams second-class Olympics with the prefix ‘Para-’ meaning ‘beside’ and denoting irregularity or something being amiss when

combined with another word. Who would want to be labeled as an equal but ‘not quite right’ Olympian? Nobody. If anything, more focus should be placed on the Paralympics because the individuals not only need to excel in their designated sport, but they also have to overcome disability. The perseverance and strength that these individuals have is admirable to say the least.

Paralympic athletes can have impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia (abnormal increase in muscle tension), ataxia (neurological lack of muscle coordination), athetosis (motor disfunction), vision impairment or intellectual impairment. We should be proud of our Canadian Paralympic athletes that

have overcome their disabilities to win two gold medals, three silver medals and four bronze medals thus far in Sochi. The two gold medals were awarded to Brian McMeever from Calgary, Alberta for his exemplary performance in the one-kilometre sprint and 20-kilometre crosscountry skiing events in spite of his lack of vision due to Stargardt’s disease. In 2010 he was set to be the first Canadian athlete to compete in both the Paralympics and Olympics until the coach replaced him with another skier before the Olympics. Mark Arendez claimed silver in the men’s 7.5-kilometre biathlon and bronze in the men’s 12.5-kilometre biathlon without half of his left arm. The amputation occurred in a farm accident when Arendez was seven years old in his hometown of Hartsville, Prince Edward Island. Arendez was also involved in the 2010–11 International Paralympic Committee World Cup where he finished second. Canada has many Paralympians to be proud of this year, so turn your attention to the last four days of the games. The athletes deserve the same overwhelming coverage that the Olympians were given. Watch events, post statuses supporting the athletes and start conversations. If you are proud to be Canadian, and watched the Olympic games, indulge in the Paralympic games — they deserve the attention.

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