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Confusion reigns over Western scores big Helfand USC eligibility on Sunshine list Amy O’Kruk GAZETTE STAFF Iain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR The account of how exactly Matt Helfand came to run for University Students’Council president, even with official sources of knowledge of the situation, is conflicting and not entirely clear, even now. After this year’s elections, the USC voted to form an ad-hoc committee to investigate the governance portfolio for the decisions made during elections. One of the reasons for this investigation was the elections committee’s decision to allow Helfand — a graduate student — to run for president of the USC, an undergraduate students’ union. The Gazette reported in early December that Helfand, who is now USC president-elect, was allowed to run because of a “loophole” in bylaw 2. This is the only official decision from the elections committee, but it may not be the full story of Helfand’s march to the presidency. According to the minutes of the December 4, 2013 meeting with Helfand, the elections committee also made a recommendation to Helfand that he take at least one undergraduate course so he would be fully within the spirit of the bylaw. Taking one course for the duration of elections technically would make him a part-time undergraduate student, who would therefore be allowed to run for any USC position. “We recommended to Matt that he register in a part-time undergraduate student course for the winter term of 2014 in order to not only be legal to run on technicalities, but also in the spirit of the bylaw, as well as to look favourably upon not only his nomination, but on his candidacy, because there were a lot of questions about it,” said Pashv Shah, chief returning officer and chair of the elections committee. Helfand did enrol in one undergraduate course, and this was verified by Shah. He was registered on the final day of nominations and the day after he was elected, fulfilling the technical requirements of running for USC office. Helfand has since dropped the course, on the final drop day of second semester. “Unfortunately I had to drop the course on the last day of the academic deadline,” Helfand said. “Upon taking the course, I had every intention of completing it to the

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fullest [...] but with the campaign, teaching two tutorials, all my school work [...] there was a lot to handle and I wasn’t able to perform and I couldn’t afford to have a failure on my transcript.” Without Helfand technically being an undergraduate student, he would not have been allowed to run, according to USC sources that spoke on condition of anonymity. While there is nothing within the bylaws that stipulates a candidate has to be enrolled for a full semester, sources within the elections committee said he would be expected to complete the course, if at the very least as a good faith gesture. “Yes, he was required to take an undergraduate course, and yes, he was expected to finish the course,” said one committee member. Shah said that while the elections committee decided Helfand could run as a graduate student, had he not followed the recommendation to enrol in an undergraduate course, the committee would have had to meet again to decide if he was still eligible to run. “[If he hadn’t enrolled in a course] then that would have been a complete different discussion that we would have had to have in January when his nomination form is submitted,” Shah said. However, Helfand was, and still is, under the impression he would have been allowed to run regardless.

“According to the bylaws as they read, there was not anything precluding graduate students from running,” Helfand said. Helfand was under the impression that there had been an appeal against his candidacy, which failed, after the original decision to allow him to run. Shah, however, denied this, saying the recommendation Helfand enrol as an undergrad came after advisement from the USC administration. “The point is that everything that I did was with the intention of trying to follow the rules, I maintain that I followed the rules,” Helfand said. “If at any point, either registering or not registering I had thought that I was unable to represent the interests of undergraduate students at Western, then I never would have run.” Committee members themselves are unsure of what the decisions they made were. While the member quoted previously said taking a course was a requirement of Helfand’s eligibility, another said this was not the case. “We determined within the guidelines of the rules, he was allowed to run,” the member said. “[To enrol in a course] was a suggestion we made to him after the fact that we ruled that he was able to run, just to reinforce his eligibility, but that was not the criteria that he had to fulfill in order to run.”

The sun may not be shining for Western’s staff and faculty listed on Ontario’s annual public sector salary disclosure report. The report, commonly referred to as the Sunshine List, catalogs all public sector employees who earn a salary above $100,000, as well as specifying their taxable benefits for the previous year. Many Western faculty and staff were included in the pages of the 2014 report. However, the $100,000 threshold was set in 1996 and has not been adjusted for inflation in almost two decades. According to the Globe and Mail, adjusted for inflation the new minimum should be $137,849.91. Although the list is comprised mostly of teaching staff, it is notable that the out of the top 20 earning Western and affiliate employees, 16 are administrators or faculty who also hold administrative positions. These 16 include deans, directors of programs (such as Ivey’s MBA and HBA programs) and various chairs. The average salary of a faculty and/ or staff member in the top 20 is $328,855. Western’s president and vice-chancellor, Amit Chakma tops the list earning a salary of $479,600 in 2013. Chirag Shah, Western’s chair of the Board of Governors, said that Western offers high-paying salaries to administrators and faculty in order to remain globally competitive and attract a senior level of talent. “If we’re going to set ourselves up for success in the future than we want to ensure that we have the best and the brightest available to make our university the best and brightest,” Shah said. “We’re very comparable to those paid in the Canadian university sector […] our challenge is to continue to maintain the quality we have given the faculty compensation and ranges that we have on campus.” Western’s top-20 salary average fares intermediately in comparison to McMaster, Queen’s and the University of Toronto. U of T offers the highest average salary per top20 employee at $417,651. Alison Hearn, president of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association — who herself is on the list with a salary of $114,740 — said there can be a big disparity in incomes between average professors and top tier employees.

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“There are a lot of professors not on that list and there are a lot of professors who will never get on that list as the result of the way that academic hiring is done and the reliance of the university on precariously employed contract faculty,” Hearn said. It’s also notable that the number of faculty and staff at Western is reported at about 3,900 which does not include part-time employees. This year, 1,183 were listed on the Sunshine List. If the new threshold adjusted for inflation was adopted, the number would be 498. Shah said a lot of the salaries paid out to top-level faculty and staff are actually lower than the income garnered by similar positions in the private sector. Shah said that the list promotes financial accountability. “I think that transparency is really the intent behind the list and I know that from a financial reporting standpoint Western maintains fantastic tone of transparency at the top and were really proud of the faculty and administrative staff that end up on the list,” Shah said. “We’re really proud of the efforts set forth by them.”

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DOG DAYS OF SPRING. Cory Poulton, known as Cory the Dog Walker, is seen enjoying the spring climate while taking shade from the sun outside of the University Community Centre. Cory takes photos of his dogs and has impressively trained them to pose for the camera.

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USC to use clickers in council The University Students’ Council has decided to bring clickers to the incoming council for 2014–15. Typically used in classrooms, the USC wants to use these devices to help record attendance and speaking lists during meetings. “So everyone would have clickers that they pick up in a box or something, and it’d have a number. So you vote with a clicker [yes or no], you do attendance with a clicker and you do speaking lists with a clicker,” Pat Whelan, outgoing president of the USC, explained. Whelan also mentioned the potential to publish voting records of individual councillors. “So let’s say I’m in Nursing, and I’ve got one Nursing councillor, and they’re voting on all of this stuff that I think is totally out there, totally not what we need to be talking about. I can now hold them accountable and not re-elect them,” Whelan said. The USC currently takes attendance and speaking lists on paper with no way to publish individual voting records. Councillors are issued paper placards that they hold up in meetings when votes are taken. Only in the event of a close vote is a roll-call vote taken, when votes are recorded individually. “We have the money put aside Partner Perceptions in Romantic Relationships Have you been in a romantic relationship with an opposite-sex partner for at least 3 months? Are you both at least 18? We would love to have you both participate in our study!!! In this research, we are investigating romantic partner behaviour in a gaming context! This study should take approximately 10 minutes to complete, and you will each receive $5 (so, $10 per couple) compensation, for your time! This study is being conducted by Lorne Campbell, PhD, and Melanie MacEacheron, MSc, of the University of Western Ontario. Want to learn more? Tear off an email address and let me know!

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LCBO eyes kiosk expansion Ontarians can finally look forward to a one-stop shopping experience with LCBO kiosks being introduced inside major convenience stores. “We have heard over the years that people are looking for a little bit of added convenience when they do their shopping, and this is meant to address that,” said Heather MacGregor, media relations coordinator for LCBO. The Ministry of Finance of Ontario has announced a pilot project that would see 10 LCBO express kiosks being introduced in different locations in the province over the course of a year. According to MacGregor, the first phase of the pilot project would see seven LCBO express stores in seven different locations where a need has been identified. The second phase that would be issued in four to six weeks would include more stores. London was identified as a location in the first round of the pilot project and will soon see an express store. “These stores would be completely a store within a store concept,” she said. The stores would have their own checkout and would be staffed by an LCBO employee. The LCBO currently has 634 stores across Ontario, staffed by 7,998 employees, and raked in almost $5-billion in sales in 2012–2013. — Hamza Tariq

London councillors halt pay hike London city councillors voted 14–1 against a one per cent pay raise at Tuesday night’s city hall meeting. Harold Usher, Ward 12 councilor, was the only person to vote in favour of the increase. “For me, it’s a matter of principle,” Usher said. The pay raise would have amounted to $27 per month for each councillor. This is the third year in a row that members of council decided against the increase. Usher noted that the policy states that councillors receive a yearly

increase to their remuneration, although the rate differs from year to year. Members of council reviewed said policy in November. They were in favour of keeping the policy going, according to Usher. “Part of the reason [councillors] gave is that they knew what the job was when they came in, therefore they are not taking the increase. But they do know also that the policy is there,” Usher said. Usher chalked up the overwhelming disapproval against taking the pay increase as a result of the upcoming election in the fall. “All of a sudden now because it is an election year and because the media has been stirring this up to say that we shouldn’t take an increase, a lot of people backtracked on it and decided they were not going to take an increase,” Usher said. — Olivia Zollino

Students too sedentary Most students spend a lot of time sitting down — and there’s no if, ands or buts about it. But recently students in the Kinesiology course Exercise and Health Behaviour Change conducted a study to determine just how much time students spend being sedentary. Students in the class were first asked to monitor how much time they spent sitting or lying down in one week. On average, students spent 10–14 hours sitting and three hours lying down (not including sleeping). While much of the time sitting was spent in lectures or bussing to campus, for example, Mia Tritter, a teaching assistant with the course, said students were still shocked with these numbers. “These numbers were astonishing given that students are kinesiology students with a background in exercise,” she said. Following this exercise, students then came up with strategies in order to increase their level of movement and then apply these strategies to their lives. “That means, if you were lying a lot, try to sit or stand more. And if you were sitting a lot, try to stand or walk more. Making small changes such as these are more realistic, feasible and likely to lead to better adherence,” Tritter said. — Kaitlyn McGrath

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Feed people, not Dumpsters St. Joseph’s Hospitality Centre is a ‘soup kitchen’ on Dundas Street. The Hospitality Centre serves over 300 meals to men, women and children each day in our community Monday to Friday. There is a desperate need for donations of fresh fruit and vegetables. To make a donation contact the facility at 519-432-0660 or email stjosephshospitalitycentre@gmail.com Please consider donating the food that would normally end up in a dumpster to your local food banks and neighbours, let’s all let our dumpsters go hungry for a while.

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Research funding methods under fire Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR Western is in the process of choosing research clusters to focus on as part of its strategic plan for excellence on a global stage, but some have criticisms for the research cluster adjudication process. Amanda Grzyb, a Western senator, has put forward a motion for the next senate meeting to directly involve the University Research Board in the review process for research applications to be considered for funding as a research cluster. In addition, her motion asks that the external peer review process be entrusted to the URB. Currently, the password-protected general information document on submitting proposals for the research clusters program says three senior administrators — the vice-president research, the provost and the vice-provost — will be reviewing applications. “[The URB is] normally involved in these kinds of decisions about high level research initiatives. They’ve been cut out of the picture,” Grzyb said in an interview. “My concern is that three senior administrators are making a decision of strategic importance for the whole university,” she continued. Another concern Grzyb had was the lack of an outline of the peer review process for the applications. But John Capone, vice-president research at Western, said the full proposals would make recommendations for experts in the field to sit on the review panel. “It’s normal process that universities undertake to establish review

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BENEFICIARIES. Cognitive neurosciences has been selected as one of Western’s research clusters as part of its strategic plan for excellence on a global scale. Western is looking for up to three more, but the opaque adjudication process is being criticized by members of senate.

committees,” Capone said. He said the three senior administrators would only act as a steering committee to ensure the letters of intent were meeting all application criteria. Another fundamental concern for Grzyb was the secrecy and lack of transparency surrounding the whole process. The application information is password-protected, and the research cluster applications that make it through will not be made known to the university until they have already been chosen and money has already been allocated. “Will we [the Western community]

have any input into what kinds of research clusters we’re going to see here in the future?” Grzyb asked at senate. The university is looking for up to four research clusters and will be bestowing $5-million per cluster. “It’s protected because it’s just a university document. Anyone from the university has access,” Capone said. He was unsure, however, if undergraduate students-at-large could log on with their information. Although he did say he could provide any student with a copy of the document if they wished.

“Some of the clusters may involve partnerships with private sector organizations that don’t want to necessarily have their competition know what they’re involved in at some stage,” Capone continued. One research cluster — cognitive neuroscience — has already been chosen as a research cluster of strategic importance to the university. Grzyb maintained that her concerns were not over the outcome of the research clusters chosen. She just wanted to ensure that the adjudication process for research clusters that will define Western in the coming decade was fair and transparent

with external peer review and input from the URB. However, she did mention that every budget entails choices, and Western has made a choice allocating so much money to these research clusters while placing certain faculties on austerity budgets. It could be seen as elevating the research clusters up at the expense of other areas of the institution, she said. “This is a really important question because it’s not only going to drive our research, it’s also going to have an impact on teaching. It’s going to impact the entire institution and how it’s defined,” Grzyb said.

USC prez addresses general assembly concerns Stephanie Grella GAZETTE STAFF University Student’s Council president Pat Whelan has publicly responded to the Faculty of Information and Media Studies General Assembly’s criticism of Western’s strategic plan, ensuring that his priorities for all students’ university experiences is at the foreground of the plan. On March 24, the FIMS GA drafted an open letter calling into question the intentions of the USC student representatives in terms of the ideas outlined in the strategic plan. In the letter, which was published on openwidezine.com, the GA asked four questions about the Strategic Plan’s ultimate efficacy in student life. Whelan’s statement was supposed to be published yesterday afternoon, but as of 8:00 p.m., it was not yet public. However, he provided a copy to The Gazette. In response to one question addressing his stance on the affordability of education, Whelan stated the issue of tuition should be dealt at the provincial level, not by the university administration. “We have been working hard to advocate to the government around tuition,” Whelan wrote. “But we still recognize that Western has an essential role in providing needs-based bursaries and ensuring responsible use of ancillary fees: Affordability should be a key

priority on the table.” These responses follow a protest of a Western senate meeting on January 24, where 66 students displayed signs disapproving the strategic plan. Demonstrators claimed the administration was placing too much importance on profit and not enough on the education and general experience of Western students. “Words are words and we haven’t seen any clear cut results as to how he or any administration plan to remedy the affordability of education for all students,” said Kevin Chao, a student-at-large member of the FIMS General Assembly, in reaction to the letter. “If he thinks that tuition should be dealt with on the provincial and federal levels, I would like to see some outreach from him both on campus and across the province.” Whelan was criticized by the FIMS GA for a perceived lack of student voices heard in the process of the strategic plan, but Whelan claimed the plan was brought to the attention of students, through avenues like Change Camp 2012– 13 and surveys. “To cite an event like Change Camp and then ignore a student demonstration of over 60 students was not representative of the student body as a whole,” Chao said. “I appreciate that he has apologized, but words do not necessarily translate into action.” When asked why he favoured

the plan even though many students strongly expressed their discontent, Whelan claimed that, despite some of the plan’s vague wording, he believes it will lead students in a more positive direction. “More than anything, I recognize and appreciate how the plan takes steps towards more innovative teaching in the classroom,” Whelan said. “I don’t mean to diminish or devalue the concerns of those dozens of students who came to the Senate meeting, but I think it’s important to clarify that the strat plan is a visioning document.” While Chao appreciated Whelan addressing students’ discontent, he wanted more to be done in order for a rewarding educational experience of all students in each faculty to be secured. “It’s easy to address student concerns after the fact,” Chao said. “Neither administration nor the USC has justified why faculties such as FIMS, Arts and Social Science are facing a 30 per cent budget cut. To write-off student engagement instead of using it for future decisions shows a lack of proper representation.” Chao hoped that next year’s USC team will work towards improving many of the concerns still present, according to the FIMS GA. “I hope Matt Helfand and his slate don’t let politics get in the way of student engagement,” Chao said.

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saywhat? There’s no story if there isn’t some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it’s more or less the norm.

— Wes Anderson

From film critic to festival director thegazette Brent Holmes ARTS & LIFE EDITOR Last Friday night, Western graduate, Gazette alumnus and current director of the Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey, delivered a lecture on the development of a global brand for TIFF. It has been a long journey for Bailey, who started writing movie reviews for the Gazette in the 1980s. Bailey remembers the experience at The Gazette and how it got him where he is today. “As soon as you finish your tenure, they offer you a position at TIFF — happened for all of us,” Bailey jokes. “For me it was a long series of steps. The one thing — actually it’s more than one thing — The Gazette gave me was the opportunity to write, almost every week, and to edit, and I did layout, and I learned about journalism and I learned about arts journalism in particular.” “We hated everybody. We saw ourselves as the counter culture — the people who were holding up a fun house mirror at the student administration and the university itself. We saw ourselves as some kind of outlaws on campus — it’s a bit of a fantasy really looking back on it now, but it was valuable to us at the time,” Bailey recalls. After graduating Bailey got an

eight-month job at Cinema Canada when they asked him to review a Canadian film. He later got a job with NOW Magazine after they sent him to do a 150-word review of Die Hard. Eventually, Bailey became involved in the Toronto International Film Festival and became the director of the festival where he is responsible for organizing the vision of the festival and selecting films to be screened at the festival. Bailey has taken the festival towards a global market, looking to bring films and the discussion of these films both to Toronto and outside of it. “I think the good news is that we can feel comfortable going to almost any part of the world knowing that we have communities in those parts of the world that live in Toronto,” Bailey says. “We are familiar at least in some degree with the culture and the history of those communities. We try to engage those communities at the building and at the festival every year and because we are showing films from those countries, it gives us ease when we go into new places. There’s also the hope that we can bring culture home from those places to communities in Toronto and we can help be a part of that exchange.” Bailey views the ability to screen films from all around the world as a key part of interacting with Toronto’s multicultural demographics. Bailey hopes the festival can reach out to immigrants to allow for inter-cultural dialogue and to allow immigrant communities to interact with their home countries. “If we are able to regularly bring filmmakers from Iran, for

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PARTY LIKE IT’S 1987. Gazette alumnus Cameron Bailey (centre) has had a tremendous career. The former film critic for The Gazette is now the director of the Toronto International Film Festival and has focused on turning TIFF into a global brand.

instance, to the Persian community in Toronto and have that exchange happen regularly, have those filmmakers show their work to a Iranian community in Toronto and have the Q&As and the exchanges, that’s going to help — if you are able to do that on a regular basis you are able to help the community stay in touch with how the home country is changing,” Bailey says. For Bailey, TIFF becoming a global brand is about expanding a way of approaching cinema. “What we want to try and do is export a way of approaching cinema — that idea of the public engagement with cinema, that the audience’s opinion matters, that there is a kind of democratisation of taste and that we are not presenting films as a way of dictating what is important or what is valuable but a way of engaging an audience in a

conversation where we can all create meaning together,” Bailey says. “That’s not universally accepted as a way to watch movies, in some parts of the world, it’s all about authorities telling you what to think. I think if we can export a more democratic idea around cinema than that will be the real value of going global.” Bailey’s idea of the festival’s role is not limited to how people understand cinema but also how a city understands itself. In his lecture, he spoke about Richard Florida’s idea of a creative city and Jane Jacob’s belief that city planners need to keep their eyes on the street. “I think we still have a lot to learn from Jane Jacobs. Richard Florida’s ideas about cultural capital and creative cities, I think we are an example of that, the culture we present is part of the reason he would move to a city like Toronto,”

Bailey comments. From his time at The Gazette to his role in the Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey lived in the cinema and has become a visionary voice in the discussion of cinema and the city of Toronto. “Toronto has changed a lot since [Jacobs] first moved there and the thing that I worry the most about in downtown Toronto right now is the rise of the small condo. It does some very positive things [...] but the problem is that those shoebox condos can be so isolating — that’s exactly what Jane Jacobs was warning against. There’s no way to have those eyes on the street when you go up on the elevator to the 34th floor every day. We try to get those condo dwellers out of their units and out onto the street,” Bailey says. — With files from Keshia Saldanha

Anderson a master of “luxury cinema” Conrad Floryan GAZETTE STAFF GGGGG Grand Budapest Hotel Director: Wes Anderson Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody Bradford had recently returned from holiday at Mt. Tremblant. He was tired. Ms. Rivera had taken the kids to tennis lessons, so he had the house to himself. It was time to watch a movie. Bradford was a longtime admirer of Wes Anderson, so he poured himself a glass of Riesling and fired up the auteur’s latest opus, The Grand Budapest Hotel. On Watch the Throne, Kanye West established what he called “luxury rap:” Rhymes boasting one per cent snobbery adorning cinematic beats baring silken threads of 80s pop excess. Wes Anderson has always had a singular style, best described as “luxury cinema.” His characters are either well-off or display upper-class traits — sophistication, wit, nonchalance — the

aesthetic design is meticulously crafted with a monocle-framed eye for vivid colour palettes and symmetrical compositions, and the dialogue sings with cool finesse. Luxury cinema is the merging of ornate style and noble content, as seen recently in The Great Gatsby and The Great Beauty. The Grand Budapest Hotel epitomizes luxury cinema. Like a Rolls Royce, Anderson’s films are sometimes criticized as style over substance. Hotel’s overt style makes an immediate impression, but it does so at the service of a touching story. The hotel’s owner Zero Moustafa wistfully recounts how the late concierge, Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), mentored him as a young lobby boy. The two formed an enduring bond through their picaresque adventures, recounted in flashback. Gustave is a timeless film character. He beds the hotel’s elder female clientele and recites poetry within casual conversations. In a film that radiates cool, he’s the coolest cat, exuding one-liners like the “Eau de Panache” fragrance he so liberally applies. During a prison

escape, a fellow escapee and guard simultaneously fatally stab each other in a tussle. Gustave blithely retorts, “I suppose you’d call that a draw.” Such callous wit in the face of brutality typifies how the film veils grim matters with humour. First off, it’s funnier than most broad comedies, and in addition to a boundless wit, it’s suffused with a perennial irony that’s often too subtle to elicit outright laughter. For instance, Gustave and his friends employ a laundry shoot in their jailbreak. The grown men whoosh down the shoot and drop down one-by-one into an oversized laundry basket. It’s one of countless playful gags that strike a delicate balance with an often-dour story. The film takes place in Zubrowka, a fictional European alpine state ravaged by war and poverty pre-WWII. Amidst the conflict, Gustave and Zero are harassed by fascist troops and the ruthless enforcer Jopling (Willem Dafoe). The whimsical staging makes the splashes of violence even more shocking, like when a cat is thrown out of a window and we see the

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splattered corpse. Allusions to the real suffering in pre-WWII Europe complete Anderson’s conjuring of a place and time gone by. Zubrowka is an amalgamation of Eastern Europe of that era, brought vividly to life through alpine mountainscapes, the charming Mendl’s bakery, and of course the titular antiquated hotel. It’s the Europe of fantasy and memories, crafted through quaint miniatures and painted backdrops.

The bulk of the story is smartly told as a flashback within a flashback. The Grand Budapest Hotel is a clear cut above most films. It boasts a savant-level filmmaking IQ, and a few viewings would suffice to earn its PhD in Film Studies. Back at the Bradford residence, Ms. Rivera returned with the kids later that evening and encountered an ecstatic Bradford. “You have to see this movie,” he exclaimed. “It was genius!”

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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Candidacy The price of slavery bungle not all Helfand’s fault Nixon had Watergate, Chretien had sponsorship and Matt Helfand has not being an undergraduate student and technically not being allowed to run for president. We may have to think of a more succinct name for that one. Flashback to December 2013: Matt Helfand announced he would be running for president of the University Students’ Council, despite the notable handicap of not being allowed to. Nevertheless, through a loophole, he was allowed by the elections committee to run against Brian Belman, whom he later defeated in a landslide victory. As it turns out, that whole “allowed to run” thing was handled somewhat lackadaisically. Turns out the committee recommended that Helfand enrol in one undergraduate course, which he did — until elections were over, at which time he unceremoniously dropped the course. The epilogue is that this technically closed that little loophole Helfand jumped through, and the committee cannot seem to figure out where they stand on this decision. Needless to say this turn of events has put a stain on the sterling reputation of the USC elections. There’s no way to sugarcoat it — the elections committee deserves most of the blame for this snafu, a totally unforeseen consequence of making up rules as they went along. If the committee was making up rules, they might have considered communicating their exact judgment to Helfand, or at least coming up with some sort of concrete set of recommendations. Not that Helfand is a completely innocent victim in all this — he clearly understood that he was running only through a thin technicality. But he did make the necessary effort to make sure he was fine to run. It’s not his fault the committee couldn’t decide if they want to follow the bylaws or make up rules on the fly. The main lesson to take away might be that rules are dumb. If a technicality will allow a graduate student to run for president of the undergraduate students, then it almost seems meaningless to have such petty elections rules as where you can have a sign. Clearly the elections committee needs to be reformed, but maybe it’s time to take a long hard look at Bylaw 2. If the USC isn’t going to tighten it up and actually start enforcing the rules, they’re better off throwing it away and starting from scratch. — The Gazette Editorial Board

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The Chronicles of Naira

Naira Ahmed GRAPHICS EDITOR If today I informed you that you supported slavery, you probably wouldn’t agree. Yet if we reflect on it, we realize that through our purchases we indirectly contribute to a complex system of modern-day slavery. The reality is that almost everything — from the clothes we wear to the food we consume — is not ethically sourced. Though we may not feel the social, economic and environmental price for our actions, many others do. But just because we can’t see it, does that mean that the problem isn’t happening? Fortunately, there’s a small solution to the problem. Four years ago, I heard the definition of the words “fair trade” for the first time. Four years ago, the way I defined empowerment changed. If you have been led to believe that it’s a tree-hugging, hipster trend it definitely is not. In its most basic sense, fair trade is rooted in economic empowerment. It promotes the idea that justice should exist at the heart of business practices, so people worldwide can maintain a dignified livelihood and develop their true potential. If the majority of Canadians were being forced to work for $0.20 an hour in horrible conditions, we would consider that unjust and there would be uproar. We would remain stagnant as a population. We, however, don’t have to worry

about that as much as many other people around the world. The people who make our sneakers, the people who stitch our clothes, the people who harvest our coffee beans — we don’t have to worry about them; our privilege creates a barrier or sorts. Sadly, due to rapid rates of consumerism where everything is created more disposable and readily available than ever before, people tend to consume products to the point where traceability is out of the question. So why are the lives of hundreds and thousands of exploited humans significant to your morning coffee or your chocolate bar? Because people matter — their lives matter, their families matter and their histories matter. Fair trade should be the norm of trade. In an ideal world, there would be no need for a fair trade certification. Rather, we would have exploitation labels on the few products that have been produced unfairly. These unfair products are many — but among the most exploited are coffee and chocolate. Unethical business practices depend on you just as much as they depend on the next CEO. We are free-willed consumers who choose to support certain brands and products, and alternatives are available. That said, change begins (but does not end) with buying fair trade coffee. Change begins with education. Once we are truly informed as to what is happening to others due to our irresponsible consumption, only then can we make a difference. Search up on Google tonight, find out about fair trade, find out where your “stuff” comes from, and find out whom it exploits. Perhaps change can begin with a single, well-intentioned purchase. Maybe that purchase will be yours.

Dear Life Your anonymous letters to life Dear Life, Best wishes to the bearded man and his yearning woman. I hope they find not only each other, but also true love. Dear Life, I so ship the bearded man and girl looking for a bearded man in the Dear Life section. Dear Life, I really hope the love affair between the beard seeker and the bearded man in The Gazette comes to fruition. Dear Life, Bearded man I’ve read your reply, I cannot lie, it made me swoon and sigh. To your cabin, please whisk me away. I promise that from you and your beard, I’d never stray. I’d lay next to you and ponder ‘How could I get any fonder?’ Of my mountain man. Now the campus pub, I don’t often hang around. But at Trivia, I can sometimes be found. And there you may find a lady fair, with pale skin and brunette hair. Bearded man come out and see, if “you” and “I” could maybe be a “we.”

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Letter to the Editor

No microwaves hurt our success To The Editor: A couple of weeks ago, I went to use the microwave at Quotes Café in the Weldon Library. It was gone. So I went to use the microwave in the UCC. It was also gone. I finally found a microwave in the basement of Social Science Centre, with a line-up of at least eight people. In the middle of my rant to the girl in line behind me, I dramatically tossed my half-drunk Tim Hortons coffee into the garbage. My speech was made less impressive when, a few seconds later, I picked it back out to roll up the rim. I am privileged to be able to buy a daily coffee at Tim Hortons. I am also an OSAP student who, like many others, cannot afford to buy the majority of meals on campus. So it was to my dismay when I asked for a cup of hot water in the Spoke and was told that they would have to charge me for it.

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I only started going to the Spoke last year when the cafes with self-dispensing machines began charging $0.50 for hot water. Now, outside of residences, the only eatery that serves free hot water on campus is Starbucks. Students spend time preparing meals to bring to campus because they are staying on campus to work, study, attend class and be active participants in their school community, and they do it because they cannot afford to do otherwise. The student that must leave campus against their wishes to go home and eat is one that has had their productivity time diminished; they are at a disadvantage to their more affluent peers. After residence, even if I was craving something healthy when I was on campus, I went for whatever was cheapest. I didn’t know about refined carbohydrates that spike your blood sugar and make you hungry again sooner. All I knew was that bagels were cheap, and so I had a bagel for breakfast and lunch. The arrival of the Grocery Checkout

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has been a significant step towards offering on-campus meal options that are healthy and affordable. But the presence of an independently owned business should not be the most beneficial move that Western has made towards providing healthy options for the student body. I am writing this because on a campus that at least superficially supports healthy eating and economic inclusivity, having a few more microwaves around constitutes a small but significant step towards the support of low-income students. Again I ask: Where are the microwaves? — Casey Gazzellone Arts & Humanities IV Correction: In yesterday’s article “Teaching report refuted,” it was stated that a representative from HEQCO could not be reached for comment. This was incorrect; due to a miscommunication, HEQCO was not originally contacted for comment. They have been invited to comment and the online story will be updated accordingly. The Gazette regrets the error.

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Sports

tweetoftheweek Crazy Stat of the Day: DeSean Jackson had 8 receptions of 40+ yards last year – 2 more than the Redskins had as an entire team.

>> SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) on DeSean Jackson’s remarkable performance this year, outdoing the entire Redskins team.

Rundown >> Mustangs men’s hockey left-winger, Daniel Erlich, led the Canadian Interuniversity Sport top-10 for both points and assists for the 2013–14 season > The star player has 50 points and 40 assists, beating second-ranked Derek Hulak of the University of Saskatchewan in both categories.

CIS amends National Championships Winter finals to be hosted on Super Championship weekend

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

The Canadian Interuniversity Sport’s two biggest winter sports will have a different playoff format next season. The CIS has added two additional teams to the men and women’s CIS hockey championships brakcets and a championship weekend for both sports that will take place on the same weekend in March as part of the CIS Super Championship weekend to be televised by Sportsnet.

Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced last Thursday that it has made changes to the winter national championships for basketball and hockey. The previous two-pool system used for the CIS hockey championships for both women’s and men’s will be replaced by a single elimination competition. On top of the seeding change, the CIS will expand the competition from six to eight teams. With the recent expanding nature of Canadian university sports, the CIS is attempting to invigorate the national championships for their two biggest winter

sports. “Having eight teams instead of six brings another 25 per cent of student athletes to a national championships, which is really cool,” Pierre Lafontaine, chief executive officer, said. For the women’s hockey berthing format, each regional association is awarded one seed for their championship team, leaving the final four spots to the host, a second team from the Ontario University Sport, a berth assigned by the CIS — the criteria has yet to be decided — and a final wild card spot awarded to the school with next best regular season success. “There will be a selection committee made up of CIS coaches, and what we need to do is prior to

this, is determine what selection criteria will be — so playoff performance, regular season record. There has to be some numerical value to the criteria we establish,” Sheila-Ann Newton, manager of events and programs, said. On the men’s side, the last four spots will be awarded differently. The host team is given the fifth spot, and the final three are divided between the remaining four regions. In a case where the host team is one of the regional association champions, Newton explained that the final seed will be awarded to the next best CIS team of the season. Likewise, CIS basketball will continue with an eight-team single elimination system but will go from

three to four days of competition to improve the flexibility surrounding the final four championships. The changes to the winter national championships are expected to help encompass the new plans for a super championship weekend. With the elite eight rounds to be played on the Thursday and Friday of the championship week, the Saturday and Sunday of the national championship weekend will be dedicated to the semifinals and the national final. The CIS basketball berthing format remained unchanged. In the upcoming 2015–16 season, the national CIS basketball championships will take place in Laval, Quebec, for the women, and

at the University of Toronto for the men. “For us, we just need to do things differently than what we used to, and with our discussion with Sportsnet, it was certainly something that we brought to the table that might be something to try,” Pierre Lafontaine said. The Super Championship weekend will allow the CIS and their broadcasting partners to televise the championship rounds for the affected sports over the two-day period. “In one weekend, Sportsnet is going to cover 20 hours of CIS sport,” Lafontaine said. The 2015 CIS Super Championship is expected to take place on the weekend of March 12.

Hutchinson is the confident young pitcher the Jays need Wild Danimal

Daniel Weryha SPORTS EDITOR The confident young pitcher is tough to rattle, and even harder to beat. Just when you think his youth will be his downfall, he pitches aggressively, attacking the strike zone. Ahead 0–2 in the count, Toronto Blue Jays’ starting pitcher Drew Hutchinson was looking to win his first matchup of the season against Tampa Bay Rays’ slugger

Evan Longoria at the bottom of the second inning. In prime position to throw a ball low and sweeping away, Hutchinson elected to approach the situation a little differently. The veteran Longoria crowded the plate, waiting for a ball to hang just a little more than the others. Recognizing the situation, Hutchinson pitches two high and inside, streaking right by Longoria’s plate. With the hitter backed off the plate, Hutchinson threw his knock out pitch, a slider low and away that caught the edge of the strike box to retire the clean-up batter. Blue Jays’ manager John Gibbons’ reasoning for giving his young pitcher the second spot in

the rotation extends further than his own personal trust in his player’s skill. After spending all of the 2013 season recovering Tommy John surgery for an elbow injury suffered in his first season starting as a Blue Jay, Hutchinson returned to the mound in pre-season and snatched one of the two remaining rotation spots available. In pre-season, Hutchinson made four starts, had 19 strikeouts, finished with a 1.80 earned run average, and a 0.80 WHIP in 15 innings pitched. Primed to make his first start of the 2014 regular season following a horrendous start by the Blue Jays knuckleball ace in the game, Hutchinson struck-out

four, conceded three hits, and with no earned runs over 5.1 innings pitched to take his first, and the Jays first win of the season. Hutchinson used his fastball to get ahead in the count, and when he fell behind, he didn’t panic. The young pitcher stuck to what he knew, and continued the onslaught. It’s hard for an inexperienced player to pitch for a team with such high expectations. Blue Jays fans are holding their breath, hoping that this will be the year their team stands out in the unwinnable American League East — the toughest division in baseball. But confidence makes all the difference in a pitcher’s career, and Hutchinson has it. A confident

pitcher can walk two straight batters and still maintain his focus. A good pitcher recognizes that he’s facing an average hitter like Rays’ second baseman, Logan Forsythe, that he can use to his advantage. With two runners on base, Hutchinson gets ahead 1–2 in the count and goes back to his low slider forcing Forsythe into a double play to end the inning. For a rotation that struggled to produce consistent quality starts only a season ago, having a confident arm like Hutchinson in the rotation will boost the Jays in a tough series. Though the Jays will need to limit his pitch count to avoid another injury, Hutchinson should finish with a solid ERA and an above .500 record this season.

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REPORT CARD Baseball

Expectations

Best moment

Last season, the Western Mustangs baseball team finished with a regular season record of 14–9, qualified for the Ontario University Athletics championships but were defeated in two straight games and knocked out of the tournament. With the return of Adam Paish, the two-time OUA pitcher of the year and the addition of Cam Graham, the Brock University catcher, the expectations were very similar to those of last season. A young squad would challenge the team, but with good coaching from one of the OUA’s best, Mike Lumley, the Mustangs were expected to overcome those minor difficulties.

MVP

Worst moment

Going into the month of October, the Mustangs were riding a 10-game win streak. Down 7–4 to last season’s OUA champions — the University of Toronto Varsity Blues — going into the seventh inning, the Mustangs were in jeopardy of having their streak snapped. With a seven-run inning at the bottom of the seventh, the Mustangs were able to rally back and keep their streak alive. Outfielder Dustin Sarancini hit a two-run double with the bases loaded, and with two runners on, outfielder Graham Holland hit a four-run bomb to take the lead for the Mustangs and seal the 11–7 victory.

Looking forward

With a relatively young infield, third-year second baseman Simon Weisz stepped up both defensively and offensively for the Mustangs. Weisz led the team with a .339 batting average collecting 21 hits, in 62 at bats. The Toronto native finished the season with 11 RBIs and 15 stolen bases to stand out as the Mustangs’ most effective lead-off batter. As the Mustangs starting second baseman, Weisz only committed two errors in 20 games, but failed to hit a single home run. Weisz is expected to play for the Mustangs again next season.

On day one of the OUA championships round robin, Mustangs’ star pitcher Adam Paish got into some early trouble against the Guelph Gryphons. Paish gave up four runs in the first inning and was eventually pulled in the third after allowing nine earned runs on eight hits in only two innings. The 9–0 deficit was too much to overcome. The bullpen would slow the bleeding as they only gave up a single run after the pitching change. The 10–1 final was the worst possible start to the OUA championships. The Mustangs would lose the following game to the Brock Badgers to end their season.

Overall grade

The Mustangs found success with a relatively young team. Young infielders like Nolan Anderson and Simon Weisz were two of the Mustangs’ top performers this season. With Adam Paish expected to return for another season, the Mustangs will have a veteran presence in the rotation to help lead the young pitching staff. Paish may not serve as the team’s ace next season, but having him back on the mound is a reality any team would be more than happy to live in. This season Owen Boon emerged as one the Mustangs’ most effective pitchers.

B+

The Mustangs had a great regular season but recreated the very same results in the post season. The young team thrived once they clicked as a unit, going on a 10-game winning streak and defeating last season’s OUA champions with a seven-run comeback. Regardless of their regular season success, the 10–1 loss in the first game of the playoffs simply exposed the inexperience of this team. Having overcome their early season woes is deserving of some recognition but their playoff struggles are hard to overlook.

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