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Party rep draws in web series More Canadians join Beer4Breakfast in search of best Western party

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Megan Devlin Gazette Staff The online reality television show Beer4Breakfast has set its sights on London, and the police are not happy about it.

Beer4Breakfast.ca is looking for students to answer their casting call with photos and videos of their parties to prove their house is worthy of being featured on the reality show.

Michael McCrudden, creator and producer of Beer4Breakfast, described his show as a platform to end the debate over which schools throw the best parties.

“It’s a half hour web-based reality competition show grading students on what they learn when they close their books and start letting loose,” McCrudden said.

The Beer4Breakfast staff includes a DJ, a bartender and a photographer for the events.

“Due to their experience in the entertainment industry, they have the responsibility of grading how the party was,” McCrudden explained.

The Beer4Breakfast crew films the parties, awards them letter grades and later turns them into reality TV episodes to be uploaded.

Viewers then vote on which party they thought was the best.

The first episode of the show has already been released, and features a party in Hamilton complete with several kegs, intense beer pong games and a foam-filled kid-

die pool.

Based on Western’s partying reputation, and influenced by his own run-in with the ‘Saugeen stripper,’ McCrudden was excited to film a London episode.

“Western’s got a larger number of students than any other school,” McCrudden said. “These beautiful blonde girls just flock to London, Ontario for whatever reason, and the guys there are confident, proud—the alpha male types. I think that’s the mix that leads to high caliber parties.”

However, London police are not jumping on the bandwagon.

“If they’re coming to the city, they can expect to see police at their party,” Dennis Rivest, media relations for the London Police Service, said.

Brad Duncan, London police chief, was also not impressed by the website crew’s imminent arrival.

He claimed organizations such as Beer4Breakfast promoting binge drinking in the city was reckless, and pointed to the Fleming riot last year as indicative of what can happen when a party gets out of hand.

“Should that party even remotely land in London, they’re going to have some visitors wearing blue, because we won’t tolerate that,” Duncan said in a press conference last week.

On their website, Beer4Breakfast called the city officials’ responses harsh and autocratic. Undeterred, the website plans to go

ahead with the London episode.

“We will have a guest list, and be checking ID. The numbers are controlled, it’s a private party,” McCrudden said. “We’ve spoken with the police, they just want to make sure we’re not doing anything illegal, which we’re not.”

Beer4Breakfast’s plan to come to London received a lukewarm response from Western students.

If they’re coming to the city, they can expect to see police at their party.

—Dennis Rivest

Media relations officer for the London Police Service

Kevin Annett, a fourth-year health sciences student, thought the party would have trouble getting off the ground, considering London’s new nuisance bylaw and the exclusion of underage party-goers.

Kevin Gilmore, also a fourthyear health sciences student, said the rehearsed feel of reality TV was unappealing, and such a show probably wouldn’t accurately reflect the party scene at Western.

“I would be excited to go, unless it turned out like the [Fleming] riot,” Celina Valdivia, a first-year arts and humanities student, said.

Small business ownership is on the rise in Canada, according to a recent Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce report.

Changing individual, technological and global trends are expected to contribute to the creation of 150,000 new businesses in Canada over the next ten years, according to Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC. Statistics show more people are starting businesses voluntarily, rather than as a compensation for job loss, given the relatively healthy labour market. The average education level among new entrepreneurs is on the rise, with the majority of new businesses being opened in the education, healthcare and trade sectors.

The increasing inclination towards entrepreneurship is apparent to John Pollock, director of BizInc. in London. BizInc. is an initiative aimed at supporting entrepreneurship amongst students at Western and Fanshawe.

“When we set up the business incubator, we had certain metrics in mind of what we were going to expect, and we’ve exceeded those metrics,” Pollock said. “We’ve seen more student entrepreneurs show up at our door, more ideas coming through.”

Pollock opined the dip in the economy might have contributed to an increase in entrepreneurship.

However, he feels there is an ongoing shift in awareness as well.

“Stories like Facebook have gotten more attention and the startup culture that probably began in Silicon Valley is starting to reach out in different areas and places,” Pollock said. “I think young people are very alert to start-up camps and the potential that comes out of that.”

Pollock added he felt students are responding to the level of choice that entrepreneurship provides with regards to work partners and environment.

His sentiments were echoed by Irfan Hajee, director of operations at DrawSplash, an apparel company founded at Western.

“I didn’t want a nine-to-five job.

I know eventually I would like to have my own business, so this is a great way to do it,” Hajee said.

Hajee explained BizInc. has been key to DrawSplash’s growth.

“Having people to talk to when we need advice, it’s critical,” Hajee

said. “If John [Pollock] couldn’t answer questions, let’s say something technical, he put us in contact with someone who would know.”

For DrawSplash co-founder Hyunbin Lee, the support provided by BizInc. has been tremendous. Lee noted he was amazed at the level of support available when BizInc. was first created.

“I was blown away back then.

We never had anything even close to it. We were really by ourselves.”

Lee encouraged potential entrepreneurs to find mentors as early as possible and added doing so makes entrepreneurship more accessible to students.

“When you get mentors from day one, it shortens the process, and it makes it a lot easier for students to get into the entrepreneurship scene.”

When asked if entrepreneurship is on the rise in Canada, Lee was quick to respond. “Definitely.

It’s rising at a fairly rapid rate. Before, you always felt like you were in the middle of an island.”

Having just graduated from Western in the faculty of science, Lee said he is still relishing the challenges presented by opting to be his own boss.

“Everyday is heart-pumping, and everyday is endless amounts of challenges,” Lee said. “When you go to bed, it’s one of those things where everyday you’re thinking, ‘I learned something today.’”

“Since I started the business, I really feel like every day is worth it.”

Stats 14% of start-up businesses were opened by a university graduate in 1990 30% of start-up businesses were opened a university graduate in 2012 2.7% of the employed Canadian population is self-employed 2.6% of the employed Ontario population is self-employed 10% growth occurred in start-up by the 20-29 population between 2007 and 2012 Source: CIBC

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OLD MCINTOSH HAD A FARM. A farmers’ market between McIntosh Gallery and Social Science Centre is the latest addition to campus. Run by Hospitality Services, the market sells farm-fresh produce, locally produced jams and Windermere’s honey every Tuesday.

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What did the ecologist say to the economist? Let’s build a sustainable future.

This is exactly the kind of message that an unlikely pair of renowned Canadians are bringing to Western on Thursday, October 18 at Alumni Hall.

Described by Adam Fearnall, University Students’ Council president as one of Western’s “fan favourite scientists,” David Suzuki is joining forces with former CBC chief economist Jeff Rubin in an initiative called The End of Growth: How to Achieve a Truly Sustainable Future.

Suzuki’s and Rubin’s Eco Tour will be sweeping across Canada, and hopes to show Canadians how ecology and economics must work together to combat climate change and to achieve sustainability.

According to Suzuki, one of the questions they try to provide an answer for is “how can we construct an economy that lives within the confines of nature’s boundaries?”

While Suzuki has given many sold-out lectures at Western in the past, Rubin is “one of the world’s most sought-after voices on the future of oil and energy,” Jeremy Santucci, vice-president communications for the USC, said.

Rubin explained that “sustainability isn’t just an abstract notion,” but something that requires institutional change.

Doors open at 6:15 p.m. and the event starts at 7 p.m. The lecture will be followed by a book sale and signing by the authors. Tickets are $10 plus tax for students, $15 plus tax for non-students and can be purchased at Western Connections, the Western Bookstore and online.

More information can be found at www.endofgrowth.ca —Dawid Cieloszczyk

London gets a happy London citizens apparently have a lot to smile about.

In a recent Canada-wide poll on life satisfaction, Londeners were ranked among the happiest.

The survey showed 93 per cent of citizens said they were satisfied, or very satisfied, with their lives.

This happy-go-lucky demeanor spans across Canada as well. In the worldwide study, Canada was ranked second in happiness among 150 countries.

However, despite the optimistic results, Mental Health Services at Western has been seeing a rise in students who need counseling.

“Students, especially freshman, are feeling higher levels of anxiety and depression,” Candy Parker, a nurse with health services at Western, explained.

Parker believes this rise is due to students facing different issues than the general population.

According to Parker, students experience a huge adjustment, such as a new academic workload, juggling social lives and living by themselves for the first time. When students spread themselves thin and are doing too many things, the pressure and stress can impact their mental health.

Even though Londoners are fairly content with their daily lives, students at Western seem to be the exception. Teenagers entering university have not yet learned lessons of stress management and resilience. Parker said they have to experience hardship to realize the importance of mental health and happiness.

—Avery Leigh Farr

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I don’t care what Wente did, but the Globe should

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PURPLESOURCE. The Purple Store is hosting its grand re-opening today after its move from the basement of the University Community Centre to InfoSource’s old storefront. The soft opening happened on Monday, September 24.

Western commits to student policy proposals Julian Uzielli Online Editor Student activists take heart—it looks like university administrations aren’t deaf to student concerns after all.

At Friday’s meeting of the university senate, provost Janice Deakin announced Western is committing itself to two policies proposed by the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance, a lobby group made up of nine student governments from universities in Ontario.

Specifically, Western has committed to increasing transparency in the transfer credit system—making it easier for students to transfer schools knowing that their credits will still count elsewhere—and to implementing a teaching fellowship system. Similar to the way research chairs provide prestige and resources to professors for their research, teaching fellowships would recognize professors for excellence in teaching, and provide them with

resources to help improve teaching across the board.

Alysha Li, vice-president university affairs for the University Students’ Council, also serves as OUSA president.

“We’re really glad that the administration and senate at Western are able to use OUSA as a resource, and that’s why we think that it’s really valuable to be a part of a provincial alliance like this,” she said.

Li added all OUSA policy initiatives are student-driven. “Everything in the OUSA policy papers is written by students and passed by students,” she said.

The university administration has not always been so receptive to ideas coming from students. Last year, Western and the USC butted heads over Western’s signing of the Access Copyright agreement and the relocation of the Ombudsperson’s office.

“It’s the first time that I’ve seen, in my experience with the USC, this adoption of OUSA policies

at Western so quickly,” Patrick Whelan, senator-at-large, said, referring to OUSA’s policy paper on transfer credits, which was renewed at their most recent general assembly in the spring.

“It shows the USC that the university is very willing to work with us, but what they like to see is well-researched stances, and that’s what OUSA has. Their policies are very well researched, their positions are well thought-out—it’s not anecdotal evidence, it’s statistical evidence,” Whelan said.

Western’s official commitment to these policies will be documented in their strategic mandate agreement, due to be submitted to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities on Sunday.

The ministry asked for mandates outlining goals and aspirations from all publicly-funded universities over the summer. The details of Western’s strategic mandate agreement will be made public on Monday.

YFS calls for women’s studies requirement Cam Smith News Editor Breadth requirements necessitate that students take a variety of courses they may not have been otherwise inclined to take. However, there are no courses that all students are absolutely required to take. Yet, this is exactly what the York Federation of Students has suggested at York University.

According to Excalibur, York’s student newspaper, the YFS has proposed to make women’s studies a mandatory course for its students. The purpose of this is to promote equality and mitigate instances of sexual assault.

While promoting awareness and reducing sexual assault are undeniably worthy goals, YFS’s

proposal has caused some dissent, even within York’s women’s studies department, where, according to Excalibur, a professor condemned the initiative, suggesting it would alienate students and faculty alike.

Yet, for Hayley Bell, a third-year women’s studies student at Western, the proposal bears some significant merit.

“I think that everyone should have basic knowledge about why society treats the different genders the way it does,” she explained.

“Making it a mandatory course and having that message touch every student would be hugely valuable.”

Opposition has argued making a course mandatory will cause resentment. Yet, Bell asserted students harbouring resentment would be a notable exception.

“I think there will always be those students who resent it because it is a required course, but I see so many students in my women’s studies classes who are just in it for a requirement, and I can tell it’s kind of blowing their minds. It’s making them think about things they’ve never thought about before,” she said.

“The people who are going to resent it because it’s a required course will be a tiny minority compared to the people who it’s going to change the way they think about things.”

If you haven’t already, now is a great time to get in the car, head down to Canadian Tire and pick yourself up a shiny new pitchfork. You should also pair up with a friend who has a good torch and join the angry mob marching to destroy Globe and Mail columnist Margaret Wente.

Wente has been accused—apparently with good reason—of blatantly using another person’s words without crediting them, and is therefore guilty of the worst possible journalism-related sin. You have to feel for Wente—she might have a chance to save herself had she done something more forgivable, like boiling puppies. Unfortunately, Wente violated God’s first commandment of journalism— “thou shalt not plagiarize.” Even more unfortunate for Wente is that she also broke the second commandment—“if thoust does plagiarize, for the love of Me, don’t get caught!”

Now the angels of justice, taking the earthly form of other columnists, have swooped down to denounce this sinner. I’ll have to offer them my apologies for not joining in the ritual slaughter of a colleague. It’s not that I don’t own a pitchfork—the Gazette office has an ample supply of PitchMaster 7000s for just such an occasion— but rather I have to conscientiously object. I certainly don’t defend Wente’s plagiarism—it’s just that I’m not Wente, the person she plagiarized, nor a Globe and Mail employee, and therefore I find it

difficult to give a crap.

I won’t go so far as to call the columnists harping on Wente selfrighteous—I just find it strange how much they seem to care. Maybe it’s because plagiarism, while not the most harmful of crimes, is one of those truly indefensible ones that people jump on.

Still, I don’t really care that Wente plagiarized, just like I don’t care about her ridiculous rationalizations or her overzealous critics.

Plagiarism is to journalists what hard drugs are to politicians— their respective communities rail against it when somebody gets caught, but at the same time pretend it’s not being done constantly.

Crucify Wente if you must, but just know I don’t care, and you don’t have to either. The only parties who should spend the energy caring are the victim and the Globe and Mail—the latter apparently forgetting this salient fact. The Globe’s fairly laughable response to the accusations leveled against Wente was not just disappointing because it deprived the journalism community of the justice it craved, it also is fairly enabling to plagiarizers everywhere.

Here at Western plagiarism is a zero, at least, and an expulsion at worst. One would expect that in the actual, scary world of real jobs there must be similar punishments for getting caught cheating this blatantly—they’d be wrong of course.

It shouldn’t really be that surprising when we discover journalists like Wente cheating. If all it gets you is a slap on the wrist, there seems to be very little reason not to copy somebody else’s work when you’re in a tight jam. And plagiarism may not be all that bad—at least it gives journalists something to rant about.

News Briefs

City council casts sight on the web London city council will soon start live webcasting all their councillor and committee meetings.

The launch date to officially start the live streaming of these meetings has been set for October 31.

“You can now know about all the significant decisions being made about the city,” Bill Armstrong, Ward 2 councillor for city council, said.

“In the beginning, there will be heightened publicity,” Armstrong said. “There is a certain group that follows council, and then others will tune in from time to time, especially when there are specific issues people are interested in.”

The government task force responsible for making suggestions

to city council for an enhanced and improved community recommended the idea of live webcasting back in 2009. Despite four years passing, the launch has yet to occur.

“I understand that the technology just wasn’t as readily available back then, that’s why it’s happening now,” Armstrong explained. “It hasn’t been a burning issue, and there have been no complaints.”

The hardware being employed at city hall will consist of cameras and microphones that will be installed in each of the conference halls. Previously, broadcasting companies like Rogers and CTV have recorded segments from the meetings, but never before has a live webcast been recorded for viewing by the general public.

—Ashima Jain

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Arts&Life

word of the day Visceral Adjective. Relying on instinct rather than intelligence or knowledge.

Falling into local art and community Emily Fister Gazette Staff Stepping inside Aeolian Hall during the fall is like an artistic Thanksgiving. The annual Aeolian Autumn Art Exhibition, now on at the performance hall until October 14, offers more than a mouthful for those craving a savoury art experience. Much like the vivid colours of changing maples, the exhibit features four distinct London artists.

From the historical to the contemporary, each piece offers a delectable slice of local talent.

Volunteer curator Mary-Ann Jack-Bleach emphasizes that Aeolian Hall’s advantage as an art venue is its multipurpose, historic space.

“What makes us unique in the art show world is the element of surprise when patrons attend a show to see a performance, but are surrounded by colourful art,” she says.

Unlike contemporary galleries, Aeolian Hall offers the familiar ambience of an old Victorian home.

Jack-Bleach notes that visitors love entering this artistic “living room.”

The hall’s antique charm, filled with modern Canadian talent, is as inviting as a warm cup of tea.

Photographer Jerry Cutting’s work focuses on the irreplaceable beauty of Canadian nature. Capturing the Port Stanley landscape, he preserves its natural beauty

with strong attention to detail—so much so that each piece seems too good to be true. The soft composition of “Long Beach” evokes endof-summer nostalgia, as figures fade into the distance of a warm, misty backdrop.

The nature theme carries on as the viewer encounters the works of Sheila Smith. Intertwining imagination and classic realism, Smith shares her love for floral, food and farm animals. Works like “Purple Iris” soothe the senses with soft pastels and vibrant spring hues, while “Whimsical Horse” portrays a stallion whisked away by the wind.

Juxtaposed with the natural world are portraits of war. With its 200th having just passed, the War of 1812 is revisited in Kit Cutting’s intriguing hybrid of realist and abstract paintings.

Astonishing pieces like “War of 1812 – Attack” have an almost surrealist quality to them. The artist creates a lake-like effect as troops approach battle and paints seemingly bleed into a dizzying reflection of blue, black, red and white.

One of the most effective installations in the collection is the set of opposing British—right front stage, and American—left front stage, paintings. Each side opens fire, with the stage standing in for a symbolic battleground.

The fluid motion of Cheryl van

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der Mark’s oil paintings complements the chaos of combat. Her abstract style invites a conversation with the viewer, encouraging them to decipher the narrative.

Standout piece, “The Gathering Part 2,” is a spiritual experience as strokes both frantic and smooth collide. A consistent clash of warm and cool colours carries through her pieces, each with its own spiritual story.

Intimacy is the key to the exhibition’s success. Frames line the walls, serving as conversation

Trouble in this ballpark

pieces for concert-goers and art lovers alike.

A holiday season show will follow this chapter in autumn aesthetics, showcasing 40 artists’ work this winter. No matter what the season, the volunteer-run hall strives to represent the local arts scene.

“Our main goals are to promote local artists, enhance the patrons’ experience at the Hall and raise much-needed funds through the sales of artwork,” Jack-Bleach says.

For each sale during the Autumn Art Exhibition, 20 per cent of

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Bradley Metlin Contributor GGHFF Director: Robert Lorenz Starring: Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman Trouble with the Curve is flawed, and is in need of a burst of energy.

Gus, played by Eastwood, is an aging baseball scout who might finally be put out to pasture. Concerned about Gus’s well-being, his boss and friend Pete (John Goodman), enlists Gus’s estranged daughter Mickey (Amy Adams) to keep an eye on him in North Carolina while he’s scouting prospects.

Mickey and Gus’s relationship has been strained since she was a child. Their tense history and rocky relationship comes to a head while in North Carolina. Along the way,

one of the very limited positives of Trouble with the Curve. Eastwood has perfected his grumpy old man and Timberlake proves that he is a capable actor, but is stuck playing a one-note character. Goodman also turns in a solid performance.

The film’s true star is Adams.

Her character struggles throughout the film as she tries to convey a sense of authority while still being emotionally broken in her dealings with her father. Scene after scene, the audience empathizes with her character and with a stronger script.

Even these great performances cannot save this film from being a poorly written, disjointed mess.

The film would be much more fulfilling if it lacked subplots, and more segments of the main story were fleshed out. This movie doesn’t knock it out of the park, but rather barely makes it to first base.

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Smoothies are a great quick breakfast that you can drink on your way to school. Try out different fruit combinations and liquids—like chocolate soy milk or mango juice.

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• 1 banana, cut into chunks (even if you aren’t a banana fan, you won’t taste it, and it adds creaminess) Mickey falls for Johnny (Justin Timberlake), another baseball scout and aspiring sports broadcaster.

The film never knows quite what it wants to be. It starts off as a drama driven by the relationships between the characters, but quickly morphs into a romance and sports film. The editing doesn’t help these plot issues—if anything, it makes them more evident with choppy scene changes and a sporadic narrative.

Despite being a presumably stereotypical, unintelligent, southern American film, it’s doubtful any given character can come up with a better insult than “peanut boy.” Such a script feels horribly contrived and ridiculous—and the reason behind Mickey and Gus’s troubled relationship is skimmed over and makes little sense in the scheme of the film.

The performances, however, are

the proceeds will go towards various building and renovation projects at Aeolian Hall.

The passion for community and artistic diversity is alive in the hearts of volunteers like JackBleach. “The Hall is one of London’s best kept secrets, like the Hotel California,” she says. “Once you are there, you don’t want to leave and you will always return.”

The Aeolian Autumn Art Exhibition, located at 795 Dundas Street, continues daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until October 14.

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Editor’s Picks > The essentials for your week

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ON THE CHARTS

New Girl

Green Day- ¡Uno!

The Avengers

Dredd 3D

Ciara – “Sorry”

After its successful first season, New Girl returns to television this week led by the charming and quirky Zooey Deschanel. Both Deschanel and fellow lead Max Greenfield earned Emmy nominations for the show, and they and the rest of the cast got back to work to premiere the new season with two back-toback episodes. In the new season, Schmidt deals with his break up with Cece, Nick attempts to begin a life that doesn’t revolve around TV and low expectations and Jess searches for a new job as she tries to be more assertive.

Green Day began releasing a trilogy of albums this past Tuesday. ¡Uno! is the first of three albums that the pop-punk rockers intend to release before January 2013. Their new album features a return to their 1990s roots. ¡Uno! also marks the first Green Day album to not feature a narrative stretching throughout the songs that their previous two albums American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown featured.

After a prolonged stay in theatres, Marvel’s The Avengers finally makes its way onto DVD. As the sixth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the film features an ensemble cast that was enough to draw in crowd after crowd during the summer. Featuring epic fight scenes and frequent comedic moments, the film can appeal to many and is a safe bet to put on during a date. As the movie rides its success into DVD, talk of a sequel has been brewing, and fans will be pleased to know stars Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson will likely don spandex again.

Dredd 3D is the second adaptation of the famous 2000 AD comic strip, the first being a 1995 film Judge Dredd. A post-apocalyptic science fiction film set in a massive city where Judges function as the only form of justice where daily crimes number in thousands. Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) and his trainee Judge Anderson (Olivia Thirlby) fight through a massive building when they are drawn into a much larger conflict with drug lord Ma-Ma (Lena Headey).

Two years after the release of her last studio album, Ciara gears up to release her newest project One Woman Army. “Sorry,” released this week, is the lead single for Ciara’s fifth album. Featuring uncredited vocal tracks—that may in fact be a digitally altered Ciara—the song is essentially a hip hop apology. Like most of Ciara’s other songs, “Sorry” features a steady beat that makes one want to wind and grind. So, if you plan on apologizing to someone special while simultaneously busting a move, “Sorry” is a must-have.

Dada fed bananas and champagne

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Lifestyle Briefs

Sleeping may help with weight loss Eating right and exercising—these are requirements that come to mind when thinking of maintaining a healthy weight. However, experts say there might be another key ingredient—sleep.

According to Jean-Philippe Chaput, junior research chair at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, when we don’t get a full night’s sleep, we are more likely to overeat.

“Lack of sleep is a stressor for metabolism and we see a stimulation of [ghrelin and cortisol], the appetite hormones. Furthermore, when we sleep less we also have more time and more opportunities for eating,” Chaput says.

But getting seven to nine hours of sleep each night—the recommended amount for young

adults—can be difficult. There are, however, a few things that can help. Chaput notes that increased physical activity during the day will help us fall asleep faster. He adds no gadgets before bedtime is crucial, because they “impact sleep in a negative way.”

Chaput also notes we shouldn’t discount naps. Mid-day snoozes are an option for those of us with night-owl tendencies.

Unfortunately, simply getting more sleep won’t make our waistlines shrink. But, because sleep helps to regulate metabolism and hormones, a sufficient amount of sleep each night makes reaching weight loss goals much easier.

—Mica Lemiski

FEEDIN’ THE DADA CROWD. Swedish electro house duo Dada Life dominated the London Music Hall Thursday night with their champagne and banana inflatables.

Andrei Calinescu Photography Editor Performance Openers Setlist Crowd Worth the $$

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Last Thursday, a sold-out crowd got their fill of champagne and bananas at the London Music Hall.

Eccentric electro superstars Stefan Engblom and Olle Corneer of Dada Life unleashed their signature supercharged set on a bouncing neon crowd.

In an effort to manage the crowds and reduce wait times, the venue opened its doors a half hour early, helping mitigate the challenge posed by world-class talent and a sold-out show. With loads of people and even a few bananas trickling in early, the night was off to a good start.

Openers Caveat, and 12th Planet, put on solid sets that got the

crowd moving. 12th Planet threw a well-received curve-ball by peppering his set with a distinctive hip hop and trap flavour, along with a hard, dubby selection that got the crowd moving in unexpected ways.

When Dada was unleashed onto the crowd, everyone rushed to the front and formed a cohesive resonant mass that shook the London Music Hall’s floor. Untiring hands remained raised and swaying throughout the set as if begging for the large inflatable bananas that were sure to follow.

Chucking massive inflatable champagne bottles and bananas into the crowd, the Swedish duo’s energetic stage presence proved infectious for the fanatical crowd, and even prompted some bananaclad fans to climb on stage.

“Happy Violence” and “Kick Out the Epic Motherfucker,” two Dada Life staples from their upcoming The Rules of Dada album, made an appearance in their set and lifted spirits, temperatures and feet off

the ground. The comparatively relaxing “Big Bad Wolf” remix also delighted the crowd.

A Dada Life show is unique to the typical DJ experience—even the visuals are a departure from the standard flashing geometric patterns and effects. Instead, the Swedes delight fans with simplistic, retro cartoon imagery at times reminiscent of Looney Tunes.

The experience was a treat that fans happily swallowed. Dada Life exerted a powerful attraction on the crowd, forming one densely packed mass of happiness, and adding inflatable bananas as the cherries on top. The Dada was ‘fed,’ and everyone left soggy and satisfied.

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Opinions Police should block the party rock Seemingly inspired by the Fleming Drive riot, online reality show Beer4Breakfast is heading to the Forest City this fall—or spring, depending on casting—in hopes of determining Canada’s best party city. Other university towns on the itinerary include Hamilton, Toronto, Guelph and Waterloo.

The three hosts of the show will supply the party with a bartender, DJ and professional photographer to throw the bash of the century. The hosts will later assign the party a grade based on categories, such as party tricks, popularity, originality, team morale and shock factor.

Understandably, London Police aren’t impressed with the competition, issuing several warnings to the show’s creators. And they should. As long as the police take action within the law—which, given recent bylaw changes is quite roomy—they have every right to keep the party under control and protect Londoners from any potential escalation.

While the police can’t necessarily prevent Beer4Breakfast from coming to London, they should definitely be on alert because this kind of activity can lead to alcohol poisoning, and drunk driving.

Overall, there isn’t any good that can come from this competition. Sure, we could be named the best party city in Canada—or we could further the negative connotations associated with our degrees and further the stereotypes given to students.

And then there’s the issue of alcohol consumption.

The last thing we need is for Beer4Breakfast to promote binge drinking, especially since campus culture already promotes it.

As for the competition itself, the qualifications of the three “experts” assigned to grade the parties are lacking. Furthermore, with producers looking for a very specific type of student—read: blonde girls and alpha males—many gender binaries are being reinforced by the casting.

Many of us will probably watch our classmates and friends partying it up online if such a show comes to fruition, but the kind of socialization and reputation initiatives like this promote can be much more damaging than a few light-hearted laughs or captivated stares at a group of girls making out in a pit of foam.

—The Gazette Editorial Board

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor’s noisy party than being there.

—Franklin P. Jones, American businessman

Letters to the editor a treasured relic Wrath of McGrath Kaitlyn McGrath Associate Editor I don’t always read the Gazette, but when I do, I notice there aren’t many letters to the editor.

Now first you might be thinking, why don’t you always read the Gazette?

Well I read it, just not the same way the majority of students and faculty do. I read the stories I write, I read the stories I edit and I read the stories I write headlines for.

But I don’t read it between classes, or in the morning as I drink my coffee.

And although I hear it’s the best part of our paper, I never have time to complete the Sudoku. The reason for this is fairly obvious—I don’t have time to read the Gazette because I’m usually busy working on the Gazette for the next day.

And I can promise you this is the case for most of the editors here. So this is where you—yes, all of you—come in.

It’s up to you to tell us how we’re doing.

In its heyday, campus media was a thriving source of student commentary.

Here at the Gazette, we have an archive of all our past volumes. And not only do these dusty relics reveal that the 80s were just an awful, awful time for hair, but they also reveal that Western students loved to write letters.

There would be pages upon pages of angst-filled rants against society, administration, the paper or anything students really felt like discussing.

Of course what they didn’t have in the 80s, and what is arguably our biggest competition now, is the Internet.

These days, students don’t have to wait for the paper the next day to check out the daily happenings around campus and the world. Now, all you have to do is open your laptop and you’re instantly granted access to breaking news.

In fact, you can catch up on ev-

erything that’s happened in the last 24 hours while you wait in line at Tim Hortons.

So we know you don’t need us to tell you the news—we too have Internet, and use it often. We also know that campus media is no longer the only place your voice can be heard.

Anytime you feel a rant coming on, I can bet your first instinct isn’t to sit down and pen a letter to the Gazette— most likely you tweet or update your Facebook status. And that’s fine, because I do it too. Keep on ranting until your heart is content for all I care, but I do have a favour to ask of all of you— when your rant is centered around something you may have read or seen in the Gazette, send it to us.

Often during classes I’ll hear fellow peers say, “ugh—the Gazette is the worst”—there may or may not be an expletive in there I censored out. And although I might hide my face and hope they don’t turn to page six to see me smiling back up at them, it’s okay that they are critical of the paper.

It’s the general consensus among society to hate the media—just look at Rob Ford.

But you’re not doing us any favours by just thinking we’re lousy—you have to tell us you didn’t like our coverage, or that you have a completely different view on an issue and think students should hear your side of it.

Constructive criticism is always welcomed—and not so constructive is expected—here at the Gazette. Think of it this way—most writers here have media aspirations, so by keeping us on our toes you’re just helping us become better journalists. It will also help thicken our skin and quicken the process of making us the cynical writers we’ll one day be.

So here’s the deal—you send in well thought-out letters and we’ll try to be “less dumb.” Maybe together we can bring the Gazette back to where it used to be—filled with student voices, instead of just mine.

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#fail Today’s fail goes to the Phi Kappa Alpha chapter at the University of Tennessee for sending a member to the hospital in critical condition with a blood alcohol content greater than 0.4 per cent. This occurred because the fraternity gave the member an “alcohol enema,” injecting a large amount of alcohol into the anus. Phi Kappa Alpha has been suspended for 30 days because of this incident.

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Sports

saywhat?

“I’m happy here—I’ve been here seven years. I mean, there have been ups and downs. We’ve had great years and not that great years and I want to win with this team”

–Jose Calderon denies rumours that he asked for a trade from the Toronto Raptors.

Rundown >> The Mustangs softball team went two-for-two last Friday, with Stacie Cox throwing a no-hitter in an 8-0 win in the first contest > Mustangs running back Garret Sanvido was named the Ontario University Athletics athlete of the week for his performance in a 46-23 victory over Windsor; Harold Mutobola was named defensive player of the week.

Mustangs slip against Redmen rivals Penalties prove costly for Western in 6-2 exhibition defeat Kaitlyn McGrath Associate Editor The McGill Redmen proved why they’re still the team to beat this season, after handily defeating the Mustangs men’s hockey team 6-2 on Saturday night.

The last time these teams met, the game ended with a thrilling overtime winner from former McGill forward Evan Vossen. That game, of course, was for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport final.

This game, however, had nothing on the line—but that didn’t mean the Mustangs weren’t looking to make a statement.

“The rivalry is there now,” Mustangs head coach Pat Powers said.

“In the last five years, we’ve played them seven or eight times for meaningful games.”

“The national championship is going to go through McGill this year, somehow, someway—and we have to send a message to them.

We were hoping it would be tonight, but I guess it’s going to have to be in November.”

Redmen head coach Kelly Nobes agreed that the games are always exciting when these two teams get together.

“Obviously, we’ve got history here the last couple of years,” he said. “We’re always happy to come and play here—it’s good for our development.”

The night didn’t start well for Western—only two minutes into the game, defenceman Geoff Killing took a tripping penalty. After the Mustangs failed to clear the puck out of their zone, Redmen forward Mathieu Pompei scored the wraparound goal to give his team the

quick lead.

McGill continued to press, and six-and-a-half minutes in, they chipped a bouncing puck past rookie goaltender John Cullen to double their lead. Less than a minute later, Redmen forward Patrick Belzile found the back of the net off a quick pass from Trevor Braun.

Down but not out, Mustangs captain Jason Furlong took it upon himself to get his team back into the game.

It’s an evaluation, [...]

I think the key thing is our discipline. We definitely have to correct [it] moving forward.

—Pat Powers

Mustangs head coach

On the powerplay, an unmarked Furlong took a pass from Matt Marantz and scored his team’s first tally of the night.

“We got off to a slow start in the first period,” Furlong said. “But I thought the last 10 minutes of the first we battled back and really got back to the way we play.”

Penalties would be the storyline of the second. The Mustangs served eight of their 10 penalties during the second period, and allowed two powerplay goals from rookies Vincent Barnard and Jonathan Brunelle to give McGill a commanding 5-1 lead heading into the third.

Powers explained discipline was an issue for his team.

Andrei Calinescu GAZETTE

LEGS SHOULDN’T BEND THAT WAY! The Mustangs men’s hockey team took on the McGill Redmen in exhibition action Saturday evening. Unfortunately, the Mustangs were not able to avenge last year’s University Cup loss to the same McGill squad, losing by a score of 6-2.

“The more frustrated we got, the more penalties we took, the more goals they scored. We got stuck in a rut and we couldn’t get out of it.”

Despite the deficit, the Mustangs came out in the third determined to make it a game. After McGill earned a penalty of their own, Mustangs forward Chris Rocca fired a shot past Redmen goalie Andrew Flemming for his team’s second of the night.

But that’s as close as it would get, as Redmen’s right-winger Max Le Sieur added another to cap off the dominating victory.

Despite the loss, Powers thought his team looked better than the score indicated, and had it not been for undisciplined play, the game may have ended differently. However, the team took the loss in stride and will continue to improve before regular season play begins October 12.

“It’s an evaluation—it could have been a 6-2 win or a 6-2 loss—no matter what, it was an evaluation,” Powers said. “I think the key thing is our discipline. We definitely have to correct [it] moving forward.”

Furlong shared his coach’s thoughts.

“Obviously, that’s not the outcome we wanted, but we’re still working on things. We’re still coming together as a team and it’s still early for us.”

Hopefully, come November, the Mustangs will have that messaged prepared for the Redmen. But in the meantime, the Mustangs will continue their exhibition schedule this weekend when they travel to North Bay to take on the Nipissing Lakers on Homecoming Saturday.

Mustangs split series against Brock Ryan Hurlbut Opinions Editor

Ritchie Sham GAZETTE

EYE OF THE TIGER. The Mustangs baseball team faced off against the Brock Badgers in a double-header this past Sunday. The Mustangs fell to the Badgers 3-1 in the first game, but were able to redeem themselves in the second game—winning 4-1.

After a long day of baseball, the Mustangs split their doubleheader with the Brock Badgers, losing the first game 3-1, and winning the second game 4-1.

Brock centre fielder Evan Baglieri hit a solo home run and an RBI single in the first game to lead the Badgers to victory, accounting for two of the team’s nine hits.

Mustangs first baseman Graham Fulton batted in the Mustangs only run of the game on an RBI single in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Both pitchers pitched complete games in the first game, stifling the offence and keeping the score low.

After losing the first game, the Mustangs were led to victory by southpaw pitcher Christian Davies, who pitched a seven-inning

complete game—allowing only one unearned run and striking out three. “[Davies] threw strikes and kept [the Badgers] off balance,” Mustangs head coach Mike Lumley said. “He is a pretty good lefty, and he did a good job today throwing strikes, and that was the biggest thing.”

“He picked up the whole team,” Mustangs third baseman Paul Lytwynec said.

The Mustangs struck first when Fulton hit an RBI double off the wall in centre field in the bottom of the third. Fulton would later score on an RBI single.

There was no more scoring until the top of the sixth inning, when the Badgers used a pair of groundouts to score a runner that had reached base on an earlier error. >> see Pitching pg.8

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The Good

The Ugly

You’re not going to believe this, but Ricky Romero has won a game. Oh, and the Jays did too. A grand slam from J.P. Arencibia and a two-run homerun from Edwin Encarnacion helped the Jays best the Orioles 9-5 at Camden Yards in the second game of a doubleheader. The victory puts the Jays at 67-86 on the season—still 22 games back of the Yankees, so don’t cross your fingers for any post-season action in the T-dot.

More good news as Encarnacion’s homerun marks his 41st on the season, putting him only two behind league leader Josh Hamilton’s 43. Moises Sierra also added a dinger, his sixth in only 42 games this season. At least the offence looks to be in good shape for next season.

Romero (9-14) allowed four runs and eight hits in just over five innings of work. While it was far from a stellar performance from the left-hander, considering his play of late, we’ll take it.

The win isn’t going to do much to erase the horrible memories of Romero’s 0-13 run, but it is his first win since June 22—and that has got to restore some of his confidence, right?

The National Football League replacement referee fiasco has blown calls reaching epidemic levels. For example, San Fransisco coach Jim Harbaugh was granted a challenge on two separate occasions—despite the fact that he was out of timeouts. The Detroit Lions were handed a mind-boggling 27-yard foul penalty, and Cowboys receiver Kevin Ogletree slipped on a hat thrown by a referee in the endzone. The NFL is truly beginning to look like a circus.

The worst consequence of the inept refs is the number of uncalled helmet-to-helmet hits that are plaguing the league. When the Broncos’ Joe Mays unleashed such a hit on Houston’s quarterback Matt Schaub, Mays was not ejected from the game. The referee lockout is not only proving to be comical, but also dangerous.

Players and coaches are holding nothing back in letting their displeasure be known, as instances of profanity-filled rants directed at the refs are becoming commonplace. “Can someone please tell these f—ing zebras foot locker called and they’re needed back at work!” wrote Patriots linebacker Brandon Spikes.

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The Bad While Canada recently regained the Winnipeg Jets, it may soon be back down to six NHL teams. Talks are currently in play about the possible relocation of the Edmonton Oilers to Seattle.

These talks sprung up after doubt was cast upon the likelihood of a new arena being built in Edmonton. The Oilers and the City of Edmonton had agreed on a shared-cost arena worth $475 million, but the Oilers’ stay in Edmonton may now be cut short, after the team told councillors they wanted millions of dollars in new concessions from taxpayers.

As can be expected, the reaction to this was not favourable for the Oilers staying. While many Alberta residents—like many Canadians—love their hockey, they don’t want to pay more so already-rich players and owners can become even richer.

Hockey fanatic or not, the allure of going to a game drops when you’re struggling to pay your mortgage. It’s a shame that the Oilers can’t—or won’t—stick to the previous agreement, which would see them stay in Edmonton without robbing the taxpayers blind.

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However, the Mustangs put the game out of reach in the bottom of the same inning, when an RBI single and a sacrifice fly gave them a 4-1 lead.

This was a remarkably low-scoring affair considering the teams are top two in the Ontario University Athletics standings. “These are probably the best two hitting teams in the league,” Lumley said.

“You can contribute [the low score] to good pitching on their side as well—making sure that we didn’t get many hits.”

Although the score was low, the Badgers used four different pitchers to get through the game.

Starting pitcher Ryan Beckett only made it through three innings of work, battling control issues and walking four.

“We had not used much of our bullpen on Saturday,” Badgers coach Jeff Lounsbury said. “With the complete game in game one, we knew we would be using more arms in the last game on the weekend. It was planned on our end.”

Although the Mustangs emerged victorious, it seemed like there may have been some controversy when the umpire called an out on what would have been an RBI fielder’s choice in the second inning. Instead, the play was ruled a double play and the inning came to an end.

“It’s not that the umpires are bad—they miss a call, we miss a call, we don’t play well—it’s all a parcel of playing the game,” Lumley said. “It’s not as cut-and-dry as some other sports sometimes, but it’s always like that.”

“That was two good teams playing hard, with good offence, good defence, good pitching and, at times, good hitting,” Lounsbury said. “Both games could have went either way.”

The Badgers next game is Tuesday against the Laurier Golden Hawks, while the Mustangs head to Queen’s on Friday to face the Gaels.

“We’re ready to go and we’re starting to roll now,” Lytwynec said.

“We’re getting ready for going to the playoffs.”

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