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    Jared Lindzon

    GAZETTE STAFF

    Hes been called homeless, thoughhe has a home. Hes been calleduneducated, though hes complet-ed high school and graduated froma culinary arts school. Hes beencalled a junkie, though hes strug-gled for over a year to stay off ofdrugs. Hes been called lazy, but hesout on the street, almost every dayof the year, with a smile on his faceand a squeegee in his hand.

    I hold that squeegee proudly,says 29-year-old Jeremy Allan. Ivespent my time in McDonalds andburger joints working for minimumwage, and Im done with that.

    As he walks down the median atthe corner of Wonderland andOxford Street, he is waved away byeach car, one at a time. But it does-nt faze him. With the same politesmile, he waits for the lights tochange before moving to the otherside of the street to greet a newbatch of cars.

    Allan, who says he first pickedup a squeegee ten years ago to sup-port a drug addiction, describes hislife as a comfortable rut. After hisfather left him at age three, his

    mother was forced to work twojobs, leaving Allan unsupervised formost of his youth.

    When I was 18 I got into sometrouble with some drug debts, and Igot involved with some street kidswho told me a quick way to makesome cash, he explains.

    Though it is controlled inOntario under the the Safe StreetsAct, Allan says he usually doesnthave any problems with the policewhile washing windows.

    Im not a career criminal, butIve had my run-ins with thepolice, he says. I would say I getalong with 90 per cent of Londonpolice. They usually just turn ablind eye.

    But this wasnt the only illegalactivity Alan got into during hisyouth. I did a lot of drinking, drugs,it was a blur. From about [age] 18 to

    about 23 I just funded myself by washing windows, living day-by-day.

    Allan recalls his time as a junkieas a depressing cycle, waking upeach day in pain, washing windowsto get a fix as quickly as possible.

    Lets face it, when youre a drugaddict and youre on somethingwith as strong a hold as an opiate,they repress not just physical pain,but emotional pain, he says. Soyou wake up, youve got no money,youre in pain and life sucks.

    After struggling with addictionthrough most of his youth, Allan was finally forced into withdrawallast year while serving time in

    prison.I finally withdrew off of opiateslast May when I got thrown in jailfor some petty thefts and posses-sion of stolen property, says Allan, who has managed to stay cleansince. Today, theres no stress,theres no I have to make this cash.Im more friendly and more easy-going.

    According to Allan, staying offdrugs has made his job much easi-er. Even his customers have noticedan improvement in his approach.

    When I first saw him last year Ithink he was a little more aggres-sive. This year Ive noticed that hellwalk up, make eye contact, and hellmotion what he wants to do, and if

    you say no, he goes away, PaulShore, a local businessman, saysfrom his car. He estimates drivingby Allan 10 to 15 times a week,

    occasionally stopping to hand hima dollar. Hes well organized. Ivewatched him. He knows the timingof those lights perfectly.

    After a while you do get a hangof it, says Allan, who estimatesearning between $0.50 and $5 fromone in every three cars heapproaches. On an average day, Allan says he earns between $60and $100, spending four to sixhours on the street.

    Allan says he is eager for Sep-tember because many of his dona-tions come from Western students.You guys are my bread and butter,he explains.

    I do have a really good work

    ethic, Allan says.

    thegazette

    TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2010 WESTERNS DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1906 VOLUME 104, ISSUE 7

    W W W . W E S T E R N G A Z E T T E . C A

    Hidden behind LOLA since 1906

    London > Open Data

    London becomesan open data cityHacker group plans usefulsmartphone applications

    A comfortable rut

    Recovering drug addictfinds balance on the street

    Corey Stanford GAZETTE

    Jeremy Allan, 29, washes car windows in London to make money. He says he

    makes a livable income doing the work.

    Window washing, or squeegeeing,

    is controlled by two laws in

    Ontario. The Highway Traffic Act

    prevents people like Allan from

    soliciting to cars while standing on

    the road or median.

    The Safe Streets Act, introduced

    in 1999, prevents anyone from

    soliciting in an aggressive man-

    ner. For example, panhandlers

    and window washers cannot per-

    sist after the individual says noand they cannot impede their

    travel in any way.

    >> By the law

    Cheryl Stone

    NEWS EDITOR

    This summer the City of Londonagreed to make more of its infor-mation available to the public.What residents do with that infor-mation is up to them.

    The City is releasing data setsfrom the Parks and Recreationdepartment as open data. Webdevelopers and programmers inthe city can turn this into applica-tions for public use.

    Open data is information madeavailable to residents in a form thatcan be used in computer program-ming to create applications. Thesecan track things from the locationsof parks to restaurant food inspec-tions to bus routes.

    You can see what great resultsyou can get with open data peo-ple are more involved, moreengaged with their civic govern-ment, said Elaine Gamble, directorof corporate communications forthe City of London.

    Open data is the philosophyand practice of making computer-readable data available to the pub-lic without copyright, patent, orcontrols of any kind, explainedShawn Adamsson, an organizer inLondons open data movement.

    UnLondon is an organization

    hoping to create applications fromopen data. One idea is an applica-tion tracking garbage pick up daysfor residents in the city. The groupplans to create it during theirHackathon an event this week-end where local hackers cometogether and turn open data intosmartphone apps.

    Give us the citys data and let usdo stuff with it, Bill Deys, co-founder of UnLondon, said of theorganizations mission.

    He mentioned many open dataapplications were created by peo-ple who wanted a way to accessinformation themselves. Then they would share their creations withother people.

    Aaron McGowan, a computerprogramming student at Fanshawe,

    >> In Depth > Apps

    The goal is to develop applica-tions that will benefit all citizensand make their lives easier wherepossible, Adamsson said. Wewould also like to see better visu-alization of information to make itmore accessible and understand-able to everyone.

    Some of the examples devel-oped so far include:

    Eatsure.ca

    Takes the information from theMiddlesex-London Health Unit andallows you to see which restau-rants in London are nearby andhave passed inspection.

    Nextstopapp.ca (picture above)Takes information from the Lon-don Transit website and allowsyou to see when the next bus iscoming. You can view current loca-tions for a bus which is en route.

    You can also find the major stopsand approximate next vehiclearrival time for a stop on a particu-lar route.

    Londontrash.caThis will be launched this weekend

    after the Hackathon. The applica-tion will share information withresidents on when their garbagewill be picked up>> see FREE pg.3

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    lettersonlineFormer O-Week staff member and golf-cart-crasher gives heropinion on the issue of O-Week censorship.

    >> westerngazette.ca

    4 thegazette Tuesday, September 21, 2010

    New apps will bea win-win

    This summer saw the public unveiling of UnLondon a local collective of self-proclaimed hackers who buildapps to make our lives easier.

    Heres the thing about emerging technology likephone apps: they save us lots of time, but the time putinto them is immense.

    That will likely be the case if the apps proposed byUnLondon actually come to be. The group has someinteresting ideas for handy gadgets for your phone like an app for garbage pickup days.

    Itll be a lot of work to put these apps together. Andtheyre being done for free by local hackers. It seemslike a lot of effort for little personal payoff.

    It makes you wonder how long different groups willbe willing to create apps like this for free, while thecompanies themselves reap the benefits of extra pro-motion at no cost. By some perspectives, UnLondon islittle more than free labour.

    These apps also beg the question why did no onethink of this before? The London Transit Commissionand the City of London could have created apps for thesame things the UnLondon folks are working on, but

    neither has.But its likely better they didnt bother since this waythey arent shelling out the cash and their customersare still benefitting from a free service. Of course, themajor con might be what some argue is a growingreliance on this technology.

    Nowadays, everything is at our fingertips. Wikipediamade general research a cinch and Google Maps madegetting from point A to point B easier than ever. Theinternet in general has simplified our lives and appslike the ones UnLondon proposed have the samepotential.

    But it raises some interesting questions about wherewere headed as a society. Are we getting lazier and let-ting technology do all the work?

    Gone are the days when we had to hunt and gather,or even to talk to friends to figure out where to go fordinner theres apps outlining the best restaurants tovisit. We cant remember a time when writing an essayliterally meant taking out a pen and paper now wevegot word-processing.

    Theres no doubt all these technologies, includingthe apps UnLondon has proposed, serve to simplifyour lives. For many people, that can be reduced to lazi-ness. But using an app to check the bus schedule ratherthan looking it up on a piece of paper doesnt neces-sarily work out to being lazy. Its what you do with thetime you save that really counts.

    Overall these apps are win-win. They help us outand theyre free promotion for the businesses theyreused for. And if folks are ready and willing to put theeffort into making them, then they must get some per-sonal satisfaction too.

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    Opinions

    Hockey season is slowly creepingup on us, so Im just going to blurt

    something out: the National Hock-ey League is a pretty dumb league.

    I know this is a risky thing todeclare in Canada, so Id like to saythat I dont have anything againsthockey Ive subjected myself tothe decades of torture and self-loathing known to every Leafs fan. Icould write pages about the vastamount of ass-hattery happeningin the NHL, but really the most glar-ing beacon of stupidity is the toler-ance of fighting.

    Id like to clarify; I dont evenhave a problem with violence. I dohave a problem with the sportbeing interrupted for a two-minutegrapple-fest that rarely results in awinner or even any good punchesbeing thrown. Theres a reason whytheres no ice-fighting division ofmixed martial arts its not fun towatch.

    Allowing fighting in the NHLisnt just an annoyance. By incorpo-rating it into the game, you attractthe type of player who will consis-tently get so infuriated while play-ing that he needs to abruptly stopthe game and violently grope hisenemy. I may be generalizing, butthe average skill of these players issignificantly less than a player whoconcentrates on actually playinghockey.

    Da Silva seems to think fightingis an exciting and critical part of the

    game, but the game doesntbecome less exciting at the interna-tional level where its outlawed. Areyou going to pretend you werentcheering like a spastic asylumpatient during the Olympics?

    And compare the NHL to aleague like the NFL. Even thoughmost plays begin and end with hit-ting and tackling, the NFL rarelysees fighting goons to the samedegree as hockey. You would beannoyed if the game had to bestopped once a quarter becausetwo inconsequential players could-nt keep their hands off each other.

    Its time for the NHL to crackdown and leave fighting to the peo-ple who actually know what theyre

    doing.Jesse Tahirali

    I always find it cute when my felloweditor, Jesse Tahirali, talks about

    sports. Its like he thinks he knowswhat hes talking about.

    Ill concede one point to him:the National Hockey League is avery dumb league, run by dumbindividuals.

    But mostly because they havealtered fighting to the point that itno longer serves its intended pur-pose.

    When the league put in the insti-gator penalty a rule that gives theguy who started the fight extrapenalty minutes in 1992, itbecame difficult for the enforcers todo their job. You cant police the icesurface and protect your star team-mates when there is a strong risk ofgiving up a powerplay and receiv-ing a fine after the game.

    And lo and behold, this stupidrule has given birth to the NHLpest. Sean Avery gets away withhis crap because nobody wants totake the risk that comes withknocking him out.

    Sure, you could argue fighting isdangerous, but with the strict eti-quette code players have for fight-ing, it is very controlled. Its certain-ly less dangerous than the late hitsor cheap shots seemingly on therise in the game.

    Apparently Tahirali thinks fight-ing slows down the game as well.How come the fans in the crowd areusually losing their minds when it

    happens.Ill concede another point tohim. Some of the modern-daygoons are untalented idiots. Butthat is owed more to expansionthan anything else, which hasdiluted the leagues talent. Thatshow you get a Colton Orr in theleague.

    Eliminating fighting to get rid ofthose guys is like getting rid of yourroof because a squirrel lives in it. Itmay solve one issue, but it leavesyou with a bigger problem.

    So yes, commissioner GaryBettman should make a change tothe league by doing away with theinstigator rule. But lets not go over-board and do something stupid

    here.Daniel Da Silva

    dailyquote

    If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his

    limbs but the push-button finger.

    FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

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    @matttbastard This perfor-

    mance is proof you dont

    need substances for a truly

    psychedelic experience.

    #lolafest

    @KennieD_ Full marks

    tonight for Chicago Under-

    ground Duo and Caribou.

    Both sets expanded my

    consciousness. #lola

    #lolafest

    @theworldbeckonsTo

    dance, or not to dance - thatseems to be the question,

    drowned under Caribous

    heavy beats at #LOLAFest

    Dance flash mob perhaps?

    @timglasgow Now Land of

    Talk on main stage. Brilliant

    folky shoegazer stuff. The

    perfect remedy to calm

    down. #lolafest

    @somemoremore Land of

    talk make my tight pants

    feel even tighter. Not quite

    sure why... #lolafest

    @katrinahass Beer at

    #LOLAFest, on Wellington.

    And from local brewery Iron

    Spike. A damn good Satur-

    day afternoon.

    @josephcsnyder Hipsters

    on bikes flocking down the

    street...it must be #lolafest!

    @theworldbeckons Really

    starting to think the Born

    Ruffians lead singer

    reminds me of Mark Zucker-

    berg. Holy young, Batman.

    LOLA tweets

    ARTS & LIFE EDITORS

    Next year LOLA should change itsname to mean London OntarioLove Affair or at least thats whatsomeone there suggested. Therewas nothing but love once again forthe music and arts festival thisweekend and there was no shortageof amazing free entertainment.Here are a few highlights:

    Jamie Lidell & Zeus

    LOLA couldnt have kicked off bet-ter than it did Thursday evening atRum Runners with unforgettableperformances by Zeus and JamieLidell. Both sets drew very diverseaudiences. Zeus amazing soundand upbeat tempo was well-received by the crowd, but Lidellsflawless set was really the talk of theevening. He had everyone on theirfeet dancing and singing the nightaway with a combination of old andnew songs. LOLAs opening nightwas definitely a success and onlya glimpse of what was to come.

    My Brightest Diamond

    Shara Worden of My Brightest Dia-mond took to the Rogers MainStage during the 8 p.m. slot on Fri-day evening wearing gold tightsand a floral patterned shirt. Look-ing every bit the part of a hippie,Worden rocked in front of a grow-

    ing crowd and even threw in a wel-comed cover of Tainted Love.

    Born Ruffians

    With enthusiastic face-painted fansfront and centre, Born Ruffiansplayed the headlining set on Friday.

    With a set featuring tracks fromtheir latest record Say It, as well asold material, the band had peopledancing, drinking, smoking andcrowd-surfing by the end of theirperformance. After they left thestage, LOLA founder Andrew Fran-cis took to the microphone encour-aging an encore. After much chant-ing and cheering from the crowd,Born Ruffinans came back ready foranother song, causing the audienceto erupt in applause.

    Land of Talk

    The set on Saturday evening easilydrew the largest crowd of the week-end. Plaid-clad front woman Eliza-beth Powell began the Land of Talkset alone on-stage, showing offsome awesome electric guitar skills.She was calm and self-confident,and her banter set the audience atease. When the rest of the seven-piece Montreal band joined her, theresult was a crowd-pleasing goodtime underlined by a shower ofstuffed animals being thrown onstage.

    Caribou

    With seven musicians on stageplaying everything from trumpet tosynthesizer, Caribous headliningslot offered the same experimentalsounds found on the Polaris Prize-winningAndorra. While plummet-

    ing into near-psychedelic break-downs is definitely their thing, thesound was a bit too muddy to recre-ate the production skills of singer-songwriter-perfectionist DanielSnaith. Andorras opening trackMelody Day didnt feel as lush as

    the album version, with Snaithsusually whispy voice sound a littletinny. But Caribou didnt seem tomind, pushing through a lengthyset full of vigour and intensity.

    Conflict/Resolution

    The Conflict/Resolution themeseemed to be well received by thefestival attendees. The entire city was decorated in unique andmeaningful art with highlightsbeing the Imagine Peaceand War isOverpieces commissioned by YokoOno and Poppies/Holy Roller Tankby Jamelie Hassan. The tank wascompletely covered in poppies, dis-playing a clear conflict between therough exterior of the tank and thedainty flowers.

    Hassan also collaborated withanother artist Anna Wiselgren forPro Matria, a media installationdone in response to the Boer WarMemorial Monument at VictoriaPark. While petite in stature, the fig-ure sent a powerful message as itpaid tribute to the role of women insituations of war.

    Janet Mortons Fallout Shelterproved to be a centerpiece of thefestival. The installation was set upat the main bandshell in Victoriapark, with hundreds of handmadedoilies suspended behind andaround the performers. The doiliesdid indeed seem to be suspended

    by nothing but air once night fell.

    Arts&Life 5thegazette Tuesday, September 21, 2010

    saywhat?Next time Ill wear a tofu dress and thesoybean police will come after me!

    >> Lady Gaga regarding her VMA meat outfit controversy

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    rundown >> The mens soccer team continues to dominate the OUA, beating the University of Ontario Institute of Technology 5-0 on Saturday |The mens rugby team home opener ended with a 38-10 win against Laurier | Womens rugby home opener experienced success with a 19-5 victory over Waterloo

    Stangs hawk-block Laurier in home openerMadison Bettle

    CONTRIBUTOR

    Excited fans filled Labatt MemorialPark on Friday as the Mustangsbaseball team took on the LaurierGolden Hawks for a doubleheader.

    The defending Ontario Univer-sity Athletics champions provedtheyre still the team to beat, sweep-ing the Hawks and improving theirrecord to an impressive 5-1.

    Mustangs starting pitcher

    Andrew Bergman was solid, throw-ing for eight innings and maintain-ing his composure as he pitched hisway out of a loaded base jam in thesecond.

    Despite a shaky start, Mustangshead coach Mike Lumley feltBergman had an excellent game.

    Laurier has always been atough team, he said. [Bergman]struggled in the beginning, but set-tled in towards the middle.

    According to Bergman, theteams hitting carried the team,especially in a game where theirdefence was struggling.

    Our hitting has improved a lotsince last year which will keep us atthe top this season, he said. Ourdefence wasnt as sharp as it couldhave been were usually a lotstronger.

    The Mustangs got on the boardearly when outfielder Robert Wake-fields sacrifice fly in the first drovein Andrew Thompson.

    The Hawks managed to tie upthe game in the third inning, butthe Mustangs took over in the fifth,with Thompson getting his first oftwo RBIs. They continued to buildtheir lead, adding four more runsby the end of the seventh.

    Though the Hawks got theiroffence going in the ninth, the Mus-tangs still held on to win 6-3.

    Our team showed a lot ofresiliency, Lauriers head coachScott Ballantyne said. I like the way

    we came back and showed fire atthe end of the game.

    Ballantyne was confident Lauri-er would carry their momentuminto the second game, especiallywith staff ace Steve Zagrodny on themound.

    Zagrodny shut down the power-ful Western line-up, giving up onlyfour hits and two runs over sixinnings. Unfortunately for theHawks, Mustangs pitcher AdamPaish went one inning further,allowing a mere two hits in the 2-0shutout.

    Mustangs third baseman PaulLytwynec led the offence, scoringthe games opening run in the thirdbefore driving in catcher Jon Kim inthe sixth.

    The Mustangs finished theirweekend with a doubleheader ver-sus OUA newcomers the QueensGaels. Western was victoriousagain, defeating Queens in bothgames by scores of 11-1 and 9-1.

    Corey Stanford GAZETTE

    JOHNNY KIM GETS TO FIRST BASE ON ANDOFF THE FIELD. The Western mens baseball team took both games in their

    doubleheader against the Laurier Golden Hawks on Friday. They finished off their weekend by handily sweeping Queens

    by scores of 11-1 and 9-1.

    Game Recap > Mustangs Baseball

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    Daniel Da Silva

    SPORTS EDITOR

    We need to come out of the gatestrong. If anyone is overconfident,they will get a wakeup call realquick we will need to be readyfor a battle. We need to executewell, Mustangs head coach GregMarshall said last Thursday.

    Unfortunately for Marshall, Ithink I might have been as enthusi-astic about the penalty-riddled 30-15 victory over the Windsor Lancersas the Mustangs football team was.

    After hammering the Lancers bya combined score of 167-12 in thelast three years, the Mustangs lookedslow and disinterested early on, fail-ing to do anything with the ball forthe majority of the first quarter.

    They started to move the balland two long Zach Bull touchdownreceptions put the Mustangs up by21 at halftime, which was alsowhere the wheels came off.

    Maybe they were looking aheadto a tougher game in Guelph nextweek. How else do you explain themultitude of mistakes? A focusedteam does not get called for 16penalties for 185 yards.

    For the entire second half, the

    offence only mustered six points.Against Windsor.

    Sure, as Marshall admitted priorto the game, the Lancers play hardevery down, but they dont reallyhave the same talent level as theMustangs. They dont have the abil-ity to hold a focused Mustangsteam to six points in a half.

    At least the defence played well.For most of the game.

    They held the young Windsoroffence to a single point in the firsthalf. They also forced severalturnovers, including two picks bydefensive back Craig Butler.

    But they also mentally moved onin the third quarter, giving up twolate touchdowns to the injury-rid-dled Lancers the same Lancersteam that had only 21 total pointsagainst teams not named Toronto.

    Ill admit Marshall did put insome backup players in the secondhalf, but unless he put in the prac-tice squad filled with rookies, therewas no excuse for this.

    Luckily for the Mustangs, thereare two positives with this result:they got the victory and received amuch needed wakeup call beforetwo tough games against Guelphand Queens.

    Laura Barclay GAZETTE FILE PHOTO

    THE FOOTBALL FIELD IS A SCARY PLACE TO BE BY YOURSELF. THATS WHY THEY USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM AT ALL TIMES. In an unusually poor performance, the Western Mustangs football team defeat-ed the Windsor Lancers 30-15. Donnie Marshall led the team, running for 158 yards and throwing two touchdowns to receiver Zach Bull. The Mustangs hope to regroup and refocus for a tough game on the

    road against the undefeated Guelph Gryphons before returning to TD Waterhouse to face the Queens Gaels on Homecoming weekend.

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