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Wave of change at city hall Iain Boekhoff EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @IainAtGazette

Matt Brown was voted London’s next mayor on Monday night as an almost entirely new city council was elected.

Brown was elected with over 50 per cent of the vote, at the time of publication. He beat out his nearest challenger, Paul Cheng, who lagged behind by almost 20 per cent.

Brown led the mayoral race virtually from the very beginning, with a message of change and community building. His message resonated with Londoners generating a massive volunteer base and donations from nearly 900 individuals and over 1,000 donations overall. The number of donations he received more than tripled the combined effort of the two leading candidates in the last municipal elections four years ago.

Brown, at Jim Bob Ray’s on Monday night celebrating his win, said of his campaign that, “It was based on bold, fresh ideas from all of you and tonight citizens from across this great city have demonstrated

that they heard this message loud and clear.”

“I think he brings a lot of integrity and a good ethical foundation in total. We have a rocky past, so I think he brings a whole new leaf,” said Thomas Baechler, fourth-year environmental science student and Brown supporter.

Cheng, who mounted a strong late surge in the campaign to come second after being a virtual unknown, told The Gazette his effort sent a message to the political establishment.

“No matter what, we shook the establishment to the bone, and they were rattled. So they have noticed that Cheng came out. The old established way that city hall has been doing things cannot last.”

Londoners were clearly fed up with the scandals and controversies of the past four years and it was not a pretty night for incumbents. Only two survived re-election — in Ward 2 (Bill Armstrong) and Ward 8 (Paul Hubert). Harold Usher in Ward 12 was leading, but not confirmed as elected at the time of publication.

In Ward 6, where many students

live, Phil Squire came out on top.

Amir Farahi, the youngest candidate running in London, was in fourth place in the ward at the time of publication.

Despite Farahi being far behind in his ward, there was a generational shift in city council’s composition.

Mayor-elect Brown is 41-years-old, while four councillors-elect are under 40.

In Ward 3, Mohamed Salih had a decisive victory. Despite some incidents of vandalism to his signs, he said the election campaign went “great.”

“Londoners really have spoken up and come together, saying it’s time for change,” he said. “That’s why there’s so many new councillors and I’m looking forward to working with all of them.”

At the time of publication, Peter Jaffe and Matt Reid were leading in the two spots for English public school trustee in Ward 6.

For more up-to-date information, go online to westerngazette. ca or pick up Wednesday’s paper.

With files from Katie Lear, Olivia Zollino and Kevin Hurren

Election Results London Mayor

(Place as of 10:00PM)

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Brown, Matt Cheng, Paul Swan, Joe Caranci, Roger Kaplansky, Arnon Kelley, Donna Miszczak, Marie Gardner, Steven

9 Kogelheide, Jim 10 Ha, Tae Khun 11 Lenart, Dan 12 Perry, Dennis 13 Main, Alexander 14 Murray, Carlos 15 Sinan, Ma'in

Councillors by Ward (As of 10:00PM)

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van Holst, Michael Armstrong, Bill Salih, Mo Mohamed Helmer, Jesse Cassidy, Maureen Squire, Phil Morgan, Josh Hubert, Paul

9 Hopkins, Anna 10 Ridley, Virginia

11 Turner, Stephen 12 Usher, Harold 13 Park, Tanya 14 Zaifman, Jared

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The University Students’ Council is introducing a new mentorship program for first-year representatives to help them get acquainted with council faster.

Emily Addison, USC vice-president internal, proposed the idea last council meeting.

“I just wanted to give [first-year representatives] the opportunity to have a direct relationship with someone that’s a little older and maybe a little more experienced that can show them the ropes,” Addison said.

First-year representatives appear to appreciate Addison’s initiative.

“My transition to USC was recent and a whole whirlwind of information thrown in at once,” Crystal Mak, Medway-Sydenham Hall representative, said.

Although Mak is sure she’ll grasp the intricacies with time, she thinks the proposed mentor program will help her.

“The first council meeting was definitely intimidating and I think having a mentor will allow me to ask questions and receive feedback from upper years,” she said.

Addison cited the intimidation factor as one of the core reasons behind her proposed program.

“When I joined council it took me a good three or four meetings to actually say something out loud,” Addison said.

She said it’s intimidating for a first-year to walk into a council meeting — a room filled with older students who are practiced advocates and already friends.

Addison said her own direct connection with the older councillors and president at Huron taught her how to be an advocate and leader.

But first-year representatives on the USC don’t have these connections because they’re associated with a residence and not a faculty.

She said the response from older councillors was also positive, as she’s already received emails from 10 councillors who want to be mentors.

If the program is successful, Addison may suggest expanding it to include all first-year councillors.

But she said she doesn’t want to force anything on anyone, telling the mentors or mentees what to do.

Rather, the program is meant just to give them an avenue over which to connect.

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UWOFA votes for strike action if negotiations fail Hamza Tariq NEWS EDITOR @HamzaAtGazette

Negotiations between the university administration and the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association are heating up as the faculty association has voted in favour of employing strike action if the bargaining process comes to an impasse.

The UWOFA’s membership voted 90 per cent in favour of using strike action as a bargaining tool to strengthen their position on the negotiation table — the strongest strike mandate ever received by the faculty association.

According to Alison Hearn, UWOFA president, the association’s members are defending better learning conditions and compensation and also smaller class sizes.

Therefore they have rejected the deal put forward by the university administration.

In an earlier Gazette feature, statistics reported that up to 37 per cent of the faculty association members were contract staff and had fewer chances of gaining tenure than ever before.

“Close to 40 per cent [contract faculty] are working with very little job security and with very little compensation,” Hearn said. “So that’s a number one priority this time — to try to defend their rights, to have a little more job security and to be reasonably compensated.”

In the case of a strike, the main campus faculty would cease from performing their usual duties

— effectively halting all teaching until an agreement is reached.

Matt Helfand, president of the University Students’ Council, says that while the USC does not take sides, he hopes that the negotiations are resolved without any labour interruption.

“We recognize that both sides have a legitimate stake in the matter, the USC is also one of many stakeholders here on campus,” he said. “We want to make the best case for the students is that there is no labour interruption, and if there is it gets resolved quite quickly.”

A provincially appointed conciliator will be joining the two sides on the negotiation table later this week, in hopes that an agreement can be reached. In the case that the talks still fail, the Faculty Association could file a ‘no board’ report with the Ontario Ministry of Labour.

Seventeen days after the report is filed, the faculty can legally go on strike.

According to Helen Connell, associate vice-president of communications and public affairs for Western, a strike vote is a normal part of the collective bargaining processes at universities.

She added that the university administration and the faculty association have met over 30 times since the process started in mid-May. “There is no deadline, although both sides would like to have it completed as soon as possible,” she said.

According to Hearn, the university had been posting record-breaking surpluses while the faculty members were not being reasonably

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compensated. Western professors’ salaries are ranked 11th in the province.

“The university posted a surplus of $91.9 million last year,” she said.

“Their compensation offer to us is very, very low, and it would just promise to put us even further in the basement in relation to our competitor institutions.”

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If you’ve logged on to the University Students’ Council’s website in the past couple of weeks, you’ll have noticed it’s gotten a facelift.

Emerson Tithecott, USC vice-president communications, said the project to improve the USC’s website has been in the works for over a year. The project cost the USC about $8,000. This amount came from widget purchases as well as the technological infrastructure intern’s salary.

Tithecott said he hoped the new website to be user-friendly, flexible, centralized and clean.

“We wanted anyone to be able to go on the USC website with very little knowledge of what the USC actually does and find the information they need,” he said.

The website was developed by Paul Craig, the USC’s technological

infrastructure intern. Craig presented the new website to council last Wednesday. At the meeting, Craig showed the council old variations of the website and explained why they were problematic — specifically a lack of proper dating.

“When you have so many different websites and different designs it becomes very hard to gauge whether information is accurate,” Craig said.

“Part of what this re-design does is re-establishes trust in the USC web presence.”

Tithecott said the website was designed to be malleable so that it could be changed in years to come without destroying the original product. In addition, while the whole site is a centralized hub for USC information as individual organizations have been given dominion over their pages.

“We also wanted it to be stewarded in that different units of the organization can take ownership over their area of expertise and over

the information they disseminate to students,” Tithecott said.

The USC also wanted a simple, clean and aesthetically pleasing design. Craig used user-centered design so that students can get on, get their information and leave as quickly as possible. This entails a clear hierarchy of information, lots of white space and no visual clutter.

The new layout features purples, whites and greys. The old layout was a purple background with one Mustangs banner running across the top. Additionally, the new carousel feature makes it easier to navigate main articles and posts.

Tithecott hopes the website will be fully up-to-date by the end of his term.

At time of publication, last year’s information was still live on the site.

Not all council positions have been updated and the editor-in-chief of The Gazette was still listed as Julian Uzielli.

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Radio station doesn’t Kevin Hurren NEWS EDITOR AT LARGE @KevinAtGazette

While flipping through radio signals in London, many will pass 94.9 without taking much notice. However, this frequency, currently used by Western’s CHRW, has a long history – a history the station now hopes to celebrate.

On Wednesday, an event will be held at Call The Office to mark the 33rd anniversary of the station’s launch. The party, with a white shirt theme, features performances from Gavin Noir, Vire and Wolf Saga – who is profiled below.

But the anniversary party is about more than just a good time according to CHRW marketing director Derek Leung. It’s about recognizing the station’s long presence in the community.

“It’s more than just hosting a radio show,” explains Leung. “You can be involved in production, in our news department, and over the past year we even put in a new production studio to offer students and community members a venue to interact with professional equipment.”

These different components haven’t always been a part of the station. CHRW’s origins go as far back as 1959, when student politicians first started throwing around the

idea of a student-run radio station.

It wasn’t until 1979 that the University Students’ Council held a referendum asking students if they’d support a station. After the referendum passed, development went underway and CHRW officially started broadcasting on October 31, 1981 as “London’s Independent Radio Station.”

This statement of independence has been an integral part of the station’s identity, says Leung.

“It’s part of our mandate to look outside of what commercial radio stations are doing. We provide that alternative media and source.”

Because of this, explains Leung, CHRW is dedicated to offering diverse content. This not only includes a variety of musical styles, such as punk or rockabilly, but also content delivered in different languages.

“All of this is open access, so as long as you come up here and go through the training you can have these things on the radio, which is something other stations don’t really do,” he says.

Emphasizing diversity and community-driven content is part of CHRW’s structure, says station manager Grant Stein.

“There weren’t a lot of ways for people to create their own media,” says Stein, referring to a time 11

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years a g o when he first got involved with the station as program director.

“CHRW’s role today is more of a training centre for people, allowing them to do the marketing, production, hosting and all of that together here.”

This community aspect became even stronger when CHRW got its own board of directors in 2007. Prior to that, the USC board of directors guided the station – but after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, or CRTC, mandated that all stations have their own board CHRW followed suit.

Under the guidance of the board and CRTC, CHRW became a venue specifically for the alternative.

“We provide an outlet for people to have non-mainstream voices heard – so that includes non-mainstream music and non-mainstream groups that might not have access to radio stations in particular,” explains Stein.

N o w, CHRW is asking listeners to keep that spirit alive through a fundraising campaign timed with the anniversary. Although the station does receive student fees, CHRW hopes to expand its new music production department even further.

“When we launched the studio we were able to help local musicians record songs, so that’s a rare opportunity where you get recording time in addition to us mixing and mastering it,” says Leung.

The fundraising campaign, titled FDrive33, encourages anyone to go

online or call into the station to make a pledge. Leung hopes to remind people through the anniversary event and the fundraising campaign that CHRW doesn’t just belong to Western students.

“Anyone from the community can come and contribute to a show as well, gaining any experience they want,” he says.

“This isn’t Western Radio – this is CHRW.” The CHRW 33rd Anniversary party will be at Call The Office on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Doors open at 8 p.m. with a $10 entrance fee. This cost includes a limited edition white shirt for the event.

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Wolf Saga on the prowl Richard Joseph GAZETTE STAFF The electronic sounds and vocals of Western graduate and singer/ songwriter Johnny W. Saga, better known as Wolf Saga, could be heard on CHRW last Thursday.

The artist made waves in the local music scene when he released his music video “Our Time” last February, produced in collaboration with Samsung. The video, which features Saga re-enacting popular vines to his own song, has amassed almost half a million views.

“It was a three-day shoot,” recalls Saga. “Fourteen days, all around Toronto. That was a good experience.”

Saga had his beginnings here at Western, when he was struggling between music and a more stable career choice.

“I was studying MIT,” he says. “At this point I thought music would be more of a hobby.”

His entry into electronic music started when he began to make remixes of popular songs. One of these remixes was featured by Ultra Records, which inspired Saga to focus entirely on making music.

Shortly afterwards, the budding artist was nominated for a Jack Richardson music award as best electronic artist of 2012.

Wolf Saga has a style reminiscent of Vampire Weekend and the Strokes, with charming vocals over a catchy electronic beat. He himself likes the term “indie-tronic.” Saga cites his earliest inspiration as David Bowie and other great artists of the eighties; he also admires the lyricism of U2’s lead singer Bono.

“The guy was on another level,” says Saga. “He just writes about how

he perceives my world. Whatever he’s feeling will be reflected in his song. I think that’s the best definition of song writing.”

Saga got involved with CHRW during his time at Western.

“I would talk about whatever music I was doing … later, I was DJing, so I was in a few times over a couple of years,” says Saga. “I guess I’m well-connected with CHRW, and they’ve really done so much for me.

I think any local artist owes them a lot because they play [local] stuff— they support the community, and I’m happy to give back.”

In the next few months, Saga is releasing a YouTube segment called “Sessions with Gavin Brown,” a series of music sessions with a Junowinning producer.

Wolf Saga will be performing on October 29 at Call the Office for CHRW’s 33rd anniversary.

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Still waiting for hover cars FACES OF GAZETTE Brent Holmes DEPUTY EDITOR @BrentAtGazette

Today’s political pundits are years behind Scott Feschuk. In his new book, released last week, The Future and Why We Should Avoid It, Feschuk predicts candidates for the 2052 presidential election, foreseeing candidates like Bristol Palin and zombie Hillary Clinton.

“You’re never going to bet against zombie Hillary Clinton,” Feschuk laughs. “She’s an unstoppable force of nature — you cannot stop her.”

In his book, Feschuk’s targets the idea of progress and the future offering all those gadgets that will make your life better.

“I could remember when I was a kid, I could remember not the colour of my car when I grew up but I could remember the colour of my hover car. I was convinced that we were going to have jetpacks and hover cars — I was apparently not a very intelligent child — but I became obsessed with the future,” Feschuk remarks.

“Jetpacks! How hard could that be?” Feschuk exclaims. “It’s just 2,000 degrees of heat right next to your back.”

The Future and Why We Should Avoid It is Feschuk’s third book. He has had a successful journalism career, which began at The Globe and Mail. Since then he has worked as Paul Martin’s speechwriter and as a humour columnist for Maclean’s magazine.

“If you want to distinguish yourself, you’ve got to take any opportunity you get and bust your ass to make the most of it,” Feschuk says.

“There’s payback. It comes back in a positive way for you down the road.”

But Feschuk got his start at The Gazette.

“This was when we invented the chair Olympics where we

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would duck tape people to chairs on wheels. We would have races through the whole building [and] they were taped to the chair so if they fell over they would inflict maximum damage, there was no way to brace yourself and save yourself in any way,” Feshuk jokes. “This is the origin of my journalism career.”

As editor-in-chief for The Gazette, Feschuk oversaw the transition from a twice a week publishing schedule to a daily one — making The Gazette the only daily student newspaper in Canada. He was also the only editorin-chief in recent memory to serve for consecutive years.

“It got a little more serious [when we started publishing four times a week], for better or worse. It was a real goal and at the time there was a real need for it because we had so much advertising. It didn’t change the experience, it wasn’t better or worse, just different,” Feschuk recalls.

Perhaps the most noticeable change between the time he was at The Gazette and present day is the kind of antics that were pulled off.

Feschuk recalls starting a residence paper in Saugeen called The Gazoo on his first day of school.

“We actually staged a thing where we came into the cafeteria dressed in all black with balaclavas on and what looked like very realistic machine guns and we kidnapped one of the residence leaders,” Feschuk laughs. “Can you imagine

if you did that today? You wouldn’t make it out alive and yet we were there with our camera.”

Some of his fondest memories of The Gazette come from jokes in the newsroom.

“Our big issue one year was parking and they’d taken away a couple of student lots saying that staffing needed more parking. The lots we lost weren’t actually full. So we hired a helicopter to take pictures of these supposedly overflowing lots from above and we made a huge spread about the fact that the administration had screwed us over — what a silly thing to complain about!”

Feschuk comments.

Feschuk recalls how a TV Ontario program wanted to do a piece on student journalism and had invited representatives from UBC and McGill to speak.

“I was like, ‘This is obviously a set up.’ These people were doing investigations into water quality on campus, women’s issues and gender equality, and we are talking about where can I park my Volkswagen,” Feschuk says.

At the very last minute, Feschuk made one of his sub-editors go on and get ambushed with questions about The Gazette’s stories.

“That’s the one we tend to talk about, how we screwed over our friends, which is basically all you remember from university anyway,” he says.

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GGGHF Author: Scott Feschuk Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd Scott Feschuk’s The Future and Why We Should Avoid It is a fun, if uneven, comedic read taking aim at everything from politics to art to killer robots.

Chapters focus on a specific topic and are divided into passages

that take the form of lists, poems, parodies or just witty commentary on a specific area of life. The jokes are loosely based around the topic of the unbearable future lumbering towards us, but Feschuk strays into other areas of life providing a list of the kinds of hockey parents you see at a kid’s game or how Miley Cyrus would make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Feschuk’s prose falters in the mid-point of the book when he moves outside of his over-arching theme. The politics in the United States chapter provides a play-byplay satirizing of the 2012 presidential election in such thorough detail that only journalists or political junkies would be able to follow. The Canadian politics chapter doesn’t fair much better — at this point there’s not too many funny jokes left about Rob Ford.

The book is funniest when working from the premise that the future is going to be a Douglas Adams equese surrealist dystopia where your vacuum and toothbrush make fun of you behind your back, and your microwave burns your popcorn out of spite. The farther

Feschuk gets away from this theme, the less humorous the material.

The sardonic comedy hits a peak when Feschuk mocks contemporary society’s obsession with gadgets and technology, or laments the fact that there are self-driving cars but no flying cars. When he straddles the line between completely ludicrous and actually real, The Future and Why We Should Avoid It is gut-bustingly hilarious.

If the book could be trimmed down to statement it would be, “Some poor scientist with a PhD spent years of his life working on x” where x could stand for the Blue Mountains on Coors Light, realistic sex dolls or underwear that conceals the smell of farts but not Jetpacks or a device to find your misplaced keys.

It’s Feschuk’s sense of outrage and bafflement at the folly of humanity that make this book such an enjoyable read.

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The Gazette asked students if they thought the USC should divest from oil.

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Social Science I “I think it’s a good idea. Oil usually is a pretty solid investment – the price is always increasing and it takes a big event for it to decrease or to drop drastically. So I think for the sake of the school and for the sake of the students and stuff, it’s a good idea to keep it in … The company would do what they’re doing anyway with or without this money from USC, so I think since there’s nothing they could do, the best thing they can do is take the money they earn and come back and spend it positively back here.”

Marco Lo

Economics II “I don’t really think investing in it [oil] has anything to do with the environment. Oil is very important for everything that goes on, and if you want to save the environment, you should do it in another way.

And I don’t think divestinsg from oil helps at all.”

Omar Abu-Jazar

Biological Sciences I “I think it was a good idea to stay because we get money and regardless of if you even opt-out, it’s still going on. So why not make money out of something that’s going on [anyway] regardless if you opt-out or not.”

Katya Rogers

MIT III “In MIT we’re pretty critical about capitalism and oil, so I’d have to say that it’s a bad thing, definitely. We have enough money as it is.”

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With CHRW’s anniversary party taking place Wednesday night (see pg. 4), many students and administration are looking at the station’s past — a welcome change from critiquing its future.

It’s not uncommon, for instance, to overhear students talking about potentially slashing CHRW’s budget. With a University Students’ Council fee of $13.15 per student, questions are asked about the station’s appeal to campus as a whole.

Concerns were raised at last year’s USC meeting reviewing the station’s budget.

The same is likely to happen when a draft of CHRW’s long-term plan is presented to members and council in November.

Such debate around the station often devolves into a single question: if every student isn’t listening to CHRW, why should every student pay for it?

It’s frustrating, however, to hear these kinds of complaints. There seems to be a flawed framework among student leaders that CHRW’s popularity is inherently tied to its budget.

The radio station isn’t alone in this.

Much like CHRW, WesternTV and The Gazette both receive funding from students through the USC and, as such, face many of the same attacks. WesternTV is commonly phrased as a waste of student dollars, and as recent as the USC Budget Town Hall, The Gazette’s funds were suggested as a potential place to save money.

I understand that it’s easy to take arms against campus media. After all, they’re the most visible council subsidiaries on campus. Few know how much is poured

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into behind-the-scenes projects or multiyear council plans. On the proverbial dartboard, campus media, as large presences on campus, are the biggest targets. How many people are watching WesternTV? How many people are reading The Gazette?

But I urge students, specifically those involved with the USC, to move beyond these limitations and consider the implicit benefits for those who do engage such groups.

First, these media provide free and crucial experience for community members interested in journalism, production, marketing and beyond. In addition to comprehensive training programs, they offer opportunities for students to build portfolios. CHRW’s recently created production studio, for instance, has let student musicians record and produce their own music on up-to-date equipment. Volunteers from WesternTV and The Gazette also use their work in diverse portfolios.

But above that, like any other club or organization on campus these media outlets are driven by unique mandates and visions. Unlike commercial media – more concerned with readers, listeners and viewers – each of Western’s media has independent goals.

Focusing again on CHRW, the station’s policy is specifically tied to providing voice to alternative interests. The station’s relationship with the Canadian RadioTelevision and Telecommunications Commission explicitly says that it cannot play more than a limited amount of popular songs.

That said, I’m not advocating that we stop being critical of our media’s performance. Yes, we should push all three media outlets on campus to be their best – but how do we define “best”?

That’s the kind of dialogue we should be having with campus media and those are the conversations I encourage.

Off the record of course.

Dear Life, Why do we sex up Halloween? Jack Skeleton would be so sad if he saw this. And then he would scare us all shitless.

Dear Life, Brent Holmes made cheating sound quite arduous. In the case of first and second year exams, it’s really not.

Dear Life, Matt Brown’s sign is blue and I don’t trust him because he can’t keep it straight.

Dear Life, Trustee candidate Mike Dawthorne has my vote.

Awesome letter and, frankly, anyone is better than Matt Reid. Ick. Dear Life, Michael Dawthorne knows his campaign is a lost cause when he tries to pump his ties in The Gazette.

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Re: The NDP didn’t think of the children, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 To the editor: Bradley Metlin’s blatantly Tory ramblings tickle me the wrong way. The NDP’s childcare plan isn’t the best thought-out plan — there are gaps in its logic — but I’d take it over Metlin’s equally ill-conceived reasoning any day of the week. In fact, any weekend as well, considering all those extra hours I’m going to need to work in order to afford childcare (for my hypothetical children) under the soon-to-beannounced Metlin ‘fend for yourselves, you dirty plebs’ plan.

The NDP plan is an improvement over the current Tory plan, which – as pointed out – disproportionately benefits higher income families who have greater access

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to childcare services in the first place.

What the Universal Child Care Benefit fails to do is help families who have no public childcare options in their neighbourhood, or who are excluded from available services due to time constraints.

Perhaps from working multiple jobs, or even a single demanding job (not all our parents could afford to stay home during our early years).

What is needed is expanded access to publicly funded childcare, not an ineffective tax-break, and the NDP plan is a step in the right direction. But what I find most troubling about Mr. Metlin’s argument is the idea that providing universal childcare is perverse socialism. It’s indicative of the fact that the welfare state is slowly but surely being sold off piece by piece, and that too many people seem OK

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with it. That people are more than willing to deny future generations the same services that they themselves received.

Previous generations have paid for you, why shouldn’t you pay for future generations you selfish bastards! Yes, I know that universal daycare is not currently offered by the government, but maybe it should be. Maybe it’s part of the same big picture as health care and education and fire trucks. But none of this is important, so long as those families in affluent neighbourhoods or those with parents who can afford to stay home are happy and safe from the dangers of a rampant welfare state trying to help those less fortunate.

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factattack On Sunday’s match with the Chicago Bears the New England Patriots managed to score three touchdowns in 57 seconds.

That’s a touchdown every 19 seconds. Ouch Chicago.

Rundown >> The Mustangs men’s soccer team was bested by the McMaster Marauders in the OUA quarter-final • The Marauders scored a goal early in the game and Western never recovered leaving the final score at 1–0.

Mustangs head to playoffs after close win Robert Nanni SPORTS EDITOR

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I think overall the team has started to buy into that – and they have to, because it’s do or die.”

As the Mustangs begin their playoff season tomorrow night at 7 p.m. on Alumni Field they prepare for a tough rematch against McMaster.

While the ‘Stangs slid by with a tight win, they can hardly count on a similar result.

“We’re going to do our best to watch the game film and capitalize on what we see and I’m sure they’re going to do the same thing,” Knowles said. “We definitely need to tighten things up, but I have full confidence in our guys that we’ll come away with a win.”

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the first half, but then the wind died down a little bit in the second half @SportsAtGazette so we never really got full advantage of it.”

While McMaster had a solid The Mustangs men’s rugby team finished off their season with a win defence, they hardly took over the against the McMaster Marauders game. The majority of the possession was on Western’s side, while this past Saturday.

With the 15–13 win the ‘Stangs McMaster’s defence proved to be finish the regular season 5–2–1 and the biggest obstacle.

The only Marauder to make the third place overall in the Ontario University Athletics, tied with the scoreboard was Jamie Leveridge, Brock Badgers. This loss for the whose conversion and penalty kick, Marauders drops them down to along with a try and another penfifth place in the standings, who alty kick, emphasized the struggle to were in third above the fourth place get past the Mustangs. This was just Mustangs. not enough, however, as the Western Going into the game, Western men slid past their opponent by a knew that McMaster was hardly an mere two points. easy team to beat.

Mustangs Eric Selvaggi and James “My expectation was that it Ojo also made the scoreboard with wasn’t going to be easy,” David one try each, earning a total of 10 Knowles, Mustangs coach, said. “It points in the effort. Coach Knowles was going to be a tough game, and also recognized Peter Milazzo, who it lived up to that.” was all over the field assisting his The first half of the game was team. dominated by Western, led by Mike This win marks the ninth OUA Turnbull. His two conversions and qualification in the past 10 years penalty goal allowed the Mustangs for the Mustangs, and the first with the momentum they needed to beat Knowles as the head coach, who their opponent. took over for Steve Thomas this year.

“We controlled the scrums and “We had some challenges [this the majority of the possession and year],” Knowles said. “Implementing territory,” Knowles observed. “There some new systems, some struggles me being the new coach, but was Class_3x105_141028_GZ a big wind as we were going 10/27/14 into7:06with PM Page 1

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Finch out as Mustangs beat Lancers 43–21 Austin Wu CONTRIBUTOR @SportsAtGazette

The Western Mustangs edged the Windsor Lancers 43–21 on a windy afternoon Saturday at TD Stadium.

With the win, Western claimed third place in Ontario University Athletics and acquired home field advantage for their first playoff match against the Laurier Golden Hawks.

The biggest story of the day wasn’t the win, but a play that took place just before half. Third-year quarterback Will Finch scrambled and took the ball for a run – which he often does – and was greeted by a Windsor defender in an ugly collision.

The hit left Finch motionless for about 12 minutes and he was eventually carried off on a stretcher. He appeared to be kneed in the head.

This injury comes a mere three weeks after he suffered a head injury while playing against the McMaster Marauders.

Finch’s replacement, Stevenson Bone, found it extremely difficult to focus on a grimacing situation that included a teammate who he is incredibly close with.

“It’s always tough though when that situation happens,” Bone said.

“You can see that everyone on the sidelines, their minds are not on football. My mind was trying to get on football and it kept wandering off of football.”

Western Mustangs’ head coach Greg Marshall had nothing but praise for the team in their ability to rebound.

This week, we travel to the barren land of Manitoba — to the University of Brandon. It’s a desolate place about two hours outside of Winnipeg. It’s a province where polar bears have been known to eat people, for being filled with nothing but snow, and, apparently, bad logo design.

Ripping out of whitespace, this logo is straight up laughable.

Actually. This logo is so bad that it’s almost inconceivable that it could be plastered around a university as a legitimate logo. Logistically speaking, it’s impossible to determine if the bobcat is ripping through paper, a wall, or what?

At least with other logos that have been looked at, they are just horrible designs. In this case, however, the execution is ridiculously flawed. You can see the white border around the bobcat that the designer failed

“I was really pleased with the way our team responded,” he said. “They rallied behind Stevenson … I was proud of the way they came back.”

With the score at only 15–14 for Western at half, it was clear both teams had their work cut out for them. Windsor Lancers’ coach, Joe D’Amore, knew that there were key essentials for the second half if they wanted to walk away with the victory.

“I think we had to score in the third quarter,” he said. “We had the wind, we had the ball … if we would have scored with their backup quarterback, I think we would have added some momentum, but we didn’t capitalize on opportunities, they took the lead, and we kept having to give up safeties.”

While the Mustangs showed improved play in the second half, it came at a cost, and it was evident they were playing for more than just home field advantage the following week.

Replacing Finch, Bone threw for 127 yards and highlighted his individual performance with a 50-yard touchdown pass to Justin Sanvido.

Also leading the charge for the Mustangs was Yannick Harou, who rushed for 209 rushing yards, including 176 yards in the first half alone. The run game in the second half primarily featured first year running back Alex Taylor, who managed to rush for 82 yards and record a touchdown, despite only eight carries.

“I’m just trying to take it one game at a time,” he said. “If the coaches give me an opportunity to get in, I see it as a small window

to erase away.

There is a spray paint-esque characteristic that looked as thought it was created in Microsoft Paint. It’s pitiful.

Overall, this logo is just ridiculously offensive.

It’s offensive for logo design everywhere. Sure, not every university has the luxury of hiring professional design firms to craft expert logos. That said, there was surely at least a student on campus that was proficient in Photoshop or Illustrator.

Why is there black space behind the bobcat behind the “BU” design?

Is the bobcat hiding in the dark waiting to emerge and capture its prey?

Horrifying. It’s quite brilliant when it comes to striking fear into the eyes of opponents. All too often, sports teams ignore the cardinal rule of intimidation.

The University of Brandon Bobcats could be admired for trying to go a creative route. The bursting out of the image design is unique.

That said, it’s almost childish and antiquated. It’s something I would suspect to see on a 1998 website.

Sloppy and embarrassing.

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Taylor Lasota • GAZETTE

and I’m going to take that chance to grasp and play my best.”

For the Lancers, fifth year quarterback Austin Kennedy threw his 77th career touchdown pass, moving him into a tie for second place in the OUA and third place in the CIS on the all-time touchdown pass leaderboard.

The Western Mustangs now prepare to host the Golden Hawks in the first round OUA quarter-final matchup.

Bone looks to lead the charge who saw his only start of the season against Laurier just two weeks prior. Bone knows that with his limited playing time, there are definite

improvements that he needs to make heading into next weekend.

“Just hitting the throws I missed, the deep ones … we’ll get the timing down and it will be better,” Bone said. “All of our receivers are awesome deep threats.”

You can catch the game at TD Stadium this Saturday, Nov. 1 at 1 p.m.

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