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Campus > Learning
New flight
plan arrives
for WebCT
Cheryl Stone
NEWS EDITOR
Think WebCT OWL could be better?
Western wants to know how.
Information Technology Ser-
vices has launched the OWL Flight
plan, a campaign to select a
replacement for the online learning
platform using feedback from stu-
dents and faculty.
“We thought this would be a
great opportunity to survey campus
needs and look for a new platform,”
Jean Savage, associate director of
client support for ITS, explained.
WebCT will no longer be provid-
ed after January 2013 and ITS is
hoping to have a selection of
replacements in place by the begin-
ning of next year.
“There’s an enormous amount
of work that needs to be done,” Kim
Holland, distance studies co-ordi-
nator and instructional designer at
Western, explained. She noted it
wasn’t simply a matter of making
sure students could access the new
platform, but professors also need
to transfer information between the
old and new systems. She also
pointed out many other applica-
tions are integrated with WebCT,
such as Turnitin.com — connec-
tions that need to be maintained.
There’s an enormous
“ amount of work that
needs to be done.
— Kim Holland
Distance studies coordinator and
instructional designer at Western
ITS is looking for students, fac-
ulty, and staff to fill out an online
survey and submit suggestions for
the new platform, which can be
voted on.
“We needed a mechanism for
input, and an online survey seemed
like an appropriate way,” Holland
explained.
He noted WebCT users came
from different backgrounds and
used the program differently. He
added many faculty members have
used other similar programs, giving
more insight into what needs to be
reworked in the program.
“I’ve never really had a problem
>> see WIKI pg.3
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WESTERN’S DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1906
Four mayoral candidates came to campus yesterday to present their platforms to the University Students’ Council. The pre-
sentation came after a sparsely attended meet-and-greet at the Wave, which also included ward candidates.
Candidates on campus
And why students couldn’t care less
Zwellin’ it
like it is
Arden Zwelling
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
arden@westerngazette.ca
A free meal aside, there really wasn’t
much to the University Students’
Council’s candidate meet-and-
greet in the Wave yesterday.
Candidates from wards 6, 7 and
13 along with a few of the mayoral
nominees mingled indifferently dur-
ing their prime canvassing hours. A
handful of students showed up —
the kinds of students who are
already going to vote and probably
know who they’re going to vote for.
In all, 11 of the 15 invited candi-
dates showed up, which is better
than the roughly 28 per cent of Lon-
doners who voted in the last
municipal election.
Tomasz Winicki — mayoral can-
didate and self-proclaimed white
supremacist — didn’t show up,
which was a disappointment to
most of the assembled, especially
the USC who ordered in campus
police to make sure things didn’t get
too saucy.
Suiting up because Facebook told us since 1906
Mayoral incumbent Anne-Marie
DeCicco-Best wasn’t at the meet-
and-greet either, which was less of a
disappointment to the candidates,
who are clearly frustrated with her
front-runner position — the one
she’s held since becoming mayor in
2000.
In fact, more than half the may-
oral candidates weren’t there. And
can you blame them?
Most students couldn’t be both-
ered to learn when the election is,
let alone participate. If you wanted
to drum up anti-gun support, you
wouldn’t go to Texas.
Even the platforms of the legiti-
mate mayoral candidates are careful
not to mention students who, con-
trary to what we like to believe, real-
ly aren’t all that popular in London.
Joe Fontana wants to bring more
jobs to the city, which is noble, but
Western graduates aren’t even stick-
ing around for the jobs the city cur-
rently has.
Cynthia Etheridge glazes over
the environment — which, appar-
ently, students care about — a
couple of times in her platform
but never gets too far past green-
washing.
Eric Southern — whose website
welcomes you by saying he is “new
to politics” — is actually still a West-
ern student. Even he is smart
Corey Stanford GAZETTE
enough not to mention the Univer-
sity in his platform.
Much is said about how DeCic-
co-Best is being indifferently toler-
ated back into office. But she’s the
only legitimate candidate who
mentions students substantially in
her platform. She’s the only one
who has come to campus to canvas
residences. She’s the only one who
seems to give a damn about us.
And really, that’s fine. We don’t
vote. We can, we should, but we
don’t.
If you’re one of the poor folks
who has to go through this election
process, why would you target any
of your resources toward students
who probably couldn’t even tell you
who the mayor is.
The idealist inside me bemoans
the tens of thousands of students in
this town who will someday realize
if they put their energy behind a
candidate, they could actually
make some change or — gasp —
get someone elected.
They could have done it with
Elizabeth May, who was parachuted
onto campus four years ago to vie
for the Green Party’s elusive first fed-
eral seat in London North Centre.
But it’s not going to happen
though. We didn’t even show up to
the Wave on Wednesday for the
free meal.
VOLUME 104, ISSUE 19
When in
Rome,
drink
Study shows students
drink more when
studying overseas
Gloria Dickie
NEWS EDITOR
A recent study by researchers at the
University of Washington revealed
students who study abroad — espe-
cially those in Europe, New
Zealand, and Australia — often
double their alcohol intake,
increasing from a weekly average of
four beers while at home, to eight
while on exchange.
Evan Donnelly, a third-year
commercial aviation and manage-
ment student, spent last winter
enrolled in the European Business
School in Oestrich-Winkel, Ger-
many.
Germany, he surmised, has a
beer culture, and while he didn’t
think his drinking necessarily dou-
bled, he admitted it definitely
increased.
“Beer basically became water,”
he said. “There was no tax on alco-
hol. So when the cheapest wine is
two Euros for a bottle, you’re going
to grab two, and you’re going to
drink one today, and one tonight.”
Donnelly shed some light on
why students experience such a
spike in their drinking habits, not-
ing he often combined the North
American practice of binge drink-
ing at parties with the European
culture of casual drinking at meal-
>> see PRE-TRIP pg.3
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Txt n drv? Expect a fine
Awareness campaign reminds drivers
Kaleigh Rogers
NEWS EDITOR
In case you didn’t get the memo,
texting while driving is illegal, and
campus police think it’s time for a
reminder.
Three signs popped up on cam-
pus yesterday morning as part of
Campus Community Police Ser-
vice’s new campaign to raise aware-
ness about their enforcement of the
bans on texting while driving.
“We have had a number of com-
plaints about drivers driving through
[campus] and talking on their cell
phone,” Elgin Austen, director of
Campus Police, explained.
The three signs are located on
University Drive inside the gates,
Lambton Drive in front of the
Spencer Engineering Building, and
at the corner of Lambton Drive and
Huron Drive.
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CAMPUS POLICE WANTED — SPELLING SKILLS OPTIONAL. Located in front of the
Health Sciences Building, this sign is part of a campaign reminding student dri-
vers that texting while driving is illegal.
ten in abbreviated text to replicate The ban on texting while dri-
the short hand used when texting. ving, which also limits the use of
“It was done that way to get peo- any handheld communication or
ple’s attention. It does look cool,” entertainment device, such as an
Austen added. iPod, was put into effect in Febru-
ary of this year.
Since then the London Police
FREE Service has issued 385 tickets to
individuals for distracted driving,
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the Traffic Management Unit at
London Police.
“It is a problem because we
know that even more than, say, eat-
ing a ham sandwich, or combing
your hair, or changing the radio sta-
tions [...] talking and/or texting
divides your attention and your
focus from safe driving,” O’Brien
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been handed out to people in their
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Mary Hinton, a first-year sociol-
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learned the hard way not to use a
phone while driving when she got
into an accident while trying to
answer her phone a few years ago.
Since then, she chooses not to use
her phone at all when driving.
“I realized I was just being
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moronic,” Hinton said.
The new campaign is designed
to be proactive before a serious
accident like this occurs on cam-
pus, Austen said.
“We look at [Western] as a stu-
dent or pedestrian place, and dri-
+ tax vers need to exercise caution,” he
noted. “Being distracted by texting
isn’t one of the things that’s going to
be put up with.”
Aside from the safety risks,
answering your next text could land
you with a hefty fine of $155,
according to O’Brien.
The campaign also offers a
heads-up to drivers that campus
police will be cracking down on dis-
tracted driving and issuing tickets,
Austen said.
“We wanted to give everybody
fair warning, and this is more than a
fair warning,” he added.
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Wiki, blogs key to new WebCT
Short list is the next step
>> continued from pg.1
with it,” Vincent Willan, a second-
year social sciences student,
explained. “It’s well-organized if
you’re used to it.”
He added he would be filling out
the survey because the site didn’t
work well on the iPhone.
There will also be a UserVoice
forum for WebCT users. This forum
will allow people to input their sug-
gestions and other users can vote
on their suggestions. Suggestions
with the most votes rise to the top,
allowing ITS to select the most pop-
ular features to seek out in the new
platform.
“We’re looking for a product that
will do the most popular things
WebCT does, and then some,” Sav-
age explained. She noted she was
hoping to integrate more third-
party software and wanted to allow
students to look into other courses.
Holland also had several
improvements he wanted to see. He
Some lesser-known tools available
through Western’s WebCT OWL
Wimba Live Classroom
A video, audio and whiteboard system
that allows live conferencing between
professors and students. Professors
can embed PowerPoint presentations,
run screen-sharing and pass control to
students.
Registrar Class Schedule
A tool that synchs the WebCT course
code to the registrar’s office, where a
class schedule is provided.
Registar Scheduled Exams
Like above, this tool connects with
hoped to see more wiki and blog
functions, along with some
improvements to the current navi-
gation.
ITS will also be hosting meetings
with faculties to get as much input
as possible. They are hoping to fin-
ish information gathering by
November of this year, according to
Savage.
This is only the first stage in the
process. After the information is
gathered, ITS is planning on having
a shortlist of needed services to pre-
sent to companies.
“Then we will do a thorough
analysis, review, and research on
the short-listed products to select
the right one for Western — a prod-
uct that will meet as many of the
requirements as possible,” Savage
explained.
The replacement should be cho-
sen by September 2012.
Students who want to fill out a sur-
vey can visit webct.uwo.ca/owlflight-
plan and click “Get Involved”
the registrar to show scheduled
exams for the given course code.
Syllabus
Offers preset fields and structure to
create a syllabus directly within
WebCT instead of uploading a sepa-
rate Word or PDF file.
Wiki Space
Allows students to create, edit and
share content on an editable web-
site, similar to Wikipedia. Professors
can set up different wikis for differ-
ent groups or use one wiki for the
entire class.
In Depth > Alternatives
Moodle — An open-source software
package used for producing internet-
based courses. Features include a chat
function, poll function, ability to do
online quizzes, and the ability to add
wikis. It’s also free.
Claroline — Created to facilitate cours-
es and collaborative spaces online. Cur-
rently it offers the ability to create
online exercises for courses, manage
an agenda, create groups of students,
and see statistics of a user’s activity. It
is also an open-source software users
can edit.
Knowledge Direct Web — Largely
used for online courses, but is operable
both on computer and hand-held
devices, including cell phones. The pro-
gram allows for test creation, and tracks
student progress in the course. It is
largely based on Microsoft PowerPoint.
International > Study Abroad
Pre-trip training
addresses alcohol
>> continued from pg.1
time.
But Tania Batista, an engineer-
ing student who spent her
exchange at the University of
Freiburg, said she quickly grew
tired of the excess drinking.
“Even if we weren’t really in the
mood for beer, we’d go ahead and
have one at lunch because we’d use
the ‘I’m on exchange/vacation in
Germany’ excuse,” she explained.
“I turned 22 — that’s three years
of being legal. It just doesn’t have
the same excitement,” she contin-
ued. “[Alcohol] was just so available
— grocery stores, McDonald’s,
vending machines, cafeterias. The
excitement wore off within a cou-
ple of months.”
She found that many Germans
also shared this mentality.
“You don’t see the same level of
inebriation at the bar as you would
at Jack’s, for example. The only puk-
ers I witnessed the entire year were
a couple of American exchange stu-
dents who had been allowed to go
to the bars for the first time,” Batista
shared.
Bibiana Alcala Valencia, an
international exchange co-ordina-
tor at Western, noted the University
does provide students with a pre-
departure workshop, which covers
issues like culture shock and touch-
es on drinking.
•3
Mireya Folch-Serra, associate
professor in the department of
geography, said cultural differences
and attitudes towards alcohol affect
drinking overseas.
“In Europe, drinking wine and
beer is a natural thing. Wine is tra-
ditionally served at dinnertime.
Here you don’t serve wine every
day, but in France, Italy, Spain, etc.,
you have a jar of domestic wine.
Even the children have a little glass
of wine with water or lemonade,”
she said.
She also explained the European
bar scene was more commonly a
family affair, where children are
accompanied by their parents.
Additionally, at restaurants, wine
and beer are often included in the
price of the meal.
Folch-Serra observed that while
wine and beer may be common fix-
tures in the family home, spirits are
rare.
Donnelly’s experience reflects
this lifestyle. He acknowledged that
while his drinking didn’t substan-
tially decrease when he returned to
Canada, he switched from drinking
beer to hard liquor.
But Europe’s drinking culture
left longer lasting effects on some.
Tania Batista expressed that after
her time on exchange, she pretty
much quit drinking.
“After Oktoberfest, I never want-
ed to see beer again.”
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Opinions
Health sci is best sci
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Amani Elrofaie
EDITORIAL CARTOONIST
amani@westerngazette.ca
There’s no doubt the faculty of
health sciences is the best faculty at
Western and better for the world in
general. They’re also the humblest.
What I’m trying to say is the world
needs to know how vastly superior
health science is to plain ol’ science.
But before you astronomy,
mathematics, physics, and envi-
ronmental science students jump
out of your seats, you should know
I’m only talking about the biomed-
ical and health-oriented depart-
ments in science — all those pro-
grams geared for a future in medi-
cine and health care.
Simply put, health sciences is
better than science because it pre-
pares its students for the real world.
Health science students are out
learning about health in a critical
and holistic way — taking into
account not only biological, but
psychological, economic, emotion-
al and politicized perspective. Sci-
ence students are just hunched in a
Taylor cubicle or in the lab, observ-
ing mouse brains.
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Sure, you can say I’m generaliz-
ing things and being idealistic or
that observing mouse brains is the
first step for other science. The fact
is, the teaching methods, courses
and critical thought attitude of
health sciences can teach students
to function beyond medical school.
It teaches them to look beyond the
small biological processes and see
the big picture.
For example: give a science stu-
dent a boy with a broken arm.
They’ll think, “Gee, this boy has a
broken arm. Let’s put it in a cast!”
But a health science student?
Sure, they’ll look at the same boy
and think to put his broken arm in
a cast. But they’ll also be more like-
ly to address the boy’s emotional
and psychological needs; maybe
even find out why the boy broke his
arm in the first place. Does the boy
live in a low-income home with a
single parent who works all day and
can’t supervise him? Does the boy
have weaker bones? Am I boring
you? Maybe. But I’m also trying to
End of WebCT opens doors
show how health science teaches
students to dissect the situations Mention a certain word to any Western student and students are willing to spend their tuition on.
they’re presented with. you can expect to see them cringe. After persistent frus- The future of online course supplements will likely
There’s nothing wrong with trations, we’ve all been classically conditioned to shud- include a more interactive environment, like video
being super booksmart, as science der at its sound — WebCT. conferencing or live chats. But critical analysis of a
teaches you. Trust me — many of If you’ve attended the University for any length of novel is best discussed with a qualified professor — in
my friends are introverted nerd- time, you’ve probably had an issue of some kind with person. And those mathematical symbols aren’t just
burgers. But getting out in the WebCT. Because of this, students and faculty alike will going to make sense of themselves if you stare at your
world is incredibly important, and probably welcome the software’s expiration in 2013. screen long enough.
why I’m thankful I’m getting my It’s no secret — the system was dated and often had If online video streams and podcasts of lectures are
health science degree. problems running properly — but the blame can’t be provided, then that opens up a new dimension of
placed solely on the program. Without professors being learning.
properly trained to utilize WebCT’s potential, it’s not Suddenly, not only can you get a comparable
surprising its reception was strongly negative. experience to face–to–face teaching, you also get
But while WebCT will be scrapped in the foresee- supplementary material simultaneously. While the
able future, online learning is not something that is professor can only describe a graph or a curve so
going to disappear. Western is about to make a deci- well, playing around with an interactive version of
sion that will affect students on this campus for the their examples during lecture could save students
next several years. This time, they’d better get it right. from being confused in class, and needing to catch
If you’re just looking for an upgrade to WebCT, most up at home.
changes are obvious — a program with a user-friendly Such a jump in technology will obviously require a
interface, to start. A system without all of the annoying significant investment of time and resources, but after
pop-ups, disjointed frames and persistent errors that subscribing to a less–than–ideal system for so long, the
plagued the internet 10 years ago. same mistake can’t be made with the next choice. If
The real issue is the fact that online learning is cur- Western is going to move to the forefront of education,
rently a second–rate component to the in–person the move to a fully functional online system needs to be
classroom experience. And if the school wants to made — if anything, at least the collective cringe of the
evolve by incorporating more electronic learning into student population will soon be a thing of the past.
its curriculum, it’s going to need to produce a system —The Gazette Editorial Board
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Artists join for visual duet
Two artists unify one exhibit at gallery
Jennifer Munoz
CONTRIBUTOR
If you like art that requires contem-
plation and provokes imagination,
then the Forest City Gallery’s cur-
rent exhibition — a project in con-
junction with London Ontario Live
Arts — is the perfect place to spend
an afternoon.
Duet, a collaborative exhibit
between artists Andrew Forster
and William Basinski, is an exper-
iment in art and sound. It consists
of two projection screens back-to-
back in a dark room. Two videos
and two soundtracks play at the
same time, juxtaposed for artistic
effect.
Basinski’s Disintegration Loop is
a haunting melody played over a
video of New York City’s skyline on
Sept. 11, 2001. The camera is fixed,
and the only movement in the
video is the smoke billowing slowly
up from the wreckage of the Twin
Towers as day turns to night.
The title of the piece comes from
the quality of the audio — it was
recorded on an old tape reel and
disintegrated over a period of 20
years, lending a unique, disjointed
tone to the music.
Basinski’s melodies find a coun-
terpoint in Forster’s piece Duet —
the same name as the exhibit. It is a
performance piece inspired by the
struggle between a young suicide
bomber and the Israeli border
guards he surrendered to. The role
of the bomber is played by a busi-
nessman and a young woman takes
the role of the border guard. Rather
than fight over a bomb apparatus,
they fight over stripping off the
businessman’s suit.
The lack of context and the
unconventional casting leaves the
viewer unsure of what the artist is
trying to communicate, but lends
an interesting, and almost sexual
dynamic to the piece and creates an
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The piece is performed on a con-
tinuous loop with only the camera
angles changing. Duet’s soundtrack
is mainly background noise with an
occasional deep percussive effect —
a harsh contrast to the lighter music
of Disintegration Loop.
With Disintegration Loop’s more
complex and consistent composi-
tion overpowering that of Duet, the
interaction of the two pieces is less
of a “duet” than an aural skirmish.
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Cooking with Grace Review > Video Game Review > CD

Food substitutions Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock

Grace Davis
ARTS & LIFE EDITOR
It’s always frustrating when you’re
ready to bake something and find
you’re missing that one key ingredi-
ent. Let’s face it — normally you
would probably give up instead of
making the trek to the grocery store.
Luckily, there are ways to substi-
tute food ingredients without
changing the taste of the final prod-
uct. Here’s a list of substitutions so
the next time you run out of some-
thing you can still go through with
your cooking and baking plans.
Please visit our Website www.gardasil.ca
or contact your campus health services clinic for more information
Cornstarch
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
Brown sugar (1 cup)
1 cup granulated sugar plus 1 tbsp
molasses or dark corn syrup
Granulated sugar (1 cup)
1 cup light brown sugar (packed), or 2
cups powdered sugar, or 3/4 cup honey
(reduce liquid in recipe by 1/4 cup)
Sifted cake-and-pastry flour (1 cup)
1 cup all-purpose flour less 2 tbsp
Butter (1 cup)
1 cup margarine, or 7/8 cup oil plus 1/2 tsp
salt, or 3/4 cup olive oil shows its age though the imple- Brandon Flowers
Cream cheese Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock mentation of a gimmicky “quest” Flamingo
Part-skim ricotta cheese or low-fat cottage Released September 28, 2010 mode that replaces the career Island Records
cheese beaten until smooth Platform: Xbox360, Wii, and PS3 mode seen in previous games.
Vinegar Publisher: Activision Activision promised an engag- Attention Killers fans — Flamingo
Lemon juice
ing story to differentiate Warriors of is your best bet if you’re waiting for
Tomato sauce Alex MacKenzie Rock from previous chapters of the a new Killers album to be released.
3/4 cup tomato paste plus 1 cup water
CONTRIBUTOR series, but instead it has the same Flamingo is a step in the right
Baking powder (1 tsp)
old career mode with a more fan- direction for front man turned solo
1/4 tsp baking soda plus 1/2 tsp cream of
tartar Once upon a time, Guitar Hero tastical theme, cut scenes and nar- artist Brandon Flowers. Inevitably a
Unsweetened chocolate (1 oz) dominated dorm rooms across ration. This mode is far from excit- good portion of the songs sound
3 tbsp cocoa powder plus 2 1/2 tsp butter campus. But does the newest ing, and players may find them- like they were made for The Killers.
Buttermilk (1 cup) installment of the famed franchise selves dropping out in favour of However, the second half of the disc
1 cup milk mixed with 1 tbsp vinegar or hold up to its predecessors — or fall simply playing the songs at their shies away from The Killers’ pre-
lemon juice. Let stand for 10 minutes to flat on its face? own leisure in quick play. dictable pop songs.
coagulate.
Picking up Warriors of Rock may The second problem is while A huge range of instruments —
make players nostalgic for the days Warriors of Rock has a massive set list including piano, electric keyboard,
when absolutely everybody owned of over 100 songs, it feels like Activi- drums and synthesizer — provide
or at least played Guitar Hero. For- sion had to scrape the bottom of the every song with a completely dif-
tunately, Warriors of Rock has the barrel with this game. Players might ferent vibe.
multi-player features that made find themselves playing the same 10 “On The Floor” features back-
Guitar Hero such a hit, making this songs over and over, and to make up gospel singers to compliment
an enjoyable multi-player experi- matters worse, some songs that the trademark religious under-
ence for you and your roommates. seem promising — “Bleed It Out” by tones of Flowers’ lyrics while
Building on previous games, Linkin Park and “Bohemian Rhap- “Jacksonville” thrives off intense
Warriors of Rock has a list of co- sody” by Queen for example — are tribal drums. “Hard Enough”
operative and competitive modes simply boring to play. Players should throws a slower duet into the
that give players many different Google the set list beforehand. album’s diverse mix of sound, fea-
ways to rock out — but only if you Warriors of Rock is ultimately a turing the vocals of country-indie
can afford the equipment. fun game but overall it’s uninspired darling Jenny Lewis.
While the gameplay and multi- and the set list isn’t anything to get Flamingo progressively gets bet-
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Warriors of Rock unfortunately quest mode at least offers more ficult to ignore how eerily similar
than previous Guitar Hero games. Flowers sounds to music legend
If you’re a diehard Guitar Hero Bob Dylan. He jumps from the typ-
fan, you’ll probably pick this game ical Killers vocal style to Dylan’s
up and spend the rest of your Rock- trademark twang in multiple songs,
tober jammin’ out like it’s 2007. most notably “The Clock Was
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rundown >> Women’s rugby team lost their match against McMaster 31-5 | Men’s rugby team defeated Waterloo 42-15 | For the second consecutive year the Mus-
tangs softball team completed an undefeated regular season

Hockey > Game Story

Mustangs start
season with a loss
Women defeated 5-1 at home
Patrick Robinson
CONTRIBUTOR
The Western women’s hockey team
didn’t get the start they were look-
ing for as they dropped their home
opener 5-1 against the Windsor
Lancers.
“Our team was nervous in the
first period and at the end of the
day I didn’t have them ready to
play,” Mustangs head coach Chris
Higgins said.
The Mustangs fell behind early
when Lancers forward Courtney
Spoors knocked in the loose puck in
front of the net to put them up 1-0.
The Mustangs defensive strug-
gles continued and Windsor was
able to add two more goals by the
end of the first period.
Despite a rocky first period, Hig-
gins was encouraged by what he
saw in his team’s performance.
“I really liked how they came
out in the second and third deter-
mined to be more emotional and
not let Windsor push us around,”
he said.
If there was one bright spot for
the Mustangs it was third-year goal-
tender Jessica Ulrich, who stopped
41 of 46 shots on the night.
“Jessica played really well
tonight,” Higgins said. “There were
a lot of rebounds and second
chances that required some
impressive saves.”
After the game Ulrich also com-
mented on her team’s effort after
their first regular season game.
“We played well as a team,” she
said. “We had 11 rookies in the line
up, [but] you wouldn’t be able to tell
it was their first Ontario University
Athletics game.” Laura Barclay GAZETTE FILE PHOTO
The Mustangs lone goal scorer
was second–year defenceman
Meghan Hewins, who blasted a
shot from the point to beat Windsor
goaltender Jamie Tessier on the far
side. But it was too little, too late for
the Mustangs who fall to 0-1 early
in the season.
The Mustangs saw some suc-
cess on the penalty kill, going 9 for
11 this game and will hope to build
on that for the remainder of the
season.
The Mustangs play again next
weekend when they host the
Queen’s Gaels on Oct. 16 at 4 p.m.
and the University of Ontario Insti-
tute of Technology Ridgebacks on
Oct. 17 at 2 p.m. at Thompson
Arena. Anders Kravis GAZETTE

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The Good
How do you follow a perfect game and a Cy Young cal-
ibre season? How about throwing a no-hitter in your
first post-season start ever?
That’s what Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halla-
day did. He managed to throw only the second no-hitter
in playoff history, with a single walk being his only blem-
ish. At no point did it seem like the Cincinnati Reds were
going to get a hit off him — just ask anybody who
watched the game.
Halladay’s performance helped earn the Phillies a
spot in the National League Championship Series against
the San Francisco Giants. Halladay will start in game one.
How is he going to follow up a post-season no hit-
ter? Unfortunately for the Giants, they get to find out.
The Ugly
There is nothing uglier than people using sports for
their own political statements. A group of Serbian “sup-
porters” decided to attend Serbia’s Euro 2012 qualifying
match against Italy in Genoa.
Unfortunately, they really weren’t there to watch
the game. The group — who were upset at their gov-
ernment for providing protection to a gay pride parade
in Belgrade — decided to protest by throwing flares at
the Serbian players while the game was being played.
They also trashed the stands, threw chairs, cut up
the netting of the goals, and burned Albanian flags.
The referee had to stop the game to protect the play-
ers and the remaining fans. Way to support your
team, guys.
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Miguel Cabrera fielded the ball, and
threw it to Armando Galarraga for
the out, completing Galarraga’s per-
fect game. It was the third perfect
game in 20 days. What a great
moment for baseball.
Except on that fateful June night,
the umpire called the batter safe.
The call was so badly blown that
umpire Jim Joyce tearfully apolo-
gized for his mistake.
That game was one of the most
The Bad glaring examples of a blown call
leading to a public outcry for
Maybe Brett Favre should just retire — for real this time.
instant replay being used in base-
Amidst a disappointing 1-3 start for Favre and the Min-
ball.
nesota Vikings, Favre now finds himself tangled in a messy
investigation surrounding allegations that the quarterback So what does Major League
— then with the New York Jets — sent inappropriate pho- Baseball do about it? Absolutely
tos and text messages to a former game hostess. nothing. How many more awful
The NFL confirmed Sunday that they would be look- calls have to happen before they
ing into the incident first reported by Deadspin.com. If realize how important video replay
found guilty, Favre could face a fine or suspension is?
under the NFL’s personal conduct policy. Baseball purists argue the
For obvious reasons this is bad — sex scandals human element of umpires is part
always are. The recent controversy only adds to the of the game, proving that baseball
decline in his once illustrious career. Maybe it’s time to purists are morons. The human ele-
finally call it quits. ment is simply a nice way to say
mistakes. And when those mistakes
inevitably change the outcome of
an important game — like say a
World Series game — it becomes a
serious problem.
There is also the argument that
instituting replays would slow the
game down far too much. Appar-
ently people aren’t aware of how
much time pitchers take between
each pitch. An umpire could easily
take a look at the replay in that
time. They just have to put an extra
umpire in the media box with a
video screen and have him in radio
contact with the umpires on the
field. Problem solved. There is no
way that process takes away from
all the high–flying action that
occurs in baseball.
I’m not saying that every play
should be reviewed. But that’s
why the NFL has a challenge sys-
tem. Give the managers the abili-
ty to challenge and review one or
two plays a game. Maybe then the
managers won’t rush onto the
field yelling obscenities, kicking
dirt and throwing the bases
around, ultimately accomplish-
HOW TO PLAY ing nothing.
Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1
Perhaps sometime soon, the
through 9. Solving time is typically from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on your skill and
experience. The Gazette publishes Sudoku puzzles with varying degrees of difficulty. powers that be in the MLB will
move into the 21st century and
Frosh, Soph, Senior, Grad Student start realizing how important the
use of video replay is. And then
Today’s difficulty level: GRAD we can all enjoy watching the
For solution, turn to page 2 players on the field decide the
outcome of the game, rather than
the umpires.
—Daniel Da Silva
computer program at: www.sudoku.com
For Solution, tips and
I like it when Daniel calls me a
moron — it reaffirms my sense of
worth in the general cosmos. But
on to the topic at hand.
Daniel writes, “There is no way
[video replay] takes away from all
the high–flying action that occurs
in baseball.” I like that line. It’s a
great line. The underlying sarcasm
also indicates a mindset shared by a
lot of people about the game —
they’re not fans of it.
These are the people who com-
plained the puck was too hard to see
at NHL games, so there should be a
highlight to make the game easier to
follow. They’re the ones who think
the intricacies of a baseball game all
boil down to hitting the long ball.
Incidentally, these are also the
fans who’ve never been to a dusty
Triple A game in the middle of the
country in late summer to see the
roots of the game. It’s not just about
“The Show,” it’s about heart and tra-
dition.
Baseball is, more than anything
else, about tradition. Here in Lon-
don we have the oldest continu-
ously–used ball diamond on the
planet. The game that is played now
is virtually unchanged from the
days of Ted Williams or Ty Cobb.
Sure, other sports have their
great traditions and great heroes.
But find me a former NHL or NFL
player who could hope to compete
in the league the way it is now?
What does all of this have to do
with video replay? Once you add
that in to the game — yes, I know
they already use it for home runs —
it’s only a matter of time until it
extends to bang–bang plays on the
base path. Eventually we’ll wind up
with an automated system for call-
ing balls and strikes.
But we shouldn’t — the human
errors of umpires are as much a
part of the game as the Green Mon-
ster at Fenway. If you’re so worried
about umpires changing the out-
come of the game, make sure
they’re held to the same standards
as players. Right now, few people
know about the disciplinary action
taken against umpires for poor per-
formance, while everyone knows
when and why a player has been
sent down to the minors.
I’m constantly surrounded by
people who view tradition the same
way they’d view a bug they’ve just
stepped on. It doesn’t always make
sense, and sometimes there are
more rational courses of action. But
like tradition, baseball comes from
the heart, and some things just
shouldn’t change.
—Mike Hayes