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UWOFA takes a look at Western’s finances MLHU warns Kevin Hurren OPINIONS EDITOR In anticipation of last Friday’s senate budget meeting, Western’s Faculty Association, UWOFA, released a report gauging the financial strength of the university. The report, titled “Every budget is a choice — a look inside Western’s financial decisions and resulting priorities,” was inspired by a desire to understand the motivation behind budget cuts that specific faculties will be facing in the following years. “We need to know why these decisions are being made by the higher administration, so we wanted to analyze what the economic situation of the university actually is,” said Alison Hearn, UWOFA president. According to the report, Western’s financial situation is better than the university claims and it is shaping up to be one of the healthiest universities in Ontario. “It has become clear that two tales are being told here at Western,” reads the press release that accompanied the report. What this means, said Hearn, is that although Western boasts great financial stability, various faculties such as Social Science and Arts and Humanities are being asked to cut their budgets by 20 per cent. Keith Marnoch, Western’s director of media relations, said that the ramifications of the new university budget will not be as severe as some may suggest, calling into question the 20 per cent reductions that the report presents. “[The report] is basically an interpretation of a financial statement,” Marnoch said. “So I’d say
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that the university doesn’t agree with the interpretation of the association and that will be talked more about come negotiation time.” Marnoch said that the administration will be discussing the budget and its implications with faculty as contract negotiations are on the horizon this year. “Moving into a contract period, there’s going to be a fair bit of back and forth on these things,” said Marnoch. “It’s part of a process that is leading to a negotiation that will take place between the university and the association representing those faculties.” A main problem for those backing the report is the $202-million surplus that has amassed in Western’s budget since 2009. Much of these funds have gone into capital projects, but a large portion, said Hearn, is being funneled into restricted funds which the UWOFA does not have access to review. In terms of this surplus, Marnoch assured that Western has handled its additional funds responsibly. “We’ve managed to handle finances in a sound way in the past, and as a publicly funded institution, we need to continue handling those budgets in a similar manner,” he said. Hearn hopes that as the report circulates, more people will be inspired to ask questions about what the university is putting its money behind. “The release of the report […] was to encourage some accountability from higher administration about where all of this surplus is going,” she said. — With files from Richard Raycraft
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Youth advisory council elections underway Amy O’Kruk GAZETTE STAFF University Students’ Council elections may be over, but there are still Western students that are looking for your vote. A group of Western students are running for positions on the London Youth Advisory Council. LYAC is a youth government that exists to ensure that young people’s voices are integrated into local public policy decisions. The council is presently composed of 13 councillors, but starting in 201415 will be composed of 14 ward councillors. These councillors are aged 15–25 and will be elected this Friday by the citizens of London.
There are currently 40 people running for the 14 spots available on council, 15 of whom are Western students or graduates. Adam Fearnall, the council director of LYAC, said the purpose of the council is to pave the way for youth involvement in the community and political activism. “There is a tremendous amount of energy within the youth population to make an impact on the decisions that are being made within the city,” Fearnall said. “I think that for us our main goal is to create pathways into the political process for people who maybe otherwise wouldn’t engage with the system.” Two Western students who
hope to contribute to this ideal are Nathanial Sukhdeo and Melissa Zuleta Jiménez. Jiménez, who is running for ward 7, has included better public transportation for students as part of her platform. “I’ve received a lot of support […] even if I don’t get elected I am making a change because I’m serving as an example to [other youth] that I’m using my voice in order to pursue things that I think are important,” Jiménez said. Sukhdeo, who is running for ward 9, added that his studies in political science at Western have influenced him to get involved. “My plans for council are continuing to advocate on behalf of youth involvement,” Sukdeo said.
“LYAC gives youth a chance to have an influence on what the city does which often isn’t heard of in other cities.” Fearnell summed up the LYAC’s purpose as familiarizing politics with as broad an audience as possible. “I think that a lot of people don’t feel comfortable engaging with the political system and so if we can contribute to a city where young people feel like their representatives are working for them and feel like engaging with their system then we’ve done our job,” Fearnell said. Voting is currently open and votes can be cast up until Friday at lyac.ca.
The Middlesex London Health Unit is reaching out to the public to take precautionary measures after a measles outbreak. An anonymous man returning from Thailand was diagnosed with measles about a week ago, which prompted a warning from the MLHU. A second case, however, has prompted the organization to release an additional warning to the public. While the second person inflicted by the illness is believed to be close to the original source, they still visited several places throughout London, including the on-campus hospital. According to MLHU, from Saturday March 15 to Wednesday March 19, there were a series of locations, mostly scattered throughout the south end of the city, in which exposure to measles was possible. The vast majority of the public will be protected from this highly communicable disease because they are vaccinated, however the MLHU is warning the public out of an abundance of caution. Up until the age of 18, children require two doses of a measles containing vaccine to be in school or their parents have to complete an exemption form. Ninety-seven per cent of schools in London and Middlesex County have had the measles vaccine. “There’s no legislation governing the immunization of university students,” said Marlene Price, manager for the vaccine preventable diseases program at MLHU. “[But] a lot of the Western students, unless they are mature students, would have been in elementary and high school when the two doses of measles vaccine were required.” Price recommended that anyone experiencing fever, cough, runny nose, itchy red eyes, discoloured spots inside their mouth or a rash should call their health care provider. Cynthia Gibney, director of Health Services at Western, said they are following the lead of the MLHU and are taking the same precautionary measures to spread awareness to the public as well as encourage vaccination. “I don’t think it’s a time for panicking about measles,” Price said. “There have been pockets of measles in Canada in the past few years but they have all been travel related.”
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BYE-BYE BAMBI? The land that Gibbons Lodge Residence occupies, also the home of Western president Amit Chakma, is being rezoned for medium-density residential development, which has some neighbours concerned the university plans to develop the area that is home to a lot of wildlife.
Jeremiah Rodriguez NEWS EDITOR No shovels or ribbon-cutting ceremonies are on the horizon, but the re-zoning of university property near some environmentally protected land has given some neighbours pause. The property in question sits on a 17.6-hectares of prime real
estate in London’s north end and houses Gibbons Lodge, which is the residence given to Western’s president, who is currently Amit Chakma. Western has owned the property since 1960. The city and Western re-zoned one-third of the property to designate it for medium-density residential development, meaning it can be developed into townhouse
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clusters, nursing homes or low-rise apartments. As of last Wednesday, Ward 5 councillor Joni Baechler said that she had received several complaints from concerned neighbours over the possible displacement of local wildlife, should this land be developed as it now could be under the re-zoning. Deer, wild turkeys and foxes make their home in the land east of main campus. However, Stephen Jarett, Western’s legal counsel, asserted that the university has no impending construction plans and that none are even being considered. Jarett said that Western’s property re-zoning was in tandem with London’s own efforts to re-zone environmentally significant land to the east of Western property. Jarrett said the university took the city’s re-zoning as a chance to rezone commercially viable land in the estate’s West end. “We keep saying to people we have no plans to actually develop it, it’s just we’re using this opportunity to make sure the new zoning complies with the designation in the official plan,� Jarett said. London city planner Barb Debbert told the London Free Press that it was slightly odd that there were no development plans because any future construction could now take place because the area will be re-zoned for it. During the 1990s, Western annexed the land south of the estate to Sifton Properties, who intended to build a 15-level apartment building. However, Western complained and the project was scaled down to the low-rise Richmond Woods Retirement Village. Western has produced its own environmental assessment indicating a preliminary limit of future development should Western decide to build. Should Western desire a future development project, it would need to bring a more comprehensive proposal to the city. A couple weeks prior, Western held a public meeting where citizens could voice their concerns and have a forum for them to understand exactly what the rezoning could or could not mean. “When residents see that there’s going to be re-zoning they’re obviously concerned about it,� Jarrett said. “I mean, I would be too if there was re-zoning down the block from where I lived.� On April 8, the proposal will be reviewed by the city’s planning and environment committee.
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FIMS unhappy with Whelan Open letter demands strat plan answers
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A WALL OF SOLIDARITY. Sixty-six protestors silently displayed signs at Western senate’s January 24 meeting before the strategic plan was approved. The protestors believe the strategic plan may compromise their quality of education.
Megan Devlin NEWS EDITOR The Faculty of Information and Media Studies General Assembly released an open letter criticizing Pat Whelan, the University Students’ Council president, for failing to acknowledge discontented students protesting Western’s new strategic plan at a January 24 senate meeting. Demonstrators alleged the administration was prioritizing profit over pedagogy and they silently held signs at the back of the room as well as at the entrance to the senate meeting. When it was Whelan’s turn to speak about the strategic plan, he said students approved and were pleased with the plan, despite the demonstrators’ presence to the contrary. The FIMS GA’s letter said Whelan’s behavior did not represent the interests of students. “Many students felt, after the strategic plan demonstration, unrepresented or disenfranchised,” Jordan Pearson, president of the FIMS student council and member of the FIMS GA, said. “The strategic plan talks about excellence in research clusters. But what it doesn’t mention is the 30 per cent cuts in funding to humanities programs, FIMS, social science, even the health sciences,” Pearson said. Most students who drafted the letter were also demonstrators at the senate meeting, and Pearson said many still do not feel their concerns have been acknowledged — which was part of the motivation behind releasing the letter. The letter posed four questions
Many students felt — after the strategic plan demonstration — unrepresented or disenfranchised. — Jordan Pearson
Faculty of Information & Media Studies Students’ Council president
to president Whelan. The first asked him how students-at-large were consulted for suggestions for the strategic plan. “I think a lot of students felt that this was a fairly opaque process that they didn’t feel involved in,” Pearson said. Whelan responded in a Gazette interview that two submissions were made to the strategic plan — one before he took office and another in the summer. “We heard through student feedback mechanisms like Change Camp and the surveying we had done about our own strategic plan and several surveys and town-halls in between,” Whelan said. The letter also demanded why Whelan did not touch on the
We spoke favourably because we asked for a lot of things over a long period of time and we got a lot of them. Patrick Whelan
University Students’ Council president
absence of affordability of education in the strategic plan. Whelan responded that of the eight items the USC wanted in the strategic plan, seven were included — affordability of education was the one left out. He admitted he was concerned affordability wasn’t included, especially because needs-based bursaries haven’t been growing at the same rate as tuition. The third question the letter posed asked why Whelan continued to speak only in favour of the plan despite the presence of dozens of student demonstrators. “We spoke favourably because we asked for a lot of things over a long period of time and we got a lot of them,” Whelan said. He explained that there were many different interpretations of the plan, but that he believed it was largely positive for students. “I understand [the demonstrators’] fear that the liberal arts programs will not be as appropriately funded or supported in the future. That’s a concern for me too,” Whelan said. “We’re going to ensure it doesn’t happen. We as a students’ council will be vigilant in ensuring that the liberal arts programs continue to be high quality.” Finally, the letter suggested that Whelan avoided speaking against the plan so as not to jeopardize the USC’s relationships with the administration. “I wouldn’t say that we make decisions based on protecting administrative relationships,” Whelan responded. He re-iterated that he supported the plan because so much student input was acknowledged in the final product.
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Western art students step up to Labatt Tabitha Chan GAZETTE STAFF The Western Open Studio event is a unique opportunity providing the Western community with a chance to engage with the Department of Visual Arts. Students from all three streams taught by the Visual Arts department will be opening their studios for the public to gain insight on what really goes on behind the glass doors of the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre. PhD, MFA and BFA students are collaborating together to make this two-day event possible. Michael Pszczonak, an MFA student, says that they are trying to make this event as widespread as they can in order to show people the behindthe-scenes aspects of art making. “In all of our studios, there’s the in-progress works we haven’t fully resolved yet. It’s up to each artist to decide how they want to organize their studio — they might show work-in-progress or final work,” Pszczonak says. The event will display artwork all around the Visual Arts Centre, as well as in the studio spaces. Since there are a variety of artists being featured, a plethora of mediums will be used, including sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, video, printmaking and performance art. “Anyone who is interested in the arts, whether you’re in the program or not, will enjoy this event. The work is so diverse that there’s something for everyone here,” Pszczonak says. Barb Hobot, an MFA student, says that this event will give people the opportunity to see the different kinds of research artists are engaged with at Western. Hobot emphasizes that the process behind an artwork
I think what’s unique about the Open Studio event as opposed to an art show is that the artists are there and you can talk about the process of how they make things. It’s a chance to see the workshop and the mess before. — Barb Hobot
Masters of Fine Arts student
is every bit as important as the final piece. “I think what’s unique about the Open Studio event as opposed to an art show is that the artists are there and you can talk about the process of how they make things. It’s a chance to see the workshop and the mess before,” Hobot says. The studios will officially open at 5 p.m. on March 27. The artists will be there to speak with the public and to answer any questions they might have about their work. At 7 p.m. there will be a guest artist talk by Duane Linklater, the 2013 Sobey Art Award Recipient. The ArtLab Gallery will be open as well for the opening of the graduating BFA Practicum class exhibition titled “What Plants Crave.” Niloufar Salimi, an MFA student, says that she is most excited for the celebratory atmosphere that will surround the Western Open Studio event. “I’m excited about the excitement
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WESTERN ARTISTS STAND UP. Western BFA, MFA, and PhD students will be presenting their art at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre on March 27-28. Featured here, a painting MFA student Jared Peter entitled “Car Seat”
that all of us will have at the same time sharing one thing together with everybody in the department. I’m also excited about the exposure. This event is also a good opportunity for anyone who is researching grad schools to see the ambience of the school and how people interact,” Salimi says. On March 28, the studios will re-open at 1 p.m. The Insight Visual Arts forum will be held on this day, which gives MA, MFA, PhD students
and studio faculty the opportunity to present their research to the public. “We want everyone to know that this event is free and open to anyone in the Western community. We just want to see some new people in here and have a chance to share what we’re doing and have a conversation,” says Hobot. “The reason for this event is to highlight the program itself — there are a lot of good things happening in it. The faculty is really good and the
art being created is really great. I’m really excited about the community that could potentially come together to celebrate art,” Pszczonak says. For students who are curious about what goes on inside an artist’s head and the artistic process, this is a great opportunity to find out. For more information about the schedule of the Western Open Studio event, visit the Department of Visual Arts website. The event will run March 27 – 28.
Complex play raising the roof Robert Nanni Jr. GAZETTE STAFF Returning for its annual spring play, the Arts and Humanities Students’ Council has decided to produce A View From the Roof. Written by Canadian playwright Dave Carley, the play follows the memories of Mr. Mulgrave, a successful businessman who hires two actors to improvise his biography. “It’s a really unique blend of humour in terms of a really tragic setting,” explains Chelsea Benham, the actress portraying Helga, her daughter, and Hannah in the play. “You’re given four stories to follow, each with its own seemingly separate plot and they all interweave.” Benham discusses the variety of themes covered through the plot and subplots including regret, poverty, feminism, love and Nazism. The stories range across a spectrum of time periods, stretching as early as the start of the Second World War to the present day. These various time periods, as well as double and triple casting, make for a play that is a challenge to perform. Gordon Haney, the actor who
plays both Henry and Daniel, expresses that the flow of the play will be difficult to communicate but has faith that the distinctions are understood. “You definitely have to be attentive in it,” warns Benham. “It’s almost like a leap of faith following it. You just have to know that in the end there will be a resolution, that you will have an answer.” Like an episode of any generic crime show, the pieces will initially be quite scattered and potentially confusing, but Haney ensures that the “puzzle work will be very heartfelt in the end.” Director and producer Ashley Patenaude maintains that this mystery was one of the reasons the play was chosen for the AHSC spring performance. “It wasn’t too heavy, had moments of comedy and tragedy, and was ultimately thought-provoking — it was something that almost anyone could get something out of,” Patenaude says. Along with the desire to maintain a consistent use of Canadianwritten scripts in the yearly AHSC spring plays, Patenaude searched for something that would make a
statement. “Our biggest struggle with the play has been less specifically with the play and more of making a name for the AHSC that is reputable within the London community and in the theatre business,” Patenaude explains. Continuing on the path set for them by last year’s play coordinator with the production of Scorched, the AHSC takes a risk with multiple-cast roles, yet attests that the choice is for the best. “[The double casting] helps to understand the way things roll in the play,” Patenaude says. “To cast anybody else as any one of the three roles Chelsea plays would leave the audience very confused.” Despite the slight bump in the road concerning the distinguishing of characters in each time period, the entire cast assures its audience that there is significance behind this complicated plot. “There’s a lot of revelation at the end,” Benham shares. “It’s initially just introductory to Mulgrave’s memories, but the plot keeps twisting until it’s all strung out, and then pieces together beautifully at the end.”
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If you’ve ever surfed TV channels, hopefully when you hear the tune “I’ll Be There For You” you immediately think of the classic 90s sitcom, Friends. Starting in 1994 and running until 2004, Friends was over before some of us had even started middle school, but that doesn’t change the effect this sitcom had on popular culture. Maybe it was the chic and trendy hairstyle “The Rachel” that reeled you in, causing you to chop your own locks in the same way. Maybe Joey’s “how you doin’?” helped you land a girl down at The Ceeps one night and take her out for a classy dinner of two pizzas. Maybe Chandler caused you to look up and extensively search Wikipedia for just exactly what a statistical analyst for data reconfiguration does on a daily basis (hint: plays a lot of Mrs. Packman). Maybe Ross inspired you to take
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up karate or start excessively collecting dinosaur memorabilia. Maybe Monica spoke to your inner neurotic, motivating you to polish the TV remote until it was pristine or to alphabetize your refrigerator magnets. Or, maybe Phoebe appealed to the musician in you, urging you to pick up a guitar and strum your little heart away in a string of quirky — and embarrassing — melodies, with her chord
formations of course. Whatever the reason, Friends has had a significant impact on many people’s lives. When overworked with essays and exams, pop that DVD back in your computer and curl up with your favourite season of one of the best sitcoms of the 90s. If anyone asks why you’re still obsessed with this show, just tell them Regina Falange told you to watch it. — Sarah Botelho
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Opinions USC needs to address protesters The Faculty of Information and Media Studies General Assembly released an open letter on Monday criticizing the University Students’ Council and its president, Pat Whelan, over their response to Western’s strategic plan, which passed in the senate on January 24. The letter argues Whelan did not acknowledge the protesters or take student input into consideration when he endorsed the plan on behalf of students. Furthermore, they are demanding a response from the USC on the amount of student input that went into the strategic plan and why the USC did not raise any concerns with the plan, which they say starves non-STEM faculties of money and does not address the affordability of education. And they do have a point. The USC and Whelan have not engaged students before the plan went to senate or after, when 66 students and faculty showed up to protest the passing of it. It takes a lot to get students involved in politics, especially the politics of campus. To have this very vocal, albeit minority group, go unacknowledged is something the USC needs to address. While the concerns are only the result of an interpretation of the plan, they’re a valid enough interpretation that the criticisms have mobilized staff and students into activism. This is not necessarily to say that the entire strategic plan should be scrapped because there are dissenters. In fact, there were a lot of recommendations that the USC advocated for that were included in the plan, and there were e-mails from the university that encouraged students to contribute their input prior to its development. There does, though, seem to be a lack of involvement on this issue from the USC. There were no town halls, like there was for when USC coordinator Jessica Tong resigned. There were also no e-mails or announcements from the USC explaining the impact of the plan. And that is the main problem. The USC has said that several points that are great for students were included in the plan. They also have denied that most of the protesters’ concerns are valid in interviews with The Gazette. But they have not directly engaged the protesters and outlined why they support the plan, what in it they advocated for and why protesters’ concerns are or are not valid. Contrary to what actions reveal at times, the USC is the platform for students to voice their opinions to the administration, not to be the administration’s yes man. USC should be encouraging everyone to be a part of the design and implementation of policy on campus, and should in fact applaud attempts by students to engage, whether or not their criticisms are founded. Not addressing protesting students head-on is not indicative of a student council that is supposed to represent the views of the entire undergraduate student body. In matters concerning the impact of administration policy on students, silence from the USC is far from golden.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don’t cost much to be housed.
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Course evaluations require evaluating Seven Minutes in Kevin Kevin Hurren OPINIONS EDITOR There are a few universal things that happen for students at this time in the term. We receive threatening emails from libraries warning us that the books we’ve signed out are long overdue. We struggle to stay motivated to keep up with course readings. We shed a tear looking back at how much money we’ve spent on Tim Horton’s coffees and Spoke bagels. And, of course, we fill out course evaluations. A lot can be, and has been, said about the merit behind these evaluations. It’s certainly a positive thing that the university is attempting to solicit student feedback on the classroom experience — but is this really an effective way to improve teaching quality? After all, we’ve all completed these sheets and so we know how arbitrary they can be. Usually distributed at the end of a class, most will hastily scribble in some bubbles on the Scantron and then get out of that room with more desperation and determination than patrons of the Titanic. As a result, these speedy observations are surface level, lacking in substantial reflections or conclusions on the course as a whole. In addition, vendetta’s can have a significant role on the numerical value a student will assign a professor. If an instructor is critiqued for a specific reason, he or she will most likely be rated
low across the board — even on successful habits or practices. These concerns, though legitimate, are not my main problem with the way the evaluations are constructed. I doubt the legitimacy of evaluations because although feedback is collected, it is then swept under the proverbial rug. For instance, you may not realize it but all the evaluation results are posted online. A simple sign-in will yield years and years of data collected on a single professor, breaking that information up into specific courses and terms — but few know the location or accessibility of the site. Once again, it’s great that such resources are being developed by Western, but if the school really wants to make these evaluations meaningful it will have to work on ways to disseminate this information in a more effective way. For example, there are currently websites that list courses offered by a faculty where a user can click on the course code and (using their UWO username and password) access the syllabus. It would be great if a similar interface was applied to the instructor’s name, where a simple double click could not only present the course outline but also students’ experiences in that course over the last few years. With this, course and instructor evaluations could have much more tangible consequences. When constructing their schedules, students could be influenced by these results, potentially even to the point where unfulfilling courses don’t get enough enrollment — forcing the professor to seriously reflect on the kind of classroom experience he or she is creating.
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thegazette • Wednesday, March 26, 2014
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saywhat? “Whether it’s fair, legal or whatever you want to call it, if he wasn’t scared, he would stand up and hit me and not go after my knees. It just shows how big of a chicken he is that he needs to go down like that to take me down.”
>> Boston Bruins forward Milan Lucic said about Montreal Canadiens defenceman Alexi Emelin after the Canadien upended him with a hip check in the neutral zone.
Rundown >> Western’s badminton team travelled to Laval University this past weekend for the 2014 College-University National Championships > Mustangs’ Martin Giuffre and his Waterloo University partner, Nathan Lee, brought home gold medals in the men’s doubles event after winning five straight matches.
Jay and Dan come home
Q&A with Dan and Jay
Ex-TSN sportscasters speak at Western
DAN: So all the complaints, they
Kaitlyn McGrath ASSOCIATE EDITOR Before their speech, The Gazette caught up with Fox Sport 1’s Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole. THE GAZETTE: What do you miss most about Canada? JAY: The people. Not the weather. [I miss] Tim Hortons. Ketchup chips. Strip clubs where the women can take off all their clothes and you can drink. That pretty much covers it, I think. DAN: I miss chips (laughs). I miss chips a lot. Jay can attest to the fact that every time we come back, I stop at a store, get back in the vehicle and crush a bag of salt and vinegar chips or ketchup. THE GAZETTE: I wanted to ask you
Mike Laine GAZETTE
BOBROVSKY! Jay Onrait, shown above, and Dan O’Toole spoke to the Western students at Monday night’s presentation. The comedic sportscasting duo, who originally hosted the morning highlights for TSN sportscentre, left Canada to take up their spot in Fox Sports and Entertainment in California.
Kaitlyn McGrath ASSOCIATE EDITOR Last May, TSN anchors, turned onair comedians, turned podcast legends, Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole, announced they were leaving not just Canada’s sporting network but also the country itself. The pair was abandoning the Great White North for the sandy beaches of California ,vacating their chairs at TSN so they could sit in fresh ones at Fox Sports 1’s new flagship show. Canadians were devastated — in shock, really. Even Prime Minister Stephen Harper lamented their departure, calling it “the worst play of the day” in a tweet. Even now, almost a year after the news broke, Canadians still feel slighted at the sudden breakup. Why leave Canada, Jay and Dan? It was a question likely on the minds of the hundreds of Western students who attended Onrait and O’Toole’s speech held in the Mustang Lounge on Monday night. So, guys, care to explain? “We’re making a lot of money,” Onrait told the crowd in his classic witty tone. But even though the money — and weather — are far better in the United States, Onrait and O’Toole told the audience they still miss their home and native land. Thanks to the Social Science Students’ Council, Western was the destination on the return trip for the broadcasting duo. During their days at TSN, the two became known for their zany, offbeat episodes of SportsCentre. In stark contract to the conventional sports broadcast, the two filled their show with jokes, goofy gags and improvisation, making the morning loop feel like a comedy show rather than a professional sports broadcast.
The two are credited for closing the gap between providing scores and entertainment, proving a sports program can be enjoyed by even the most lukewarm of sports fans. “We successfully bridged that gap and I think that’s one thing we’re very proud of,” O’Toole told the audience. The two wasted no time in displaying their unique — and often crude — sense of humour to the crowd at Western. But, of course, as is their tradition, the two first cracked open some energy drinks before they started cracking jokes. Throughout the speech, no topic was off limits, especially for Onrait, who took friendly jabs at TSN anchors and former co-workers Kate Beirness and Jennifer Hedger. He also knocked on Brock University, his own alma mater Ryerson University — Ry High or Devryerson, as he called it — and what he called “phys-ed majors.” Onrait joked phys-ed majors — an audience member later corrected him, explaining it’s called kinesiology here at Western — waste four years studying to eventually become “baristas.” O’Toole also got in some slights of his own. When asked by an audience member what the worst part about moving to the States was, he replied, “our show,” which was met with laughter from both the crowd and the two on stage. “I laugh because it’s so true,” O’Toole said, as him and Onrait went on to explain their show still has some kinks that need ironing out. But in between jokes — and there were many — the two also shared their career paths. Onrait said he attended very little class but still graduated from Ryerson with a degree in Radio and Television Arts, while O’Toole studied broadcasting at Algonquin College. It would
have been London’s own Fanshawe College, he said, but they rejected him. They also discussed some of their experiences as sports broadcasters. Early in the speech, the two talked about their recent experience covering the Sochi Winter Olympics. The food, they said, was lacking. Pasta, O’Toole said, was either “crunchy” or “a soup-like substance.” But while they were working for an American network, they still found time to visit Canada’s Olympic House, which Onrait likened to visiting “an exgirlfriend’s house after you dumped her.” During the lengthy Q & A portion of the evening, the two offered advice to aspiring sports journalists, including an important — albeit obvious — tip: be a sports fan and watch a lot of sports. O’Toole also explained that it’s important to put in your time in smaller markets before you can land at a major network. He also added that in terms of their success, it was completely unexpected. “We’re just doing something we love and it kind of grew a lot bigger than we ever expected it,” O’Toole said. “We never expected to be working in the States doing this.” What was advertised as a speech evolved into a comedy show, but for anyone who is familiar with Onrait and O’Toole that was expected. While their Canadian visit was short, O’Toole promised they would both keep one foot in Canada — meaning their beloved podcast would be returning shortly. Sure, Canadians probably still miss waking up every morning to Onrait yelling “BOBROVSKY,” but us Canadians had them for years, so why not share with our American neighbours? Or, as Jay and Dan might put it: Why not, eh?
guys how the Sochi Olympics were because you’ve both been to the last two so how did this one stack up? DAN: It was unreal. It was very well run. Volunteers all learned as much English as they can. They needed to bring in a chef for the entire country for the Olympics because the food was very lacking. JAY: You know that show, Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares where Gordon Ramsay goes and fixes a restaurant’s kitchen? Gordon Ramsay should just got to all the kitchens in Russia and fix them because the food was lacking a little bit. But as Dan said, people were awesome, super friendly; venues were good; our hotel was good. DAN: And the dogs were all really friendly. JAY: Dogs were friendly. The strays were not like ribs poking out, and like mangy, you know, drooling. They were well-fed, friendly. You could pet them. I think they were people’s dogs, but they just let them
go. were all from, sorry to say this, but newspaper reporters. THE GAZETTE: What is the biggest difference between the US sports media and the Canadian media? Do you guys have to tone it down there? DAN: They want us to be ourselves. The biggest thing is we could start the show with a college basketball game that for 100 years in Canada would never see the light of day unless someone died in that basketball game. That is the biggest difference — the emphasis on college sports. But as far as the way we do our thing, they want us to continue. They even wanted us to go further and we had to tell them, ‘we aren’t doing that. I’m wearing clothes on the show.’ JAY: Yeah, they do want us to get crazy. We’re going against ESPN and they’re very different from even TSN — they’re much more straightforward. They’re good, it’s just very straight-forward broadcasting so Fox really wanted us to be wacky. And we kind of almost had to tell them, ‘well, there’s a balance — we do have fun, but there’s got to be legitimate scores and highlights.’ THE GAZETTE: When is the podcast coming back? JAY: We’ve had some issues with the union down there cause we wanted to put it on TV. We’re retooling it and making it simpler. Almost making it more like it used to be in the very beginning. So a short answer is it’ll come back but we’re just trying to get it going.
Interview was edited for clarity and length. Read the full interview online at www.westerngazette.ca
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thegazette • Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Leafs fans’ Reimer rage really ridiculous
Sports Brief
Western gets healthy Abracadabra Al-Azem
Nusaiba Al-Azem SPORTS EDITOR After falling to the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday and the New Jersey Devils the following night, the Toronto Maple Leafs are currently experiencing their longest losing streak of the season — just in time to potentially destroy any playoff opportunities. But despite bleeding blue, that’s not what I care about. After the losses, Leafs fans got angry — so much so that they took it upon themselves to tweet at goaltender James Reimer’s wife, April, a
variety of insulting and harassing remarks. The goaltender, who has been replacing starting goaltender Jonathan Bernier since he’s been out due to an injury, was pulled from Sunday’s game due to his performance. Tweets to April ranged from advice that she ought to divorce Reimer to orders to drive a knife through his heart. This kind of behaviour is absolutely ridiculous for three reasons. The first reason should go without saying — it’s simply rude and unsportsmanlike conduct. That’s not the hockey spirit. The second is that it’s counterproductive to the cause of the team playing well. No free agent will want to come play for Toronto, with fans that harass players and go after their families too. Fans are essentially driving away any talent and ensuring the Leaf’s legacy of
underperformance. The third, and most ironic, reason that this behaviour is ridiculous is that this rage is misplaced anyway. You cannot fault Reimer for his poor performance this year. Now before I get a bunch of angry tweets, hear me out. Reimer has the potential to be an amazing goaltender. In 2013, he produced the Leaf’s best save percentage in history with .918. In fact, he has more than just potential — he practically carried the team all the way to game seven of the first round of playoffs last season. And what did he get for his efforts? He got Randy Carlyle demolishing his self-esteem by dancing around the issue of who would start after acquiring Bernier, and then finally solidifying the destruction of Reimer’s confidence by demoting him.
The St. Louis Blues have the exact same save percentage as Toronto currently. The difference is they’ve also allowed 800 fewer shots on goal than the Leafs. The issue of goaltending is a red herring. When will the Leafs realize that they can point to goaltending as much as they want, but until they actually create any kind of defensive strategy that doesn’t feature the defence playing as forwards, they will continue losing? Until they start protecting the points, they will continue losing. Until they address their defensive deficiencies, again, they will continue losing. Instead of being the fans who cry Reimer, antagonizing his wife and even further obliterating the poor guy’s confidence, it’s about time we point to where the problem really “Car-lyles.”
This year’s ninth annual Exercise and Nutrition Symposium, hosted by Mustangs Athletics, will be held at the Labatt Health Sciences Building on April 5. Western’s own women’s fast pitch softball coach Dr. Peter Lemon will speak. The symposium will also feature Jennifer Broxterman, Dr. John Berardi, Harley Pasternak, Gillian Mandich, Graeme Thomas, Dylan Olver and Kristine Beaulieu. From proper nutrition and exercise tips to health improvement strategies, there are topics to satisfy everyone’s health interests. Sport nutritionist Graeme Thomas will also talk about the science behind high protein diets. The event will be closed with an address by Kristine Beaulieu entitled: “The Hunger Games: effect of food and exercise on appetite.” — Maram Albakri
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