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Caught on Camera

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VIVA LA GLAM. Charity Ball 2013 will be held on February 2 at the London Convention Centre. Tickets are available online or at Western Connections for $30.

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Blog to take candidates to task The University Students’ Council is introducing a new way students can pose questions for the upcoming presidential and vice-presidential debates on January 30 and February 5.

The student body can now post questions they wish the candidates to answer during debates through westernusc.ca. In addition, moderators will provide their own questions, along with questions taken from a live audience.

“We’re going to have live, predetermined questions and we’re going

to have moderated questions [we] think would be relevant to ask in the debate,” Pashv Shah, chief returning officer for the USC elections, said.

“This choice was decided partially because with the new changes to the USC structure we didn’t know what to expect when adding different dynamics, such as Twitter and Facebook, which change very quickly—we might not be able to adjust as fast as we would like.”

Therefore, to help control how the debate goes, Facebook and Twitter involvement during the live debates will be limited, with questions stemming mostly from blog submissions, the moderator and the audience.

—Jeremiah Rodriguez

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At Wednesday night’s council meeting it was announced Western administration will be assisting student senators with funding of up to approximately $1,000, provided through the secretariat’s office.

On January 24, a ‘Senatorial Tea Time’ was held in the University Community Centre’s atrium to help inform students about the role of the senate. Senators provided the opportunity to sit down and discuss the election process and the senate’s involvement in student affairs.

Caitlin Harvey, chair of the student senate, said the funding will help fund outreach events, such as this one.

“That allowance is going to be for events like this, and for senate meetings and senate events,” Harvey said. “We’ve never had a budget before—our budget came from the USC, and we’re very appreciative to have it.”

The allotment will also cover administrative fees used for research purposes, which senators had been contributing to out of pocket.

Harvey expressed her gratitude for the funding, saying that planning events is time-consuming, and having the budgeting more readily available will ease the event planning process.

“Senate can’t run any events when it takes months to plan things,” she said.

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A big Wynne in Ontario USC passes new First openly gay premier to head Liberals

social media policy Julian Uzielli Online Editor

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Aaron Zaltzman News Editor The race for Ontario’s next top premier came to an end on Saturday, as Toronto MPP Kathleen Wynne defeated Sandra Pupatello, and in doing so will serve not only as Ontario’s first ever female premier, but the country’s first ever openly gay premier.

“Is Ontario ready for a gay premier? You’ve heard that question,” Wynne said in her victory speech. “Not surprisingly, I have an answer to that question. When I ran in 2003, I was told that [people] weren’t ready for a gay woman.

Well, apparently they were.”

The Liberal party has been shedding MPPs who threw their hats into the arena to fill the seat of Dalton McGuinty, who announced a surprise resignation in October 2012. Wynne, who has served as a Liberal party MPP since 2003,

as well as the Ontario minister of Aboriginal Affairs, Transportation, Municipal Housing and Affairs and Education at various points in her career, will inherit a minority government keen to avoid an election.

“The past three months have been about ideas, renewal and excitement. Now, as a party, we will take that vision, that momentum, and transform it into a brighter future,” Wynne said. “The best way to do that is to keep governing, because Ontarians don’t want an election. They expect us to lead.”

Wynne promised she would tackle pressing issues as quickly as she could, which include assembling a cabinet, tabling a budget and reopening the Legislative Assembly that was prorogued last year by the outgoing McGuinty.

Alysha Li, vice-president university affairs for the University

Students’ Council and president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance, said her organization anticipates the leadership transition will be smooth.

“We’ve been working really well with the past government […] so we’re hoping to continue that relationship with the new cabinet,” Li said. “[Wynne] seemed really responsive to our requests and our research, so we’re really happy to keep working with her.”

Li also said the possibility of an election is looming large over OUSA’s politics.

“We are keeping our ears open like anyone else in the province,” Li said. “We don’t have a clear indication of whether or not an election is coming, but we are preparing for one at any time.”

It is not yet known when Wynne will be sworn in, but she will become Canada’s sixth female premier when she does.

Water pipe behind gym evacuation Jesica Hurst News Editor Students exercising in the Western Student Recreation Centre this past Friday were in for a surprise when asked to evacuate the building in the early afternoon.

According to Gareth Cunningham, manager of campus recreation, the fire alarm went off at approximately 12:30 p.m. due to flooding in the front vestibule of the building.

“From my understanding, because we had such cold temperatures throughout the week, we noticed on Tuesday that one of the heaters in the front vestibule wasn’t working quite properly,” Cunningham explained. “Because of the cold temperatures, some water obviously froze in a pipe leading to one of the sprinkler units, so we believe that freezing caused the unit to break.”

“Water came pouring out, setting off the fire alarm which caused the initial evacuation.”

Cunningham said Western’s caretaking and facility management were called in shortly after to turn the water line off and assess what was going on. The London Fire Department and Western’s fire safety team were also on site to help with the clean-up, and no significant damage occurred.

The facility was reopened at 3:00 p.m. the same day.

“I think, for the most part,

because we were able to respond so quickly, it doesn’t look like there’s major damage because the water was cleaned up so quickly,” he said. “Certainly, there are some ceiling tiles and a pipe or sprinkler that need to be replaced, but I don’t think there was any significant damage done, thankfully.”

Even though these pipe bursts can be a common consequence of changing temperatures, Cunningham was pleased with the staff’s ability to respond in such a prompt manor.

“I was really pleased to see how well our student staff were able to quickly deal with people leaving the building—it helped to reinforce the emergency preparedness that the team has,” he said. “We do the training for this and we have the occasional fire alarm tests, but when something real happens, it’s good to know [the staff] has learned what to do in those circumstances.”

The University Students’ Council has created a new social media policy to govern the online communication of its services and operations. The policy was passed at Wednesday’s council meeting after being approved by the communications standing committee.

According to the policy, the USC’s vice-president communications now “reserves the power to create, edit, delete, and manage the content of any and all USC-affiliated social media accounts.” This means communication on sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube for USC services and operations will now be more tightly monitored, and in the case of short-term events, such as Charity Ball and the annual income tax clinic, autonomous social media accounts will likely be eliminated altogether and incorporated into the general USC account.

The policy was mainly designed to curtail the glut of USC-related Twitter accounts, according to science councillor Meghan Bhatia, who brought the motion to council.

“There was an abundance of accounts for events that were one day a year. We just thought that the general public would get confused—‘Which account should I follow?’—and the information could be conveyed as a more uniform message,” she said.

“Even I miss events, as a student, that the USC is promoting,” she continued. “I’m just hoping that this way I only have to follow three or four accounts.”

The USC has never had a wideranging social media policy—until now, there was just a standard online code of conduct for staff and volunteers. According to Jeremy Santucci, current vice-president communications for the USC, the new policy is meant to “streamline” the USC’s online presence.

“It was identified that the USC and its affiliations have over 100 different potential different points of contact with students and that there were no formal policies or procedures in

place that outlined what types of initiatives qualify to warrant a Twitter account [or] website,” he explained.

The motion passed with little debate at Wednesday’s council meeting, though some councillors found the original wording of the policy too vague. Councillors Pat Whelan, Matt Helfand and Jordan Coop all voiced their concerns over the policy’s clarity to council. Coop, Faculty of Information and Media Studies Students’ Council president, added an amendment exempting constituency councils, campus media and clubs from the policy. The amendment passed without debate.

I think this is but another example that suggests the USC needs to take a closer look at some of the unintended consequences of their decisions.

—Jordan Coop FIMSSC president

“It seemed to me that the ambiguity surrounding the term ‘USCaffiliated social media account’ warranted some clarification—as far as I understood it, the original phrase encompassed quite literally every group on campus, thereby endowing the vice-president communications with nearly authoritarian power,” Coop said.

“As it stands, I’m mostly satisfied with the amended policy. That said, however, I think this is but another example that suggests the USC needs to take a closer look at some of the unintended consequences of their decisions.”

Bhatia had no qualms with the amendment, calling it “friendly.”

“I was originally passing the motion believing that it shouldn’t involve those [constituency councils, campus media and clubs] anyway,” she said. “That was our intention for the motion, so that’s why it passed so easily.”

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Arts&Life

tuesdaytweet @SeinfeldToday: Kramer gets into a Twitter war with Burger King after they change their chicken nuggets.

“They won’t listen! It’s a monarchy, Jerry!”

—Modern Seinfeld.

If a picture says a thousand words…

The Western Photography Club asks students to document their day Sarah Manning Gazette Staff Have you ever taken a picture of your food? What about yourself with your pet? Then did you post it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram?

In the 19th century people wrote letters, in the 20th century one would make a phone call—but here in the 21st century, letting people know what’s going on in your life only takes a couple taps on a phone and suddenly others can be part of your daily routine.

It’s this trend that sparked the idea that Western Photography Club has chosen to expand upon in their project—The Disposable Camera Project.

Today at noon, the Western Photography Club will be handing out 50 disposable cameras in the University Community Centre. Their goal is simple—to see Western through the eyes of its students.

“This project is unique in that it’s employing campus-wide involvement of the student body,” says Sonam Maghera, president of the Western Photography Club.

“It’s a project related to photography. However, it brings together the involvement of the campus community.”

Inspired by a similar project implemented at a private college in New York, the pictures will be put together in a collage of student life. Western Photography Club is hoping students who are handed the camera will take a picture of what they’re doing on campus and then pass it along to someone else.

When the camera is full, the photography club is asking that the cameras be returned to the location indicated on the disposable camera itself.

The 50 cameras being distributed may seem a bit excessive, but the photography club wants to complete the project on a grand scale, gathering a lot of pictures and getting as many students involved as possible from a number of years and faculties.

Maghera hopes the project’s final product will be a view of Western that has yet to be seen.

“The goal of this project is to increase the publicity of not only the school, but also the

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photography club,” Maghera says.

Seeing Western from so many varying perspectives is an exciting undertaking and Maghera believes it has the potential to

connect the school through the art of photography.

So if somebody hands you a disposable camera today, don’t scoff at the inability to get 15 ‘likes.’

Instead, remember this picture will be compiled with many others to create a snapshot unlike any other—a day in the life of a Western student.

“Pompeii” —Bastille A cursory Google search of Bastille may only tell you the word refers to a Paris fortress that used to be a state prison. However, looking down at further links, the band Bastille’s website is revealed—as is their debut album Bad Blood. While the album is not due until March 2013, many of Bastille’s songs can be viewed on YouTube.

This includes “Pompeii,” the first song off Bad Blood, which Bastille performs live for The Mahogany Sessions, a London, U.K. team who post new music on their YouTube channel.

Slightly reminiscent of The Lumineers’ music, the acoustic live performance by Dan Smith, Chris ‘Woody’ Wood, Will Farquarson and Kyle Simmons complements beautiful vocals with snapping and clapping. Bastille’s sound is very natural—catchy, genuine and not overdone.

Smith’s voice and “Pompeii’s” chorus can stand alone without a background drumbeat. However, for those who like more instrumentation and a faster pace, the studio version—online as of last week—and the Monsieur Adi remix might be preferable options.

If “Pompeii” provides a glimpse into what this four-piece South London band has to offer, the

expectations for Bad Blood should be high. In the meantime, Bastille— who are supporting band Two Door Cinema Club on their January and February U.K. tour—will surely be increasing their fan base. Indie lovers, be on the lookout—Bastille won’t be a well-kept secret for long.

—Sumedha Arya

A fresh look on business Jared MacAdam gazette staff For Geoff Smith, CEO of Canadian construction services company EllisDon, business is anything but usual. On January 25, the King’s University College Students’ Council brought Smith to campus to talk about his business and the role of students in corporate leadership— but this was no ordinary lecture.

Smith started the talk discussing the goal a company should work toward. Smith says a company should work to improve the lives of employees and further their goals, rather than the mainstream conception that a company either works to maximize profit for shareholders or client service. By working to satisfy employees, the rest of a company’s development will follow suit. “[This is the] best moral reason for a company to exist,” Smith says.

He expands on this idea using the example of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. If the employees have a positive outlook on their workplace, they will, in turn, create a better experience for their guests. If the employees are happy, then the guests are happy. If not, then there is nothing that can be done.

Smith shares an anecdote to elaborate on his position on leadership. When asked how many of his 1,500 employees he wanted to be leaders, he replied “1,500.” Unlike the conventional concept of having a small amount of employees to ‘lead’ the others, Smith proposes all employees should become leaders.

But a leader isn’t just someone who bosses others around. To Smith, a leader is one who strives toward

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goals in their life, who helps others become leaders and, in turn, extends their passion to all those around him or her. He stresses the need to be yourself and look beyond formulaic understandings of what it is to be a leader.

Adaptability to circumstances and changes is crucial as well, Smith explains. While business and personal strategies are paramount, Smith jokes he often finds himself with too many, but they cannot be set in stone.

The problem, he states, with having a roadmap from point A to

point B, is by the time you reach B, it becomes something so different from your original idea, causing you to move away or miss your original goals. You also may miss opportunities along the road that would work better.

Truly a thoughtful person’s business lecture, Smith brought both insightful and amusing critiques to the university. His advice could also be applied to more than just business management, as he stated the insights he provided could be applicable to student groups and not-forprofit organizations.

“The Lonely End of the Rink” —The Tragically Hip It may just be the fact the NHL has resumed regular season play, but this classic Tragically Hip tune reverberates a riff in a listener’s mind that sounds like it comes from the hockey rink itself.

The Canadian band bleeds hockey in this song, where terminology such as “the season” and “the sweetest of dekes” build around a powerful story.

The song also features a short and mellow guitar solo before busting back into a chorus which features lead singer Gordon Downie’s unique voice at it’s best—somewhere between a yell and a passionate medley.

Overall, this Tragically Hip classic is going to resonate in the heads of hockey fans until the season comes to an end, and will last even longer in the minds of fans of The Tragically Hip. —Ryan Hurlbut

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Warning: Movie 43 is an offensive wreck Bradley Metlin Gazette Staff HFFFF Movie 43 Starring: Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Kate Winslet, Emma Stone Director: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill, Steve Carr, Rusty Cundieff, James Duffy, Griffin Dunne, Peter Farrelly, Patrik Forsberg, James Gunn, Bob Odenkirk, Brett Ratner, Jonathan van Tulleken People walked out but others who stayed with Movie 43 gasped in horror, asking themselves one question—“What the hell am I watching?” It takes a special kind of movie—and this one will not receive the dignity of being called a film—to truly disgust audiences.

Movie 43 begins in a pitch meeting for a movie at an indeterminate studio—this is the only segment that recurs throughout. We watch as the pitcher suggests various stories for a fictitious movie that grow increasingly troublesome. The other 11 parts that make up Movie 43 range from obscene to scandalous, to downright shocking.

Audiences everywhere will be left searching for a favourite moment, but the truth is there isn’t one. This movie is bottom-of-the-barrel entertainment throughout, and while there might be a few slightly more clever moments, Movie 43 is, as a whole, straight up awful. The

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Excuse me? Leslie Bibb, Justin Long and Jason Sudeikis seem to mimic audience’s shocked expressions during a segment of Movie 43.

only laughs that are elicited are from those who are laughing in horror.

The one segment that can be highlighted still veers into the realm of primitive humour with a reference to incest. Two parents, who have decided to home-school their son, believe they should give him the most realistic teenage experience—this includes bullying, replicating his first kiss and publicly humiliating him. It’s not exactly revolutionary humour, but this segment is quite entertaining. It’s probably the movie’s only

redeeming factor.

The most disgusting segment is one titled “The Proposition,” full of scatological humour. A boyfriend is about to propose to his girlfriend, but, before he can, she decides to pop a different question—“Can you poop on me?” Seriously. That happens. The whole skit is about a man shitting on a woman. The essence of sophistication.

If the above was not vile enough, some other things included within the 12 segments include a man with testicles on his neck, a cartoon cat

Facebook fallacy: Less use by students than expected That lecture starts to drag on and you slowly feel the will to pay attention drift away from you. “Why not creep people on Facebook?” you ask yourself. While this might seem like a logical choice, it turns out students use Facebook a lot less than they think.

A study coming out of Harvard’s Berkman Center by Professor Reynol Junco discovered something quite interesting. Junco surveyed a number of students who reported, on average, they spent about 149 minutes a day on the social networking site. What could be occupying so much time?

“A lot of it is browsing—or creeping—commenting, liking and hanging out. Not all involvement in Facebook is active, but rather a lot of it is just reacting to others’ posts, photos and information,” says Anabel Quan-Haase, a media, information and technoculture professor at Western who studies social networks.

It might seem like most students do this a lot, but surely they can’t spend over two hours a day on Facebook. Well, that’s true. After Junco installed monitors in participants’ computers he found that, on average, only 26 minutes were spent on Facebook. What causes this overestimation? Could it be the younger generation is viewing itself through older generations’ perception of us?

“Maybe,” Quan-Haase says. “We may be logged on to social media, but not constantly actively participating. This is what is convenient about these digital tools—they allow us to be social without having to invade too much into other activities. So we may be monitoring

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our Facebook newsfeed, looking at Twitter updates— but not 100 per cent engaged, rather, just peripherally monitoring and checking.”

Despite the fact students might not be actively using their social networking for long periods of time everyday, their impact on students can not be underestimated. There are obviously some real-world effects from the online world of Facebook.

“At any party, we may talk to 10, at the most 20 people. Can you imagine interacting with 100 or 1,000 individuals? No way,” Quan-Haase

says. “I believe Facebook increases our weak ties because it allows us to have lots of diverse connections in a single space, without having to invest too much effort into any one single relationship.”

So, as midterm exams start to roll around, some students prone to procrastination will ask their friends to change their passwords to make them more efficient. ‘Creeping,’ however, will surely not prevent you from passing your midterm because, in reality, students only spend about half an hour on Facebook a day.

—Bradley Metlin

sodomizing itself with a hair brush, a woman squirting hot sauce up her vagina and a basketball coach in the 1950s explaining to his all-black team they will beat their opponents simply because the other team is white and they are black. These are the kinds of things Movie 43 expects you to laugh at.

While art is not always comforting or conventional, it has to fulfill the purpose it sets out to achieve.

Those behind this movie set out to make people laugh and they failed miserably. Movie 43 reads as if it

were a bunch of skits performed on a risqué variety show and not a completed movie.

Journalistic commonsense dictates the use of third person but breaking that convention is in order to say the following—I wanted to walk out four segments into this movie and I have no idea what kept me in my seat. Yes, that warranted breaking into first person.

Run away. Run far, far away from Movie 43—it’s an offensive train wreck of segments masquerading as a movie.

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Opinions

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn’t hurt anybody.

—Louis C.K. American stand-up comedian

Wynne not that progressive The appointment of Kathleen Wynne as premier of Ontario this week set several interesting precedents.

As a woman, Wynne is Ontario’s first female premier and she is also the first openly gay Canadian premier.

While these firsts could be considered milestones in terms of women and the LGBT community, Wynne’s win may not be as big of a sign as a progressive society that many think it is.

It is important to remember Wynne was chosen by peers in her party and not by Ontarians as a whole.

While her peers may have the ability to determine her effectiveness based on her capacity to function as premier, it is not necessarily a representation of the Ontario population’s views on women, or people who identify as LGBT. How the Ontario population responds to her come next election will be a better evaluation of our province’s views.

To be fair, it is very easy for Canadians to unintentionally adopt the rhetoric of places where gender and sexual orientation play a more important role in politicians’ public lives, such as the neighbours to the south.

While Canadians are generally more progressivelyminded than Americans, we do still have a lot of issues, both in women and LGBT rights, that have not been resolved. It is easy to get into a state of mind wherein we assume that because we are in a more progressively minded place we do not need to deal with these issues, which can produce an unhealthy mindset of complacency.

For Wynne’s government, her own gender and sexual orientation represent little of importance. Like former Prime Minister Kim Campbell, Wynne is coming in at a time of many problems for her political party.

Former Premier Dalton McGuinty did not leave an ideal situation behind him. Before the next election Wynne will have to deal with the teachers’ strike and win over a population that is becoming more cynical of the Liberal government. It will be how she deals with these issues that will determine whether she is elected in the next provincial election.

In terms of Wynne’s position as premier, she will have a lot more important issues to straighten out than sexual orientation by the time the next provincial election rolls around.

—The Gazette Editorial Board

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Ketchup isn’t a condiment—it’s a way of life. Before starting a meal, some put their hands together in thanks for the food they are about to receive. I put my hands around the closest ketchup container and apply the red semi-liquid with the same religious vigor. Nothing on the plate is spared from my ketchup avalanche—meats, vegetables, breads —they’re all subject to the pure good that is ketchup.

And why is ketchup so good? Why does a meal without it seem incomplete? Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for The New Yorker, addresses this in his article “The Ketchup Conundrum”—a piece that has become a kind of manifesto for ketchup lovers everywhere.

Gladwell explains there are five known fundamental tastes in the human palate—salty, sweet, sour, bitter and umami (a protein, full-bodied taste).

Ketchup plays on all five of these tastes with little variation, and every time a glob of ketchup hits a different area of the mouth, a new sensation of taste erupts.

The novelty of ketchup is derived from more than just the taste. The packaging, for instance, comes in a number of much-loved varieties.

There’s the cool glass bottle, a favourite at diners and restaurants looking to capitalize on that nostalgic feel.

More common is the easy-squeeze bottle, a staple in the table setting process. A light pressure between your fingers can unleash a stream of ketchup precisely aimed at all the right points.

One does not spread or scoop ketchup, instead applying it generously to the meal.

When it comes to people who say they don’t like ketchup, I don’t look at them with contempt or frustration, but with pity. Whether because of a traumatic childhood experience or an intense aversion to condiments, these poor individuals aren’t able to enjoy the purity and wholesomeness that is ketchup. If you’re one of these people, fear not. Your day of conversion will come, and then you’ll have a lot of catching up to do.

When I was a kid, I was a very picky eater. I didn’t like peppers, licorice, spaghetti, pizza or even birthday cake. Usually, that wasn’t a problem.

Sure, sometimes I would get made fun of for being that kid who brought their own lunch to a birthday party, but that was about the extent of any mockery I had to deal with, and even that died out pretty quickly.

Since then, my tastes have matured and I’ll eat almost anything you put in front of me. That is, of course, except ketchup. Yes, you read that right—I hate, nay, I despise that disgusting red gunk everyone likes to slather on just about any food you can name.

And whenever I tell people that, I suddenly find myself back at those birthday parties, bearing down all those awkward stares from my peers when I declined a piece of pizza or birthday cake.

For some strange reason, ketchup is the only food I’ve found people will leap to defend in almost any context.

Some people will even get offended, as if I’ve committed a cardinal sin against all of food-kind by dismissing this Holy Grail of condiments.

Then they’ll demand—not ask, but demand—that I give ketchup another chance. They’ll say I just need to find the right pairing, as if this slime that sells for $6 a bottle is a fine wine. As someone who can’t stand the stuff, it’s baffling to me.

If I tell someone I don’t like, say, hamburgers, I might get a weird look or two, but that will be it. But tell a group of people you don’t like ketchup and suddenly it’s as if you’ve declared war on puppies, rainbows and sleep.

Well, I’ve had it. I’m declaring here and now that ketchup deserves treatment no different from any other food. Yes, I’m well aware of the fact that the vast, vast majority of people love the stuff, and that I’m probably in for some angry letters. But on behalf of my few fellow ketchup haters out there, I’m taking a stand. Some people like gross tomato glop all over their otherwise delicious food, other people don’t. Get over it.

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Don’t be in the dark To the Editor: Re: Take movie content with a grain of salt, Wednesday, January 23, 2013 I’d like to thank Cam Parkes for his excellent opinion piece about the need to think and reflect critically in response to movies like Zero Dark Thirty.

I will admit I have not seen the movie, but as a Muslim who happens to be researching how Muslims and Islam are portrayed in the media—and the impact this has on public perceptions—I too saw, and was deeply troubled by, the discriminatory tweets Parkes writes about.

As he notes, these are unfortunately not isolated opinions or beliefs. A March 2012 poll conducted by the Association for Canadian Studies found over 52 per cent of Canadians distrust Muslims.

Generalizations and stereotypical depictions of Muslims and Islam, particularly after 9/11, are now commonplace in movies, television and even in the news media, which is why it’s always nice to come across a well-reasoned and socially responsible column like Parkes’.

Although the media can and should be more responsible in how they depict any religious, cultural, racial or otherwise marginalized groups, I agree it’s largely up to viewers to think more critically, ask questions and seek out more accurate information, whether it’s in response to a movie, an episode of Homeland, or a Sun TV news report.

I also encourage anyone who has any questions about Islam to check out the Muslim Students’ Association’s table set up every Tuesday in the UCC. You can talk to Muslim students, ask questions or pick up some free reading and information, including a translation of the Quran.

Only through overcoming ignorance will we truly be able to address discrimination and intolerance.

—Aruba Mahmud Education, PhD I

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Don’t Nail him for youthful exuberance The Tables Have Sterned Ryan Stern Sports Editor All work and no play makes Nail a dull boy.

The reaction to Edmonton Oilers energetic rookie Nail Yakupov’s Theo

Fleury-esqe celebration is polarizing to say the least, but I just don’t understand the backlash and my finger is pointed directly at Don Cherry.

Cherry predictably came on his weekly Coaches Corner segment on Hockey Night in Canada and bashed the young Russian stud for his antics.

In this moment—as has been apparent for many years now—Cherry seemed all of a man turning 79 in a few weeks.

Yakupov is an 18-year-old future superstar. He is a marketable talent

the NHL needs to capitalize on coming out of the lockout. Let the kid celebrate!

He scored a big goal, he didn’t slug Sidney Crosby in the face. The fans loved it, the crowd loved it and they went on to win the game.

The argument can be made it is bad for the Oilers in the long run because the Kings will want revenge, but that is for the Kings to deal with.

If they really don’t want him celebrating so emphatically, don’t let him score.

There is something to be said for classy celebrations and teamcentred excitement, but it is far from a crime for Yakupov to celebrate a late game-tying goal. If I can channel my inner Don Cherry for a second and group two Russian phenoms together, the same issue was apparent when Alex Ovechkin burst onto the scene. Ovechkin’s antics—though not appreciated by everyone—were a huge marketing ploy for the league, a sizable boost to his public profile and they never

hurt a soul.

With all this in mind, the rhetorical question that it poses is whether this would have even been a blip on the radar if a fellow rookie like Jonathan Huberdeau or Alex Galchenyuk did the same thing? The short answer is no.

Next time a player is judged on an action similar to this, consider both his intentions and his situation. He wasn’t rubbing it in or scarring the game, he was just letting his raw emotions shine through.

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factattack Jeff Saturday became the first, and possibly the last, man to complete a snap to both team AFC and team NFC in this past Sunday’s Pro Bowl when he defected to the AFC for one play to snap to his old quarterback—Peyton Manning.

Rundown >> The Mustangs swimming team swept all competition away this past weekend when they hosted Brock, Waterloo and Laurentian to a series of dual meets > The Mustangs won each meet on both the men’s and women’s sides and will be back in action in one week at the OUA championships.

Mustangs rally to 5–3 victory over UOIT Unice stops 32 shots as Western improves record to 20–4 Dustin Saracini Contributor The flood in Western’s Student Recreation Centre did not stop the first-place Mustangs men’s hockey team from taking on the basementdwelling UOIT Ridgebacks Friday night. In what was an entertaining game, the Mustangs scored three in the final period to inch past UOIT 5–3.

The large crowd at Thompson Arena had just started to settle into their seats when Tony Rizzi of the Ridgebacks jammed the puck in from the crease a minute into the tilt.

The goal took the excitement out of the building early, and to add fuel to the fire, David Corrente of the Mustangs took a boarding call shortly after the Ridgebacks went up 1–0.

After the best penalty kill unit in the country did their job, Zach Harnden fed Corrente as he stepped out of the box and sent him on a partial breakaway, where he then found UOIT goaltender Jacob Rattie’s five hole to tie the game up early.

The Ridgebacks would net one more goal late in the period to take the lead going into the first intermission.

“We gave up 18 shots in the first period to a team that we shouldn’t be doing that to,” interim head coach Pat Powers said after the game. “We knew that these guys love to skate and we let them skate, but I think we definitely wore them out in the second and the third period.”

In the second, the boys in purple and white had three powerplay opportunities. Western cycled the puck like an NHL team before Steve Reese lit the lamp with traffic in front of the net to tie the game up at 2–2.

The Mustangs top line in Reese, Matt Clarke and Harnden had seven points as a collective unit and put the pressure on every time they touched the ice.

“Those guys lead by example.

They work hard off the ice—the

secret to their success is getting the puck deep, using their size, their speed and their strength to wear down opponents’ defences,” Coach Powers said.

UOIT began the third period with a shot from behind the net that bounced off Mustangs goalie Josh Unice and trickled in. The goal put them up 3–2 as the Ridgebacks started backing off into a defensive shell to preserve their lead.

We gave up 18 shots in the first period to a team that we shouldn’t be doing that to. We knew that these guys love to skate and we let them skate, but I think we definitely wore them out in the second and the third period.

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CRASH THE NET! Mustangs defenceman Stephen Gaskin threatens in the UOIT end. The Mustangs managed to fire 52 shots on the Ridgeback’s net in their 5–3 victory on Friday.

“Western’s a tough team, they come fast through the neutral zone so we just had to tie them up and keep shots to the outside,” Ridgeback goaltender Jacob Rattie said.

Ex-Peterborough Pete Harnden broke through the collapsing defence of the Ridgebacks and made no mistake tying the game up after potting a rare rebound from Rattie midway through the third.

The purple and silver would seal the game just a couple minutes after that, with a short-side snipe from Adam Stoykewych. Harnden capped off his four-point night with an empty netter to put the ‘Stangs up 5–3.

Unice faced 32 shots and stood on his head late in the game to grab his CIS-leading 17th win.

The Mustangs will head to Windsor February 1.

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