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Catching cold killers on TV Former chancellor New reality series features Western prof D.B. Weldon dies Kaitlyn McGrath ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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THE COLDEST OF CASES. Mike Arntfield’s Cold Case Society is being brought to TV. The show follows the Western professor and five other experts as they use modern techniques to investigate unsolved murders.

Aaron Zaltzman ASSOCIATE EDITOR Western Professor Mike Arntfield is giving old murder cases a new look in his new television series, To Catch a Killer, featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network and premiering March 1. The series is based on Arntfield’s work with the Cold Case Society at Western, a student study group that uses modern, open-sourced methods to find new leads in unsolved cases.

“It started out as an MIT course, Serial Killers in the Media, and the term project was students needed to excavate new leads by contacting reporters, retired police officers or just scrubbing the web,” Arntfield said.

The project transitioned into the CCS after the course was discontinued three years ago.

“We began to get some pretty significant publicity about it — it was considered pretty innovative — and a number of studios reached out to me about how to develop that into a television series,” he said. “Ultimately it was Ocean Entertainment, based out of Halifax, that developed a pretty

solid demo. The Oprah Winfrey Network picked it up, and that got parlayed into what it is now.”

The show, which Arntfield described as “Unsolved Mysteries meets Mythbusters meets a little bit of The Apprentice,” features him and his five-person squad of professionals from various fields of law enforcement and forensic investigation, ranging from a biophysicist to a private investigator to a psychotherapist. Arntfield serves as the lead investigator who decides what cases will be looked at.

“I present the facts of the cases to the squad, who know nothing about them, and they brainstorm.

They have carte blanche to come up with their own ideas based on their own backgrounds,” Arntfield explained. “They try experimental methods that you’d never have the creative latitude to do in a police department. Our goal is to excavate enough new information that it warrants a reopening of the case. In some episodes we meet and dramatically exceed those expectations.”

Arntfield said the most difficult part about assembling the squad

was trying to find individuals with not only the qualifications and experience in the necessary field, but also the ability to be filmed while working on a production schedule.

“We discussed this in early development, about whether we use students or working professionals. The decision was that viewers want to see people like themselves, and this show should inspire and empower them,” he explained. “Students have a lot of balls in the air at any time, juggling studies and personal lives, whereas this investigation is the sole focus of the professionals, plus a support team, crew and funding.”

He said despite the similarities, the show and the original CCS differ fundamentally.

“The main difference is the resources and behind the scenes support. In the CCS the students are largely on their own, which is the point,” Arntfield said. “It’s more of a directed study group and an experiment, whereas this series is mostly focused on the end game.”

The first of eight episodes in the season will be premiering Saturday at 8:00 pm on OWN.

A former Western University chancellor has died.

David Black Weldon, who served as the university’s chancellor from 1984–88 died on Monday. He was 89-years-old.

As both chancellor and active alumnus, Weldon contributed much to the university but perhaps his greatest legacy is a building students — and faculty — visit on the regular.

“I think the most immediately tangible way that the family is known and will continue to be known is the Weldon library,” said Robin Keirstead, university archivist and acting university librarian at D.B. Weldon Library.

Named after his father, Douglas Black Weldon, a veteran of both the First and Second World Wars, the D.B. Weldon Library — colloquially referred to as Weldon — was built in 1971 thanks to a donation from David, along with his siblings Marcia and Ann. Along with the library, the Weldon family also helped raise financial contributions to necessary renovations for its main floor during the late 90s, leading the university to dub the newly constructed

reference facility the David B. Weldon Reference Hall.

“He and the rest of the members of his family have been benefactors for Western Libraries for a long time,” Keirstead said.

Keirstead, who didn’t know Weldon personally but was aware of the impact he and his family had on Western’s libraries, said he met him briefly in 2012 at the 40th anniversary celebration of the opening of Weldon Library. His presence there was unexpected, but was greatly appreciated.

“We were actually quite thrilled when he was able to make it to the 40th anniversary,” Keirstead said.

“We didn’t know that he was coming, and then he arrived, and I think it kind of just added a whole other dimension to the ceremony to have him there.”

Along with his role of chancellor, Weldon was also a member of the Western Board of Governors and its Development and Fund Raising Committee and sat on the Ivey Business School Advisory Committee. He was also a Western graduate and a London native.

Outside of his legacy at Western, Weldon was a named a member of the Order of Canada in 1997 and was inducted into the London Business Hall of Fame in 1996.

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PLOW IT. A snowplow clears the remaining snow on a sidewalk down Oxford Drive. London has received light bouts of snowfall while students enjoy clear skies with sunlight during the daytime.

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Lemurs facing extinction Despite representing around a quarter of the world’s primates, 90 per cent of the world’s lemur population is currently being faced with the looming threat of extinction.

One Western primatologist, along with 18 lemur conservationists and researchers, have authored a conservation action plan looking to preserve more than 101 lemur species in Madagascar — where the species has seen a spike in poaching and severe lack of protection.

Prompted by a study looking at an increase in bush meat consumption, social science professor Ian Colquhoun helped co-author Averting Lemur Extinctions amid Madagascar’s Political Crisis for the

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The article laid out steps that needed to be taken to ensure the survival of unique population in more than 30 target sites. These included ramping up Madagascar’s commitment to ecotourism in association with the lemurs, which would provide economic incentive for rural local populations.

These efforts are to be fostered directly by the local population instead of outside agencies or foreigners. Colquhoun says the onus for a diverse habitat protection is on the people of Madagascar.

“It’s [a] very diverse place — there are so many species that can only be found there, Colquhoun said.

“You’ve got the country being one of the poorest countries with this responsibility to be the caretakers of this huge wealth in biodiversity.”

— Jeremiah Rodriguez

Crystal error debunked To most, crystals are recognized as a sparkly addition to jewelry, but to Western’s Dr. Desmond Moser they are the tangible evidence of the age of our earth.

After a decade of recognizing crystals from Western Australia as the most ancient ones on earth — dating from 4.3–4.4 billion years old — a paper was released suggesting

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that an analytical error in the original research caused the crystals to be dated as older than they actually are.

“They say [that the atomic structure of] these crystals could be disturbed in such a way that they give false old ages. There’s a way to test that,” Moser explained.

Moser was part of the international group that used the atom probe tomography technique that produces a three-dimensional image of the atomic distribution of the individual crystals in question.

The international team was unable to find evidence of any disturbance that could have caused the proposed analytical error. Therefore, the original age of the crystals was confirmed, debunking the suggestion of the paper.

“We have physical pieces of the earth that we can point at and prove that we’ve got [material] that’s 4.4-billion years old — and it’s come from our planet so it can’t have come from anywhere else,” Moser said.

— Caitlin Martin Newnham

Fontana advocates for Celebration Centre London will be home to a new performing arts centre, if mayor Joe Fontana has anything to say about it.

The new venue, tentatively named the Celebration Centre, will be replacing the current Centennial Hall — a building that, according to the Music London Community Action Team executive summary, has reached the end of its service life. “[Music London looks] forward to working with the community and the City to turn this dream into reality in time for Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017,” the project executive summary reads.

The $164 million project includes the proposed performing centre, which will serve as Orchestra London’s new home, as well as the Grand Theatre, a $100 million development of two condominium towers, and 300 new underground parking spots.

On Monday, the mayor addressed a city council committee to have city treasurer Martin Hayward examine potential modification to the city’s budget next year that accommodate a $16 million city investment.

Hayward said two present options are either hiking taxes, a move uncharacteristic of mayor Fontana, or selling off city assets, an example of which is London Hydro.

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CUP struggles to stay afloat Student newspaper service lays off 12 staff

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which recommended reforms to the organization.

“The heart of the proposal was that we thought CUP needed to be more financially accessible,” he said.

“It was clear that large papers couldn’t afford it, and that’s why so many members have been leaving — it’s just far too expensive for the services that it offers.”

Oliver said that suggestions also included changes to the organizational structure of CUP, and the elimination of the newswire and its original content. In its place would be a newswire that would offer content from all member student newspapers. A newswire using this format, the National University Wire, currently operates with seven student newspapers, including The Varsity and The Gazette.

Hudson denied that membership was a core difficulty.

“To be honest I think before we can really substantially address that problem of how and why members aren’t wanting to join and instead are leaving I think we need to get ourselves in order […] and now we can clearly identify the problem I feel like the solution is not that far away, in a sense,” she said.

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Canadian University Press (CUP), a national student newspaper service, has laid off 12 part-time staff to cut costs in the wake of financial difficulties. The service has launched a fundraising campaign in an attempt to raise $50,000 to meet operational needs.

Formed in 1938, CUP is a nonprofit cooperative “owned and operated by student newspapers from coast to coast,” according to its website. It provides access to a newswire with original content, mentorship and employment opportunities, and access to legal counsel among other services to student newspapers. The organization has run a large financial deficit for three years and a row, with next year’s budget projected at a $7,000 deficit.

“The financial difficulties are definitely prompting us to take a look at how we address the immediate situation, but then also what they mean for CUP in the long term,” Erin Hudson, CUP’s president, said. “Now what we’re doing is preparing to launch a fundraising campaign, and a large part of my

work from now on is really cutting our overhead.”

According to Hudson, CUP is cutting benefits, salaries of full-time staff and selling underutilized office equipment and space in addition to the staff cuts to change the deficit into a surplus in the coming years.

“The goal of all this action is that, one, we’re not running a deficit and we’re running a surplus by the end of the year, and we’re running hopefully a significant surplus,” she said.

“Enough of a surplus so that the incoming national staff and board of directors have something to work with.”

“We don’t have any reserves left anymore — we don’t have any investments, there is no safety net,” she continued.

Newspaper membership, which has declined steeply in the past decade, has contributed to the problem. Steep membership fees, which are upwards of $5,000 a year for large student newspapers such as The Gazette, have cash-strapped papers dropping out of the organization.

Joshua Oliver, editor-in-chief of The Varsity at the University of Toronto, was part of a presentation to CUP at a January conference

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Prof evaluations lacking Students want more out of prof ratings Dan Weryha SPORTS EDITOR In a recent article published by Macleans On Campus, students at McMaster University complained that their university lacked a proper forum for students to find professor and course evaluations.

According to the article, Jemma Wolfe, a student at McMaster University, had high expectations for a course that she had been waiting to take only to be disappointed by a flaky professor.

When picking courses, students found that they were being given limited resources to make sound decisions and effectively sift through the countless classes and the professors teaching them.

Resources like the American based website, ratemyprofessors. com, provide a medium for students to comment and find information on university professors.

The evaluations, however, often lacked legitimacy as they were subject to harsh comments, and spiteful evaluations from students who are displeased with their final mark.

While some universities fail to publicize their course evaluations,

Western provides a semi-private forum for students to review old course evaluations.

“Anyone can see them with a UWO i.d. and password. If you go to Western’s home page, and in the search box just put course evaluation,” Faculty of Social Science representative Wendy Palmer,said.

For professors, the course evaluations play a large role in their end-of-year incentives. Professors receive year-end evaluations on their work and teaching ability that political science professor, Charles Jones explained would affect monetary bonuses.

“A significant portion of my job is based on my teaching evaluations and for the undergraduate side that more or less comes down to the scores you get on those instructor evaluation, and in my case you know, and the typical professor that can have implications for your pay,” Jones said.

Through the website, www.ipb. uwo.ca, students can reference the course evaluations for the courses they are looking to enrol. Students can even see the amount of evaluations that were polled.

“I think they [students] should

be aware. I do the summer academic orientation for the students before they come into first year and I always tell them to look at those things,” Jones said.

Instructor evaluations are performed anonymously, and before the final mark is given out allowing students the opportunity to give an objective assessment.

The standardized questions were designed to measure competence rather than popularity, which is a major point of deviation from the popular website, ratemyprofessors. com.

“I find [ratemyprofessor] really biased so I just look at the course and if the course sounds interesting I ask people in the faculty who have taken the course before,” said Christine Jurychuk, second-year arts and humanities student.

Course evaluations are one of the many student resources that students don’t know about.

While Jones explained that it is not in the interest of the university to publicize records that place a percentage of their professors below the average of proficient instructing the records are still available to students who choose to do the research.

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wednesdayword Inundate Verb. Overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.

Starting to dig up independent artists Conrad Floryan GAZETTE STAFF Hipsters tend to keep their music underground, but one organizer is seeking to bring indie bands into the spotlight of London’s nightlife.

Since January, DJ and culture advocate Aaron McMillan has started hosting Indie Underground every Wednesday at Call the Office. He promises an inspired alternative to Richmond Row nightlife — with no cover charge for admittance.

“I used to go to Toronto a lot and I used to see a lot of shows and a lot of indie alternative bands,” McMillan says. “Those types of bars and that type of music I always admired so I was like, ‘I want to bring something like that to London.’”

McMillan frequents music festivals like Coachella, Osheaga, and smaller concerts where he finds inspiration for his show. His performances incorporate obscure music as well as more familiar tunes.

“It’s a very diverse night in music.

You’ll get a lot of indie rock, indie pop, indie electro, new disco, new funk, to like an experimental to hip hop,” McMillan explains. “Bandwise you’ll hear anything from Born Ruffians to Beastie Boys.”

Call the Office is an illustrious local live music institution that primarily hosts rock bands, but McMillan offers a unique experience.

“My night, I add in lasers and fog and also bring out a video projector and play experimental psychedelic animations or retro TV clips to […] change things up so if you’re not sure what to say if you’re with someone

or if you come alone there’s always something to look at,” McMillan explains.

“There’s always free pool and free Jenga and it’s one of the most inexpensive nights out in London. Its also 3.50$ mixed drinks and select beer. There’s a lot of stuff in a student’s favor to make it easier to party or transition and just give another bar an opportunity.”

Playing at a smaller venue offers McMillan the opportunity to connect with his audience.

“I take requests; I don’t just have a set list that I play; I’m not just head down, eyes down, not listening to anybody. I’m watching the crowd, I’m talking to the crowd; in fact, I’ll even go out and dance once in a while and then run back into the DJ booth. It’s all about participation. To me I’m growing a community more than just a night,” McMillan says.

DJ Aaron is exited to host more shows that comprise an opening local band, followed by a more established band, and concluding with the man himself DJ’ing the rest of the night. These events have been successful in the past and there is one coming up on April 9.

“Gold & Youth — they’re a phenomenal band that’s touring right now and I feel incredibly lucky to get — will open Indie Underground and I’m sure we’ll get a London band for that evening as well,” McMillan says.

Indie Underground — not to be confused with the podcast London Indie Underground — has grown steadily since its inception in January 2013, owing to a grass roots approach. McMillan has collaborated with CHRW 94.9 FM, where

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MIND THE UNDERGROUND. DJ Aaron McMillan brings a cover-free show every Wednesday night at Call the Office promising a cost-friendlier alternative to Richmond Row activities.

he will begin co-hosting Feel Good Frequency in May. “It’s really important for me to speak to Western and Fanshawe because I want to expose the students to this kind of music just because I want people to stay in London,” Aaron says. “I’m exposing not just me but everything going on in London.”

Always striving to cultivate the Forest City community, Aaron supports local cultural institutions such

as The Root Cellar Organic Café & Bakery and the Art Fusion showcase.

Indie Underground extends beyond the weekly show. Aaron also posts daily on his music blog — indieunderground.ca — where he sells t-shirts and communicates actively on social media.

“That’s were you get to learn in my point of view the best music that’s out there,” McMillan says.

“I’m trying to grow other bands to get exposure.”

Managing Indie Underground and a full-time job is a tall order, but McMillan’s untiring passion is paying off.

“I’m seeing new faces every week, which is really encouraging,” McMillan says. “People are getting behind the idea of something different, which is nice to see.”

Indie Underground runs every Wednesday at Call the Office. Doors open at 9:00 p.m., but McMillan recommends coming by 11:00 p.m.

LYON prepares for a mighty roar at APK Robert Nanni GAZETTE STAFF LYON is an indie band fronting Lauren Malyon as the soft-spoken vocalist who is musically backed by various artists. Initially from Port Perry but currently residing in Toronto, Malyon and her team produce electronic pop music served with lots of synthesizers, a driving beat and baseline, giving it a very ‘80s feel.

“I started violin when I was three and piano when I was six, and I did mostly classical music,” Malyon says, concerning her musical inspiration.“I attribute [melody writing] to the fact that I started with violin — it’s a lot by ear, it’s why I’m always humming.”

As for her year-old EP Indian Summer, Malyon classifies it as a “snapshot in time,” capturing the changes she was experiencing during the writing process. The dismemberment of a previous project, the pangs of heartbreak, the desire to begin anew, all contributed to the five-song album released in February 2013.

Focusing specifically on her song after which the EP was named, Malyon considers the song to be a fantastical escape from something.

“This [album is a] thing that

you can go to and it’s fun and it’s adventurous, but there’s that looming melancholy that you know it’s going to end,” she explains.

Released in September 2013, Indian Summer alternates between quiet guitar-laden verses and a rich chorus, achieving Malyon’s desired contrast between dark minimalism and innocent carelessness.

Following LYON’s album rerelease after being signed with Black Box Recordings, she is now scheduled to open for Wake Owl on her Canada-wide tour of Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia.

Reminiscing about her first major show, Malyon claims to recall very little. She expresses being in her own bubble.

“You have your in-ear monitor, so sound-wise you’re already in your own world. I just went on, and then I zoned out, and then it was over just like that, in the blink of an eye,” Malyon says.

Malyon is no stranger to the urban lifestyle, despite hailing from a small town. She professes her fondness for the big city atmosphere.

“I had always traveled to Toronto a few times a week: to go to shows, to be part of the music scene, to take lessons — I

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A DEN OF LYON. Indie artist, Lauren Malyon, known as LYON will be opening for Wake Owl at APK Live on Thursday, February 27. She released her debut EP last year and is starting her first a Canada-wide tour.

was always in love with the city,” Malyon comments.

Despite this love for the metropolis of three million people, Malyon struggles as an artist with shyness. She feels that performance

requires her to “basically bare [her] soul,” and she explains the difficulties in “having enough confidence and believing in your own hype.”

LYON is proud of its accomplishments as an artist, as a band,

and with front-woman Lauren Malyon. For the future, she hopes to focus on writing and recording for the full album, all while continuing to tour and perform whenever given the opportunity.

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Conrad Floryan GAZETTE STAFF GGFFF RoboCop Director: Jose Padilha Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L. Jackson, Abbie Cornish RoboCop probes big ideas, but it’s so stubborn to be taken seriously on an intellectual level that it loses sight of the nuances that give a great film pulse. This tin man has no heart, among other missing elements.

Following a near-fatal attack, policeman Alex Murphy (a subdued Joel Kinnaman holding his own) is revamped into the ultimate crimefighting android by multinational conglomerate OmniCorp. The premise introduces timelessly engaging issues — the man vs. machine dichotomy, the morality of increasingly automated law enforcement — which keep the film intriguing but ultimately relegate the tone to a high school science project.

Jose Padilha shoots the film in a style reminiscent of a CSI episode — and no, this is not a compliment. The camera habitually hovers around like a blind child with ADD. The original Robocop (1987) featured exceptionally kinetic cinematography because the camera moved with motivation.

Here it’s either tossed about to contrive slapdash pizzazz, or it misguidedly follows the film’s prevailing iron-handed tenor — i.e. the camera rotates around characters to punctuate critical emotional moments.

The film fails to establish a sense of place. The original Robocop vividly conjured Detroit as a seedy, bluecollared metropolis. This remake globetrots to excess — an exhausted

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trend in 21st century Hollywood. At times it’s not clear where the action takes place geographically. This disorientation does, however, provide a highlight when a freshly robotized Alex escapes the OmniCorp laboratories — presumably somewhere in the U.S. — and hops a fence into a rice paddy; he’s actually in China.

The cast is mostly excellent. Gary Oldman (Dr. Dennett Norton) emits an earnest compassion. Michael Keaton (Raymond Sellars, CEO of OmniCorp) embodies a nuanced villain who’s charming and never threatening until the later stages.

He’s a subtle reprove of callous consumerism.

Robocop is derivative of recent sci-fi remakes — Total Recall, Judge Dredd — that deflate the original film’s charm by sulking towards a gravitas that never manifests. Alex’s lean, matte-black robot armor is typical of the movie — built for function, but not much personality.

There are sporadic glimpses of the original film’s irreverent pungency. The famous MGM logo has the lion’s growl dubbed over with

television presenter Pat Novak (Samuel L. Jackson) gurgling to prepare his voice for an upcoming broadcast. He closes the movie by going on an on-air tirade (Samuel L. Jackson is the Roger Federer of cussing) that serves as a loud reprimand of right-wing news. It’s refreshingly spontaneous and a great closing vignette.

The attack that transforms Alex into RoboCop occurs right when he’s about to have sex. Ouch man, that’s cruel, compounded because his body has been mostly amputated so RoboCop has no penis and his wife Clara is Australian beauty Abbie Cornish! Common! It’s a case in point for sanitized, generic blockbusters; the film just became aggressively PG-13.

Quentin Tarantino has expressed that he wants to retire soon because older directors make “limp dick” movies. RoboCop — despite topflight hardware and some healthy brain cells — is literally a “no dick” movie, which at least means it won’t be able to spawn any unnecessary sequels.

Sun Kil Moon’s latest record is a dark, depressing, passionate and powerful album that is the best folk-rock album to be put out in a long time.

Benji is a collection of 11 stories, each of which details the death of someone songwriter Mark Kozelek knew. Through Kozelek’s profound storytelling, listeners get a personal and private look into the lives of these people, be it their successes, struggles or failures.

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on the lyrics and story rather than the instruments that back it. The guitar, bass, slight percussion, and xylophones tend to be simple and never overly complex. They set the mood perfectly.

Songs like “Carissa” with its soft, simple, yet powerful guitars perfectly characterize the feel and atmosphere of the song. “Jim Wise” is one of most somber, grim songs backed by a rhodes piano and creates an unmatched atmosphere that elicits strong emotional responses.

Despite the heights that Benji soars with these songs, it also has a handful that fall short of the mark.

Songs like “Truck Driver”, “Pray for Newton”, and “Micheline” are by no means bad, but are average, especially in comparison to heavy hitters like “Jim Wise” and “Carissa”.

There have been countless albums and songs about death but few have told the stories as masterfully as Mark Kozelek does in Benji.

In “Carissa”, he sings the purpose of this album to be to, “find some poetry to make sense of this and give some deeper meaning” and it’s safe to say that he succeeds.

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The Little Rascals, 1994 “Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts. You make me vomit. You’re the scum between my toes! Love, Alfalfa.” The brutal honesty in young Alfalfa’s letter to Darla is something we can all appreciate in The Little Rascals. Taking a trip down memory lane and watching this classic childhood movie will definitely remind you of the hilarious, yet often inappropriate,humour children conjure up.

The 1994 comedy is an adaptation of Our Gang, a series of short films that were originally created

by Hal Roach in 1922. The Little Rascals features many of the comical Our Gang characters that were such a great success. Our Gang has been noted for incorporating boys,

girls, as well as blacks and whites as characters — something that was very uncommon and new in 1920s cinema.

The Little Rascals provides an extremely accurate picture of elementary school boy-girl relations.

For many 20-something Western students, it’s easy to forget how different things used to be for us over a decade ago. Now, a Saturday night might include heading to Ceeps with both your girl and guy friends, however, nothing of the sort would have been allowed if you were a part of Spanky’s “He-ManWoman-Haters Club.”

In the film Spanky is the head of the club, whose members include several neighbourhood boys, including Spanky’s best friend Alfalfa. When Alfalfa is caught

hanging out with Darla, the boys of the club try their best to separate the two. Eventually Darla is led to believe that Alfalfa feels ashamed of her, which leads Alfalfa to attempt to win back her love. Darla becomes completely uninterested in Alfalfa and begins spending her time with the new rich kid Waldo, whose father is played by Donald Trump.

Some parts of the film appear to be too crude for a kid’s movie.

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Language has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.

— Paul Tillich

Put the “i” back in being introspective Abracadabra Al-Azem

Nusaiba Al-Azem SPORTS EDITOR What do Valentine’s Day and intent to register sessions have in common? No seriously, this isn’t a bad joke — there is one important link: Being alone. Bear with me, this will make sense soon enough.

Our culture has completely lost the art of solitude. I’m not talking about loneliness — someone who is standing outside in the cold and peering at a group of happy friends, longing for companionship. That is loneliness, and I’m talking about being alone. I’m talking about sitting down, having a coffee outside, camping on your own kind of alone. Being comfortable with silence, and nothing but your thoughts as company.

In the world of social networking and mobile phones, it’s almost impossible to be alone. Worse than impossible, it’s stigmatized. From Facebook and Twitter to Instagram and Snapchat, not staying socially connected basically means you’re a loser. Try taking yourself out to dinner at a restaurant and tally the number of pitying looks you receive (it’s a lot). Or tell your co-worker that for the weekend you plan on staying in — just sitting at home, completely sober and alone. Even that sentence sounds sad.

On Valentine’s Day this year, I made a point to be alone in public. I don’t mean to stick it to couples — I think it’s beautiful to celebrate love. But solitude is completely overlooked as a necessary component of our lives, including romance. You need to know yourself before knowing somebody else. You need to know your desires, your

insecurities and your needs. So many relationships are prolonged unnecessarily because people do not stop at any point to examine themselves. Realize that along the way it’s important not to be bombarded by social interaction every second so you’re ready to face the difficult choices life will throw at you.

The only way you can know yourself is if you give yourself time to listen to your mind. We are so clouded by constant pings, messages, phone calls and texts that we forget to listen to our internal dialogue. Only when you are in solitude can you begin to untangle your values from societal impositions. Only alone can you begin to develop ideas about the universe and meaning of life, happiness, love and education.

This brings me to intent to register.

Students have such a difficult time registering in their respective programs, asking themselves questions like “is this the right program for me? Do I want this?

What career aspirations do I have?” This uncertainty is mainly due to a deficit in self-understanding. Unfortunately, that’s hard to come by these days. But investing time into reflecting on your educational process is crucial and could save you so much time and money down the road.

Every now and then, I purposefully go to the movies alone. I pick a movie that I really want to see, go a little bit early, and let my thoughts ferment as I sit. It doesn’t mean that I don’t have friends. Rather, it means that I value my own opinion of the movie. I value self-reflection, understanding and ensuing praxis.

From romantic holidays to school registration, people need to value solitude and self-reflection just as much as companionship and action. Go to a restaurant, put away your phone and headphones, don’t feign looking cool or busy or important, ignore the staff’s pity. Just hear yourself think.

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“I’m better (than Clowney). Let’s put it like this. People like to talk about size all the time. Size is pretty much overrated in my eyes […] People are just looking at the fact he’s a physical specimen. Honestly, if you watch the film, he plays like a blind dog in a meat market, basically.”

Former Auburn defensive end, Dee Ford on NFL prospect Jadeveon Clowney

Rundown >> The Mustangs men’s and women’s swimming teams both placed fifth overall at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championships this past Saturday > the men and women finished with 200 and 265.5 points, respectively.

Mustangs down Gryphons in game three Western to face Windsor in OUA West semifinal Colin Gallant CONTRIBUTOR The Western Mustangs men’s hockey team has booked their ticket to the second round of the Ontario University Athletics playoffs.

The Mustangs downed the Guelph Gryphons in convincing fashion on Sunday night, beating their Western conference rivals 6–1 in the decisive third game of the series.

The win comes just 24 hours after a thrilling comeback that saw the Mustangs overcome a late 1–0 deficit in game two.

After tying the game with 50 seconds left, a goal by Mustangs’ right-winger Stefan Salituro 6:24 into the second overtime period gave Western the win, forcing a third game and keeping their playoff hopes alive.

“We were 40 seconds away from elimination and we just realized that the playoffs could be over really quick and we picked it up,” Mustangs’ forward Daniel Erlich said.

After almost being knocked out by the eighth seed in the OUA West, the Mustangs came out rejuvenated in game three, scoring two goals in a span of 16 seconds in the first frame.

Mustangs’ right-winger Kyle De Coste and centre Matt Clarke scored the opening goals for the purple and white.

After being dominated in much of the first and giving up 19 shots, the Gryphons found a way back into the game before the end of the period.

With just 2:15 left on the clock, a shot by Guelph’s leading scorer Nicklas Huard was tipped in by forward Teal Burns, cutting the Mustangs’ lead in half, but that is as close as the Gryphons would come to tying the game.

“I think we were prepared to work a lot harder. The first two games I think we were a bit lackadaisical but

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Mike Laine GRAPHICS/VIDEO EDITOR Over the past few weeks, discussion has heated up even more than in previous years about the National Hockey League’s future participation in the Olympics. It has been speculated for quite a while that the NHL will not be returning to the

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EYES ON THE PRIZE! Steve Reece, Mustangs’ centre and team captain, attacking the net on the forecheck. Reece is playing his fourth season as a Mustang.

Reece finished the season with 14 goals and 18 assists in 27 games. After playing five seasons in the Ontario Hockey League for both the Sarnia Sting and the Sudbury Wolves, Reece has produced 130 points in his four seasons as a Mustang.

I the last game we definitely came out hard,” Erlich said.

Though Guelph started the second with the momentum, they couldn’t solve Western goaltender Josh Unice.

Less than four minutes into the frame, the Mustangs regained their two-goal lead, off a wrister by fourthyear left-winger, Zach Harnden.

Western scored another five minutes later, after a great pass from Erlich found its way through a defender and onto the stick of Mustangs’ centre Julian Cimadamore. In on a two-on-one, he fed a pass across to Clarke, who scored his second of the night, on a shot that beat Guelph goalie Andrew Loverock.

Midway through the second,

Olympics come 2018 in Korea. Most NHL owners and executives believe that the men’s hockey tournament at the Winter Olympics simply creates a high-risk factor to their player’s safety as well as the potential to lose millions in revenue because of the extended Olympic break.

However, there is a larger issue at play here that does not have to do with the selfish attitudes of NHL owners. The issue here is that the Olympics are traditionally a sporting event for amateur athletes from around the globe. The idea of amateurism is an essential part of the Olympic charter and the games

the Mustangs had an opportunity to take a commanding 5–1 lead with a five-on-three power play, but Loverock kept his team in the game with some excellent saves, including a wonderful glove save at the end of

the second penalty.

The second frame ended with the Gryphons trailing 4–1, and 20 minutes away from a first-round exit.

The Mustangs got into penalty trouble in the third, but it was the Gryphons that suffered.

Two shorthanded breakaway goals, scored by Mustangs leftwinger Adam Stoykewych and rightwinger Matt Marantz, opened up a commanding five-goal lead that all but sealed Guelph’s fate.

Though the Gryphons came back from a four-goal deficit against the Mustangs earlier in the year, it just wasn’t meant to be on Sunday night. Great goaltending and timely offence gave the mighty Western Mustangs the win, and a berth into the second round.

The Mustangs now play the Windsor Lancers in the OUA West semifinals, the fourth-seeded team in the conference.

“I think home-ice advantage is huge,” said Erlich on getting his home crowd behind him. “Our fans are really good out there.”

The other semifinal matchup features the second-seeded Lakehead Thunderwolves and the third-seeded Ryerson Rams.

A berth in the OUA West final is on the line for all four teams, who finished as the top seeds in the regular season.

Western and Windsor begin their semifinal series on Thursday night at Thompson Arena in London. Puck drop is at 7 p.m.

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themselves. By completely disregarding the fact that these games are for amateurs and not professionals, it destroys the opportunities for hard working amateur athletes in the sport. These professionals who already make millions a year further their earnings through endorsements and publicity during the events. Yes, an argument can be made that having professionals in a team sport such as hockey makes the games a much more exciting event. However, how many of us can remember an Olympic world where men’s hockey was not played by professionals? I for one have only

experienced amateur men’s hockey in tournaments such as the World Juniors and the Spengler Cup, which both provide yearly excitement and joy to millions across hockey nations.

While the argument for amateurism can be made, so can the fact of the matter that Korea is not exactly known as a dominant hockey power like Canada or Russia in previous years. There are also no current South Korean athletes playing in the NHL. Yes, the NHL began sending players in 1998 while in Nagano, but this was after years of negotiation between the IIHF and the NHL

to allow for these players to be in the games. The owners (though I have no sympathy for them after three lockouts in 20 years) have to be thought of as well in these cases.

For example, John Tavares, arguably the face of the New York Islanders franchise, was sidelined with a season-ending knee injury during the games. This almost certainly killed any playoff hopes that the Islanders may have had, and cost the franchise hundreds of thousands in ticket sales and merchandise. Don’t be surprised if Bettman and his boys don’t go to the party in 2018.

We were 40 seconds away from elimination and we just realized that the playoffs could be over really quick and we picked it up.

— Daniel Erlich Mustangs’ centre

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Are the Olympics exclusively for amateurs?

Verbal Azalt

Aaron Zaltzman ASSOCIATE EDITOR What are the Olympics about?

That seems to be the question on everybody’s mind when this discussion of allowing professional players to participate comes up, which seems to be about eight times a year.

Are they about sports? Nationalism?

Amateurism or competition? Or is it money?

The truth is the meaning of the Olympics is not about one thing, nor has it stayed constant since 1896.

Amateurism was one major staple of the early games, but this was rooted in a belief that only “gentlemen” who participated in many sports as a “hobby” should compete. Not only was this taken to such an extreme that even training was considered a form of cheating, but it essentially ensured that only the aristocracy could compete, while the poorer class had to actually work instead of competing.

None of this is to ridicule the emphasis on amateur sports, but rather to suggest that the original ideology of the Olympics does not fully apply to the games today. We value competition, and we want to pit the best athletes in each sport against each other. From an Olympic perspective, restricting the games to amateurs essentially excludes anyone who is good at a popular enough sport to do it for a living. It would reduce the appeal of the games unnecessarily, over something that doesn’t violate the spirit of international competition.

As long as the athletes are not being

paid for the Olympics themselves, why should Patrick Chan or Heather Moyes — among the best in their respective sports — be allowed to compete while Sidney Crosby stays home?

From the NHL’s perspective, the debate is simpler. It’s the desire of the players and fans versus the greed of the owners and the league.

So what if there’s a chance that the players get injured playing in the Olympics? Even as someone who owns John Tavares in fantasy hockey, I’m willing to accept that he does things aside from NHL hockey that could lead to injury. Are

we supposed to restrict Joe Sakic’s snow blower access, or have a team trainer present when Dustin Penner is eating pancakes? I also find it difficult to sympathize with their concerns over stopping the NHL season when there have been three lockouts in the last 20 years. The simple fact is that it is the only way to grow the game internationally. If they’re worried that there’s no appetite for hockey in South Korea — silly when you consider that NHL players first went to the Olympics in Nagano — then showcasing the world’s greatest players is the best way to create that appetite.

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