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WALK FOR THE CHILDREN
The Gulu Walk, which raises money for children in Africa, took place at Western yesterday. The event supports children who
have to flee their homes at night in search of a safe place to sleep.
USC finances fare better
despite sitting in red
Losses not as great as projected for summer
Cheryl Stone
NEWS EDITOR
The University Students’ Council is
still in the red, but there is hope.
While the summer ended with
the USC facing a loss, it was $100,000
ahead of projections made last year,
leaving hope that by year’s end the
organization may be back in black.
Since fewer students are around
during the summer, most of the
USC’s operations face an annual
loss from May to August. Despite
these expectations, a number of
USC operations fared better than
projected.
The Wave and Spoke came in
$38,000 higher than expected, due
in large part to changes to the
menu and workflow.
“We’ve found what works and
we’re sticking with it,” said Jeff
Armour, food and beverage manag-
er for the USC.
Armour noted the summer of
2009 was particularly bad for the
Spoke because the patio was
closed. This year the Wave saw
more parties coming through
despite few changes to staff.
“I think our staffing was the
same, just more efficient,” Armour
said.
Armour said the changes to the
menu were an attempt to make it
more efficient.
Ely Rygier, USC vice-president
finance, noted the simplified menu
meant larger batches of food could
thegazette
WESTERN’S DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1906
be made, resulting in lower labour
costs in the kitchen. He said servers
could then spend more time wait-
ing tables, resulting in more tables
being served by fewer servers,
which saved labour costs on the
floor.
“It’s substantial because of the
number of people that we serve
there,” Rygier said.
Armour credited the new prepa-
ration kitchen for some of the cost
savings. Previously each operation
prepared their own food, even if
other operations used the same raw
materials. But now all the prepara-
tion is done inside the Wave kitchen.
This saved money because there
was one person doing this instead of
several, and operations would only
order what they needed in total
instead of some going to waste.
But several operations per-
formed worse than expected,
including Western Film, the Purple
Store and Inprint. Due to renova-
tions, Western Film and the Purple
Store saw decreased revenues. Gail
DeSantis, manager for Inprint
manager, said the negative perfor-
mance was based on bad timing.
“It’s strictly a timing issue,”
DeSantis explained. She noted pro-
fessors submitted their course
packs later because classes started
later than usual. “We have no way
of knowing exactly when a profes-
sor will bring things in.”
She explained many professors
submitted their course packs in late
Setting up a strike pool since 1906
Strike deadline set
Monica Blaylock
NEWS EDITOR
Students will be able to push the
snooze alarm next week if the strike
deadline for Western’s faculty union
doesn’t change. The UWO Faculty
Association will go on strike as of
12:01 a.m. on Nov. 3 if progress isn’t
made at the negotiating table.
“We’ve rented a strike headquar-
ters, we’ve booked internet, we’ve
bought tables, we’re having picket
captain training, we’re getting
ready. That is the message now. It’s
very real and we won’t compro-
mise,” James Compton, president
of UWOFA, said.
While the UWO Staff Association
has not formally set a strike dead-
line, they will be in a legal strike
position by Nov. 4.
At issue for UWOFA are new reg-
ulations on academic freedom and
tenure agreements, according to
Corey Stanford GAZETTE Compton. A compensation agree-
ment also remains unresolved.
While UWOFA is preparing to
strike, there is still a possibility both
sides will come to a resolution
before next Wednesday. UWOFA
will be meeting with administration
five times over the next week in an
attempt to reach a compromise.
“We’re doing two things: we’re
London > Speaker
Steyn venue changes
>> By the numbers
Total USC
Actual : -$1.58 mil Kaleigh Rogers
Projected: -$1.66 mil NEWS EDITOR
Last year: -$1.53 mil
Spoke Mark Steyn’s campus controversy
Actual: -$41,800 won’t be happening on campus
Projected: -$66,000 after all.
Last year: -$106,000 After announcing the author’s
plans to speak at Western, Strictly
Wave Right and the Campus Coalition for
Actual: -$56,000 Democracy said they were over-
Projected: -$70,000 whelmed with interest and decided
Last year: -$89,000 to book a larger venue downtown to
Inprint accommodate the expected crowd.
Actual: -$38,000 “Unfortunately, there were no
Projected: -$5,200 available rooms at Western large
Last year: $3,700 enough to handle the demand. We
moved off campus so that more
As of Aug. 31, 2010
people would have the chance to
listen to Mark,” Ryan Ruppert, pres-
August, which forced revenue off ident of the club, explained.
the first quarter budget. She added Steyn, a Canadian-born author
September was a better month and and activist, has received attention
they were ahead of budget. for his controversial views on
Summer finances are part of the human rights, free speech, and par-
first quarter for the USC. The quar- ticularly Islam.
ter runs from May 31, 2010 until Once the decision was made to
Aug. 31, 2010. leave campus, the groups
“I think that you have to track in approached the London Conven-
the best way that you can,” Rygier tion Centre, but were met with
explained. He noted the numbers another brick wall, according to
were not the full story of any busi- Ruppert. He claimed the LCC first
ness on campus. accepted their request, then later
Rygier noted if the rest of the rejected it.
year continues on budget, the USC “The London Convention Cen-
could break even after last year’s tre cancelled Mark Steyn because
deficit of $109,806. they did not like what he was going
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negotiating at that table and we’re
looking at a contingency plan,” said
Helen Connell, associate vice-pres-
ident of communications and pub-
lic affairs for Western.
She said the contingency plan
would be posted on Western’s web-
site in the next couple of days.
When asked whether these plans
would address a strike affecting the
length of the semester, she said: “I
think, at this point, it’s a little too
early to speculate on whether we
have to extend the school year
while we’re still negotiating.”
Compton said a strike deadline
is not set in stone and could be
moved if there was substantial
progress at the negotiating table.
>> see UWOFA pg.2
to say — that represents a stance
against free speech,” Ruppert said.
But Lori Da Silva, general man-
ager of the LCC, said the LCC did
not book the event because they
did not provide enough informa-
tion in time to move finalize the
booking.
“Our contract is with the organi-
zation booking the event. Our con-
tract has nothing to do with the
speaker coming in,” Da Silva
explained.
Da Silva also said the LCC didn’t
believe they had the space to
accommodate the number of
attendees, which were estimated at
the time of booking to be from 800
to 1,000.
Ruppert claimed the LCC cited
pressure from local Islamic groups
when they declined to host the
event.
But Da Silva asserted there was
never any pressure from outside
groups, and Steyn’s politics had no
effect on their decision.
“This event was never actually
booked or contracted. There was
certainly no mention of it being
held at the Convention Centre, so
the general public would never
have been aware that this was being
held here. There was absolutely no
pressure from any outside groups,”
she explained.
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UWOFA won’t News Briefs

compromise Double Down ber’s bill yesterday in hopes of ban-

>> continued from pg.1
But he stressed the main sticking
points are still unresolved.
“The Association is not going to
compromise on the principles of
academic freedom. There will be a
strike if the administration does not
move on those proposals before
Wednesday,” Compton said.
Western President Amit Chakma
released a statement Sunday saying
tenure and academic freedom are
“central values” not up for negotia-
tion.
A strike would mean no classes
for main campus students. Busses
are unlikely to run through campus
because the London Transit Com-
mission workers’ union won’t cross
picket lines.
“There’s going to be a collective
agreement at the end of the day. It’s
just a matter of how we get there —
with a strike or without a strike,”
Compton said.
— With files from Stuart A. Thompson
Puzzle solution from page 8
www.westerngazette.ca
not downed
The KFC Double Down made its
Canadian debut last week to the
dismay of some Canadian health
experts and nutritionists.
When the product initially
arrived in Canada on Oct. 18, Health
Promotion Minister Margarett Best
told reporters the government might
review the product with intentions
of banning it. However, her state-
ment was amended in a press
release shortly afterwards, stating:
“consumers have the right to choose
the food they wish to purchase.”
“I think [fast-food chains] intro-
duce these items for shock value,”
Anne Zok, University Students’
Council nutritionist, said. “KFC
should promote that this is not
something to eat on a daily basis.”
The breadless sandwich consists
of two slabs of fried chicken with
bacon, cheese and sauce in
between. It has 30 grams of fat, 540
calories and 1,740 milligrams of
sodium — more than the average
adult’s recommended daily sodium
intake in one sitting.
Zok said educating consumers is
more important than attacking a
single product for its nutritional
value.
“We need to stop pinpointing
individual food items as being
unhealthy. What we need to promote
is a healthy lifestyle. We need to think
about what we need to add to a diet
rather than what to take out.”
—Nicole Young
Shopping bag ban
Canada may be next in line to ban
the use of plastic shopping bags.
London-Fanshawe MP Irene
Mathyssen of the New Democratic
Party introduced a private mem-
ning plastic bags across Canada.
The idea stemmed from a con-
test called “Create Your Canada,”
which asked high school students
what they would improve about
Canada if given the chance. The
winning entry submitted by two
London students suggested an end
to plastic bag use.
“Canadians use 55 million plas-
tic bags every week,” the students
said. “[And] of the millions of bags
circulated, less than one per cent is
recycled.”
They also proposed plastic bags
pose a particular threat to animals,
particularly sea creatures.
“As many as 100 million marine
mammals and birds die every year,
because they either get tangled up
in the plastic, or they mistake it for
food, and they ingest it,” Mathyssen
explained.
“The irony of that is that this
cheap, non-biodegradable plastic is
in our hands for a few minutes and
then throw it away and it’s there in
our environment doing harm for
thousands and thousands of years.”
The two students joined her in
the House of Commons on Monday
where they had the opportunity to
witness the tabling of their bill.
“My objective was to involve
them in the political process, and to
make them know that their opin-
ions are valued and that somebody
is listening,” Mathyssen noted.
Canadian retailers such as
Loblaws and Canadian Tire have
chosen to cut down on plastic in
favor of green initiatives, making
cloth bags and cardboard boxes
available in their stores.
“It certainly has generated dis-
cussion,” Mathyssen said. “I think
that the success of that speaks vol-
umes because so very often people
don’t pay attention and things pass
them by, but this certainly hasn’t
passed anyone by.”

Do well .
As opposed to using plastic, she
suggested Canadians switch to
reusable cloth bags or leftover ship-
ping boxes made from recycled
cardboard.
AND DO GOOD. If the bill is approved, Canada
will join countries like India, which
banned the manufacture and sale
of all plastic bags three years ago.
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thegazette • Tuesday, October 26, 2010
“Lost Boys” don’t need help Avoiding strike is key
Re: “The Lost Boys,” Thursday, Oct.
21, 2010
To the Editor:
The article draws attention to the
growing discrepancy between
female and male graduation rates
in universities. However, there are a
few things we need to keep in mind.
First, the actual street value of an
undergraduate degree has plum-
meted as these rates have shifted.
So what happens, we should ask, to
these guys who are dropping out of
universities at higher rates than
women? Many go into the skilled
trades and clear more than $60,000
a year, while people who finish their
undergrads — mostly women —
look forward to a job that is proba-
bly not in their field, and probably
pays less than $35,000 a year.
Let’s not be naïve. There is a
direct link between the success of
women in universities and the
decline of a university degree’s value.
The money has gone exactly where
the men have, into skilled trades —
and positions won through person-
al networking — that are paying
higher wages than ever.
The overall theme of this histor-
ical development seems to be this:
when women start to succeed at
something more than men, that
thing loses its value. My best friends
are all contractors, pipe-fitters, and
electricians, and I’m finishing a
PhD. In five years’ time, don’t expect
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me to be picking up the bar tab.
As a man, I don’t need some
social revolution to rejuvenate me. I
need to get over myself and
acknowledge the social forces that
still affect women in negative, often
hidden ways. It’s perfectly legiti-
mate to discuss the problems that
face young men today, but let’s not
get carried away.
—Philip Glennie
Eng. PhD III
To the Editor:
According to the story, men have it
rough: they are outnumbered by
women in university, drop out
more often than women, get lower
marks than women, don’t have
strong male teacher role models,
feel constrained by classrooms that
seem better suited for girls, and
(gasp!) have to read Sarah, Plain
and Tall in primary school.
Apparently, “our lost boys” need
a “social revolution.”
But why do women outnumber
men in most faculties except busi-
ness, law, medicine, and engineer-
ing, the most well-respected, high-
est-paying, male-dominated fields?
Why do women get higher grades,
but also suffer from higher rates of
anxiety and depression? How might
girls be affected by having few male
role models as primary and ele-
mentary teachers, and mostly men
teaching high school math and sci-
Graduate Studies
ence? Why do we think girls “fare
better” in a structured classroom
while “hyperactive boys” suffer
from being “forced” to “sit still,
behave, and learn on a schedule?”
Historically, people thought
women couldn’t control their
“unruly” bodies, and thus couldn’t
engage in the male realm of ratio-
nal, disembodied thought. Men
also developed the hierarchical
teaching models that still structure
many classrooms today.
Finally, why did the Gazette only
publish one man’s complaint about
the (alleged) feminization of his pri-
mary school curriculum? Why not
ask women about the countless
books, theories, laws, philosophies,
and privileged forms of knowledge
developed primarily by, for, and
about men that women must “mas-
ter” to “succeed” academically?
Who needs a revolution?
—Stephanie Oliver
English PhD IV
Want to join the conversation?
Write us a letter at opinions@westerngazette.ca
You’ll be a better person for it
Re: “UWOFA sets strike deadline,”
Oct. 21, 2010.
To the Editor:
Yes I understand that only five per
cent of strike votes actually lead to a
strike and yes I know the quality of
our education is at stake blah, blah,
blah…
But a person born without fin-
gers can count the number of
“fucks” I give about the reasons for
a strike. All I care about is that there
may be one and what the effects
may be.
The University of Western
Ontario Faculty Association is fight-
ing the same fight the London Tran-
sit Commission bus drivers tried to
fight last year: A public relations
campaign that they have absolute-
ly zero chance of winning. In fact,
they have less than zero. It only
makes people angrier at them,
thereby losing supporters. Stop try-
ing to explain why you might strike.
We don’t care. At all.
»
•3
A strike at a university is not a
“very real disruption in your acade-
mic year” it is a very real disruption
to our lives. Every fourth-year
attempting to apply for grad school,
med school, college, jobs or even to
just go to Europe for the summer
would be told, unequivocally by
both Western and UWOFA, to go
fuck ourselves. The rest of the
undergrads are no better off, hav-
ing to go home to find a job or sit
around and drink.
I get that as a student, I’m very
unnecessary to the vast majority of
teachers who’d rather be doing
research, but as a teacher you’re
extremely necessary to me getting
the hell out of here. Both sides need
to get their acts together and get
this settled. Now.
Or do you want to be as awful as
York is? And I’m not just talking
about their sports teams.
—Matthew Cloutier
Sci. IV
4•
Opinions
University is a time to grow, expand
minds and push the limits of what
we believe to be fundamental
truths. Why then, for the past two
years, two of the most controversial
— albeit popular — political speak-
ers brought to campus have been a
mirror image of one another?
Last year the Campus Coali-
tion for Democracy brought in
controversial right-wing extrem-
ist Ann Coulter. This year they’re
bringing in controversial right-
wing extremist Mark Steyn. Way
to mix it up.
After the Coulter controversy
last year, wouldn’t it be nice for the
student body to have the opportu-
nity to see someone that offers a
new perspective on politics? Per-
haps someone that will actually
expand minds and promote discus-
sion. That is the goal, isn’t it?
Rather than offering new con-
troversy, Steyn is likely going to
repeat many of Coulter’s opinions
— this is evident from the number
of times he parrots a range of con-
troversial talking points on his web-
site. Bringing in Steyn isn’t really
giving students a new way of think-
ing so much as acting as a gimmick
to draw attention to the speaker
through controversy.
Moreover, word of Steyn’s
appearance has already proven to
be a point of contention among
students. When he actually comes
to London, I have no doubt Steyn
will cause controversy similar to
that caused by Coulter last year.
While it’s a great idea to incor-
porate controversy into the acade-
mic environment of a university,
Western should consider hosting
controversial speakers with some-
thing new to say. The CCD is pro-
viding the conservative viewpoint
with a voice, but I hope in the future
we will have speakers who will
actually push the boundaries of the
familiar, not just repeat things we’ve
already heard.
If we want to broaden our hori-
zons in terms of political discourse,
the university should work to do
just that — not limit the intellectu-
al debate we can have by bringing
in people saying the same things.
— Monica Blaylock
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We all enter university with a set of
beliefs, be they political, religious or
otherwise. Often these opinions are
passed down to us from our parents
and communities — and it’d be a
comfortable existence to only asso-
ciate with those who reinforce these
beliefs.
But if you wanted to do that, you
shouldn’t have gone to university.
Higher education means expos-
ing ourselves to viewpoints that
challenge our own. Maybe that
Let the speakers speak
means taking a course on sustain-
ability even if your idea of being Students already sit through more lecture hours per Although the university setting should be used to
green is investing in hedge funds. week than anyone would voluntarily endure. It’s not exercise as many minds as possible, bringing in polar-
Or maybe it’s catching Mark surprising many students avoid another hour in a izing speakers does not really achieve that result.
Steyn’s upcoming appearance — classroom, regardless of who’s doing the speaking. It’s no secret that a celebrity draws a crowd. People
even if you disagree with his ultra– This is why, despite the fact that guest lecturers would rather hear Suzuki speak about how much he
conservative beliefs. appear on campus on an almost daily basis, only the loves Lucky Charms than some no-name expert talk
Steyn is a widely–read author most controversial of speakers draw campus-wide about climate change.
and commentator who has many attention. On the one hand, if any speaker is drawing a crowd,
sympathizers. But for many, his Last year, for example, Ann Coulter spoke on cam- it can be seen as a good thing. Opening a discussion on
appearance is a chance to hear pus. This is a speaker whose central theme was vague campus, even if it stems from something that many
from the opposite side of the polit- at best, but drew scores of people based on her con- people would consider to be controversial and inap-
ical spectrum. troversial points of view. The audience for her talk was propriate for broadcast, is usually a good thing.
Whether you get riled up and highly polarized and consisted mostly of people who On the other hand, relying on pure controversy to
storm out halfway through, or either supported her whole–heartedly or vehemently draw crowds without providing any substance behind
pause to consider the issues buried opposed her views. the speech does not perpetuate an environment for
beneath the controversy, this is a Coulter is among the most extreme examples of critical thinking and discourse.
chance to see things from a differ- speakers because she drew people both with contro- Although she may have been forgotten in the face
ent perspective. versy and with her celebrity status. But with such a of higher–profile speakers, the USC brought in jour-
On the online comments page of polarized audience, it’s doubtful many minds were real- nalist Irshad Manji two years ago. Perhaps the fact she
our recent Steyn article, one West- ly challenged or views altered after her visit to campus. didn’t pique campus–wide interest to the same degree
ern alumnus from the ‘80s recalled The same group that brought Coulter to Western is Coulter did may signal Western’s student population’s
another controversial figure on our now bringing another controversial speaker to London desire for controversy.
campus — Western psychology pro- — Mark Steyn. The Campus Coalition for Democracy But then again, having intelligent but “safe” discus-
fessor John Phillipe Rushton — who claims that bringing in these far-right speakers to cam- sions can be just as beneficial as stirring up a ruckus —
raised a lot of eyebrows in his day pus balances out the liberal-dominated guest list of and certainly is better than relying on celebrity and
for his views that race and intelli- speakers offered by both Western and the University controversy to draw a crowd.
gence were correlated. Student’s Council, such as Robert F. Kennedy or David —The Gazette Editorial Board
Rushton’s research sparked Suzuki.
intelligent discourse among stu-
dents about “race, ideals of higher
education, freedom of expression”
and more, recalled the alumnus.
Sounds like topics we ought to
be talking about at an institution of
higher learning, rather than shying
away from. dailyquote
“If you don’t agree with the mes-
sage, challenge it, but don’t shut
I disapprove of what you say, but I will
down the conversation,” the alum-
nus said. defend to the death your right to say it.
I couldn’t agree more. Let’s wel-
come folks like Steyn, whether or — VOLTAIRE
not his views reflect our own — and
then let’s talk about it. That’s what
university is all about.
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thegazette • Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Arts&Life
Spamalot gallops
through London
Kate Wilkinson
CONTRIBUTOR
This week London will have a chance
to host Spamalot, a musical “loving-
ly ripped off” from some of Monty
Python’s most popular moments.
Based on the 1975 film Monty
Python and the Holy Grail, Spa-
malot has proven to be one of the
most successful Broadway produc-
tions of the past decade.
For the past month of the Spa-
malot tour, Glenn Giron has played
Patsy — King Arthur’s loyal follower
in the quest for the Holy Grail.
He says his most important task
is to bang two coconut halves
together to simulate the sound of
the king’s horse.
It took the actor a while to get the
hang of this peculiar character trait.
“I smashed my fingers a couple
times [during rehearsal]. It sounds
funny but I have to warm up my
wrists backstage or I can’t make the
sound properly,” Giron says.
Giron first started auditioning
for regional theatre productions
while attending the University of
Oklahoma. In his second year, the
dean of his program asked why,
with his talent for musical theatre,
he had chosen to go to university.
“He told me [university] wasn’t
for everyone,” Giron recalls.
Giron made the move to New
York City, and at 21 landed his role
in Spamalot.
“This is still like going to school
for me,” says Giron. “There’s a lot for
me to learn.”
While Spamalot first premiered
on Broadway in 2005, London will
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host a version of the show that stays
very close to the original. The pow-
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Nichols and choreographer Casey
Nicholaw — who both received
Tony Awards for their work on Spa-
malot — are involved in the pro-
duction.
Giron also performs the well-
known song “Always Look On the
Bright Side of Life” — a scene taken
from the film Life of Brian — during
each show.
“I still get pretty nervous
because I don’t want to let the
Python fans in the audience down
— it’s such an iconic song,” Girons
says.
Fans both new and old will be
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Crowd:
Openers:
Set List:
Overall:
On Saturday night, Canadian band
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Life As We Know It
too predictable
Maira Hassan
CONTRIBUTOR
Life as We Know It
Director: Greg Berlanti
Starring: Katherine Heigl and Josh
Duhamel
Having the career of your dreams,
finding the perfect person to settle
down with and having a family is all
part of what is considered to be “the
perfect life.” But what happens
when life doesn’t unfold the way we
want it to?
Life As We Know It shows the
unpredictability of life — how the
plan we desire isn’t always the plan
we’re meant to have.
The film begins with strangers
Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl)
and Eric Messer (Josh Duhamel)
going on a blind date set up by their
mutual best friends. Holly is a self-
employed single woman who runs
her own café while Eric never
involves himself in serious relation-
ships and is working towards his
dream job directing broadcasts of
NBA games.
The two immediately realize the
contrast between their personali-
ties — Holly expects a formal din-
ner date and Eric made no reserva-
tions because he’s accustomed to
simply charming women rather
than spending money. The lack of
common ground between the two
characters is the premise for most
of the humour in the film. The two
constantly tease and make jabs at
each other.
But the name-calling and vulgar
humour soon stop when they are
informed of a tragic accident
involving their two best friends,
leaving them to care for their only
child. The two face further difficul-
ties as Holly finally finds the man of
her dreams, which complicates the
inevitable romantic relationship
that forms between her and Eric.
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Sports
rundown >> Western’s softball team claimed the Ontario Championships this weekend with an 8-2 win over the Guelph Gryphons | The victory marks a perfect 20–0 record
for the season | The Mustangs win the McGill Redmen Basketball Classic tournament with a 3-0 record | Fourth-year point guard Ryan Barbeau named tournament MVP
Western Mustangs make
Toronto sing the blues
Mustangs advance directly to the semis
Daniel Da Silva
SPORTS EDITOR
For at least a half, the Toronto Var-
sity Blues tried to make me look like
a genius.
I might have been the only per-
son in the country who predicted a
Toronto win last weekend, and it
looked good for a while. But in the
end, the Mustangs’ talent and
depth took over in the hard-fought
35–23 victory.
While Western had virtually
nothing to play for, the Blues came
into the game knowing they needed
a win to make the playoffs.
“We were very motivated to
come out today. We had a lot of
emotions coming in, knowing that
our season was on the line,” Varsity
Blues head coach Greg Delaval said.
“They were a scrappy team and
they tried just about everything
they could to beat us,” Mustangs
head coach Greg Marshall added.
On their second possession of
the game, the Blues dipped into
their bag of tricks and pulled out a
reverse–wide receiver option pass
for a 58–yard touchdown. They fol-
lowed that with an onside kick,
leading to another touchdown. In
fact, Toronto attempted seven trick
plays in the first half alone.
“First half, we played well. The
defence held Western and the
offence moved the ball. We had a
Anders Kravis GAZETTE
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couple of big plays on offence and
special teams and we went up 17-0
because of it,” Delaval said.
Blues quarterback Andrew Gillis
was impressive, completing 25 of
his 43 pass attempts for 282 yards
and a touchdown. He needed to
play well considering Toronto man-
aged to run for negative seven yards
on the day.
“We played with a lot of confi-
dence. That hasn’t been there in the
past few years. No matter what hap-
pens, the team is starting to believe
that they can win,” Delaval said.
But the reality for Toronto was
that they weren’t the ones beating
Western — the Mustangs were
beating themselves. Three fumbles,
146 yards in penalties and multiple
mental errors were killing the Mus-
tangs.
“I thought they did a good job
showing some resiliency. It was one
of those halves where everything
that could go wrong, did go wrong,”
Marshall said.
Once they corrected those prob-
lems at halftime, it was all over for
Toronto. The Mustangs ran all over
Toronto’s defence, rushing for a
total of 333 yards. Running backs
Nathan Riva and Jerimy Hipperson
both had over 130 yards on the day.
“They couldn’t stop us,” Mar-
shall said. “We muscled through
[the mistakes] and overpowered
them.”
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Riva was instrumental in turn-
ing the game late in the second
quarter when he got loose and ran
for 52 yards. The Mustangs would
cash in on a Hipperson 11–yard
touchdown just a few plays later, to
bring the halftime score to a more
respectable 17–9.
“We are very strong running the
ball,” Marshall said. “We had a lot of
chances to break big ones and
Nathan finally got loose for that
long run. We needed that.”
The touchdown swung the
momentum in Western’s favour and
they came out firing in the second
half, reeling off 26 consecutive
points and putting the game away.
Gillis’ last minute touchdown
run was merely consolation for the
Blues, who will go home and start
preparing for next season.
“Each year we have gotten a lit-
tle bit better,” DeLaval said. “But we
are a young football team and we
have the capability to make a run
for it next year.”
The Mustangs now get a week off
before hosting the Ontario Universi-
ty Athletics semifinal on Nov. 6. How-
ever, if they plan on winning that
game, they better be more prepared.
“It’s a good thing that this hap-
pened during the regular season,
because if it was the playoffs, we
might be packing up our lockers,”
Marshall said. “We’re going to have
to play better than that.”
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Mustangs golden
against the Hawks
With 7-2 win, Western men
move to top of OUA standings
Andrew Piccininni
CONTRIBUTOR
For a team with such a highly tout-
ed defence, the Wilfrid Laurier
Golden Hawks failed to meet
expectations at Thompson arena
Friday night.
The Mustangs men’s hockey
team used a combination of quick
skating and strong forechecking to
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the win, Western moves to the top
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In a game expected to be a
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The offensive pressure contin-
ued, and three minutes later, West-
ern claimed a 3–0 lead when
defender Scott Aarssen fired a slap
shot from the point past a screened
Daniels. Within the next six min-
utes, the Mustangs had stretched
their lead to 5–0 with goals from
Aaron Snow and Steve Reese.
Laurier finally solved Mustangs
goalie Anthony Grieco in the clos-
ing moments of the second period
when a shot from Alexander Poul-
ter bounced off of a leg and through
Grieco’s legs.
As the game moved into the
third period, scoring chances for
the Mustangs continued, keeping
the sophomore Daniels far busier
than anticipated. Snow tallied his
second goal of the game after some
quick passing around the Laurier
net.
Shortly after, Brandon Green-
side rounded out the scoring for
Western, firing a wrist shot into the
top corner after a rush through the
neutral zone.
The Golden Hawks scored on
the powerplay with 10 minutes
remaining in the game, when
winger Thomas Middup beat Gre-
ico with a well placed wrist shot
from the slot to finish the game’s
scoring.
By the final buzzer, Western had
outshot Laurier by an unprece-
dented 57–23.
Mustangs head coach Clarke
Singer was eager to spread credit
for the win to all his players.
“Our guys really came out hard
tonight and followed the game plan
almost to perfection. We picked up
the lead early and never slowed
down,” he said. “We still have some
work to do, but this is definitely a
win we’re happy with.”
The Mustangs next home game
will be against Waterloo on Friday
night at 7:30 p.m.