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USC prez debates round 1: “Zzzzzzzzzzzz”

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE. The two presidential slates faced off in the campaign’s first debate Wednesday night. From left, Team Belman: Steven Wright, Brian Belman and Alex Benac, and Team Helfand: Emily Addison, Matt Helfand and Jen Carter.

Richard Raycraft NEWS EDITOR Taking a seat on the main stage in the Mustang Lounge, the two presidential candidates and their slates met for the first debate of the campaign. Though the debate primarily focused on the vice-presidential candidates, it ended with a full slate portion, pitting Team Belman and Team Helfand against each other directly for the first time.

The debate kicked off with the VP external candidates squaring off, fielding questions submitted by the audience. The debate got off to a slow start, as a majority of the questions focused on the VP external’s traditional involvement with the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance.

While Steven Wright, vice-president external candidate for Team Belman, made it clear that he would be a dedicated provincial and federal advocate, Team Helfand vice-president external candidate Jen Carter was more cautious about accepting a role on OUSA, saying she’d consult with students. When asked how much time he would spend out of the office if elected OUSA president, Wright said around 40 per cent, a number Carter criticized.

“For me, you can’t deny that OUSA is a very valuable organization to the USC, and having leadership

on it is very valuable to the USC,” Wright commented. “You just have to look at the results that OUSA has gotten with USC leadership.

Everything that OUSA has done, all of the advocacy points that they’ve accomplished has been done under Western leadership, and I think that’s the way to go.”

Carter was not available for comment after the debate. She was feeling unwell, according to campaign manager Daniel Bain.

“I think that there’s no better indicator of the fact that we need to reconsider our perpetual leadership role in OUSA, than the fact that it highjacked 60 per cent of our VP external debate,” Helfand said.

“There are other issues to deal with, and I think it’s patently absurd.”

Alex Benac, vice-president internal candidate on the Belman slate, said he was pleased with the first debate.

“I think it went really well,” he said. “At the end of the day we’re here to talk about the issues and that’s exactly what we did.”

Wright agreed.

“For the most part I think it went pretty well — there was some first-debate jitters and that’s to be expected, but it was great to get up in front of the audience to really have some lively debate with the other team,” he commented.

A debate between the VP internal

candidates followed. Benac and Emily Addison spent most of their time agreeing, focusing on improving services and advocacy on campus.

“In terms of vision, we’re all in this race because we want what’s best for students,” Benac said.

“What it comes down to at the end of the day is advocating for a better quality of life for all students.”

The two candidates also gave examples of their qualifications for the job. Benac offered his experience in the portfolio, while Addison highlighted her advocacy experience.

“In terms of what I bring to the portfolio, it’s internal perspective and it’s experience,” Benac said. “I have had an opportunity to work with Sam [Krishnapillai, vice-president internal] closely over the past few months, and I have a really good understanding of the conversations that are happening at a high level in the administration.”

“I really think the biggest advantage I have over Alex is my direct experience with advocacy,” Addison said. “Coming from being Huron president I’ve learned and understand what it’s like to talk with high-level administrators, and how to have that conversation about important issues for students.”

The second debate will take place next Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Mustang Lounge.

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Engineering concrete sleds Western hosts annual tobogganing race

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Kelly Samuel GAZETTE

SAY SCHNITZEL. If you happened to get a glimpse of several students running around dressed up as walking bananas, cowboys, cross-dressing-belly-dancers or a risqué lederhosen costume, you were looking at Engineering students from across Canada (and a few from Michigan). There was a campus-wide scavenger hunt yesterday, part of the activities leading up to The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race.

Katie Lear GAZETTE STAFF The UCC was host to a group of eccentrically-clad engineers yesterday afternoon as part of the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race.

Roughly 450 students from across Canada and the United States came to participate in the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race, with the entire event running from January 29 – February 2. Yesterday, the students unwound with a scavenger hunt that had them running across campus among other activities such as

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visiting Fleetway and a pep rally in the University Community Centre.

One of the participants, Pierre Harfouche, is an engineering student from the University of Toronto.

“So imagine a toboggan — five people get on, you go down a hill.

We’re going down Boler mountain on a black diamond, so we go down a [black diamond] hill and we’ve gotta stop. That’s a challenge to build something that will support five people, and can be safe, obviously,” he commented.

The race is a student-run engineering competition originally founded by the Alberta chapter of the American Concrete Institute, and is hosted by a Canadian university annually every winter. The competition challenges teams to construct a toboggan with a running surface made out of concrete.

According to the event’s website detailing the rules of the competition, “The toboggan must weigh no more than 300 lbs (136 kg) in its unloaded racing configuration […]

The toboggan must be able to safely and comfortably accommodate five riders,” and “The toboggan’s running surface must be comprised of concrete,” along with other specifications.

Western’s team is defending three titles from 2013, including The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Cup and the prize for building the most sustainable

concrete toboggan.

“So the actual sleds are judged on both the technical aspects of the sled and as well as the performance, so the technical aspects we’re leaving to a panel of industry judges and technical professors that we have gathered from the university and the local industry,” commented Matt Johnson, a member of the GNCTR Organizing Committee. “[And] now that they’re here, they will be giving a visual presentation to all of the technical judges following the technical presentation and the technical sort of awards or marks are gathered at that stage and then we focus on the actual performance,” he continued.

“So you get ranked on your speed, your braking distance, and then your maneuverability as far as some steering awards, so there’s definitely a lot of points that are achievable […] practical awards I guess to achieve or aspire to even,” he said. “They’re not directly correlated to your technical winnings, so you have that all packaged together at the end of the day is how we come up with the overall champion.”

Both the technical exhibition and the race itself are open to the public. The exhibition is today from 12–4 p.m. at the Hilton Grand Ballroom, and the race is tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Boler Mountain.

News Briefs

A new approach to student debt Most university students develop giant headaches every year when a huge chunk of savings or a giant loan is taken out to pay the annual tuition. An apparent solution was suggested in Rhode Island as a new bill was passed where the students can sign a contract to forgo a percentage of their future gross earnings in exchange for no immediate tuition fees.

The program, known by the name “Pay it forward, pay it back,” is based on a similar higher education financing program implemented in Oregon. The initiative is created for higher education to be more affordable and close the skill gap required

in the job market.

The Department of Education in Rhode Island is considering the areas of study this program will target in an attempt to fill the holes in the job fields that are required in the local economy.

“The program will work if it is implemented correctly,” said Amir Eftekarpour, vice-president external at the University Students’ Council.

“The computer science program was promoted by a similar program until the ‘dot com’ bubble crashed in early 2000.”

The legislation will direct the Department of Education to create the three-year pilot beginning in June, 2015.

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Gazette turns up the heat on prez candidates The Gazette’s news editors sat down with University Students’ Council presidential candidates Matt Helfand and Brian Belman yesterday. The following is an abridged version of the interviews. Look for full-length videos of the interviews this weekend on westerngazette.ca.

THE GAZETTE: What’s

one thing you would have changed from this year’s USC executive?

MATT HELFAND: I think the program-

ming broadly — and by programming I mean the entertaining concerts and speakers — there’s been a real lack of diversity in these things […] Instead of having the programming budget located directly under the USC executive, who are not expert planners and are busy being politicians, we relocate that to our productions manager and our productions team who are very, very talented experts at putting on concerts. We give them broad parameters of the sort of things we want and we will be able to see more entertaining and academic and creative fun stuff that we haven’t seen in the last two years.

Can you explain your position on the USC’s use of technology as a means of engagement? How do you plan to engage students?

G:

H: When we take broad problems, such as student apathy or lack of communication, and say we can solve that with an app or we can solve that with a new webpage, I do not buy these sorts of arguments. […] And I just don’t like the idea of what I referred to in the debate as techno-utopianism, which is essentially the reliance on technology to make everything better. We can use it as a tool but it cannot be our primary mode, and this is why it’s not necessarily of the highest priority to me.

G: What is the role of The Gazette?

H: The first role is that it’s an experi-

ence builder for students. So students who want to write in to The Gazette, they can do that. I wrote for The Gazette this year — I wrote a review for a Margaret Atwood book I read. That was really cool. I got to show my mom — she loved it. […] Number two, it also provides

an enhancement of the overall Western experience in the sense that when you’re a student athlete or you’re someone doing something on campus and The Gazette is there daily reporting about you, this is a really, really good thing. And the last thing’s obviously intrinsically it’s a medium of information, and you can read something and it’s entertaining so it’s a consumer item.

promote the event doesn’t know about the event far enough in advance, they can’t possibly have a proper strategy in place. That’s just one example — making sure the communication between the USC, between all the volunteers, between the councillors, clubs, and anyone in between, making sure that those lines of communication aren’t forgotten about.

G: The USC and the university web-

THE GAZETTE:

What is something you would have changed from this year’s executive?

sites are notoriously cumbersome and confusing. How does adding more websites fix this?

BRIAN BELMAN: What I would change

B: It’s one of my biggest concerns right now, is that half the time I don’t know where to go to find the information I need, especially when I’m looking for a class. I have one tab open with the Academic Calendar, another with past syllabuses [sic], and another with the

is communication. One of the biggest problems with the USC is no one else knows what’s going on within the USC and I think that causes a lot of the other problems that we see with the USC. When events aren’t getting promoted properly, it’s not just a problem with the promotion strategy, it’s also a problem with the coordination between the person who’s planning the event and the person who’s supposed to promote the event.

If the person who is supposed to

ratings of the course from Western.

I think just having one place to have a lot of this information and would directly link you to the source of the information as well, would just make it a lot easier for students find what they need.

G: What is the value of The Gazette?

I think The Gazette is really the way the USC is kept in check.

Students I think also have a responsibility to make sure the student government is doing what they should be doing, but The Gazette is a great way. As The Gazette reports on what the USC is doing, it disseminates that information to students, it makes sure that the USC can’t get away with just passing things without anyone knowing so it’s a great tool for all news on campus, including USC news for students.

B:

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USC avoids raising base fee Budget targets health, clubs and ticket sales

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Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR The University Students’ Council’s proposed budget for 2014-15 plans to prevent a base fee increase by increasing user fees in the specific services of the health plan, the clubs system, and Western Connections.

According to Spencer Brown, vice-president finance for the USC, increasing revenue is the only way to prevent a base fee increase. The base fee makes up $77.46 out of the $661.33 total that students pay to the USC, and is not tied to specific services, unlike the rest of the total.

“We are running at full capacity with a skeleton staff,” Brown said.

“We’ve had to force vacation on our employees, there’s longer waiting times. There’s no space to book anything, especially in the Mustang Lounge and in the atrium.”

He said there was no place to cut within the services the USC currently provides, so increasing revenues was the only way to maintain service levels.

Brown plans to target certain groups of students who use certain services to pay more for those

services, instead of forcing all undergraduate students to pay a higher student fee when they may or may not use the USC’s services.

Last year when the USC introduced the dental plan along with the health plan, Western’s administration charge for the plan nearly doubled. Currently, the health and dental plans cost $108,000 to run, but the 22,000 students who are on it only pay $33,000 of the cost.

“If I opt out, I’m getting no benefit from the health and dental plan but I’m still paying towards it for it to be administered. I think it just makes sense for the people on it to pay for it,” Brown said.

Though Brown wants to keep the increase minimal, he thinks students on the plan should pay more of the cost.

Next, Brown thought students who participate in clubs needed to contribute more towards the operation of the clubs system. His conservative estimate of the cost to run the club system was $275,000.

Currently, the USC collects $1.25 per club sign-up. But this only covers 7 per cent of the cost to run the clubs system. The other 93 per cent

of the cost is covered by the USC’s base fee, which all students must pay. Brown questioned whether the entire community should be paying that much, and proposed another user fee of about a dollar be introduced to the clubs system.

The third area Brown thought student users could contribute financially to was at Western Connections.

Western Connections allows any group on campus to sell tickets for their event at a centrally located booth in the University Community Centre. Brown thought a user or administration fee to be paid either by the buyer or seller — similar to services like Ticketmaster — could help increase revenues.

“When we’re thinking about service-based budgets and essential and non-essential services we saw that this is a non-essential service,” Brown said.

He questioned whether all of the approximately 30,000 undergraduate students should be subsidizing this service when only those buying and selling tickets are using it.

The USC budget will be debated by council in March.

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 You are inspired to take on the world, but you may A friend may shock you by doing something really outwant to focus on smaller goals this week. Finishing rageous. You do not know what to make of this change a long-lingering work project is a viable option. in personality, but do your best to take it in stride.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Something does not seem to be falling into place.

Take stock of things at home and at work to see if you can crack this nut. A little more investigation many be necessary.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Work figures to put a lot on your plate in the coming week. You can handle everything that comes your way, so long as you keep your cool and continue to work hard.

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CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 You have so much to do now that your mind may be in a complete jumble. Others will come at you with questions, but take a deep breath and answer them one at a time.

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Arts&Life

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Mediating one’s mental well-being WHERE

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Plaid Jacket — Topman Perfect for a variety of apparel, D’souza bought this cozy-looking and stylish jacket from this legendary English outfitter.

Flannel shirt— Eddie Bauer Undoubtedly one of the best sources for high-quality flannel, Eddie Bauer will likely stock any pattern of plaid you could want.

Jeans — Levi’s 510s For those who like the skinny fit, it’s hard to beat the quintessential skinny jeans made by Levi’s. For those looking for a more relaxed fit, try the 511s.

Socks — American Eagle You can pretty much buy socks like these anywhere, but D’souza picked his up from American Eagle. It’s not just for highschoolers!

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ike the biologist,” Darwin D’souza introduces himself with a smile.

Clad in a burgundy toque, plaid jacket over a thick flannel shirt, fitted jeans and leather ankle boots, D’souza is the poster boy for rustic-chic.

Despite sporting a look as appropriate to a log cabin as a university, D’souza claims that campus culture is his biggest fashion inspiration.

“I see people walking around all the time, and I just get different ideas,” he says. “I don’t look at blogs or read GQ, but I see ads

Boots — Jack & Jones Another legendary outfitter, D’souza sourced his dark brown ankle boots from this classic clothier. You can buy your shoes and a matching outfit — ahem — to boot!

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and commercials and I just mix it up. I just wear what everyone’s not wearing.”

For D’souza, the most important aspect of fashion is dressing confidently and wearing clothing that expresses personality, rather than a passing trend.

He recommends that for those looking to emulate his style, to find inspiration from their surroundings, and wear their clothing as confidently as possible, no matter how they choose to dress.

“Find inspiration wherever you go. I feel confident in this, so whatever makes you feel confident. As

long as you are comfortable, confident and believe that you look good in what you are wearing, everyone else will believe it too,” D’souza explains. “You can wear anything.

You can pull anything off as long as you walk with that swagger.”

As for what to avoid, D’souza suggests avoiding stereotypical Western trends, instead using fashion as a means of personal expression.

“Don’t wear Goose jackets, don’t wear Ugg boots. Don’t do what everyone else is doing,” he says.

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Jennafer Freeman GAZETTE STAFF It is evident that meditation is becoming an increasingly popular activity at Western. However, it appears that this new hobby has the potential to serve as more than just a leisure activity; there may be psychological benefits as well.

Mindfulness is a form of meditation advocated by Buddhism. It can be defined as deliberately paying attention to your experience, in the present moment, without judgment or criticism. Mindfulness teaches people to think about their feelings, realize that uncomfortable feelings will come, and then those feelings will go.

Aleksandra Zecevic is a Heath Science professor at Western who specializes in health issues caused by aging. Zecevic also teaches meditation classes at the Western Rec Centre, and believes firmly in the benefits of meditation.

“I volunteered with the Rec Centre to start the meditation class because I became increasingly aware of the mental health issues with our students,” Zecevic says. “As a long term meditator, I thought maybe I could offer at least an hour for students to turn off all the engines and just be.”

Zecevic explains that there are different ways to meditate within the Buddhist tradition. One type of meditation is referred to “emptiness meditation,” in which the meditator clears their head of all thoughts. Another type is called “focused meditation,” in which the meditator concentrates intently on a certain subject.

“I started meditating in 1987.

I meditated for a while, and then stopped for years.” Says Zecevic.

“When I came back to meditation, it inspired me to learn more about holistic health and alternative energy healings.”

Zecevic practices transcendental meditation — another form popularized in the 1950s — for herself.

However, she chooses to teach mindfulness meditation at the Rec

Centre because it can be done without an instructor, and so students can continue to meditate at home, or on their own time.

Louis Charland is a Philosophy professor at Western with ties to the Psychiatry Department and the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Charland sees the benefits in different forms of meditation such as mindfulness, in order to treat certain forms of depression.

In regards to milder forms of depression, Charland believes that meditation has the potential to work as well as prescription drugs such as anti-depressants. However, Charland does not feel the same when it comes to serious and more severe forms of major depression.

“In severe cases, depression requires anti-depressant medication and even sometimes other forms of medical intervention,” Charland says. “However, even with severe depression, I would say that meditation is also highly recommended and often beneficial.”

Charland believes that nonpharmaceutical treatment interventions for depression ought to play a more important part in therapy than they currently do. He says exercise, proper diet, adequate sleep, supportive relationships, along with stress reduction interventions like meditation can all play a very positive role in successful recovery from depression.

Despite the fact that Buddhism advocates meditation, it has only recently been utilized by Western society. Charland believes this is due to the fact that Western society often tends to look for a “quick-fix” solution to the problems that ail us, often in the form of a pill.

“Meditation takes time and requires a long-term commitment over months and even years,” Charland says. “But the benefits are equally long-term and there are no negative side-effects to contend with. Research in neuroscience shows how meditation works on the emotional and other affective systems of the brain to produce feelings of calm and serenity.”

>> How to Meditate STEP 1: Get Comfortable Comfort is key to being able to clear your mind. Find a quiet comfortable spot, and wear clothing you feel relaxed in.

STEP 2: Stretch Stretching out the tense muscles of your body will help prepare for the relaxation of your mind.

Meditation is beneficial as a whole body experience.

STEP 3: Position Yourself The traditional crossedlegged meditation pose isn’t the only stance you can have. Any comfortable seated position with a balanced spine will suffice.

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STEP 4: Controlled Breathing Focus on slow and measured breaths when you meditate.

This should help to clear your mind, as you focus on an internal and essential bodily process.

STEP 5: Visualization Imagine a serene setting, anywhere outside of your stressful day-to-day. Use this as a much-deserved mental vacation.

STEP 6: Maintenance Upon finishing your meditation don’t let your stress flood back in. Carry the peaceful feeling you have forward throughout you day, and it will increase your ability to face your stress-causers.

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Providing many reasons to be theatrical Mary Ann Ciosk ARTS & LIFE EDITOR For many, theatre may lack the temptation of digital media, but for Tempting Tree Theatre Company, this is a mentality they soon hope to change.

“There’s something magical about theatre that you can’t get from TV or movies. They’re real people standing in front of you, and you can’t turn them off,” says Ryan Cole, artistic director for Tempting Tree.

Cole was also one of the founders of the late Richmond and Tower Productions, known for their raw, controversial theatre. After its dissolution, Cole created Paradoxa Theatre Collective during the

“I don’t want people to come out of the theatre and as they’re applauding to wipe their hands of the show. I want it to haunt them after they’ve left the theatre. Raw, authentic, real emotions, real people, real stories.

I think that’s what connects us to theatre.

— Ryan Cole

Artistic director for Tempting Tree

summer of 2012, winning six Brickenden Awards for the adaptation Dream. Finally, Cole founded the professional company, Tempting Tree this past summer.

Cole’s theatrical mission is to create productions that can compete with the popularity of television.

“I’m on this crusade for getting younger audiences. I think that people my age do want to see theatre, but it’s a certain type of theatre,” Cole says. “I have to compete with someone who’s going to stay in their rez and stream a movie on their laptop. What can I offer them that that can’t?”

Tempting Tree’s first production is Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute. Cole remembers being hooked on the play as soon as he started reading it and has been waiting for the opportunity to bring this passion project to life.

“It’s an anti-romantic comedy. It’s very funny but it’s also terribly tragic.

It’s about romance but I’m not sure it’s a happy ending. It’s more realistic, it’s the way people really talk — which is great to see in theatre,” Cole says. “Good theatre holds up a mirror to ourselves. Hopefully as an audience we won’t be comfortable with that.”

Charlene Wolf, co-artistic director for Tempting Tree and actor in Reasons to be Pretty, comments on her experience founding the company with Cole.

“I was in theatre school at Fanshawe and was going to move to Toronto because that’s where

Charity ball supports arts classes for kids Janice Fung GAZETTE STAFF Tomorrow, Western students of all faculties and constituencies will flood into the halls of The London Convention Center for the university’s long-standing annual tradition of Charity Ball.

“Charity ball has been a tradition for a really, really long time,” says this year’s Charity Ball coordinator, Victoria Limary. “It’s an event that allows people to give back to the community while having a lot of fun. It’s really important to acknowledge what the London community has to offer [and] Charity Ball is a great way for [Western students] to contribute to the community.”

The theme of this year’s ball is “The Classics,” a premise that Limary and the rest of the Charity Ball committee spent a lot of time brainstorming — ultimately choosing “The Classics” for its elegant flare. As for the charity component of the ball, proceeds will be donated to Arts For All Kids.

Arts For All Kids is a free program that gives local children the opportunity to participate in various arts lessons. Starting off as a small program with only a couple of students, Arts For All Kids has grown to become a program with over 50 registered students. With support from Charity Ball, the program hopes to develop and increase the capacity to take on more children.

“We wanted [the charity] to be a local London charity [that hadn’t] been receiving a lot of funding from Western before,” Limary explains.

“We really wanted to see the direct impact that Charity Ball can have.

And so Arts For All Kids was perfect because we saw that they money was directly going to the kids.”

Last year, the Western community raised $18,000 at Charity Ball, with an attendance of around 2,200 people. This year, Limary’s goal is to surpass this number. “[Last year’s] benchmark is already so high, if we could succeed that by just a little bit, we would be doing a really good job,” Limary says.

According to Limary, preparation for Charity Ball has been going on for quite some time.

“I selected my committee in late August last year and we started meeting right back when we got back to school in September,” she says. “We’ve been meeting once a week since then.”

Limary and her team have been trying to come up with innovative ways to raise additional funds for the charity of their choice. This year, the committee tried jewelry sales and are currently holding give-aways to encourage people to buy tickets.

“It’s been a lot of preparation for the committee and myself, but it’ll pay off,” Limary says.

As of Wednesday, Charity Ball had sold approximately 1,600 tickets. Limary encourages students to buy their Charity Ball tickets to support Arts For All Kids.

Charity Ball will be held at the London Convention Centre tomorrow at 9 p.m. Tickets are being sold in the UCC Atrium and online for $30 each, or $25 in lots of 10. More information can be found on Charity Ball’s Facebook page at facebook. com/uwocharityball.

my family is, and Cole said ‘I have a show for you, that you have to be in, it’s going to be great. Stay in this city.’ And we got to talking and we thought why not make a company and put on shows that we want to put on, and have work that people can really think about and not just watch?” Wolf says.

Wolf was similarly impressed by the play’s authenticity and trueness to life.

“It’s so real. The first scene is a huge fight. It’s my character, Steph, and her boyfriend and they have the biggest breakup fight of [their] life.

It’s that fight where you’re screaming because you’re so mad and then the other person is trying to calm you down. I’ve had that fight and I think everyone has had that fight,” Wolf says.

Wolf has come to love the characters in spite of their neuroses because through the play, one is able to understand their motives.

“I fell in love with Steph the second I opened the script because she comes off as psychotic and crazy but she’s not — she’s just a woman looking for someone to care about her and to see her not as this object but as a person. It’s refreshing in a way,” Wolf says.

Cole believes that sympathizing with characters’ dysfunctions creates the tragic element of the play.

“Nobody in this place is a good guy — there’s no good or evil, no black or white, just very distinguished shades of grey. The tragic part about the play is that all the

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characters are only doing what they think is right. It’s that struggle of doing the best that you can, and the sad thing is that it gets them in a lot more trouble than they’d like. And I think we all do that — we all do what we think is right in the moment and often we lose pretty big. It’s kind of a heartbreaking play,” Cole explains.

In terms of his goals for the production, Cole wants to spark debate and leave the audience contemplating what they’ve seen.

“I don’t want people to come out of the theatre and as they’re applauding to wipe their hands of the show. I want it to haunt them after they’ve left the theatre. Raw, authentic, real emotions, real people, real stories. I think that’s what connects us to theatre,” Cole says.

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USC fee facts false RE: “Faculty fee to be reviewed,” Thursday, January 30, 2014.

To the Editor: For the second time in a week, The Gazette has incorrectly stated the goals of a professional faculty’s student agreement. While we are seeking a reduction in fees to a level akin to what affiliate college students pay under their agreement, that is not “38 per cent of the $661.33 that main campus students pay.”

That figure of $661.33 represents all fees collected by the USC, including fees that pay for the health and dental plan.

Affiliate college students have a reduction in payment for only the USC base fee and the UCC fee, a reduction of less than $100 per student.

Now, I apologize if these facts don’t play handily into vice-president finance Spencer Brown’s narrative that the professional faculties student agreement is some sort of boogeyman trying to destroy the budget. I do not believe Spencer Brown was elected to fear monger about how changing student fees would raise the price of a Spoke CLT. Professional faculty students are asking for a real and substantive investigation into the issue, and this is what a unanimous vote by the USC has charged the executive with accomplishing. Whether the current executive is up to the task or not is another issue, but one that will become apparent in the coming weeks.

— James Hirsh VP external, Student Legal Society

Value is in the eye health of the beholder RE: “Vision coverage short sighted,” Tuesday, January 28, 2014.

To the Editor: The whole “all or nothing” idea of the health plan isn’t a new idea being introduced with the possibility of included vision services. That’s exactly the way it is now.

Personally, I don’t regularly take any prescription drugs, I haven’t had a cavity since middle school, and, realistically, I’m never going to get a massage or physiotherapy. Still, I’m paying for these services because I need the other stuff — like accidental health coverage and dental surgery (getting my wisdom teeth done during reading week, yay).

Do I complain because I’m paying for services I don’t need? Sometimes. But then I remember that these services are included in the student health plan because there’s a legitimate need for them — maybe not for me, but for a significant number of other students.

In fact, 25 per cent of North American students between the ages of 14 and 17 use some sort of vision correction (glasses, contacts, etc.) according to a recent study by the Vision Council of America, and that number only increases as students enter college and university and strain their eyes on a daily basis. Additionally, this number does not include the thousands of students who need glasses, but don’t have them for a variety of reasons — a major one being an inability to afford them.

Glasses are priced like they’re made of solid gold rims with diamond lenses coated with unicorn tears. If you choose to buy decent quality eyeglasses with designer frames or scratch-resistant lenses, you’re probably going to have to sign over your first-born child. No matter how much glasses cost, if you still need them, you’ll pay. It’s a basic concept of economics. It’s a fact of life.

While it’s true that students should be refunded if they choose to opt out (rather than that amount being taken off of future tuition payments), and the process of opting out should be as easy as it once was, there is clearly a strong need for vision services to be offered as part of our student health plan.

—Holly Soave Medical Science I

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

— Freda Adler

Benevolent sexism still prevalent issue Information Ciosk

Mary Ann Ciosk ARTS & LIFE EDITOR In this age of fighting for equality for women, we still seem to struggle with where to draw the line. Women are entitled to equal paying and status jobs, because we recognize that women are not inferior to men and deserve the same treatment. However, I’ve frequently encountered women who, while upholding this notion of equality, will write a man off if he doesn’t pay for date expenses — meals, drinks, cabs, movies, and so on.

There is some obvious hypocrisy in this.

If women wish to be considered equal, why wouldn’t they pay an equal amount for a night out with a man?

The historical significance of a man paying for a woman was the idea that women were daughters until they were wives, so they weren’t in a position to make their own money and would thus rely on their male counterparts to pay for them. Fortunately, women are no longer forced to stay at home and can now make their own livelihood, yet today we still retain this vestige from the past in the name of chivalry.

It’s considered courteous and good mannered for a man to pay for his date — but if this was only a matter of showing kindness to a prospective or current partner, then surely the gesture would go both ways. It’s quite unusual for a woman to pay for the man on a first date or perform gallant gestures on his behalf — but why

is the idea of a woman opening a car door for a man silly, whereas when man does the same thing for a woman it’s considered sweet? No one genuinely requires help pulling a door open, so there’s no logical reason that man should do this and a woman shouldn’t.

Likewise, why do some men insist on carrying things for women? If a girl is struggling with five bags of groceries, sure, give her a hand, but if she has a single bag that only contains some bananas and spinach it’s actually somewhat insulting when a man tries to carry it.

The implication is that these activities are too difficult for women, or that females should be treated as the “fairer sex.” This benevolent sexism — a positive gesture with negative implications — is detrimental to the progress of women being viewed as capable and autonomous, and we’re setting ourselves back on the path to complete equality by accepting this kind but misguided treatment from men.

To truly be viewed as equals, women need to stop letting men pay for everything and take care of them beyond what they’re capable of. Similarly, if men wish to truly show respect for women, they should treat them as competent fellow humans, not inferiors that require financial and physical assistance.

While it’s important to do kind, thoughtful things for one’s partner, these actions need to go both ways and should be based on logic, not conventions. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way in the past century and no longer live in an era where women are subservient to men and rely on their generosity. So let’s move forward towards complete equality rather than remaining stuck in outdated and sexist standards.

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gameday The Western Mustangs women’s hockey team will take on the Ryerson Rams at Thompson Arena on Friday at 7 p.m. The game will be the first of their weekend double-header.

At 11–7 the Mustangs will look to pick up the easy win over the last placed Rams.

Rundown >> The Western Mustangs women’s basketball team snapped their two-game losing streak with an 84–72 win over the Guelph Gryphons > The month of January has been tough for the Mustangs > After winning nine straight before the Winter break the team has gone 3–4 since returning.

Mustangs defeat Gryphons at home Close game snaps Western’s two-game losing streak Max Stone CONTRIBUTOR The Western Mustangs men’s basketball team snapped their twogame losing skid on Wednesday, squeezing out a 74–72 win over the Guelph Gryphons. With the win, the Mustangs sweep the season series with Guelph, two games to zero.

Up two points with 42 seconds left on the clock and possession of the basketball, the Mustangs had an opportunity to put the game on ice, but Mustangs’ forward Greg Morrow — who led the team in scoring with 23 points — could not convert on an isolation chance, leaving Guelph with one last opportunity to tie the game. When play resumed on the defensive end, Western’s defence held strong, forcing two missed shots before the buzzer sounded.

That one’s huge for us for playoff [positioning].

It would have been nicer to bury them by a couple more points, but we got the win and that’s all that matters.

— Eric McDonald Mustangs’ guard

“There was no secret going into the game that they were going to do that with [Morrow],” Chris O’Rourke, Guelph Gryphons’ head coach, said.

“We got the [defensive] stop, we got what we wanted. I wanted our point guard to take [Western forward Peter] Scholtes off the dribble and get in the paint deep, and either draw a foul or

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

CROSSOVER! Greg Morrow driving to the basket. Morrow had another amazing night in the Mustangs’ win over the Guelph Gryphons on Wednesday. Morrow was seven-for-15 from field goal range, and shot 81 per cent from the free throw line for a total of 23 points. Morrow was one rebound shy of a double-double.

get a point blank [shot] to send the game into overtime.”

The matchup was filled with tension and aggression, as the Mustangs and Gryphons combined for 48 total fouls, as their squads were fighting for playoff position.

“I think there are a few factors that go into [the aggressive nature of the game].” Brad Campbell, Western Mustangs’ head coach, said. “This is the second time that we have played them. Both teams play hard gritty

man-to-man [defence], and both teams understand what is at stake with a victory today. And when you add that traditional rivalry over the years with Guelph too […] you get a game that might have been a little ugly at times, but we were lucky that we found a way to win.”

Guards George Johnson and Eric McDonald each added 13 points for the Mustangs, who dominated under the basket, out-rebounding Guelph 41–32, and outscoring them in the

paint 32–20. But it was Western’s ability to convert from the free throw line that ultimately led to their success, as they shot 85 per cent from the charity stripe.

“Overall we didn’t shoot that great from the field,” Campbell said. “But thank goodness we knocked down some free throws because that was a big key to victory today.”

With the victory, the Mustangs improve to 7–10 on the year and find themselves in tied with Laurier for

third place in the Ontario University Athletics West division, and eight points clear of Waterloo for a playoff spot. With just five games remaining — three of which are against Waterloo and Guelph — the team has put themselves in a great position to snap their two-year playoff drought.

“That one’s huge for us for playoff [positioning],” McDonald said. “It would have been nicer to bury them by a couple more points, but we got the win and that’s all that matters.”

Mustangs’ Kruba signs with Tiger-Cats Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR The Western Mustangs football team’s linebacker and defensive captain, Pawel Kruba, has signed a deal with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League that will keep his football career alive.

“First couple of years I was playing special teams so it’s always kind of a dream that you never really think is going to be a reality,” Kruba said. “In my third year I was starting and realized that maybe it was a possibility.”

Over his five years as a Mustang, Kruba played 33 games, recorded 116 total tackles three sacks and five interceptions.

This season, Kruba recorded a career high of 38 total tackles and three interceptions as he helped lead his team to a Yates Cup championship win over the Queen’s

Gaels.

“Nothing is guaranteed — you never know for sure. I tried my best to have a good season and that’s what you’re hoping for at the end of it — and I’m excited,” Kruba said.

For his season-long performance Kruba was awarded Canadian Interuniversity Sport first-team honours, and the

First couple of years I was playing special teams so it’s always kind of a dream that you never really think is going to be a reality.

In my third year I was starting and realized that maybe it was a possibility.

— Pawel Kruba

Mustangs’ Linebacker

President’s Trophy as the CIS’s defensive player of the year.

“Finishing off the season with those final two wins would have been the ideal situation but this is definitely a finish I had hoped for,” Kruba said.

In 2011, the two-time Ontario University Athletics all-star participated in the CIS East-West bowl, designed to showcase draft-eligible talent to professional leagues.

Though undrafted, Kruba’s fiveyear pursuit has landed him a spot alongside two fellow ex-Mustangs currently on the active Tiger-Cats roster. Kruba will now join Hec Crighton award-winning wide receiver Andy Fantuz, and defensive back Harold Mutobola in camp for the upcoming 2014 CFL season.

“It’s real cool because I played with Harold and I’m good friends with him so it’s fun to have the opportunity to hopefully play with him next year,” Kruba said.

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The Western Mustangs men’s track high jump this season, having preand field team earned one medal viously focused on hurdles. Now, at the McGill Team Challenge in the track and field star competes Montreal. That medal was a gold in both events. one, captured by high-jumper “I actually started out in high Isoken Ogieva. jump,” Ogieva told The Gazette earThe Ajax, Ontario native has lier this week. “I did it all throughalready posted a 2.08-metre high out high school, but I never really jump that sets him apart as one of had any coaching.”

Mustangs’ head coach Vickie the top high jumpers in the country.

The jump not only improves on his Croley told The Gazette in an personal best by 8 cm, it also sur- interview earlier this week that passes the Canadian Interuniversity Ogieva can in fact go higher than the 2.08-metre mark posted at the Sport standard by 4 cm.

Class_5x170_G_140131 29Jan 7:42 PM Page 1 Ogieva began training for the tournament.

Ogieva said the allure of the sport for him is not in its medals.

“I don’t want to focus on medals because that’s not the type of athlete I am,” he said. “It’s more about having fun for me. I compete best when I’m focused on having fun.”

With his impressive jump, the fun-loving athlete has now moved on to compete in nationals in early March. For this reason, Mustangs’ high jumper Isoken Ogieva is the recipient of this week’s Purple Pipe Award.

— Nusaiba Al-Azem

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Units are rented on a first come first serve basis. Call Zach at 226-973-9044, zachs@londonproperty.ca.

5 BEDROOM TOWNHOUSE off Western Road. and Affordable: $500/person.

Renovated Varsityhousing.ca. Free parking, 5 appliances, student community, FULLY FURNISHED. Tour anytime: Call or text Ted 519-858-2525. mailto:tbell@varsityhousing.ca .

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