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Huron presidential Belman slate announced election commences Richard Raycraft NEWS EDITOR Voting commenced for Huron’s presidential election yesterday, but it’s not too late for Huron students to cast their ballot, as it will continue today.

This year’s vote features two presidential candidates, Moustafa Ezz and Sarah Ritchie. Ezz is a second year business and political science student, and is also the current vice-president finance of the HUCSC. Ritchie is a third-year history student, who is the History department representative at the HUCSC and president of the Huron History Society.

Two debates between the candidates took place at Huron — one last Thursday and the other on Sunday — where they elaborated on their platform points and vision.

Highlights of Ritchie’s platform include a Huron mobile phone app and an open door policy that includes expanded access to starting societies and clubs.

“I think we can engage students by allowing them to customize their own experience here, so I have a

couple points on my platform that I hope do that,” Ritchie said.

“I want to put the society’s forms online and let them start a society year-round,” She elaborated. “Currently, if you don’t do it before clubs week […] you don’t get a budget, and you don’t get to be a club. I don’t think that’s fair to students who might find mid-way through the year that they want to be engaged on campus — I want to keep the door open for students year-round.”

Ezz has emphasized councillor training to create better advocates, a Huron recreational centre, Huron dining hall reform and discounts for Huron students at local restaurants.

“The absolute worst thing a politician or student government can do is promise something and then not implementing. It’s something I would never accept to happen,” he said. “Everything I have has been carefully reviewed by experts — I’ve talked with the administration about it for great lengths.”

Huron students can vote by going to the HUCSC website, myhuron.ca, and click on the “vote” button at the top of the page.

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THREE’S COMPANY. University Students’ Council presidential candidate Brian Belman (centre) has announced his running mates. Steven Wright, left, is running for vice-president external, and Alex Benac, for vice-president internal.

Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR Brian Belman has announced his slate for the University Students’ Council elections. He will be running with Alex Benac for vice-president internal and Steven Wright for vice-president external.

All three candidates said their slate’s strong point was each candidate’s relevant experience for his respective position.

Benac is the current Pride Western coordinator. He felt this gave him unique insight into the day-to-day workings of the newthis-year internal portfolio.

“There aren’t a lot of people who can claim to have significant internal portfolio experience, but I’m one of the select few that can say I’ve seen the issues. I’ve been in the room, I’ve seen the ins and outs of the internal portfolio and what it does,” Benac said.

Wright also felt his experience

made him suited to the role of VP-external. Wright is currently the chair of the Provincial and Federal Affairs standing committee, which is part of the external portfolio. He’s also an Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance delegate, and the vice-president external for the Faculty of Information and Media Studies Students’ Council.

If elected, Wright said he would run for president of OUSA. Amir Eftekarpour and Alysha Li, the two most recent vice-presidents external (Li was technically vicepresident university affairs before the title was changed), both acted as president of OUSA during their respective terms.

“I’m super excited to get started on this. I think we’ve got the hardest working, dedicated and most qualified slate that’s running this year. As far as our experience goes, we bring the most diverse experiences to the table,” Wright said.

“When [Belman] started

sharing his vision with me I could just tell how excited he was about the things he could bring in to the role […] it got me really excited about it as well and so I decided to hop on board with him,” he added.

Belman said he didn’t know Benac previously, but that the coordinator of Pride Western came highly recommended.

“Brian told me a bit about his ideas for the organization and I thought they were really positive, really grounded, and really practical. He made a lot of sense and it was something I could get on board with right away,” Benac said.

Both of Belman’s running mates were interested in pursuing vicepresident internal and external before becoming a part of his slate.

“One thing I know for sure is everyone in my slate has experience for their role. They know what they’re doing and they can do a fantastic job in office,” Belman said.

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USC debates professional fees Iain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR A motion going before the University Students’ Council tonight would direct the USC executive to look into an agreement for professional faculty students similar to the one granted to affiliate students in 2012.

The motion calls for Spencer Brown, vice-president finance for the USC, and Sam Krishnapillai, vice-president internal for the USC, to investigate the viability of reduced student fees for professional students under a similar agreement as the affiliate students have whereby they pay 38 per cent of the $661.33 fee that main campus students have to pay.

The Law, Education, and Medical and Dental faculties are all under the USC’s purview as undergraduate degrees, even though most students, if not all, will already have one degree before being admitted to these programs.

There are approximately 1,220 students in these faculties.

James Hirsh, vice-president external of the Student Legal Society, is moving the motion at the general council meeting tonight at 7 p.m. Hirsh felt it was time for the USC to address the different

experiences professional students have compared with first entry undergraduate programs.

“The basic idea is that because professional students pay fees to their own student societies and because we don’t engage with USC services in the same way, that there should be some sort of agreement that reflects that,” Hirsh said.

He hopes council will pass it so that the executive and council will start thinking about the role of professional students within the USC. “We are hoping the executive will start to think about this issue and council will start to think about this issue and get some work done on looking into the viability of it, because we would be looking for something similar to the affiliate agreement, which would see us paying less fees than [main campus] students,” Hirsh said.

However, lowering professional student fees would have a significant impact on the USC’s operating budget, and the shortfall it would produce would likely have to be made up by increased base student fees, user fees introduced for services or higher prices at USC-run businesses, like the Spoke.

“It would impact our budget massively. We’re talking about a substantial amount of students

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looking for a substantial decrease in their student fees, which would be hard for us to do,” Brown said.

“With the affiliate agreement, we lost $425,000 out of our budget, which put a huge strain on the organization.”

“With current service levels, there’s no place left to cut. So if you were to take revenues away you would have to find revenues other places,” Brown said. “So basically if the professionals were to get a decrease, you would have to put the burden elsewhere, on main campus or affiliate students.”

Both Brown and Krishnapillai had concerns with the precedent the affiliate agreement set and before the professional students would get the same agreement, there would have to be some due diligence and analysis done beforehand, unlike the haphazard manner in which the affiliate agreement was passed through council.

“To support a professional agreement, I would have to re-look at the affiliate agreement. If we’re going to lower the professional agreement due to some metrics and stats, some substantial reason, then we have to do that as well for the affiliate agreement,” Brown said.

“So that would have to be looked at as well.”

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Kilgour slate drops out of USC campaign Aaron Zaltzman ASSOCIATE EDITOR The race for University Students’ Council president will be opening up with the announcement that the slate of Kelly Hobson, Sam Kilgour and Lindsee Perkins will no longer be running.

Hobson said the decision was made late on Monday night in light of some personal health issues that she is facing.

“I unfortunately am facing some personal health concerns, and we think it would be irresponsible to continue running in an election.

Both the campaign and the role of president require somebody at peak physical condition, and right now I think my personal wellness has to come first,” Hobson, who is the former Orientation coordinator, said.

“It would also be ironic, and possibly hypocritical, to run on a platform of student support and wellness if I wasn’t well myself.”

The slate was originally announced with Kilgour running for president, before the team decided to switch roles and have Hobson run instead. Kilgour, who was also on

Orientation staff, would have been running for vice-president external.

“I think to do any of these positions you need to be versatile. My interest lied in the external portfolio, and I found that out in the hunt for an external vice-president,” Kilgour said.

However, he has no plans to run in another capacity.

“Running without Kelly is not something I can see myself doing.

Kelly and I have been in this together from day one,” Kilgour said. “We’ve made so much progress in the last week and having to redo it all is just not realistic if we want to run a justified campaign.”

Perkins, currently a Social Science councillor, also said she is not looking to run in another slate.

“It hasn’t really crossed my mind, just because I’ve been in the mindset of vice-president internal,” Perkins said. ”I’m definitely going to stay connected with what happens in the elections, and that’s specifically because of how much we all care about students.”

All members of the slate said the decision was a difficult one, and thanked their volunteers for all the

support they had given.

“Without the support of our volunteers, running this campaign wouldn’t even be an option. My sincerest thanks go out to every single person who supported us and all the hard work they did to get us to where we were,” Hobson said. “Letting them know that this wouldn’t continue was almost as hard as deciding to no longer run.”

The slate’s withdrawal leaves two slates in the running, with the campaign set to start a week today.

Brian Belman and Matt Helfand are the two remaining presidential candidates.

“I wish all the best to their team,” Belman said. “For whatever reasons they’re dropping out, I think for my team we still have the same game plan and we’re excited to run the election in a week.”

Matt Helfand was somewhat more opinionated in his reaction.

“It will obviously change the dynamic of the race — now it’s oneon-one. But I think that’s not ideal,” Helfand said. “It’s unfortunate that now we lose another voice of the conversation as a result and I wish the team the best.”

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AND THEN THERE WERE TWO. The University Students’ council presidential slate of Kelly Hobson (middle), Sam Kilgour (left) and Lindsee Perkins are dissolving their run for the USC executive. Hobson, who was to run for president after switching spots with Kilgour, has withdrawn from the race for personal health reasons.

Helfand gets first demerit Tristan Wu GAZETTE STAFF In an unprecedented decision, the University Students’ Council Elections Committee is fining presidential candidate, Matt Helfand, one demerit point for “campaign materials displayed in an unauthorized area” before the beginning of the campaign.

The charge originated from a photo the USC presidential candidate posted of his slate on Facebook.

“When I put up the photograph, I wasn’t intending to do any pre-campaigning,” Helfand said.

“To me, it was just a photo of three friends hanging out. [Nevertheless] I respect the decision that was made,” he continued.

Under normal circumstances, pre-campaigning charges would result in a minimum of four demerit points. According to USC by-laws, each point loss translates into a $10 deduction against the president slate’s campaign fund, and an

accumulation of 30 points would result in disqualification.

According to Pashv Shah, chief returning officer of the Election Committee, “there was a strong case made by [Helfand’s] campaign manager and his running mates that there is precedent for these kinds of actions occurring in previous years, and no action had been taken previously.”

“It’s the perception of a campaign photo that [caused] them to lose demerit points,” he added.

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PICTURE IMPERFECT. University Students’ Council presidential candidate Matt Helfand (left) was issued a demerit point by the USC Elections Committee for posting this picture of his presidential slate on Facebook before campaigning officially started.

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wednesdayword Bellicose Adjective. demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.

Another wooden performance from Pine Kevin Heslop GAZETTE STAFF GGFFF Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Director: Kenneth Branagh Starring: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Coster, Kenneth Branagh Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit combines the ardent patriot, the soundproofed surveillance van and the white-collar Russian mobster in an action thriller we’ve seen dozens of times.

While the imminence of an American economic collapse looms above an oblivious public, Oxfordeducated analyst Jack Ryan (Pine) is heaved into the world of covert operations as a CIA agent. Aided by his cunning fiancée Cathy Muller (Knightley) and CIA veteran Thomas Harper (Costner), Ryan is tasked with the investigation of Russian terrorist Victor Cherevin (Branagh) and the prevention of a devastating attack on Wall Street.

With limp attempts at sincerity and action sequences which unsettle rather than excite, the fifth film reprise of Tom Clancy’s titular character disappoints even on the levels at which a $60-million picture should find some redemption.

Unconvincing as the analytic genius Jack Ryan, Chris Pine fastens

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himself to the growing string of bland 21st century big-budget action stars, the faces of whom change like the symbols on a slot machine.

The usually interesting Costner disappoints for having embraced so banal a script and brings a mediocre performance. Though Knightley adds a much-needed frivolity to this brow-furrowed picture, her performance is unexceptional.

At the helm of this formulaic reincarnation is Kenneth Branagh, credited with several beautiful, sweeping shots of London, Moscow and New York City but guilty of hanging off the faces of his focal actors, conveying a sense of claustrophobia which does nothing for the tone of the film.

During the more fast-paced scenes, editor Martin Walsh disembowels the natural momentum of

the plot with too-rapid cuts, eliciting wincing blinks rather than widening eyes. In a film where the catalysts are to be high-speed car chases and last minute infiltrations, the failure to convincingly capture such moments virtually stripped Jack Ryan of silver linings.

The fight scenes lose no merit for their inelegance — the subtle harmony of these scenes stand separate from the slipshod script — but the

implausibility of the ill-equipped analyst going combative, coupled with various tacit CIA interventions, borders the absurd and betrays a ready-for-market appearance.

A predictable, unthinking-man’s action flick hot off the Hollywood assembly line, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit sacrifices realism to plot, innovation to routine and clutters yet another marquee with a flippant grab for the dollar.

Canadian artist makes hearts stand still

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Tabitha Chan GAZETTE STAFF Marigold Santos is a Canadian artist who explores concepts of mythology, fragmentation and the reinvention of self in her artwork.

These ideas are depicted in her solo exhibition at Forest City Gallery (258 Richmond St.) titled “Still.”

At first glance, the paintings convey a feeling of uneasiness because of the dark colour palette and the dream-like quality. Santos is interested in exploring a state of in-between where time is standing still, which is the reasoning behind the title of the exhibition.

The exhibit features four paintings that form a series called

“Unearthly, Uprising.” Each painting uses a combination of watercolour and acrylic on canvas. Although Santos was never formally trained in painting, she has developed her own style by having a positive outlook towards experimentation.

“The joy of painting comes from being able to surprise yourself as you make the marks on the page,” Santos says.

Her inspiration comes from bringing together a combination of Filipino and North American folklore. When she moved to Canada, her favourite childhood games to play at sleepovers included “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board” and “Bloody Mary.” From a very young

age, Santos has always been fascinated by the grotesque.

“I love how these games allowed even children to access a realm of magic,” Santos says. “Every figure that appears in my artwork is an asuwang.”

In Filipino mythology, an “asuwang” is a hybrid of a witch and vampire. It is said that this creature is a shape shifter which must selfsever itself at the waist in order to hunt during the day. It must rejoin its separated body at night to prevent death.

The piece “Revenant” is a confrontational portrait of an asuwang.

Santos is successful in creating a multi-faced figure that emphasizes the idea of fragmentation.

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The flowery patterned shirt and lace doilies are inspired by Santos’s childhood memories of how her mother decorated their house.

“Flight” is the largest piece in the show and depicts a hazy landscape of flying kites in the absence of any human existence. Santos is interested in how kites are seemingly fragile and have a vulnerability to being affected by the environment. She wants viewers to question how the kites are able to exist independently without anyone being there to tether them.

The depiction of hands (or lack thereof ) is an important element in Santos’s work. She believes that hands represent the tools needed to access magic. “Hoax” depicts

intertwining hands that are situated in an empty void. The isolation of these hands prompts the viewers to wonder who they belong to and to ask where these hands come from.

This collective series of paintings is a microcosm of the major themes that appear throughout all of Santos’s work. She continues to reflect on how memories become fiction and the plurality of identity through the cycle of breaking down and building up. This exhibit is successful in capturing the essence of who Marigold Santos is as an artist.

Marigold Santos’ “Still” will be available to view at the Forest City Gallery until February 7. Admission is free.

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Misery (1990) “I’m your number one fan,” Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) states eerily multiple times throughout Misery.

It’s surely a commentary on celebrity culture of some sort. Indeed, how far does fandom truly go?

Heading way back to Misery will likely conjure images of horror and fear but that’s what makes it absolutely riveting.

Based on the novel by Stephen King, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) has just completed his newest novel and decides (in a stroke of brilliance) to drive home through a horrific blizzard. Predictably, that doesn’t go so well for him and he ends up crashing into a snow bank. Luckily for Annie, she discovers her favourite author’s nearly dead body — she can nurse him back to health!

What’s interesting about this

film is it could take two very different turns. Annie and Paul could fall in love as she nurses him back to health. It would be a heartwarming romance with soft mood lighting, bucking all those revolting romantic comedy trends. Instead, Misery takes the thriller route and decides that Annie will psychotically hold Paul captive.

This movie is delicious. Oh man.

It’s like getting that box of chocolates for Christmas from an obscure relative. That first chocolate doesn’t taste that good and you’re skeptical about the quality of the rest of the box. For some reason, however, you devour that entire box and question how it happened. When watching Misery, it’s a similar experience.

It starts off a little slow but eventually you get a quick glimpse that Annie is absolutely bat shit insane and once that happens — bam!

Hooked. One scene in particular

has Annie slowly unraveling as she describes how she used to be attached to a serial film series. It’s quite normal to be frustrated with cliffhangers on shows like Grey’s Anatomy, but Annie gets downright hysterical.

In one of the film’s most infamous scenes, Annie decides to take measures into her own hands and ensure that Paul cannot escape. If it sounds like torture, it probably is. It’s done quickly but the sting of the scene looms over the rest of the film.

Heading way back to Misery is an undoubtedly fun activity.

Witnessing Kathy Bates in her Oscar-winning role is inevitably fun, especially because she plays a crazy bitch. Moreover, if the thriller genre is an enjoyable indulgence then Misery provides all the twists and turns that anyone could ask for.

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thegazette • Wednesday, January 22, 2014

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“Racism isn’t born, folks, it’s taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.”

— Dennis Leary

USC needs Fallacy of “post-race” world professional faculties Breaking Brad

There’s this theory known as “the slippery slope.”

It’s pretty simple, really: One event or decision will lead to a series of others that are exponentially more problematic. Today, we get to see it in action.

Some professional students want to look into the possibility of opting out of the USC student fee, using a decision made under former University Students’ Council president Andrew Forgione as a precedent.

This decision under Forgione allowed affiliate students at Huron, Brescia and King’s to pay only a portion of the $661.33 USC fee as it was determined they “double pay” for services that are covered on their respective campuses. The validity of this decision has come into question as it ripped a pretty major hole in the USC budget.

While professional students in the faculties of Medicine, Law and Education likely use less of the services than even the students from HBK, it would become problematic — where is the line drawn?

Would main campus students who believe the USC does not adequately address their needs or advocate for their values have the ability to opt out? The affiliate precedent created a slippery slope indeed.

True, the USC can sometimes be irresponsible when dealing with student fees. For instance, losing $30,000 on One Love in November is certainly a questionable use of resources. Clearly, there are reasons for students to openly muse about the utility of their fees.

In addition, the average age of students at professional schools is 25. They are just in different social circles and have other motivations when they look to the USC. Professional students probably don’t want to go see a Kardinal Offishall concert (or many students, for that matter).

Moreover, the USC touches the lives of virtually every student implicitly without notice. For instance, lobbying that the USC does can be part of an effort that affects change within a greater system, and students are entitled to health and dental coverage as well as free bus passes as a result of the fees they pay. Losing the professional students’ fees would be a tremendous blow to the USC’s finances.

Perhaps professional students are accessing USC services less often than most undergraduate students.

That said, the entire USC system could be threatened if the affiliate precedent is used here.

— The Gazette Editorial Board

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Bradley Metlin ARTS & LIFE EDITOR “There is a black President.” Many will state this confidently when referring to Barack Obama, using this as evidence that we live in a post-racial society. I will often guffaw whenever this claim is made, as it is definitely amongst the top five most ignorant statements that can be made.

Even more perplexing, I’ve only heard this grand proclamation made by white people. I think it’s pretty easy to make statements about living in a “post-racial” society when you have one of the most secure positions within the system you are referencing. I also think it’s problematic for the dominant group to speak for others when addressing the problems they face.

Just last week, The Gazette published a story about fourth-year English student Serena Klumpenhouwer. After having an LTC bus drive past her, she caught up to the same driver and asked why he failed to stop. He allegedly responded by mocking the way she spoke and ejecting her from the bus for being “threatening.”

The story was inevitably shocking.

Indeed, the article was one of the most viewed online for The Gazette and as such the comment board was ablaze. Some believed Klumpenhouwer was playing the “race card,” while others requested to hear the driver’s side of the story (though the driver’s identity has not been released by the LTC).

While the particulars of this story could be debated and dissected, the reaction says a lot more about our culture, specifically our campus culture, than we may think. The article has amassed well over 30,000 views — but why is everyone so willing to gawk at a fellow student and her unfortunate encounter with racism?

Does it matter if she is pulling the supposed “race card”? Does it matter if she was “sassy” to the bus driver? What we

should be keeping in mind is that these are serious allegations — so why poke holes in her story? It’s immensely troubling that so many students thought it necessary to publicly tear Klumpenhouwer down.

Additionally, not too long ago a group of my co-workers were discussing when people “drive-by heckle.” Most had heard relatively mundane shouts of “bitch” or “dick head,” but one woman mentioned a different kind of heckling. “Go home terrorist” was what one driver screamed at her. Another white co-worker was shocked that a young Muslim woman could receive this treatment.

Funny, we have a black President south of the border, but a “post-racial” society is still such an elusive place.

Perhaps when others stop the skepticism regarding claims of racism, we could get there.

Alternatively, we should accept that a “post-racial” society is a utopian ideal that cannot soon be achieved. It might be easier to accept other races for their differences and embrace them rather than eagerly waiting for a false sense of racial equality.

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Assault real campus issue Re: “Sexual assault underreported on campus,” Friday, January 17, 2014 To the Editor: Kudos to you guys for drawing attention to the abysmally low rape report rate in universities across Canada. I have to say, although I knew it was low, the staggering rate of five per cent shocked and disheartened me.

But then I remembered how in 2011, Constable Michael Sanguinetti told a group of students attending a campus rape safety forum at York U, “I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this — however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”

I remembered CNN’s Poppy Harlow lamenting over the “promising futures” of the “star football players” and “very good students” who raped a teenage girl in Steubenville, and pondering what “the lasting effect[...]on two young men” would be.

I remembered the disturbing video of the St. Mary’s frosh chanting: “ Y is for your sister, O is for oh so tight, U is for underage, N is for no consent, G is for go to jail.”

I remembered how the 19-year-old male from Toronto was ripped apart and ridiculed in the comments sections of the newspapers that reported his sexual assault by four women.

I remembered how many people were bullying the late (and underage) Amanda Todd for taking pictures in her undergarments, instead of criticizing the person who blackmailed her

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and distributed child pornography.

I remembered how attorney Joseph DiBenedetto appeared on Fox News to discuss a Missouri rape victim and stated unabashedly, “What did she expect to happen at one in the morning after sneaking out? I’m not saying she deserved to be raped, but…”

I remembered how many times I have seen the ridiculous disanalogy about male and female sexuality, “A key that can open many locks is a good key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a terrible lock” on the Internet.

I remembered how many people disagree that slut-shaming is even a problem.

I remembered Jenna Marbles, the second most-watched female YouTuber on the Internet, make an entire video about how she only judges girls by “how many dicks they’ve had in their mouth.”

I remembered how LMFAO’s video for “I’m Sexy and I Know It” received no flak, while Miley Cyrus has been called a whore since “Party in the USA.” I remembered how a woman’s selfrespect and self-esteem is based on what she wears, who she has sex with, and whether or not she twerks.

I remembered how we tell our daughters to find someone who loves them for their heart and mind, and tell our sons, “Just make sure you use condoms.”

I remembered how any woman

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who speaks out against slut-shaming is deemed to be a whore herself, and therefore simply biased and seeking validation.

And then I couldn’t remember why I was surprised in the first place.

— Amy Sainnif Social Science III To the Editor: The statistic is harrowing, but not surprising. According to a new study cited in Friday’s Gazette, only five per cent of sexual assaults on college and university campuses are formally reported.

There is sometimes a tendency amongst university administrators to attribute sexual assault to things like “hook-up culture” and alcohol consumption. Indeed, a recent report from the Saint Mary’s University President’s Council places much of the blame for the apparent rape culture in college and university campuses nationwide squarely on the shoulders of students.

However, I contend that administrators at Saint Mary’s and Western alike are equally responsible for what takes place on their campuses.

What students need more than anything is to be educated. Consistent, clear, and repetitive messaging about sexual assault and consent should be presented to students year-round.

The “Can I Kiss You?” session during Orientation Week is not enough to prevent more studentsfrom becoming mere statistics.

— Kelly Hobson FIMS V

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“From the information I’ve been exposed to and from what I’ve read, I don’t think he will get in. But hey, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds got roughly 30 per cent of the vote.”

>> Hall of Fame infielder Paul Molitor on Alex Rodriguez’s Hall of Fame chances.

Rundown >> The Mustangs wrestling team competed in the Guelph Open on Saturday > Senior wrestler Larissa D’Alleva took home the individual gold in the 63 kg weight class > Brianne Barry, Anna McKee and Steven Takahashi all earned bronze medals in their respective weight classes.

Western basketball dominates Lakehead Scholtes registers 1,000th career point as a ‘Stang Aaron Fisch CONTRIBUTOR The Western Mustangs blew past the Lakehead Thunderwolves in a 73–47 win on Saturday night. The Mustangs have now extended their winning streak to four games, moving to a 6–8 record for the season.

Overall, it was a very efficient night for the Mustangs, shooting 50 per cent from the floor. The team lost only the second quarter by one point and securely won the other three periods. With both solid defence and great offence, this was seemingly an easy win for the team, which is currently playing their best basketball of the season.

Mustangs basketball head coach Brad Campbell said the improvements make sense.

“Over the Christmas break we got back down to work and kind of went back to the drawing room,” Campbell said. “We’ve got very highcharacter players on our team and we’re just starting to do a lot of different aspects of the game a heck of a lot better right now, and we’re starting to believe in ourselves and it’s really showing up as wins right now.”

The story of the night was Mustangs’ guard Peter Scholtes scoring his 1,000th career point as a Western Mustang. He also contributed well to the team effort, scoring 17 points and grabbing 13 rebounds.

Overall, he shot 57 per cent from the field.

“Scoring my 1,000th point meant a lot for me, as known the last few years our team has struggled and you have to find ways to motivate yourself when the going gets tough,”

Scholtes said. “So for me I kept that 1,000th point mark in the back of my head as an individual goal for myself. And it feels even better that I was able to get it when our team has been playing great and winning basketball games.”

“It’s a tremendous milestone for Pete,” Campbell said. “He’s going to continue to add onto that total, but we’re very happy for Pete.”

Also contributing to the win was Mustangs’ forward Quinn Henderson, scoring 21 points and connecting on eight of 13 shots.

Mustangs’ guard George Johnson was also effective, scoring 15 points.

He sank five of nine baskets from the floor, which included shooting three of four from the three-point line.

Lakehead struggled to generate any offence, as the team’s highest scorer, Brent Wallace, only posted eight points. The team shot 25 per cent from the three-point line, 33.3 per cent from the foul line and 34.5 per cent from the field. Due to the poor play, the team quickly fell behind, losing the first quarter by 17 points.

Scholtes attributed the Mustangs’ current wining streak to the level of play.

“I think our success of late has been [due to] the increase level of play of our team offence and team defence,” Scholtes said. “Everyone is on the same page and our team has really found an identity and style of play that we try and execute.”

The Mustangs will look to continue their winning streak against Windsor today at 3 p.m. The game will take place at Alumni Hall, where the team will look to defend home court.

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ISO! Eric McDonald dribbles the ball up court while looking for the open man. McDonald, who transferred from the University of Guelph, has been a key member of the Mustangs offence this season. With the return of George Johnson, the two-sport athlete who played for the football team earlier in the season, the Mustangs are rolling. The team has now won four-straight Ontario University Sport match-ups.

Meet Your team’s top contributors

#21 George Johnson Guard

#4 Greg Morrow Forward

Three-Point %: 80.0 Free Throw %: 75.0 Minutes Per Game: 19.0

Points Per Game: 16.8 Free Throw %: 67.0 Minutes Per Game: 27.9

#10 Peter Scholtes Forward Points Per Game: 14.5 Field Goal %: 41.0 Rebounds: 83

#8 Quinn Henderson Guard

#5 Eric McDonald Guard

Points Per Game: 10.9 Free Throw %: 59.0 Minutes Per game: 28.8

Points Per Game: 9.7 Free Throw %: 70.0 Minutes Per Game: 24.5 Photos courtesy of www.westernmustangs.ca

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