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London police continue investigationalleged sexual assault in rez

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CONSENT CONCERNS. according to London police, an alleged sexual assault occurred in an undisclosed residence on September 16.

Jesica HurstNewS editor

The London Police Service is look-ing for more information on an al-leged sexual assault that took place at a Western residence.

According to Dennis Rivest, media relations officer for the Lon-don Police Service, the assault—which was reported to London police late last week—occurred be-tween approximately 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. on September 16.

“At the present stage of the in-vestigation, there’s nothing that in-dicates that this was an incident of a stranger-on-stranger violence,” Rivest said. “Clearly, the investiga-tion is still continuing, but we’re not releasing which residence it was.”

Susan Grindrod, associate vice-president for housing and ancillary services, said that housing is doing all they can to support the victim during this difficult time.

“Housing’s role is to support the survivor and give him or her referrals to professional support on campus, or in the community,” Grindrod said. “There are many options open to a survivor, includ-ing Student Health Services, Stu-dent Development Centre and the Regional Sexual Assault and Do-

mestic Violence Treatment Centre at St. Joseph’s Hospital.”

Although these situations can happen regardless of the train-ing and education put into place, Grindrod explained the safety of students is the highest priority for the university, and they are doing everything they can to ensure the campus is a safe place to live.

“We, as a university, work dili-gently to instill in our students that safety is a shared responsibility,” she said.

After the alleged assault was reported to police, Western News published a news release online, which included safety tips stu-dents could use to stay safe. Al-though Myuri Komaragiri, vice-president campus issues for the University Students’ Council, un-derstands why the university took this approach, she believed includ-ing more information would have been beneficial.

“Upon first read, there are some aspects of the [news release] that are problematic,” Komaragiri said. “I will say that I understand the university’s approach, as it’s always good to remind people of safety tips in any kind of situation, but the feedback I’m getting is about the way in which it’s presented—it’s kind of a larger societal thing

where we tend to put the blame on the victim.”

“Instead of saying the victim should not be putting themselves in a situation where they are going to be attacked, we should be focus-ing on the fact that there are per-petrators of this violence. It would have been nice to see a balance.”

Jess Rueger, coordinator of I Know Someone, a campaign tar-geted at sexual violence, agreed the university’s response to the issue should have targeted perpetrators of sexual violence.

“Staff should be educating stu-dents on what sexual violence looks like, how to respond appro-priately to it as an active bystander and how to support other students who come to them disclosing their experiences,” Rueger said. “If West-ern cares about its students, they really need to show it by keeping students safe instead of re-vic-timizing them by blaming them for what happens to them at the hands of nasty people.”

If anyone has any information about this incident, they are urged to contact London police or Crime Stoppers.

HOCO parade no longer downtown

aaron ZaltzmanNewS editor

This year’s homecoming parade will come a little closer to home, as it will be held solely on campus, rather than starting downtown as it has for the past several years. The decision was made by the Univer-sity Students’ Council in response to the news that the London Police Service would be unable to provide officers for the parade.

“London police, in the past, have basically given us pro bono service, but this year they indicated they wouldn’t be able to secure the route,” Adam Fearnall, president of the USC, said. “We were left with an unbudgeted expense that we would have had to go to council with, but, based on student feed-back, we decided to make a go of hosting it on campus.”

Sergeant Ryan Scrivens of the London Police Service’s traffic management unit said the police could not afford to provide security for free this year.

“The cost wasn’t going to be en-tirely unloaded on the university, but there was going be a cost de-pending on the route that was cho-sen, because that would determine the number of officers,” Scrivens said.

Fearnall explained the police gave the dwindling attendance of the parade, compared to other, better-attended events, as a reason for the change this year.

“For example, if you take the Santa Claus parade, the police know there’s going to be a signifi-cant number of people from the city drawn to the event,” Fear-nall explained. “So it makes sense

to staff it, and not have to worry about pulling officers from other parts of the city.”

“However, the police service thought that for the homecoming parade—given the low turnout—it didn’t make a lot of sense to pull people from areas where there’s still a need for police.”

Scrivens cited the increased need for police presence during the rest of homecoming as an ex-ample of other priorities for the force.

“I can’t have officers assigned to a parade if they have to work that night and into the morning.”

Erin Uberig, vice-president stu-dent events for the USC, said she wasn’t surprised to hear about the dwindling attendance.

“You don’t see a ton of students getting super excited about the pa-rade—not many of them would list it as the highlight of their home-coming,” Uberig said. “So we de-cided to focus on the quality of the parade, rather than the length and location.”

“We’re also going to try to push the parade back later in the day […] so more students can sleep in, and then come out and see it.”

Fearnall explained the location of next year’s parade would be re-visited later in the year.

“I think it will be interesting to see what the student feedback is. [The campus parade] is not the only way to go,” Fearnall said. “We’d be just as happy to put the parade back downtown, but it would be up to the council whether or not that’s something to be budgeted for.”

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CLaSSE action against tuition

Quebec student group Coalition large de l’Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante will continue to fight tuition hikes in the wake of the fall of Jean Charest’s Liberal provincial government.

“With another four years of Charest, we may have seen those tuition hikes maintained,” Jérémie Bédard-Wien, secretary of finance

for CLASSE, said. “CLASSE created such a strong social pressure on the previous government, and the new government, to put through progressive measures.”

However, the fight against hikes is not over. The recently elected Parti Québécois has proposed a tu-ition freeze subject to inflation as a compromise, one that CLASSE continues to object to.

“That’s hardly a tuition freeze—what they’re proposing is a hike in disguise,” Bédard-Wien argued.

As for future communication, the PQ has proposed an education summit, but according to Bédard-Wien, CLASSE has not made a de-cision yet due to the lack of infor-mation. “We would like to see what the summit will be about, such as what topics the government will allow us to address,” he said.

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Although Apple products are known for their cutting-edge tech-nology and quality, it appears that their mapping software has fallen below the mark, which could cause problems with, among other things, new students trying to nav-igate the university as the school year begins.

“If I’m looking at campus spe-cifically, I can see street names, but I don’t know where any of the buildings are,” Patrick Whelan, a fourth-year social science student, said.

Despite Apple Maps’ issues, there is some speculation that it could be due to Apple’s inexperi-ence with such software, consid-ering that Google Maps had previ-ously been the dominant navigator of choice.

Despite the map application, Whelan still sounded satisfied with the iPhone in general.

“It’s beautiful. I waited in line for several hours. After soph pub, I went straight to Masonville, and waited in line from 3 a.m. till 8 a.m. It was good fun,” Whelan said.

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Bell strengthens cell service on campus

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BOOSTING JUICE. western and Bell have partnered to bring improved cellular service to the university by installing new signal boosters, fiber-optic cables and antennae.

Julian UziellioNLiNe editor

If you’ve noticed an improved sig-nal on your Bell or Telus mobile de-vice on campus over the past week, that’s no accident—today, West-ern announced a new partnership with Bell to bring improved cellu-lar service to the University Com-munity Centre, Concrete Beach and the surrounding area. Bell has committed to $3 million over the next three years to improve cellu-lar coverage on campus.

With the proliferation of smart-phones and other devices, there has been an explosion in cellular network usage on campus over the past few years, resulting in wide-spread service problems.

Mona Brennan-Coles, telecom-munications business manager for ITS, explained the new cellular sys-tem does more than just boost ex-isting signal.

“The best part of all of this is that we’re not just plucking [the signal] out of the air —if you buy a home booster system, you’re plucking it out of the air and you’re still competing with everyone. This is actually trunked in on fiber. So all of a sudden, now, we have our own signal separate from the sur-rounding area,” she said.

The improvement in service is facilitated by a new system of fiber-optic cable, signal boosters and antennae. There are two in-build-ing signal boosters in the UCC and Student Services Center, and a new set of antennae on the roof of D.B. Weldon Library.

The antennae on the Weldon roof are specifically to improve re-ception on Concrete Beach.

“Rather than being angled in a

big umbrella to cover a wide area, it’s actually been focused down at Concrete Beach to give Concrete Beach improved signal. So there is a very real expectation that Steven-son-Lawson, Somerville and some of the buildings right around Con-crete Beach will see improvements in cellular service that you would not expect if the configuration was different,” Brennan-Coles said.

Increasing Western’s signal ca-pacity should also mean improved service for Bell and Telus custom-ers who live near campus.

“People who live around the campus—students and non-stu-dents alike—will see improved ser-vice simply because Western won’t be draining all the cell signal onto campus,” Brennan-Coles said.

So far, Rogers has declined to participate. However, their West-ern customers received a notice-able boost last year with the addi-tion of two new towers in London.

The signal improvement is part of a recently cemented busi-ness partnership between Bell and Western that will see West-ern employees offered discounted rates for mobile contracts—a perk that Brennan-Coles said couldn’t be extended to students for legal reasons.

“The challenge with students is the following—the pricing that the university gets is based on Ontario government pricing, and all pub-licly funded institutions are eligi-ble for that, but one of the restric-tions is you have to work at one of those institutions and use the phone for business or work,” she said. “So what Bell will be looking to offer the students are attractive residential promotions.”

Project LEARN curtails student partying

London cops crack down

Cam SmithNewS editor

While some students may be get-ting ready to crack open some beers this homecoming weekend, London police have been cracking down on liquor offences, among other alcohol-related violations.

Project Liquor Enforcement and Noise Reduction has recently published statistics on the number of offences committed this year, and they are up dramatically. Al-most 700 more offences were re-ported this year than last.

“It’s tough to answer [why] right at this moment, because we’re right in the midst of our project,” Dennis Rivest, media relations of-ficer for the London Police Service, said.

LEARN’s presence was in-creased significantly in the wake of the Fleming Drive riots earlier this year, in order to prevent a similar incident from occurring again.

“As we have indicated in the past, in light of what has transpired from St. Patrick’s Day, we don’t want to allow something like that to occur again,” Rivest explained. “Therefore, we take the strict en-forcement approach.”

However, as its acronym would suggest, LEARN is about more than reactive law enforcement.

“Project LEARN is specifically to educate people in and around student housing about respectful behaviour,” Rivest said. “It’s about being respectful to the neighbours, and being a responsible part of our community.”

He also noted that homecom-ing weekend would see a rise in li-quor and other violations.

“Certainly, the number of of-fences is going to be higher by the end of the weekend,” Rivest as-serted. “Offences such as drinking in public, public intoxication, uri-nating in public and tickets under the noise bylaw—those are the common ones.”

Yet, this rigorous crackdown has been tough on some students looking to host a party.

“We had a party this past Fri-day,” Tyler Rothfels, a fourth-year social science student, said. “The cops showed up at 9:30 p.m., […] no one was making a lot of noise. We were just keeping to ourselves, on our own property.”

According to Rothfels, this strict monitoring of parties is a direct re-sult of last year’s riots.

“This is absolutely the backlash from the Fanshawe riots last year,” he explained. “It’s just too bad that we’re being forced to feel the whiplash.”

Despite more offences being reported elsewhere in London, things remain relatively serene on campus.

“I wouldn’t say we’ve noticed any increases of offences on cam-pus, it seems to be very similar to previous years,” Elgin Austen, di-rector of Campus Community Po-lice Services, explained. “I think for 35,000 students and the number of problems we have, they’re pretty minimal.”

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Arts&Life funfactPigs always sleep on their right side.

Haters gonna HATES

ross HamiltonCoNtriButor

GGFFFDirector: Mark TonderaiStarring: Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue

It seems unlikely that there will be a film this year with a title less in-spiring than House at the End of the Street—British director Mark Tonderai’s lacklustre contribution to the PG-13 horror genre. Unfor-tunately, the generic name sets the tone perfectly for things to come, and despite boasting the excellent Jennifer Lawrence in the lead role, HATES—as it has been abbrevi-ated—never aspires to be anything other than a rudimentary ‘thriller.’

The premise is appropriately straightforward—Lawrence plays strong-minded teenager Elissa, who, along with her irritating mother (Elisabeth Shue), moves from the city to a country town in-habited by a cast of horror movie stereotypes. There’s the stuck-up rich kid, the compassionate local cop and the quiet recluse with a mysterious past, who live in—you guessed it—the house at the end of the street.

Naturally, Elissa befriends Ryan (Max Thieriot), the recluse, and for the most part things play out as ex-pected from there. There are a cou-

ple of minor plot deviations, but otherwise HATES is formulaic to a fault, falling back time and time again on clichéd scenarios pilfered from other, better horror movies. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and had the overall execution been up to scratch it might have worked, but some excruciating dialogue, stilted performances and a pecu-liar mix of editing styles combine to give the film a tedious, amateur-ish quality.

On top of all this, HATES suf-fers from another fundamental problem in that it just isn’t all that frightening. Tonderai consistently relies on cheap, predictable shock-scares and the approach rapidly wears thin, provoking boredom and frustration instead of fear and suspense.

If there is any satisfaction to be had, it’s that, at just over ninety minutes, the film zips along at a fair pace, and doesn’t linger.

There really isn’t much more to say about House at the End of the Street. If it was spectacularly bad it might have found an audience as an inadvertent comedy, but it doesn’t inspire ridicule so much as it does apathy.

If HATES is remembered at all, it will be as a sub-par film with an A-list star, but the likelihood is that within a few weeks HATES will have faded away into welcome obscurity.

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Local artists celebrate compilation album

the spirit of indie music

Laura trabuccoCoNtriButor

It’s an important week for live music in London. Two years ago, APK Live opened its doors on Wellington Street. Since then, the unique venue has earned a well-deserved reputation for showcas-ing exceptional live music and fos-tering local talent.

A year later, on the same week of APK Live’s first anniversary, Matt Trocchi founded promotion com-pany and arts collective Half A Dino. He explains that what began as promoting shows at APK has become an important part of the local music scene, bringing good—but not necessarily well-known—music to London. To celebrate this special week, Half a Dino gathered twelve of London’s most talented up and coming artists together for a special local compilation CD.

An eclectic mix of London’s indie talent, the tracklist show-cases a dynamic group of local art-ists. Trocchi himself has been a part of the scene since grade nine as a member of the band Say Domino. He is proud of the talent that Half A Dino’s new album showcases.

“These are bands that are the best representation of the music scene in London right now,” he ex-plains. “We’re just trying to get peo-ple exposed to good music.”

Sam Allen, whose song “Love Like a River” is featured on the album, believes the record is a great way to access the exciting and talented musicians who are working in London right now.

“There’s a lot of great music happening just outside the West-ern bubble, students only need to look a little outside of their comfort zones to find a very eclectic and ex-citing scene, full of music that I’m

sure they’ll love,” Allen says.He describes his own music as a

more interesting type of indie pop or rock music. “We try to do some weird things, work with different ideas that wouldn’t necessarily be expected from your typical pop song,” Allen explains. The same can be said of most of the tracks found on the new album. While no two songs are quite alike, all em-body the quintessential spirit of indie music.

Folk band Lonnie in the Garden displays a pretty melody and deep lyrics. The mountain, the forest, the earth is a band that relies on tribal drumming and smooth bass for a sound that is entirely different and yet just as enticing. Each art-ist has something different to offer, but all aspire towards their own unique sound.

Joe Thorner of Wild Domestic says he is very happy with the com-pilation. He credits the tight-knit indie community with a measure of their success.

“I feel our ‘do-it-yourself’ men-tality has been a positive,” Thorner says. “We’ve been putting together

events ourselves and with the help of people like Matt [Trocchi] and the people from APK Live, […] so many people have been working really hard to make a name for our projects.”

Fellow band member Andrew Lennox also stresses this sense of community, and urges students to be adventurous and discover what the London music scene has to offer. “Our aim is to develop a sense of community among listeners […] we know that people will appreci-ate what’s happening here.”

Half A Dino’s local compilation album is only a small glimpse into the passion and pride that char-acterizes the live music scene in London right now. The new album is a testament to the creativity and hard work of London’s local musi-cians, as well as the first step into a flourishing community that truly has something special to offer.

Check out 10 of the 12 bands fea-tured on Half A Dino’s first compi-lation album at APK Live tonight. Doors open at 7 p.m. and admis-sion is $5. The album will also be available for $10.

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GGGHFVarious Artists Half a Dino Local Compilation Half a Dino

Half a Dino, a London concert-booking and musician collective, is celebrating their first anniversary with a compilation album of all local music.

The Half a Dino Local Compi-lation is an eclectic mix of talent grown in the Forest City, showcas-ing the diversity of London’s local music scene.

The genre-spanning album is definitely geared towards indie

music lovers. Rounded out by some fantastically catchy indie rock tunes from artists like More More, Wild Domestic and Amity Beach, there’s also a healthy dose of electronic and experimental songs for more adventurous ears.

Take the track “Save Return” by Gym Zsahib—if you took the music from eight-bit video games and mated it with dubstep, you might wind up with something re-sembling this track. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing.

You would be hard-pressed to find a person who likes every song on this compilation—from indie pop, to metal, to trance-y electro tracks, this compilation covers a lot of ground. But liking every song probably isn’t the point—London artists create all kinds of music, and all kinds of people will find something to like on this album.

If you’ve been longing to get to know the local music scene a bit better, now’s your chance.

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toronto band produces giant dreamsSumedha arya

artS & Life editor

Toronto-based band Bravestation released their first album Giants & Dreamers this past summer. To-night, Bravestation will play Lon-don at Call the Office. Derek Wil-son, the band’s guitarist, took some time to talk to the Gazette about Bravestation’s origins, their album Giants & Dreamers and the feed-back the band’s been receiving for their new album.

Gazette: Bravestation has been gaining a lot of popularity lately— how did you get stArteD?

Derek Wilson: We’ve been a four-piece band since 2009. I met our keyboardist at a recording arts school in Toronto. Prior to that, I was making music with my brother and our drummer for a few years. We’ve been Bravestation for only a few years—but we’ve been to-gether longer than thAt.

Gazette: Was there a certain point when you decided to expAnD?

Wilson: When I went on to record-ing school, I took the audio engi-neering program. Andrew Hep-pner, who plays keyboards, was in the same group as I for a year. We had a school project for which we had to record a demo. We thought, ‘why don’t we just make our own band’? We put in crazy 12-hour ses-sions for a couple months on end, and came out with a demo in 2009. Andrew ended up taking up key-board—that’s where it all started

for us. Andrew has recorded all of our albums aS well.

Gazette: Giants & Dreamers was released this past summer —was there a certain inspiration for that album?

wilSon: The record has a lot of lyr-ics that carry themes about differ-ent things. Musically, we were after elements of tribal rhythm with electronic instruments. We wanted something that harkened back to something tribal-esque, but some-thing that also had a futuristic ele-ment to it. As far as instrumenta-tion and vibe goes, you really hear 80s-inspired instrumentation. The overall concept of the record was [to create] something that was fu-turistic, but that contained ele-ments of the past as well.

GAzette: What kind of feedback have you been receiving for Giants & Dreamers?

wilSon: It’s been fantastic. People who enjoy the record seem to really understand what we were trying to create. [The album] is not immedi-ately accessible after one or two lis-tens. There are a lot of subtleties we added to make it more complex—you need to take your time with the album to appreciate it. But over-all, [the feedback] has been great. There have been positive reviews in the Toronto Star.

GAzette: You’re based in Toronto, and you’re coming to London this week—where else are you performing?

wilSon: We’re primarily doing sup-port spots in Toronto right now.

We’ve basically been trying to build an audience online. I think we’re actually back in London at Fan-shawe on October 19 doing a show on campus.

Recently, we just opened for Imag-ine Dragons, a band from Las Vegas. We played that show last Monday at The Opera House—it has huge capacity, and the crowd was so receptive. Those are the kinds of opportunities we are look-ing for. We like playing with bands we enjoy listening to.

GAzette: What do you have planned for the future?

wilSon: We’re working on new ma-terial right now. Hopefully, we’ll be putting out a handful of singles early in the new year.

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Opinions i’ve yet to be on a campus where most women weren’t worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children and a career. i’ve yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

—Gloria Steinem, american feminist and political activist

Consent should be

top priorityWhen an email concerning a sexual assault was sent out to all students living in residence last week, the campus population began to question the wording of the message and if it was another case of victim blaming.

In addition to the news about the sexual assault, the email contained a number of key safety messages. Issues arose due to the fact that these safety tips put an emphasis on victim actions, such as drinking too much or leaving a door unlocked.

While the safety tips included aren’t inherently wrong or unneeded, their pairing with news about the sexual assault implied that the victim of the alleged assault was partly to blame. Though residence security and staff wished to address the rumors and keep everyone safe, the message felt one-sided and lacked other important information, like tips on what everyone can do to prevent assaults from happening on campus, not just the victims.

While it may seem naive to direct safety messages towards the perpetrators of sexual assault, the victims aren’t the only aspect involved in such assault cases. News about the assault could have easily been distanced from the safety tips in the message—tips that could’ve been delivered during homecoming weekend where excess drinking could have been linked to an eventful weekend, as opposed to the victim in the sexual assault case.

That said, this incident hasn’t shifted the perspective of residence safety. With large portions of O-Week and residence programming dedicated to alcohol safety, as well as issues of consent and sexual respect, students in residence still have plenty of information available to them. The dynamic of the floor is also a significant part of feeling safe in residence. Though many sexual assaults aren’t committed by strangers, the contained environment of residence in addition to the large amount staff and sophs make for a relatively safe environment.

So will residence security now crack down on sexual assaults? Perhaps, but with a number of other, more prevalent residence issues, such as theft and vandalism, it’s doubtful that residence officials can take steps that they haven’t already taken. They might even want to take a step back, handling delicate situations like sexual assaults more intimately, instead of alerting the entire residence population before the assault was confirmed.

—The Gazette Editorial Board

Exposure, not requirement

I am tired of the bias surrounding the elections hack.

In March, when Adam Fearnall won the re-election, complaints hinted that Jon Silver’s team believed he won the first election—though results were kept secret by the University Students’ Council.

Last year, I thought the paper was annoyingly politicized throughout the elections, and this year I am dismayed that the same old biases have been dragged out again. Comments such as “Adam Fearnall, USC president and one of those most affected by Horwood’s hack” and “Adam Fearnall wins the re-vote” imply that someone else—Jon Silver, perhaps—won the first vote, al-though it remains unknown and unable to be proven.

The final paragraph of the opinions piece condemning Horwood is little more than a temper tantrum. While it is technically true that the “second elec-tion [had] no guarantee that the results would be the same as the first,” and “Horwood could have cost a candidate their spot on the USC,” it is fairly safe to assume, without any contrary evi-dence, that Fearnall’s 1000-ballot lead, with little to no difference in turnout between elections, led to the accurate result.

Speculative at best, childishly re-dundant at worst, your elections cover-age is hopefully over.

Stop whining and act like the grown-up newspaper we love.

—Nathan TeBokkelScience IV

Cam SmithNewS editor

Undoubtedly, gender and women’s studies courses are at the vanguard of social change. Ignorance breeds op-pression, while education combats it. Thus, when the York Federation of Stu-dents proposed to make women’s stud-ies a mandatory course for students, you’d think it would be a great idea.

Wrong.What breeds resentment in a fresh-

men more than being forced into something? Finally inundated in inde-pendence, there is nothing more pain-ful than authorities telling people they have to take a course they’ve never had an interest in.

What better way to further entrench the foolish, but pervasive notion that feminists are pushy, demanding and unreasonable? It is remarkably appar-

ent that making a women’s study course mandatory is not an effective means of combating ignorance and patriarchal corruption.

So, what are we to do about it? With ridiculous concepts of gender iden-tity being enforced by the media every day, sexual assaults occurring far too frequently and hyper-masculinity still perceived as a virtue by many young people, must we merely sit on our asses?

Forcing students to take women’s studies is not the solution. The pro-gram is not without merits, but it is the university’s responsibility to provide proper exposure and accessibility, and it is the responsibility of professors to market a course in a desirable and at-tainable way. Women’s and gender studies is an undeniably valuable tool to combat ignorance.

So, how do we best utilize this tool? Promote it. Target courses to a more di-verse audience—not necessarily those already passionate about women’s and gender studies. Make it hip, encourage students who may have been on the fence to give it a shot.

Realistically, those who are least in-

clined to take this course would be the most bigoted, the most ignorant and the most in need of such studies. This type of person is more likely to mock the program than sign up for it.

Some might ask, ‘aren’t these the exact people we wish to change by mak-ing it mandatory?’ No. Rather than fur-ther alienating them and giving them ammunition for their hatred, let’s target those less set in their ignorance.

Focus on the changeable. There are many students underexposed to gen-der education. These people are sus-ceptible to the culture of hyper-mascu-linity and arrogance.

Women’s studies should provide an attractive venue for those looking to learn more—a course that extols the virtue of education and condemns ignorance.

While not everyone will take it will-ingly, not everyone has to. With greater exposure, the education imparted by women’s studies will inevitably be dis-seminated into wider culture.

Smoth soundin’ off

Election bias

weeklypollKeith Horwood, the Western vote hacker, has been

ordered to pay $10,000 in damages and complete 100 hours of community service. is that a fair punishment?

No — $10k is too harsh. 66%

Yes — The punishment fits the crime. 24%

There was a hacker? 7%

No —It’s not harsh enough. 3%

Vote on next week’s poll at westerngazette.ca

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Sports tweet of the week@drewbrees: “ironic that our league punishes those based on conduct detrimental. whose CoNduCt is detriMeNtaL now?”

—drew Brees airs his frustration on the recent state of the NfL and the controversy around the replacement officials.

rundown >> This week’s CIS rankings were released and the Mustangs are among the top in the country > After a successful weekend at the Western Invita-tional, the women’s cross country team is ranked fourth in Canada, while the men’s team is in ninth | For the first time this season, the women’s rugby team has cracked the top 10, sitting in 10th spot currently.

Frustrated Mustangs scoreless in losing effortGryphons score much-needed win

richard raycraftSPortS editor

The Mustangs men’s soccer team was shut out 2-0 by the visiting Guelph Gryphons on Sunday. The loss puts the team at a record of three wins, two losses and two draws on the season.

“[It was] very frustrating, I’m very disappointed,” Rock Basacco, Mustangs coach, reflected. “It’s unfortunate because we played so well on Friday and we’ve basically taken three steps back with that performance.”

The win was a much-needed one for Guelph, who snapped a three game losing streak with the victory. They have now racked up three wins and four losses this season.

“We’ve played well recently, we just haven’t been putting the ball in the net, and today we did,” Keith Mason, Guelph’s coach, said. “Western had possession, but they didn’t really test our goalie too many times, and created a number of chances down at their end, so I’m very happy with this performance.”

The Mustangs controlled the game early, creating a number of threatening chances in the Guelph end, including a rocket of a shot that went soaring just over the crossbar.

Guelph had their chances early too, in no small thanks to a referee who seemed prone to being hit by the ball. The second instance nearly led to a breakaway for the Gryphons, and the Mustangs were not particularly keen on hiding their frustration.

“Again! That’s the second time he’s done that—the second time!” an angry Mustang shouted on the field.

At just over 20 minutes into the contest, the Gryphons crossed the ball deep in Mustang territory.

Mustang keeper Ivan Skoko was caught slightly out of position on the pass, and Jared Agyemang fired the ball into the webbing to put Guelph up 1-0.

Despite a few Mustang chances late in the first half, they just could not find the net and the Mustangs headed to the locker room down by a goal.

Despite the half-time rest, and a couple of substitutions, the Mus-tangs looked tired and unmoti-vated as they scrambled to hold off a renewed Guelph attack. Late in the second half, the Guelph strat-egy switched to defence, and the Mustangs failed to find a chink in the Gryphons’ armor.

At 83 minutes, Guelph man-aged to pick off a pass in the Mus-tang zone. The ball was again sent to Agyemang, who scored his sec-ond goal of the game to put the Gryphons up 2-0. The goal put the game virtually out of reach for the Mustangs.

Despite fighting back for the last seven minutes of the game, the Mustangs were unable to put a single goal up on the scoreboard as the game ended with a score of 2-0.

“We started off alright, but then we gave up a weak goal and it kind of fell apart from there,” Eric Amato, captain of the Mustangs, said. “We have to work harder.”

Frustration was in no short supply on the Mustangs bench throughout the contest. Basacco made it clear following the game that what the Mustangs needed most was some basic drive.

“It all comes back to desire and wanting to win, and wanting to play,” he said. “Right now, we don’t have everyone on that same page, so we’ve got some work to do.”

The Mustangs will look to bounce back on Wednesday against the Brock Badgers. The game will take place at 8:15 p.m. at TD Waterhouse Stadium.

Corey Stanford Gazette

LOOK MA, NO HANDS! Despite numerous close chances throughout the contest, the Mustangs men’s soccer team failed to tally a single goal and were shut out by the Guelph Gryphons 2-0 on Sunday. The Mustangs are now 3-2-2 this season.

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Although he won his last decision, I still have to ask. What’s wrong with Ricky Romero this year?

Alexander Ryan, Sociology III

There has been increased spec-ulation as of late that Ricky Rome-ro’s woes have been the product of his changeup being too good.

The changeup, which has been Romero’s bread and butter pitch in the past, has lost a couple of miles an hour in velocity, and the result-ing increase in movement may be causing batters to lay off this pitch. With the changeup giving the bat-ter an automatic ball in this case, Romero has been falling into more hitter’s counts, and giving them more chances to swing at some-

thing in the middle of the zone or take a walk.

Further evidence of this can be seen in the games where Romero has pitched well, as they usually came off an extended break, where his changeup was back to it’s old speed.

Faith in his ability to rebound next year remains high.

Do you think there is a real pos-sibility that the NHL would move the Edmonton Oilers franchise to Seattle?

Cecil Wentsmith, Psychology IV

Firstly, I’m not Gary Bettman so I really can’t tell you anything for certain, but what I can say is

that I certainly hope the franchise stays in its rightful place, and that’s Edmonton.

The Edmonton Oilers have a storied history, and although, in re-cent years, the team has occupied a place in the bottom of the stand-ings, loyal Oilers fans stand by their team. Removing the team from the city would devastate not only the city’s residents, but also the citi-zens of Canada.

And think about this—in Se-attle, an NHL team would not be in the forefront of people’s minds. The city already has a NFL team and we all know Americans and their football. We already have enough NHL teams barely treading water in the U.S.—we don’t need to

add another.Alright guys, I have to ask—Se-

ahawks’ touchdown or Packers’ interception?

Alan Stevens, Biology II

There’s no way to dance around this direct question, so I’ll just come out and say it—I agree with the call, and think it was a touchdown. Before you get all angry, let me explain why.

For those not in the know, there’s a rule called simultaneous catch. In a nutshell, this rule says that, in the event that two players both catch a pass, possession goes to the pass-ers. Now, clearly M.D. Jennings of Greenbay had both hands on the ball, while Golden Tate of Seattle had one—at first.

The key here is knowing how and when possession is determined. Pos-session is not established until both of the player’s feet are on the ground. If you watch video replays as closely as I have, you’ll see that, by the time Jennings’ second foot touches down, Tate has two hands on the ball.

Hence, simultaneous catch and touchdown.

Although I agree with the end call, I don’t think the refs handled it correctly. Instead of meeting on the field for a final consultation, they went straight to replay. Although they could have overturned the call (possession on a simultaneous catch is reviewable in the end zone), they didn’t, and I think that was the right decision.

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