Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Turning the page Upcoming show blends music, dance and poems of P.K. Page >> pg. 4

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WESTERN UNIVERSITY • CANADA’S ONLY DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER • FOUNDED 1906

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Beware of break-andenters Olivia Zollino NEWS EDITOR olivia@westerngazette.ca

Western students are being advised to be extra vigilant in the wake of an increasing amount of break-andenters in London.

Student residences are often targeted due to the assumption that this demographic owns vast amounts of electronic devices, including cellphones and laptops.

“Western students particularly do get targeted for break-ins,” Matt Helfand, president of the University Students’ Council said.

“There are a lot of people out there who view the return of students not necessarily in the economic benefit that we normally think of, but rather, as an opportunity for criminal activity,” Helfand said.

Criminals easily spot student residences due to alcohol bottles sitting in the window and things that identify the resident with Western.

“More than half of the breakand-enters in the Western student residential area are as a result of windows or doors being left open, or doors being left unlocked or the screen to a window being slit,” said constable Ken Steeves, media relations officer for the London Police Service.

Between September 1, 2013 and April 30, 2014, there were 918 residential break-and-enters in London. >> see BREAKING pg.3

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CFS supports BDS

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Review: Snowpiercer

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U2 invades iTunes

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Dear Life

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Men’s hockey wins

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Trudeau talks jobs, voting and student debt

Mike Laine • GAZETTE

EVERY SMILE IS ANOTHER VOTE. Justin Trudeau, the leader of the federal Liberal Party, spoke to The Gazette after giving a speech to a packed McKellar Room last Thursday.

Hamza Tariq and Amy O’Kruk NEWS EDITORS @uwogazette

Justin Trudeau, leader of the federal Liberal Party, was on Western’s campus last Thursday. His visit was part of a tour to a string of Ontario universities. He spoke to students in the McKellar Room in the UCC. Afterwards, The Gazette and CHRW got an opportunity to interview him.

The Gazette: What is your plan for helping students find jobs after they graduate?

Trudeau: That’s a systems plan — systems challenge.

We have to make sure first of all that people are accessing high quality education in ways that don’t leave them indebted, don’t leave them insecure that they might not be able to find jobs. We need to make sure that we are working with businesses to meet the needs that they have around them but we also have to have a vision

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LEADER OF THE FEDERAL LIBERAL PARTY

for where the advantages and where the growth parts of Canada’s economy are, I think everyone can understand that in terms of low-skill labour manufacturing is not going to be something in Canada’s future but high quality manufacturing, innovative solutions techniques, high end service jobs, those are the kind of things we have to be preparing people for. What that means is a view on education that goes beyond just getting people through and accredited but actually giving them the learning that is going to lead them to succeed.

Gazette: How are you going to motivate students to vote?

Trudeau: The fundamental challenge is making sure that students understand that voting is a meaningful way of changing the world.

>> see TRUDEAU pg.3

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thegazette • Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Caught on Camera

Damon Burtt GAZETTE

DO YOU EVEN WHEEL? Western students learn to build bridges and save lives, but “Don’t walk in the bike lane” isn’t a course currently offered here.

CROSSWORD By Eugene Sheffer

News Briefs

Terry Fox run a success

While most ran from the cold on Sunday morning, a number of students and community members ran for a cure at the annual Terry Fox run.

Approximately 1,000 attendants showed up on Sunday for the annual Terry Fox Run at Western.

“We were really satisfied with turnout,” said Madi Inman, charity committee coordinator for the run.

Students had a choice of doing a five or 10 kilometre run or walk, receiving promotional material at the end. While the charity committee isn’t prepared to release the total amount raised, Inman’s confident the amount is worthwhile.

“An incredible amount was raised in just over two weeks,” she said. “Because of all the students it

is something they should be really proud of.”

The total raised will be released in about two weeks, along with fundraising numbers for the Shinerama campaign.

Now completing her work, Inman had some advice for next year’s Terry Fox coordinators.

“If you can really target specific groups and people with a personal connection with cancer, it makes the run a lot more meaningful.”

The charity committee’s big focus this year was on streamlining registration and using social media as a way to get forms out earlier and create more awareness. All these were tools to help the overall mission, Inman said.

“This is all going to a better tomorrow and a cure for cancer.”

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This year, the University Students’ Council is attempting to create a safe environment for its undergraduate students during Homecoming weekend.

The USC will be hosting a variety of events on-campus and collaborating with London Police Service in establishing a protocol for any incidents.

According to Matt Helfand, USC president, the university, the USC and London police had a meeting to create communication strategies about Homecoming Weekend, to help plan these events and to have a dialogue that hasn’t necessarily happened in the past.

“Crowds fueled by alcohol can be dangerous, and so we’re trying to bring a party destination onto campus, where people can enjoy Homecoming but it can be under a more controlled environment,” Helfand said.

In the past, incidents including riots at Queen’s University and a

ticket given the Western cheerleading team have occurred during Homecoming.

The USC is working in partnership with London police to prevent incidents during the weekend and manage them effectively.

Representatives from the USC and London police will be canvassing tomorrow and Wednesday in student neighbourhoods to raise awareness about the importance of safety during Homecoming.

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Shockingly, tuition set to rise

Ask any physics student and they’ll tell you that what goes up must come down — but that’s evidently not the case for post-secondary tuition fees, which have almost tripled over the past 20 years and are projected to rise 13 per cent over the next four years.

According to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, in 2017-2018, tuition and compulsory fees in Ontario will cost students $9,483.

Although some provinces are attempting to make a post-secondary education more affordable with policies including a three per cent cap on tuition increases, universities are receiving inadequate provincial funding. This is why they are forced to charge extra fees, which are not regulated, according to the CCPA. According to Jen Carter, University Students’ Council vice-president external, “the only way we’re going to be able to remedy the situation is if the Ontario government steps in and realizes that it’s about time that we raise the per-student grant that Ontario gives to universities [which is] the lowest amount of money of any other province in Canada.”

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Clarification In “The Western Social Network,” published Friday, September 8, the sentence “For instance, earlier this week a student was allegedly contacted by Western administration because of an uncomplimentary Facebook post he made about the school’s tuition payment deadlines” should in fact have read “For instance, it was reported earlier this week by CHRW that a student was allegedly contacted by Western administration because of an uncomplimentary Facebook post he made about the school’s tuition payment deadlines” to reflect the fact that the original reporting was done by CHRW, not The Gazette.

The Gazette contacted Western for comment about the allegations but did not receive a reply in time for publication.

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2002 by Kings Features Syndicate, Inc.

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CFS Ontario supports boycott against Israel Amy O’Kruk NEWS EDITOR @AmyAtGazette

Western support online “Western 1010” provides one-on-one info Kevin Hurren NEWS EDITOR-AT-LARGE @KevinAtGazette

Hoping to ensure every first-year student is better aware of campus resources, the “Western 1010” program has been created.

Launched Friday, Western 1010 contains a set of units presenting information on an array of university-related topics.

Some units focus on services like the Student Development Center, Student Health Services and Campus Police. Others touch on broader issues of organization, writing help and wellness.

While first-year students were automatically enrolled in Western 1010 through WebCT, anyone at Western can access these units.

Dr. Kevin Wamsley, associate vice-president for the Faculty of Health Sciences in conjunction with academic counsellors from within the faculty of health sciences, had previously created a similar set of learning units for first-year students in Health Studies, Kinesiology and Nursing.

“Last year we introduced a mandatory set of seminars for all first year students,” Wamsley said. These took the form of hour-long tutorial presentations.

“As the year went on the other associate deans expressed interest in doing similar things in their faculties.”

The need for these kind of information sessions, explained Wamsley, grew out of feedback from the counsellors.

“We had all gotten together and

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ESTERN ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT TRYING TO HAVE THE BEST STUDENT EXPERIENCE – PART OF THAT IS SHOWING FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS THAT THIS SCHOOL IS LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR BEST INTERESTS.” KENT ROBINSON

UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC COORDINATOR FOR THE SCHOOL OF HEALTH STUDIES

talked with our associate dean, Kevin Wamsley, and worked through some issues,” said Kent Robinson, the undergraduate academic coordinator for Health Studies.

What counsellors like Robinson noticed was that a large portion of concerns brought to counselling offices were issues of ignorance — students not knowing where to find the right answers.

“I always say this to students: it’s not an issue of if you need help but when you need help – everybody goes through stressors in university and definitely in first year,” he said.

As such, vice-provost John Doerksen and associate vice-president student experience Angie Mandich decided to expand this program, creating a similarly structured module in the form of Western 1010.

The first unit in Western 1010 contains videos from Doerksen and Mandich introducing what is essentially an online class for university information.

Other early units include advice on contacting professors and staff, how to request a medical accommodation and steps to appeal a grade.

Six units are already online, but the program is scheduled to include 13 by the winter term.

These additional units will also include guidance on mental health and wellness, something that Robinson hopes will be a crucial support for not just first-year students.

“Everyone who we talked to at the senior level said they wished something like this had existed for them in first year,” he said.

In addition to engaging upperyear students, Robinson also sees the program integrated into regular curriculum.

“I think the goal is to make it mandatory for a first-year student’s process, no matter what faculty they are in, so that nobody in third and fourth year – as we often hear in counselling offices – can say ‘I didn’t know that’.”

But for Robinson, Western 1010 is about more than just putting the information out there. It’s a chance, he said, for the school to practice what they preach.

“Western always talks about trying to have the best student experience – part of that is showing first-year students that this school is looking out for their best interests.”

Another shocker: CFS suing a school trying to leave

A Quebec Court ordered the Canadian Federation of Students to hold the referendum that would allow McGill to leave the CFS. McGill’s Post-Graduate Student Union had previously filed a petition with CFS requesting the right to vote to leave the CFS, however CFS had refused to grant this right.

“The students followed all the criteria in CFS bylaws to trigger a vote,

Jobs needed for debt crisis >> TRUDEAU continued from pg.1

That’s what people don’t believe anymore — people think that there are no real solutions out there and politics is just a self-sustaining system that doesn’t have much of an impact on the real world and that’s why events like this where we actually talk about the way we need to tackle these issues in a way that is including people’s reflections, and thinking is a big part of it.

Gazette: Do you have any plans for dealing with the student debt crisis?

Trudeau: A big part of the debt crisis is the uncertainty that those debts are going to able to be paid off. Nobody will be as worried about going into debt if they knew that five years from now they would be more than able to pay off that debt. It is the idea of having a further drag, not just not being able to find a job

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News Briefs >> BRIEFS continued from pg.1

The Ontario branch of the Canadian Federation of Students passed a motion supporting the boycotts, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel at their last general meeting.

The motion was brought up on August 20 at the annual CFS Ontario general assembly and was put forth by the Ryerson students’ union and the York Federation of Students.

Besides endorsing the BDS movement, the emergency motion also condemned the Israeli military assault on Gaza, called for an arms embargo against Israel and encouraged the suspension of the CanadaIsrael free trade agreement.

Anna Goldfinch, the national executive representative of the CFS Ontario, said that an emphasis of the motion was condemning the bombings of two universities in Gaza.

“The motions adopted at these meetings go through a rigorous democratic process,” Goldfinch said. “Students have long been at the forefront of movements against wars and occupation and in support of peace […] that’s essentially what this motion was about.”

The CFS Ontario is made up of 37 member organizations across the province which together represents over 300,000 students. The motion boycotting Israel was unanimously passed by all the member locals present, including from Western’s

but CFS refused to hold the referendum,” said Jonathan Mooney, the president of PGSS from 2012-2014.

“We feel that if you look at the history of CFS for the past 45 years, students who want to leave CFS have to almost always involve lawyers.

McGill, Concordia […] University of Toronto are examples […] We feel that student bodies shouldn’t be wasting the students’ money on litigation fees,” he said. “When a judge actually looks at what CFS is doing, the judge will say that the students have a quasi constitutional right to dissociate from the CFS, which the CFS is infringing upon.”

“I think that they [PGSS] felt we’re not being fully represented by the CPS and decided to disaffiliate,” said Amina Moustaqim-Barrette, vice-president external affairs at the Students’ Society of McGill University.

Mooney said that the Graduate Student Union is grateful towards the courts for giving them the right to disassociate with CFS. “The issue here is the issue of freedom of association. We believe that students should be able to choose whether to associate or not with the CFS,” he said.

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Society of Graduate Students.

Adam Strub, president of Western’s Israel on campus, said that the motion seems to go against the CFS’s principals.

“The CFS has a mandate that they aim, ‘to provide a common framework within which students can communicate, exchange information, and share experience, skills and ideas,’” Strub said. “In adopting a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions initiative they contradict their own supposed values.”

Kevin Godbout, the president of SOGS, said that it’s up to individual member locals to decide how to enact different CFS Ontario campaigns.

“We’ve been focused on the orientation events so our executive hasn’t had a full discussion of how [the motion] relates to the SOGS context yet,” Godbout said. “It’s up to the individual member locals to decide what the campaign would look like on their campus.”

Godbout added that the students who attend the meetings are often involved in movements against wars and occupations and motions will be put forward that are critical of states that violate human rights, especially the right to education.

Strub stated that the CFS Ontario should not be involved in declaring political affiliations.

“A group that must respect the diversity of the student body should not promote divisiveness and exclusion.”

The USC has talked with LPS and is looking into creating a campaign to raise awareness about ways students can protect themselves from becoming victims.

Steeves recommended simple techniques to prevent theft that students often neglect, such as locking

but not being able to find a job and having a big debt sitting on your back and that’s where there is a number of things the government should be looking at — whether it’s a round repayments of schedules of loans tying into income, in the way Australia has done some interesting movements around that that can be profoundly reassuring. Also looking at how we create RESPs that will actually follow people throughout their lives, because the fact is yes students need support with education but people in their 30s and 40s who are changing jobs will need to go back and train and re-school certain things, especially given the pace of change around and being able to count on savings that will follow you your whole life to help you be lifelong learners are some of the solutions that we are looking at.

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your doors and windows.

Additionally, students should not only protect themselves, but remain attentive of their surroundings.

“What we suggest is always report any suspicious activity. We would rather investigate and find out that it’s nothing than it be ignored and find out later somebody had broken in and by the time we get notified, it’s way too late,” Steeves said.

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thegazette • Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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Dance project takes page from poetry Jennafer Freeman ARTS AND LIFE EDITOR @JennaAtGazette

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SHALL WE DANCE? Susanna Hood is caught up in mid-performance. The Muted Note, composed by Hood’s husband Scott Thompson, interprets the poetry of Canadian P.K. Page through music and dance.

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On September 21, The Muted Note, a poetry, music and dance project inspired by the poems of Canadian poet P.K. Page, will be performed at The Root Cellar. The performance is being presented by Sweet Magic London and is part of an extensive nine-province tour.

Scott Thompson is a Montreal composer who put the poems to music and also plays trombone during the performance. Dance artist and vocalist Susanna Hood accompanies Thomson.

“I wrote [the songs] specifically for Susanna Hood to sing,” says Thompson. “We perform them in different contexts. On this tour we’re performing them as a duo — just the two of us.”

Thompson explains that he and Hood met in the mid 2000s while they were living and working in Toronto as part of the field of creative music and dance.

“Now we are married,” says Thompson. “We got together in 2008 and we started working together shortly after we got together romantically.”

The Muted Note is different each time it’s performed because of the combination of elaborate composition and improvisation.

“The thing about Susanna is she’s an extraordinary singer, but she’s best known as a dance artist,” says Thompson. “So when we perform together to play these songs she will improvise on the song, both vocally and in dance, sometimes at the same time.”

This unique improvisation is actually one of Thompson’s favourite parts of the performance.

“The thing I like the best is the surprises that come out of new interpretations,” explains Thompson.

“We like to stay true to the nature of the material but to also elaborate on it, to animate it with improvisation, so that’s what I enjoy most about the performances.”

Although this improvisation

is what makes The Muted Note unique, Thompson explains that it is also very important to him that the poems are at the centre of the performance.

“The most difficult thing is to try to stay true to the poems,” Thompson admits. “In order to put poetry to music it takes a very careful touch to try to make them sing properly and not to obscure some of the thematic and rhythmic qualities of the poetry itself.”

Thompson explains that what sustains him in his work is that it’s a combination of work and play.

“If it’s only work it gets pretty dead pretty quickly,” he says. “If it’s only play it doesn’t have the real depth of material that I’m looking for.”

He believes that a balance between work and play can sustain anyone in any kind of work that they do, whether they’re a creative artist or otherwise.

“It gives life both a sense of purpose and also joy,” says Thompson.

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• 3/4 cup Unsweetened Cocoa • 1 1/2 cup Flour • 1 1/2 cup Sugar • 1 1/2 tsp Baking Soda • 3/4 tsp Baking Powder • 3/4 tsp Salt • 2 Eggs • 3/4 cup Water • 3/4 cup Buttermilk • 1 tsp Vanilla • 3 tbsp Oil *If you do not have any buttermilk you can make a replacement by removing 2 1/4 tsp of milk and replacing with vinegar then letting it sit for 5 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Farenheit. Line muffin tin with standard size paper liners. Sift together: cocoa, sugar, baking soda, flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Add eggs, water, buttermilk, oil and vanilla. Mix until batter is smooth. Divide the mixed batter among cups, filling each about two thirds full.

This recipe creates wonderfully fluffy and creamy cupcakes. They can be used in dozens of combinations with dozens of different fillings and icings including a chocolate ganache icing or a marshmallow filling.

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• 2/3 cup heavy whipping cream • 1 tbsp corn syrup In a small pot or saucepan bring cream to a boil. Remove from heat, add chocolate and let cool. Stir often until smooth. Add corn syrup for the glaze. Transfer to bowl and let cool.

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• 2 tbsp very hot water • 1/4 Tsp Salt • 7 oz marshmallow cream • 1/3 cup Icing Sugar • 1/2 tsp vanilla Dissolve salt in hot water and let cool. Whip marshmallow cream, butter, icing sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Then add water and whip again.

To fill with marshmallow filling use tip on icing bag, if an icing bag is unavailable cut out the central area of the cupcake and hollow with a spoon. Fill in gap with marshmallow cream, careful not to overfill.

For chocolate icing, warm ganache until soft and almost liquid. Place the top of cupcake in ganache and spin slightly to coat the top evenly.

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A chilling action thriller Bianca Andre CONTRIBUTOR GGGGF Director: Joon-ho Bong Starring: Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer Snowpiercer, directed by South Korean auteur Joon-ho Bong, is an adaptation of a French science-fiction graphic novel and set in a post-apocalyptic world where a botched attempt at controlling the Earth’s rising temperature results in a frozen planet with billions dead.

After a handful of survivors board a train called Snowpiercer, a class system develops leaving the poor “Tail Sectioners” in squalid conditions while the richer folk enjoy a utopian lifestyle at the front of the train. Sick of the way the “Tail Sectioners” are treated, Curtis (Chris Evans) is determined to make it to the front of the train and confront Wilford, the mysterious creator.

It’s hard to believe that a movie as good as Snowpiercer barely made it

to theatres, but considering how the film is gaining momentum through word-of-mouth, it’s a good thing it did. Despite a limited release, the film has pocketed $80 million US and counting, while also generating Oscar buzz. Producer Harvey Weinstein must regret almost preventing the film from being released in Canada and the US due to a disagreement over its length.

Along the journey to the front, Snowpiercer adopts the tropes of an action movie with violent scenes that teeter on overkill. Viewers will undoubtedly get tired of seeing people getting axed and/or stabbed to death. Yet the film’s impressive tackling of larger, philosophical themes makes the violence almost forgivable.

The best example comes moment after the Earth has frozen over. The camera cuts to a car ornament that dangles from the rear-view mirror of a frozen vehicle and reads “Save Our Planet.” Subtle moments of irony like this make the film intellectually stimulating.

Other themes that pop up are

Darwinism and Marxism, especially since social class is so integral to the movie. Perhaps the best example of this is from Mason (Tilda Swinton), the woman responsible for keeping order on the train. Swinton’s character provides a much-needed break from the bleakness of the Tail Section lifestyle with her autocratic yet humorous speech on order that involves an analogy between a hat and a shoe, where she delivers the best line from the movie: “Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe.”

The other actors perform just as well, from Jamie Bell’s foul-mouthed Edgar to Chris Evans’ portrayal of Curtis, a serious, gloomy character with a chilling backstory.

Overall, Snowpiercer is worth a watch. The film is sprinkled with dark humour and cinematography that effectively contrasts the world of the Tail Section with the opulent world of the Front. Its interesting political commentary will ensure viewers looking for a thought-provoking action movie aren’t given the cold shoulder.

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thegazette • Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Stuck in a moment U2 can’t get out of Holmes is on the Case Brent Holmes DEPUTY EDITOR @BrentAtGazette

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Bradley Metlin SPORTS EDITOR @BradAtGazette

The View has undergone a lot of changes over the summer; there was a “Red Wedding”-esque termination of the entire hosting panel, save Whoopi Goldberg. In addition, a new set was created and a fresh executive producer (from The Rachel Maddow Show) was hired.

When it was announced that Rosie O’Donnell was re-joining the program after her tumultuous season back in 2007, it raised a few eyebrows, including former co-host and O’Donnell sparring partner Elisabeth Hasselbeck. On Fox & Friends, she cautioned, “Whoopi is not going to let anyone control her; she is the leader on that show […] I don’t think it would be wise for Rosie O’Donnell to challenge Whoopi Goldberg on anything.”

The stage was set. Viewers were bracing for clash of the titans. Also sweetening the deal was the addition of Nicolle Wallace, communications director for George W. Bush.

Controversy was a-brewing. Also

added was actress Rosie Perez, a move that shocked many.

The first episode begins oddly.

Barbara Walters, who retired in May, gave the new hosting panel a blessing while wearing a crown. It was an awkward 60 seconds and everyone watching probably sighed collectively that it was a brief moment.

Décor for the new set is shown and it’s not entirely what would be expected. It seemed as though The View might have been hoping for a “harder news” angle this season but that’s not exactly what the set implies. A modernist living room doesn’t scream “intense debate!”

Who cares, though? Walter’s moment has ended so now it’s time for the “Hot Topics” segment that everyone knows is the center of controversy. Here it comes!

Just kidding! There’s this awkward introduction of every co-host that tells television audiences everywhere nothing new. Rosie O’Donnell had already made herself at home by this point, sitting on her chair in a curious Buddha position. This is her show so home girl is going to make herself comfortable.

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Conversationalist, the band’s

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Mixed by Gus Van Go (The Stills, Hollerado) Conversationalist embraces the concept of a thematically united album, reminiscent of Chris Walla’s approach to Death Cab for Cutie’s Narrow Stairs. Listen to this album from start to finish for maximum enjoyment. The first track, “Before We Were Animals,” a 58 second prelude, sets the tone for the ghostly adventure that lies ahead, a trek of unparalleled energy and haunting unison.

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Whoopi threw some major shade by saying, “The View has been copied but we are the original.” The folks at The Talk all just got verbally slapped.

The next hour continued and as everyone watching waited with baited breath for some disagreement or scandal — they were disappointed. Everyone seemed to agree with one another (yuck).

Nobody raised their voice or anything! This is not The View everyone was hoping for.

Maybe it was just first day nerves?

The View thrives on the idea of disagreement and intense discussions.

Moving forward, there needs to be some verbal brawling or else channels might start changing.

Last week, Apple’s latest announcements had U2 fans feeling like it was a “Beautiful Day” when the band dropped their new album, Songs of Innocence, on iTunes for free. But for some Apple users it was “Tuesday, Bloody Tuesday” as iTunes users found that the album had been automatically downloaded “With or Without” their consent.

U2 is by no means the “Original of the Species” when it comes to surprise album releases, but once again the band seems to be “Trying to Throw Their Arms Around the World.”

Undoubtedly, U2 is looking for some “Elevation” after their last album saw less than “Magnificent” sales. One would think that U2 would experience “Vertigo” after their 360 Tour had them raking in millions from “New York” to “California,” but their “Mysterious Ways” of promoting themselves has only gotten them “Bad” press.

People who object to having Bono croon in their ears have found themselves “Stuck in a Moment They Can’t Get Out Of” and while there may someday be “Peace on Earth,” there will never be peace on Twitter. Figuring out how to delete the album requires only a simple Google search, but if twits on Twitter have proved anything, it is that they will never “Walk On.” Many ignore the fact that the fault isn’t entirely U2’s. The album

was released to mobile devices via Apple’s iTunes in the Cloud. Let’s face it: figuring out how iCloud works is trickier than figuring out “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.” iCloud turns all of your music into “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” driving even this Apple user past the “Moment of Surrender.”

Apple has had users “Tripping Through Their Wires” whenever a new update comes out. “One” would wonder how they can be “So Cruel” since each update requires Apple users to become “Acrobats” to leap through inconvenient and annoying new designs — that’s not to mention the fact that Apple opened the “Window to the Skies” with the godawful iCloud.

But at the end of the day, we need to “Breathe” and accept this whole situation with some “Grace.” While “Some Days Are Better Than Others” for U2, they are still one of the best rock bands out there. Soon enough they’ll be “Running to Stand Still” with a new tour, turning every place they go into the “City of Blinding Lights” like they’re on some kind of “Miracle Drug.”

Apple users should just be happy that they did not get stuck with a free Justin Bieber or Miley Cyrus album — or any other current generation musician that makes the art of music look like bad “Stand Up Comedy.” Not everyone may like U2’s music, but their songs are “Songs for Someone” and they do in some small capacity hold me back from jumping into an active “Volcano” “When I Look at the World” and the state of contemporary music.

But as for the actual quality of U2’s new album itself, they still “Rattle and Hum” but let’s just say, “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”

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opinions Trying to park at Western

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

• Clark Kerr

Save a trip to the guidance counsellor Green Eggs and Hamza

Hamza Tariq NEWS EDITOR @HamzaAtGazette

First year goes by in a daze. The first eight months of your university life are packed with new experiences, friends and classes.

At end of the day, however, despite having a number of commitments, leadership roles and social events, we’re in school for a reason — to do well academically and then to find a career path.

It’s important to realize your academic niche. More often than not first-year students find themselves in programs they have no interest in. This takes a toll not only on their grades, but their self-confidence as well. It gets to the point where they no longer even enjoy what they’re studying.

Despite this, people continue on in modules they’re ill-suited for. The reasons students give me when I ask why on earth they would stick it out vary. Some students rationalize that maybe they didn’t work hard enough. Other students fall into the gambler’s fallacy, thinking that maybe next year is going to be the year they ace everything. Some are just too scared or uncomfortable to consider alternatives.

A big reason why students decide to pursue certain undergrad majors is because they think that’s the best possible route to professional schools like law or medicine, for example. I would advise all first-year students to reevaluate their choice and do more research if they made

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their decision based on this idea. Most medical and law schools in Canada often do not take into consideration what you studied in your undergrad, but how well you actually did in it. To state the obvious, if you’re passionate about something, you’re most likely going to do well in it.

Regardless, there is one thing almost all university students would agree on: one year into your post-secondary education often — though not always — changes your perspective on what you want to do in life.

You know you’re doing something wrong when you feel inhibited or limited in university. Academically, more than anything, the choices and possibilities are immense. Find philosophy interesting? Seek out a friend in a philosophy course and attend a class with them.

Think biology is something you could consider? Attend one of the many first or second classes alone. Don’t worry, as long as you’re not crashing any tutorials, first and second-year classes are usually enormous and no one will tell you to leave.

Another thing that people often fret over is how they would go about changing their programs or their majors. Trust me, it is not that difficult, especially if you figure out what you want to do sooner rather than later. Maybe you’ll have to take an extra course or two over the summer but it’s almost always doable.

So I tell you again: explore all the options you have at your disposal, especially in your undergrad years. You may not get a chance to study something you love again.

Your undergraduate years are a period where you have the most control and freedom in your life. So while exploring and doing what you want is a big part of your university life, it is also important you love what you’re doing inside the classroom.

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Gazette needs quality research RE: “The Western Social Network” Friday, September 12, 2014 To The Editor: I wanted to bring some factual errors to your attention in Friday’s article, “The Western Social Network.” In reference to the case of the Western student who was contacted about his Facebook status, that incident actually happened in August — not “earlier this week,” as the article stated.

As well, the article misrepresented the issue, leaving out important facts such as how it had been tweeted and tagged to Western, which was how it came to

the university’s attention. I’m honestly surprised that The Gazette didn’t look into verifying details for that case or the one about the internship. Quite simply, that is poor journalism. Considering that you didn’t include any other details about the cases, like the students’ names, ages or their programs, for all we know those stories could have been fabricated. The only reason I know at least one of them is true is because I interviewed one of the students for a story I did for CHRW. The Gazette has the potential to do amazing student journalism and has done so in the past. I urge its writers and editors to fully research all stories and not rely on word of mouth anecdotes before publishing them.

• Emily McWilliams Master of Arts in Journalism

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factattack Marcos Maidana has landed the most punches against Floyd Mayweather in their meeting on May 3, 2014 with 221 of 858 punches landed. On Saturday, Maidana only managed to connect 128 times. Mayweather won both times.

Rundown >> The Mustangs men’s soccer team lost 2–1 to Guelph Gryphons this Sunday afternoon > Gryphons’ center-mid Tim Flynn scored the tie-breaking goal in 90th minute.

Mustangs skate to victory against Rams Western’s men’s hockey team edge Ryerson 5-4 in close contest Jason Silverberg CONTRIBUTOR The Western Mustangs men’s hockey team defeated the Ryerson Rams 5–4 Friday night at Thompson Arena, in their first exhibition game of the season.

The Mustangs opened the scoring in the first period on a goal scored by Trent Ouellette, however Ryerson quickly answered back and began to take control of the game.

In the second period, with the game tied at one, Western began to play some sloppy hockey, as bad giveaways led to several odd man rushes for Ryerson. Mustangs goaltender Marc Nother was forced to make some spectacular saves in the period, but Ryerson still managed to score two goals, taking a 3–1 lead into the third period.

It was the Mustangs, however, who came out strong in the third period, scoring three straight goals to take a 4–3 lead.

Rams coach Graham Wise felt his team’s performance in the third wasn’t adequate.

[We] let the cat out of the bag and they got hungry and then they’re going to put some pucks behind you,” he said.

Ryerson did manage to tie the game late in the period though, on a goal from forward Michael Fine, which sent the game into overtime.

The first overtime solved nothing, but with a little over a minute left in the second overtime period, Stefan Salituro won it for the Mustangs with his second goal of the night. Salituro, now in his second year with the Mustangs, scored two goals while also contributing two assists.

“Once the legs loosened up and got going, I picked it up in the

second and third,” Salituro said. “It turned out to be a pretty good game for me.”

Despite the win, coach Clarke Singer thought his team didn’t play its best hockey.

“I think we worked hard, I think we competed hard, but I thought we were sloppy in a lot of areas,” he said.

“A lot of missed passes, a lot of things we didn’t execute as we wanted, as you can sort of tell by the power play situations.”

The Mustangs received a lot of power play time in the game, but were only able to capitalize once in the third period. Ryerson was assessed two five-minute majors in the game, both resulting in player ejections. The first Ryerson player to be ejected was forward Victor Terreri for his hit on Matt Herskovitz, which came less than five minutes into the second period. The second five- minute major came in the first overtime period, handed out to to Ryerson forward Stephen Midensky for his hit on Mustangs winger Noah Schwartz.

“They’re calling the game close today,” coach Wise said. “If you hit a guy hard and his head hits the boards [...] they’re going to call it.

So you have to learn from it.”

Although Schwartz was down on the ice after the hit, he was able to skate off under his own power, and Herskovitz stayed in the game as well.

This season the Mustangs will be without three key players from last year’s team, as goaltender Josh Unice, and forwards Matt Clarke, Daniel Erlich and Zach Harnden are no longer with the team.

“Players come and players go,” said Singer, “That’s the nature of university sport, university hockey […] those are obviously some good

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players that have graduated, but our hope is that we can continue to build with the group we have and we’ll replace those guys from within.”

With Unice gone, it appears that goaltenders Marc Nother and Greg Dodds will fill the void for the Mustangs, but it’s not clear who the starter will be.

“Both Mark and Greg have worked very, very hard, and are both very good goaltenders, but to say when it comes playoff time who is going to be the starting goalie, that’s

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THINK WE WORKED HARD, I THINK WE COMPETED HARD, BUT I THOUGHT WE WERE SLOPPY IN A LOT OF AREAS. CLARKE SINGER

MUSTANG’S HEAD COACH

very tough to say right now,” coach Singer said.

It appears that goaltender Peter Delmas, a new recruit who spent last season in the professional East Coast Hockey League, will not play this season. He is prohibited from suiting up in a CIS game for one year after his last professional appearance, which came last December.

The Mustangs will look to improve on this game when they take on the Guelph Gryphons Friday night, in their second exhibition game of the season.

Two Mustangs Crack CFL’s Top Prospects The Canadian Football League Scouting Bureau released its September list of top-20 prospects for next year’s CFL draft, and two Mustangs have cracked the list.

Defensive lineman Daryl Waud comes in at number five. His impressive ranking comes as a surprise to few, as he was listed as one of the most intriguing prospects at last May’s East-West Bowl. Justin Dunk, a writer for CFL.ca and Sportsnet reporter, listed Waud as his topranked CIS player to watch for next year’s draft.

Waud is a two-time first-team OUA all-star, and one-time CIS first-team all-canadian who will be leading the Mustangs defense all season long. The past two seasons the Hamilton native compiled 53 total tackles, 37 solo tackles, 32 assists on tackles and three sacks.

In two games so far this year he has four total tackles and two sacks.

Also cracking the list — and

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Rory Connop

Daryl Waud

just barely, at number 20 — is defensive lineman Rory Connop.

The Edmonton native joined the Mustangs from Boise State, and played in every game for Western in 2013­–14, recording 21.5 total tackles, 15 solo tackles, 13 assists on tackles and 3 sacks.

Western is one of just five schools to have more than one player

represented on the list. Laval and Calgary have three each, and Regina and Laurier have two each.

The CFL’s Scouting Bureau is made up of CFL scouts, player personnel directors and general managers from all nine teams. Rankings are released three times a year, in September, January and April.

• Nathan Kanter

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Mustangs victorious in tennis season opener Robert Nanni SPORTS EDITOR @RobertAtGazette

Western’s women’s tennis team took on both the McMaster Marauders and Waterloo Warriors this past weekend in a two-day season opener, walking away with two 7–0 wins.

The general atmosphere for both games involved a slow and steady start, ultimately transitioning into a tennis-playing powerhouse. The Mustangs walked out of each weekend game having won both the singles and doubles matches.

“It was nice to face Mac as our first game, since they’re kind of a middle-of-the-pack school,” said Maciek Gebczynski, assistant coach for the Mustangs’ women’s tennis team. “It let us get some rust off, and get our match experience in before we come and tackle some of the tougher teams.”

Although the Warriors put up a bit more fight than the Marauders, they were still no match for the Mustangs. Waterloo was expected to give Western a bit of a harder time but the team was still confident they would maintain their win streak.

“I am happy to see that it is a little bit of a tougher match today: it gives us a little more experience, a little bit more resolve,” Gebczynski shared.

“Easy games don’t teach you anything, whereas tougher matches teach you a little bit more and that’s what we’re here for.”

However, the tougher school had nothing on the Mustangs. The team has so far been relying on an offcourt fitness program to keep them in shape, along with returning team captain Michelle Stanescu.

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ASY GAMES DON’T TEACH YOU ANYTHING, WHEREAS TOUGHER MATCHES TEACH YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE HERE FOR. MACIEK GEBCZYNSKI

MUSTANGS’ ASSISTANT COACH

Despite a few veterans on the team, newly acquired Taylor Brewster is the team’s number one starter.

“I used to play in university down in Florida about three to threeand-a-half years ago,” Brewster explained.

The Mustangs won across all the courts, starting the year off with a strong team atmosphere. Brewster projects a good-looking season, claiming that — with a bit more practice — she foresees the team having an impressive year.

And what better way to practice than to play games against opposing teams?

“You can practice all you want,

Sports coverage needs more variety World of Raycraft

Richard Raycraft MANAGING EDITOR @RichAtGazette

I’ve been at The Gazette for most of my undergrad, and I’ve loved it so much that now I’m even here post-graduation. I spent a year as a sports editor, and now, as managing editor, I oversee the sports section.

While I’m new to this job, having worked as a sports reporter and as manager of sports’ content has given me a unique perspective into the issues facing the section.

Can you guess what our most common complaint is? It isn’t about the quality of our reporting or our copy editing. Heck, it’s not even that we occasionally get basic facts wrong about the sports we cover. It’s that we too often cover the “main” sports, the “big” sports — whatever you want to call them. Football, hockey and basketball all get their due coverage, we are told, but squash, rowing and figure skating — just to throw out a few examples — are never seen gracing the back pages of The Gazette. Though we’ve made attempts to address this in the past, this criticism has persisted for as long as I’ve been here.

The depressing fact about our most glaring flaw is that we’d love to cover such sports, and we agree that it’s a problem that certain teams remain neglected even when they climb to the top of their respective leagues.

This year, we in sports would like to make a sincere effort to change this, once and for all. But we need your help. The Western Mustangs website, where we receive a lot of our information, updates and data, does not carry extensive information on all sports.

In addition, sports, at three student editors and only a handful of volunteers, has a relatively small staff for a daily paper. They’re pretty busy people, but they check their emails, so I’ll leave you with this; if your sport has a big game, tournament or event coming up, shoot sports@westerngazette.ca a notice, and we’ll do our best to get it in the paper. Depending on the sport, we may need help organizing people to contact, getting to the event, or getting photos for it, but I assure you we’ll do our best to make sure it gets into the paper.

As a daily paper, we’re typically scrambling for content, so we’d be happy to hear from you and diversify our sports content. Your athletes too who work just as hard as the athletes who receive more steady coverage, and we want to recognize that. Together, we can make Gazette sports better.

but you need to play matches and play points,” Brewster said. “You can know how to hit a ball as well as you can, but at the end of the day you need to learn how to win a point, and matches are the only way to do that.”

Yet Gebczynski believes that, while that is wholly true, there is a little more to it.

“It’s all about finding the rhythm: the girls aren’t used to playing two matches in a row, so we’re seeing a few more strains and aches and pains than would be preferred,” he shared. “Practice is one thing, but playing a two-set match plus a doubles match definitely gets the body a little sore.”

Seen after the game sporting an ice pack on her wrist, Brewster claims that she will be fine after a few days – and appropriately so, as the Mustangs have three crucial games next weekend.

Facing York, Montreal and Toronto next weekend, followed by McGill the next weekend, these girls have some large obstacles in their near future. York seems to be the team to beat, since they beat McGill, who subsequently beat Toronto.

Although the team is confident in their abilities, they recognize what they are up against.

“It’s nice to get a bit of match play against mid-range teams under our belts before we come up against the high-end schools,” Gebczynski said.

Brewster agreed.

“They’ll probably be our hardest teams to play.”

She ensures Western that the Mustangs will be prepared for whatever those teams hit them with, as they have gotten incomparable experience over these two days.

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