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Volume 106, issue 74

PAT’S A MIRACLE I think it came down to people believing in what we were talking about.

—Pat Whelan

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I just kept reminding myself, I’ve done a lot for Western while I’ve been here. I think the people that won deserve to be there.

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Property tax hovers at 1.2 per cent City council spent its third day chipping away at the proposed budget on Monday.

As of Tuesday, Londoners are expected to see their property tax reach 1.2 per cent—a slight increase from the last meeting where it sat at one per cent. The proposed rate has been slowly lowered from five per cent to one per cent, to where it sits now.

Harold Usher, Ward 8 councillor, remained hopeful of the target of zero per cent.

“We haven’t been able to find [the cuts] we need, or ways to reduce it as of yet, but the end does not come until the 28th of February,” he said.

Several projects have been deferred until 2014, including

building a family centre at Lorne Avenue Public School and investing in a 10-year, $60 million economic prosperity project.

Last year, $6.8 million was generated by city growth and the council voted for $1.8 million to go toward funding expanding services for the city, $2.5 million for debt reduction and the last $2.5 million for holddown taxes instead of economic development.

Usher, one of nine other councillors voting to put the money toward the tax base now, said, “I personally believe that we’ll find some additional money over the year for economic development.”

The end of the month is when Mayor Joe Fontana will hear final submissions from the public.

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Western wants Whelan Gloria Dickie Editor-in-Chief It was the equivalent of a photo finish Thursday afternoon in the Mustang Lounge, with Team Whelan beating Team Prabhu by 121 votes for University Students’ Council leadership.

Whelan and his teammates Amir Eftekharpour, vice-president external-elect, and Sam Krishnapillai, vice-president internal-elect, racked up 3,366 votes, equivalent to 43 per cent of the 7,843 presidential votes cast. Team Prabhu rang in with 3,245 and Team McGuire finished third with a modest 1,232 votes.

“I’m feeling really good—I’m feeling unbelievable,” Whelan said of his win. “I’m totally surprised this happened. We knew we had a long, hard road from the beginning of this campaign, and we tried a lot of different things. I think it came down to people believing in what we were talking about.”

Due to an unanticipated revote that moved election results to Thursday, Eftekharpour was absent from the winning ceremonies, having gone home to Winnipeg for the break.

Whelan conceded he knew the race would be super close, but “thought we had a fighting chance.

It was nowhere near a slam dunk.”

Whelan stated he believed his campaign structure ended up pushing his team over the edge.

“There was no massive

infrastructure—it was all about people telling their friends they were voting, and that’s what it all came down to for us,” Whelan said.

Despite a heart-wrenching finish in second place, Prabhu said he had a great two weeks and learned a lot.

“I have no regrets. Pat, Sam and Amir are going to do a great job.”

In light of her loss, McGuire promoted Whelan’s win as her second best-case scenario.

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I’m feeling really good—I’m feeling unbelievable.

—Pat Whelan

University Students’ Council president-elect

When asked her first reaction, she replied with “relief.”

“I’m very, very happy for them. I think the people that won deserve to be there. I don’t even know what else to say,” McGuire said.

While this year’s election had a slow start, Thursday morning saw Team Whelan handed eight demerit points for post-campaigning, with another 10 going to Team Prabhu just hours before the results.

Prabhu is now tied with 2004’s Kathy Robineau for having the most demerit points—20 in total—of any candidate in the past 12 years, and

Western releases new sustainability plan Lily Robinson Gazette Staff The time to consider our future is now.

The president’s advisory committee on environment and sustainability has begun to establish the role Western should strive to play. It is with the release of the report titled Creating a Sustainable Western Experience that Western will take an important step toward reducing its ecological footprint and reinforcing its position as an institution concerned with environmental sustainability.

Approved last week by the board of governors, this environmental strategy report aims to integrate means of sustainability in as many avenues of the campus experience as possible.

“There are a variety of different avenues through which we can pursue our goals. PACES is in the early stages of establishing a number of working groups who will focus on particular components of our plan,” Gitta Kulczycki, co-chair of PACES and vice-president of resources and operations at Western, said.

Although the report does not establish specific action plans, it lays out a detailed framework of what Western hopes to implement.

The intention, then, is for students and influential leaders to assist in actualizing the preliminary aims.

“The plan itself is a high level

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With all the controversy surrounding this year’s re-vote and demerits, Whelan is eager to start his term as president, with his two close friends by his side.

After nearly two-and-a-half weeks of campaigning, the 2013 USC elections have ended with a great deal of smiles, fist pumps and pats on the back.

‘call to action’—we know that by sharing in our community, what we want to accomplish and why its important, we can turn to the leaders in our community who can help us with how to do it,” Kulczycki explained.

Environmental consciousness at Western is anything but novel.

Preceding efforts to facilitate sustainability, such as environmental research and innovative recycling initiatives, laid the foundation for the ideas featured in this report.

Building upon these principles are 11 comprehensive goals that target the achievement of five- and 10-year outcomes. Goals within Creating a Sustainable Western Experience range from ensuring every student entering Western will have the opportunity to be exposed to the theory and practice of sustainability, to encouraging and pursing research that promotes sustainability efforts and knowledge at the local, regional and international levels.

Sustainability is rooted in the efforts of the collective, and as PACES hopes to illustrate by means of this report, can bloom upon recognition of the role we can all play.

“I invite every person in our Western community to help with his or her own actions—at the end of the day this is about each of us choosing to live and work sustainability,” Kulczycki concluded.

The full report can be found at www.sustainability.uwo.ca.

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Anti-bullying musical brought to London Sumedha Arya Arts & Life Editor

Bat Boy: The Musical has something for everyone. Bat Boy is a dark, satirical comedy that explores themes such as isolation, bullying and acceptance.

Local community theatre group Musical Theatre Productions, also known as MTP, is currently executing the production for the first time in London.

Director Garrett Rodman, who moved back to London in 2011 after being away for more than a decade, considers his role with Bat Boy to be his introduction to MTP, as well as the London community theatre scene. Rodman brings with him a wealth of expertise in production— he has worked at Vancouver Opera, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto and at Stratford. Currently, Rodman is the development officer at The Grand Theatre.

Due to his enthusiasm for Bat Boy, Rodman decided to take on a directing role to bring the production to London. He submitted his idea to MTP in April, and the group decided to include it in their season.

“I’ve seen four productions of Bat Boy before in different parts of the country. I’ve always enjoyed the production,” Rodman says of his continued interest. “I really wanted to be the first to do it in London.”

The story takes place in a small town in West Virginia, and Rodman describes the characters to be “white-trash, red-neck, small town folks.”

Within this setting, Rodman says the audience can expect a versatile set. Throughout the play, a large cave mouth will remain constant at the back of the stage, and a diverse variety of pieces will be moved on and off stage to change the scene.

“We were very strategic with our set. The cave keeps a constant beast theme, but there are a lot of scenes in the show—we needed things to be easily removed to keep them to pace,” Rodman explains.

More important is versatility in cast members. The average actor in this production has two to three roles, and the leads of Bat Boy and Shelley—Bat Boy’s love interest— both undergo substantial character transformations.

The character of Bat Boy, who is based on the fictional Bat Boy character of defunct tabloid Weekly World News, transitions from an isolated, feral creature to a member of society. “[Bat boy] starts off as a gollumesque creature living alone. As the play goes on, he becomes captured by the local townspeople, and he educates himself. He becomes more human,” says Adam Zess, the lead who plays Bat Boy. While the role of Bat Boy requires an accent and distinct physical changes, Zess says the hardest part of playing Bat Boy is tapping into the rage and displaced feelings his character feels.

“He can get to some points that he’s incredibly feral.”

On the other hand, Kate Deman describes her character, Shelley

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Parker, as a typical mean girl who begins to value appearance less and kindness more due to her interactions with Bat Boy. “Shelley is great to play because of that transformation,” Deman says. “She’s funny, down-to-earth and loving.”

For Deman, the greatest challenge playing her character is keeping a straight face during ridiculous, exaggerated situations—which Bat Boy is full of.

Both Zess and Deman bring significant theatre experience to their roles. Deman, a recent graduate of H.B. Beal Secondary School, has performed in productions of

Seussical the Musical, The Phantom of the Opera and White Christmas.

Zess’s interest in musical theatre started in high school, and he graduated from St. Clair College’s theatre performance program.

As of now, Zess has his own theatre company called The Voices Collective.

Zess and Deman have worked together in the past on MTP’s Seussical the Musical. Now, after having three music rehearsals in December and multiple rehearsals in January, the duo is ready to bring another musical to London.

Both summarize Bat Boy as an “anti-bullying, anti-musical” play.

The show delivers the message that judgment shouldn’t be based on appearances. Additionally, those with some familiarity with other musicals will find Bat Boy will continuously allude to—and make fun of—productions such as My Fair Lady, Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma! and more.

In the end, Bat Boy is a production that addresses isolation and acceptance—but it’s also a satire for a younger, musical-loving generation.

Bat Boy: The Musical debuted yesterday and will be playing at The Grand Theatre until February 23. Tickets are $25.

Madeon’s talent fills half-empty venue Ryan Hurlbut Opinions Editor Performance Openers Setlist Crowd Worth the $$

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When French electronic music prodigy Madeon took the stage last Thursday at the London Music Hall, the crowd responded with a tentative mixture of excitement and apprehension. At a 19-plus event, the sight of 18-year-old Madeon caused confusion—even more so because he looks about 14. Yet, when push came to shove, Madeon unleashed a performance the undersized crowd will not soon forget.

The true glory of attending a concert featuring a musician who specializes in mash-ups is no music is off limits. While Madeon paid particular attention to electro house, he didn’t hesitate to throw in some heavy dubstep drops and play the obligatory “Song 2” by Blur.

Despite his young age, Madeon mixes with the skill and professionalism of a seasoned veteran, and it should be exciting to watch his growth as a musician.

Madeon lacks signature tracks, but he did well at spreading out his recognizable ones evenly throughout the performance, and

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interacting with the audience at strategic drops. The lights worked well in accordance with the music, flashing at perfect moments and keeping the crowd engaged with the stage.

Even the greatest shows have their small follies, as Madeon decided the best use of his time was to trick and frustrate the crowd on multiple occasions—the most memorable was when he played the lead bit of a popular Justice song then dropped into a track that was completely unrelated.

As for the openers, they created a bitter spin on the otherwise stellar performance. A good opener

knows exactly what their job is—to psych up the crowd for the main event and let them play out the night. It seemed like the openers were executing this perfectly, as they psyched up the dance floor and crowded in the whole venue in anticipation of Madeon.

Then, without warning, after Madeon finished his set, the openers returned to the stage and continued the flow of music, proclaiming that the night was not yet over. The crowd stood in bewilderment—unsure of what to make of this turn of events. Eventually, some of the crowd began to dance, while the vast majority departed

the venue.

The crowd was atypical for an electronic show, throwing out a lot less elbows than expected. They got engaged with the show well before Madeon’s emergence from backstage and made a sparse London Music Hall crowd tremble and bounce with the beat.

Even with all the positives, the mid-20s price tag was a bit much, and may have been related to the substandard turnout. But overall, Madeon managed to make a halffilled venue seem like a fully filled one—and there was never a need to look away from the stage and survey the amount of people there.

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A strategic design for living life well Western grad helps spread life-changing ideas worldwide

Danning Huang Gazette Staff It’s mid-term season, and many students are starting to feel run-down.

Many might be pulling all-nighters and cutting down on mealtimes to study as they push through those final days before an exam. However, some may argue this is not a sustainable way to run the body.

Luckily, there is an existing program that can help people operate their body at an optimum level, both physically and emotionally. This program, called Life By Design, was cofounded by Rachelle Vanderheyden, a Western alumnus who graduated with a health sciences degree in 2002. This program—or process, rather, as Vanderheyden mentioned

herself—took an extended period of pain and misery to obtain.

After graduating from Western, Vanderheyden went on to study chiropractics for her master’s degree and PhD. Upon graduation in 2007, Vanderheyden found a desirable occupation and was ready to fully launch her career. It was at this time that she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. This was detrimental to her newly started career.

“At that time, I felt really scared and embarrassed. I wanted to be a leader in the profession, but it would sound like a joke if I had cancer and I stood up to teach people about health. It just wouldn’t make sense,” Vanderheyden reflects.

With fear and dampened ambition, Vanderheyden went through the normal routines of cancer treatment. Yet, all the tests conducted on her and people around her all contributed to one feeling—misery. It was at this time that Vanderheyden asked herself, “Is this how I’m going to live the rest of my life?”

With this wake-up call, Vanderheyden definitively said to herself, “This just has to stop. I’ve

had enough of this […] and I need to start taking care of myself.”

At that time, I felt really scared and embarrassed. I wanted to be a leader in the profession, but it would sound like a joke if I had cancer and I stood up to teach people about health. It just wouldn’t make sense.

—Rachelle Vanderheyden Co-founder of Life By Design

This was the time when Vanderheyden began to subconsciously devise the program for Life

By Design. With extensive reading, consultation with a few doctors and her own chiropractic knowledge, Vanderheyden was able to improve her physical health and

improve her self-esteem. Through this, Vanderheyden discovered the true philosophy to ultimate health.

“There are many things which the body needs, and many other that it does not,” Vanderheyden explains. “ So, what we [aim to] do, is give the body what it needs and take away all that it does not.”

With this philosophy in mind, Vanderheyden and three other chiropractors founded the Life By Design program.

There are four components to Life By Design— think, eat, move and power. Members may choose to attend a variety of group sessions, which give detailed explanations and action-oriented solutions to certain issues. For example, in “think by design,” there will be temper management techniques, and diet rules for “eat by design.” For each period, there are also checkups on

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Identity Thief steals audiences’ time GGFFF Identity Thief Director: Seth Gordon Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Bateman What’s in a name?

That’s one of the many questions Identity Thief asks quite bluntly as Sandy Bigelow Patterson (Jason Bateman) gets his name, which he insists is unisex, stolen.

Perhaps the least subtle identity thief in North America, Diana (Melissa McCarthy) calls Sandy up at work and tells him his identity was almost stolen and she’ll need his personal information to protect it in the future—and he complies.

Diana starts running up his credits cards, maligning his reputation at the same time. Eventually, he catches on and decides to retrieve her and bring her back home with him so she can confess and clear his name. As imagined, this doesn’t go as Sandy expected and Identity Thief becomes a road trip film.

The movie is simply not very funny. About midway through, all traces of clever dialogue begin to be shed in favour of physical “comedy.”

The heart of the film lies in McCarthy’s portrayal of Diana.

Introduced as a woman unhinged of social norms and unafraid to cheat the system if it benefits her, we soon learn there’s more behind her trashy, dowdy appearance. We see glimpses of her humane nature near the beginning, but it becomes ever apparent when she lures a man from a bar to her and Sandy’s shared motel room for sex.

When confronted with the reality of her thievery, Diana breaks down and McCarthy sells the scene brilliantly. She adds a third dimension to a character who could so easily be regulated to merely two.

Bateman also labours to make Identity Thief work, but his excellent work as a straight-laced man is poorly utilized. Throughout the film, both he and McCarthy are confined by the weakness of the script, filled to the brim with clichés. That’s perhaps the most saddening aspect of the film and truly makes its poor quality apparent.

The film’s stars are amazingly talented and have enough comedic prowess to make the mundane hilarious. It makes the audience question how weak the framing of this film is if even Bateman and McCarthy cannot make it work.

Ironically enough, Bateman means “to heal” and McCarthy means “fairy, a magical creature.”

Neither could heal nor work their magic, despite their incredible effort, to make Identity Thief work.

Instead, audiences are left wondering if, like Sandy’s identity in the film, their two hours of time have been stolen.

Believers, is back with more funk and horns than ever. Their musical fusion of indie folk-rock and afrofunk beat from their first album, The Things, has taken new direction in political protest.

Guelph multi-talented musician and songwriter Nathan Lawr wrote their single “Open the Doors,” about the G20 protest in Toronto. “Make Some Noise,” the second track on this CD, was written in support of the Quebec student protest.

Alongside the nine current members of the band, there are 18 musicians all together on this CD—all of them a part of the rhythm section, and it shows. The musicians drive the music to a political march, but

they also make it sound more like a celebratory strut, due to their funky beat.

The horns especially give the poetic lyrics a triumphant sound, but it’s hard to hear the actual political message. Due to time constraints with so many musicians, their liveoff-the-floor sound lacks clean editing, and the band’s declaration of rights, resistance and discontent with the government is sadly drowned out. Against this giant ensemble, the lyrics and vocals are diminished to merely background noise. Minotaurs’ second album, New Believers, is slightly disappointing, but then again most sequels are.

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members to monitor their progress.

Currently there are 20 Life By Design offices worldwide, and numerous examples of people who have successfully changed their life through this program.

When asked about Life By Design as her career, Vanderheyden asserts three things.

“I’m always happy, I love my life and I look forward to every day. I’m excited to come to work every day, because I’m doing something that I’m truly passionate about.”

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

—William Morris, English writer

Harlem shaking, Critical thought not but not moving a faculty guarantee What began as a single thrust has now become a phenomenon, spreading across YouTube and our very own campus.

Currently, the Harlem Shake video Western students completed in the University Community Centre has over 860,000 views—a figure that doesn’t account for the views of various residence-and-faculty specific spin-offs. But should we be shaking along with our Harlem brothers and sisters, or should we shake our heads at this baffling trend?

The videos are fun to watch, but what’s more fun is to watch the clever parodies of the Harlem Shake pop up over the Internet. While we commend the organizers of the main Western Shake for putting together a video so quickly, what does it say about our student body if students are mobilized more by the Harlem Shake than by, for example, the current University Students’ Council elections?

Students may not be as into the campus political scene as some would hope, but the Western Harlem Shake video doesn’t seem to be doing any harm. It might not help our ‘party school’ reputation, but with so many other universities and colleges across the continent replicating similar videos, one would be hard pressed to use this 30-second video as real evidence in proving Western is a degenerate school.

If anything, Western’s quick involvement in the viral trend displays our understanding of online communities, our innovation and our community development skills—okay, maybe not, but the video’s popularity is something the school can, in a strange way, take pride in.

What would make the Harlem Shake trend better would be if the craze could be directed towards some kind of good cause. The videos are fine as simple entertainment, but if you’re already mobilizing that many people, it would make sense to direct all that attention to something worthwhile. Picture it now, “Harlem for Hepatitis,” “Shaking for Shotgun Restrictions.”

Until someone harnesses the power of the Harlem Shake, we’ll have to make do with the Internet fad as is. The Gazette Editorial Board was going to talk about the Harlem Shake more, but then the bass dropped.

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Holmes is on the Case

Brent Holmes Arts & Life Editor

Since coming to university, I have been exposed to many unique ways of understanding the world. About the worst thing I have ever had to put up with in my entire university career— including public transit—has been people of any given program saying they somehow have the innate ability to critically think beyond the capacity of other university students in different faculties.

However, I believe that whether you’re in FIMS, arts and humanities, social science, science or business does not have any guarantee or influence your ability to engage critically with material.

Such arguments subscribing to the belief that because of your program you alone are capable of critical thought are flawed. Writing off another field’s ability to provide a different kind of insight into a topic is the epitome of not thinking critically.

Yet I have had to tolerate this defensive argument on an almost daily basis. It’s not just because I’m in English and film studies and am surrounded by people who are constantly self-conscious about their

career prospects—myself included.

We treat our programs and faculties like game consoles and fight over which one is the best in the same way a PlayStation user may argue an Xbox 360 is an inferior system. If arguing against other fields is the extent of what our critical thinking has allowed us to do, then all university comes down to is that Xbox rules and people who have PS3 are idiots.

The fact of the matter is being in a certain program doesn’t give you the ability to think critically—it gives you opportunities to learn. The reality that I see on a day-to-day basis is that people teach themselves the things their professors want them to say, or think, so they will get good grades. Being in a certain program doesn’t give our ideas more validity if we choose only to regurgitate what we learn from faculty members.

Truthfully, I’m just as guilty of doing this—just ask my co-editors about how I talk about film. I am probably the most pretentious person in the world when it comes to movies I think are bad or good, and I need to work on this attitude because the reality of our situation is that we are blessed with many ways to understand the world.

Whether through language or science, theoretical or practical thought, we have the opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of ideas that are unique and compelling. Treating one’s own program like it alone has a monopoly on critical thought is a waste of a university education.

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tweet of the week How do I get out of this trance that Wiz Khalifa’s suit just put me in? #Grammys

Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo (@Strombone1) feared vertigo while watching the Grammy’s Sunday night.

Rundown >> For the second straight week, the Mustangs men’s and women’s hockey, track and field, wrestling and swimming teams have been named into the Canadian Interuniversity Sport top 10 rankings. The highest rank the any of the teams hold is third—shared by the men’s hockey and men’s wrestling teams.

Lancers win joust against top-seeded ‘Stangs Cullen shines despite loss in first game since Christmas Andrew Evans Contributor It was not the way the Mustangs were hoping to end the Ontario University Athletics regular season, as the Windsor Lancers were able to walk into Thompson Arena and leave with a 3–2 victory Saturday.

The win was a much more convincing victory than the score let on, as the Mustangs were outplayed and outworked for the better part of the evening. Not only were the Lancers able to throw 43 shots on net, they also controlled possession and pace of play for much of the contest.

Interim head coach Pat Powers was not at all impressed with his team’s effort.

“I thought it was a terrible effort right from the drop of the puck. We maybe had three guys that acted like they actually wanted to win that game tonight […] and I’ve told our guys, we can’t have excuses and the last three games we have definitely had excuses. So hopefully things can turn around here, because it’s like they think they can turn it on and off at will,” Powers said.

After both teams took a handful of minor penalties in the opening four minutes of the first period, Zach Harden opened the scoring after taking a cross-ice feed in front of the Lancers’ net from Daniel Erlich.

The Mustangs would then get into a bit of penalty trouble throughout the opening frame, before Derek Lanoue of the Lancers knotted things up at one with a quick wrist shot from a tough angle just past the 16-minute mark of the

period.

A little over two minutes later, Dan Reaume would give the Lancers a 2–1 lead after walking in from the blue line and squeaking a wrist shot through the five-hole.

Adam Stoykewych would tie the game before the end of the period on a feed from Adam McKee and Shaun Furlong. However, after giving the Lancers four power plays in the opening period, it would be safe to say the Mustangs may have been feeling lucky to be tied heading to the first intermission.

Jason Furlong felt the string of penalties in the opening period wore on the team as the game progressed.

“When you’re taking that many penalties, it starts to wear on guys, especially when you only have five defencemen there for the second period,” Furlong said. “It’s no excuse, but you get tired after killing that many penalties, so we have to start being more disciplined and hopefully that way we can take the play to them.”

The Mustangs bench boss shared that sentiment.

“I think we had lazy minds coming in and that turns into lazy feet and we make poor choices. We’re not in the positions we need to be in on the ice, and then we try and recover but we can’t and we take a penalty,” Powers said.

Following a four-goal opening period, the middle frame went scoreless despite the Lancers’ refusal to give up possession of the puck.

The two teams would tighten up in the third period, as each side had their own chances and moments of possession, but neither team was

able to break the tie until the last seven minutes of regulation.

After Josh Graves and Julian Cimadamore received offsetting minor penalties for mixing it up in front of the Mustangs’ bench, it was Matt Beaudoin who would finally put the Lancers ahead for good with his 10th goal of the season from Kenny Bradford and Reaume, with just under 6:30 left to play in regulation.

While the Mustangs would press for the tying marker late in the period, it would prove to be too little too late, as the tying goal would elude the white and purple.

The lone bright spot for the Mustangs on the evening was the goaltending of John Cullen, who turned in a 40-save performance in his first start since before Christmas.

Powers was impressed with his backup net minder’s effort.

“I thought he played outstanding. He hasn’t played since before Christmas and he’s worked hard in practice and he came out and faced a lot of shots. He was the reason why we had a chance to win tonight,” Powers said.

Despite the loss, the Mustangs will head into the Western Conference playoffs as the number one seed, where they will face the UOIT Ridgebacks. The Ridgebacks were able to capture the eighth and final playoff spot with a 4­­–2 victory over the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday night. The Ridgebacks finished the regular season tied for the eighth spot with the Brock Badgers, but held the tie break in the standings for their victories over Brock in the regular season.

Playoffs are currently underway.

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Figure Skating The Mustangs figure skating team has made it three straight. Coming into the competition, the twotime defending Ontario University Athletics champions finished with five medals on the first day of competition—ending day one of the competition with 44 points—good for second place and 10 back of the host Queen’s Gaels. The Mustangs finished day one with three gold medals, one silver and one bronze.

Topping the podium for the Mustangs were Catherine McLean and Claire Daugulis in the Junior Similar Dance category, and Christine Liao in the Free Skate competition.

The silver was awarded to the Mustangs in the Pairs Four contest, and Alexandra Vaiay and Kendra Stirling took home bronze in the Similar Pairs event.

On day two, the Mustangs won three more events, while

adding three more silver medals. This earned them 100 points in total—ending their quest for another championship on a high note.

silver and four bronzes. Among the gold medal winners for the Mustangs were Scott Leitch in the 300 metre and Taylor Stewart in the long jump.

Track and Field

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The track and field team competed as a split squad, with half of the track and field team travelling to Geneva, Ohio, and the other half competed in the 24th Annual Windsor Team Challenge.

With a large portion of Mustangs featured in the Windsor Team Challenge, the team came away with positive results. The women’s side came away with a total of 14 top eight finishes, including two gold medal performances from Robin Bone and Jen Pitman in the pole vault and pentathlon respectively.

The men’s side topped the podium five times in total on the weekend and walked away with a total of 10 medals—including one

Both the men’s and women’s hockey teams begin their respective playoff runs this weekend. The men get set to face off against the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks, while the women will be taking on the University of Toronto Varsity Blues in their first round tilt.

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