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Londoners rally for detained Canadians Peaceful rally demands release of Western prof

Logan Ly GAZETTE

IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE. Supporters gathered yesterday at Victoria Park calling on the Egyptian government for the immediate release of Tarek Loubani and John Greyson, two professors who have been held without charge for 40 days. Loubani teaches at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, and has been on a hunger strike since last week. Read the full story on page 3.

London cyclists push for committeeProposed group would advocate for cyclists

richard raycraftNEWS EDiToR

A group of London cyclists is cam-paigning to have their own commit-tee at city council.

The effort is being led by Mike Marsman, a member of London’s Transportation Advisory Committee and a cyclist, who is requesting per-mission from the City to set up a citizen-led committee that would speak and advocate for cyclists.

Marsman explained cyclists do not have enough of a voice on the current committee.

“One of my concerns is that I am the ‘cycling representative,’ so really it’s the voice of one cyclist at that table, which I really don’t think is appropriate or sufficient,” Marsman said about his role at TAC.

“Whether the cycling commit-tee is something that sits parallel to the [transportation advisory committee] or sits under it or has

some input into it,” he continued. “I’m not sure I really care too much about the ‘how.’ What I care more about is the what, and that there’s more of a conversation happening and that it’s focused on those issues and those issues aren’t being diluted by other things.”

The proposed committee would function similarly to the Bike Advisory Committee, which was dissolved 10 years ago. Marsman explained with new infrastructure and transit plans coming to London, now is a good time to ensure cyclists have an outlet to express their concerns.

“Frankly, I was flying somewhat under the radar. I didn’t want to cre-ate a need if there wasn’t a need,” he said. “It’s not like it’s just one or two people — when I sent out an e-mail to one or two people and they forwarded it to five or 10 others, and within three days we got a dozen people who want to meet for lunch

and talk about it, then okay, there’s a need, there’s a desire.”

Purple Bikes of Western is on board with the initiative, along with the London Cycle Group.

Kevin Yaraskavitch, Purple Bikes’ liaison with the TAC, explained Purple Bikes’ support is largely to advocate for more biker-friendly infrastructure projects.

“We are just trying to start con-versations about cycling at city hall,” he said. “So what this committee is looking to do is to support those community initiatives with infra-structure in the city to get things done.”

“Cyclists are very much under-represented on the Transportation Advisory Committee,” Yaraskavitch said. “So now with the London Cycle Group and with Purple Bikes there hasn’t been so much momentum for cycling in the city in a very long time.”

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AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER. it was Bid Day at Western yesterday as the National Panhellenic Conference, a council that governs the five sororities on campus, gaves out sorority bids to students in the University Community Centre.

trees for freeThe City of London is handing out free trees at locations across the city today in honour of National Tree Day.

Rick Postma, forestry technolo-gist for the City of London, said the city will be handing out 750 saplings, ranging in size from three to five feet, in one gallon pots at five dif-ferent locations across the city. On hand to help distribute trees will be city staff and city councillors, including the mayor.

Postma said the giveaway is part of the city’s Million Tree Challenge to plant one million trees within London in 10 years.

“The city of London is a found-ing partner of [the Million Tree Challenge] and we have quite a few other partners — non-profit and for-profit organizations — and we’re all encouraging everybody to plant trees wherever we can so we can reach our goal of a million trees,” Postma said.

Postma said that the city plants trees on city property, but planting private property is up to home and landowners to do.

“The city tries to do what we can on city property but we can’t plant trees on private property,” Postma said. “We are really encouraging people to plant trees in their yard, on the property somewhere.”

“We want to encourage people to plant the trees and to register the trees with Million Tree Challenge.”

Sapling giveaways will occur between noon and 2 p.m. at Covent Garden Market, East London Public Library, Pond Mills Public Library, Byron Public Library and at the Masonville Mall east entrance between 3 and 5 p.m.

Seedlings will also be given away at a further 26 locations across the

city, including all 14 Scotiabank branches, during regular business hours.

—Iain Boekhoff

western in the cyber danger zone

Quick, Western! Better build another firewall around the mainframe, because it appears that cyber attacks are on the rise, and universities are a prime target.

“When people think of hacking they see it as a flat landscape,” said Jeffrey Gardiner, central informa-tion security officer for Western’s information and technology ser-vices. “But in reality it’s anything from nation states targeting other nations states to a 14-year old who’s just curious about something using a hacking tool.”

“[We deal] with cyber attacks on every level, from many unsophisti-cated attacks to criminal elements attacking our infrastructure and everything in between,” Gardiner said. “We’ve seen very sophisti-cated elements try to gain access to research at the university, or attacks to try and defraud members of the university [and] things like hacking of election databases.”

However, Gardiner said it’s not just faculty and infrastructure that are in the cyber-crosshairs.

“Students are targeted because they have access to the university’s library resources, which are worth a lot of money,” he said. “So they’re targeted because people outside Western want access to those online resources.”

“Students should also be wary of putting information online. The bigger message is that in the infor-mation age it’s very prudent to be cyber-smart.”

This message certainly applies now that cyber attacks appear to be on the rise.

“They’re going through the roof. Globally there’s an increase in cyber attacks and that is reflected in the university,” Gardiner said. “I think

there is a perception of universities as soft targets, so what happens in the rest of the world can sometimes start at universities.”

Gardiner said the best defence is a good education program about cyber security.

“Last year we put out the mes-sage that you wouldn’t share your toothbrush, so why share your password,” he said. “You can patch technical things, but you can’t patch people.”

—Aaron Zaltzman

London gets new website

The City of London revealed their new website yesterday.

The redesign, which can be found at london.ca, includes fea-tures like an event calendar and an advanced search engine.

According to Robert Paynter, director of communications for the City, the update was necessary for two reasons: technology and organization.

“The technology the [old] site was running on hadn’t been sup-ported by its manufacturer for 10 years, so it had become very shaky, unreliable, and a bit of a security risk,” he said. “The old website was also built kind of into departments, so if you wanted to find an employ-ee’s contact information, you had to know what department they worked for. This new site, as well as being on a modern, stable platform, is also built for users so it’s easier to find what you want.”

The launch of the website marks the end of the first phase of the redesign project, which, according to Paynter, cost $380,000. However, there is more work to be done.

“Even though the website is now launched this is really just the beginning,” he said. “We now go into improving its social platform as it needs more work, and we need to make [the website] more accessible for those users with disabilities.”

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Jeremiah rodriguezNEWS EDiToR

The vices of the Western commu-nity were on full display in a recent survey looking at the mental health and questionable habits of Western students.

The National College Health Assessment II claims that Western students need to deal more aptly with bad habits because of the drain they can have on their grades.

33 per cent of students reported stress leading to a drop in letter grade, the failure of a course or a lower mark on an exam, 19 per cent of students said they’ve been too depressed to function effectively in the last 12 months and 58.5 per cent of students said they’ve misman-aged sleep to the point that they’ve struggled during the day.

Lead researcher Nicole Versaevel, a health promotion manager at Western health services, says the survey was sparked by the desire to see the correlation between aca-demic performance and physical and mental health.

“It was enough to basically look at students who need mental health services — below that you have stu-dents dealing with stress,” Versavel said. “Everyone is going to stress with academics and struggle with stress and sleep. But how can you prevent the general student from having mental health issues?”

The stigmas of discussing and dealing with mental health weighed on the minds of researchers.

Western students were quite can-did in describing their vices. Only 42.6 per cent of respondents said they used a contraceptive or birth control while having sex, 16 per cent were found to be getting their needed intake of leafy greens and

fruits and only half of all students reported getting the exercise they needed to be healthy for their body mass index.

Binge drinking and healthy eat-ing habits were of great concern. When students hit the bars on Richmond Row, 27 per cent admit-ted that they downed more than seven drinks when they binge drank.

However, things like smok-ing were not as prevalent as once thought.

Only 13.4 per cent of students smoked 10 to 29 times in a month, bringing a great sigh of relief to researchers who seemed to only find disconcerting results.

So far, the data only stems from just 810 Western students, but 31 other universities across Canada also took part in the study. Efforts to compile all the data are underway to give a clearer picture of whether these trends are indicative of only Western or a grander university culture.

A campaign is already underway to address the concerns brought to light through the study. Versaevel herself is heading up an eight-week initiative to address some of the issues being brought to light by the study.

The Healthy Body, Healthy Mind campaign kicks off on October 8 in the Campus Recreation building at 10 a.m.

“We’re looking at this with an overall wellness point of view and putting values on things you’ve put off, like mental health. If you’re stressed or struggling with sleep, are you more likely to deal with it or ignore it?” Versaevel posed. “These things in the long run will affect your ability to do well in academic performance.”

megan devlin NEWS EDiToR

Londoners gathered yesterday after-noon at Victoria Park for a peaceful rally protesting the ongoing detain-ment of professors Tarek Loubani of Western and John Greyson of York University in Egyptian prison.

Students, Londoners and medi-cal professionals dressed in their scrubs all gathered at the Victoria Park band shell holding signs demanding Loubani and Greyson’s release.

Loubani was on a humanitarian medical mission advancing medical education and emergency medical care in a Gaza hospital and Greyson was prepping for a documentary he planned to make on Loubani’s work.

Egyptian police arrested the pair on August 16 when they stopped at a police station to ask for directions en route from Cairo to Gaza City.

“The day of their arrest was a horrible one in Cairo, with large protests and widespread violence. Tarek and John were arrested, along with multitudes of other people who were swept up by the police, and thrown in jail,” said Amit Shah, the rally organizer and an associate professor of emergency medicine at Western.

Tuesday marked the pair’s 39th day of imprisonment and the ninth day of their hunger strike, which they started on September 15.

“It’s time now for Canadians to stand up for one of our own,

and demand their release,” Shah declared, to cheers from the audience.

Friends and colleagues of Loubani, who worked full time in the emergency room of the London Health Sciences Centre, spoke at the rally. They painted a picture of Loubani as a physician who cared deeply about righting inequities in the world.

“Tarek recognized that each of these people deserves respect, access to care, and dignity,” Shah continued. “When he leaves the emergency department, he’ll go and volunteer in a shelter. When he takes a vacation, he goes off to offer his unique skills in conflict zones or troubled areas around the world.”

Dr. Bhooma Bhyana, Loubani’s colleague at the intercommunity health centre, explained Loubani’s core belief that all people, whether they are refugees or the homeless, deserve the same type of medical

care as anyone else.She brought to life a man who

would bike to and from work every day, even coming off his midnight shift in the middle of February.

Last summer, Loubani partici-pated in another demonstration at Victoria Park that drew attention to funding cuts to refugee healthcare.

“He spoke about his own family’s escape to Canada and their experi-ence as refugees. He told that story with such candor and gentleness, that in his story we were able to feel the stories of all refugees,” Bhyana said.

Ben Thomson, another physi-cian at the London Health Sciences Centre, was supposed to meet the pair on August 30 in Gaza city to continue the healthcare initiatives that Loubani had started.

Thomson stirred the crowd into chanting, asking that prime minis-ter Stephen Harper do more to end Greyson and Loubani’s ongoing and unjust imprisonment.

He believed Canada should not be engaging in trade or normal dip-lomatic behavior with Egypt until the two are released.

Matthew McNevin, one of Loubani’s medical students, attended the rally and handed out buttons and tags to supporters.

“He’s an incredibly inspiring speaker […] one of those people that reminds you of why you wanted to go to medical school,” he said.

Rally calls for professors’ release

it’s time now for Canadians to stand up for one of our own, and demand their release.”

— Amit Shahrally organizer and associate professor at the

division of emergency medicine at Western

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Everyone is going to stress with academics and struggle with stress and sleep. But how can you prevent the general student from having mental health issues?

— Nicole Versaevelhealth promotion manager at

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Zed may be dead, but Zeds Dead is livedaniel weryha SPoRTS EDiToR

Canadian electronic music duo Zeds Dead will be playing at the Mustang Lounge this Saturday. Zach Rapp-Rovan of the project phoned in to speak to The Gazette about the history of Zeds Dead, their expecta-tions for the show and what they’ll be bringing specifically for Western’s Homecoming.GAZETTE: How did Zeds Dead form?

ZACH RAPP-ROVAN: [Dylan Mamid and I] knew each other for a long time, we started producing separately around the same time, we were making hip-hop. We had similar styles, that style being old school hip-hop resurgence. We released a CD, called Fresh Beats — we probably made under a thou-sand and sold them by hand. Then, we started getting into different types of music, drum n’ bass, elec-tro, then we started combining the two. We learned how to use synths, and make cool sounds — that was like the next step, then when we had all these cool beats we started with the electronic thing. That’s when we started doing everything through Zeds Dead.G: How would you describe your sound?

ZRR: We’re into so many different types of things. Making beats is our passion, making music is our pas-sion, and we’re going to do whatever tempo happens on that day. Some songs start and we say “that would be a good dubstep song,” and then we make a drum n’ bass beat or a

hip-hop beat. I would say hip-hop is the main thing that ties us all together, where the styles clash from what would we use to do, and the newer influences, that led to what Zeds Dead is.G: How did you get the name Zeds Dead?

ZRR: We almost called ourselves The Fresh Beats. Zeds Dead is a good name. We got it from a scene in Pulp Fiction [where] Bruce Willis said it. It has a good rhyme in it. A couple people have tweeted at us saying, “Oh my God, just saw Pulp Fiction and I realized where they got

their name from.”G: What can students expect from Saturday’s show?

ZRR: We’re bringing our produc-tion, it’s this really cool light sys-tem. It’s got an LED wall, these big diamonds that have these infinity mirrors in it that make it look like a portal that goes on forever. We’re going to be controlling lights from the stage, which is the first time we’ve done that. So just expect a crazy party because every time we come to London it’s insane.G: What’s special about playing at Western’s Homecoming?

ZRR: I think it’s special because it’s a big time of year for the students. They’re expecting to go crazy and party so I think that will add to the hype and to the craziness of the show.G: Are you guys preparing anything new for the show?

ZRR: We’ll be playing all our stuff that we’ve just released, and we have several tracks from the set that are new and completely unreleased. So you can only hear them if you come to our show.

Zeds Dead will be playing in the Mustang Lounge on September 28. The event will be 17+. Doors open at 8:00 p.m.

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ZEDS DEAD SOON TO BE LIVE AT WESTERN. The dubstep duo is going to be performing a show on September 28 in the Mustang Lounge.

A harmonious documentary

Kevin HeslopGAZETTE STAff

GGGGG20 Feet from StardomDirector: Gil FriesenSingers: Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer and Tata Vega

The documentary 20 Feet from Stardom follows the journeys of several prominent back up sing-ers. Mostly pastor’s daughters, they would travel to the big city riding the crest of a cultural wave.

This film shows us the evolution of popular music in the 60s and 70s music from its beginnings in the church. Ray Charles became a min-ister singing about sex. The choir morphed into the singing-dancing ladies on the stage — and it sold.

With great tact, director Gil Friesen documents the passage of time by weaving together black and white video clips of such musi-cal forces as The Blackberries and

The Rockettes. Slowly, employing an interesting metaphor, the clips turn from black and white to colour.

Tina Turner broke the mould and danced on it. Such tremendous talents as Aretha Franklin, Merry Clapton and Lisa Fisher belted it out while a white guy played a tambou-rine behind them on stage. Popular music and media began to reflect the prominence of women’s rights and civil rights in public discourse and popular media.

But too, we see adult magazines with covers titled Brown Sugar.

In any case, the film demon-strates with great finesse that music was essential to an important cul-tural wave in America. But not everyone could be Tina. For some of the more independently minded back up singers, their solo careers didn’t take. Sales indicated that the public preferred the unseen foun-dation of popular music to remain exactly that — unseen. Unable to make it solo, such talents as Love and Fischer decided they wouldn’t

sacrifice their creative spirit by being one of Stevie’s girls.

Consequently, they were forced into the eight-hour toil to survive, the use of their talents contained to singing in the shower.

As such disillusioned vocal phe-nomena multiplied, a musical wave crashed upon the shore of popular music leaving technology in its wake and changing everything. As a result of the industry’s tendency toward recording a single musician at a time, as well as the emergence of auto-tune, the late 90s saw the energetic, talented back up singers of the former decade become first an unnecessary commodity and second a trivial afterthought.

Perhaps among the largest aspi-rations of the documentary is an answer to the question, “What hap-pened to popular music in the 21st century?” With elegant cinematog-raphy and an ensemble of miracu-lous talent, Friesen brings us not just one answer, but also a chorus of them.

Josh teixeiraGAZETTE STAff

From drastic layoffs to a $4.7 billion purchase, BlackBerry has had quite the eventful week. Millionaire inves-tor Prem Watsa, the man behind the massive bid, is clearly very faithful towards the company. Having joined the BlackBerry board at the execu-tive level just last year, Watsa may very well have something up his sleeve regarding the future of the Canadian-based mobile company.

According to a press release state-ment from Eric Kirzner, a professor of finance at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, Prem Watsa has a tendency to acquire big companies, keep them on hold for while, and then sometimes become regularly asso-ciated with them. Potentially, this could very well mean BlackBerry will

be left in the ground to rot unless somebody else is willing to pick up a shovel.

In contrast to other smartphone market titans such as Android and Apple, BlackBerry has only recently implemented a full touch screen interface to one of their devices in last year’s Z10. Perhaps they’re just a step too far behind in designing their phones.

Being that Thorsen Heins, CEO of BlackBerry, has only recently been positioned where he is in the com-pany, the timing of this purchase may not work in the company’s favour.

With BBM soon to be available on Android and Apple devices, the financial fluctuation of the Canadian tech giant may very well continue, or end all together. In any case, BlackBerry is certainly a com-pany to keep an eye on.

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Editor’s Picks > The essentials for your week

iN THEATRES

Baggage Claim

Montana (Paula Patton) is looking for love in the world and can’t seem to find it. is it really her fault, though? Her parents named her after a very obnoxiously sized state. Despite this, she enlists the help of her flight attendant friends, who will notify her whenever an ex-boyfriend hops on a plane so she can hook up with them. Why is Montana hooking up with her exes? How is she going to find love like that? it’s confusing and i doubt the movie will make more sense…

oN THE CHARTS

“dark Horse” by Katy Perry

This is the second song from Katy Perry’s new album, Prism, which revolves around animals. first she released “Roar,” a chart topping single which was high energy and aggressively fun. “Dark Horse” differs in style from “Roar” in that it is lower key. While still featuring a strong energy, it has an entirely different vibe. While you listen to “Dark Horse,” it might be fun to ponder whether Prism will be a concept album about animals. other than that, it’s a good listen but nothing exciting.

oN TV

the michael J. Fox Show

Michael J. fox has been hilarious for a very long time. His Parkinson’s slowed him down a bit but he’s bouncing back with this latest sitcom. in this show, he honestly takes on the disease and is unafraid to have the audience laugh with him. fox stars as Mike Henry, a television news anchor who reconsiders his decision to retire after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Life with the disease brings some challenges but fox embraces the humour as well.

oN DVD

Iron man 3

So this movie ranks as the highest grossing film of 2013. interesting, because it seems as though people just didn’t really talk about it. At a party, no one was buzzing about whether you watched Iron Man 3. That’s okay; it received pretty positive reviews and seems to buck any old fashioned idea that superhero movies cannot be good. As a matter of fact, the quality of this film seems to be a bounce back from the second in the series.

oN DiSC

this Is…Icona Pop

“i Love it” has been burning up the airwaves for what seems like a bazillion years and for the average person, you might be wondering where this song came from. Well fear not! icona Pop are now releasing a full album that will be filled with other great tunes. The longest song on the album clocks it at three minutes and 20 seconds, so hopefully you don’t get easily attached to certain songs because by the time you know it, the next song will be playing.

Chill out and let us veg outA brief summation of being a vegan

mary ann CioskARTS & LifE EDiToR

“Do you eat chicken?”“No, that’s an animal...”“But you eat cheese, right?”“No, that’s an animal by-product.”“Oh my GOD, how can you live

without cheese?! What do you even eat, like, grass?”

“... I eat mostly fruits, vegetables and grains.”

“Can you eat avocado?”Yes, I can eat avocado. I can

also eat bread, spaghetti, and even binge on Oreos, chips and Swedish Berries if I felt like it (although many vegans prefer to make healthier food choices). I receive the same disheartening stream of questions almost every time I tell someone I’m vegan, and frankly, it gets tiring. So I’d like to set the record straight. Vegans are not mythical creatures who subsist only on meager salads — we live among you, sipping coffee in the Spoke, snacking on bananas in lectures, and enjoying butter-free popcorn in movies.

I made the switch from vegetar-ian to vegan just over a year ago. My family was less than impressed and jokes about being weak from lack of animal protein have still apparently not gotten old. In fact, one of the main draws to the vegan diet was for the opposite reason — a desire for optimum health.

Unfortunately, most North Americans still buy into the idea that meat and dairy are necessary ele-ments for a healthy diet, as this is the proverbial wisdom that is instilled in us by parents and in school from a young age.

However, after reading Dr. Joel

Fuhrman’s book, Eat To Live, I learned about the importance of photochemicals and micronutri-ents for disease prevention, which are absent from the vast majority of meat and dairy products. In terms of protein, my favourite fun fact is that broccoli has more protein than steak if you compare them based on calories — i.e. consuming 100 calories of broccoli provides more protein than consuming 100 calories of steak. So basically vegan powers are, in fact, real.

In addition to health benefits, being vegan reduces the demand for factory-farmed and genetically modified animals, it decreases the clear-cutting of rainforests for beef production, and reduces one’s eco-logical footprint on the planet.

So in a nutshell, that’s why I con-sider being vegan worthwhile. But how does that play out in daily life?

Vegans have different dietary restrictions and needs than the aver-age person — a distressing thought for many omnivores, but not eating meat or dairy becomes routine and mindless once you’ve been vegan for a short while. To give a sense of what

it’s like, I’ll walk you through a thrill-ing day-in the life of a vegan’s meals.

For breakfast I have a green mon-ster smoothie — spinach, almond or soy milk, flax seed, and fruit of choice. Coffee with soy milk is also a must in the morning. Lunch is usually something easy to trans-port to school such as a bean or quinoa salad with vegetables with a couple of fruits. Dinner is more experimental and could range anywhere from veggie pizza with Daiya cheese (made from tapioca) on whole-wheat pitas, to a casserole dish, to an elaborate salad. There really is an endless supply of deli-cious vegan recipes so it’s impos-sible to feel deprived.

So yes, there are many dietary restrictions as a vegan but I have not yet been forced to eat grass and I genuinely do prefer eating this way — it improves your body, lowers your ecological impact, and promotes respect of animals. And seriously, it’s not that bad.

Little Ciosk on the Prairie

Gazette Tested: Tofu Scramble

A delicious vegan breakfast to keep you full through the day. Makes 2 servings (236 calories per serving and 21 grams of protein)

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp olive oil

• 1 onion, diced

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

• 1 container firm or extra firm tofu, pressed and crumbled

• 1 tsp curry powder

• 1/2 tsp turmeric

• 1/2 tsp cumin

• 2 tbsp nutritional yeast (optional)

• Black pepper to taste

• 2 tomatoes, diced

• 1 bunch fresh spinach

Preparation:

1. Sautee garlic and onion in olive oil. Cook for 3 to 5 minutes, or until onion turns soft.

2. Add remaining ingredients except spinach and cook, stirring frequently for another 5 minutes or so, until tofu is hot and cooked.

3. Add spinach and cook a minute or two, just until wilted, stirring well.

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it is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

—Joseph Joubert

Julian UzielliEDiToR-iN-CHiEf

Tonight, the University Students’ Council will consider a series of changes to the rules governing their debates. Many of the proposed changes are procedural, but buried on the third page of the docu-ment up for debate is a section entitled “Time Limits” that, if passed, would sig-nificantly change the way the USC makes their most important decisions.

There are two prongs to the time-limit proposal. The first would cut off meetings that go past midnight (as they frequently do), to be resumed the following week. As legislative assistant Andrew Shaw put it in his report on the proposal, “History suggests that 12 a.m. is the dividing line between strong, clear decision-making and a ‘let’s just get out of here’ mentality, so it makes sense to end meetings prior to this point to engender the strongest, clearest discussion possible on an issue.”

On this point, I can agree. Councillors are students, after all, with classes in the morning and work to do. No matter how dedicated the councillors, after a certain point in the night they all start to care less about the task at hand and more about getting some sleep before another long day. With recessed meetings to be resumed later anyway, hopefully this proposal will result in council making decisions with clearer heads.

It’s the second prong of the time limit proposal that worries me: The sugges-tion that all debates on the council floor

be limited to one hour in length, with amendments to those motions limited to an additional 30 minutes. Council would be allowed to extend a debate, but “only one extension shall be permitted on any question, amendment, or item of business.”

Most of the time, this rule would be irrelevant to council; the majority of motions and amendments pass at coun-cil with only a few minutes’ debate. It’s the debates that come a few times a year — on topics like the budget, or last year’s narrowly-defeated student fee freeze — that can take hours. And those debates are worth every minute.

Last year, two USC meetings went past 4 a.m. They were long, gruelling and tedious at times, but the reason they went so long (aside from the usual bureaucracy that would lead a three-hour meeting to be considered “short”) was that there were important decisions to be made — decisions that needed more than an hour of debate for coun-cillors to make up their minds.

Of course, the proposal includes a provision to increase debate time in the event of an important discussion. The problem is, this inherently implies that a debate shouldn’t take more than an hour, encouraging the very “let’s just get out of here” mentality the USC seeks to avoid. Sure, council can extend debates, but I’ve seen them spend half an hour debating about whether a debate was taking too long, and when that happened it wasn’t even a requirement that they do so.

At best, an extendable time limit will only make the long debates longer. At worst, it will force council to rush through important decisions. The USC could certainly do with more efficiency, but then again, some things are worth the wait.

Long debates are worth the wait

Correction

Yesterday’s article “Modermized Metamorphoses amazes” incor-rectly stated that Mary Zimmerman directed the play. Though Zimmerman wrote the play, this pro-duction was directed by John Gerry. The Gazette regrets the error.

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SportsRundown >> Mustangs athletes Christian Douglas and Amanda Truelove were named Western Mustangs Athletes of the Week > They play for the men’s soccer team and women’s cross country team respectively.

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Mustangs beat Mac right in the McRibsWestern wins 32–10 to remain undefeated on season

mitchell thomCoNTRiBUToR

The Western Mustangs Men’s rugby team remained undefeated after a 32–10 victory over the McMaster Marauders on Saturday afternoon at Alumni Field.

Despite Western coming in as the undefeated favourites, the Mustangs knew the importance of the game for their opponents. A McMaster loss would lead to their men’s squad going into their next game against Brock with a losing 1–2 record, while a Western loss would lead to a huge loss of momentum against their undefeated rivals on homecoming, the Queen’s Gaels.

After McMaster kicked off the ball on Western’s new turf fields on Saturday, they immediately turned over the ball and went on offence, to the dismay of the on-looking crowd wearing purple on the side-lines. Thanks to some great defence, Western quickly took control of the ball and scored their first try of the game on a few quick cuts and a burst of speed down the sidelines by Justin Chan.

On their next possession, the Mustangs were stood up by the Marauders’ defence near the try zone multiple times before the ball was turned over — leading to Michael Paris scoring the first try for McMaster on a nice setup from his teammates. On the two follow-ing possessions, however, Western’s Mike Turnbull would score both a penalty kick and a second try to put the Mustangs ahead. Ryan Tomlinson would continue the purple reign by scoring a try him-self to end off the half 18–5 for the Mustangs.

In the beginning of the second half, McMaster would make things interesting and Christopher Gordon would score a try by outrunning Western’s defence, but the Mustangs would answer off of the next kick-off with a maul that would take the ball down the field towards the

opposition’s try zone. Ade Ojo then scored a try, which was converted by Turnbull.

The rest of the game was a fight for yardage back and forth by both teams until Western used yet another maul off of a line-out to march down the field, where this time prop Joe Flager scored a try. Again, Turnbull converted to make the final score 32–10.

McMaster’s head coach Phil White commented on Western’s usage of mauls in the game.

“[McMaster wasn’t] prepared for that. Western traditionally has not done that, so that took us by surprise and we didn’t respond to that very well,” White said. “We did an okay job on the goal line but our weak-nesses were that we missed some key tackles in the open field, and that is something we need to work on this week.”

On the other side of the field, however, Western’s Men’s rugby head coach Stephen Thomas wasn’t nearly as optimistic about how the game played out, saying that he watched game tape and that it was “brutally ugly.”

“I don’t want to dwell too much on the bad points,” Thomas said. “But our defence was atrocious. We’ll work on defence. Queen’s will probably have the best backs our team is going to face, but I think last week we just had an off week. Sometimes you’ve got to win ugly, we are by far better than that.”

However, It wasn’t all negative moving forward in Thomas’ mind.

“I think moving on we’ll be a lot more focused. We had a player in the starting 15 pull out of the game 25 minutes before kickoff, and we had to reshuffle. All of those little things take people’s minds off of the focus on the game. I appreciate that it’s not one person that makes a side, but by losing a key player it takes your focus and commitment away somewhat.”

If the Marauders were taken off guard by the usage of mauls, the

coaching staff must have changed their philosophy to execute them so successfully during the game. When asked to comment, Thomas said, “I try to encourage the lads to stay more and more on their feet this season. We must keep the ball alive. We are a very fit, very athletic side,

and we will do better if we keep the ball alive.”

The Mustangs may need to do just that next week to keep up with Queen’s on homecoming. Last year in the Ontario University Athletics finals, the Gaels were victorious over the Mustangs in a game that

still leaves a bad taste in the mouth of returning players. This year is an entirely different season and our boys hope to emerge on Saturday still undefeated.

Western’s Men’s rugby team plays the Queen’s Gaels on Saturday at 7 p.m. on Alumni Field.

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Cross-country team reigns in the rainMustangs women win gold at Western invitational

Caitlin martin NewnhamSPoRTS EDiToR

On Saturday 21 the Mustangs cross-country teams were victorious in the Western International, hosted by Western. The women’s team claimed first place in their 4 km run, and the men’s team placed ninth in their 6 km run. Despite the dreary and driz-zly weather on Saturday, the teams showed that they were capable of out-ranking top teams from across Canada and the United States.

On September 14, the Mustangs first competed at the McGill open, with the women’s team claiming their first place ranking of the sea-son in their 5 km run, and the men placed third in their 8 km run — significantly better than the more recent ninth place finish.

When asked why there was a difference in rankings for the men’s cross-country team between the two competitions, Kevin Blackney, captain of the men’s cross-country team, explained the difference was in the calibre between the McGill Open and the Western International.

“The quality of competi-tion in McGill, although still strong, is weaker than at Western International,” Blackney said.

Blackney moved from second to first place on the Mustangs men’s team between the two competi-tions, despite the abysmal weather conditions and additional 2 km at the Western International.

“If anything I’d say the extra 2 km helped my overall performance,” Blackney said. “It feels great to move

to the first individual finisher on my team. As the captain I would like to lead us out on the course as much as possible, as well as it increases a little in team competitiveness that drives us all to race faster.”

On the women’s cross-country team, Amanda Truelove has held the top two individual rankings in the McGill Open and the Western International.

“Last year our women’s squad placed second at McGill, so our goal this year was to finish on top of the podium as a team. Achieving this early season goal gave our team a lot of confidence for the rest of the season,” Truelove said. “Winning the Western International team title was also very special for our girls this year, considering that it has been 15 years since Western was last on top

of the podium at this meet.” “Also, because this is coach Bob

Vigars’ last year coaching our team, we really wanted to run well for him and put on a good show on our home course,” she continued.

Bob Vigars, Mustangs head coach, commended Truelove for her natural talent and commitment to the sport, explaining that she had an aptitude that surpassed what is achievable by average training. With this being Vigars’ last year coach-ing, he is happy to have such high calibre teams competing under the Mustangs banner.

“Having coached for 46 years and having the privilege of coaching 14 national championship teams — a combination of cross country and track — you know what winning feels like. It is great when you’ve got a really strong team, particularly in your last year,” Vigars said.

This Saturday, the Mustangs cross-country teams will be facing tough competition at the Guelph Open. Guelph has held the title of Canadian Interuniversity Sport champions for seven years straight.

“Our coaches have been prepar-ing us all season to run 6 km, so [the

Guelph Open] will be a great oppor-tunity for us to test our fitness and our mental toughness over a longer distance. It is still early in the sea-son, and our team is not preparing to peak until CIS Nationals, but this will be a great experience to practice racing against some other top teams in the CIS,” Truelove said.

The sport of cross-country is not locked into a league, so the Mustangs have the benefit of being able to practice against tough com-petition without their rankings affecting how well they do in the national championships.

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

Sports world corruptWestern Law will be hosting a pub-lic talk today at 12:30 p.m. with renowned sports investigative jour-nalist Declan Hill.

One of the world’s foremost experts on match-fixing and cor-ruption in international sports, Hill’s lecture will be held in the Faculty of Law’s Moot Court Room in the Josephine Spencer Niblett Building.

The lecture, entitled “The Coming Destruction of Sports: How the Asian Gambling Market is Killing Canadian Sports,” will explore the corruption in sports as a direct result of international gambling through globalization.

Hill is famous for his book “The Fix: Soccer and Organized Crime,” which broke the story regarding gangs fixing professional soccer at its highest levels. He received the 2003 Amnesty International Canada Media Award for his work.

Hill has spoken at a variety of esteemed sports venues. He has addressed the International Olympic Committee, the Dutch Football Association and the Australian and New Zealand Sports Lawyers Association to name a few.

Hill’s new book, “The Insider’s Guide to Football Corruption,” will be released this October and is an adaptation of his doctoral thesis from the University of Oxford.

This talk is included as a compo-nent of Western Law’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

The lecture is open to the pub-lic, and students are encouraged to benefit from this authority on sports corruption at the highest levels possible.

— Nusaiba Al-Azem

mustangs stilll undefeated

This past weekend the Western Mustangs woman’s soccer team had back-to-back road games starting at Brock, where they won by a score of 2 –1, and finishing at McMaster where they drew their match 0–0. The Mustangs remain undefeated on the season with their record currently sitting at 4–0–3 with an impressive 14 goals for and just two against.

In game one, Brock took the early lead, however Anna Keller evened the match at one just seven minutes later. Despite the Mustangs dou-bling up the Badgers in shots, it was still a tie game until the 86th minute when Lauren Winquist scored the go-ahead-goal to put the Mustangs on top and ultimately win the game.

Game two was a tougher test for the Mustangs as they faced McMaster, who sat just two points behind them heading into Sunday’s action. It was a tight, defensive game, which allowed for only two shots apiece. In the end, neither team was able to find the back of the net, as the game ended up in a 0-0 tie.

Although the Mustangs were unable to generate a goal in their second game, they still remain undefeated on the season, and sit tied atop the standings with 15 points, while also having a game in hand on Laurier and Guelph.

The Mustangs will look to carry their momentum as they face York at home on September 27 and head to UOIT on September 29. With the season winding down, the Mustangs can clinch their division with some strong play down the road.

— Curtis Marcaccio

Winning the Western international team title was also very special for our girls this year, considering that it has been 15 years since Western was last on top of the podium at this meet.”

— Amanda TrueloveMustang’s cross country runner

on her feelings about ranking first as a team at the Western international

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