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Sports editor Nathan Kanter analyzes the state of Mustangs hockey as it prepares to kick off this Friday. >> pg. 7

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Hamza Tariq NEWS EDITOR EnviroWestern is hosting its environmental awareness initiative EnviroWeek, from Monday to Thursday this week in the University Community Centre atrium. The week-long event features a series of information sessions, workshops and booths representing different environmental awareness outfits.

According to EnviroWestern coordinator Jessica He, there are a diverse set of programs and information available for anyone who wants to live a more sustainable life.

The numerous workshops being conducted by EnviroWestern include an environment 101 orientation session, a virtual classroom with David Suzuki, a live waste audit and a lip balm making workshop among others.

“We really want to empower [students] with how they can make a difference and live more sustainably,” He said.

EnviroWeek also features a novel campaign initiative by Greenest Campus Western.

Greenest Campus Western works towards making Western the greenest university in Canada.

“What we are doing this week is we are getting people to write pledges on a white board,” said Jennifer Hao, co-director of Greenest Campus Western.

“Whatever environmental action they want to change and we are taking a picture and making a massive photo campaign on our Facebook page.” >> see ENVIROWEEK pg.3

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October Mayoral Madness: Jim Kogelheide

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Ward 6 candidate profile: Cynthia Etheridge

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Ethical shopping

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Nice guys don’t finish last

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Mustangs fall to Marauders in football

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TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS. Canadian pop artist, Lights, lit up London Music Hall last Saturday night with her concert promoting her new album, Little Machines. Lights took a few moments to speak to The Gazette before the performance. > SEE THE INTERVIEW ON PG 4 .

When the band goes marching in… for moolah Olivia Zollino NEWS EDITOR The Western Mustang Band has found themselves in times of financial difficulties and is looking for ways to fund their growing club.

Since the University Students’ Council stopped having accredited groups, of which the marching band was a member, the band does not have guaranteed yearly funding. This has them speaking with the USC in order to find a solution.

They do not have a room to practice in or enough money to fund such expenses as uniforms and working instruments. As a result, they have had to turn away many of the 250plus students who displayed interest in joining at Clubs Week.

Connell Miller, promotions director for the Western Marching Band, used the analogy of a hockey team without a rink to practice on or skates for half the team to describe their current situation.

“That’s how bad of a situation we’re in,” he said.

In order to return to a “neutral position,” Miller said the band would need approximately $30,000. Their current mode of income derives from

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such avenues as bookings and a $50 band membership fee. That’s not enough to keep up with other schools.

McMaster University’s student council for example dedicates 90-cents in their student fees for their marching band.

Miller is looking for financial support from the USC or athletics.

“Right now, both groups love us and they want us to do events… but when it comes to a dollar value question, they all of a sudden get quiet,” Miller said.

Matt Helfand, USC president,

is in the early stages of speaking with the Western Marching Band’s president.

“What we’ve been talking about is trying to find some ways we can make sure they are sustained,” Helfand said.

Helfand mentioned past incidents where student groups have put forth a referendum that would result in an addition to student ancillary fees. Another option is for Athletics to fund them as part of their “spirit” mandate.

The band currently practices in

the front foyer of Alumni Hall, which is another obstacle that is hindering the band’s growth.

“We’ve contacted so many people through the Western rooms booking, a whole bunch of routes, and we’ve hit a brick wall,” Miller said.

Helfand maintained that all parties involved are dedicated to finding a solution.

“From a personal perspective, I think that the marching band certainly has a place on campus, and it is not an ideal situation that they’re nearly insolvent,” Helfand said.

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SAY HI TO MY LITTLE ‘STANG. A desperate Mustang heeds the call of the wild as his team valiantly fights the raging Marauders at Saturday’s home game. The Mustangs lost the game 32-29. For a full game report, turn to page 8.

LTC launches survey Amy O’Kruk NEWS EDITOR The London Transit Commission is planning on improving the city’s

bus service and they’re looking to the public to find out how.

The LTC has launched an online survey, “Let’s Talk Transit,� to determine what riders and non-riders

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In order to remain open to new ideas, the LTC has partnered with an external firm, Dillon Consulting, to come up with a survey that will best give the LTC the information it needs. “Right now we don’t have any preconceived notions, that’s part of why we would use an external consultant,� Ford said. “They’re not attached to the system in the same way that we are and that provides us with some more flexibility in terms of changes.�

Besides the survey, Ford said the LTC has held public information meetings and stakeholder meetings intending to get the community involved in the bus service’s growth.

Issues regarding the current bus service addressed in the survey include more frequent arrival times and decreasing overcrowding on buses.

Ford said so far the survey has received consistent feedback and that the study will help to shape the future of London’s transit. “We’re not meeting the needs now, we have too much demand for the service we have available,� Ford said. He added the survey results would help the LTC in figuring out “the best way to move forward.�

The survey is estimated to take five minutes and will be available on the LTC’s website until October 12.

Corrections In Friday’s, “Fashion for Friday,� the subject’s name was misspelled. The student interviewed was Leon Tandon.

In Friday’s “Have your say,� two students were misidentified. The first photo was in fact of Gavin Bejaimal and the last photo was in fact of Johnny Zhang.

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This is the first of seven profiles of the candidates for Ward 6, which encompasses the university and the surrounding student housing.

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This is the fourth of fifteen mayoral candidate profiles.

Name: Jim Kogelheide Phone: 519-850-5031 Email: mrjimformayor@gmail.com Website: www.bitsandpeaces.com

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For those looking for a mayoral candidate with more of an environmental focus, Jim Kogelheide may be the option.

Kogelheide, a self-identified artist and environmental activist, promotes the idea of “Green Urbanism.” Green Ubranism, he said, is the practice of creating communities beneficial to humans and our environments by shaping more sustainable developments and lifestyles.

Naming David Suzuki as a major influence in his life, this candidate wants to ensure that London – and by extension the world – does not create an unsustainable reality for our next generation.

“Londoners are making grand impacts on our community in positive ways,” said Kogelheide in a press release. “Now it’s time for the leaders to listen and take action. I want to be one of those leaders.”

Kogelheide’s concern for the environment is evident even in the way he’s campaigning. In order to reduce his own carbon footprint, the mayoral candidate has been reusing provincial election signs that were abandoned on the streets.

Additionally, Kogelheide believes that London should be a leader in the creation of sustainable energy – specifically referencing Western University’s own weather simulator centre as an example of the kind of technology the city should be engaging with.

But Kogelheide’s platform isn’t green only for the environment but also the economy. He suggests that the city expand projects to grow food in London’s many parks — something that would not only contribute to the city’s organic culture but also create local work opportunities.

Enviroweek at UCC >> ENVIROWEEK continued from pg.1

A number of booths will be present in the UCC during the week. Reforest London, Centre for Environment and Sustainability and the City of London will have representatives available to talk to students about sustainability on campus and in the city.

According to He, this is a great opportunity for students to connect with the city and learn about community based programs and initiatives.

“I think sometimes students get caught up in the Western bubble,” she said. “This a really great way to expand and learn about the city that you live in.”

According to Andrea Lukac, a representative of BullFrog Power, students could play a big role in saving the environment by realizing the threats imposed by our reliance on fossil fuels.

She added that students have been particularly interested in what she and her colleagues had to say at their booth, as BullFrog Power has been providing a physical solution to solve global change by putting more green power on the grid.

“So far I see that students are extremely empowered, they are very knowledgeable. That’s really great to see,” she said.

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On September 23, Canadian electro-pop musician Lights released her third album, Little Machines.

Lights’ first album, The Listening, was full of electric synergy with low, soothing vocals. Her second album, Siberia, had quick paced beats that at times would overshadow her beautiful singing voice. Nevertheless both albums had songs that broke this simplistic mould and made for wonderful listening.

Little Machines, on the other hand, is a perfect blend of both the electronic music with Lights’ signature style and powerfully smooth vocals. The songs in Little Machines are more intimate and closer to personal matters, as can be seen by the lyrics of the final song, “Don’t Go Home Without Me.” Many of the new songs are more philosophical

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and impart little bits of wisdom to help in daily life, like the ideology of the song “Speeding.” It tries to bring across the idea not to focus on the past and instead to look to your future, just like you would on a speeding highway.

A new surprise in the album would be the first song. “Portal” is very different from Lights’ normal music style. The instruments are soft and are only meant to extenuate the clarity of her voice. With no auto-tune and a lack of synthetics, she produces a sound very similar to that of Passenger.

With a fantastic crew behind her, including producers Drew Pearson and Thomas ‘Twags’ Salter, Lights creates works of musical art. The best song on the disk, “Muscle Memory,” truly incorporated the entire crews’ ingenuity and it showcased the wonderful instrumental and vocal prowess of the team.

Lights’ voice is perfectly in sync with the beat of the song, and though there are background vocals they simply help to emphasize the lyrics of the song. The bridge of the song gives a feeling of serenity, which is craftily shattered with the return of the chorus.

This is a required buy for any fans of genre-pushing music and it’s perfect to cuddle with that special someone on the cold winter days to come.

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Jenny Jay ARTS AND LIFE EDITOR Canadian electronic artist Lights made an appearance in London last Saturday at the London Music Hall — the third stop on her tour across North America.

The long line-up that began almost four hours before Lights even got on stage was an indication of the love that she received on Saturday night. With an open floor concept, fans, including Western students lit up at the possibility to snag a spot as close to her as possible, but the excitement there went both ways.

“I played at Western a couple times and I had so much fun. I’ve always loved the school and everyone there is so cool — if I didn’t end up going into touring from high school, I would have gone to Western probably,” she admits.

While many fans who have grown up with Lights are now reaching adulthood, Lights herself has also experienced a few life changes as she recently had her baby girl, Rocket, just as she was recording her third and newest album, Little Machines.

Although it has been a change, it seems to have been a good one as Lights rocked the stage with both grace and humility.

“One of the things I learned having a baby is that you just take it a day at a time, and if you look at the bigger picture sometimes, it’s pretty daunting,” Lights says. She added that touring with her baby daughter, Rocket, “is rad, she just doesn’t care.

It reminds you that all the stupid things that you worry about really don’t matter.”

Lights says that Little Machines, “is supposed to be better than all my work and I think that’s the point — every time you make an album you want to make something better than anything that you’ve ever done.”

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Lights finished every song with a kind thank you and a smile that would light up the hall, sending the audience wild.

What was most notable about the concert however, was the love she received from the audience and the mellow state of the crowd. Fans sang along perfectly to both her old classics and even her newest album — an impressive feat considering it had barely been out for a week. It was obvious that there was no crazy concert mentality — individuals were solely there to enjoy her music rather than to make it a giant party.

This being said, there were high levels of energy in the hall that radiated from Lights, the audience and the music itself — with her clear and predominant vocals coinciding with her passion, as she used up the

entire stage with her performance.

Lights gave the audience a show worth the money with the same quality she put into the album itself.

“I actually wrote 43 songs for Little Machines,” Lights says, “Little Machines are the 11 best, so it is easy to say that these 11 songs are my favourite.”

However, the concert itself was more than just promoting Lights ’ new album — instead she used the opportunity to reach out and give back to the community. Halfway through her set, she asked that her fans take a moment to check out the World Vision booth and the project sponsoring children in a town in the Philippines she was involved in.

Lights continued to give the audience a reason to fall in love with her, as she opened up with her music and presented her down-toearth personality. She even brought the audience back to that sense of nostalgia of what brought her to fame by performing favourites from her album The Listening, including “Drive My Soul.”

With every song she played, Lights took her audience through her journey and experiences.

“I just really learned that it’s so important to sit down and just level and just enjoy the three and a half minutes with the song,” Lights says.

“I write for myself for the most part — I write what I think is cool and what I would like to listen to, so maybe that puts my demographic at people like me, but when I look out at the crowd in the shows it’s such a variety of people.”

Lights showed London that she knew how to really light up a room, as Saturday’s show proved to be simply deLIGHTful.

“It’s more fun than it ever has been, I don’t know why that’s happening but I’m loving playing the new songs and I feel more confident than ever,” she says.

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The dirty details of retail Ethical consumerism challenges market How to Get Away with Murder ABC How to Get Away with Murder begins with a gaggle of law students trying to figure out how to dispose of a body. It’s like a modern day Stand

By Me. The audience soon realizes this is nothing but a questionable flashback structured narrative and the scene jumps to three months ago.

Puppy-eyed Wes Gibbons (Alfred Enoch) shows up to his first day of law school. Would you believe he seems like a fish out of water?

Enter Viola Davis who begins slaying the scene through Socratic teaching, calling on students left, right and centre. She chastises a student for being a keener. “Do not take away a learning opportunity from another student,” she hisses The show began jumping through scenes about a case involving an employee who tried to poison her elderly boss — she was cleverly nicknamed “the Aspirin assassin.”

It’s hard to tell if this show is deliciously camp or ridiculously well crafted.

One thing that has to be discussed is the way they tackle sexuality in How to Get Away with

Murder. Someone walked in on Annalise receiving cunninglus from a hunky black man. Wait…wait. This is network television, not HBO! If that wasn’t sexual enough, later in the episode a law student named Connor (Jack Falahee) obtained evidence by fucking another guy.

They showed him flipping the guy around and getting ever so intimate.

What on Earth?

Anyway, so the show continues along twists and turns and keeps the audience guessing considerably.

Eventually, Annalise, knowing that she will surely lose the case, calls her boyfriend (the one who was getting down on her) to take the stand.

Honey goes for his metaphorical jugular. “I heard your wife has been recently diagnosed with cancer,” she says. Viewers everywhere yelled “oh shit!” collectively.

The second episode featured a pretty stupid case but it kept the drama going with the season-wide mystery. Also, this show is totally about Viola Davis and her acting.

The students provide a young and fresh perspective but everyone wants to see Davis act — and boy does she.

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With their Pumpkin Cheesecake rooibos, David’s Tea has created the perfect tea for white girls wearing Ugg Boots and thin preppy guys with thick-wire frame glasses. It’s a tea so rich it was clearly designed by, and for, faux hipsters who think that the Starbuck’s Pumpkin Spice Latte is too mainstream.

Pumpkin Cheesecake mixes maple sugar, white chocolate and pumpkin to somehow create a tea that smells and tastes like popcorn-flavoured jellybeans. To taste, the tea leaves a gummy aftertaste that reminds of the last piece of bizarre tasting cheesecake or marzipan on the dessert buffet at the Mandarin.

The hints of pumpkin are minimal, overcome by the artificial sweetness of the maple sugar and white chocolate. The tea is ultimately as fake as the description on the bag, which claims Pumpkin Cheesecake is “our favourite of fall desserts.” As far as this tea steeper can recall, pumpkin pie is the classic autumn dessert — I don’t know anyone who eats Pumpkin Cheesecake

as a mainstay of October’s pumpkin season.

This tea would ideally be chugged while sitting in the UCC, and mocking the plebeians waiting in line at the Tim’s, Spoke or Starbucks to get their pumpkin-spiced drinks.

Pumpkin Chai

Now here’s how you do obligatory seasonal exploitation — Pumpkin Chai by David’s Tea mixes cinnamon, caramel and cloves with pumpkin candy for a delicious black tea.

Somehow, this chai hits just the right notes with its cinnamon spices that make for a tea that mixes a bitter black tea with just the right hints of sweetness.

This tea is perfect to sip on a weekend afternoon while looking out at leaves changing colour and reading some sappy, melodramatic book about old age and death. It’s a clique, like the gourd centrepiece on your parent’s dinner table, but sometimes there’s a tea for a specific time and place, and David’s Pumpkin Chai hits its mark.

• Brent Holmes

Richard Joseph CONTRIBUTOR Gone is the age of simplicity, where “double-double” would suffice to order a coffee — we now live in the age of Starbucks, where hardened latté veterans can rattle off their preferred proportion of milk, fat and soy without so much as flinching as they pay $6 for 12 oz of coffee.

Companies like Starbucks, Whole Foods and Toms justify their hefty price tag by pointing to their ecofriendly and ethical business practices. These companies appeal to a growing demographic of “ethical consumers.”

Gordon McBean, director of research for the Environment and Sustainability Program, explains how the average mall purchase can have widespread repercussions for the environment.

McBean notes that the cost of what people buy covers not only the manufacturing but also the raw materials that go into making the item and the transportation of the finished product from factory to retailer, and the further an item travels the greater the carbon emissions involved with its production.

It can be difficult to consume ethically, especially in the world of retail. Thoroughly investigating every article of clothing purchased can get onerous and companies are seldom completely transparent in regards to their sourcing and methods of production. McBean has some advice on making ethically responsible purchases.

“I look at the label and I want to see where did this come from?

It often comes from places where environmental regulations are not very good, so in that sense I’m supporting activities somewhere that are not environmentally friendly,”

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says McBean.

He is especially wary of cheap clothing.

“If these companies are able to make [their product] for less money I’m often concerned about the fact that they’re using cheap labour, creating difficulties for people in those countries by not paying them adequately,” adds McBean.

How does Western fare in terms of ethical retail production? Mike Carriere is the coordinator at the Purple Store and he is willing to address any concerns about sourcing and production.

Carriere explains that the Purple Store has three different suppliers. One is Jericho, which is based in Mississauga. The second is Logosport in London. Both of these suppliers weave fabrics to make 100 per cent Canadian clothing. Their third supplier is American Apparel

in the US, which has a strong no sweatshops policy. Carriere says the Purple Store has a very stringent policy regarding their suppliers.

“We’ve recently been approached by another manufacturer — a Canadian company, but they get their products from China, so before we even looked at ordering anything we asked for documentation [of] fair, ethical production facilities,” Carriere adds.

Companies striving for an ecofriendly and fair-labour system of production face a variety of challenges. Using locally produced materials reduces carbon emissions and the possibility of unethical labour, but it’s also significantly more expensive. So next time you cringe at your $6 coffee or your $80 sweatpants, remember — that’s the price of ethical business.

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opinions HAVE YOUR SAY

The Gazette asked students if they paid attention to where their clothes were made? Are they concerned about sweatshops and fair trade?

At home I am a nice guy: but I don’t want the world to know.

Humble people, I’ve found, don’t get very far.

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Nice guys don’t finish last The Nanni Diaries Robert Nanni SPORTS EDITOR

Meredith Bond

Media, Theory and Production IV Not really, like I usually just shop at H&M, Urban Outfitters. I don’t really look into that stuff. I’ve learned more about it in the recent years but it hasn’t really affected where I shop, I don’t think.

Paige Martin

Media, Theory and Production I I guess in a sense. I mean, I have to admit I don’t really pay attention to it too much, but when I do purchase things that are fair trade, you do get that better feeling. You’re like “oh that is better as opposed to shopping at that other store that isn’t.” [I won’t go out of my way.] I guess just out of convenience and stuff, and sometimes it’s kind of like, well does one person really make a difference in the grand scheme of things?

To get women, guys have to be assholes.

They have to act like jerks, play games and make women beg them to stay. They must create attraction through manipulation, because how else would women fall for them? After all, nice guys finish last — or do they?

Many men maintain that women will never fall for the “nice guy” — the one who agrees with them on everything, always tells them they look good and pays for their dates. And you know what?

They’re sort of right.

While being nice is a great thing to be, it should never be your defining quality.

Nice is something you attribute to someone when they have no further dimension to their personality. No one wants to be dating a compliment machine — if I wanted someone to tell me I’m pretty every five minutes, I’d talk to my grandmother.

No woman is sitting there thinking, “I really want someone who agrees with everything I say.” There’s a significant difference between a nice guy and a great one. The former is passive, essentially a bore. Assertion is important in a relationship: it displays passion, vigour and keeps things interesting.

Being the best friend of many girls, I’ve heard more about relationship problems than Dr. Phil and let me tell you, never once have I heard a girl complain that

Med Sci II To be honest, I should but I don’t really consider it. Just, I just don’t look into it. I know it’s bad but when I go to a store I [look for] what’s cheap and what’s comfy I just kind of think it’s a good thing. I know it’s a bad thing but I don’t look at that.

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Dear Life, Online class discussions should be named I’m biased towards and plan on subtly insulting anyone who opposes me.

Dear Life, I’ve been advised by a law school friend to stop exclaiming “Move or die” at gawking/unobservant students on campus.

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a guy is just “too nice.” Various qualms with significant others include “he’s so messy,” or “he’s always late” or (the real deal-breaker) “I just don’t really see it going anywhere.” Or literally anything other than “he was really nice.”

It often isn’t even about how nice a guy was — sometimes it just didn’t work out! You might simply be separately great people who could not collaboratively produce a relationship that fulfills both of you, and that’s totally okay! If anything, the fact that you were nice was probably the thing working most in your favour, the thing that made the other person stick around for as long as they did.

There are a thousand-and-one aspects involved in being a relationship, and being nice isn’t the pinnacle of the list. Strikingly similar to the friend zone, the concept that men blame breakups on niceness is a mere extension of an inability to accept that there is something wrong with them. It acts as an excuse for rejection, fostering an ego beyond belief.

Now while this phenomenon is seen primarily in heterosexual men, I’d like to attribute it to men of all sexual orientations. Men in general seem to oscillate between states of super nice and douchebag, trying to ascertain which will land them the partner of their dreams. My belief is that the ideal man is some amalgamation of the two — very sweet and considerate, but also confident enough in himself to go after what, or who, he wants.

So if you have an opinion, voice it.

Spark debate in conversation. Tell your date you’re paying for them because they’re worth it, not because you think it’s the man’s societal role. If nice is only one aspect of your multi-faceted character, then finishing last won’t even be a blip on your radar of concern.

Mike Derinzy

BMOS III I do think it’s important, yeah. But I think it’s very, very difficult to kind of really know. I feel there’s not a lot of transparency on that issue a lot of the time and the ambiguity kind of leaves a lot of opportunity for abuse in that kind of way.

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factattack The last time the Detroit Tigers were swept in their opening playoff series was in the 1907 World Series — the post-season was only one round back then.

Rundown >> The Western Mustangs rowing squad took home 18 gold medals in 25 events this past Saturday at the Head of Trent competition • The ‘Stangs won every 8+ event they entered, for the first time in Western history.

Women’s team set to move on up in OUA Nathan Kanter SPORTS EDITOR @NathanAtGazette

The Mustangs women’s hockey team is coming off a tough first-round playoff exit from 2013–14, when they lost in double overtime of the deciding game to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. The year prior they beat those same Varsity Blues in the opening round in triple overtime before advancing all the way to the Ontario University Athletics finals – for the second straight year. So this team has had success the past few years and there’s no reason that shouldn’t continue.

The main reason for success has been Western’s goaltending riches.

Goaltender Kelly Campbell has led the way for the Mustangs for most of the past three seasons, posting a 28–18–2 regular season record with a stellar 2.07 goals-against-average and .938 save percentage over that span.

Last year she split time with Olivia Ross, who was equally impressive with 2.02 goals-againstaverage and .932 save percentage.

Ross has since moved on, meaning the battle for the backup role is now between last year’s third stringer Katie Jacobs and first year recruit Peyton Parker. Parker previously played men’s Junior B hockey in Ottawa and even spent last season practicing with the Nepean Raiders

Junior A team. So once again, goaltending for Western will likely be a strong suit.

The Mustangs return only half of their top-six defencemen from last season, as Tara Cation and Michelle Saunders both graduated and Sydney Kidd has now made the move to forward. That means added pressure for Katelyn Gosling, Brianna Iazzolino and Madison Turk who will have to provide a veteran presence on the back end.

Particularly important will be Gosling, a two-time first-team OUA all-star who only had nine points last year in a shortened 18-game campaign. The year prior she managed 26 points in 26 games and needs to dominate on a more consistent basis if the Mustangs are going to be a serious threat.

Up front is where the Mustangs have struggled, and it won’t get easier with former captain – and last year’s leading point scorer – Carly Rolph now gone.

Stacey Scott will be one to watch and will need to bounce back in her fourth year as a Mustang. After Scott posted consecutive 27-point seasons in her first two years at Western, she only managed 17 points last year in 20 games.

Cassidy Gosling is also in line for a big season. The younger sister of defenceman Katelyn has seen improvement in her first two seasons, jumping from 14 points to

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17 points between first and second year, and there’s little to suggest that upward trajectory won’t continue.

With the defence missing half of its starters and the offence looking to replace its captain, this Western team will need to get some kind

of production from its nine new recruits. Although it’s a significant turnover, it also means opportunity.

Odds are the Mustangs women’s ice hockey team will challenge for a top-four finish and home ice advantage in the first round of the

playoffs.

The women open their season Saturday afternoon with a matinee game against the Waterloo Warriors. Puck drop is set for 4 p.m. at Thompson Arena.

Men’s squad’s strong lineup has momentum Nathan Kanter SPORTS EDITOR @NathanAtGazette

The men’s ice hockey team has gone through a major overhaul this summer and Friday will be their first chance to prove that several off-season departures won’t hurt them in the standings.

They are coming off a first-place finish in the West Division of Ontario University Athletics for the second straight season, but also an early second round playoff exit for the second straight season.

The most notable difference this year will be the absence of goaltender Josh Unice, who played parts of five seasons for the Mustangs and was their unquestioned starter for the past three. After playing out his eligibility he signed a pro contract with the East Coast Hockey League’s Gwinnett Gladiators before moving to the Central Hockey League’s Missouri Mavericks for 2014–15.

Set to replace Unice will be two familiar faces in last year’s backups Greg Dodds and Marc Nother.

Somewhat worrisome is that both have limited OUA starting experience. Nother hasn’t played a single minute of regular season hockey in his two years as a Mustang, and Dodds started just seven games last season, his first at Western.

However, Nother looked solid in preseason play and Dodds had stellar numbers last year – he went

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5–3 with a 2.18 goals-against-average and .929 save percentage. So while they may be inexperienced, it doesn’t necessarily mean there’s anything to panic about.

The entire defence will be back this year. David Corrente, Stephen Gaskin, Matt Herskovitz, Colin MacDonald, Alex Micallef and Matt Paltridge made up the top-six for the Mustangs last season and all

six return.

It’s up front where change will prove the most noticeable. Gone are Western’s top three scorers from last season – Matt Clarke, Daniel Erlich and Zach Harnden.

Erlich lead the entire nation in scoring with 50 points in 28 games in 2013–14, before leaving Western to play semi-professional hockey in Sweden – he now plays

for Mariestad BoIS in the third-tier “Hockeyettan” league. Harnden, who scored 56 goals in 80 career games as Mustang, graduated last year along with Clarke, who put up 82 points in just two seasons.

Luckily captain Steve Reese isn’t quite finished with OUA hockey and Kyle De Coste also returns. De Coste and Reese, along with the three aforementioned departures made

up Western’s top powerplay unit last season that scored at a 24.4 per cent efficiency rate. The five-man unit scored 27 of the teams 32 powerplay goals in 2013–14.

Which begs the question, can the powerplay – which has terrorized opponents the past two seasons – be lethal again? It’s likely secondary scoring threats Adam McKee, Matt Marantz and Stefan Salituro will have to step up and fill the void if that’s going to happen.

Western also lacks a true offensive defenceman who can quarterback a powerplay – probably why coach Clarke Singer went with five forwards most of the time. Paltridge is the team’s leader from the backend and led Western defencemen in scoring last season, but with just nine points in 26 games.

This team will be competitive again — it always is with Singer at the helm — but it’s doubtful they can continue to score roughly four goals per game — something they’ve pulled off the past two years, which means a third straight division title is in question.

But what Western has proven the past two seasons is that anything can happen in a best-of-three playoff series. Hopefully, this year the Mustangs are on the right side of it.

You can catch the Mustangs season opener this Friday at 7 p.m. at Thompson Arena against the Guelph Gryphons. Admission for all students is free.

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Mac delivers crushing 32–29 loss to ‘Stangs Phillip Benmore CHRW NEWS DIRECTOR @chrwnews

It was a disappointing day on the field for the Western Mustangs on Saturday, as they lost for the first time this season to their rivals the McMaster Marauders 32–29.

With the loss, the Mustangs fall to a record of 4–1 on the season. They now sit behind the Marauders who have climbed to the top of the division with a record of 6–0. McMaster is now the only undefeated team in the whole division.

The defensive and offensive lines had been preparing for weeks to face this ultimate test. In a season which for both teams has so far been a fairly easy stroll to the playoffs, both the Mustangs and the Marauders needed a win; not only to show that they were in total control of the league but that they were ready for the real test presented by the bigger, more ferocious teams from the other parts of the CIS. The game was seen as a likely preview of the Ontario Yates Cup final, which is set to take place in just a few weeks.

From the start it was clear that this was not going to be a repeat of the season’s previous contests where the speedy Western offence would be able to pick up yards early and maintain control of the gridiron.

This was going to be a game where every yard would be contested and every play would be difficult.

Despite this, the Mustangs left the first quarter with an 11–5 lead over their rivals, the product of quarterback Will Finch running the ball into the endzone on a long nineplay drive and two safeties.

The lead wouldn’t last long, however, as the Marauder’s quarterback Marshall Ferguson found receiver Daniel Vandervoort midway through the second quarter to take a 12–11 lead.

The Mustangs would regain the lead with two field goals from kicker Zach Medeiros, but they would fail to score another touchdown until late in the fourth quarter.

In practice during the week leading up to Saturday’s game, coach Marshall had the team focus on a new offensive strategy. It involved avoiding running the ball up the gut but to instead have Finch throw the ball to far sides of the field, thereby avoiding the traffic jam in the middle and making good use of receivers Marshall, Sanvido and Johnson who would be relied on to find gaps and rack up points.

Despite this, the McMaster defence was prepared. They managed to sack Finch six times throughout the contest — pressure that frustrated the Mustangs.

Meanwhile, the ‘Stangs were slow in getting to Ferguson, who was not sacked once.

With the Mustangs leading 22–15 in the third, Ferguson connected with rookie receiver Declan Cross to tie the game up, then took the lead on a field goal from kicker Tyler Crapigna.

The high point for the ‘Stangs came early in the fourth quarter.

From a pistol formation on the 30 yard line, Finch threw to receiver Shaquelle Johnson who ran the ball the last stretch of the field before cartwheeling around a hapless Marauder to give the Mustangs a four point lead, 29–24.

Johnson was a gamebreaker, in

Damon Burtt • GAZETTE

DOG PILE! Marauders and Mustangs mix in the endzone. Despite the ‘Stangs best efforts, they lost for the first time this season, leaving McMaster as the only undefeated team left in the OUA division at a record of 6–0, while the Mustangs fall to 4–1.

the contest, receiving seven passes for a total of 137 yards.

The packed crowd at TD stadium breathed a collective sigh as it appeared that Western might actually be able to pull this out.

But with 53 seconds remaining in the game a late drive from Mac saw Ferguson complete an 18-yard pass to Max Cameron. It gave the Marauders the final push they needed to break through and score

against Western’s exhausted back end.

And with that, the Mustangs received their first loss this year.

The Mustangs, usually a rushing powerhouse, failed to produce against the Marauder’s defence.

Tellingly, Finch was the top rusher in the game with a net 86 yards, though Yannick Harou put up good numbers with 73 net yards on 9 plays.

With the defeat, the Mustangs are

also at risk of losing their coveted spot as the top team in Ontario. Prior to the contest, Western was ranked third to McMaster’s fourth in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport rankings.

The next game for the purple and white is Thursday night against the Laurier Golden Hawks at TD Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

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How do you solve a problem like the International Olympic Committee?

That’s the question of the hour. The 2022 Winter Olympics are in a bit of a pickle. Last week, Oslo, Norway dropped their bid for the Olympics leaving only two options — Almaty, Kazakhstan and Beijing, China.

Oslo was the latest in a list of four cities that have dropped their bids for these Olympics. Most of these cities have cited the economic cost of hosting and have noted this has trickled into unpopularity amongst citizens.

The top two cities that could possibly host these Olympics have atrocious human rights records.

The choice is a really shitty one for the IOC because they really have no choice here. The Olympics are going to be awarded to a country that just doesn’t treat its citizens too responsibly.

Faced with these circumstances, you would suspect the IOC would step in and allow the bidding to reopen. That way they could recruit a competent city to host the Olympics (Vancouver, perhaps?) It seems like it could work out for the IOC if they suspended the rules slightly and allowed for some wiggle room.

But no! The IOC has refused to do that. They have confidently said that they will follow the rules that are set. The IOC is just being stupid. People are already dumping

on them for whoever their choice will be. Columns and other articles are chastising the IOC for not having a conducive environment for Olympic bidding. Moreover, many have noted that either of the two options will be a huge step backward for the Olympics.

Most commentators have said that Beijing is all but certain to be picked. When that happens, Beijing will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

That seems like an odd choice to get that designation, but so it goes.

After all, it’s not like the IOC could choose Almaty — let’s be real. Kazakhstan is the 37th most corrupt country in the world. That’s not exactly that type of government you want to give the Olympics too.

Also, they received the lowest possible score in 11 of the 14 metrics the OIC uses to measure bids.

This whole situation is really messed up yet simultaneously hilarious. We’re going to have to suffer through the 2022 Olympics knowing that the country they’re in systematically oppresses their citizens.

Even though this whole shit storm could be remedied pretty easily, the IOC basically just said, “nah.”

If the IOC were your friend and made a similar decision, you would probably snicker and then — with incredible gusto and sass — say, “bye Felicia.”

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