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Faculty fee to be reviewedProfessional faculties’ USC fee questioned

Hamza Tariq GAZETTE STAFF

University Students’ Council officials are cautioning agasint reducing fees for professional con-stituencies, after being tasked with investigating the possibility at last week’s council meeting.

Spencer Brown, vice-pres-ident finance, along with Sam Krishnapillai, vice-president inter-nal, will be investigating this issue to provide metrics and meet with professional students to deliver a preliminary report to the long term budgeting and planning committee and the local and campus affairs Standing Committee in February.

Professional undergraduate fac-ulties include Dentistry, Medicine, Education, and Law, which are made up of approximately 2,500 students.

Brown stated that he wouldn’t recommend a change in student fees in this budget cycle, because of the potential impact on the USC budget.

“It is very late in the game to make a substantial change in student fees. It will also only be

a preliminary report so concrete solutions will not come of it. I think a more detailed report and discus-sion is very feasible for next year’s budget,” he said.

“If the professionals have a fee reduction, I would have to rec-ommend increasing revenue in another area.”

James Hirsch, vice-president external of the Student Legal Society, argued that the profes-sional faculties’ students don’t use the USC’s services at the same rate as main campus students and also already pay constituent faculties’ student fees that fund overlapping services.

“Additionally, there are a few reasons that are specific to profes-sional faculty students,” Hirsch said. “We do not participate in the USC’s O-Week or other large USC events and our constituencies are markedly different, with the aver-age entry age of a professional faculty student being around 25 as opposed to 18 for main campus.”

Hirsch also stated that medicine and education students spent sig-nificant portions of their time in off-campus placements.

Representatives of the profes-sional faculties’ students are look-ing for a reduction in student fees along the same lines as the one granted to the affiliate colleges in 2012. Affiliate students pay 38 per cent of the $661.33 that main cam-pus students pay.

Speaking about the affiliate col-leges’ agreement in 2012, Brown said it was debatable if that set a good precedent and once a report is produced, the students will get to decide.

Keeping the same level of ser-vice with lesser funds would be impossible, according to Brown. This deficit would most likely be met by an increase in prices at USC-run businesses and services or even an increase in student fees.

“That means affiliates or main campus students could have an increase to offset the professional decrease,” Brown said. “Or we could just raise the price of a CLT [at the Spoke] but people wouldn’t like that.”

“I believe the professional agreement is definitely worth look-ing into, and I will be doing my due diligence on this matter.”

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SSSC exec want to prorogue council

Jeremiah RodriguezNEWS EDITOR

The Social Science Students’ Council could be put on hiatus until after elections are over, a decision that has left councillors scratching their heads.

Yesterday, the SSSC executive sent an e-mail to all Social Science councillors outlining the recom-mendation that all SSSC activities will be suspended until February 12.

The decision was made because Lisa Le Nguyen, the current presi-dent of SSSC, is running for a second term — an unusual occurrence for Social Science — and for the council to continue its day-to-day duties in those circumstances was considered a conflict of interests. The speaker of the Social Science council, Connor Scott, recommended the decision to the SSSC executive.

Le Nguyen declined to comment for this story, instead providing a statement to The Gazette that con-tained the same text as the e-mail sent to the councillors.

“I think that it would be prudent to call for a prorogation of council until the end of elections, based on the previous inabilities of members to demonstrate ‘professionalism’ and a commitment to the mission and mandate of our organization since the announcement of candi-dates,” the statement said.

Office hours and regular duties for councillors would be rescinded but according the statement, the proroguing would not affect depart-ment representatives, senators and USC councillors who can still con-duct themselves outside of SSSC as their positions dictate.

Proroguing council has met resis-tance from some councillors arguing that it would be a disservice to their constituents.

Jack Litchfield, a Social Science senator and Le Nguyen’s opponent for the SSSC presidency, said that the idea is an overreaction and that only the executive stepping down would eliminate the conflict of interest.

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Student diagnosed with meningococcal

diseaseAccording to an e-mail sent out to Western students by the London Middlesex Health Unit Sunday afternoon, a Western student has been infected with meningococcal disease. Though the risk of the infec-tion spreading to other students or members of the community is low, the seriousness of the condi-tion prompted the university-wide notice.

“A Western University student has been diagnosed with meningo-coccal disease. Meningococcal dis-ease can be a serious infection that affects the lining of the brain (result-ing in meningitis) or can cause an infection in the blood. It is spread by sharing saliva,” the e-mail said.

Students noticing symptoms are urged to immediately seek medical attention or direct others affected to

medical services. Symptoms include vomiting, severe headaches, high fever and stiffness in the neck.

“[The infection] can make people quite sick — it can be fatal about 10 per cent of the time and it come on quite suddenly,” Bryna Warshawsky, associate officer of health at the Health Unit, said.

According to Warshawsky, most people are already immune to the disease, but decreasing exchanging or sharing of objects that have been in others’ mouth will minimize risk of infection.

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Ivey grads make it rain A report released Monday ranks graduates from Western’s Ivey School of Business as having the highest salary three years after graduation of all Canadian busi-ness schools.

The 2014 Global MBA Ranking from the Financial Times shows that Ivey graduates will make an average of $99,072 three years after gradua-tion, which is about $9,000 higher than the next Canadian school.

However, the school ranked 89th on the list of 100 schools, with four Canadian universities surpassing Ivey in rank.

“We feel it’s important when students are looking at the ranking to look deeper than just the overall score,” said Stephanie Brooks, direc-tor of marketing and recruitment at Ivey.

In particular, Brooks drew atten-tion to the factors that are uniquely weighted.

“We’re very focused on the qual-ity of teaching and this particular ranking does not necessarily weigh things in an order that we think students care about these things,” Brooks said.

Brooks said additional aspects negatively affecting Ivey’s ranking include the school’s lower number of international students compared to other schools, a factor that is weighted quite heavily.

However, Brooks said Ivey is not looking to compete for rankings.

“There are areas in the ranking that our one-year MBA program and our recruitment strategy will always leave us at a disadvantage in the Financial Times ranking and our dean, Bob Kennedy, is very firm that we are not going to develop a business school strategy around a ranking criteria that says every busi-ness school should look like this,” Brooks stated.

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“I don’t think we should prorogue council as a whole. I still think we need to effectively represent our constituency during elections period. I have had students with concerns up to me related to my Senate role and I would feel really bad if I couldn’t represent them in those roles,” Litchfield said. “I think it’s very important for the president to stand down because [she] has a lot of influence and power, but the other positions of council are just constituent representatives.”

In an e-mail to The Gazette, Olivia Griggs, the vice-president communications for the SSSC wrote that nothing was set in stone yet.

“Currently, the executive of the Social Science Students’ Council is in the process of deciding how to handle this decision and where to go from here for the best interests of our council,” Griggs said.

According to University Students’ Council’s legislative assistant Andrew Shaw, he couldn’t recall any instance when the USC, much less the SSSC, had ever prorogued. At the last all-candidates meeting, Kojo Hayward, USC governance officer, advised the faculties to continue running their

student councils regularly.Pashv Shah, chief returning offi-

cer in charge of overseeing USC elec-tions, said he understood the SSSC executive’s intent but disagrees with the decision. He reiterated that the decision is solely the SSSC’s and its executive’s to make.

“I was kind of shocked because I think it’s an overreaction of what happened in the [SSSC] room or council or office,” he said. “The instigator of something like this usually comes from the executive or speaker because they want to remove themselves from a situation making a decision for council that might conflict with their campaign.”

An SSSC meeting is scheduled for Tuesday to discuss what decision will be made.

SSSC prorogation unprecedented>> SSSC continued from pg.1

I was kind of shocked because I think it’s an overreaction of what happened in the [SSSC] room or council office.

— Pashv ShahUSC chief returning officer

Student funds not needed for renovationsIain Boekhoff NEWS EDITOR

A student donation of $100,000 to Social Science Academic Counselling made last year has not been used because the bill for reno-vations and technological upgrades was footed by the Registrar’s office.

Last year’s Social Science Students’ Council decided to use almost a third of their annual bud-get for the student donation fund to go towards technological upgrades to their academic counselling office, which underwent renova-tions last year. The upgrades were supposed to speed up the time it took for students to be processed and also automate certain func-tions of the counselling service so that the counsellors would be more available to serve students.

The money, however, was unnecessary, because the univer-sity footed the bill and provided the upgrades instead. It is now unclear to student leaders where the money for the donation went and if the SSSC would get that money back. It is also unclear to students what technological upgrades were made.

“Apparently the Registrar’s office footed the bill for a lot of those renovations, so our money didn’t end up getting used there,” said Jack Litchfield, a Social Science senator. “But it’s kind of troubling when we don’t know where that money’s going.”

However, the dean of Social Science, Brian Timney, said that Gail Wright, the student affairs manager who oversees academic counselling, will be making a pre-sentation to the SSSC about what upgrades have been made to aca-demic counselling and exactly how much of students’ money has been used.

He added that he thought that, although students’ money

was mostly not used, the funding served a useful purpose when it came to getting renovations done to academic counselling.

“What happened with that, once we had those funds commit-ted, we approached the Registrar’s office and said we have all this money, what can you do to improve things,” Timney said. “They took this on, but in fact, except for a fairly small amount, they haven’t asked us to provide extra funding. So those funds actually served as a leverage point to improve aca-demic counselling.”

He also said that for a big ask like that, he would have preferred for the money to be used for career counselling, something he has pushed for the past few years.

“This is a case where I would have argued, for myself, that if we’re making a big ask like that we should do it for career services and then I would take on the responsi-bility of doing things for academic counselling,” Timney said. “But council decided they would go for this last year.”

Litchfield said academic coun-selling was not something that students should fund or should feel the need to fund because it

is a service that is supposed to be covered under tuition. He said it is up to the university to keep service levels where they need to be, not students.

“Obviously academic coun-selling is one of those things that should be covered by tuition and not ancillary fees,” Litchfield said.

Matt Helfand, last year’s Social Science president, said he and his executive pushed the academic counselling donation as something that would have an impact on many students in Social Science. He said one of the biggest complaints from students is how difficult the aca-demic counselling process is.

“It’s inundated with lines every single day, it’s really bad, and we just wanted to try to and do some-thing. And we really thought this was something that would work,” he said.

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“It’s inundated with lines every single day, it’s really bad, and we just wanted to try to and do something. And we really thought this was something that would work.”

— Matt HelfandFormer SSSC president

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Arts&Life saywhat?“Movies will make you famous; television will make you rich; but theatre will make you good.”

— Thomas Mann

Putting on a monumental productionMary Ann Ciosk

ARTS & LIFE EDITOR

Trivial Theatre is the newest addi-tion to London’s growing theatre scene and their upcoming debut, The Monument, is setting the stage for some edgy productions at the ARTS project.

“Our objective [...] is to do good theatre right. We want to find the best plays we can — be they main-stream or alternative, musical or black box — and execute them really, really well,” says Nicholas Harrison, artistic director.

Harrison, along with high school friends Kevin Liang and Aravind Pillai, are third-year Ivey business students at Western who came up with the idea of founding a new the-atre company because of a related project for their program.

“We had ended up doing a fash-ion company or something, and I was grumbling about the finances to him one night while I was getting ready for a rehearsal downtown. I said, ‘Do you know how much easier it would have been to start a the-atre company?’ and he asked me what was involved,” Harrison says. “I rattled off the financial compo-nents, kept getting ready, and by the time I got out of the shower half an hour later I was still talking — plan-ning seasons, potential directors, everything.”

“The whole thing really snow-balled from there, and we all really saw it as an opportunity.”

Once the company had been founded, however, Trivial Theatre was faced with the problem of choosing a play that would make a lasting impact for their debut.

“The single biggest factor in choosing the productions we do is the quality of the script. It has to be something that is already leaping off of the page, something that could entertain and interest you just from a table reading,” Harrison says.

Ashley Patenaude, director of The Monument, initially encountered the script in her Canadian drama class and was immediately struck by its unique themes of moral ambigu-ity and complex characters.

“When we first started work on the show, I was told that this was a big, ambitious show to take on, and I would kind of laugh and say “I know” and go on with my day — as the months have passed since we cast in March of 2013, I’ve realized just how right those who said that to me were,” Patenaude comments.

“After reading about the expe-riences others had with it and the

challenges that they had in making the work really pop, I started to have doubts, but Ashley convinced me to stick to this play and I am so terribly glad that we did,” Harrison adds.

The Monument revolves around a soldier, Stetko, who enlists in the army out of necessity and narrowly escapes execution. He is taken in by Mejra, a woman who hates him but is willing to help him survive, thus creating the relationship that is the foundation of the play’s action.

Jessika McQueen, playing Mejra, comments on the challenge of being in a play comprised of only two actors.

“The level of communica-tion, both verbal and non-verbal, between Jonathan (playing Stetko) and I has grown to an intensity unparalleled by any other stage relationship I have ever been a part of, which is completely necessary in order for us to explore the vast array of emotions and complexities necessary to express these charac-ters,” McQueen says. “My greatest challenge has been to let go and fully commit and trust the progression of the emotions throughout the play.”

For all its difficulties, however, the production team and cast remain confident that this will be a show to remember.

“It’s the perfect play for the ARTS Project — it’s going to be hard to breath during some parts, it’s going to be in your face, and it’s going to be beautiful. It also does fit what we wanted to do as a company — it is a gorgeous script, a Governor General’s Award-winning Canadian masterpiece, and I’m so happy that I get to see it come to life,” Harrison says.

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GETTING THE COLD SHOULDER. Jessika McQueen sets into character during a rehearsal with The Monument costar Jonathan English.

The single biggest factor in choosing the productions we do is the quality of the script. It has to be something that is already leaping off of the page, something that could entertain and interest you just from a table reading.

— Nicholas HarrisonArtistic director

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The Carrie Diaries Finale

This show is not good. It’s actually one of the most poorly written shows that has graced television in a while. Sarah Jessica Parker must be rolling around in her stable right now. With all that said about the abysmal quality of The Carrie Diaries, it is ending its season this week — so start catching up! Yes, this might seem like an odd suggestion because of its poor quality, but there is something strangely addicting about this show. It’s impossible to put a finger on what makes watching these teenagers’ lives so interesting — but they are. It’s slightly disturbing, but just try the show. It will be enjoyable.

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The Fifth Estate

Poor Benedict Cumberbatch. He has appeared in five films this year and gained no traction for any of them. One would imagine a slave driver in 12 Years A Slave would provide him with some attention. Nope! Perhaps as an incest-loving cousin in August: Osage County. Nope! Not even when he is in the lead role, as he is in The Fifth Estate, can he gain traction! Which is strange because people cream their pants about him all the time — “Oh my God! He’s so attractive! Sherlock! Oh mannnnn!” Watch this just because it’s Benedict Cumberbatch and he’s amazing (positive at least 40 per cent of readers subscribe to this ideology.)

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How pretentious of a band to name themselves after Of Mice and Men. It’s actually enraging to imagine how these numbskulls came up with the idea to use a literary classic as their band name. Let’s digress, Restoring Force! The reviews seem to be pretty good so if there are fans of metalcore, run out and grab this it’s definitely essential. Everyone else, let’s talk. The album begins with a song titled “Public Service Announcement.” What could Of Mice and Men possibly be saying to help the community? Really? Also, “You Make Me Sick” and “You’re Not Alone” appear which is a completely confused messaging. Oh Of Mice and Men.

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What has Shakira been doing lately? The last thing that she did must be “Hips Don’t Lie.” That was at least seven years ago, which is decades in the music industry. If you ever doubt that, play a song from 2008 and hear everyone in the room exclaim, “This song is so old!” Which is odd, it’s not as though you played “Respect” by Aretha Franklin, that would have been old! Anyway, Shakira and Rihanna team up for an awesome single. The kind of single that will likely be played for the next few weeks at Ceeps and then will slowly fade away.

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I really franking stinkCGI schlockfest severely lacks life

Brent HolmesARTS & LIFE EDITOR

David’s Tea — Gingerbread

While it may have been a month since Christmas, the smell of gin-gerbread still provides a comfort-able reminder of home. David’s Gingerbread tea, a special holiday mix, is an excellent blend of ginger, cinnamon and molasses that makes for a relaxing cup. However it is not a flawless mix or perfect recreation of the Christmas smells.

To be honest, gingerbread is not my favourite of the Christmas season’s treats. While the tea pro-vides a relaxing cup, those who enjoy the process of taking apart a gingerbread house and eating its unfortunate inhabitants will likely savour the nostalgic qualities of this tea more so than I.

The aroma is nice and while it may remind of mom’s fresh ginger-bread, the presence of pineapple provides a fruity scent, which offsets its gingerbread name and is slightly confusing to the nose. However, the smell does carry a heaviness that will remind of fresh baking and a warm oven and there is a minty hint that contributes well to the tea’s welcom-ing smell.

This tea requires steeping for about five to seven minutes. However, it needs to cool for another two minutes to produce the best fla-vour — which leaves a very short time for it to be savoured before it becomes too cool. I was using the “Perfect Mug” from David’s tea, which comes with its own infuser

and a lid to keep the tea warm while it is steeping. With this tea, it is advisable to take the lid off so that the aromas can spread about the house — but be warned this will change the rate to which the tea decreases in temperature.

The ginger and cinnamon pro-vide a mild spice that is smooth on the tongue. In terms of how the tea tastes to sip, it lives up to its nos-talgic claim-to-fame. The slightly fruity aroma is not present in the tea’s taste, however, the warm, minty hints are a bit stronger.

Unfortunately, the thin rooibos tea leaves do tend to slip through the infuser and subsequently the last few sips featured a few uncom-fortable bits of leaf. Further, the tea leaves lose their potency remarkably quickly, meaning that repeat use of the leaves provides a dramatically less powerful flavour even if only on the second use. I would highly rec-ommend only using the tea leaves once or adding in fresh leaves to any successive cups, as the dilution of the flavour takes away from the overall quality of the tea.

David’s Tea provides a wide range of flavours and their Christmas specialities are still available. Their gingerbread tea provides good reminders of the comforts of home. However, for those not as attached to gingerbread baking, some of their other holiday specialties may be more enticing. What makes this tea worthwhile is the warm sensa-tions it provides long after the cup is finished. This is a perfect tea to relax with after a long day of classes and a cold walk around campus.

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HFFFFI, Frankenstein Director: Stuart BeattieStarring: Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto

Swathed in C.G.I. and riddled with t-ball dialogue, I, Frankenstein is a rabid caricature of the fan-tasy action genre which serves as a reminder that substance is threatened to become subordi-nate to special effects in modern film should audiences be willing to marvel their hearts and minds away.

Based on Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel of the same name, I, Frankenstein follows Shelley’s mon-ster (Aaron Eckhart) as he navigates a 21st century world, the angelic or demonic dominion of which is set on his undead shoulders. Aided by the gargoyle order and their queen (Miranda Otto), the patchwork antihero wars with demon-prince Naberius (Bill Nighy) and his hell-ish minions to find love in a hope-less place with brilliant scientist, Terra Wade (Yvonne Strahovski).

Instead of the groaning bolt-necked incarnation one may be familiar with, the film features a virtually unblemished Eckhart.

The bulgy-eyed intensity fans of “The Dark Knight” will remember in Two-Face is on display in this film with full force, but Eckhart either refrains from, or is incapa-ble of, more than what ultimately amounts to a single-gear perfor-mance from a one-trick-pony.

Strahovski, as the exasperated babe in the woods, indicates a sen-sitivity and thoughtfulness which exceeds that of this inevitably wing-clipping film; unfortunately, her performance is overshadowed by her character. Nighy steps into a stultifying lithograph as the demon-prince with slight power and modest charm, counterbal-anced by Otto who exhibits the watered-down grace of a diluted Helen Mirren.

To his credit, director Stuart Beattie attempts an intimacy which, though ultimately unsuc-cessful, reminds one that the essence of this 200-year-old char-acter is thoroughly human rather than unidentifiably grotesque. A steadfast reliance on the myriad cli-ches of the genre, however, renders this attempt at tender sentiment a trampled rose on the battlefield of monsters.

With such rattling lines as “descend and pay, demon” and “you’re only a monster if you behave like one,” Stuart Beattie,

in his capacity as screenwriter, demonstrates an aptitude which the producers of the sardonic Scary Movie series would do well to employ immediately.

Behind the score are composers Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil, the exciting and suspense-injecting work of whom in this film deserved to enliven a richer plot, deeper characters and a more ably crafted story. The collective ability of these musical talents was suffered from collaboration on this film.

Though far from redeeming the film, the impressive display of Kali, a weapons-based martial art of the Philippines, by both Eckhart and Otto adds a layer of redemption to an otherwise rabid caricature of the genre. In preparation for the film, the stars trained for three months with experts Rob Balicki and Diana Lee Inosanto to more than appre-ciable effect.

If a coffee-addled Ned Flanders had access to as many techies as he could want and as much money as he could imagine, a passable adap-tation of I, Frankenstein may just have been possible. As it happened, Beattie patched together a film which works well as irony and not at all as cinema, bringing a vapid monster flick to the big screen and leaving its audience just a little less human.

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Dear Life

“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

— Oscar Wilde

Iain BoekhoffNEWS EDITOR

It’s a sad world when a charity’s function is to serve its founders rather than the causes it is supposed to support.

With over 86,000 charities to choose from in Canada alone, a number that is increasing by the year, we have a lot of different options when it comes to what efforts our money goes toward — which is actually a problem. Some charities just don’t do what they’re supposed to, and the duplication of charities also means mil-lions of dollars are wasted.

I’m not talking about long estab-lished, organizations like the Red Cross or Amnesty International, or any national non-profits like Canadian Cancer Society or Heart and Stroke Foundation. These charities without a doubt try to make the world a better place.

However, there are a plethora of chari-ties that might claim to actually do what they’re supposed to — but only a fraction of their donations go to good use.

Every celebrity, every corporation and even local heroes now have their own charity for whatever cause they think will grab the public’s attention. That’s all they are for — to create a good impression on the public, to hang on to a legacy that is somehow made better by having your very own charity.

They are “charities” only in name. The only charity work they do is to inflate the ego of the person whose name is on the organization or for good public relations for the company that runs it. In donating to these charities, very little actual good

comes from it other than validating the false belief that you are a good person for giving to charity.

Another problem is the sheer number of charities creates duplication and waste. The administrative costs and lack of infra-structure means most of the donations go towards keeping the charity afloat rather than actually supporting the cause.

In Canada alone, there are over 500 reg-istered charities for cancer. They all have administrative costs, and the majority are almost certainly less efficient than the Canadian Cancer Society, which already has the infrastructure in place.

The Canadian Cancer Society covers all cancers, funds research, develops medi-cine and helps individuals and families dealing with cancer. There is not much more you can ask for in a charity.

Granted, it most likely has its ineffi-ciencies and bureaucracy but it does more good on a larger scale than smaller chari-ties are able to. There are already national organizations for almost every cause, and they can learn something every business student learns: Efficiencies of scale.

Cancer donations do not need to be bastardized by some corporation look-ing for good PR. It’s disturbing that many charity runs and other initiatives actually have a corporation before the name, like the CIBC Run for the Cure, or Shoppers Weekend to End Women’s Cancers.

I’m not saying that all charities are bad — some of them help people that the government or larger charities don’t. I’m also not saying small charities are bad or that you shouldn’t give to charity. What you should do is give to a charity with a view to making your money count, and if you volunteer, spend your time doing the most good.

Ultimately, giving to charity is a great thing to do — but it should be done with a little more consideration than just think-ing about whose name is behind it.

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RE: “Strategic plan snubs arts, FIMS and more,” Tuesday, January 28, 2014To The Editor:I was greatly alarmed by the opinion piece in Tuesday’s issue of The Gazette. Not only does it hyperbolize the situa-tion, but as a student senator I also feel the column informs students of falsified funding cuts to smaller faculties, like arts. It is true that Western is becoming more research extensive. Research funding is a source of revenue diversification that is being used to combat declining provincial funding as well as provincial cuts to student relief. This does not mean faculties are losing money. Nowhere does the strategic plan explicitly state

any amount of dollars is being lost. In fact, the university has matched $1.5-million for a recent research chair in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the “Alice Munro Chair of Creativity.” The protest and column provides mis-information to the student population. I would like the editor of the piece to specif-ically cite the strategic plan to where my home faculty is going to be losing money. The provincial government, year by year, is chipping away funding to the univer-sity — to all universities — and it falls on the shoulders of our institutions to come up with alternative methods of funding.

I have not seen the protestors — nor the writer of Tuesday’s piece — provide different ways to produce revenue. I only hear of constant complaints, no alternatives. It should be noted that our president, Dr. Amit Chakma, has

constantly advocated for the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities to have more funds at their disposal. Alas, that is context students seldom have. If protestors and the author of the col-umn really want to make a difference, I encourage them to stage a protest at Queen’s Park, which is where university funding is actually shrinking. Not on our doorsteps where our administrators are trying to make the better of it.

—Jonathan EnglishEnglish & Political Science III

Student senator

EDITOR’S RESPONSE: It is not that faculties will be directly losing money because of the strategic plan which bothers the protesters and myself, merely the precedent set of favouring already-wealthy faculties with monetary injections, when others need it more. — Cam Smith

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SportsRundown >> Western’s ringette team will be competing in the Guelph Invitational this weekend > The Mustangs’ men’s fencing team will be competing in the Ontario University Athletics at McMaster University this weekend.

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Mustangs secure fifth consecutive winWestern takes second place with win over Toronto

Daniel WeryhaSPORTS EDITOR

The Western Mustangs men’s vol-leyball team finished their week-end by adding yet another win to an their impressive streak. The three-set sweep by scores of 25–20, 25–16 and 25–21 over the University of Toronto Varsity Blues marks Western’s fifth straight victory and improved their record to 13–3.

After taking the first set in a heav-ily contested battle, the Mustangs dominated the Varsity Blues in the second. The team registered 13 kills on two technical errors for a game high kill percentage of 41.7 per cent.

Garrett May, Mustangs’ offside

power out of Toronto, Ontario, finished the night with 13 kills and two technical errors. The Mustangs’ hitter continues to lead the team with 223 kills and ranks second in Ontario University Athletics.

“Garrett May is a difference maker, he is able to perform con-sistently at a high level and put the ball away in key situations. His technical efficiency, I have rarely seen at the CIS level,” John Barrett, University of Toronto Varsity Blues’

head coach, said.Although the Mustangs con-

trolled the first two sets, their opponents responded aggressively in the third. The Varsity Blues had 12 kills to Western’s 11, but failed to take the set against the threatening Mustangs.

“[We’re] executing our offence for a balanced attack and allowing our best players some openings that they’re taking advantage of,” Jim Sage, Western Mustangs’ head coach, said.

The Varsity Blues had 12 total errors in the game on 32 kills against a Mustangs team that capitalized on almost all of their opportunities.

“The major difference in the match was Western’s ability to play consistent volleyball even if they were not firing on all cylinders,” Barrett said. “The team is well-rounded with very good middle attackers, a solid setter and libero, and a right side player, Scapinello, who hits the ball very hard and is only getting better — his serve

caused us problems throughout the match.”

The team finished with a com-bined 34 kills and eight technical errors as they out-hit the Varsity Blues in all but one set.

Jay Tremonti, the fifth-year middle for the Varsity Blues, led his team on the score sheet. Tremonti finished with an impressive nine kills and committed only a single technical error while tacking on two service aces.

With their win streak now at five,

the Mustangs are almost sitting atop the OUA standings. The team has four games left in the regular season and sits just two games out of first place in the OUA. The Mustangs will not meet the first placed McMaster Marauders — a team they fell to by score of three sets to two at the beginning of the month.

“[We’re] not really thinking about the streak, just trying to

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FINGER TIPS. Western Mustangs’ offside power, Garrett May, jumping to finish one of his 13 kills on the night. May continues to lead the mustangs in kills and has only committed 77 technical errors on his 223 total kills. The Mustangs are now ranked second in Ontario University Athletics, and are now in the hunt for first place. Riding a five-game win streak, the team is but four games away from a playoff berth.

Garrett May is a difference maker, he is able to perform consistently at a high level and put the ball away in key situations. His technical efficiency, I have rarely seen at the CIS level.

— John BarrettToronto Varsity Blues’ head coach

Super Bowl becomes the Statue BowlPhysiology does not favour Sunday’s cold competition

Caitlin Martin NewnhamSPORTS EDITOR

If you like watching football play-ers maneuver around a near-frozen field with the waxy disposition of an unlubricated Tin Man, then the National Football League Super Bowl XLVIII is for you. Some genius decided that the 2014 Super Bowl should be held outdoors in the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey in winter weather. This uneducated decision favours nei-ther fans nor football players since

the performance will inevitably not be up to par in these conditions.

Weather stations are predicting that the temperature will hit freez-ing by the time the Seahawks and the Broncos enter the stadium. Not to mention the wind chill that will be piercing through their multiple layers of padding.

It’s no secret that humans are incapable of playing their best when they are frozen to the bone. Physiologically speaking, exercising in the cold causes shallower breath-ing and, therefore, less oxygen in the bloodstream. Lower oxygen levels results in raised blood pressure, high levels of lactic acid, decreased motor efficiency and even decreased memory and concentration.

The build up of lactic acid alone is enough to freeze a football player

in their tracks. This acid appears in the bloodstream when there is not enough oxygen to support muscle function, and causes soreness and stiffness — it is that familiar second-day burn after an intense workout. But instead of recovering with a pro-tein drink on the couch, the Broncos and Seahawks have to play an entire football game while enduring this pain. It is difficult to recover quickly from pooling lactic acid in freezing conditions, so be prepared to see statues on the field this Sunday.

Denver has an advantage over Seattle because they train at an elevation a little over 5,000 feet above sea level. Seattle and East Rutherford are both at sea level, giving Denver the altitude advan-tage. By training at a higher altitude with thinner air, the Broncos have

physiologically trained their bodies to take in oxygen at a higher effi-ciency. When Denver graces MetLife Staudium with their presence, they will be able to maintain a higher level of oxygen in their bloodstream than their opponents and, therefore, will feel less of the aforementioned effects of low oxygen levels.

Experiencing a bit of déjà vu? The Mustangs’ football team played outdoors in Calgary, Alberta for the Mitchell Bowl this year in weather that was deemed a health risk to go outside in — let alone play a foot-ball game. If Western’s disheartening 3–44 performance in the chilly game against the altitude-trained Dinos is any indication of how Sunday’s Super Bowl will go for the Seahawks, we are all in for a sluggish and unfair game.

However, a certain amount of favour will go to the Seahawks, the younger of the two teams, because, in spite of extensive training and experience, age makes recovery a longer process. Inevitably, we will be seeing older players like the 37-year old Broncos’ quarterback Peyton Manning recovering slower in this freezing weather than young bucks like 25-year old quarterback of the Seahawks, Russell Wilson.

If you factor in that the Seahawks are the second youngest team in the league, the Bronco’s altitude-train-ing lead may be evened out by the Seahawk’s youth, leading to quick recovery. Physiologically speaking, either team could take the title, but the game will unquestionably be frustratingly slow.

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work on things and play a com-plete match, both matches on the weekend tested us, but I thought we executed especially late in sets,” Sage said.

In their last four games, Western will face York and Waterloo, the fourth and third-placed teams, respectively, and will have a chance to solidify their second seed playoff berth.

“York will be tough, we have played them a few times this season and they always give us a battle,”

Sage said. “It should be an exciting match with quality players on both sides of the net.”

If the team expects to secure their second spot they will need to close out the regular season riding the same winning streak they are currently on — that would mean nine games straight.

The Mustangs will play on Saturday at Alumni Hall on February 1 where they will take on the York Lions and than again on Sunday against Nipissing for their second straight weekend double-header.

Mustangs sweep ninth-place Toronto on the road>> MUSTANGS continued from pg.1

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE