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Legality of Project LEARN challengedLondon activist calls police anti-party blitz unconstitutional

Richard RaycraftNews editor

The controversy surrounding Project LEARN has not been quelled heading into the fourth week of the initiative, with a Whitby, Ontario-based man threatening to take it to task.

Gerald Parker, the executive director of the Institute of Canadian Justice, a public health and safety organization, has said that the Institute will release a report that will expose the controversial London Police Service initiative.

“It’s the fact that [Project LEARN] is based on revenue and retribu-tion,” Parker said. “My point here is that there is no education in this process, my point going forward in all of this is that there are a number of really big red flags.”

Parker also expressed his belief that the method of enforcement of the bylaws — specifically focusing on students and inhibiting persons with disabilities — is unconstitu-tional and a form of discrimination.

“[The police] have to adhere to provincial statutes and the Federal Charter, and the constitutional parameters therein, above and beyond any municipal bylaw,” he said.

Project LEARN (Liquor Enforcement and Reduction of Noise) is a London police initia-tive that runs from August 27 to September 28. It aims to enforce bylaws related to noise, litter, and alcohol consumption, among oth-ers. These enforcement efforts are concentrated in student-populated areas around London.

Constable Danielle Wright, acting media relations officer for the London police, denied the accusation.

“There’s nothing that the members working for the project would do in any way to violate the constitutional rights of any-one being charged,” she said. “The people working on the project

are essentially doing exactly what they’re doing when they are not on the project — when they’re on patrol.”

Refuting Parker’s claims, Wright said the police program benefited average London residents who put up with heavy student partying in September.

“The school zones are also inte-grated into the regular community, so it’s been a positive impact for the regular community who are not par-taking in frosh week and homecom-ing, or any big school celebration type of events,” she said. “The thing that’s most important is that Project LEARN was implemented to keep communities safe, to allow people to safely enjoy their neighbourhoods.”

Parker said his strategy is to challenge the initiative through various legal and governmen-tal avenues. Among those he has attempted to contact are the Ontario Ombudsman’s Office, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal and London Liberal MPP Deb Matthews.

Parker also has plans to write to

Maclean’s magazine about the issue.“Going forward, first there’s going

to be the report, and second is to challenge the bylaw — it will be done,” he said, outlining his strat-egy. “I will continue to contact and engage the municipal and provincial authorities.”

Patrick Whelan, University Students’ Council president, explained that he prefers a softer, more cooperative approach to the project.

“The USC is likely going to con-tinue with our advocacy and lobby-ing of the city government to look into alternatives that accomplish similar goals. We think that a prior-ity for students is to be recognized as members of the community and as neighbours themselves,” he said.

“Building communities from the neighbourhoods up and really solidifying those relationships is a great approach to solving the same problem without enforcement.”

London budget projects $4.3M surplus

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STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS. A whitby-based health and safety organization is calling Project LeArN unconstitutional, and says they will challenge the bylaw.

[the police] have to adhere to provincial statutes and the Federal Charter, and the constitutional parameters therein, above and beyond any municipal bylaw.

—Gerald Parker, director of the institute of Canadian Justice

Jeremiah RodriguezNews editor

The City of London didn’t blow through as much money as it thought it would in the last half year — a $4.3 million surplus is being projected for the end of 2013.

By June of this year, the city had spent less than they were supposed to by that time. The projected sur-plus will be available to council-lors for the last budget before the autumn 2014 municipal election.

$3.7 million of the surplus stemmed from money that’s been a long time coming — reconciliation money from 2010 from the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund.

“It was money that cities give to the province — basically, [the City of London] administers all [the prov-ince’s] social services locally,” Larry Palarchio, director of financial plan-ning and policy, said.

“It was unexpected and a one-time thing — we received a cheque in March or April — and the budget would have been a lot tighter with-out that revenue,” he added.

In addition, there was $1.6 mil-lion in savings from the civic depart-ment, which stemmed from less snow maintenance as this winter had less bite than previous years.

Savings were found in delays in government hiring in the first six months of the year with vacant government jobs not being filled as quickly, and more savings coming from high revenue from short-term investments.

The city also saved $5 million from a restructuring of the wastewa-ter and water treatment. According

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London’s job prospects looking up

BMO Economics has released a report today forecasting 6,000 new jobs to be created in London over the next three years.

Still recovering from the reces-sion, London’s unemployment rate, which sat at 8.3 per cent in July, is expected to fall to 7.3 per cent by 2016.

“London is a great city with incredible assets,” said David Blyth, vice-president southwest-ern Ontario district at the Bank of Montreal.

He attributes these optimistic findings to London’s diversity.

“[London has] some of Canada’s preeminent educational, medical, life sciences and biotechnology research institutions in the coun-try,” Blyth said.

Despite this optimistic projec-tion, Robert Kavcic, senior econo-mist at BMO Capital Markets, is unsure if the job growth will

specifically affect new graduates searching for jobs in London.

“Over the past five years or so population growth has been really slow in the city. You’re actually seeing a pretty steady outflow of workers — probably younger workers — from London to other parts of Ontario and other parts of Canada,” Kavcic said. “Our job growth forecast isn’t that strong. It’s probably not going to turn that ship around entirely.”

—Christine Bonk

Western’s int’l rep GRO-ing

Western is the only university in Canada to win the Samsung Global Research Outreach (GRO) Award, in the “Big Data and Network” theme this year. It is also among only three Canadian universities to receive the award.

Other universities receiv-ing the award include University of Cambridge, MIT, Stanford University and University of California Berkeley.

Abdallah Shami, associate chair of Western Engineering’s depart-ment of electrical and computer engineering, and Hanan Lutfiyya, department chair of the Faculty of Science’s department of computer Science, led the Western research team.

“It’s about resource allocation for cloud computing applications in software design-defined network-ing environment,” Shami said about the research. “Technically, what we are doing is that current cloud

computing providers, whenever they do their resource allocation or resource provisioning, they only consider computer resources. Our goal is — and our resource objec-tive — is in addition to consider-ing computer resources we’d like to also consider network resources because it is not enough to do the computation.”

The financial support from the Samsung award ranges from $70,000 to $100,000 a year. The award is the first in Western’s history.

“We are receiving right now fund-ing for potentially three years, but it has to be reissued every year, and right now we’re receiving $80,000 per year,” Shami said. “Our first objec-tive is to have Canada and Canadian universities become big players in this important research area.”

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Terry Fox a successThis past weekend marks yet another successful Terry Fox Run for Western. Held on September 15, the weather and attendance both turned out to be great and comple-mented the run.

“I think people were really into it and that the best way to engage in the success of a run is through atten-dance,” Adam Smith, vice-president student events for the University Students’ Council, said.

According to Smith, setting up events like the Terry Fox Run is a mix of working directly with Western campus police, booking the space, and all the activities that go on during the day. The Terry Fox Organization collaborates very closely and has some of its own rules and guidelines around the events to be followed.

Each person registers for the event individually, Smith explained. This year, roughly 1,000 runners par-ticipated in the two runs held at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. As for the money raised, a lot of the fundraising was done online, as well as at the event. Western is close to having raised $15,000 through online pledges, with all contributing fundraisers being held through initiatives like barbeques and merchandising. On that front, the foundation appears to be on par with every other year.

“We’re always super successful financially and through awareness and engagement with the commu-nity,” Smith said.

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Crowd-sourced scienceProfs turn to crowd-funding for research

Scientists stage national protest

Megan Devlin News editor

Scientists and supporters came together across the country yes-terday for the Stand Up for Science protest organized by Evidence for Democracy, a science advocacy group.

Eighteen rallies took place across the country, from Montreal to Yellowknife.

Dr. Katie Gibbs, executive direc-tor of Evidence for Democracy, explained the protest was planned in order to bring the state of Canadian scientific research into the public’s mind.

“We’ve seen cuts to some really important scientific institutions — the long form census is one, the experimental lakes area is another — in addition to that, the way the government funds science has shifted,” Gibbs said. “They no lon-ger fund the basic or fundamen-tal research and are only funding corporate commercialization of research.”

“The third issue is that the gov-ernment has implemented new communication policies that really prohibit government scientists from speaking to the public about their research,” Gibbs continued.

Under these new policies, sci-entists are barred from speaking to the media about their findings until they are given explicit permis-sion to do so from the government. Sometimes their lines even need to be vetted by their communications department, Tyler Sommers, coor-dinator for Democracy Watch, told The Gazette last spring.

The Stand Up for Science pro-test called on the government to do three things. It wants the govern-ment to fund basic as well as applied research, to use the best available

scientific knowledge when mak-ing decisions and to support open communication of publicly funded scientific research findings to the Canadian people.

“Having clean air and clean water and healthcare and a strong econ-omy all require having strong public science in Canada,” Gibbs said.

The date for the protest was chosen because the government is preparing the throne speech and agenda for the fall, and Gibbs’ organization wanted to show that Canadians care about the state of scientific research, and also offer suggestions to improve scientific policy.

“Good science, when coupled with good decision-making, keeps our water and air clean, keeps us healthy, keeps our food safe and pre-pares Canada for the future. Science in the public interest is crucial for our well-being and long-term pros-perity,” Evidence for Democracy said in a statement.

we’ve seen cuts to some really important scientific institutions — the long form census is one, the experimental lakes area is another.”

— dr. Katie Gibbs on why the stand up for science protest

is important

to Alan Dunbarr, manager of finan-cial planning and policy for London, it had to do with people’s changing habits water use.

“People are getting low-flow washing machines and toilets and not watering their lawns as much. Even though the city is growing we’re using less water,” Dunbarr said. “That’s really good for consumers whose costs are going down but we still have got to maintain and repair the infrastructure in the ground.”

Suggestions for what to do with the projected surplus could range from sending it towards the Ontario Works social services program to funnelling it to economic prosperity

projects, like a new performing arts center.

However, councillors can’t make any decision on how to spend that money until the city presents the fourth quarter results in March 2014.

Several things could shrink sur-plus projections because the city hasn’t accounted for the future caseload for the Ontario Works at this point, and the upcoming win-ter could require more trucks on the roads.

“The biggest thing is that the surplus is only less than 1 per cent of total expenditures of the $480 million of the city,” Palarchio said. “Although the number appears large, it’s like if you had a buck left over from a $100 budget.”

An unexpected surplus

Iain BoekhoffNews editor

Academics hungry for funding and frustrated with red tape have turned to the public to get their research projects funded.

Dan Gillis, assistant professor in the computer science department at the University of Guelph, was the first Canadian researcher to use Microryza, a US-based crowd-fund-ing website specifically for crowd-funding science research projects.

Gillis said the two main reasons for turning to the public for funding was the difficulty in getting funding for small projects and the amount of time getting approved for a grant can take.

“It might’ve taken months to come up with an answer whether or not we could actually go forward and this project already had been started and we had a lot of support from the community so it seemed like the smart thing to do,” Gillis said.

“On Microryza, scientists are able to post projects and then anyone anywhere in the world can come and discover a research project, fund it and then learn about the scien-tific discoveries directly from the researchers,” Cindy Wu, co-founder of Microryza, said.

Wu came up with the idea for crowd-sourcing funding with her fellow research partner when she couldn’t get funding for her own research project. It was very small, and she was told by her professor that she wouldn’t receive funding because of her inexperience.

“For a lot of research projects when they are in their early stages there isn’t that initial seed funding to get those projects off the ground so Microryza is trying to fill that gap,” Wu explained. “[On Microryza]

scientists can share their research directly with the public and explain what they want to do for these early stage research ideas and then the public can get directly involved in what the research project actually is.”

“Maybe a year ago when we first started, crowd-funding was this new thing that no one really understood but now we’re starting to see a lot of scientists are looking to using crowd funding to supplement their cur-rent grants,” Wu said. “[Microryza] is becoming a part of the grant sys-tem where scientists are viewing crowd-funding as a viable way to

get funding for their research ideas.”Gillis said he would crowd-fund

a project again and he recommends others in academia do it as well. He stressed that communicating ideas to the public is key to capturing their interest — and their cash.

“I think scientists do a really poor job of communicating with the public. I think there’s a huge area for improvement there and I think if we were able to do that better, we would probably see more interest in scientific research and the general level of science in the community would go up, which would be great,” Gillis said.

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Front and centre on stage in the newly opened Hideaway Records and Bar last Saturday night, Ryan Guldemond, lead singer of Mother Mother, praised the birth of a new venue.

“We are ending, but we are giving birth to a new thing,” Guldemond softly spoke before breaking into the band’s closing song, “Hayloft.”

Hideaway Records and Bar is a new venue that opened in the place of the London Tap House, located next to Smoke’s Poutinerie and Jack’s at 545 Richmond Street. The bar hopes to soon be a proud part of London’s downtown community.

“I don’t know if we offer anything that isn’t available anywhere else,” says Matthew Gibbons, the owner of Hideaway Records and Bar and a for-mer player for Western University’s hockey team. “We just try to offer a customer-friendly product that allows people to enjoy music and sports and hang out. We don’t want to be something that isn’t there, we just want to complement what already is a great London nightlife.”

Gibbons brings in a rock n’ roll vibe to the bar. The building is deco-rated with vintage concert posters for bands like The Black Keys, The Doors, and The Donnas. The bar offers a wide range of entertainment with a collection of pool tables on a balcony level and an open floor

space for concerts, such as Mother Mother’s recent performance.

“The décor is all about comfort. It’s sort of what we as a group feel is comfortable and is enjoyable. We’re very into music so we like to surround ourselves with the history of music and current stuff,” Gibbons comments. “And the TVs and all that because we like sports — I have a sports background and played for the Western hockey team. It’s kind of a mix of our passions.”

For the concert last Saturday night, the venue was a cozy and comfortable space. The stage was low to the ground bringing the audience mere inches from Mother Mother’s three singers, Ryan and Molly Guldemond and Jasmin Parkin. Other fans lined the bal-cony getting an overhead view of the performance.

Even the bands were packed into a small, but comfortable space to perform. The opening band, an all-female alternative rock band, The Beaches, gave a strong performance. Mother Mother kept a good chore-ography with Ryan Guldmond mov-ing about the stage for guitar solos and musical breaks.

The stage got to its most packed when The Beaches joined Mother Mother singing the cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom” and turning the band into a nonet.

For Gibbons, the show was a spectacular success with both the band and the fans praising the venue and quality of the show.

“I think it was great. The band enjoyed the performance very much, [they were] the first people I spoke to. It seemed well-received. I think people were surprised at how

well received it was,” Gibbons com-ments. “I think people were going in expecting a dingy bar show and got an actual music venue show, which is two different things. We are very happy for that and we will just keep sticking down that road of the under-promise-over-deliver.”

Gibbons is also very excited for the upcoming shows as part of their Grand Opening Series. This com-ing Saturday, Hideaway Records and Bar will host a performance by Chali 2na, an MC from the hip-hop group Jurassic 5.

“Everybody — my age anyways — remembers ‘The Alphabet Song’

one of the best rap songs ever, lyri-cally,” Gibbons jokes.

The final part of the Grand Opening Series will feature Toronto-based indie rockers Born Ruffians. While these three shows feature big names, Gibbons is looking forward to have even bigger names play Hideaway.

“I think we are very lucky to have the three we’ve had, but by no means do I think they will be the big-gest to play the room. They will be a bunch more stuff coming through — nothing I can announce at this point,” Gibbons says. “Music will be a big part of us going forward. We

are a place almost like a modern day roadhouse so to speak, where there’s an array of ways to be entertained — some of which is live music, some of which is Monday Night Football or the Country Brunch on Sundays.

“It’s all just a great place to hang. We will do music. My primary busi-ness is music so there will be music there.”

While Mother Mother sounded great, it was the venue that really stole the show. With its eclectic styling, focus on comfort and stellar concert lineup, this bar is definitely a place you’ll want to hide away in.

Great first show for Hideaway Records barMother Mother impresses crowd at newly opened London venue

Kelly Samuel GAZette

COME HIDEAWAY, COME HIDEAWAY WITH MEEEE. the Hideaway record and Bar kicked off its recent opening with a well-received Mother Mother concert on saturday. the bar blends themes of vinyl, sports, and old-school rock-and-roll.

the grandmaster of Hong Kong strikes a chord

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GGGGFThe GrandmasterDirected by: Wong Kar WaiStarring: Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi

The Grandmaster is the newest addition to the body of works by Hong Kong’s own film grandmaster,

Wong Kar-Wai. The film chronicles the life of Ip Man (Tony Leung), Bruce Lee’s teacher and the man who popularized the martial art of Wing Chun. The story is set against the background of the tumultuous sociopolitical changes that occurred in 20th-century China, as well as the Second Sino-Japanese War.

While there have been count-less movies about Ip Man in the

past, one must have a different set of expectations going into a movie directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Wong is known for simple storylines that are embedded with underlying angst and unrequited love, and that’s exactly what is seen in The Grandmaster. Wong averts the trap of being overdramatic in a wuxia (Chinese martial arts) movie by focusing on details such as hands

and feet, as well as subtle changes in facial expressions, to convey the intensity of select scenes.

The Grandmaster was a project that took Wong Kar-Wai five years to complete — akin to a painting that takes years to finish, it should be regarded as a visual masterpiece as opposed to just a story. Wong’s intentions are made clear with the plethora of slow motion vignettes that emphasize minute details, and exquisitely composed settings that capture vivid landscapes and architecture.

Wong also creates a variety of contexts for fights to take place in. Each has a different tone, such as initiating flirtation, proposing friendship or bitter vengeance. The plethora of symbolism also adds to the depth of the film; for example, Gong Er symbolizes tradition in old China, as well as the wuxia fantasy of ‘death before dishonor’, while Ip Man represents realistic progres-siveness into a new era.

This film is also a token of patri-otism for Wong, who went back to his roots in Hong Kong after a brief romance with Hollywood during My Blueberry Nights. Wong spent three years traveling and researching to

ensure the factual accuracy of this film, and recruited a cast of Chinese A-listers. The historical context is also a highlight of this film, as Wong seems to capture the sentiment of an entire nation through Ip Man’s experiences.

The film is not flawless; the underdevelopment of supporting characters such as Ip’s wife, and his overuse of narration to hold the film together are problematic. However, these flaws are under-standably inevitable due to Wong’s desire to capture Ip’s entire life as well as add background information to a complicated time in history. The dialogue in the film was interest-ingly exchanged in two languages, Mandarin and Cantonese, which is unsuspectingly realistic given the setting of a multilingual country.

The Grandmaster was the opening film at the 63th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2013. While the story content of the film does not break any new ground, Wong’s visual tech-nique will likely set a precedent of subtlety in wuxia movies as opposed to predictable and sensational fighting.

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This is a fluffy pets pieceBradley Metlin

Arts & LiFe editor

“I love her to the point where it’s almost embarrassing, actually.”

Emily Jenkins, a third-year student in American-Canadian relations, has been in a steady rela-tionship for a long time — she’s had her toy poodle, Penelope, since eighth grade. A lot of students leave their pets behind when they hightail it to university. However, Jenkins, like a few other students, bucks that trend.

“She travels with me every-where,” Jenkins says. “She’s very well traveled.” Indeed, Penelope is quite the globetrotter; she’s been to Italy, Spain, and even relieved herself in the Sahara Desert.

While some students have had a pet for years and bring them to uni-versity, others get a pet when they find a companion is needed. Leo, a young Shiba Inu , entered McKenzie Edwards’ life pretty casually.

“I was doing a summer course online, I was home alone doing an essay and it’s nice having someone around,” the third year political sci-ence student says.

It just seemed natural to get a pet, but for some, their pet ends up being a positive surprise.

“He was actually owned by a friend of mine who was, unfortu-nately, having health concerns and could no longer take care of him,” says Jessica Collins, a second-year student at King’s, describing how she came across her cat, Zigs. “So rather than going to a shelter, I decided to take him in.”

When talking to each of these students, there was overwhelming sense of happiness with their pets; everyone enjoyed talking about them. They were proud to talk about all the positives of being a pet owner in university.

Jenkins explained that after a long day of class and work, “It’s nice to come home to the dog and have them to snuggle with.”

Pets aren’t just great cuddle

buddies either; Collins cites they have positive effects on students.

“Animals do make great compan-ions and are great for mental health concerns and the stresses that stu-dents commonly face,” she says.

Sure, the owners love their pets, but how do the people sharing the space feel?

“She actually loves my roommate and he loves her,” Jenkins says of Penelope, noting it’s not unusual to receive Snapchats from her room-mate when she’s out.

“He’ll take pictures like eating sushi with Penelope,” she says.

While there are definitely inher-ent positives to owning a pet in uni-versity, it’s not all cuddling up with your cat and eating sushi with your roommate’s dog — you have to be realistic when owning a pet.

“Training him, that’s a big thing,” Edwards says of one of the trials of raising his dog, Leo. “I started tak-ing him to puppy school on Saturday mornings so I’m not getting as much sleep.”

Lifestyle changes are often neces-sary when caring for a pet at university.

“I study at home, at my desk, as opposed to going to the library all day,” Jenkins says. “Being a student, you get extremely busy and I try to

make sure I have the time to take her on an hour walk everyday. You just have to plan it into your schedule.”

Collins says owning a pet can come with major struggles.

“They will wake you up in the middle of the night regardless of whether you have a test the next day so it does get stressful at times,” she says, adding that having a pet can very easily impede one’s search for a place to live.

“A lot of places are not pet -friendly, even though Zigs is declawed, neutered, well behaved, and quiet. Because of allergy con-cerns or liability, it makes it a lot more difficult to find a place.”

These realities should give poten-tial pet owners in university caution.

“[It] depends on the pet and where you’re living. I was living in an apartment last year and, pets were allowed, but I wouldn’t have been able to have him,” Edwards notes.

Ultimately, it seems being real-istic about what you can handle is the best policy. For some students, however, pets really enhance the stressful university experience.

“I’m an animal person,” Jenkins says. “To me, a house is not a home without a pet.”

“Breezeblocks” — Alt-JHow do you find the words to ade-quately describe Alt-J’s sound? Their classification as experimental, alter-native, indie art rock on Wikipedia still doesn’t encapsulate the beauti-ful insanity of their music. Released in May 2012, “Breezeblocks” is the second single from Alt-J’s debut album An Awesome Wave.

Like coming across a unicorn on the walk to school, Breezeblocks is a surprising, mythical escape from the mundane. This delightful, refreshing track blends poetic lyrics and liter-ary references with a solid baseline punctuated by percussive back-ground vocals. It’s jarring, visceral and elusive — as soon as listeners feel as though they know what’s going on the song veers in a new direction. The whimsical lyrics and captivating melody necessitate that this track is listened to again and again.

— Mary Ann Ciosk

Amberian Dawn — ValkyriesFinnish symphonic metal band Amberian Dawn has seen some changes over the past year, nota-bly a lineup change with Päivi “Capri” Virkkunen replacing Heidi Parviainen as lead singer. They re-released many of their hits this year on the album, Re-Evolution, which features Capri’s vocals.

However, from their debut album, River of Tuoni, the original version of “Valkyries” is a powerful mythic song. Opening with a fast-paced keyboard intro, Amberian Dawn quickly mixes in a heavy gui-tar riff and Parviainen’s unmatched operatic vocals.

— Brent Holmes

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WITH GREAT CUTENESS COMES GREAT RESPON wSIBILITY. while undoubtedly adorable, pets require lots of love, and many students find them difficult to care for consistently.

Omega-3 and Omega-6 are essen-tial fatty acids necessary for the healthy functioning of the body. However, essential fatty acids are not produced by the body and are only gained and utilized through proper nutrition. The ideal diet will contain a balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 as Omega-3 rich foods reduce inflammation in the body while Omega-6 foods increase it – like the Yin and Yang, the two fatty acids are opposite, yet both are nec-essary to complete the other.

However, according to research conducted by University of Maryland Medical Center, Omega-6 is typically consumed in 14–25 times greater quantity than Omega-3 in North America. This diet imbalance can cause a myriad of health issues including poor memory, unstable moods, low energy and, eventually, heart problems. The main cause of Omega-6 over-consumption is eating an excess of meats and high-fat dairy products such as cheese. Research shows that Omega-3 fatty acids are particularly important in cognitive functioning and also reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

Omega-3 is high in fish such as salmon, halibut and tuna, as well

as nuts and seeds, particularly flax seeds, walnuts, and chia seeds. Since fish comes with the added risk of high mercury levels, however, try to limit its consumption to once a week.

An easy way to ensure the recom-mended level of Omega-3 is present in one’s diet is to consume 1-2 table-spoons of flax seed a day.

Ground flax seed is generally viewed as more beneficial than whole seeds as the body more easily

digests it and none of its nutrients are lost. It does not have a distinc-tive taste and can easily be added to salads, soups and smoothies. Flax seed can also be incorporated into baking recipes in addition to flour or when mixed with water it can act as a substitute for eggs. Adding just a small amount of flax seed into one’s diet every day can have potentially huge benefits for one’s heart, brain and overall health.

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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

—Bruce Lee

Kevin HurrenoPiNioNs editor

If someone called me a “yuckie” a few weeks ago, I would scoff at their third-grade insult.

Now, I’ve learned that the term doesn’t relate to cooties or boogers. Rather, it means that I’m steadily draining my parents’ livelihood.

The term, an acronym for “Young Unwittingly Costly Kids,” first rose to popularity in 2010 with a surge of jour-nal articles and academic studies that observed the increasing trend of students moving back in with their parents after university. I, however, only came across the word in a recently published article.

Immediately I wanted to learn more about the less than flattering term for my generation. With a few quick online searches I discovered that we are ruth-less vampires of the family unit, suck-ing the family tree dry. Reluctant to leave the warm embrace of our parents’ home, we force them into second mortgages, diminished retirement funds, and read-justed styles of living.

Though I’m sure the researchers and journalists who created the term are patting themselves on the back, “yuckie culture” has a number of flawed assumptions.

First, the phrase implies that we don’t want to leave our parents’ home. While I’m sure there are some recent graduates who do have very special relationships with their parents, I feel comfortable in saying the majority of university students want one thing: Independence. In fact, almost every decision we make in our early adult lives is driven by a desire to be away from our parents. Buying a new car, travelling with friends, moving away to university. Many of the seminal moments

of our youth revolve around getting our space, so we don’t leave university with a craving desire to cuddle up with mom and dad again; we do it because we have to.

Which leads into the second assump-tion made by the “yuckies” acronym — it implies that we have a choice in the matter. The term dismisses the reality that after graduation many students are forced back into their parents’ home because of a dismal job market and ever-increasing costs of rent. We are not sadists. We do not derive pleasure from taking money from our parents, but often we have little choice. After gradu-ation and even during school most of the employment opportunities are either unfulfilling jobs with small wages or unpaid internships.

Although the debate about unpaid internships is heating up, right now they are one of the best chances for advance-ment in the applicant-saturated work-place. But, as the preface suggests, these unpaid internships leave students with two options: They either overwork their schedules while trying to balance an unpaid internship and a part-time job, or reluctantly turn to parents for support.

And that is the final mistake that heralds of “yuckie culture” make — the assumption that our parents have to help us. The literature that currently exists makes it sound like “yuckie” par-ents begrudgingly give up their hard-earned savings to baby their now adult child. But if the alternative is their child working him or herself into the ground, missing holidays and weekend visits for the sake of financial independence, most parents would happily make a place for their child.

So the next time someone calls me a “yuckie,” I won’t think it’s a third grade insult — but I will think it has the same immaturity. Why? Because it dismisses how tough it is to be a new grad these days, it ignores the difficulties of unpaid internships and, let’s be honest, it just sounds gross.

Go yuck yourself

Julian UzielliEditor-In-Chief

Cameron M. SmithDeputy Editor

Jason SinukoffManaging Editor

Addressing the “t-shirt comic”

Over the weekend, we received a few tweets, comments and a letter about a comic we published in Friday’s issue of The Gazette. The comic contained a suicide-related pun, and has made some of our readers understandably upset. And without defending its publication, we are sorry that it appeared in our paper.

Critics of the comic have called it “tasteless” and “awful”; letter-writer Julie Flesch said she could not find a way to defend it. Others have laughed at it. In the wake of the reaction some have advised me to defend the comic in print, but to do so would be dishonest of me. I will not defend our decision to print it, because I knew almost immediately that the decision was wrong.

I admit the comic made me uncomfortable when I first saw it on Thursday night, but it was not until I saw it in print on Friday morning that I realized we had made a mistake in publishing it. In truth, I don’t disagree with our critics: The comic was tasteless and insensitive. It made light of a condition affecting many people on this campus, including some of my own friends. Depression is not a joke, and I truly regret having treated it that way on The Gazette’s pages.

We take mental health very seriously. Only the day before this comic was published, we ran an excellent column by Caitlin Newnham remembering a student who tragically took his own life last March. That column was originally published in The Current, but I requested Caitlin’s permission to re-publish it because I thought the message was so valuable. In our frosh issue, published August 19, we ran another great article about mental health resources by Jesica Hurst — the first time, to my knowledge, that a Gazette frosh issue had ever covered the subject. Both those articles made me proud to head this paper, and I hope that when people think about The Gazette’s attitude towards mental health, they will remember stories like those instead of this cartoon.

The Gazette has a historical tradition of being cheeky, edgy and irreverent. Though I realized it too late, the comic was none of those things. It was beneath our standards, and I wish to offer a sincere apology to the Western community, particularly those struggling with depression.

It was never our intent to offend, or to mock anyone’s private struggles. I offer no excuse but to say that I wasn’t shown the comic until shortly before our deadline, and I made a last-minute judgment call. It was the wrong one.

If you or anyone you know is seeking help for depression or other metal health-related concerns, I urge you to access the many resources available to you as Western students. The Student Development Centre runs a crisis service on the fourth floor of the Student Services Building; you can go in person or call 519-661-3031. Student Health Services also offers free conselling for students for mental health issues of all kinds in room 11 in the basement of the University Community Centre.

—Julian Uzielli

From the desk of Editor-in-Chief

Seven Minutes in Kevin

Letter to the editor

To the Editor:I often have criticisms of The Gazette, but usually they are disagreements with its chosen topics, writing style and lack of substance. As The Gazette is a daily edi-torial, I usually remember to cut it some slack, but in this case I cannot find a way to defend your recent “depressed t-shirt” comic.

Publishing the comic strip not only demonstrates that Gazette editors are

neither diligent nor conscientious, but also that our campus editorial has little to no grasp over the power that the written word has, and potentially could have, if taken more seriously, effected the culture of our student body.

That you could be as negligent and insensitive as to publish such a piece is disgusting and unfathomable to me. You are funded with student money and trusted with providing our whole cam-pus with news. Adopt higher standards of professionalism and show that you respect yourselves as a paper; otherwise you cannot expect any of Western’s stu-dents to respect you.

—Julie FleschPolitical Science IV

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Reactions to Friday’s comic

@QuailDogwow... how could that even pass through editing @uwogazette?

@ForrestBivens@CTVLondon @TaliaRicciCTV more like in poor taste. i’d guess their intent wasn’t to be offensive,,, for some it would be offensive.

@martythompson_interesting ‘comic’ strip in the @uwogazette this past week.

@EricMory@uwogazette how could you think it was okay to print this.

@TweetNico@uwogazette we’re not sure what universe you were in when you thought this was okay to print...

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thegazette • tuesday, september 17, 2013 • 7

SportsRundown >> the Mustangs men’s hockey team will be facing off against McGill on september 19 > the Mustangs will be going into the game with a 1 –0 record | the Mustangs women’s tennis team currently has a 2–2 record.

factattackYesterday, Peyton Manning gained the title of being one of three players in NFL history to achieve 60,000 passing yards — the other two players are Brett Favre and dan Marino.

Mustangs gallop to victory over Gee-Geeswestern mere points away from record in latest tilt

Daniel WeryhasPorts editor

The Western Mustangs stayed per-fect as Will Finch and the football team rolled to their fourth consec-utive victory over the surprisingly unworthy Ottawa Gee-Gees.

The 83–27 final was the second-highest-scoring game in Ontario University Athletics history, only a touchdown and an extra point shy of tying the single-game record.

The game started as an offensive battle and ended as Western’s fourth blowout of the season.

The Mustangs offence scored on all eight of their first-half drives, and only punted for the first time late in the third quarter.

“I don’t like punting,” Greg Marshall, Mustangs head coach, said. “We were very, very efficient on offence today. We were well-pro-tected with the football, put a few wrinkles in with that formation we used last week, and we saw where the gate was.”

Aaron Colbon, Ottawa quarter-back, completed a four-yard touch-down pass to Andrew Mullings to start the second quarter, and closed the deficit to three points. Western then responded with 14 unanswered points as Mustangs running back Garret Sanvido and Will Finch put up rushing touchdowns.

“I didn’t exactly see the point in the game where it got so lopsided,” Colbon said. “I thought we were in the game for the whole first half. I honestly don’t know what hap-pened. I guess there was just too many mistakes.”

The Mustangs victory was high-lighted by a series of noteworthy performances.

Sanvido ran the ball 12 times for 180 yards with a pair of touchdowns. Saturday’s game was Sanvido’s first breakout performance of the sea-son. Last season, Sanvido led the Canadian Interuniversity Sport with 1,001 rushing yards and 13

touchdowns.“If they want to stop the run we’re

going to pass on them, they’re going to stop the pass we’re going to run on them,” Sanvido said. “We have a very dynamic offence this year. We’re def-initely looking to score some points and put up some touchdowns.”

Sanvido’s performance against Ottawa puts him back on top of the CIS leader board.

Late in the game, Finch threw a pass up deep to the corner of the end zone, out of reach for the defen-sive back, but perfectly placed for Western Mustangs wide receiver

Brian Marshall, who made the side-line catch.

The Finch to Marshall connec-tion was one of three on the day, and their chemistry was highlighted by Finch’s 18 completions, 297 yards and three touchdowns.

“It was a great throw,” Brian

Marshall said. “There’s a good trust between Will and all of our receivers now. We’ve built a chemistry around the passing game, where everyone is just stepping up and making plays for Will.”

Saturday’s match-up was Finch’s first game in which he threw for less than 300 yards. However, Finch did rush eight times for 63 yards and a touchdown.

While the end score is indicative of the game’s events, the Ottawa offence found success in the shal-low field with their crossing routes. Colbon completed 24 passes for 328 yards and two touchdowns, but was picked off twice — one of which was ultimately returned by Mustangs’ linebacker, Pawel Kruba, for six points.

“This game they were trying to run that [crossing] route on us a couple times. It was happen-ing pretty often so we made some adjustments, and I was lucky to come up with the pick,” Kruba said.

The Gee-Gees found a soft spot in the Western defence by spreading the field with a four wide receiver set. The formation opened up the field for Ottawa running back, Brendan Gillanders, who rushed 12 times for 148 yards.

“Our O-line did a great job of blocking in the first half, and making holes for Brendan, and if Brendan sees the smallest crease, he’s going to hit that, and hit it hard,” Colbon said.

The fifth-year senior is highly regarded by Canadian Football League scouts, and despite the injury he suffered in this year’s CFL combine, is ranked number 34 in the CFL prospects top 100 list.

While life will not get much easier for Ottawa in next week’s game against the first place Queen’s Gaels, the Western Mustangs pre-pare to face a struggling Laurier Golden Hawks team in Waterloo on Saturday.

Bill Wang GAZette

OH I’M LOVIN’ IT! Brian Marshall caught five passes for 78 yards in saturday’s win over the ottawa Gee-Gees. His three-touchdown performance was highlighted by a 32-yard touchdown reception late in the first quarter. Last season Marshall ranked third in the ouA in receiving yards and touchdowns.

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Mustangs dominate Badgers in home standLax boys slide to a convincing win in saturday’s game

Logan LyPHotoGrAPHY editor

The Mustangs kept charging through the start of the 2013 lacrosse season on Saturday, winning 13–5 against one of their toughest competitors, the Brock Badgers.

As the sun set over TD Stadium, the Brock Badgers went headlong into the game taking firm control of the field. After the Badgers scored the first goal, the Mustangs were evi-dently slowing down, lacking steady grasp on the ball.

Brock’s clean and concise com-munication amongst the team reflected well on the field as they fluidly coordinated the ball between players, while the Mustangs seemed to just be struggling to keep their composure.

“It’s tough to have a clear-cut goal here, but obviously we came here to win,” Justin Kennedy, head coach for the Badgers, said. “Preparation is a big one for us. We work all week towards this game here tonight and we take their game style into consid-eration when we’re preparing and that’s what we do.”

“They play a certain kind of game, a little bit slower, you gotta get your guys focused. On our hand, focus is a big one,” Kennedy said about the Mustangs’ style of play.

As Kennedy noted, the Mustangs had a slow start, with Brock aggres-sively playing in the lead. However, after the first quarter, the Mustangs picked up the intensity and soon flipped the game to show the Badgers whose field they were

playing on.However, after the first quarter,

the Mustangs picked up the pace up the field later on in the game, Mustangs heads coach, Jeremy Tallevi, knew that the score was not very representative of the game as a whole.

“Brock is a great team and we knew we were in for a battle tonight. We got some power play chances that we buried on and I think it’s a lot closer game than the score reflects,” Tallevi said.

By the height of the game at half time, the score stood at 6–3 for the Mustangs, with the purple and white showing confidently on the field.

“Our coach said just keep your head leveled, don’t panic,” Shane Morlock, attacker for the Mustangs, said. “It’s a long game — 80 minutes, so we just kept our composure at the end of the day and executed our game plan.”

As the game came wound down, and the score stood at 9–4 for the ‘Stangs, the Badgers were desper-ate to catch up — a desire which led to some fairly chippy play. Matt Fountain and Matt Goetz of the Badgers were penalized for aggres-sively pushing out a Mustang. Things only got worse for Brock when Jake Lambert got injured with just three minutes left into the game. Under-manned and out-played, the Badgers tried their best, but succumbed to the firepower of the Mustangs, and ultimately losing 13–5.

Follow your Mustangs when they travel to Hamilton on September 20 to take on the McMaster Marauders.

Men’s HockeyHockey season is back and the Mustangs men’s hockey team looks primed for another great season. Although they only have one exhibi-tion game under their belt, the team won a convincing 4–2 victory in their game on Friday in Komoka, Ontario against the Guelph Gryphons.

The Mustangs had nine power play opportunities in the game — a total of 38 minutes in the sin bin for Guelph. A penalty at 10:47 granted Mustangs centre Adam McKee the opportunity to get the first goal of the game, and two more followed by the end of the second period. Though Guelph did push back to get two goals in the net, they couldn’t rally in their eventual 4–2 loss.

Although the Mustangs claimed victory, it was a choppy game with a lot of fighting back and forth between the teams for puck pos-session. This is understandable and expected so early in the year, with both teams just getting a feel for the ice once again.

This season, the Mustangs will also have to get reacquainted to their returning head coach, Clarke Singer — who missed last season, and passed the reins off to assistant coach, Pat Powers.

The Mustangs will be staying home for their next preseason game — the annual East West Tournament at Thompson Arena. McGill, Waterloo and Queen’s will be among the competition this Thursday, with the Mustangs kick-ing things off against the McGill Redmen.

—Nusaiba Al-Azem

Women’s Cross Country

The Mustangs women’s cross coun-try team kicked off their season with a number one overall placing with 26 points at the McGill Martlet Open 4 km run this past Saturday.

Six Mustangs placed individu-ally in the top 10 ranking despite the 11-degree, cloudy weather in Montreal on Saturday. Amanda Truelove took the number one spot with a time of 14 minutes and 14 seconds — far surpassing the seco nd-place holder Kaleigh Kenny from Williams College EPH by 20 seconds.

Becky Pieterson, Katie Bell, Grace Kary, Bridget Pyke and Melissa Caruso were the other five Mustangs runners to rank in the top 10, plac-ing fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth and tenth, respectively.

The Mustangs win was incredibly impressive considering their com-petition of over 250 runners from 21 teams, including McGill’s Olympic Cross Country team.

The Mustangs women’s cross country team will be hosting the Western International tournament in London on September 21. Top teams will compete to knock the top-ranking Mustangs women’s team off of their proverbial throne. However, if the performance at the McGill Martlet Open is any indication of how the Western International tournament will play out, the Mustangs will stay on top.

—Caitlin Martin Newnham

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