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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2010 WESTERNS DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1906 VOLUME 104, ISSUE 47

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TIS THE SEASON

Students faceconsumer debt

Credit card debt adds totuition, OSAP and loans

Corey Stanford GAZETTE

ITS NON-DEMONINATIONAL WINTER HOLIDAY TIME! Victoria Park hosted its festive holiday lighting ceremony this past

weekend. The park, which will be illuminated from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. until Jan. 1, also features several metal sculptures

including Santa and his reindeer.

Graduates turn to collegeStudents finding practical skills, networking

Cheryl Madliger

GAZETTE STAFF

Western graduate Patrick Teskeywasnt impressed with the idea hisphilosophy degree was not worthas much as hed hoped. Beforegraduating in 1999, a friend said hisliberal arts degree was becomingless valuable and asked if he would

start applying at Burger King.It was something that kind ofstuck with me. Maybe I have to dosomething more than this, he said.

After spending nearly five years working odd jobs in constructionand retail, Teskey found himselfapplying for a journalism diplomaprogram at Sheridan College. He hadspent time volunteering at variousnewspapers during his undergradand decided to do it professionally.

It took me a while to get there,but I said I need to do somethingand I need to kind of add to theexperience and what I have now,Teskey said of his career path.

With his decision, Teskey joineda growing number of university

graduates choosing to go to collegeafter completing their degrees.

There is a great demand for cre-dentials and the more education a

person has, the better theyre goingto be able to position themselvesfor future work, Robert Kitchen,student success leader at FanshaweCollege, said. Employers are look-ing for people who can add greatervalue. People who have both theapplied and theoretical skills can bevery marketable.

Bill Summers, vice-president of

research at Colleges Ontario,explained college is becomingincreasingly attractive becauseundergraduate degrees are morecommon.

Many university grads arebeing challenged to find good posi-tions to move into and so trying totop up with one or two years of col-lege education is being seen bymore university grads as a goodinvestment in their future, he said.

Colleges and universities alikeare responding, offering more post-degree certificates and diplomas.Western and Fanshawe have sever-al partnerships, including a degreeand diploma program offered inthe faculty of information and

media studies.Continuing Studies at Western is

also responding to the increasedinterest in post-degree education. A

new marketing program will beadded next year in addition to exist-ing continuing studies programs inhealth sciences, business, publicrelations, and several others.

Aimee Froude, program assis-tant for post-degree programs atContinuing Studies, said their pro-grams not only teach importantpractical skills, but also provide stu-

dents with valuable networkingopportunities.The practicum is the finishing

touch of the program, Froude said.[Students] enhance their skills bylearning in that environment.

Teskeys program at Sheridanalso had a placement program.Now hes the editor of The Hub, acommunity newspaper in HayRiver, Northwest Territories. With-out the opportunity to learn practi-cal skills at Sheridan, he said hemight not have been successful atThe Hub.

We did everything from websitedesign to video editing, so we got alot of different experiences, he said.I could have went to a run-of-the-

mill paper and been one of tenreporters in the newsroom. Up here,I have my hand in every cookie jar.Ive got a chance to do everything.

Kaleigh Rogers

NEWS EDITOR

Feel like your credit card is burninga hole in your pocket? You mightwant to keep it stashed away.

Student loans and OSAP oftenforce students into debt, but stu-dents are racking up consumerdebt, too, and it could lead toserious debt problems in thefuture.

Ive met with hundreds of for-mer students over my career, and Isay to them, Well, OK, youve got$50,000 in student loans. How didyou ever plan to pay this back? Andthey never really thought about itwhen they were in school, DougHoyes, a chartered accountant andco-founder of Hoyes, Michalos &Associates, noted.

If we all, when we left school,continued to live like a student fortwo or three years, then wed prob-ably be able to pay off the loans thatwe got when we were students, hesaid. You need a plan. You have tolook ahead and say, OK, how am Igoing to pay this stuff off? How canI do it?

Hoyes explained the problem

stems from several sources, includ-ing increased costs of education.Students are much more com-

fortable with the idea of debtbecause they have student loans. IfIve got a student loan, why nothave a credit card too? Whats thedifference? Debt is debt.

He also noted the easy accessstudents now have to credit cards.

When I went to university, youcould probably get one card with a$500 limit on it. Now, if you reallywant to, you can get a lot more thanone card and you can have morethan a $500 limit on it.

Kathryn Blair, a help line repre-sentative for the Student FinancialServices at Western, noted credit

cards are not only available to stu-dents, but are also often pushedon them.

When you sign up for a line of

credit through a bank, they kind ofpush you to have a credit card, []thats another way that makes it alot easier to accumulate debt.

Blair explained students oftenjust arent taught how to managetheir money.

I think everyone needs that[kind of education]. I could haveused that in my four years here,Blair said.

Hoyes agreed, explainingincreased education about per-sonal finances could curb a lot ofdebt troubles students encounterlater in life.

We dont explain to people, cer-tainly not in high school or univer-sity, how the real world works. Wedont really understand credit cardsand lines of credit and how much itreally costs, he said. Studentsneed to be more aware of the factthat if you take out a loan, you haveto pay it back someday.

Melissa Mac Leod, a second-year history student, also felt edu-cating students on debt manage-ment would be beneficial.

I think, unless youve got par-ents who are going to specificallytell you, Dont go over your limit,

dont put things on the credit cardunless you have the money to actu-ally pay them off, theyre going tojust do that as soon they hit 18, shesaid. As soon as you hit 18, everycredit card companys going to startsending you applications and ofcourse youre going to take the freecredit card.

She said she always pays off hercredit card in full and her parentstaught her the importance of man-aging personal finance. But sheexplained some of her friendsarent as aware of the debt theyrecreating.

I think in a lot of cases, theyfeel like its not as serious of anissue as it really is. So, theyll keep

spending, buying new clothes,buying new computers, becausethey want something now. Theyjust dont have a way to pay for it.

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Bashing profs onlineis OK, for now

Only time will tell if its safe to bad-mouth professors online.

In a landmark case, the Univer-sity of Calgary is now disputing acourt decision that it infringed onthe rights of two students when itpunished them for criticizing a pro-fessor on Facebook.

The students brothers Keithand Steven Pridgen wrote dis-paraging remarks about a U of Cprofessor in November 2007. TheUniversity charged them with non-academic misconduct, whichincluded probation.

The case has the potential to seta precedent for what students areallowed to say about professorsonline.

At Western, there are no specificpolicies related to students usingsocial media, but an 11-page Codeof Student Conduct does governstudent activity outside of campus

and online in certain situations.Students are reminded thatthey are equally responsible forobserving the standard of conductset out in this Code when using anyelectronic communication devicesto send or post messages or mater-ial, the introduction to the docu-ment read.

Jennifer Meister, acting ombud-

sperson for Western, said the Codeprovides general rules expected ofWestern students.

Meister, whos worked in theposition since August, deals withstudent concerns related to acade-mics but hasnt come across prob-lems like those at U of C.

Our office isnt seeing socialmedia issues right now, so were notseeing them as a problem, shesaid, adding each case is treatedindividually. If a student comes tous and feels that, within thepurview of the Code of Conduct,theyve been dealt with unfairly,then we would look at it.

Stuart A. Thompson

Another unionreaches a deal

Westerns Professional and Man-agerial Association reached a four-year tentative agreement yesterdayafter a short negotiation process.

The PMA came to an agreement

after one day of negotiations. Theassociation represents about 900members, all of whom are full-timeemployees in managerial and pro-fessional positions at Western.

The deal has yet to be ratified byeither the PMA or Westerns Boardof Governors.

We hope to achieve an agree-ment which reflects the value andcontributions of our members rec-ognizing that, as leaders on cam-pus, we actively participate inimplementing the vision, directionand goals of Western as set bysenior administration and theBoard of Governors, JacquelineHassall, president of the PMA, said.

Details of the agreement are

being withheld until PMA membersas well as the Universitys Board ofGovernors have held a ratificationvote. A meeting will be held onMonday, which will be followed byan electronic ballot.

As the issues considered werepart of the negotiations and, ulti-mately the proposed tentativeagreement, it would be prematureto discuss these until the member-ship has the opportunity to reviewagreement, she said. [We have]received valuable feedback whichprovided direction for the commit-tee as they prepared to go to thetable with administration.

The PMA have been without acontract since Oct. 31, 2010.

Nicole Young

Cant net male vetsMen are drastically outnumberedin veterinary school, according toenrollment numbers from theOntario Veterinary College at the

University of Guelph.This year, only 13 per cent of 114students undergoing their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine were men.Declining enrollment in veterinarymedicine is the latest in a series ofdata showing fewer men are attend-ing post-secondary institutions.

Less and less men are goinginto bachelor science programs more classes are increasinglyfemale, Elizabeth Lowenger, theOntario Veterinary Colleges diver-sity and careers co-ordinator, said.Theres something happening inthe public school system. Boysarent performing as well as girls,and they tend not to go into thebiological sciences in the numbers

that they used to.Lowenger noted the school is

doing everything possible to attractmore male students by includingmentoring programs, male tourguides, and prominently featuringmen in promotional material aboutthe school.

We dont want to have any bar-riers, we want to make ourselves asaccessible as possible to male stu-dents and to let them know this is agreat career.

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Cars towed under new lawDrivers with suspended licences will havecar impounded for seven days

Monica Blaylock

NEWS EDITOR

Towing companies across Canadajust hit the jackpot.

A new law, which came intoeffect yesterday, requires police towand impound cars driven by peoplewho are driving with a suspendedlicence or driving while impaired.

In London, we get around 400impaired drivers a year. Add to thatpeople who have lost their licence[] we catch another 400-500 ofthose, Tom OBrien of the LondonPolice Department said.

Cars will be impounded forseven days. With each impoundcosting about $500 to $600, towingcompanies are cleaning up andcareless drivers are learning theirlesson, according to OBrien.

[Before this law], if we stoppedan impaired driver at the Rich-mond Street gate at UWO, wed like-ly leave the car there and let them

make arrangements to move it.Theyd be arrested and chargedwith impaired driving, but your car

would go home with some otherdriver, OBrien said.

Now instead of giving them aticket and telling them to movetheir car, well give them a ticketand take the car for seven days. Thisis another step, and its logical, andits reasonable, to make our roadssafe, OBrien continued.

Students who are under 21- years-old run a particularly highrisk of being affected by the newpolicy since anyone 21-years-oldand under cannot have a bloodalcohol content over zero per cent while driving. But, according toElgin Austen, director of CampusCommunity Police Service, stu-dents on campus havent been

charged as frequently as one mightthink.

We see some alcohol abuse, butas far as drinking and driving with

under 21-year-olds, we dont getvery much of that on campus,Austen said.

The [new law] is another toolthat reinforces the seriousness ofdrinking and driving. You have noidea what those results will be, but we know from experience thattheres horrendous human tragedy,Austen continued.

The new law holds the carsowner responsible for paying thecharges associated with its towingand impoundment not neces-sarily the person who was chargedwith the offence.

[Those charged] will get the carimpounded, doesnt matter if itstheirs. This new law will make peo-ple think twice about who yourelending your car to, OBrien said.

Owners can take those people

charged to court if they wont pay[the towing fees] for them. But thebottom line is if you dont want topay, dont drink and drive.

UWO pensions causing financial squeezeCheryl Stone

NEWS EDITOR

Universities may face a squeeze asfaculty aim to retire.

Investments made with pensionfunds plummeted in 2008 whenmarkets crashed, and the onus nowlies on several parties to make upthe deficit.

When the market crashed, wetook the hit, James Compton, pres-ident of the UWO Faculty Associa-tion, explained. We take the riskwith this. It really puts the universi-ty in a stronger financial position.

The plan Western has for facul-ty pension means the Universityand the employee make set con-tributions to their pensions year-ly. The pension is then investedaccording to how the employeesees fit. When an employee retires,they see the value of their pe nsionreturned to them.

The University is only obligat-ed to give members the total valueof the assets in their account, saidMartin Belanger, director ofinvestments with Westerns pen-sion program. It is the membersresponsibility to choose the most

suitable investment product toinvest their account balance atretirement.

When many investmentscrashed in 2008, Westerns pensionslost just over 20 per cent of itsworth, leaving some faculty mem-bers without the means to retire.

A lot of people who were sched-uled to retire werent very happyabout it, Compton explained.

Belanger noted the responsibili-ty was with the employee to ensurethey could retire when they choseto. Members have the option toincrease their own contributions ifthey want a larger pension.

Other universities could seetheir squeeze in other areas.

That could lead to cuts else-where, John Berlinsky, past presi-dent and public relations for theMcMaster University Faculty Asso-ciation, explained. Very likely theywill have to put more money into

the plan.But he said cuts elsewhere atMcMaster could be avoided if theprovince didnt expect to see theamount universities have set forpension funds immediately meettheir obligations. Pension funds

need to have the money availablefor their members to withdraw when they retire. Berlinsky citedMcMaster needed $1 billion to beable to pay out to their faculty. Cur-rently there was less money avail-able when needed.

According to the Globe & Mail,losses to university pension planswere put into a collective $2.6-bil-lion hole.

This hole primarily applied toschools like McMaster, who haddefined benefit plans. This meansfaculty are promised a set amountwhen they retire.

But Berlinsky disputed this wasthe only cause of the deficit. Therewas a long period of time they weretaking money out.

He explained budget cuts at uni-versities were because of reducedfunding, which lead universities todraw from pension plans to makeends meet.

Usually in the latter case itsbecause times are tough, he noted.Belanger noted Western had a

defined benefit pension plan untilthe early 70s. He explained there were very few staff left in thisposition.

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JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! A ROCK SALE! Rocks were on sale yesterdayin the main lobby of the Natural Science Building. The rocks, which were donat-

ed from fieldwork conducted by geology students and professors, included every-

thing from fossils and fools gold to an auction on actual gold deposits.

Westerns Pension plans lost:

20.2% in 2008

Faculty pays in: either 1.5%or 5.5%

The University pays in: 8.5%

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Cops right to seize carsHow important is your car to you? OK, maybe thisquestion isnt as pertinent to students, but how impor-tant do you think your car is to your parents? Its likelyinstrumental to most aspects of their daily lives. Sowhat happens when that lifeline is taken away?

The potential for such a situation became greater yes-terday, as new laws governing vehicles in the provincestarted to being enforced. The law mandates police mustimpound your car for seven days if youre caught drivingimpaired or driving with a suspended licence.

This brings up a few potential concerns. To start, itsnot entirely unreasonable to argue against governmentseizure of private property especially when there isalways the option of smacking people with bigger fines,or even mandatory jail time if caught violating drivingcodes. Canada isnt a police state.

To make matters work, this law covers what manywould call a victimless crime driving with a sus-pended sentence. The law presumably aims to takedangerous drivers off the road. But if you can have yourlicence suspended for failing to pay child support,wheres the dangerous driving?

Then theres the issue of nondiscriminate applica-tion of the law. It doesnt matter who is behind thewheel it is the vehicles owner who will have to pay

the costs of the impounding. Sort of a nobrainer ifyoure letting your drunk friend drive your car, but whatif youre a parent whose 20yearold had one beer

before getting behind the wheel of your car? Theyrenot driving impaired, but your car is going to beunavailable for a week nonetheless.

With all that being said, and in full acknowledge-ment that losing your car for a week would be a serioushassle, this law still makes sense.

First off, this law is only applicable if youre alreadydoing something you know to be illegal like drinkingand driving or driving with a suspended licence. If youdont want to get busted, you should probably thinktwice before getting into your car while knowinglybreaking the law.

Secondly, after years of fines being in place forthose who drink and drive, or drive with a suspendedlicence, people still do it. If a financial loss isnt goingto stop people from breaking these laws, per haps themore tangible loss of their vehicle will finally let thingssink in.

If there are flaws to be noted in this law, they stemfrom its indiscriminate nature. Most laws are writtenbroadly to allow for some sober judgment when theyreenforced. This law lacks such a mechanism.

But overall, this law is a positive step towards mak-ing Ontario roads a safer place. By using the potentialloss of our cars as leverage, the government might actu-

ally make headway on getting people to abide by thelaws of the road. Progress that benefits everyone.The Gazette Editorial Board

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Re: Obama misses a Golden oppor-tunity (Nov. 25, 2010)

To the Editor:

The first time Obama cancelled hisvisit to India was to give a lastpush for the Health Care Bill. Thesecond cancellation came in themidst of the oil spill in the Gulf.Amani, where do you get off withsuch a radical idea that his mostrecent change of plans is due to theunfounded belief that the Ameri-can president is a Muslim?

Remember the 2010 VancouverOlympic Games? Obama cancelled

his visit to Vancouver at the time.Yes, Obama would have to wear a

parka and toque to deal with ourinfamous winter season, but miss-ing out on our maple syrup andhockey games does not mean he isAnti-Canadian.

It is inappropriate for you tolabel our neighbours to the south asreligiously illiterate. Your displayof ignorance and prejudice towardsAmericans is uncalled for. Obamas$600 million, 72 hour trip to Indiamay have been useful, but if youand I want to see real change, thenwe have to show it through our dayto day actions.

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Oprahs Favourite Things is every-thing that is wrong with our world.

Every year, Oprah decides toopen the Christmas season with ashow solely dedicated to awardingher unsuspecting audience with anabundance of lavish gifts. Or rub inhow rich she is. Either way, its stu-pid and pointless.

If you happened to tune into theshow while it was on mute, youmight think based purely on thereactions of the audience thatOprah just announced she foundthe cure to cancer, while endingworld poverty, just as she stoppedglobal warming and managed toachieve world peace.

What did she really announce?Shes giving away the largely uselessiPad.

Audience members literally cryand fall to their knees over theprospect of owning Oprahsfavourite cashmere sweater. It is apure celebration of greed, extremeexcess and consumerism but theworst part is I am extremely jealous.Look what you did Oprah!

Okay, maybe it wasnt entirelyOprahs fault. Maybe as a society we

have transformed into money-obsessed, shopping-crazed, Black-Berryaddicted people. People whoget more excited by the prospect ofowning the latest version of thephone they already have, ratherthan donating their time or moneyto charities.

Sure, everyone likes to get a freegift once in a while. Heck, if Oprahwants to give me a car, I will gladlytake it. But thats the problem when did receiving become so

much greater than giving?If anyone is brave enough to

venture to the mall days beforeChristmas, you know it will be filledwith stressed out parents searchingfor the perfect toy for their child orconfused boyfriends wondering,Who is this Tiffany, and why is herstuff so damned expensive?

No, Im not Ebenezer Scroogesillegitimate love-child, and I wouldnever suggest that gifts should bebanished from Christmas that would be absurd. But maybe itshouldnt be our obsession. Maybewe should find some kind of mid-dle ground. Maybe Christmasshouldnt centre on the idea of find-ing the most perfect, yet mass-pro-duced gift for a loved one.

I will admit I have been guilty ofspending the majority of the Christ-mas season shopping. But this yearinstead of spending countlesshours at the mall, the holidaysshould be a time that is spent withfamily and friends.

But if you read this, Oprah, I stillwouldnt decline a free cruise.

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Holiday readsDuring essay and exam season, reading for pleasure is often put at thebackburner for students. But with a vacation just around the corner, you

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Heart of the Matterby Emily Giffin

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fact and fiction all in one sus-penseful tale.

Maddie Leznoff

Special Topics InCalamity Physics

by Marisha Pessl

Pessls first novel follows the story of

Blue van Meer a girl who con-

stantly moves with her father, a

political science professor. Blue

enters a new school and becomesfriends with a group of students

who have a special bond with Han-

nah Shneider, a teacher at their

school. The story will keep you

intrigued and wanting to read more.

Nicole Gibillini

The Thirteenth Taleby Diane Setterfield

Setterfields debut novel, The Thir-

teenth Tale is a gothic suspense

novel that tells the story of a

young woman who ventures to a

different town to help an old

woman, Vida Winter, write herautobiography. As the novel goes

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Meagan Kashty

Movember ends: dirtystaches finally shaved

Grace Davis and

Maddie Leznoff

ARTS & LIFE EDITORS

We can all breathe a sigh of relief the moustaches are gone.

We all know that boys like a goodexcuse to grow a moustache, andMovember is the perfect time. Menwho participate in Movember arechallenged to raise money forprostate cancer through changingtheir appearance and the face of

mens health by growing a mous-tache.

Men start Nov. 1 clean-shaven,and similar to the commitment torun or walk for charity, the men ofMovember commit to growing amoustache for 30 days.

Many Western students partici-pated in Movember this year, andtheir furry faces could be seenacross campus. And, in the end,their moustaches have paid off.Canada raised the most money forMovember of any country, evenbeating out Australia where thecampaign originated. Canada hadfewer registrations, but as of Dec. 1were able to raise $19,169,908.

The funds raised throughMovembers Canadian campaign

go to Prostate Cancer Canada, which provides funding forresearch that will lead to betterscreening tests and treatmentoptions, and will also help withrunning support services for mensurviving prostate cancer.

Remember these guys?

The Gazette checked in with five

students on campus on Nov. 17 to

see how their campaigns were

going. Now that its the end of the

month we checked to see who

raised the most cash. Out of the

five, these two guys raised the

most money for a team and for anindividual.

Brit A. Garon

Program: BMOSRaised: $510

Ed Elyahky aka.Sith Lord Darth MuffStache

Program: Political Science/MITRaised: $85 individually, $1,810 to teamBoyzIIMen

$19,169,908 the amountraised by Canadas 118,630 par-ticipants

$18,346,985 the amountraised by Australias 129,679participants

$11,759,935 the amount

raised by the U.K.s 111,528 par-ticipants

$6,269,078 the amountraised by the U.S. 64,700 par-ticipants

>> By the numbers

Maddie LeznoffARTS & LIFE EDITOR

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Kawa occupies the space whereCaf Breakfast At Tiffanys used tobe. Its convenient location right offRichmond Row means its only ashort bus ride from campus and isthe perfect spot to grab lunch ordinner after a day of shopping. Therestaurant itself is small and haslimited seating, but its intimate, with a welcoming, brightly-coloured dcor and ambient musicplaying in the background.

The sushi is all freshly-made onsite and Kawa offers all the tradi-

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and were particularly delicious. While Kawa doesnt offer all- you-can-eat sushi, customersshouldnt mind sacrificing quantityfor quality. Plus, the portions arelarge enough to bring a little extrahome for a late nightsnack.

The food pre-sentation wase x c e p t i o n a l l y appealing. The sushiis so pretty you almostdont want to eat it. Withpleasant arrangements onuniquely shaped plates,Kawa turns sushi into awork of art for customers.

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Franco, Hathawaydouble team Oscars

What do Bob Hope, Johnny Carson,Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg andChevy Chase all have in common?Theyve all hosted the AcademyAwards.

This year Anne Hathaway and

James Franco have been chosen tohost the 83rd annual Oscars. Hath-away, an actress who got her start inthe 2001 flickThe Princess Diaries,and Franco, known for his role inMilk, were surprising choices forthe hosts of the most anticipatedawards show of the year.

Some diehard Oscar fans areskeptical that such fresh faces havebeen chosen to host. Historically,veteran actors and actresses havebeen chosen to host the eveningsevents. It appears that The Acade-my is trying to appeal to a youngeraudience this year.

The entertainment of the Oscarslies in the hands of the hosts. Hope-fully Hathaway and Franco are up

for the challenge. Amber Garratt

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GAZETTE STAFF

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm

Release date: Dec. 7

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment

Platform: Mac OS X, Windows

The end of the world is upon us the end of the world of warcraft,anyway.

Blizzard Entertainment is seek-ing to tighten their grasp on theMMORPGmarket with their newestexpansion to the obscenely popu-

lar World of Warcraftfranchise.Although Cataclysm has yet to

hit shelves, Blizzard has given itsdedicated subscribers an early tasteof what is to come.

On Nov. 23, the world of Azerothexperienced an event of cata-clysmic proportions with its latestpatch. With it, the large majority ofthe original levelling zones havechanged for the better, updatingthe flow of quests and drasticallyimproving the levelling experiencefor new and old players alike.

Along with the renovated envi-ronment, the patch includes newrace-class combinations, and moveupdates to the revamped talent sys-tem.

As of 3 a.m. on Dec. 7, playerswill be able to activate their copy ofWorld of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Withthis activation, each player willhave access to a wealth of new con-tent including two new races theWorgen and Goblin a new pro-fession, guild levelling, eight newzones, and over ten new dungeons.

In addition, Blizzard hasimproved the guild system, includ-ing new rewards for players whocollectively approach the newendgame content.

Along with the update to guilds,

Blizzard has altered their raidingphilosophy once again, this timebenefiting casual players who would rather approach theendgame content with a smaller 10-player group as opposed to oftenunmanageable 25-player raids.

Prior to this expansion, playerswho wanted to reach the highestlevel of achievement were requiredto participate in the larger raids,now both levels of content are con-sidered equal and will reap thesame epic loot.

Cataclysm stands as one of themost ambitious expansions packsto date, a game that will fundamen-tally change the entire World ofWarcraft.

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Kid Cudi

Man on the Moon II: The Legend of

Mr. Rager

Motown Records

The Man on the Moon is back, onlythis time around, hes failed toreach orbit.

Kid Cudi has finally released hisfull-length album, titledMan on theMoon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager.

After a slew of mixtapes and EPsthat earned him acclaim online,

Brooklyn-based Cudi born ScottMescudi broke through with hisdebut LP released in 2008,Man onthe Moon: The End of the Day.

Like his last album, Cudi hints atthe fun things in life like beingyoung and raging all night, butmostly he takes the album as anopportunity to delve into deeper

subject matter such as depressionand even suicide.

Nevertheless, if youre lookingfor something as catchy as Dayand Night from the first album, itsnot here. Instead, MOTM:II is amostly-downward roller coasterride through the troubled mind ofthe 27-year-old Cleveland native.

Back-to-back tracks Mojo SoDope and Ashin Kusher shine,but Cudis inconsistency combinedwith an unfocused delivery makesfor a lacklustre effort.

Its no bother to him though.Cudi has a story to tell, and he does-nt care if you listen.

Tim Spratt


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Sportsrundown >> The Mustangs football team had six players named to the allCanadian team > Matt Norman, Craig Butler were named first-team all stars > Jerimy Hipperson,Zander Robinson, John Surla and Daryl Wheeler were all named to the second team | The mens hockey team faces Brock tonight at Thompson Arena at 7:30 p.m.

saywhat?I PRAISE YOU 24/7!!!!!! AND THIS HOW YOU DO ME!!!!! YOUEXPECT ME TO LEARN FROM THIS??? HOW???!!! ILL NEVER FOR-GET THIS!! EVER!!! THX THO...

>> Buffalo Bills wide receiver Stevie Johnson after dropping whatwould have been a game winning TD pass in overtime againstthe Pittsburgh Steelers. He tweeted that message to God.

The Good:

Breesus saves! And he is getting recognized for it.New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees won

the 2010 Sportsman of the Year, an honour givenaway bySports Illustratedmagazine to the athleteor team whose performance that year most embod-

ies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement.Nobody exemplifies those qualities more than

Drew Brees. He joined the Saints who were com-ing off a 313 season right after Hurricane Katri-na destroyed the region.

In his first season with the team, he led them toa spot in the NFC championship game for the firsttime ever. Last season, he took the Saints to theSuper Bowl where they defeated the favoured Indi-anapolis Colts 31-17. Brees was named the SuperBowl MVP.

In his spare time, Brees volunteers to help rebuildthe city. He and his wife started the Brees DreamFoundation, a charity that rebuilds playgrounds andcreates after-school programs for the kids in NewOrleans among other things.

The Bad:

Just a few years after several top club teams weredemoted and fined for a massive match fixing scan-dal, the Serie A Italys top division is at it again.

The players union have been threatening to goon strike since September over league demands thatunwanted players or players they were planningto get rid of train away from the team and thatthose players accept transfers to other clubs even ifthey are still under contract.

While the union and the Italian soccer federationhave been discussing the issue for a couple ofmonths, they failed to make any progress. And whentalks fell through on Tuesday, the union went outand stated that they will strike on Dec. 11 and 12.

The league tried to get the Federation presidentto reason with the players union, but the union

immediately got up from the negotiating table,refusing to listen. They are also insistent on notnegotiating a new collective bargaining agreement.

Man, it sure would be nice to get to complain aboutmaking millions of dollars playing soccer all day.

The Ugly:

As if their day wasnt hard enough.Immediately after the funeral of former NHL

coach Pat Burns, thieves broke into the Burns fam-ily car and stole a number of personal belongings.Items included family photos, credit cards and anumber of signed NHL jerseys that were intendedto be auctioned for charity.

And was it a random act of vandalism and theft?

Not according to Montreal police, who claimed therobbers went through his personal belongings,including his wallet, which was still in the car.

The family is urging the thieves to return thebelongings especially the jerseys to a local TVor radio station and no questions will be asked.

Burns had been suffering from pancreatic cancerfor a number of years, which as anyone can imaginewould take an extreme emotional toll on the family.The fact that the family now has to have this burdenplaced on them is terrible, and something that nofamily should have to deal with.

It is a sad fact of life that some people are willingto rob a family of precious memories for the solepurpose of making a quick buck.

Haters gonna hate. And thosehaters are all from Cleveland.

Most sports fans have heardLeBron James departed from theCleveland Cavaliers, in a modest

fashion, and signed with the MiamiHeat this summer.

Well, tonight is the night everyCavaliers fan has had marked ontheir calendars since July hisreturn to his once beloved home,the Quicken Loans Arena. For thefirst time ever, LeBron will be on theother side of the court.

So the question remains howare you going to react, Cleveland?

Sure, its tempting to berate andboo LeBron when he shows up. Imean, you guys spent seven yearstogether, did that mean nothing tohim?

I know its tough Cleveland, itseems like Miami gets everything South Beach, warm weather, attrac-tive people. Now they have KingJames too, who just up and left youfor the hotter, more attractiveMiami Heat.

Obviously LeBron betrayed you,and on national television no less.But will booing and jeering reallyachieve anything? Hes not comingback and thats just somethingyoure going to have to accept.

Yes, LeBron was a great player,the best player Cleveland has everseen, and you guys had some greattimes. I mean, remember 2007,when LeBron led you to your firstNBA final in franchise history? Onsecond thought, maybe its better ifyou dont dwell on what could have

been, but instead remember thegood times.And maybe youre better off. I

mean right now the Cavs are sittingat a 710 record, which is not muchworse the Miami who are at 108.Werent they supposed to go unde-feated?

And lets be honest with our-selves, Cleveland LeBron Jamesis better than you. He came andswept you off your feet when youwere down in the dumps.

In his first year, he was crownedNBA Rookie of the Year. Withinthree years, he took you from lastplace in the league to being playoffcontenders.

He gave you his best, and after

seven long years you failed to recip-rocate. Can anyone really blamehim for wanting a championship?The orange balls he usually playswith have started turning blue.

He only left you to win whatevery basketball player spends theirentire career dreaming of winning.

Cleveland, you and LeBron werejust not long for each other. Really,its nobodys fault. Youre a perfectlynice town that will be fine withouthim theres no need to dwell onthe past.

Kaitlyn McGrath

So, it is ok for a pathetic exgirl-friend to angrily get back at theman who jilted her, but not OK forCleveland to get back at LeBronJames?

I disagree. Go ahead Cleveland eat that pint of ice cream. Andthen pull a Carrie Underwood andbash the hell out of his car becausehe cheated on you. Figurativelyspeaking, of course.

LeBron pulled a lot of crap whenhe decided to leave the ClevelandCavaliers. Yet many people aretreating him like he is the victim,because Cavalier fans are intendingto berate him during tonights gamebetween the Heat and Cavaliers.Really?

First of all, he complainedrelentlessly that he wasnt sur-rounded by enough talent, whichmay have been fair. But what wasntfair was how he mentally checkedout of the playoffs when the Cavswere losing to the Boston Celtics.

Then he had the gall to go onESPN for an hour and tell the worldhow he was going to take his tal-ents to South Beach. Thats moreembarrassing than if he were tobreak up with Cleveland throughhis Facebook status.

Ideally, the fans would move onand not care. But the reality is fanslook up to athletes and treat themlike heroes.

And just like other celebrities,this fandom comes with the job ofbeing a professional athlete. As aprofessional, it is your job to actprofessionally its a simple con-

cept.That is the reason why Raptorsfans havent forgiven Vince Carter he didnt even pretend to do hisjob properly and then admitted itwhen he left town.

LeBron pulled off somethingsimilar toward the end of his spellin Cleveland the method he usedto leave the team was the icing onthe cake. Try making a spectacle ofquitting your job and see what hap-pens to you.

There are consequences forbehaving the way he did. Cleve-land fans have every right to boothe hell out of him, and makeoffensive signs to berate him frankly I hope they take advantage

of the opportunity to do so. Ifnothing else, it is a good way toshow him and the rest of theleague that this kind of crap isnot acceptable.

Remember, its not like they aregoing to wait for him in the parkinglot and physically harm him. Noth-ing they are going to do is illegal.

And if the yelling and booingdoesnt get to him, maybe they canjust laugh at him and tell everyonehe has a small penis. You know, fig-uratively speaking.

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Wrestlers takedown competitionStangs earn silver and bronze

Kaitlyn McGrath

SPORTS EDITOR

It seemed like the perfect ending. After defeating CJ Hudson, a wrestler from Brock in the final,Mustang rookie Ilya Abelev washeading to the showers after claim-ing his gold medal. Little did heknow, that wasnt the end.

The Brock coaching staffprotested a move that happened inthe first round, Mustangs headcoach Ray Takahashi said. It wasone of these controversial calls andit depends on how you look at it it was that close.

Before Abelev even had amoment to celebrate his victory, hewas back on the mat competing ina sudden death round to determine

a winner once and for all.After scoring the opening point,

it looked like Abelev would pull offhis second consecutive victoryagainst Hudson. But after he failedto score on his offensive attack, hewas countered in the final 10 sec-onds and lost the rematch.

He was really disappointed,Takahashi said about the rookie wrestler. I thought he wrestledreally well and deserved to win, buthe really took it well as an athlete he didnt make any excuses and hesgoing to stay positive and take it asa learning experience.

Despite the bitter finish, theMustangs still had a successfulshowing at the Ontario Senior

Provincial Wrestling Champi-onships hosted at Brock University.

The women finished in the numbertwo spot, while the men placedthird overall. The Mustangs alsowalked away with three other indi-vidual medals, from Brianna Barry,Larissa DAlleva and rookie StevenTakahashi.

With the women ranked as thesecond team in the country,according to the CanadianInteruniversity Sport rankings, theyhave a lot to live up to. But luckilyveterans Barry and DAlleva did notdisappoint. Once again they bothfound the podium as they eachclaimed silver medals in theirrespective weight classes.

But as natural competitors, andtwo of the best junior wrestlers in

Ontario, both Barry and DAllevawont be satisfied with second best.

I know she was disappointed,coach Takahashi said about Barry.I dont think shes going to rest onbeing second, shes going to reallytry and step it up.

As for other notable finishers,fourthyear Mustang Liz Seraplaced fourth in the 55kg weightclass, while secondyear SahanaMazumder was fifth in the 48kgdivision.

Although it came with less con-troversy than his fellow teammate,Steven Takahashi still managed toreach the podium. En route to thefinal, Steven defeated the defend-ing Ontario University Athletics

champion Gaston Tardiff fromLakehead University, but lost in thefinals to Brocks Jake Hergenhein.Despite his defeat, coach Takahashiremains optimistic about Stevensabilities.

I know Steven will keep a goodattitude and he will get better,Takahashi said about his son. Ithink within the OUA [Steven] is theguy to beat.

Eric Jacobson, with his fourthplace finish in the 74kg, also helpedthe Mustang men improve on lastyears sixth place finish.

With all their recent success thisseason, the Mustangs look like theywont be an easy team to take downthis year as they have their sightsset on claiming both the mens andwomens OUA titles.

Weve had a good start, Taka-

hashi said. Wed like to just contin-ue that throughout the next couplemonths.

But for now the Mustangswrestling squad will take Decemberto focus on school and exams andreconvene in January for the 2011season. The Mustangs will host theannual Western Open Jan. 29 atThames Hall.

Courtesy of Ray Takahashi

NORMALLY WED MAKE A JOKE, BUT OUR NECKS HURT JUST LOOKING AT THIS PHOTO. Josh Dawson absolutely smashed

his opponent and took home the silver medal, helping the Mustangs mens team win the team gold at the Toronto Open.

Anders Kravis GAZETTE

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