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Board releases update Western to sponsor Syrian refugee family

Amy O’KrukNEWS EDITOR@AmyAtGazette

Western’s chair of the Board of Governors released an update last Wednesday outlining the board’s actions since last April’s public back-lash to the University’s presidential compensation practices and the Board’s governance.

Board chair Chirag Shah revealed that the governance review task force, a committee charged with reviewing the board’s processes and procedures, aims to present its final recommendations at the board’s upcoming November meeting dur-ing an open session.

“We had to put an appropri-ate timeline to this,” Shah said. “I did not want the process to be extending a year or longer … We have a board retreat towards the end of September where we want to have an update from this committee.”

The task force will have three areas of focus: the board’s relation-ships and communications with the larger community; the structure of the board and its delegation of authority; and the role of the board and the board members.

“We had a deliberation … taking

in light some of the commentaries that were received over the April and May period and that formulated into what we felt were the three most compelling issues for our commit-tee to handle,” Shah said.

According to Kristin Hoffmann, president of the University of Western Ontario Faculty Association, the board has been ambiguous on the community lead-ers it’ll be approaching to address concerns on campus.

“I think from our perspective it’s really important that they talk to faculty, librarians and archiv-ists who are the academic mission of the university,” she said. “If this review doesn’t take those per-spectives adequately into account then it may not lead to meaningful transformation.”

Struck last June, the 10-mem-ber task force is made up of faculty, students, staff and board alumni. Matthew Wilson, a City of London board appointee, is chair of the task force and Brian Timney, a professor and former dean of Social Science, is vice-chair.

To produce its recommenda-tions, the committee members will be reviewing documents and consulting with external bodies,

especially the chair and vice-chair who will meet with deans and other key stakeholders in the Western community and in London.

Shah’s update also details other upcoming or available assessments, like President Chakma’s consulta-tion report. Two other committees will be evaluating other areas of Western. The provost’s task force will review the university’s budget model and the Senate has created an ad hoc committee to further review decision-making practices at Western.

Finally, an independent review of presidential contract and approval processes by former Justice Stephen Goudge is expected in the early fall. Shah said he’s a strong believer in Western’s board system.

“I’m looking forward to what dir-ection we can adopt best practices … but I wouldn’t define ourselves as having weaknesses in past boards,” Shah said. “I think they’ve served the institution quite well and allowed Western to achieve the successes that it has to date.”

A website has been created with further information on the task force and suggestions and ideas can also be sent to the task force at [email protected].

Hamza TariqBREAKING NEWS EDITOR

@HamzaAtGazette

Western’s Faculty of Social Science is collaborating with a local char-ity to raise funds to sponsor a Syrian refugee family to relocate to London.

The faculty, in partnership with London Cross Cultural Learner Centre, aims to raise $30,000 for a G5 private sponsorship application. The primary objective is to sponsor a family of five refugees to London.

Funds collected beyond the target amount of $30,000 will go towards sponsorship applications for more refugee families.

According to Lama Kaysi, presi-dent of the Western Arab Students Association, there has been a mas-sive call of action to help Syrian refugees since photos of drowned toddler Aylan Kurdi went viral and now the Western community is also stepping up and responding to the humanitarian crisis.

“I completely support the pri-vate sponsorship initiative that is being undertaken by Western,” she said. “It not only helps Syrian

families remove themselves from their current dangerous living situations ... but it also allows the citizens of London to participate and witness the tangible results of their contributions and essentially be a part of the solution to this dev-astating global crisis.”

Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, more than four million refugees have fled the country.

Canada has accepted slightly over 1,000 refugees this year after pledging to provide asylum to 10,000 Syrian refugees earlier in January.

Donations to the university’s aid effort can be made via cheque or online, under the “Western Social Science Refugee Sponsorship” fund.

London Mayor Matt Brown is also working with a number of local community groups to sponsor and settle several Syrian refugee fam-ilies in London.

According to the London Free Press, city residents have contrib-uted more than $41,000 in four days towards the mayor’s sponsorship effort.

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Tim Hortons galore after summer UCC renovations

Rita RahmatiNEWS EDITOR@RitaAtGazette

Students visiting the UCC will now find an expanded Tim Hortons, a new Tim Hortons express and no more Pizza Pizza after this sum-mer’s renovations.

In time for the start of the 2015-16 school year, the popular Tim Hortons on the main floor of the University Community Centre expanded and a Tim Hortons express location was also added just before Subway. The goal of these renovations was to shorten the long lines at Tim Hortons, one of the most popular places for stu-dents to eat in the UCC.

“The lineup at Tim Hortons is one of the largest issues we have and we wanted to do whatever we could to fix that issue and improve the services in the building,” said Kevin McCabe, associate direc-tor and financial controller for Hospitality Services.

McCabe explained that the Tim Hortons was originally meant to be strictly for coffee and baked goods but evolved over the years and expanded its menu. He said within the space that was allotted, items could not be prepared in a timely manner and this was a key reason for the expansion.

“I think it’s a lot more efficient for people that do drink coffee,” said Victor Chan, a third-year pol-itical science student. “It shortens the line at the main station as well as the bottom one. I think it’s good.”

Taryn Levy, a fourth-year pol-itical science student who just

bought coffee from the main Tim Hortons in the UCC, said it was quick, easy and that the customer service was very good.

In order to expand the Tim Hortons, the Pizza Pizza within Centre Spot had to be closed.

“The demand for Tim Hortons is much higher than the demand for Pizza Pizza,” McCabe explained as the rationale for the closure of Pizza Pizza.

Pizza lovers can still find Pizza Pizza located on campus within the Natural Sciences and Talbot College buildings.

Another addition is the salad bar in the middle of Centre Spot. McCabe said that although there were other salad options within Centre Spot, there was an ever increasing demand for salads. The salad bar enables students to cre-ate specific salads and choose how much they want.

With the changes that have occurred within eateries there is always a possibility for further expansion. McCabe explained there will be more eateries added once the new kinesiology and nurs-ing building is finished however, there will currently be no more changes within the UCC.

McCabe said the individuals he has spoken with are happy with the Tim Hortons additions. With that said, there are still further changes that can be made to appease more students. Levy expressed her desire for more seating added to the UCC and Chan expressed desire for a Booster Juice closer to the main gates.

The cost of the renovations was not available at press time.


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Ontario modernizes OSAP program

Distracted driving targeted under new laws

Drishti KatariaNEWS EDITOR

@DrishtAtGazette

Drivers should be aware of new rules that dole out stricter pen-alties for distracted driving and strengthen safety measures for cyclists, tow truck drivers and rid-ers of school buses.

The Ontario government, under Bill 31: “Making Ontario’s Roads Safer”, has implemented new traffic laws that took effect on Sept. 1.

Ministry of Transportation spokesperson Bob Nichols said that although Ontario has been ranked either first or second for road safety in North America for the last 14 years, there is still a lot more that can be done to improve as one person is injured every 8.6 minutes and one person is killed every 15 hours.

DISTRACTED DRIVINGWith regards to distracted driving, it’s against the law to operate hand-held or entertainment devices or to view display screens of devices unrelated to driving.

Distracted drivers in Ontario will now be given a set fine of $490, up from the previous fine of $200. If convicted they will also be given three demerit points.

According to the director of

Campus Police, John Carson, they issue a number of tickets for dis-tracted driving at Western every year as the use of cellphones while driving is prevalent.

Motor vehicles and cyclistsThe new rules are cyc-

list-friendly as it is now manda-tory to keep a one metre distance when passing cyclists. Opening the car door suddenly in the path of a cyclist, called “dooring,” results in a hefty penalty, too. Carson mentioned that Campus Police receives quite a few com-plaints from bicyclists regarding University Drive Bridge. Since buses, cyclists and motor vehicles share the narrow bridge, passing is not allowed.DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE

– DRUGS/ALCOHOLDrivers caught under the influence of drugs will face the same charges as drunk drivers.

PEDESTRIAN SAFETYDrivers are now required to wait until the pedestrians completely cross the road before proceeding.

“MOVE-OVER” LAWThe “move-over” law that man-dated drivers slow down and move into the next lane when approach-ing any stopped emergency vehicle now includes tow trucks that have their amber lights flashing.

Students invent a new way to plug in

Drishti KatariaNEWS EDITOR

@DrishtAtGazette

V.O, a magnetic all direction power adaptor for every possible electronic device developed by Western stu-dents, may come to revolutionize our power plugging experience.

Murray Wu, a fourth-year eco-nomics finance major at Western, came to the conclusion that when it comes to powering our technol-ogy, the method hasn’t changed much at all.

“I took a second look, gathered an eight member team and spent a summer doing research and development and came up with this.”

There are two parts to V.O: an adaptor to go inside the wall socket and a magnetic attachment to the adaptor where you would plug in your device, which is very similar to Apple’s magsafe technology.

“It simplifies the plug in process and it’s a lot safer to use because the possibility of tripping over the cord is unsafe for you and your appliances,” said Soojeong Choe, a fourth-year year science student at Western and one of the eight team

members of V.O.V.O has hit the ground running

with preorders from hair stylists and musicians that perform on stage.

“For families with children, the sockets are extremely dangerous if you stick a finger in, but this product would prevent that and there’s no exposed metal,” said Wu.

V.O has been tested by many engineers and laboratories and have deemed it safe to use. So far they have received one patent and two more patents are pending for the design.

“We have gone through 34 proto-types till now and we’ve done this in three months. It was a rapid proto-typing process and right now we are making continuous improvements towards it,” continued Wu.

V.O will launch a kickstarter cam-paign in mid-October with a goal of $50,000 that will last an entire month.

Once they reach their goal, their plans are to get the plastic moulds for their product, get the certifica-tion to sell the product and send it to their customers.

“It’s because of our hard working team we are at this step right now,” said Choe.

The team was formed as a result of pitching the idea to a multitude of people to gather feedback and people interested in the venture joined the team in the process. It consists of Western students or recent grads. For those looking into starting their own start up, Wu highly rec-ommends dabbling into hardware rather than software.

“Software is so saturated I feel, so if you want to develop a niche it’s really hard. With hardware there are so many things that haven’t been done and you can 3-D print stuff and rapid prototype it and test the market really fast.”

Choe mentions that there is a lot of help and resources available for those starting out. Tech Alliance, a non-profit organization in London, has 3-D printers and tech profes-sionals who will help you with your idea.

Wu advises students to be open to new possibilities.

“Be open to learning — I’m a finance major but I learned these things and there’s always people to help you who are willing to check out your work to see if it’s solid and if its safe. Just start doing it and ask for help,” said Wu.

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FEELING THE ELECTRICITY. An invention by Western students hopes to make plugging in easier and safer by using the power of magnets.

Rita RahmatiNEWS EDITOR@RitaAtGazette

After this spring’s announcement of changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program starting in the 2015-16 school year, the Ontario government is modernizing how students receive financial aid.

The aim of OSAP modernization is to make the student financial aid program more flexible, fair and transparent according to May Nazar, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.

“Our young people are our future and we know that investing in their education and training is the best way to ensure Ontario will continue to thrive in the global economy,” Nazar said.

One of the many changes to OSAP is that students are no longer required to report their car as an asset, therefore their funding will not be reduced. Valerie Sarkany, associate registrar student financial services for Western, explained that some students require a car due to their program of study and some programs expect students to be able to travel for their placements.

“In the past, a student would have to report [a car] each year, so a student is penalized four years for having a car — that full value of the

car,” Sarkany said.According to Nazar, 7,300 stu-

dents yearly will receive more finan-cial aid as a result of this change.

In addition, the updated OSAP application will assume that each student is able to contribute $3,000 from either earnings or assets towards their educational costs. As Nazar explained, the goal of this is to make it more clear how much students are expected to earn.

“It’s a blanket assumption that OSAP makes so they’re not looking for proof of whether you’ve done it or not — they’ll just say you have these costs, but we’re going to assume you have $3,000 or access to $3,000 throughout the year,” Sarkany said.

Aside from OSAP, Western aids students with its own financial assistance programs. Sarkany said that Western’s primary programs for financial aid are the bursary and work-study programs. The appli-cations for both open up in August and are available until mid-Octo-ber. They applications will re-open in January until mid-February. Last year approximately 5,500 students received bursaries and 1,500 stu-dents participated in work-study.

“I think [OSAP is] definitely help-ful, it made it possible for me to come to school, so that’s great,” said Alex Prong, second-year student in

media and the public interest.Another modification coming

to OSAP is that inflation will now be taken into account on a yearly basis. According to the budget plan, loan limits are expected to increase to $155 weekly for single students and $355 weekly for students who are married or have dependent children.

For students like Prong who have the responsibility of paying rent, an increase in loans will be beneficial.

However, the changes made to OSAP may create the need for Western to adjust its financial aid program.

“We just have to settle in and understand how the changes to OSAP are impacting our students before we can understand how we’ll meet the need with bursaries,” Sarkany said.

Nazar elaborated, stating the OSAP application process is open to further change in the future.

“While we are proud of the incredible progress we have made in access to post-secondary education, we know there is always more we can do. This is why we introduced these changes this year,” Nazar said.

To learn more about the OSAP modernization students can go online to ontario.ca/page/how-to-get-osap


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One Love ramps up the loveSamah Ali

ARTS AND LIFE EDITOR@SamahAtGazette

An obnoxious firework show boomed over Western’s campus Friday night for the finale of this year’s One Love rally.

The concert ended with a bang to make up for the disappointing weather that caused low attendance amongst first-years. The damp grass was less than appealing to the audi-ence, but the University Students’ Council trucked on with open-ing messages from vice-president internal Alex Benac, youth outreach coordinator for Indigenous Services Amanda Myers, and songs from First Nations groups Purple Spirit and the Sisters of All Nations.

Naturally, Jessi Cruickshank graced the One Love stage as host, as she does every year. Her intro-duction video stayed the same – a brief summary of her career at MTV, CBC and ETALK – but her outfit was one of the knock-out features of the night. Cruickshank floated around the stage in a striking red jumpsuit, making her overdone hosting gig a little easier to watch.

After a few minutes of Cruickshank’s gush-ing, she introduced another One Love regu-lar, Shane Koyczan. He performed new poems with empow-ering statements cri-tiquing our interest in “surgeries

that do nothing but dress up [our] skeleton” in the Kylie Jenner age, but ultimately his entrance did not pro-vide enough heat to warm the soaked audience members.

Upon finishing, a swell of first-years and sophs exited One Love with several performers left on the roster — an unexpected downer for the entire event.

Faced with low spirits, Trey Anthony took the stage and com-manded attention from everyone – including Mother Nature. This was when the real show began.

Anthony spoke her truths and experiences as a black queer woman along with her struggles entering the film industry. She recalled her perse-verance and dedication in a way that left shivers, both from the cold and her words. She was the star of One Love.

Anthony encouraged everyone to have a “Kanye moment” and recog-nize how good they are. She took her speech further by tying in her eureka moments for dealing with cultural appropriation; confronting differ-ences in class, race, homophobia and accessibility and how various intersecting factors have an input on

one’s way of life. If the USC was aiming for an intersectional

speaker, Anthony was it. She shut down the stage and left it hard for anyone to top her.

USC president Sophie Helpard also made an appearance and

spoke against the

“deplorable” threats made on University of Toronto’s campus. She was eloquent and firm in declaring that Western would never allow such behaviour on campus.

Lt. Daniel Choi followed Helpard and closed with an amusing yet wise discussion about coming out in the household and in the army.

As the son of a Souther n Baptist minister, Choi said he had always lived under the policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” He preached about loving one another and not letting hate thrive. It was a genuine talk, but ended with a very anticlimactic glow stick break.

Then entered Sarah Smith, who sang a variety of ballads and covers, ranging from sociopolitical-themed originals to more popular chart-top-pers. It played to the serious and playful sides of O-Week but very quickly became a performance that had no foreseeable end.

To finish the event off, the USC flexed its One Love budget with an elaborate 10-minute-long firework show. The display easily ran longer than a Canada Day celebration and made One Love a lot longer than it needed to be. It was a colourful dis-play, but not worth it after sitting in the rain for four hours.

The One Love Debrief, one of the major add-ons this year, was a dis-appointing feature as it was poorly scheduled to be at the same time as

the nightly programming — not the smartest move by the One Love planners considering most students in attendance were sophs looking for a more relaxing event than the rave on UC Hill that followed the concert.

D e s p i t e t h e unsuccessful debrief,

One Love made major improvements to get vari-ous perspectives into the

programming this year. It was refreshing to see people

of colour advise and share their stories on stage, along with the

mention of new topics Benac had previously touched upon.

Like Benac said, the USC is con-stantly adapting to keep up to stu-dent needs and it seems like they are moving in the right direction.

Modest Mouse rocks houseRebecca Meharchand

CONTRIBUTOR@GazetteCulture

The London Music Hall was host to one of the most raucous and ener-getic crowds of the season on Friday as Londoners and students alike filled the hall, eagerly anticipating the performance of American indie-rock band Modest Mouse.

The band was preceded by HIGHS, an indie band from Toronto. Though they had their fans amidst the crowd, most audience members seemed unfamiliar with their music. Several people made a visit to the merch table to pick up a copy of their EP later on. The band did an admirable job of warming up the crowd for the headliner.

Modest Mouse came on stage around 9:30 p.m. and opened with Missed the Boat from their 2007 album, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. It was a fairly light, upbeat song, which was a perfect start to the show, even if it wasn’t an entirely accurate pre-view of what the rest of the night would be like.

The band went on to play a good mix of old and new songs, with Lampshades on Fire being the third song in the set. Lead singer Isaac Brock took some time between songs in the early parts of the set to talk to the audience, making

comments about how everyone was using their phones while dancing. It was a little hard to hear what he was saying sometimes and there was quite a bit of feedback coming from his mic throughout the night — but with a band like Modest Mouse, it’s hard to tell if the effect was inten-tional or not.

When they reached King Rat, the sixth song of their impressive 22-song setlist, the crowd had started to get rowdy and a small mosh pit began to form. By the end of the next song, Tiny Cities Made of Ashes, the crowd was in full mosh mode, complete with several body-surfers and beer spills as more joined the fray.

After a 10-minute cigarette break about halfway through their set, the band returned to a still-eager crowd to sing their last nine songs. The body-surfing increased a great deal once they started to play Float On, but by the time they hit their last song of the night, Strangers to Ourselves — a quiet, calming tune — the energy of the audience changed to match the pace of the song. A sub-dued ending to a lively night.

Despite the mosh pits and acci-dental beer showers, Modest Mouse was a lively, genuine performance. They catered to all their fans, both new and old, with a variety of songs. Students should see them if they come back to London again.


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With fall approach-ing, student fash-ion will soon be all

about layers, textures and earth tones — so let’s have one last glimpse of sunshine with this summery ensemble.Third-year music student Aaliah Frazer makes it look easy with a simple navy blue maxi dress. Layering has its merits, but there’s something to be said for slipping on a single, classy piece in the morning and heading out. It’s both form-fitting and flattering — sleeveless

spells summer, but the length conveys elegance and poise.Frazer keeps her magnificent mane out of her face with a trendy head-band. The floral print adds an eye-catching pattern to offset the solid blue of her dress. It’s the sort of haphazardly stylish look Hollywood spends hours striving for. A playful bow on top caps it all off.She admits a recent obsession with shoes. Her favourite piece is her foot-wear and it’s clear why; in terms of

colour, the tan sandals go with deep blue dress like sand with an ocean. They’re casual and fun, but there’s just enough heel to add another dash of elegance and give you that satisfying extra inch. Even Frazer’s toenails complement her sandals, belying a sharp and discerning eye for detail.She advises fashionable students to work with what suits them.“Just think natural style — it’s whatever you feel you look good in,” she says.

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DressFrazer’s tall, willowy frame is perfectly suited for a floor-sweeping maxi dress. They come in a huge variety of patterns for an added summery look, but a solid colour all the way through further emphasizes length. These are suited for any occasion, from classy daytime wear to a semiformal evening event. Available at any self-respecting boutique in the fashion world — try Laura at Masonville.

ShoesWedge sandals show that you’re on the cutting edge of style — you’re ready for the beach, but also prepared for an impromptu fancy dinner. You can try Aldo if you’re on a student budget and Nordstrom also has a nice collection if you’re the five-cars-and-a-cottage type.

HeadbandFlorals can be a fun-loving statement piece on a dress, but they also work as a tasteful complement on an accessory. This particular one is from Forever 21, but you can find its like in any acces-sory section of a clothing store.


Startups breathe life into LondonMoses Monterroza

ARTS AND LIFE EDITOR@MosesAtGazette

Business and innovation are quickly turning London into a city that can only be described as an entrepre-neurial haven.

In the southern downtown dis-trict, informally known as Soho, buildings that were once depress-ing symbols of the city’s stagnant development are now being reno-vated into viable business spaces.

This wave of gentrification can only be attributed to the new gen-eration of entrepreneurs who are deciding to invest in this humble little town. Not surprisingly, these business owners are coming from all faculties at Western.

Larry Lau, Western alumnus and co-founder of ATMOS market-ing and vice-president strategy at Northern, an e-commerce agency, says that “before, [Soho] used to be really run down and it had a really bad rep, but companies like ours started setting up our office here, along with Arcane and Ellipses.”

As a result, these new startups are quickly transforming the face of Soho, providing the city with more

jobs and development. But entrepreneurs like Lau didn’t

do it on their own. In fact, it was the many resources available in London that helped push forward these initiatives — resources like Western’s own Propel Entrepreneurship.

Propel is a program that provides co-working space, mentorship, seed funding and events. It is an advo-cate for local youth-based starts ups and an important resource for any entrepreneur.

“I think that programs like Propel … are really awesome,” Lau says. “They’re providing a lot of resources for any students that want to start a business.”

According to Meghan Kraft, co-founder of the clothing and graphic design company Illbury + Goose, it was this program that provided her and her partner Dan Phillips with the much needed push to take their business to the next level.

“We did a few pop up shops on the Western campus which really introduced us to the Western com-munity and that was really suc-cessful,” Kraft says. “It gave us the opportunity to incorporate our business and seek out business help because neither of us came from a

business background.”For a long time, London has

experienced harsh unemploy-ment. For many entrepreneurs, this obstacle turned into an opportunity.

Lore Wainwright, social enter-prise program manager at Pillar Nonprofit Network, discusses how students and entrepreneurs are har-nessing London’s potential.

“I think people are becoming increasingly aware of startups as a viable path” Wainwright says. “I

think statistically, what we’re see-ing is that it’s a growing trend … the creation of multiple organizations is really a response of supply and demand.”

Stephanie Ciccarelli, music graduate from Western and co-founder of Voices.com, attests to the fact that London is becoming a breeding ground for entrepreneurs.

“We’re in a really interesting city and I think that it’s an interesting time in the city as well … There’s a

spirit in this city where people are just generally wanting to give back, they want to see progress,” Ciccarelli says. “They want to see things move ahead in terms of more people work-ing and more people giving back to what the city has given them.”

So if you’re thinking of creating a clothing line or even a restaurant, consider little old London. If there’s one thing that’s unique about star-tups, it’s that any idea could poten-tially turn into a thriving business.

The outrageous segment where Samah actually watches Netflix and chills

Samah AliARTS AND LIFE EDITOR

@SamahAtGazette

Program: A Different WorldStars: Lisa Bonet, Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Dawnn LewisNetwork: NBCSeasons: SixGenre: ’90s sitcomSynopsis: A spin-off of The Cosby Show, Denise Huxtable (Bonet) attends the historically black univer-sity Hillman College and navigates the struggles of college life along with her newfound friends.

My Opinion: After a friend’s rec-ommendation I decided to add A Different World to my ridiculously long list of shows and doing so was well worth it. Watching A Different World is like taking in a breath of fresh air from a decade not long

forgotten. Considering its airtime between 1987 and 1993, the show carries a surprisingly different aura compared to other ‘90s faves, like My So-Called Life and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Most shows of the era drip with teen angst or offer an obnox-ious lesson at the end of each epi-sode, but A Different World douses you in a light perfume of growth and knowledge. And like most ‹90s sitcoms, the show features a pre-dominantly black cast, adorable and charmingly naive enough to make you vibe with the students. You can really grow with them and hopefully pass college, too. A Different World was a cute addition to my list and a wonderful show to make me remin-isce about a time when hair, music and television were off the chain. A must-watch for my fellow ‘90s nerds.Worth a Watch? Yes


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We know we have a difficult life ahead, but we escaped death.

• Qassem, a Syrian refugee who fled to Jordan

The numbers are staggering. An estimated 300,000 or more dead. 7.6 million displaced within Syria. 4.1 million flee-ing Syria. 381,000 migrants who have reached the shores of Europe this year alone.

We’ve seen sporadic headlines all year about the Syrian migrant crisis, but it was not until the images captured on the coast of Turkey of a 3-year-old boy face down in the water, dead, appeared that the world finally stopped ignoring it.

World leaders have finally started making commitments to help the millions of Syrians attempting to flee their war-torn homeland.

Canada’s response to the crisis has been tepid, at best. The Conservative government has more or less ignored calls to aid Syrian refugees or relocate them to Canada until very recently — but to be fair, so have most governments. Pinning the blame on the government isn’t entirely fair either as the broader Canadian population and provincial governments haven’t mobilized until recently.

While we’re just now realizing the scale of the problem and acknowledging we’re behind in dealing with this crisis, it’s not too late to do something about it. And saying we’re far removed geographically from the crisis is not an excuse.

Canada should do everything it can to help the Syrian people, both those who are fleeing and those still in Syria. On Sunday, retired Gen. Rick Hillier said Canada could easily relocate 50,000 refugees by Christmas. Whether this is realistic or not, it’s certainly closer to the numbers we should be trying for.

We should accept as many refugees as we’re able to handle within our social infrastructure — we don’t want to accept too many and leave people high and dry when they come here. We also still need to ensure there’s an adequate screening process while recognizing the fact that the vast majority of people are normal human beings with families trying to reach safety and security.

The Canadian government should lobby the wealthiest Arab nations — who’ve accepted almost no Syrians — to start accepting people.

The government should also be aiding those left in Syria by helping to bring an end to the civil war. This isn’t accom-plished through bombing, but diplomacy.

Finally, students at Western can help. Fundraising and awareness are important at this stage. The refugee crisis has been met with outright racism by some and that can’t be tolerated. We need to show the world that Canada cares and is accepting of everyone, especially those in need.

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Time to step up for Syria

Samah AliARTS & LIFE EDITOR

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When entering a place of work, you are hired with a certain expectation: to fulfill your duties as outlined in the job descrip-tion. It’s a fairly simple concept and mil-lions of people follow it every day. It’s something most of us are familiar with.

Being a soph can be treated in the same respect, since it’s a hired volun-teer position that has certain duties to fulfill. Where the disconnect happens is the failure to complete these duties after O-Week has finished.

Sophs are considered the “heart of the orientation program.” They help facili-tate a smooth transition for first-years and prepare students for the fun — and sometimes disappointing — parts of university. It’s arguably one of the best volunteer opportunities provided on campus and I praise every individual who willingly gives up sleep for a week to help drunk frosh find their way home every night. But the heart of being a soph seems to be lost within the social status

that comes with it. When February rolls around and soph

applications plague Western’s cyber-space, I rarely hear students gushing about an ebullient need to help first-years. Instead, the buzz often revolves around the opportunity to attend the soph pubs and socials. Not the most sincere intentions from the get-go.

And after the soph acceptances have been sent, most people’s true intentions come out.

I have literally seen people cry after being rejected from the program, not because of their strong dedication to first-years but for their lost opportunity of gaining the social status of sophing.

And it’s disappointing to see that some people who are chosen to be a soph end up not fulfilling their requirements after O-Week is finished.

One is considered a “good soph” if they continue to see their frosh past September and consistently plan floor dinners and gatherings. But that shouldn’t be the definition of a good soph— that is just the definition of a soph.

This behaviour would not fly at an actual job or volunteer position. You are not considered a “good employee” for showing up and performing your dut-ies, you are just fulfilling your required role. The fact that it’s tolerated from the orientation program is one of the major

flaws of sophing.Like any place of work, there needs to

be oversight monitoring sophs through-out the year. There needs to be a system that keeps track of who stays dedicated beyond September, rather than who comes to the next soph pub. If they have enough time to attend a social, they have enough time to reach out to their first-years, let alone visit.

Of course, we are all students at the end of the day and work piles up. Fair. But as a soph, you should actively be communicating with your first-years beyond the first month of school. It’s in your job description, so fulfill the duties of your job.

While this might sound pessimistic, I would like to give a commendable shout-out to the sophs who continue helping their frosh throughout the year. You are one of the few that help frosh find their way through the system and successfully make their experience better.

Sometimes sophing seems like it’s all about your proficiency in partying — not about the year-long commitment of navigating first-year students through their Western experiences. Sophs who run off after O-Week are a problem and it makes me question the effectiveness of the orientation program as a whole.

Wanted: Sophs for the yearStop!SamahTime

The importance of an arts educationDavid Bentley

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR@uwogazette

A year before he died, Charles Darwin wrote with regret that he seemed to have become “a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.” Attributing his sorry state to the lack of poetry and music in his life, he went on to give the probable conse-quences of their absence as a “loss of happiness,” injury to “the intellect,” and, through an “enfeebling [of] the emotional part of our nature,” damage to our “moral character.”

His words should be heeded today by anyone who encourages or permits stu-dents to neglect the arts and humanities and to concentrate single-mindedly on the so-called STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and medicine.

All of us who teach in the arts and humanities have stories about the some-times life-changing intellectual, emo-tional and moral impact on students of what we study. After nearly forty years of teaching at Western University, I have a great many. Four years ago there was the senior medical science student in my Enriched Introduction to English Literature course who, after having com-pleted her final research essay, decided to write on another of the assigned topics – “The Nature and Consequences of

Choice in John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces” – because she realized how important it would be in her career as a physician. Year after year, students have told me that studying a particular work or a particular writer has been a “life lesson.” My field is literature, but I know of many instances where the “life lesson” has been learned in philosophy, art history, comparative literature and elsewhere in the arts and humanities.

Every student enrolled in a course in the arts and humanities is an intellectual and imaginative voyager, travelling to places near and far in time and space and entering through the power of empathy into the thoughts and feelings, attitudes and assumptions of people of different perspectives and cultures. To say that such empathetic travel is essential today is to put it mildly, for surely it is more essential now than ever that we as indi-viduals strengthen our ability to imagine ourselves in the positions of other human beings and, indeed, into the plight of the other creatures who share our world.

It is little wonder that graduates in the arts and humanities go on to further study and have successful careers in every field where empathy, creativity, cultural literacy and communication skills are not merely an asset but a necessity: law, business, medicine, politics, government, librarianship, arts management, teaching

at all levels and, of course, the creative industries – such as publishing, adver-tising, television, popular music, per-forming arts, research and development.

Which brings me to one more rea-son among many for recognizing the importance of the arts and humanities and keeping them at the core of our edu-cational mission. To study the arts and humanities is to learn to be discerning, to be articulate, to be reflective and to exercise freedom of thought rather than to accept, follow and, in essence, endorse the received wisdom, the expected pat-tern, the accepted explanation. In other words, it is to become a better citizen — an individual on the road less travelled rather than part of a herd that can too easily be led in a disastrous direction.

In and through the arts and human-ities students of all ages strengthen their ability to recognize and to avoid the mechanical responses to life, to people, to rituals, to words, that Alexander Pope saw in Belinda and her wealthy friends in The Rape of the Lock, that George Orwell iden-tified as a dehumanizing consequence of totalitarianism in Politics and the English Language, and that, to his regret, Charles Darwin found in himself.

David Bentley is an English professor at Western. He was a winner of the 2015 Killiam Prize for his distinguished career.

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sports saywhat?It’s Week 1. We’re a work in progress. If you need a catchy headline for your little article or whatever it is you might be doing, we’re trying to get better every single week. What’s another cliché I can think of? We’re chipping away. Something along those lines.

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Both soccer teams tie LaurierLauren SayersCONTRIBUTOR

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The competition at Saturday’s women’s soccer game against Laurier was displayed not just on the field, but also between Mustangs and Golden Hawks coaching staff.

“Listening to [Western coach Martin Painter] controlling the referee from the sidelines, that was the hardest part,” said Laurier head coach Barry MacLean jokingly after the match.

“We totally outplayed Western for the 90 minutes,” he said of the tie game, just loud enough for Painter to hear.

The friendly bickering between the two coaches kept the sidelines just as interesting as the action on the field. Painter explained that their friendship goes back many years and their competitive nature towards each other is common.

“Full credit to the Laurier coach,” he said. “It’s what I would call a healthy rivalry.”

As for the game itself, it didn’t disappoint either.

Both teams went into the game undefeated so far this season and both teams finished at the top of the Ontario University Athletics west division standings last year, promising for an interesting match between the two aggressive clubs.

Although Western maintained control of the ball for most of the first half, it was Laurier’s Emily Brown who scored first. Brown fired a shot in the 45th minute that Western goalie Tori Edgar stopped, but it then rolled in behind her.

“[Today was the] first real tough game we’ve had,” Painter said. “If you lose concentration they can punish you.”

But the Mustangs were able to tie up the game shortly after, thanks to an own goal early in the second half.

Laurier almost took the lead again in the 78th minute, but the crossbar kept the game at a 1–1 tie. However, the Golden Hawks took the lead shortly after when mid-fielder Katie Bishop launched one home from just outside the box, making the game 2-1 with little time left to play.

Just when Mustangs fans were beginning to fear their first loss, Western striker Amanda Boyle reminded Laurier why they are one of their biggest competitors.

“I was running and I felt the girl tugging at my shirt at the back, and the goalie started to come out at an angle and I was just able to push it around her and aim for that back little triangle right there,” Boyle beamed as she recalled her game-ty-ing goal in stoppage time. “It felt so good, I’m not going to lie. I’m going watch it tonight.”

Boyle went on to reiterate how the game was the team’s first test of the season.

“We definitely had hopes of win-ning the game but Laurier, York and Western always have a three-way tie,” she said. “This is definitely one of our tougher games of the year so we have to go into it with a different mindset. You know it’s going to be gritty and you’re going to have to fight for every ball.”

Boyle felt the physical effects of the two teams’ rivalry when she left the game wrapped in ice packs. “My ribs are bruised, my knee is purple. I don’t know what I’m going to do [tomorrow],” she said. “Ice ice baby.”

Western plays their next match against Laurier on October 4 in Waterloo.

Late goal ties game

Grace Chung • MUSTANG ATHLETICS

ALL TIED UP. The Mustangs women’s soccer team celebrates their game-tying goal in the dying seconds of play against the Laurier Golden Hawks on Saturday, September 12.

Defence leads to scoreless tieXavyn Wannamaker

CONTRIBUTOR@SportsAtGazette

After two commanding wins against Algoma, the Mustangs men’s soccer team looked to carry that momentum into the weekend against Laurier.

Early on, a win looked promis-ing as Western striker Taso Bujouves’ shot bounced off the top of the crossbar just three minutes in. The early pressure quickly faded though and the remainder of the first half played out without much action at either end of the pitch.

Mustang coach Rock Basacco described the first half as “very sloppy.”

“Technically we weren’t very strong and gave up the ball quite a bit,” he said.

The halftime whistle was wel-comed by the Mustang coach, as it offered a chance to regroup and prepare for what was an improved second half.

Western was able to control more of the possession and in the 55th minute a header from Jonathan Hodge off a corner trav-elled narrowly over the goal.

At the 70-minute mark, Western attacker Mark Serjeant nearly scored, but Laurier’s keeper Matthew Goncalves came rushing out of his goal to prevent the scoring chance, resulting in a collision between the two. Goncalves seemed to take the worse end of the collision as he was forced to leave the game with an injury.

Laurier’s replacement keeper, Stephan Brodin, saw a flurry of chan-ces come his way at the end of the match as Western searched desper-ately for a winner. Despite three close chances in the final 10 minutes, the Mustangs couldn’t find the back of the net and it ended 0–0, much to the disappointment of Coach Basacco.

“You shouldn’t have to play that kind of soccer,” he said. “You should be able to create more good quality

chances throughout the game as opposed to trying to win the game in the last five minutes. That’s not the way to win games.”

One brilliant save from Western goalkeeper Ben Cowman in the 82nd minute helped preserve the clean sheet in an impressive defen-sive performance, but unfortunately the Mustangs still couldn’t score.

“It wasn’t the greatest perform-ance as a whole team,” said Aaron Schneebeli, Western centreback and co-captain. “We thought that we should have beat Laurier and

we kind of came out flat to start, but the positive we can take out of the game is that we didn’t concede any goals so all we have to do is start scoring goals for us to win.”

Laurier coach Mario Halapir was much more satisfied with the result for his team than the Mustangs were.

“After the first four games, this was the first time we actually showed a bit of spirit and battle, so I’m pleased about that for sure,” he said.

He believes the final score line was an accurate representation of the balance of play.

“You can never argue a clean sheet. And now it’s a matter of ‘can we put the ball in the net?’ But I think as far as the result goes I wouldn’t say that we didn’t deserve to win, but I wouldn’t say that we deserved to lose,” he said. “So I think from a result point of view ... I thought it was fairly evenly matched.”

Moving forward, the Mustangs feel they need to start their games better early on.

Schneebeli believes it’s all about intensity.

“We have to come out sharper, come out with more fight,” he said. “We maybe underestimated Laurier for a little bit so we need to take every game seriously.”


UP FOR GRABS. Mustang striker Jacob Peplinski tries to go around Laurier defender Luca Pietropaolo during OUA men’s soccer action on Saturday, September 12.

WE HAVE TO COME OUT SHARPER,

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Lacrosse tops young GryphonsOn Friday night, the Mustangs men’s lacrosse team played their first game of the season against the Guelph Gryphons and won 10–6.

Both teams have a lot of new and inexperienced players this year, but Western had a slight edge that gave them an advantage over the Gryphons.

While it was the very first game Guelph played this year, the Mustangs had several exhibition games before the start of their regular season and were fresh out of training camp. For an experienced team this may not have made such a huge difference, but Guelph head coach Sam Kosakowski pointed out that a third of his team is new.

“These guys are going to find their way into a program that is gen-erally pretty strong, so we’re feeling things out [and] they’re trying to find their way in,” he said. “They’ve got to build their confidence.”

The Mustangs, however, had more confidence than they needed as they scored two goals right off the bat.

“We started out well and we didn’t let them touch the ball for the first 10 minutes of the game,” said Cody Ward, a first-year attacker and one Western rookie who earned the praise of coach Jeremy Tallevi.

While Western’s confidence and experience as a team gave them an advantage in the first half of the game – they had a 6-1 lead at half – they became overconfident in the second half and allowed Guelph to

gain possession of the ball.“We need to come out in the first

five minutes hard, get a few goals [and] put them back on their heels instead of just sitting back on ours,” Ward said.

While the game was not the chal-lenge the Mustangs expected, espe-cially considering Guelph are the defending champions, both teams learned a considerable amount from one another.

Coach Tallevi noted how the overconfidence of the Mustangs affected their judgement, especially in the second half of the game.

“We’ve definitely got to make some smarter plays, take care of the ball a little bit better,” he said. “I thought with the lead we took some questionable shots where we could have held on and waited for better luck.”

On the opposite end, Coach Kosakowski only saw his players improve throughout the game as they built confidence and began to work together more cohesively.

“You look at the last quarter, you look at the last five minutes of the game and all the sudden things started happening,” he said. “Our face-off guys were not strong tonight but when we start winning face-offs it turns the game around immensely.”

The men’s lacrosse team will be playing this Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at Mustang Field where they expect a challenging game from Brock University.

Mustangs men’s team starts 2015 with WCoach Glavanic says it’s win or bust for men’s tennis

Nathan KanterDIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR

@NathanAtGazette

On Sunday afternoon the Mustangs men’s tennis team took care of the McMaster Marauders thanks to a dominating performance from their singles courts.

They lost the one doubles point but won five of six singles courts to win the match 5-2.

“Doubles didn’t go as well as I wanted it to – we didn’t win, but so far in singles we’ve been tak-ing all the wins,” said first-year player Brent Moffat near the end of Sunday’s match.

At the time, Western had already won four singles courts, including Moffat’s court two match, so they had already defeated McMaster by claiming the majority of the seven points up for grabs that are needed for a win.

“[Singles] couldn’t have gone better,” said Western co-coach Anthony Glavanic. “We have a very competitive team. We have about 10 guys who could be in [our top-six] so the good news is my five, six all won so that’s good for them, but they also have to keep performing.”

“We are very result oriented. Making the top-six here is almost a weekly pressure,” he added.

The way Ontario University Athletics tennis works is three double matches are played first with one point up for grabs. You get that point by winning the majority of the three double matches. After that, six singles matches are played

where each is worth a single point, meaning seven total points are given out in any one match.

Sunday’s match was odd because neither team had a final roster yet, thanks to a late Labour Day that in turn meant tryouts hadn’t been completed for either team.

“We sort of rag-tagged the team together,” Glavanic said. “One of our players that’s going to be playing top-3 wasn’t even here because we didn’t know that we had a meet this weekend, really.”

McMaster had the same problem.“We have not finished our tryouts

yet,” said McMaster head coach Rasim Sehovic after the loss. “This year Labour Day is late and every-thing started right after Labour day unfortunately.”

“Western asked me to postpone our game for some other day and play but we couldn’t,” he continued. “Our schedule is so short, our season is so short that we have no way to accommodate everybody.”

Despite the quick turnaround and the defeat, Sehovic was satisfied with his team’s performance.

“I was very happy with the team, specifically our doubles team,” he said. “The last couple years we were always losing the point in doubles,” he said. “In the singles we didn’t expect much more – Western is always a tough team and I knew it was going to be tough.”

Western’s men’s team has won the past three OUA champion-ships and is looking for their fourth consecutive. Coach Glavanic has coached since 1990 and has never

won four in a row.He was very clear that his expect-

ations this year are to win.“If you come in just to play well

and you come in to work hard and you come in just to say the cliches ... I say that’s a losing mentality. We’re here to win,” he said. “We have so many good players from number one, to let’s say number 13. So, by having such a competitive team, it gives us a better chance to compete weekly.

“Today’s society is you get a medal for participation. I’m 100 per cent against it. You’ve got two types of people: you have winners and you have losers. We’ve happened to win three years in a row and we’re going for four.”

Court one Mustang ace Vahagn Tonakanian thinks there’s nothing stopping this year’s team from com-pleting the feat.

“We lost a lot of guys last years but we’ve got a lot of good rookies that are coming out and we’ve got a really good team,” he said. “I hon-estly think if we all play our best we can do a four-peat.”

On Sunday the most exciting game was Tonakanian’s court one match between him and Marauder Andres Olave that went the distance before Tonakanian finally won in a tiebreak.

“[There were] lots of momentum swings,” Tonakanian said after the game. “It’s all adrenaline, honestly. You hit a good point and your team cheers you on and that gives you the energy for the next point and you just feed off it.”

Western’s men’s tennis team will travel to Toronto to take on the tough University of Toronto Varsity Blues next weekend. The men’s game is set for noon on Saturday.

TODAY’S SOCIETY IS YOU GET A MEDAL FOR

PARTICIPATION. I’M 100 PER CENT AGAINST IT. YOU’VE GOT TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE: YOU HAVE WINNERS AND YOU HAVE LOSERS. WE’VE HAPPENED TO WIN THREE YEARS IN A ROW AND WE’RE GOING FOR FOUR.”

ANTHONY GLAVANICMUSTANG CO-COACH

Nathan Kanter • GAZETTE

EYE ON THE BALL. Mustang Vahagn Tonakanian gets ready for a forehand during his court one match in OUA men’s tennis action on Sunday afternoon at the University Tennis Centre. Western won 5–2.

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