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London flu death toll climbs Polls close today for Two more die amid fresh H1N1 outbreak Brescia elections Stephanie Grella GAZETTE STAFF

Bill Wang GAZETTE

FEELING A BIT UNDER THE WEATHER. The influenza death toll in London since September is now at four, with 143 laboratory-confirmed cases since the beginning of September, according to the Middlesex London Health Unit.

Jesica Hurst ONLINE EDITOR On Monday afternoon, the Middlesex-London Health Unit confirmed influenza was the cause of two more deaths in the London region, bringing the total number of deaths caused by flu since September 1, 2013 to four.

According to a document released by the MLHU titled “20132014 Influenza Surveillance Report: Update of Current Status and Issues,” a total of 142 laboratoryconfirmed influenza A cases and one case of influenza B have been reported since September 1, 2013.

Twenty-seven of the 142 influenza A cases have been found to be H1N1 — the same strain that caused the pandemic in 2009 — and 49 per cent of the 143 cases have been hospitalized.

Dr. Bryna Warshawsky, associate medical officer of health for the MLHU, explained the H1N1 strain could affect anybody.

“We know that [H1N1] tends to affect seniors a little bit less, and younger people a little bit more.

People of all ages can be affected, but we are finding that adults and children less than five are being affected more,” Warshawsky said.

“The reason children less than five are being particularly affected is because they weren’t born when the strand circulated in 2009 — this is the first time they are being exposed to it,” she continued.

When people usually get very sick with the flu, they are generally elderly or have underlying medical conditions. However, while Warshawsky explained that H1N1 could affect those people too, it could also affect people

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who are otherwise healthy, without underlying medical conditions, or younger.

That being said, according to the Influenza Surveillance Report, 62 per cent of influenza cases reported have been among adults between the ages of 20 and 64.

While every flu season is different, Warshawsky explained the ways people can protect themselves and others haven’t changed.

“The most important thing obviously is to get the flu shot — it’s not too late to get it now,” she said, adding that the best time to get it is in October or November.

“The other thing people can do is stay home if they are sick so they don’t spread infections around. If you think you might have the flu or the cold, or are experiencing diarrhea and vomiting, stay home until you feel better.”

After two days of voting, results from the Brescia University College Students’ Council presidential elections will be publicly announced today after polls close at 4:00 p.m.

In the past, presidential, vicepresidential and Brescia councillor candidates would campaign simultaneously in the first few weeks of January, but this year marks a change in the election process.

Now, the presidential candidates run and are elected individually, unlike candidates running in the USC slate system.

The candidates are Ali Catton, a second-year student studying political science and philosophy and current BUCSC vice-president finance, and Hien Ngo, a third-year sociology student and the vice-president communications on the BUCSC. “This year we have two candidates running for the position, which is very exciting because the presidential elections have been uncontested in the past few years,” said Jazmyn Jansen, current BUCSC president. “I’ve had the wonderful experience of working closely with both candidates this year.”

Catton and Ngo have several ideas in mind, including making

This year we have two candidates running for the position, which is very exciting because the presidential elections have been uncontested in the past few years.

— Jazmyn Jansen

Current BUCSC president.

BUCSC more transparent for students, and bringing more guest speakers and alumni events to help connect students with career professionals.

Catton has suggested that if elected, she would facilitate monthly sit-downs with council who would take the chance to talk with students about their concerns. The idea is to connect councillors directly with their constituents.

Both Catton and Ngo each announced that there should be a stronger focus on health and wellness by including a mental health forum where students can discuss >> see ELECTIONS pg.3

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TEA TIME. Student senators treated students walking through the University Community Centre with free coffee, tea and light pastries. A number of representatives on the Senate discussed matters such as budget planning, academic issues, and university planning concerns with students who took the time to eat the treats.

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Amit Chakma announced yesterday that Western has donated $785,386 to the London Middlesex United Way — the largest donation ever made to the charity’s London chapter.

The donation was revealed using musical guests Rick McGhie and accompaniment, who turned over their instruments to reveal each digit of the sum to United Way CEO Andrew Lockie and the audience in the Mustang Lounge.

This marks the university surpassing the $9-million mark in donations to the London and Middlesex community this year, Chakma revealed.

“Western’s engagement in the community is central to our mission as a university,” Chakma said in a release. “The United Way supports our community with the widest spectrum of the services for those most in need and Western is proud to support their vital work in our region.”

A substantial chunk of the donation came from the Ivey HBA students’ campus lemonade stand campaign. Overall, Ivey students raised $109,000 for the United Way this year by selling lemonade around campus.

Chakma challenged other faculties on campus to come up with an equally creative initiative to match

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this donation. “[The United Way] is trying to invest as best we can in social services that will make a difference in people’s lives,” Lockie said.

Lockie thanked Western for the monetary donation, and presented Chakma with a green and yellow coloured painting symbolizing community in gratitude.

—Megan Devlin

Ontario expanding tuition grants Ontario is expanding its 30 per cent off tuition grant to make an additional 5,000 students eligible for the discount.

Students in their final year of a five-year co-op program as well as students attending private institutions who are eligible for OSAP will now be included in the grant.

Students who have applied for OSAP don’t need to fill out a separate application for the grant, because the OSAP application functions as an application for both.

The Canadian Federation of Students was especially concerned about the new grant for private institutions, according to Anna Goldfinch, executive representative for CFS. “I think students in Ontario are upset by this change because this is funding and promoting private institutions rather than re-investing money that’s sorely needed in our public institutions,” Goldfinch said.

She said students in Ontario are disappointed with the 30 per cent tuition grant program for which only one-third of Ontario students are eligible.

Students in Ontario pay the the highest tuition fees in Canada, on top of having the lowest per student funding and the lowest full-time faculty to student ratios, according to Goldfinch.

—Megan Devlin

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Charities no longer eligible for USC grants Soheil Milani GAZETTE STAFF Proposed changes to the University Students’ Council’s grants committee will end the practice of granting money to charity initiatives, and make the members of the committee anonymous.

The USC’s long-term planning and budget standing committee is seeking to restructure the grants program, established in 2011 to support student projects and is currently drafting and debating the details. The USC grant fund, estimated at about $100,000, is used to award grants to students based on applications received.

The goal of the grants committee is to provide funding for community development initiatives, and acceptable applications will need to fall in the categories of culture and arts, intellectual and educational, civic engagement, spiritual, health and wellness, environmental, or community and social.

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We don’t think it’s responsible for us as administrators of public funds to donate public funds to charity […]

Students should get benefits from the money they give us. They can privately donate to charity.

— Spencer Brown

USC vice-president finance

“The number one mandate of the grant program is to build and strengthen the community on campus,” Spencer Brown, vicepresident finance for the USC, said.

Changes coming this year include the way committee members are appointed. Council also hopes to pass guidelines for the committee to follow, although they will be suggestions, granting flexibility. These changes will go before USC council at February’s meeting.

“We need more oversight, lots

of oversight,” Brown stressed. “The USC will be collecting receipts, checking revenues, making sure the events happen and require summary reports.”

The new structure is modeled on similar systems run by Harvard and Penn State Universities. Priority will be given to proposals that engage a large student segment, and which are in line with USC and grant committee mandates. The members of the committee will be made anonymous to discourage corruption or

New USC review policy Brescia Services to face regular scrutiny Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR

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ideas with community resources.

According to Ngo, there is a greater need for students to understand the connection between their undergraduate education and the occupations in the field. If elected, she pledges to bring in a job fair where Brescia alumni would come in mentor students.

“Both candidates are extremely passionate about their platforms, where they address issues such as mental health and wellness, student jobs and engaging with the London community,” Jansen said.

“They truly want to improve and build upon the student experience at Brescia.”

While the two platforms promise to improve many of the affiliate college’s services, the candidates introduce many ideas that Brescia has not yet seen. Catton is suggesting a new scholarship fund for students with significant achievement in academic and extra-curricular activities, and Ngo suggests more “fun stuff” be organized for Brescia students.

“I believe that to have the full university experience, you need some fun stuff,” wrote Ngo, who suggested events like a Huron-Brescia-King’s formal and a YouTube singer series.

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Programs and services run by the University Students’ Council will be facing regular reviews under a new policy passed by a USC committee.

The Portfolio Service Level and Program Review committee’s new program review procedure includes a review template with 34 specific questions about the given program to be answered by the reviewer.

Anything run by a commissioner or a coordinator through USC is within the scope of the new program review policy. Theatre Western is one example of a program falling under this purview.

The new procedure decrees that in the future, the committee will pick five to six programs every summer to review in the upcoming school year. Programs will not be reviewed more than once within a three-year period.

The new policy will call on USC executives to conduct the review, but will give them leeway to collaborate and delegate to service coordinators, since they are the closest and therefore most knowledgeable about the program.

“We found that the people most directly involved with the program or service were the most educated who would be the best to speak to how the service was functioning,” Maggie Zhu, chair of the Portfolio Service Level and Program Review Committee, said.

Because of the nature of programs being reviewed, most of the responsibility will likely fall on the vice-president internal, Zhu explained.

Zhu said she was motivated by the mandate of this standing committee, because reviewing programs is something she thinks the USC needs to do more of.

However, the committee lacked a clear procedure for how to review programs. So, Zhu worked with legislative assistant Andrew Shaw and members of the USC executive to craft the new program review procedure and review template.

Unlike many recommendations made at USC standing committees, the new policy did not have to be approved by council since it is an internal matter. Instead, it was presented to councillors at last night’s council meeting without a debate or motion involved.

Theatre Western declined to comment, since at press time they were unaware of the policy change.

Zhu wasn’t worried about conflict of interest since part of the review involves feedback from different students as well as review metrics.

Zhu was excited to spearhead what she hopes will be a long-term policy change within the USC. “I’m really excited to see this implemented and I hope a lot of positive changes take place, even if that’s just knowing the programs are running as they should,” she said.

bribery in decisions about whether to release grant funds.

When asked why funds would no longer be made available to charities, Brown said donations weren’t the intended purpose of the grants.

“We don’t think it’s responsible for us as administrators of public funds to donate public funds to charity,” Brown said. “Students should get benefits from the money they give us. They can privately donate to charity.”

Brown pointed out that the award is not meant for clubs to expand their operating budgets, or fund events currently paid through member fees. The committee is also not looking for individuals looking to fund personal missions overseas or to conferences.

“Money has to be spent responsibly,” Brown explained. “We want to make sure students are getting the most bang for their buck.”

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“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Student stress struggles Drama Society brings Broadway to Huron Janice Fung GAZETTE STAFF

“It’s kind of like a building, almost like a wall — you have your first layer of stresses and then you have a second layer,” Scott explains. “It just keeps adding up and if you can’t find a way to break through that wall or to knock down those bricks they tend to build up over time until all of a sudden you have a big wall.”

Scott recommends students make sure to stick to a regular exercising routine to help reduce stress.

“We’ve noticed that students who have a regular exercise routine — a lot of them find that exercising really helps them,” Scott notes. “There are many studies that have been done that we talk about in our staff meetings about how good exercise is in reducing anxiety. So that’s a really good thing. It doesn’t necessarily have to be an hour every day, even if you went for a 20-minute walk — that can be really helpful.

With the amazing success of Huron’s Undergraduate Drama Society’s first Broadway show last year, HUDS will be staging another production this weekend that will be “fun for the whole family,” according to promotional material.

This Friday and Saturday, HUDS will be performing Broadway Lights at the Huron Student Activity Centre.

While Broadway shows are not what HUDS typically perform, there will be many elements of the show that will remind audiences of the club’s comedic origins.

“We have a reputation for an edgy style from pushing the boundaries and providing potent satire,” states producer of Broadway Lights, Matt Stefan. “What’s new this year is we’ve taken great care to merge our audiences. We have amazing musical numbers from all your favourite Broadway productions and we’ve added a ‘HUDSian’ comedic twist by making sure to include some hilarious songs from Broadway and also with comedic transitions in between songs.”

“The musical is really intended to appeal to people who may not be interested in [comedy sketches], and expand our audience and performer base,” explains David Brooks, another HUDS producer.

This year, all the profits of the show will go towards a very close Huron cause. A Huron student, Francis Fondoh, tragically passed away last week and the proceeds will be going towards a fundraiser to send Fondoh’s body back to his home country of Cameroon.

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Tabitha Chan GAZETTE STAFF For many university students, the biggest worries they have looming in the back of their minds are about the uncertainty of the future.

Although the long-term pressures of having to eventually be successful with a high-paying job to support a family is always lingering in the background, students are often more stressed by immediate things like being late for a class, what they have to cook for dinner and when they will be able to find time to have a social life.

Gail Hutchinson, a psychologist and director of administration at the Student Development Centre, says that students have to learn how to use their stress in a positive way.

“You can make a situation worse by focusing on the negative rather

than focusing more on how to manage the stress,” Hutchinson says. “We need a certain amount of stress to be able to function and to do our work appropriately and be able to have enough energy to do what we’re doing.”

She advises students to plan their schedules ahead of time so they are not stuck at the last minute with a million things to do. Despite being organized, students have to prepare for the unexpected.

“Life will throw you a curve no matter how organized you are,” says Hutchinson.

She suggests that students need to have a community of friends that they can rely on and be able to share experiences with.

Brent Scott, an intake counselor at the Student Development Centre, says that stress can affect students in the long-term.

of ours at Huron, Francis Fondoh passed away last week and his family wishes to have a burial back where he was born in Cameroon,” Stefan says.

“All the proceeds for the show will be going to the fund to send the body of Francis Fondoh, the Huron student who passed away, back to Cameroon for a proper burial,” Brooks explains.

I am incredibly impressed with every single performer and the time and effort they have put into this show.

— David Brooks HUDS producer

Stefan explains that HUDS has arranged their upcoming show around an “Award Show” format that features many of their regular actors.

“It is a very long preparation process, with many weeks of long nights of rehearsals,” Brooks says. “I am incredibly impressed with every single performer and the time and effort they have put into this show. We held auditions before the Christmas break and have been rehearsing since we got back in January. For the past two weeks we have been writing the ‘Awards Show’ format to ensure smooth transitions.”

HUDS will be performing Broadway Lights at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. For more information, visit their Facebook page “Huron Underground Dramatic Society.”

Editor’s Picks > The essentials for your week

ON DISC Mind Over Matter — Young the Giant A new album from the band that wrote “Cough Syrup.” It’s easy to get hung up over that song title about something as seemingly mundane as a remedy for your illness but not for Young the Giant! Of course, there are other uses for cough syrup — but why would anyone use it for something nefarious? That said, the banana flavored one is quite delicious so it’s quite reasonable to imagine anyone chugging gallons of it. Their new album Mind Over Matter seems to be more of the same from Young the Giant, which isn’t a bad thing because the band’s first effort was undeniably popular and interesting.

IN THEATERS Nebraska (At the Hyland)

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So it’s the thick of January, which essentially means there is absolutely nothing coming out in theaters.

Instead, what theaters everywhere are filled with are foreign films and Oscar bait. Nebraska is the latter.

It’s shot entirely in black and white, which is generally an annoying and quite artificial filming technique. It reeks of Wizard of Oz when Dorothy is in Kansas and everything is in sepia tone. We’re not in the 1930s anymore, colour is an option. It just always seems like grandstanding in the subtlest way. Nebraska has Oscar nominations, though, so see it!

Forrest Gump gets captured by Somali pirates! Isn’t that the most exciting thing ever? Except apparently this is actually Tom Hanks and Forrest Gump is merely a character. Being disappointed is reasonable. Stop for a minute and imagine if the plot had twisted that way in Forrest Gump! It would have happened when Bubba and Forrest were on their shrimping boat in the Gulf Coast. The storm was raging but an eerie boat appeared within in the mist — Somali pirates. Now that would have won Oscars! Sure, Forrest Gump won some stuff but with Somali Pirates it would have been the Citizen Kane of the 1990s!

“Say Something” — A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera This song has been on the Billboard charts for 10 whole weeks and there is a feeling that arises when listening that it seems somewhat underground. Usually when thinking of the top songs “on the charts,” uptempo barnburners spring to mind. Instead, this sounds like something that would be expected in a gospel church. Not that there’s anything wrong with gospel churches but is the lady who sang “Dirrty” (and looked hella dirty while doing it) to be trusted singing the puh-salms (psalms for those of you who are not as fun loving) in a church? Questionable.

ON TV Wahlburgers Mark, Donnie, and Paul Wahlberg own a burger restaurant. Musing about whether this dining establishment was opened for the sole purpose of using the incredibly clever name, Wahlburgers, is perfectly reasonable. It’s in Boston so there will likely be a gaggle of accents that are sure to be exaggerated because that’s what makes for good television. If A&E had any foresight, they would surely ham up the accents and make this show as stereotypically Boston as possible. People love that tough accent; it’s very intimidating. Will the burgers be any good? Time will tell but for some reason Marky Mark is eliciting skepticism.

— Bradley Metlin

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The nouveau narcissism Social media is encouraging self-worship Robert Nanni CONTRIBUTOR With social media allowing people to create an online version of themselves, it’s not surprising that researchers are finding higher scores of narcissism in the youth of the Information Age. According to a study conducted across the United States of America using the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, approximately 70 per cent of students scored higher on narcissism and lower on empathy than the average student 30 years ago.

“Narcissism is a common attribute of all rational, self-invested individuals with at least some appropriate degree of self regard,” says Kane Faucher, a Media, Information and Technoculture professor at Western who studies post-Marxism and social networking theory.

“Without a bit of narcissistic tendency, there would be no motive for keeping oneself alive,” he says.

Faucher identifies the divide between healthy and pathological narcissism, but perhaps today’s youth are moving towards the latter.

In modern society, individuals use social media to Instagram photos of lavish vacations, tweet selfies in swimsuits and post statuses about “that wild night!!” — all in an attempt to garner the approval of the general public.

“This is one of the most disastrous myths of online interaction: Relying on number inflation as a source of personal value, whether that be number of ‘likes,’ followers, friends, or balance in one’s bank account,” Faucher explains.

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On any form of social media that incorporates some sort of quantitative system — friends on Facebook, retweets on Twitter, reblogs on Tumblr — there exists an underlying association between that value and one’s relative importance.

Applying Faucher’s assertion, if a person has 400 likes on their profile picture, and another individual only has 24, the former is, theoretically, 376 likes more attractive than the latter. Though unorthodox, these numerical representations offer a modern currency to be craved — individuals become so obsessed with others’ perceptions of themselves that they, too, fall in love with the idea of their own portrayed appearance.

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GGGGH Bruce Springsteen High Hopes Columbia Bruce Springsteen’s High Hopes is an album comprised of re-recorded versions of previously unreleased tracks, covers, re-imagined versions of previous songs and songs that didn’t make it into past albums.

If it proves anything, it shows that Springsteen literally never has an off day.

Drawing from several periods over the past decade, High Hopes features a wide-range of styles that Springsteen has adopted over the years. “Heaven’s Wall” recalls the gospel style of his last album, Wrecking Ball, while the rock redo of “The Ghost of Tom Joad,” featuring Tom Morrello of Rage Against the Machine, brings in fresh hard rock guitar solos and an incredible harmony between Springsteen and Morrello.

Highlights of the album include “American Skin (41 Shots),” a song originally written and performed in live shows after the shooting of Amadou Diallo in 2000, but the song gained new meaning having been brought out during concerts in tribute to Trayvon Martin. It is the most political track of Springsteen’s new album, providing a critical argument that not much has changed in America in 14 years.

While the album draws on a wide range of Springsteen’s work over the past couple decades, the arrangement of the songs on the album is inconsistent. The touching “American Skin (41 Shots)” does not transition well into “Just Like Fire Would” and the middle section of the album drags on without the same energy of its beginning four tracks and concluding three.

However, the album ends on a high note. The rock redo of “The Ghost of Tom Joad” is another knockout track. The addition of Morrello is a great benefit to the E-Street Band and it will be incredible to see how this partnership develops in Springsteen’s next albums.

Since the 1970s, Springsteen has been writing some of the most inspiring rock music known to the world and even today his music provides some of the most relevant and inspiring songs. Kings or queens may rise in the ever-growing plethora of music genres, but Bruce Springsteen will always be The Boss.

— Brent Holmes

validated by someone else for one’s production quickly slips off into an exchange value whereby it is a form of ‘social’ capital leveraged to ‘win’ in the game of the attention economy,” Faucher says, hinting at a social market in which the youth are a hot commodity.

Based on what Faucher says about social media, this sport of comparative numbers could be seriously detrimental to one’s self-esteem and self-worth. If one is constantly basing their importance — or lack thereof — on the respective significance of those around them, then their image could be susceptible to negative change and all that will remain is a composition of makeup, Photoshop, and their oh-so-vital amount of likes.

Every year brings its own health crazes. From fad diets to the newest workouts, the health and fitness industry can be a trendy one. If 2013 was the year of Colour Runs and coconut oil, there’s no doubt that this year will bring a host of new trends into the mix. Here are my predictions for what will be getting our attention in 2014: Tech to keep you on track Years ago, a pedometer was about the fanciest you could get when it came to strapping a device on yourself to track your activity.

Today, options abound that allow you to track everything from your sleep patterns to your heart rate variability to the number of calories you burn, most of which sync automatically with an app on your smartphone. Polar, Sony, and Garmin are set to release new and increasingly sophisticated trackers this year designed to keep you on track towards your health or fitness goals on a 24/7 basis.

Fermented foods Last year, “kombucha” transitioned from an answer that might challenge you in a crossword puzzle to a relatively easy-to-find beverage at restaurants and grocery stores.

Besides the fermented tea, other fermented foods that have been part of traditional diets for years — celebrated for their ability to restore healthy gut bacteria — are making a comeback. From sauerkraut (fermented cabbage) to sourdough bread to kefir (fermented milk), I see probiotics — and better digestion — in our future.

CrossFit and all its elements If you haven’t met a CrossFitter who’s tried to convince you that CrossFit is the only way to work out — CrossFitters are notoriously adamant about their way being the

best way — I don’t think you’ll have to wait long to come across one.

The news has been abuzz lately with CrossFit critics and evangelists alike talking about the program. As CrossFit, whose “specialty is not specializing,” keeps getting more popular, I predict the individual elements that make up the “sport of fitness”— gymnastics, Olympic weightlifting, and powerlifting, to name a few — will also see a surge in popularity.

Getting your head in the game Goal setting and visualization might be old news in the world of health and fitness, but I predict a bigger emphasis on proper goal setting and planning when it comes to training, nutrition and performance this year. There are weight loss coaches for people hoping to get down to the real reasons they struggle to drop pounds, sports psychologists for athletes hoping to take their performance to the next level and health coaches for those just looking to improve their health.

With all of these options — and a pretty strong message that getting fitter or healthier is something we can all do for ourselves — people will be turning to these kinds of professionals to help them make their goals a reality.

While health and fitness can sometimes get a bad rap for being trendy, that’s too simplistic. It’s important to discern between trends and scams. A new trend might be spurred on by research findings — which means jumping onto a trend will make us healthier and fitter — while a scam will certainly seem too good to be true. If a real food or an exercise program is popular and gets people eating healthier or moving their bodies more, I call it a win.

— Cheryl Madliger

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Opinions HAVE YOUR SAY

The Gazette asked students if they thought it was wrong to point out someone’s weight.

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Mary Ann Ciosk ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

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In striving towards optimal health, I’m often met with reactions of confusion or disapproval. Some even think what I’m doing is unnecessary or unhealthy.

Eating a plant-based diet and exercising every day is certainly not the norm, making it difficult and awkward at times when I explain to others that I don’t really eat junk food and that it’s important to me to go running regularly.

Clearly what is average is not necessarily healthiest (and often isn’t), but our cultural views on health have been warped by political correctness. Calling someone too fat, thus implying that there’s something wrong with an overweight figure, will basically put you on par with a war criminal today.

But niceties aside, being overweight is usually a symptom of eating poorly and not exercising enough, just as being extremely thin is often a result of undereating. The popular message to “love your body no matter what your size” is actually kind of unhealthy. Don’t beat yourself up over things you can’t change because they aren’t up to the standards of airbrushed, Hollywood perfection — but if your waist size is a reflection of poor lifestyle choices, why not make positive changes?

I’m certainly not advocating calling people out on being “fat,” but weight

MOS and Political Science III “There is a bias towards when someone is larger.

Pointing out someone’s weight may be socially acceptable in certain circumstance and not in others. It’s a double standard but if you’re skinny it’s okay — people aren’t so reluctant to point it out.”

Vareen Syed

Biomedical Science II “Most people don’t bring it up because they’re afraid of the response. But there is a double standard — but I think it’s how well you know the person. But you can’t just go up to a random person and throw it in their face — there could be a bunch of reasons why they’re like that.”

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shouldn’t be such a taboo subject that a friend can’t suggest that eating a third donut may not be the best decision, in the same way one could advise a friend that they shouldn’t smoke a pack of cigarettes a day.

We plaster pictures of deformed fetuses and cancer-ridden lungs everywhere, so it’s become risqué for TV shows to even feature smoking. As such, smokers are cordoned off into small, isolated areas to engage in their habit far away from the rest of society.

We have such a strong focus on making the public aware of the dangers of smoking, while the multiple and severe health risks associated with poor nutrition are virtually ignored. Also, over-indulging in junk food is not only an acceptable and even funny or likeable trait (such as in Bridget Jones’ Diary or Girls), but pursuing a healthful lifestyle is often regarded with disdain.

Linguistically, the attitudes towards weight and fitness are clear. Someone will be called “curvy” or “big-boned” to avoid the implication that weighing more is less attractive, yet the term “health nut” is used to describe someone concerned with diet and exercise because this is viewed as extreme, foolish behaviour. There is something amiss when it is more acceptable to be overweight than health-oriented.

I genuinely love and feel better running and eating a vegan diet — I don’t do these things due to some sort of unhealthy obsession or in order to look better than other people. Everyone is entitled to make their own lifestyle choices, but wouldn’t it wonderful to live in a world where eating tofu is regarded more positively than eating chips?

Dear Life Your anonymous letters to life Dear Life, Where did the UCC microwaves run off to? Will they ever return home?

Dear Life, Everyone keeps talking about Sophing. Should I do it?

Dear Life, I sneezed on the beat so the beat got sicker.

Dear Life, Why isn’t it acceptable to wear bras at the beach instead of bikini tops? They give me more support, look better, and the coverage is the same.

Dear Life, I no longer love my boyfriend. Or sex.

Dear Life, Are any of Western’s female wrestling team members single?

Dear Life, Is the policy to increase international students just a financial scheme? Or is it a response to declining entry standards from domestic students? wgaz.ca/dearlife

Letters to the Editor

Political Science and Globalization IV “I don’t think it’s okay to point out anyone’s weight on either end of the spectrum. It’s their own personal struggle whatever that might be but it should be our own decision to point it out.”

Mitch Adamson

— Lance Armstrong

“Healthy” shouldn’t be a negative word Information Ciosk

Medical Science IV “There shouldn’t be a distinction — you’re commenting on someone’s appearance whether they control it or not. It might be genetic or something they’re working with.”

“If we don’t somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we’re going to have a huge problem.”

The classifieds need job posts To the Editor: Is finding a place to live the only thing students care about? As someone struggling to find part time work, it is rather disheartening to see the classified section of this paper overrun with the ilk of London Property Corp and Varsity Housing.

If, instead, The Gazette integrated employment opportunities from Career Central into the classifieds, or solicited businesses to purchase ad space, employers could be provided with a better chance of finding the right candidate and students with a means of finding a job.

Considering the amount of coverage this year on unpaid internships and rising student debt, I figure it’s only reasonable

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The Gazette begins to make openings for paid work more accessible to students.

I just hope that those involved with securing the ads in this already ad-centric daily are at least attempting to help students find opportunities for making money, rather than spending it.

—Daniel Duyvelshoff FIMS V

River not for transportation RE: “Fontana wants gondola system for downtown,” Friday, January 17, 2014.

To the Editor: It was interesting reading in Friday’s Gazette about Mayor Fontana’s idea to introduce cable-car gondolas along London’s Thames River. I think this sort of infrastructure could be the spectacle that London has sought after to invigorate

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its downtown. I also think that this type of experience would be a novel way to engage the city’s natural surroundings with its current infrastructure.

Additionally, while I acknowledge that this idea is in preliminary stages (if any), I do believe that Mayor Fontana and the London City Council must reconsider the city and rivers’ environmental interdependence.

It must not be forgotten that last September the World Wildlife Fund released a Freshwater Health Assessment report on the Thames. The watershed scored 53 per cent, with the foundation citing the area’s development for alarming fluctuating seasonal water flows. This is significant because as the local watershed continues to wither, this natural environment should not be exploited for profit.

—Michael Usling FIMS III

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Sports

tweetoftheweek So Russell is a class act! Sherman on the other hand… If he played baseball would get a high and tight fastball.

>> Justin Verlander (@JustinVerlander), starting pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, in response to Richard Sherman’s outburst after Sunday’s win

Rundown >> Western’s track and field team will head to McGill this Friday and Saturday for the McGill Team Challenge in Montreal, Quebec > The Mustangs women’s hockey team will face-off against Windsor in their home game this Saturday.

Mustangs sweep Paladins in three sets Western demolishes Royal Military College at home Chris Miszczak ILLUSTRATIONS EDITOR There was tension and passion in the air of the Alumni Hall atrium on Friday, January 17 as the focused athletes took the stage.

The Western Mustangs women’s volleyball team defeated the Royal Military College Paladins 25–20, 25–10, and 25–23 in three straight sets to complete the sweep and take the 3–0 victory to snap their two-match losing streak.

Stephanie Kreuter, Mustangs’ right side, dominated play with 12 kills on 28 attempts, for a teamleading 13 points. Equally poised was Western’s Candice Scott, who finished the match with seven kills on 14 attempts. The duo controlled the frontcourt as they led the team to convincing victories in each of their first two sets.

“We definitely played our game, focused on our set and definitely went out and did what we had to do and that worked for us,“ Kreuter said.

After going up 2–0, the Mustangs seemed confident as they went into the third set of the game.

Outplayed in the first two sets, the Paladins came back stronger and gave the Mustangs fierce competition. When push came to shove, however, Western pushed back hard and came out on top with a 25–23 set score to win the game.

The purple and white earned their victory, playing with intensity and defending their side of the next with skill.

“I am really proud of our team and how we executed tonight, a lot of our players stepped up and really preformed well. What we are the happiest with is that we played a really aggressive [yet] defensive [game],” Melissa Bartlett, Mustangs’ head coach, said. “It’s nice to win at home and it’s a really great step forward for us and that

Grace Chung GAZETTE

THROW YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! The Mustangs women’s volleyball team played an outstanding match on Friday against Royal Military College. The Mustangs won the match by a score of 3–0, and went on to lose their next game the following day to Queen’s University.

goal towards the playoffs. That goal is within reach.”

Though RMC lost the game that day, they gave the purple and white a strong showing.

“In the end, our players played with a lot of heart,” Kerry MacLean, Paladins’ head coach, said.

While the Paladins did try to attack the net, the Mustangs’ strong defensive play prevailed.

The team responded to the onslaught by controlling possession and transitioning back into an

It’s nice to win at home and it’s a really great step forward for us and that goal towards the playoffs. That goal is within reach.

— Melissa Bartlett

Mustangs’ head coach

attacking position. Chelsey Litjens, the Paladins’ top scorer, finished the game with nine kills, but also conceded nine errors.

“It was a really good game for us, we had some struggles in the long set but we pushed through and played a very powerful game,” Kenzie MacDonald, Mustangs’ offensive hitter, said.

This win for the Mustangs is a great way to bring some momentum into the final games of their regular season.

After their win, the Western women lost their second game of the weekend on January 18 to Queen’s with an unfortunate 1–3 score. While the team ended their losing streak against the Paladins, the subsequent loss to the Queen’s Gaels puts the Mustangs back on the losing track. The Mustangs are heading into another doubleheader this Saturday and Sunday against Ryerson and Toronto, respectively, and will aim to turn things around.

Lunge across state lines Fencers head south of border for tourney Nusaiba Al-Azem SPORTS EDITOR The Mustangs fencing team is preparing for its final stretch before the Ontario University Athletics championships next week by travelling to Michigan for the Detroit Invitational this weekend. Western is the only Canadian university invited.

“Because we’re so close to Detroit, in the past five years we’ve been fencing in the Wayne State Open, which is an individual tournament, and then because of our connections there, we were invited to this tournament,” Brad Winder, Mustangs fencing cohead coach, said. “It is very exciting for us.”

The Detroit invitational is in an entirely different format than what the team is accustomed to. Rather than fencing individually with a point system that increases in increments of five, as is regulation in Canada, the fencers take on a team consisting of three fencers, where the point target is fixed at five touches.

The differences in structure for the Detroit invitational extend far beyond the team configuration. In a rare event, both Mustangs men’s and women’s fencing teams will compete simultaneously.

“This is a format that we’ve never done before,” Carol Christie, Mustangs fencing co-head coach, said.

Christie saw many benefits to this new format.

“They’ll be right there to cheer each other on and to support each other, which makes it a whole lot more fun, because the team practices together,” she said. “We train together, we go to tournaments together, but usually the men are off on the one time and the women are off on the other time. But this [tournament], they’re going to be right there, side by side.”

The tournament comes at an ideal time, prior to the OUA championships but following Western’s firstever coaching clinic-training camp >> see ‘STANGS pg.8

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combination this past weekend.

“This will be our one chance to really work on things [before OUAs],” Winder said. “We’re not even really going down there to win, we don’t even know how they determine in this tournament who wins, but we’re going down there to use some of the things that we were working on in the training camp and prepare for the week after.”

Though the team’s performance at this tournament will not affect their Ontario standings, there is still a lot of pressure to do well, as it could affect the members’ chances to compete in the OUAs altogether.

“We’re still not sure about OUA teams, like who’s going, so it’s going to be [that the] deciding factor is this tournament coming up,” Vivian Poon, Mustangs’ women’s foil captain, explained.

Poon, who regularly fences with a foil weapon, will be changing to épée due to a lack of épée team members for the tournament. While she is slightly out of practice, Poon is not worried about the change.

“I can fence both,” she said. “I’m pretty confident in [the change].”

She continued by reflecting on the general team atmosphere.

“I think everyone is just really excited,” Poon said.

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