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Senate passes UWO budgetProvincial cuts strain university operations

London MPP fights for student co-ops

Iain BoekhoffNEWS EDITOR

A new bill in the Ontario legislature seeks to create an advisory council to increase the number of work-integrated learning opportunities, such as co-ops, internships and field placements.

The Learning Through Workplace Experience Act was introduced by London West MPP Peggy Sattler last week and passed second reading, meaning it will move to the stand-ing committee on social policy.

Sattler explained that the research backs the need for work experience in the university expe-rience for students. She said that London has been hit by a rise in youth unemployment, from 11 per cent in 2007 to 21 per cent in 2011, and having work-integrated learn-ing in education means youth have a higher chance of getting employed after graduating.

“It’s more important than ever that students gain work experience during their post-secondary study, to help them transition seamlessly into the workforce, get jobs that reflect the skills they gained during post-secondary study and help our economy grow and prosper,” Sattler said.

Sattler received support and input on the bill from Amir Eftekarpour, president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. He said he requested there

be a specific mention of paid posi-tions within the bill so that students are protected from employers look-ing to take advantage of their skills.

“We heard from many students that the work they are asked to perform as part of their college or university program ends up being unpaid, menial, routine tasks,” Sattler said. “Focusing on ‘work-integrated learning’ will ensure that the work done by students during their program addresses specific learning outcomes and actually contributes to their learn-ing, and that students have oppor-tunities to critically reflect on their experiences.”

Eftekarpour said a work-inte-grated student typically makes $2–3 per hour at their first job and they have a much higher percentage of finding that first job.

“Work-integrated learning is increasingly being understood as a solid way to give university students, who usually have […] less tangible skills, with the opportunity to con-nect their classroom experience with the workplace,” Eftekarpour said.

Eftekarpour stressed the impor-tance of work-integrated learn-ing throughout many disciplines, giving as many students as pos-sible the opportunity to have work experience in their education and, hopefully, get them employed in their subject area sooner after graduation.

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MORE WORK, MORE PAY. London West NDP MPP Peggy Sattler introduced the Learning through Workplace Experience Act in the Ontario legislature which aims to increase the amount of (paid) co-op opportunities for university students.

Iain Boekhoff & Megan DevlinNEWS EDITORS

Western’s senate approved the 2014–15 budget on Friday, which will see investment in increased study spaces on campus, a new vice-president student experience, renovations to Delaware Hall and University College and investment in IT infrastructure, including a new e-mail system.

However, there is a projected $10-million deficit next year, due in part to the millions in provincial government funding cuts.

The budget was presented by provost Janice Deakin, who cau-tioned that the next four years will not be as fortuitous as the last.

“Part of this new cycle was a reality check,” Deakin said. “That over the next four year cycle, in the absence of continued incremental students, we’re going to have to con-strain how we spend our dollars.”

With the Ontario government “turning off the taps” and Western’s debt exceeding its own set maxi-mum limit, several faculties are facing cuts.

University Students’ Council president Pat Whelan was pleased to see student priorities among the top priorities of the budget, but warned the affordability of education could become a bigger problem.

“I think what our biggest concern here needs to be is that we ensure that the money is following where students actually are and teaching quality will not be compromised [...] that the quality of our in the classroom experiences is not being impacted by the broader university politics of the budget,” he said.

Something the USC has advo-cated for is a dean of students, and they got that wish with the split-ting of the vice-provost students and academic programming port-folio into three different positions, including an associate vice-presi-dent student experience. This vice-president will report to the provost and their only concern will be the out-of-classroom experience for students, covering mental health, among other things.

Other student-focused invest-ments include $1-million for student entrepreneurship, $2-mil-lion for e-learning, $8-million for increased study spaces and $10-mil-lion in IT improvements, including a replacement for the oft-criticized Convergence, the current e-mail system.

Deakin said Western can’t keep

growing at the rate it has in the last decade and must limit its reli-ance from the incremental revenue gained by increasing enrollment.

Next year, regular undergradu-ate tuition will increase by three per cent, and professional undergrad-uate programs such as medicine, dentistry, law and engineering will see a five per cent increase.

While the financial situation Deakin outlined seemed grim, she stressed that Western was in a stron-ger position relative to other Ontario universities.

Alison Hearn, a professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and president of the UWO Faculty Association, was extremely worried about the quality of educa-tion at Western.

Faculties such as Arts and Humanities, Social Science, FIMS

and even health sciences are the ones facing budget cuts of up to 30 per cent.

Hearn demanded answers at senate as to why these faculties were the ones being punished.

“The professional schools, who have de-regulated tuition and are able to charge a lot of money are doing fine,” Hearn said.

Deakin spoke of a revenue model where “money follows students”— where each faculty sees a certain amount of dollars to account for each student it attracts.

However, Hearn doesn’t think this model is working.

“I think it pits faculties against each other for students,” she said. “Then it encourages a view of students like they’re just walking around with dollar signs on their heads.”

University Budget2014/2015

$678m Total operating revenues

increase of 3.1% from 2013/14

$689m Total expenditures

increase of 3.9% from 2013/14

$51.7m One Time Allocations

$57.8m Provincial grant reductions

Tuition rising by 3 % for all undergrad faculties

Tuition rising by 5 % for all second entry programs

Tuition rising by 12 % for international students in BMOS

$10.1m deficit

$28.9m TotalScholarshipand Bursaries

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News Briefs

Western searching for missing meteorites

A search is underway for meteorites that are thought to have fallen in the Southern Ontario area last week.

Western astronomers are hoping for help from the public in locating the meteorites. At least one of the meteorites, thought to have origi-nated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, crashed near St. Thomas last Tuesday, according to Phil McCausland, assistant professor and curator of meteorites at Western.

“We have the best information we can get by having an all-sky camera network that’s operated here at Western throughout Southern

Ontario,” McCausland said.This particular meteorite is very

important because there are only 20 or so meteorites which are associ-ated with well known orbits so far.

“It’s kind of like running a space-craft mission in reverse where we don’t actually have to send a space-craft to go sample something and bring a sample back, nature does that for us and delivers a sample to us,” McCausland said. “If we observe it well enough coming in then we actually know the path that it had to get here.”

McCausland explained that meteorites are important to study to gain insight into the history of

our solar system.McCausland has invited any

Western students interested in searching for the meteorite to con-tact him and join in on weekends when he organizes a volunteer search team.

— Ali Seven

London’s winter coldest since 1977

Winter “officially” came to an end on Thursday, but with temperatures continuing to hover around the freezing point as April approaches, it may be no surprise that London has seen the coldest and longest winter since 1977.

With an average temperature of -7.9 C and a record of 232 centi-metres of snow, the harsh weather conditions this year have broken a dozen cold weather records, includ-ing a 135-year-old record of -23.9 C in 1879.

According to associate professor James Voogt from the department of Geography, a major contributing factor to this winter’s exceptionally harsh weather is the displacement of the jet stream — fast flowing, narrow air currents caused by a combina-tion of the planet’s rotation on its axis and atmospheric heating.

A typical pattern of the jet stream flows from west to east and air to the north of the stream is much colder, Voogt explained.

“But this winter the jet stream has meandered such that it has moved far to the north over the Pacific Coast, into Northern BC and Southern Alaska, and then has dipped south into the southeast United States,” Voogt said. This resulted in colder than normal conditions in eastern North America and warmer than normal over western North America.

“In the meantime, this spring there is no expected change in the equatorial Pacific conditions so the likelihood is that we may continue to have somewhat colder than normal temperatures,” Voogt forecasted.

— Skylar Wong

Western announces teaching awards

Western has announced the winners of its excellence in teaching awards for 2014, recognizing six professors for their abilities in the classroom.

Jerry Battista, Cameron Tsujita, Jackie A. Sadi, Brad Urquhart, Daria Koscinski and Larry Garber received the awards, which recognize profes-sors who are able to captivate and excite students through teaching.

Brad Urquhart, a professor in the Physiology and Pharmacology department at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, spoke to The Gazette about the award.

Urquhart, who teaches a phar-macology course, effectively incor-porates different scenarios from 30 Rock or South Park.

“All aimed at making it fun, but at the same time challenging students to find the answer to the problem themselves,” he said.

Encouraging critical thinking throughout the classroom by mak-ing learning material fun has dis-tinguished Dr. Urquhart from other professors.

He believes that it’s about presenting the required mate-rial to target student from diverse backgrounds.

“We had a CSI pharmacology case, where the students had to investigate what looked like a crime scene in a hotel room, they discover that there are different drugs on the scene, and they have to figure out what caused the person to die,” he said.

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GGGHF25th Annual Putnam County Spelling BeeDirector: Darcy Evans

The cast of The Grand Theatre’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee may have some trouble spell-ing “hilarious,” but they certainly have no problems understanding it. The small but talented group of nine recreates this 2005 Broadway musical for the London stage, con-necting with their inner child for the enjoyment of the crowd. The story, set in the fictional Putnam Valley Middle School gym, follows six quirky youths as they compete in a spelling bee. This seemingly simple premise quickly develops as the audience learns of the love, loss and longing each adolescent deals with.

Though the main cast shone as the young contestants, half of whom had their Grand Theatre debut with Putnam County Spelling Bee, some of the show’s most enjoy-able moments involved supporting characters. For instance, Veronica Roth as the energetic and nostalgic spelling bee moderator Rona Lisa Peretti bounces around the stage with a kind of whimsical grace rem-iniscent of The Hunger Games’ Effie Trinket. Not only was Roth’s jovial character a pleasure to watch, but her vocal range and endurance helped cement her veteran sta-tus in the production. Similarly, Lee Siegel’s portrayal of Mitch

Mahoney, a local convict fulfilling community service at the spelling bee, brought musical diversity to the show — delivering some of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’s most powerful notes.

But the musical’s success can’t be completely attributed to the cast. One of Putnam County Spelling Bee’s more unique quali-ties is that audience members are called onto stage to take part in the bee alongside the performers. This move yields some of the most organically comedic moments, many of which are completely improvised to specifically address whoever’s on stage that night. This not only stands as a testament to the improvisational skills of the cast, but also adds to the spontane-ity of each performance. The fluc-tuating addition of ever-changing audience members means no per-formance of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is exactly the same, a fact that contributes to the excitement in the theatre.

This kind of situation-based humour is precisely what fuels the show. Not only are audience mem-bers welcomed to test their spell-ing skills on stage, but the main cast’s dialogue is altered with the intent of catering to the crowd. This manifests itself during the musical in jabs at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Miley Cyrus and London geography. In doing so, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee cre-ates a kind of relatable comedy — the audience is laughing because they’re in on the joke. Such subtle variations in the production add a

sense of uniqueness and originality to the viewing experience, but don’t come without a cost.

While this type of humour is enjoyable, some of the material cre-ates a bit of a schizophrenic narra-tive. For instance, jokes about Tim Hortons feel mistimed when used after a musical number incorporat-ing the American national anthem. Similarly, London-specific punch

lines may seem topical, but don’t help the increasingly murky sense of time and space.

Still, this isn’t necessarily a reason to condemn 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as poor entertainment. By prioritiz-ing humour, the production was able to successfully raise audi-ence participation in the theatre, a medium typically associated

with passive reception. As such, the interactivity and originality of The Grand Theatre’s 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee left the audience spelling only one word: “Encore.”

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will run at The Grand Theatre until April 12. Tickets start at $50.85 and can be bought at tick-ets.grandtheatre.com.

Courtesy of Kara James

SPELLING OUT A GOOD TIME. The Grand Theatre is putting on 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a comedy about, well, a spelling bee. But it promises colourful performances and fun for the whole family.

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Cam SmithDEPUTY EDITOR

Last Wednesday, The London Free Press published an article regarding the re-zoning of land occupied by Western president Amit Chakma’s official presi-dential mansion, called Gibbons Lodge. I wasn’t overly concerned with the potential re-zoning, which could lead to construction of residences and a nurs-ing home. No, what was more fascinat-ing to me was the fact that Chakma has a university-provided mansion to match his half-million dollar a year salary.

If there’s one thing that puts a dent in your wallet, it’s definitely living costs, so I understand why provided living would be hugely beneficial. My $500-per-month rent is more than a small strain on my modest salary (which

is roughly six per cent of Chakma’s). Unfortunately, Western has neglected to provide a Gazette mansion — an oversight I hope will soon be rectified.

On March 11, The Gazette wrote about sessional professors struggling to survive on salaries below the pov-erty line. On March 20, we covered TAs accessing food banks to survive on their wages. But just last week, The London Free Press covered discontented neigh-bours voicing their concerns with the re-zoning of Chakma’s sprawling prop-erty topped off with its 86-year-old mansion. I don’t think it’s unreason-able to question how an institution can pay its president $479,000 annu-ally (Stephen Harper makes $317,574) and house him in an official mansion — all while paying sessional professors poverty-level wages and sending TAs to the food bank. This is not an acceptable wage divide.

Part of the potential re-zoning for the Gibbons Lodge property includes room for residences and a nursing home. With any luck, these will include free, offi-cial university residences for destitute

professors and nursing facilities to help nurture malnourished TAs back to health.

Amit Chakma is one of the highest-paid university presidents in Canada. He’s one of just 14 Canadian university presidents who has access to an offi-cial residence. So how is it possible for him to complacently watch his faculty members struggle?

As a student, you pay for Chakma’s salary. Your tuition dollars go to main-taining his property, and throwing the up to 80 functions a year he hosts there. Yet, they also pay for the barely-liveable wages of professors like Warren Steele and Eric Lohman. Without any pressure put on the administration about how your money is spent, they’ll benefit the elite, ignoring the people who most tan-gibly make your education possible. It’s time for students to demand from the administration a more equitable distri-bution of their tuition dollars. No one needs an official university mansion and a half-million dollar a year salary, but everyone deserves the right to liv-able wages.

Chak this up to inequality

“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”

— William Shakespeare (King Lear, Act 4 Scene 1)

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Letters to the Editor

RE: “SPHR creates bad double standards,” Wednesday, March 19, 2014 To the Editor:As someone who has been actively involved in various human rights causes, I would like to clarify some things. Neither SPHR nor activists who support the Palestinians aim to demonize nor condemn individuals living within Israel, most of whom were born there and obvi-ously had no say in the matter.

What we do condemn, fairly, is the Israeli government and their policies at large; the systematic and institutional discrimination that 1) denies Palestinians their basic human rights; 2) refuses to acknowledge the Palestinian right to return and abide by international and humanitarian law; 3) creates a system of segregation and inequality on the basis of ethnicity. Currently, there are more than 50 laws that specifically tar-get Palestinians and strip them of their rights and freedoms.

We acknowledge the plight of Palestinians living in diaspora, and many of SPHR’s own members can speak of the obstacles they and their families have faced as refugees. However, the fact remains that it was the state of Israel that initially expelled between 750,000 and 900,000 Palestinians, destroyed 530 of their villages, and never allowed them to

return. This is not to ignore the periph-eral consequences of the Palestinian expulsion and refugee crisis, but to hold accountable the entity responsible the only entity with the power to change the illegal policies that deny the right to return and self-determination.

Regarding sources, I urge you to sub-mit your inquiries to the SPHR e-mail (sphratuwo@gmail.com) and someone will respond to you. Alternatively, you can conduct your own research. Considering that the vast majority of our information comes from and is supported by interna-tional and humanitarian laws, it is not difficult to find.

Further, I would like to acknowledge that many Israel supporters are speaking from a place of privilege. These individu-als can travel to Palestine and Israel at any time, without any restrictions, and enjoy full freedoms while there. Palestinians, however, cannot. The Palestinian nar-rative is ignored and delegitimized, while the colonial narrative and history becomes a dominant force in the erasure of Palestinian identity and heritage.

Lastly is the issue of dialogue and “co-events.” Both create a sense of nor-malization, as if it is truly a conflict with two equal and opposing sides. It is not; there is an occupier and an occupied. This denies the power difference that exists, and the trauma Palestinians feel when confronted by their colonizers and oppressors. Dialogue cannot exist until the equality of Palestinians is realized.

— Jessica CurradoSociocultural Anthropology IV

RE: “MLHU warns public as measles visits campus,” Wednesday, March 19, 2014 To the Editor:The negative consequences of the cur-rent anti-vaccination movement are severe. This impact is obvious following the recently observed case of measles on Western’s campus.

Since the measles vaccine was created, fatalities from this virus have plummeted significantly, yet still people decide to not vaccinate their children. The poorly-designed study by Andrew Wakefield that supposedly linked the MMR vaccine to autism spectrum disorder has caused a commotion in the media, scaring people away from this life-saving vaccine. This flawed study has recently been retracted for many reasons, including the fact that no other labs could replicate the results obtained. The prevailing conclusion of scientists is that there is no actual cor-relation between MMR and ASD, as Wakefield claimed.

Unfortunately, the damage has been done; people everywhere have this false perception that vaccines will cause men-tal disability in their children, and chil-dren have been dying because of this. This is extremely concerning, and in my opinion, a violation of human rights. Along with education about the safety and benefits of vaccination, the gov-ernment may need to set laws in place that require parents to vaccinate their children.

— Diana GemanaruScience IV

Vaccine talk needs change

SPHR debate continues on

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SportsRundown >> Mustangs’ forward Zach Harnden of the men’s hockey team was given Canadian Interuniversity Sport all-Canadian first-team honours last Wednesday > the third-year left-winger finished the regular season with 18 goals and 23 assists.

factattackAs of this past weekend there are no more perfect March Madness brackets. With Dayton’s win over Syracuse and Wisconsin’s win over Oregon, Brad Binder, the last person to have a perfect “Madness” bracket, is perfect no more.

Mustangs improve after last-place 2013Returning talent has Western’s future looking bright

Robert Nanni Jr.GAZETTE STAFF

The Mustangs men’s varsity basket-ball team has, as a whole, improved their game from last year. Though sporting an 8–14 record for their 22 games played this year, this is an impressive improvement from last year’s 3–18 standing. Moving up three spots from last place to fifth place, the Mustangs’ developments over the season have been a team effort.

“Our biggest struggle was early on in the season, really finding an identity, finding out who we were,” Mustangs head coach Brad Campbell said. “We needed to find out what we needed to do — who we needed to be — to be successful.”

This discovery came about after the Christmas break, before which the team had evidently not been playing their best. By returning to the drawing board and retooling their strategies, the rewards were nearly immediate.

With a new offensive identity, the team decided to utilize Greg Morrow more. Morrow was named as an OUA West division all-star midway through the season.

“[He] stepped up, took charge and had some monster games for us in the second half [of the season],” Campbell said.

The games at Rochester College are likely what helped the Mustangs take a positive turn.

“We were the only Canadian

team to defeat them this year — it really built some momentum for us,” he said.

This momentum carried through the remainder of the season, with the Mustangs winning their first four

games of 2014 league play. Primarily led by Morrow, the Mustangs’ London-born six-foot-three for-ward, the Western Mustangs made their first return to the playoffs since 2011.

“Getting into the playoffs and winning a playoff game against Lakehead — especially at Lakehead, which is a very tough place to play — was probably our best moment,” Campbell said.

Despite Morrow’s notable con-tributions, and his OUA standing as 12th overall in men’s varsity basket-ball with an average of 16.6 points per game, Campbell said that the team’s success was a group effort.

Mustangs’ forward Peter Scholtes scored his 1,000th career point against the Lakehead Thunderwolves and helped the team dominate them with a 73–47 victory. Several players on the team are consistently high scorers as well, including guards George Johnson and Eric McDonald.

These players will surely have a positive impact on the future of the team, as they are all returning for another season.

“For the second straight season, we don’t graduate a single player on our team,” Campbell said. “With a few key additions and the returning nucleus of our team, we’re poised to take another step up in our league.”

The new wisdom and identity of the current team, along with this year’s experience, should prove to be quite helpful in securing a better position for the men’s varsity basket-ball team during next year’s season. The improvements after not gradu-ating a single player have shown to be very efficient this year, and one can only assume that the trend will continue to next year.

“I think we’ve taken some good steps in our 2014 year,” Campbell said. “We’ve got a very high-char-acter group of players and it should lead to a really great result next year.”

Jonathan Dunn GAZETTE

HANG TIME! Western Mustangs’ guard Rashayne Case lays the ball into the basket. The Mustangs basketball team finished the season with a playoff win over the Lakehead Thunderwolves. Their postseason win was a great end to a mediocre season. Though it was an improvement from last year’s 3–18 finish, the team will be looking to stay above .500 next year.

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REPORT CARDWomen’s Volleyball

Expectations Best moment Worst momentFollowing a successful showing last season in which the Mustangs women’s volleyball team made it to the quarter-finals, this year’s team was expected to finish at the top of their division. The hiring of new coach-ing staff including Melissa Bartlett and Rob Atkinson meant that the 2013–14 Mustangs would have years of successful coaching on their side. Returning play-ers included Candice Scott, who had a very success-ful showing last season, and Stephanie Kreuter, who emerged as a leader both on and off the court.

The Mustangs’ season was fairly predictable this year. They defeated worse teams and lost to better ones. The exception to this, however, was their upset victory over York. With just four regular games left in the season, the Mustangs hosted the Lions at Alumni Hall. York ended their season ranked second in the East, so Western was not expected to win. However, after going down 2–1 after three sets of play, the Mustangs battled back to come out on top eith the 3–2 victory.

Near the end of the season it looked like the Mus-tangs were finally in their comfort zone, going on a three-game win streak against York, Nipissing and Waterloo, respectively. However, the streak was snapped on February 8 by the Guelph Gryphons in a heartbreaking 3–1 loss. To make matters worse, this was the final game before the playoffs, and marked the end of the volleyball season for the Mustangs.

MVP Looking forward Overall gradeStephanie Kreuter, the fifth-year right-side from Strat-ford, Ontario was the only Mustang to make it onto the OUA women’s volleyball top-20 rankings. Steph-anie has been playing on the team for five years and following this season was named an OUA West all-star. She showed true versatility, having to play on the left side of the court after years of playing on the right after a string of injuries and illnesses plagued the team. Stephanie finished the season averaging 2.93 kills-per-game, 2.61 digs-per-game and 3.59 points-per-game.

This season marked the end of star player Stephanie Kreuter’s five-year volleyball career playing for the Mustangs. Seeing as how she led the team in points, kills, digs and years of experience, the Mustangs will have to find someone to replace her, or else next year’s performance could very well mimic this year’s. With the majority of the remaining players staying on the team, perhaps next year the team will feel more comfortable and perform accordingly.

For a team that made it to the quarter-finals last year, not making it into the playoffs was upsetting to say the least. Capping their season with six wins and 13 losses, the team did not perform nearly as well as they did last year, with nine wins and nine losses. You might think that with a new coaching staff and the return of their star players, the Mustangs would have performed much better, but the year was ulti-mately tainted with injuries and illnesses.

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