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PROFILE MARK WORKENTIN

RRetired singer, actor, basketball player and ringette referee are just a few titles that can be attributed to Mark Workentin. But at Western, many of his students know him as the passionate professor whose love for organic chemistry saturates his lecture halls.

He loves the part of his job that allows him to interact with young aspiring scientists as a professor. “I feel young every day I’m at work until I maybe look in the mirror after going to the washroom, then I realize I’m on the old end of things,” he says. As a high school student in Timmins, Ont., Mark thrived as an actor, performing in musicals. He was also a singer, performing in church choirs and was captain of the basketball team. “My daughters remind me that my sports and maybe theatre prowess were probably because I was in a small community and that I wouldn’t stand a chance if I actually when to a real high school,” he says with a chuckle. He enjoyed singing so much that while he was a faculty member at Western in early 2000, Mark went away to a convent for a week where he sang in a now released CD of liturgical music. In spite of his participation in church activities, Mark has never considered himself to be particularly religious.

“I love when people have deep spirituality, but for me, church is a hike in the woods, by a lake or up a mountain,” he says. “That’s where I find my spiritual side, out in nature.”

Mark thoroughly enjoys going camping with his three

daughters in the summer and one of his favourite places to be is on top of a mountain. He has hiked mountains all over Europe, including Italy, Austria, Germany and on the west coast of Canada.

Mark enjoyed the northern mining community of 45,000 where he grew up but when he left for London to attend university, he knew he’d never go back. “I’m not a northern person in spirit. I like cultural experiences, choices of restaurants, getting up and about and adventuring.” Having done his undergrad in science at Western, Mark lived in Saugeen-Maitland Hall on 6 Upper during his time in residence. He says it was named the zoo the year he was there. During his time at Saugeen, Mark recalls alcohol use and drug abuse was rampant, used openly in the halls. “Saugeen experience was wonderful until December and then I was happy to leave it,” he said. Around his fourth year of undergrad, Mark decided to be a professor. The idea of research and teaching in a university setting appealed to him. “I was not somebody that bled purple. I enjoyed Western, I enjoyed how the department prepared me for what I now know as my future,” he said.

Mark emphasizes that instead of focusing on the pressures university puts on you, finding the balance in life is key. “It’s going to be hard work, it’s going to be stressful, you might cry a lot but in the end you’ll get a degree that you can be proud of and it will set you up to do well in whatever your next stage is.”

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Report outlines improvements for Board of GovernorsHAMZA TARIQ BREAKING NEWS EDITOR@HAMZAATGAZETTE

Western’s Board of Governors released a report recommending changes to its policies and proced-ures in the aftermath of President Amit Chakma’s pay controversy ear-lier this year.

The report was written by govern-ance review task force chair, Matthew Wilson, a board member. The task force held consultations with a num-ber of groups across campus before drafting its recommendations.

It highlights concerns regarding the board’s practices and provides recommendations on improving communication between the board, the university Senate and the campus community.

“This has been a very difficult year for Western. The issue of the president’s compensation and the move for votes of non-confidence at the university’s Senate in the spring deeply affected the community, including the members of the Board of Governors,” the report stated.

According to the report, a com-mon concern the task force came across was that the board was “dis-connected and insulated” from the university community and its deci-sions were often without a full under-standing of what was happening around campus.

The report criticized the board for not using the mechanisms in place to collect feedback from the external stakeholders, including city council members, community members in the neighbourhood and business partners.

“The board has had different mechanisms in place over the years to allow members of the community external to the campus to bring for-ward issues and concerns. They have not been well used,” the report stated.

The role of the senior operations committee, which was initially involved in negotiating the presi-dent’s contract, came under criticism. The name of the committee doesn’t explicitly explain the role and func-tioning of the committee, according to the report.

“The role of the senior operations committee has come under particu-lar scrutiny over the past year. Its work is not well understood, nor well communicated.”

The report details recommenda-tions for improving the board’s rela-tions with the campus and external community, the board’s structure, and the role of the board and its members.

The recommendations include the possibility of the board meeting without the presence of administra-tion members and increasing trans-parency by reviewing what items should be dealt with in open sessions as opposed to closed sessions.

While all the recommendations included in the report cannot be implemented immediately, the task force has advised that the board’s bylaw committee to develop, oversee and implement a plan based on the report’s recommendations.

“The meetings held and the submissions received by the task force highlight a common goal that Western emerge from the events of the past year stronger, and well pos-itioned for the future,” the report stated. “To achieve excellence on the world stage, Western also needs to focus on excellent governance for our institution.”

Members of the task force included Wilson, Brian Timney, Brendan Power, Jonathan English, Jeremy Adams, Hanny Hassan, Paul Jenkins, Richard Konrad, Michael Lerner and Susan Grindrod.

The report will be presented to the board on November 26 meeting. n

Men’s issues clubs would be allowed at WesternRITA RAHMATI NEWS EDITOR@RITAATGAZETTE

Although a few universities across Canada have banned men’s groups, the University Students’ Council would hypothetically allow such groups — as long as they abide by Western’s club rules.

In early November, Ryerson University’s Students’ Union banned a request to form a group called the Men’s Issues Awareness Society. In an article in Maclean’s, columnist Martin Patriquin defended men’s groups and denounced universi-ties’ student governments who are censoring them.

“Those groups who actually talk about depression, suicide and home-lessness — which, along with shorter lifespans, disproportionately affect males — will do so with the know-ledge that their concerns are no more and no less important than any other group’s,” Patriquin said.

According to Taryn Scripnick, USC vice-president student events, Western would not necessarily ban these groups.

“If you want to start a men’s club on our campus, for example — com-pletely cool,” Scripnick said. “The

only way it would maybe be shot down in any capacity is if you’re breaking a couple of rules.”

Scripnick explained all clubs on campus must adhere to the code of conduct, which prohibits sexism, racism and hate speech. All clubs on campus must allow any student to join and cannot be exclusive. Individuals can apply to have a club formed in January and April, and as long as they adhere to the code of conduct and there is not a similar group already in existence, it can be formed.

Jessica Cameron, adjunct profes-sor in women’s studies and feminist research, is not very supportive of men’s issues clubs.

“My concern of course with men-only groups is that historically so many groups have been men-only groups and they’ve been about the maintenance of patriarchal social relations,” Cameron said.

Cameron would like men’s groups better if they worked with women’s groups to further equality.

“I don’t necessarily have an inherent problem with men’s groups if those men’s groups have a fem-inist or gender equality agenda,” Cameron said.

Scripnick said all clubs are dealt with on a case-by-case basis and that is how a men’s issues group at Western would be formed. Scripnick said there is no differ-ence between a women’s group and a men’s group as long as they both adhere to all the rules.

“A lot of the times if the informa-tion comes to us we will sit down with the club personally to make sure we understand where they’re coming from,” Scripnick said. “We’re always open to have a dialogue with the students.”

However, Cameron does not see a need for a men’s group, unless it had a goal of something such as reducing men’s violence against women.

“If our aim is gender equality we don’t have to worry about advocat-ing specifically for men,” Cameron said. n

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Former ombudsman warns of lack of gov’t oversight

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RITA RAHMATI NEWS EDITOR@RITAATGAZETTE

Last week, an alleged Western White Student Union Facebook page was created and was subsequently shut down on Tuesday after widespread accusations that the page was a hoax.

The page was one of many “White Student Unions” that recently popped up across North America. Reportedly, approximately 30 U.S. universities and the University of British Columbia were falsely affili-ated with almost identical pages.

The hoax is being attributed, in part, to self-proclaimed inter-net troll and Daily Stormer writer Andrew Anglin.

He wrote, “So, guys. Here’s the plan: Make more of these White Student Union pages on Facebook for various universities. You don’t have to go there. Make one for Dartmouth, Princeton, etc. Go, do it now. If they won’t let it on Facebook, put it on Tumblr or Wordpress or whatever.”

The page was brought to the attention of Western administra-tion on Saturday, according to Keith Marnoch, Western’s director of media relations.

“There were a number of con-cerned community members, stu-dents and a few profs that brought this to our attention,” Marnoch said. “Our initial concern was that it was purporting to be a Western sanctioned group or activity, which

it’s not at this point.”On Sunday, Western News

released an official statement urging community members to “contact either Campus Community Police or Equity and Human Rights Services to report behaviour that may contravene Western’s policy on discrimination and harassment.”

Many Western students, how-ever, expressed their outrage over the page on social media platforms.

“I was taken aback because I didn’t know if was a hoax or not,” Tanya Sahni, a second-year student in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, said on Facebook. “Even if it’s a joke it’s not really funny with everything that’s going on right now with ... all the attacks physically and verbally that are happening against people of cer-tain groups and minority groups ... This is the worst time to do some-thing like that.”

Marnoch and Campus Police could not comment on what the repercussions of this page would be for the students involved, if any at all. The page, however, was removed on Tuesday.

“Although we can’t confirm it, Facebook likely acted on its own to remove them since some 30 other North American universities were faced with similar webpages pop-ping up in the past week,” Marnoch said. “Many of those have now been taken down as well without explan-ation. n

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Canadian governments are behind the times and are increasingly hostile to effective independent oversight, warns former Ontario ombudsman Andre Marin.

Marin, who was Ontario’s ombudsman for the past 10 years, says the fact that Canada doesn’t have a national ombudsman office should be a concern for the public. He issued a call for centralized and stronger watchdogs at a national level during a talk he gave at Western as part of the law faculty’s distinguished speakers series.

An important distinction, Marin explains, is the difference between a classical and organizational ombudsman.

A classical ombudsman is independent of government, reports directly to the legislative assem-bly, is impartial, confidential and employs an investigative process that allows the government to make changes to processes based on the ombudsman’s recommendations.

An organizational ombudsman, on the other hand, reports to the leaders of a corporation and are not institutionally independent of the body they oversee. Notably, they do not investigate complaints or over-see the organization. Marin referred to this type of ombudsman as an “ombuddy” because they help out everyone but don’t have the power to effect change. He says they make a valuable contribution to what-ever organization they’re a part of

but it’s different from a classical ombudsman.

Most Commonwealth countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, have a national ombudsman. Canada doesn’t.

A national ombudsman in Canada would cover the cracks between all the other watchdogs already in place, such as the par-liamentary budget officer, the aud-itor general and the Canada Post ombudsman.

“What’s happened is the fed-eral government has bought into the proliferation of organizational ombudsman,” Marin says. “If you had one central national ombuds-man office, you would probably need 250 people, it would probably cost you a fraction of what it costs to operate this vast web of organ-izational ombudsman that most people have never heard of.”

Marin notes the lack of a “power-ful central voice at the federal level” means serious problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and sexual harassment and assault problems in the military, go ignored and unaddressed for years without the investigative and recommenda-tory powers an ombudsman would have.

An ombudsman also “human-izes” government and corporations who sometimes have no heart, says Marin.

“The ombudsman’s role is to remind the powers that be that there are human impact conse-quences to decisions,” he says.

Provincially, things are just as, if not more problematic, says Marin. One example is Hydro One, which was privatized shortly after his office released a damning report on their billing practices. Marin says it’s not his place to decide public policy — he wasn’t opposed to the sale of Hydro One — but he was opposed to the loss of oversight from the sale.

He says the current Liberal prov-incial government and the former federal Conservatives have “striking similarities with how they approach government oversight.”

Ontario has seen the loss of over-sight — such as with Hydro One — or oversight not backed with statute for those who are most vulnerable. Stronger oversight is needed for those who are most vulnerable in the public, Marin says, such as those in the ministry of health and long-term care who only have an organizational ombudsman and not a classical ombudsman to advo-cate for them.

He also highlighted the lack of oversight of municipalities in Ontario, noting there are hundreds with no independent oversight and just two cities, Toronto and Ottawa, have independent auditor generals.

He argues for strong, central oversight at all levels of government to help advocate for those who need it most and keep those in power in check.

“Oversight doesn’t mean an absolute cure but what it does mean is it deters people.... It keeps people honest,” Marin says. n

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LTC proposes changes to popular routesRITA RAHMATI NEWS EDITOR@RITAATGAZETTE

Some major changes to London Transit routes have been proposed and if approved, students will see the changes next September.

Changes are usually made annu-ally and the modifications for next year are not yet official, said John Ford, director of transportation and planning.

“Last year and this year we’re adding a lot more service than we’ve traditionally added over the past number of years,” Ford said.

The London Transit Commission is looking to address service short-falls, particularly on routes with heavy student ridership.

“We’ll have a net increase of about 17,000 hours on an annual basis, but we will be impacting 54,000 hours of service,” Ford said.

Ford said the plans went to the commission and now officials are in meetings with community mem-bers to gather feedback. In January, a final plan will be recommended to the commission.

“Whenever we make changes some people are going to be happy with the changes and some are not. So that’s the reason for going out into the community and talking to them to get their feedback,” Ford said.

A few weeks ago London

Transit hosted an outreach event at Western to let students know about the proposed changes.

“At the end of the day when we make changes there will be some losers and there will be some win-ners,” Ford said.

Changes are likely to affect some student routes. Ford said there will be increases in frequency from 30 minutes to 15 minutes during the morning, a high rider frequency time, for the 10 Wonderland. Richmond will also have new ser-vice on Saturdays.

According to LTC’s website, the 2A Dundas, a popular student route, will head south on Hale St. instead of continuing straight down Dundas. During the summer the frequency will increase between 7-9 a.m. and 2-6 p.m. from 30 minutes to 20 minutes.

The 6 Richmond route would have frequency improve from 20 minutes to 15 minutes between 7-9 a.m. and on Saturdays a new service from 6-8 a.m.

Route 10 Wonderland would increase from 30 to 20 minutes between 7-9 a.m. and on Saturdays an increased frequency from 60 to 30 minute between 6-8 a.m. and Sunday’s frequency from 60 to 30 minute 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

For a full list of proposed chan-ges, students can visit LTC’s web-site. n

Guardrail petition reaches 3,000JENNY JAY PHOTO EDITOR@JENNYATGAZETTE

Nearly two months after a Western student was struck and killed by a drunk driver while walking on campus, a petition on change.org to install guardrails has garnered over 3,000 supporters.

The petition was started by for-mer Western student Kevin Ross. It advocates for installing guard rails “along Western Road and other highly utilized pedestrian corridors on campus to protect the public/students who walk these areas on a daily basis.”

This also includes the side-walk along Western Road across from the Richard Ivey Building, in addition to the corner of Lambton Drive.

Nicole Monaghan, a third-year philosophy student at Western,

agrees with the need for safer ped-estrian walkways on campus.

“I think it would definitely be a good idea — you can never be too cautious about campus safety and student safety,” Monaghan said. “I know that in the winter roads get slippery and cars can slip off track, so I think it would be a good idea, especially to honour that student’s death.”

At a Senate meeting last month, Gitta Kulczycki, vice-president resources and operations at Western, commented on poten-tial improvements for pedestrian safety on campus.

“This tragedy has prompted many to express concerns more generally about the volume of vehicular traffic on campus and implications for pedestrian and cyclist safety,” Kulczycki said. “Part of our review will be to work with

an expert consultant to identify potential measures that can be introduced to enhance the safety of our campus for everyone.”

First-year medical sciences stu-dent Christian Sirko agrees that the rails would be helpful provided they are financially possible to implement.

“For it to go around [Lambton Drive] would be ideal, because if you’re going faster and you can’t see what’s approaching,” Sirko said. “It would be ideal to have them everywhere, but we just don’t know realistically what the funds are.”

According to Ross’ update on the change.org site, the City of London’s transportation planning and design department are already in the preliminary design stage for updating the stretch of Western Rd. that runs through campus. n



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It seems that students on campus are more aware of the presence of intramural inner tube water polo than the men’s varsity water polo team.

This is likely due to the fact that water polo is a not a commonly known or played sport in Canada and usually does not get much recognition. This results in many players trying out for the team who have never played before.

“We’re basically limited to taking whoever shows up and turning them into a competitive varsity water polo team,” explained Western head coach Bill Terzis.

The lack of popularity means there are only six teams competing in the Ontario University Athletics water polo championship tourna-ment this weekend in Hamilton. It also explains why there is no official regular season before the playoff tournament. The Mustangs played in a tournament and a few exhibitions but have not actually gotten that many games in yet.

“In the past, the OUA had a dis-tinct schedule where we had games and tournaments set up at the start of the season,” said Terzis. “Now,

due to funding restrictions we’re kind of left to our own devices to have athletes pay an athletic fee from which we supplement our budget. The university does pro-vide a budget, a small budget for water polo.... The athlete fees get added to that as do any donations to the team and then we’re left to set up [exhibition] games with the other universities basically coach to coach.”

Terzis has been helping coach the Western team since 1996 and also played for the Mustangs water polo team himself between 1989 and 1994.

Terzis’ Mustangs will open the OUA tournament with a

quarter-final match up against the University of Ottawa. If they lose, they will be relegated to playing in the fifth place matchup, but if they win, they will move on to the semifinal on Saturday against the Carleton Ravens. Fortunately for the Mustangs, the Ravens will not be as experienced as they were last year. Last season, they had former coach and Olympian Bill Meyer return to play for their squad at the age of 56.

Regardless of age, playing mul-tiple water polo games in a week-end can be quite tiring and it is important that players are strong swimmers to combat fatigue.

“A lot of people can’t swim at a hard pace for 32 minutes so you have to be able to swim quick for a long time,” said Western’s co-captain Daniel Lilko. “Which is why I think some swimmers are attracted to the sport. It’s just a natural development from swimming.”

Advantages also arise for play-ers who have previous water polo experience from playing for their high school teams. Not many high schools in Ontario have teams and there are not many other oppor-tunities to play before university.

One of those experienced

players is Western’s other co-cap-tain, Jared Webster, who has a history of injuries, but luckily finds his water polo performance unaffected.

“It’s actually rather interesting that water polo isn’t a cause of pain for my knee,” said Webster. “Everything else that I do – walk-ing, running and jumping – gives me knee trouble but playing water polo hasn’t given me any pain. It’s a blessing that I can still play with two knee surgeries and a third on the way.”

Another interesting dynamic is unique to the Western team. The

school does not currently have a women’s water polo team, there-fore women can play on the men’s team. Prior to this year, one of Western’s best players was female: Emily Torrens, who brought a plethora of experience.

“She came into it years ahead of all the guys on the team just from all of her experience,” said Lilko. “It threw a lot of the other teams off just not knowing how to react I guess, but then once they saw her actually starting to play and realized how good she was they couldn’t treat her any different because she would just light up the scoreboard.”

According to Terzis, at least one woman has always been on the male water polo team since the 1980s. He also noted that they once had a women’s team at Western, about 10 years ago, that he helped coach. The team only lasted for a couple years but current female players Samantha Farrow and Alana Cameron have been help-ing to create a women’s team for next year. Seeing as Western is one of the only schools that has a men’s and not a women’s team, this would certainly be a step in the right direction for the water polo program. n

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BRADLEY METLIN GazetteWestern co-captain Jared Webster prepares to throw the ball in an exhibition game against the McMaster Marauders at the Western Rec Center on Nov. 12.

BRADLEY METLIN GAZETTETHAT’S MY BALL. Mustang water polo player Cooper Brock, right, battles for possession of the ball in exhibition water polo action against McMaster on Thursday, Nov. 12. Western lost 10–5.

It threw a lot of the other teams off just not knowing how to react I guess, but then once they saw her actually starting to play and real-ized how good she was they couldn’t treat her any differentDANIEL LILKOWATER POLO CO-CAPTAIN, ON HOW OTHER TEAMS REACTED TO WESTERN HAVING EMILY TORRENS ON THEIR TEAM

Water polo looking to expand

In the past, OUA had a dis-tinct schedule where we had games and tournaments set up at the start of the season. Now due to funding restric-tions we’re kind of left to our own devices.BILL TERZISWESTERN WATER POLO HEAD COACH

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Creating a culture: the men behind Contrast

SAMAH ALI ARTS & LIFE EDITOR@SAMAHATGAZETTE

You may know every night what each promotions company has to offer. Some are more popular, while others are still staking their claim. One theme night that built a fol-lowing over the summer is called Contrast, brought to you by three guys determined to create a party culture in London.

Jordan Lindo and Jon Lines, heads of promotions at JL&Co, along with Nebai Tecleab, Nibz Meets World head of promotions, are known for promotional night they started at Factory Nightclub over the summer. As Contrast nights grew this summer, the men transi-tioned over to Therapy Nightclub in September to put their stamp on a new club. Operating as two com-panies, JL&Co and NMW, the trio are the faces of Contrast — they are the brand, the aura and the energy behind it as they’ve built their name around a night of event planning and a culture of turning up.

The men state that the theme night isn’t truly Contrast without them; they’ve dedicated themselves to their work and apply it to who they are as individuals. Contrast and the men are synonymous, and they wouldn’t have it any other way.

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN THE NIGHT-LIFE AND PROMOTIONS?LINDO: I tell everybody the same thing: I’m not a promoter. I throw parties.

We create a culture of a party, which is [the] Contrast [theme night]. Contrast comes from me and my partner, John Lines. He’s white and I’m black — contrast. Basically, the whole night is themed around opposites and things that

are different.Other than that, I’m a musi-

cian so I was always in the scene, whether it was clubbing or partying. Over time it just became the right thing to do because of the follow-ing we had. It’s actually been with me for five years, it’s just now that we’re monopolizing it and taking it to another level.TECLEAB: I was having a big birth-day party in January and I was approached by one of the pro-motions managers at Factory, but I was never into the whole pro-moting thing so I wouldn’t clas-sify myself as a promoter. My first event was called Drinks on Us — I sold tickets and I marginalized my profits so I was able to have an open bar at [the Barking] Frog for the first time before hours. That’s when the Factory ship started. Because I incorporated my first event into [JL&Co’s] first Contrast, I thought, “Now my event planning is going to go into promoting for my own events.”

I do the groundwork as well with these guys, and eventually some-one will take my position as head of promotions and I’ll just monop-olize as many things as I can. But a promoter wouldn’t be the best word to describe what we do. It’s an agreement we go into — we’re never given the run around and we don’t work for anybody. That’s kind of what makes what we do so special because we work for ourselves.

HOW DID YOU TRANSFER CONTRAST FROM FACTORY TO THERAPY?LINDO: It’s so funny because we were approached at the same time. [Tecleab] told me that they approached him and we said, “That’s weird,” and we all went to the meeting together.

The whole transferring from Factory — well, we went 20 weeks there straight. Because of that vibe it gave off, as the school year came in obviously new clubs were open-ing up and other clubs were asking for Contrast, asking for NMW and JL&Co for the school year. Therapy came to us as a new club when they weren’t built and to be honest, we were on the fence because ... it was a brand new club, so that was a huge risk. But with that risk we could build a brand new club and that’s what was best about it. We started something from nothing and we came out of nowhere to change the whole aura of Ciroc [Lounge] into, now, Therapy Contrast Fridays.

WHAT OTHER THINGS DO YOU GUYS HAVE BESIDES CONTRAST?LINDO: Right now we’re working on a clothing line – a Contrast line with black and white. Even though Contrast is the main event, we’re marketing ourselves and following the design world while bringing out clothing to people that everyone can enjoy.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOUR COMPANY GOING?:LINDO: Wherever it wants to go.... I couldn’t tell you Contrast was going to go on for 20 weeks. I don’t expect it to go anywhere that it already hasn’t, so I appreciate the fact that it happened. The sky’s the limit and it’s honestly endless. I see what [PremierLife] and all these compan-ies are doing so I’m going to take my time and see where it goes it goes. This is my life.

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE DUTIES OF YOUR JOB?:LINDO: Honestly I don’t have a role. When I walk outside that is my role.

Marketing JL&Co and bringing Contrast to life on a Friday night or Saturday night is the role of my everyday life. While we’re working at the mall, while walking down the street, we’re building something and creating a brand and a culture that needs to constantly be revised and reminded every day of why we’re doing this.

What’s so special about JL&Co is that we’re our own bosses and we work for ourselves, and at the same time we can profit, monopolize, take over the city and turn up. I don’t have a role because everything is my role, we do everything, but lately it’s been building JL&Co and NMW from nothing to where ... people are recognizing us.

ARE YOU WELCOMING ANY NEW PEOPLE INTO YOUR GROUP? TECLEAB: I welcome anyone who wants to come out with us. To find yourself, you need to know what role you have in Contrast. It’s an open platform for anyone to come but you need to know where you’re standing. I don’t see the heads of [our] companies changing since things are already rolling down the hill. We already got over the hard-est part per se, but as the head of it things won’t change.

PERKS OF THE JOB?TECLEAB: After working with Therapy, seeing what we did with Factory and now the offers from other locations: the full creative control. One of the best things is that we’re starting to get that level of recognition. The respect level when we walk into a club from all the staff is tremendous. We truly feel like when people walk in the club they go from thinking we’re promoters to thinking we run the whole club.

Even when we’re not there, people are calling us asking us for tickets for events. Business is my life and I love it when people are call-ing me since I’m the go-to person to fix their problems. It gets a little stressful at times, but knowing that people will always turn to you is a good feeling and knowing you can help people is great.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE WORKING IN THE NIGHT-LIFE, HAVING A PART-TIME JOB AND BEING A STUDENT WEIGHS YOU DOWN? TECLEAB: Honestly, no, now it’s just a part of my life. I’ve been a student for the past couple years and I’ve been going out so I’ve just learned to time manage. The whole idea of Nibz Meets World is for people who are 19, 20 years old and are ready to jump into your 20s and notice [that] you’re not really as young as you are, especially in business. There are so many doors available to you and NMW is a realm [where] you can accomplish anything you want; you just have to put your mind into it.

CRAZIEST STORY?LINDO: Craziest thing to me is the champagne, man. One time I said we should [drink] 12 bottles of champagne. When we got to Factory, they ... didn’t want to do it but every-one ended up popping bottles and it was definitely my favourite night.TECLEAB: The champagne night was definitely a good night, but I’m never going to forget the first Contrast because of the way it came together. Building that following the first week was not my craziest but it was definitely my most memorable. That’s something I’ll never forget.

You can get in contact with Lindo and Lines on their JL&Co Facebook Page and Tecleab on his Instagram, @NebaiTecleab. n

While we’re working at the mall, while walking down the street, we’re building something and creating a brand and a culture that needs to constantly be revised and reminded every day of why we’re doing this.JORDAN LINDOHEAD OF OPERATIONS, JL&CO.

COURTESY OF MIEMEN FROM UNIVERSAL LINXSCREATING A CULTURE. Jordan Lindo, John Lines and Nebai Tecleab are carving a space for themselves and their popular night, Contrast.


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In the wake of a student pedestrian dying earlier this fall, a petition to install guardrails on campus garnered thousands of signatures.

The concern within the Western community about pedestrian and cyclist safety is not just merely a reaction to this one incident. This campus sees a heavy volume of traffic, with cars, buses, cyc-lists and pedestrians all mixing together in the thousands on a daily basis. Campus is not built to accommodate the influx of traffic it has seen in the past few years as the university has expanded and bus service has increased dramatically.

The safety of students should be a priority and preventative measures need to be taken before another unfortunate incident happens. Of course, part of the problem are students themselves who jaywalk and are distracted as they wander in and out of traffic areas but this isn’t the main crux of the problem.

Notable areas of risk include Western Rd., which has no separation between vehicular traffic, cyclists and the sidewalk. Neither Alumni Hall nor Natural Science is equipped to handle the volume of buses it sees, nor the number of students.

The Talbot College bus stop is also ill equipped to handle students who often walk either on the bike path up the hill toward Middlesex College or precar-

iously on the grass/snow at the side of the road as buses graze them on the way by.

While this fall’s death might not have been pre-vented with guardrails, something should be done to increase safety and accessibility for pedestrians on campus.

Recognizing areas where hundreds of students cross a road without a crosswalk, such as between Middlesex and the Physics and Astronomy Building, as needing some sort of stop for traffic could easily prevent an accident from happening.

Guardrails might even be the answer in some cases, such as around curves and places where many buses make turns, but they shouldn’t be the only answer. A long-term view of campus and the direction it’s going is needed to make not only pedestrians and cyclists safer, but those driving vehicles as well. Speed bumps, restrictions on cars and turns, raised and separated bike and sidewalks are all measures that can be taken to keep campus practical and maintain its beauty.

It’s good to see so many people thinking about safety on campus and how we can stay safe. While we can’t protect from every eventuality, it’s clear research and better planning is needed to ensure we have the best possible chance of preventing another tragedy from happening. n

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Long-term view needed for safety on campus

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Hired bureaucrats are not as apolitical as the USC says

HAMZA TARIQ BREAKING NEWS EDITOR@HAMZAATGAZETTE

To their credit, the University Students’ Council has made serious efforts this past year to increase their efficiency.

They cut down the size of coun-cil, made changes to the slate sys-tem and reduced the number of executive positions. They also made two of the executive positions, the communications officer and sec-retary-treasurer, hired instead of elected.

This was very debatable but the USC justified it by reasoning that this change would allow the best person for the job to be hired and would also allow the organization to give the hired executives more responsibility and hold them more accountable.

In effect, these positions became bureaucratic and are not account-able to students and the student council in the same manner as the president, vice-president and the student programs officer are.

However, at the last USC board meeting, Jonathan English, USC secretary-treasurer, revealed that the applications for the two hired positions will open after the incom-ing president and vice-president have been elected in February.

“Here’s the political issue … depending on the outcome of the election you’re going to get cer-tain people applying and certain people not applying,” he said at the meeting.

What this means is the USC executive believes that students will apply for these year-long, fully paid, hired positions based on who they will be working with. This defeats the argument for hiring the best person for the job and opens the door for nepotism and political

favours.If the USC really wants the

hired positions to be apolitical and bureaucratic then it makes no sense in letting the incoming exec-utive choose who they want to work with. Having the incoming execu-tives as part of the hiring commit-tee introduces potential bias and favouritism in the hiring process where a slate can pick and choose their friends for the job.

To make things more compli-cated, the chief returning officer of the USC, the person who runs elections, will report to the hired secretary-treasurer. The CRO is the chairperson of the election govern-ance committee and enforces the USC’s bylaws during elections.

Naturally, they hold consider-able power over the process of electing new USC leaders and through this process, the secre-tary-treasurer’s role becomes even more important.

So can you honestly tell me that it’s not problematic that a poten-tially politically hired and partial executive member will have such a crucial role in USC elections?

This executive needs to choose if they want to keep the positions political or bureaucratic. They can’t have their cake and eat it too. If they want students to have the oppor-tunity to decide who they want to work with, then the positions should be elected and accountable to the student council.

If these positions are supposed to be apolitical and bureaucratic then the hiring should be done even before a new slate comes in, and the incoming president and vice-president should have no say in the hiring process. Or at the very least, the elections shouldn’t have an affect on the timing of the hiring process.

The council needs to quiz this executive over their decision to hold off the hiring process. It’s a decision that will introduce nepo-tism in Western’s student govern-ment and the USC will be much worse off than when council elected executives. n

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SAMAH ALI ARTS & LIFE EDITOR@SAMAHATGAZETTE

Mother nature was a little too gener-ous with precipitation and brought the lovely white substance that will haunt campus until next April. Thus begins the season of unoriginality: winter. UGG Boots, Sorels, Hunters, and Timberlands will substitute the Sperry’s and fall booties, but there is a way to dodge this monotonous shoe season.

Claire Henderson, creative dir-ector for Volta fashion and lifestyle magazine, has some tips to avoid blending in with every other Western student.

She starts off by recommending potential outfit choices to add ori-ginality to the typical winter outfits.

“Layering is a big thing – you can wear a lot of the same things but add longer thinner layers underneath or just a sweater on top of a collared shirt,” Henderson says.

Accessory pieces that add colour or a pop to an outfit are essential as well.

Henderson explains that winter can feel boring after wearing the same jacket, scarf and hat everyday. She recommends finding different

styles of coats to keep options fresh everyday.

However, the most restricting aspect of winter is the slush and snow that can ruin the best of shoes. Henderson knows that it’s the worst season for one’s shoe style to pros-per, but she lists a few options to consider.

Among the classic Sorels and Timberlands, the Chelsea boot is a new style that popular brands are picking up. She also recommends looking beyond the conventional models by finding different colours or models within trusted companies.

“There are just different styles to look into so I would encourage people to not just see the classic and think ‘that’s what I’m suppose to buy’ ” says Henderson. “If you look into it a bit more with the same trusted brands they have different options.”

Doc Martens, Blundstones and winterized sneakers are potential shoes that can be worn in the winter. Thick, wool socks are also an essen-tial when styling footwear since they add an additional layer of warmth to the feet.

Henderson, an avid sneaker head, gushes about the new line of winterized Nike Air Max 90s. The

model has a higher sole and ankle to prevent snow for getting into the shoe. Although any leather sneaker paired with a good sock can work in the winter since they freeze as easily as canvas. Henderson recommends staying fearless with your sneakers and not worrying about wearing them in the winter.

“You don’t have to be afraid to get your shoes dirty, weather protect them. Having a good shoe cleaner and shoe protector is probably the most important for the winter.”

Winter may prevent most shoes from being worn in the slush but being prepared with the right options can keep you stylish even during the annual polar vortex. Henderson’s final recommendation is to be adventurous with your shoe choice by not limiting your options.

“Don’t be afraid to wear some-thing that’s a bit different because it’s really fun to express yourself through your footwear,” she says. “If you’re in the store and you find yourself attracted to a winterized pair of shoes that you may have not considered in the past or didn’t think was cool, just go for it. If it’s going to keep your foot warm and you like it then do it.” n

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Richmond and Oxford’s Bahn Mi Express offers inexpensive Vietnamese sandwiches to go.

As soon as you step in you will notice there is no décor apart from one counter and wall decorated with white and black bricks. Each wall has about four large poorly painted squares as an attempt at decoration. They offer a strange contrast of pink, yellow, red and green.

There are two thin tables along the walls with five seats available and a large wire stretching from the TV to the front of the restau-rant taking up most of one of the tables. Even as a waiting area it was disappointing and uncomfortable. I didn’t feel encouraged to stay for longer than necessary.

As soon as I ordered and paid for the food, staff quickly disappeared into the kitchen without warning. When I attempted to get their atten-tion to buy a drink, I was ignored.

The staff who took my order barely spoke to me, gave no recom-mendations and didn’t seem at all interested in talking to customers. It was not a welcoming environment.

The menu included Vietnamese sandwiches and Korean bulgogi with pork, beef or chicken. Other options were extra meat, spring rolls or steamed rice.

Food took about 15 minutes to prepare for myself and two other patrons.

Grilled beef sandwich with fries ($10.99): Creamy and slightly salty mayo sauce that complements the sizable amount of tender beef. Plenty of vegetables — carrots, lettuce, cucumber and pickled vegetables. Thick bread helps the sandwich stay together. Amazing portion size, very filling. Very sweet overall.

Unfortunately, the sandwich was too heavy on the vegetables. It would greatly benefit from con-siderably less vegetables or at least less crunchy ones. It is a weird combination between mushy beef,

slightly soggy bread and crunchy vegetables that just doesn’t work.

Fries: Kind of standard. Tasted good, but nothing special. Could benefit from being a lot crispier and saltier. On the plus side you get a substantial amount for the price you pay.

Spring rolls ($2.99): Four fairly small vegetarian spring rolls. Perfect amount of crispiness on the outside and mushy on the inside. Minimalist filling that you can barely even taste, apart from its strong sweetness.RATINGS:ATMOSPHERE: GFFFF: Far from welcoming.SERVICE: GGFFF: Fairly slow for a take out place, very limited inter-action with customers.PRICE: GGGGF: Everything was very substantial for the relatively low price except for the spring rolls.FOOD & DRINK: GGGFF: Sweet and flavourful but ingredients were poorly proportioned.OVERALL: GGFFF

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McIntosh gives haunting new perspectiveANNIE RUETER CONTRIBUTOR@GAZETTECULTURE

The McIntosh Gallery is currently featuring Luminous Shadows by Ed Pien, a Toronto-based interdisci-plinary artist.

Pien’s exhibit features two instal-lation pieces: Spectral Drawings and Imaginary Dwelling. Both pieces challenge viewers to pull apart lay-ers of optical illusion and become involved in their sense of inquiry.

Spectral Drawings is an ever-ex-panding collection of white ink drawings on black paper that began in 2010. The drawings of ghost-like figures are unevenly pinned on the black walls of the dimly lit gallery space and draw the viewer towards the work.

“Instead of having the drawings pop out at you in the white space, which is normal ... I wanted people to go towards the drawings so that over time the eyes are adjusted to the darkness and the white becomes quite white,” says Pien. “At certain moments, there may be that illu-sion that the white drawings are floating.”

During the process of creating the drawings, Pien transfers ink marks from one sheet of paper to the next while the ink is still wet. This process of picking up traces connects to the idea of ghosts.

“For me, ghosts in a way rep-resent a trace,” says Pien. “That to me is interesting, because in a way I feel that whatever we do in the present moment has an impact in the future.... We could come back as our own ghost.”

Pien’s second installation, Imaginary Dwelling, also deals with illusion and ghosts. The piece features a large-scale tent with projected shadows of two moving figures and several mylar homes inside the tent. Imaginary Dwelling exposes the housing crisis in Northern Canada, particularly in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, where Pien did a three-week residency in 2012.

Cape Dorset is a community that was artificially constructed during the Cold War to stake out Canadian territory.

“These houses were built by the whites based on their own sense of how a family would function,” explains Pien. “But they had never taken into consideration the cultural impact or the social organization of different families and units.”

Pien’s use of audio adds to the work’s mystical and iridescent qual-ity. The sound element is haunting and indiscernibly voice-like.

“I wanted to reference Inuit throat singing without appropriating the Inuit culture and singing,” says Pien.

“I wanted the voice to create a sense of things transforming, becoming something else: becoming landscape, the water, the wind, and becoming very special and vast,” he continues. “Up in the North all you can fathom is this endless land and the snow. So I wanted to have all that captured in the sound element.”

Through this exhibit, Pien hopes viewers draw from their own imaginations to engage in the vis-ually challenging pieces.

“In this work, I’m conflating the real cast shadows with these pro-jected shadows and it adds another layer of the uncanny,” he says. “I am trying to confound reality and play with perception and illusion and realities.”

Ed Pien: Luminous Shadows is open until Dec. 12. The gallery is open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is free. n

For me, ghosts in a way repre-sent a trace. And that to me is interesting, because in a way, I feel that whatever we do in the present moment has an impact in the future… we could come back as our own ghost.ED PIENINTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST

SHACHAR DAHAN GAZETTE STAFF@GAZETTECULTURE

Let’s face it: coffee can be pretty essential. For some, coffee is the only way they can wake up in the morning. For others, it’s the only way their all-night study session doesn’t result in crashing halfway through. With exams right around the corner, nearly everybody is going to have to face a late night, so when the time comes, be prepared with one of these coffee machines.

BREWSTATION 48465CThe BrewStation is a solid

machine that uses good old-fash-ioned ground coffee and filters. The machine is well-built and aesthetic-ally appealing, but leaves much to be desired.

For starters, to make the coffee you need to fill up the coffee tank with water, lift that tank and then pour the water into the water res-ervoir. This seems a bit counter-intuitive to me when filling up the reservoir directly seems very doable.

The coffee itself is pretty tasty,

but a continuous problem was that the coffee never came out quite as hot as I would have liked and I often found myself microwaving the cof-fee just to heat it a few degrees.

TASSIMO T47After extensively using this

machine, I am dubbing Tassimo “the Apple of coffee machines” because they are well built, easy to use and a bit expensive.

Tassimo ditches ground cof-fee for T-discs, which are basically flattened versions of Keurig pods. Tassimo takes the pod game a step further with their barcode technol-ogy, which ensures that your cup of coffee turns out just the way you want it.

The coffee itself was great. It took about 45 seconds to make, came out hot and was just about perfect every time. The main downside is that the T-discs can be a bit expensive, the cheapest price I found being about 50 cents per pod.

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