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Charges laid against driver in campus car crash23-year-old Elton Sabino charged in fatal early morning crash

Hamza TariqNEWS EDITOR

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The London Police Service has laid charges against the driver of the vehicle involved in last Sunday’s fatal car crash on Western’s campus.

According to a media release from the LPS, the driver of the vehicle was Elton Sabino, a 23-year-old resident of London.

Sabino has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, dangerous operating of a motor vehicle caus-ing bodily harm, impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing death, impaired operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm and novice driver-blood alcohol content above zero.

The fatal car crash in the early hours of Sunday on Perth Dr., in front of Western’s Chemistry Building, resulted in the death of Jan Broz, a 22-year-old resident of London.

Three individuals were seated in a grey Volkwagen Golf when the vehicle went off the road and hit a tree. As a result, the car flipped on its passenger side with the tree pinned against the roof.

Sabino and the other surviv-ing passenger of the crash, whose identity has not yet been released, are still in the hospital. They are reported to be in fair condition.

Keith Marnoch, director of media relations at Western, confirmed ear-lier this week that the three individ-uals involved in the crash were not directly associated with the univer-sity in any capacity.

Currently, Sabino has been released from custody and will have a court appearance in the coming weeks, according to the media release.

His friends remembered Broz, who immigrated from Czech Republic as a child, as an auto enthusiast who was able to fix just about anything.

More than 60 people gathered at a west London parking lot on Sunday night and drove to the crash site, where they held a candlelight vigil in memory of Broz.

Taylor Lasota • GAZETTEFROSH, FROSH EVERYWHERE. While nearly universally referred to as “frosh,” sophs and residence staff at Western have been directed not to use the word “frosh” when addressing first-year students. This is absurd, says news editor Hamza Tariq. See page 6 for his take.

Prof. drops out of Con. Black conference

Katie LearNEWS EDITOR@KatieAtGazette

Western associate professor Bipasha Baruah declared in an email on Monday that she will no longer participate in the Social Science Students’ Council’s Academic Conference. Baruah had previously agreed to speak at the professor panel, but did not agree with Conrad Black’s position as the keynote speaker for the conference.

“When I found out that he had been invited as a paid keynote speaker, and given the defining platform for the conference, that to me is completely unacceptable, and that’s not something that I can possibly participate in,” Baruah said in an interview.

According to Baruah, a distinc-tion needs to be drawn between controversial speakers, who she has no problem with having as a keynote speaker, and having Black participate.

“He’s a criminal – he’s a con-victed criminal who destroyed peoples’ lives … if anybody else – if they didn’t have his money and power and his influence, would have in many countries probably faced execution.”

“He’s been given the defining platform for this conference, and he of all people shouldn’t have one, he certainly shouldn’t have one in Canada, and that really bothers me,” Baruah continued.

Since Baruah announced she would not be participating, the SSSC has found a replacement for

their panel on short notice.“We only heard that she dropped

out of the speaking engagement … this Monday, which obviously is a very short window of time to replace somebody on a speaker panel, and we’ve been able to do so, but it’s been a huge struggle,” Litchfield said.

The conference’s theme on capitalism was partially chosen to unite the departments within social science.

“Our premise was that we wanted to have representation from all of the departments within the faculty because a lot of previous academic programming has only targeted one specific large depart-ment … the whole idea of this conference is to try and reach out to everyone and get a lot of differ-ent perspectives [on capitalism],” Litchfield continued.

“The way we’ve laid out our con-ference provides an opportunity for students to have discussions, to start debate, and to interact with different professionals,” Sean Fry, associate vice-president of aca-demics, said.

“We really regret that professor Baruah did decide to not partici-pate in the professor panel, but we have found some replacements that we think will be great and we’re really excited for the event,” Fry continued.

Black will be delivering his key-note presentation for the SSSC’s conference, titled Capitalism in Today’s Society, at 7 p.m. on Sunday in Alumni Hall.

Health sci addresses students concerns

Megan DevlinASSOCIATE EDITOR

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The faculty of health science has denied allegations that it lowered grades to meet a prescribed class average in Health Sciences 3010F: Introduction to Rural Communities.

Kevin Wamsley, associate dean of the faculty, said his faculty does not have a senate-approved policy to regulate class averages.

“We are committed to fairness,” Wamsley said. “If a student has any concern whatsoever, we want to make sure that student has every opportunity to be treated fairly through the appeals process.”

Sandy Girgis, a fourth-year health sciences student, organized a Google document via Facebook compiling signatures of class-mates who wished to appeal after the entire class allegedly received six out of 10 for their participation grade. Fifty-five students out of a class of 91 indicated they want to appeal.

“It doesn’t reflect your effort if everyone’s getting the same mark on the dot,” Girgis said.

Wamsley, however, said 55 sig-natures on a Google document does not amount to 55 appeals with the university.

Jess Bechard, media relations for the faculty of health science, also added that the allegation that the entire class received 60 per cent on their second essay assignment was not true.

Wamsley announced via OWL

that he has booked HSB 236 today for a meeting with students in the class at 4:30 p.m. to address, “mis-information circulating among the students on many academic issues, including an appeals deadline.”

Both Wamsley and Bechard said they could not comment on the number of appeals without break-ing their privacy policies.

Wamsley said he couldn’t speak to the students’ concerns with their allegedly identical grades because, “no students came to [him] with those concerns.”

He did, however, stress the effectiveness of the university’s private and confidential appeals process.

The process begins with a stu-dent appealing their grade with their professor, either orally or in writing. If the student believes they are being treated unfairly, they can then write a letter to the chair of their department or director of their school.

“The director of the school then responds to that appeal, gathers information, makes a decision and provides that decision to the stu-dent,” Wamsley explained.

If the student is still dissatisfied, he or she can appeal to the dean of his or her faculty. After the dean, the final level of appeal is the Senate Review Board Academic.

As for the students in Health Science 3010F, screenshots from the class’s OWL announcements reveal the faculty originally stood by six out of 10 participation grades, but later decided to re-weigh them.

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Western Readsmakes a return

Western University’s Alumni Relations is bringing back their book club series, Western Reads.Having started in 2003, Western Reads connected Western alumni with the London community and various works by Canadian authors. The book club stopped in 2009 but recently resumed activities.

Trista Walker, executive direc-tor of alumni relations, said she is excited to see the revival of Western Reads.

“It wasn’t until we stopped doing

it that we realized the impact it was having,” she said.

Walker added that although attendance was decreasing, many were taking up their own personal book clubs in their homes and hometown libraries.

The first event will take place on February 25, facilitated by Jason Winders, editor of Western News. Lynn Coady’s collection of short stories, Hellgoing, will be discussed.

“We want alumni to enjoy the best alumni experience. The reason we like a book club event is because it’s a way to have life long learning attached to the program,” she said.

Walker said that they are intro-ducing a new element to integrate alumni into the discussion that was not accessible prior to 2009 — social media.

“We were not aware of the impact we were making when we took it away, so we’re really excited about bringing it back,” Walker said.

• Olivia Zollino

Women underrepresented in disciplines requiring ‘brilliance’ over hard

workA recent study in the academic jour-nal Science revealed that women were underrepresented in academic disciplines where “brilliance” or innate talent are considered more important to advancement than hard work.

The Princeton University study, led by philosophy professor Sarah-Jane Leslie, compiled the responses of faculty, postdocs and graduate students, asking if they believed innate brilliance to be more import-ant to advancement in their fields, or whether hard work was the cen-tral factor.

The study found that fields where brilliance is considered paramount — such as philosophy, mathematics and physics — tended to be male-dominated. In contrast, women formed the majority in disciplines including education, psychology and molecular biology, where hard work was emphasized.

Part of the blame lay with the tendency to associate men with the concepts of “talent” and “brilliance,” while women were more often linked to notions of “hard work.”

“Historical factors [such as] women working really hard but being under-rewarded, men being overcompensated for talent often influence modern self-conceptions of gender,” said Jessica Joy Cameron, professor of women’s studies at Western.

The study also faulted fac-ulty leaders for holding a gender bias that allowed the gender gap in their disciplines to continue. Cameron added that women may feel unwelcome in male-dominated disciplines with a masculine culture and turn to programs with a large female segment instead.

The existing gender gap itself acts as a deterrent that keeps women from joining male-dominated disciplines.

“If you see people who you iden-tify with in positions of power and privilege in a particular location, you’re going to be more likely to see yourself entering into that field,” Cameron said.

Cameron emphasized that the solution is not mainly about reducing gender gaps in particular fields, but about valuing all aca-demic disciplines equally, even those that do not offer a direct con-tribution to the economy.

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Greeks face critical decision in election

Richard RaycraftMANAGING EDITOR

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An election in a small country of 10 million usually doesn’t get much attention. Come January 25, how-ever, all eyes will turn to Greece as the beleaguered member of the European Union takes to the polls in what will likely be the most import-ant election of the year.

Unemployment sits at 25 per cent and public debt has sky-rocketed to almost 200 per cent of GDP. Suffocating under harsh aus-terity policies imposed by its credit-ors, mainly the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and Germany, the future of the country and its use of the Euro, the shared currency of the Eurozone, are at stake.

The sitting government, a coali-tion led by the centre-right New Democracy party, broadly favours the status quo. Leading the polls, however, is the far-left Syriza party, which will demand a restructuring of Greece’s debt and will disrupt trends that have persisted since the start of the crisis in 2007.

“The Greek economy has strug-gled mightily over the past seven or eight years, particularly with youth unemployment running over 50 per cent,” Mike Moffatt, an assist-ant professor at the Ivey School of Business, said.

Greece’s economic troubles stem from its government’s over-bor-rowing in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. Hit hard by the collapse and unable to repay its ballooning debts, Greece required enormous stimulus pack-ages from stronger economies and international organizations. The rescue funds came with strings attached, however, as Greece was forced implement various economic reforms that have made life difficult for ordinary Greeks.

Bruce Morrison, political sci-ence professor at Western, says the disruptive potential of the election iswhat make it one to watch.

“The Syriza Party is basically suggesting, quite strongly, that it is going force a reconsideration of the terms, and Germany, amongst other European partners, is making noises suggesting that they’re not open to a reconsideration … that’s why the Greek election is so significant right now,” he said.

Greece’s use of the Euro means it lacks an independent monetary policy and thus cannot devalue its currency to stimulate the sagging economy.

“That option’s off the table for the Greeks because they’re part of the Euro and have no control whatso-ever of their currency, so there’s this discussion of whether or not Greece would be better off abandoning the Euro Area and regaining control of their currency,” Moffatt said.

Abandonment of the Euro is the elephant in the room in the election. Moffatt says the effects of leaving the Eurozone — massive capital outflows and economic and polit-ical instability — are severe, though they may be tempting considering the current state of the economy. European elites, however, want Greece to stay in the Eurozone, which Moffatt says could play into the hands of Syriza’s debt restruc-turing proposal.

“You have the international com-munity that doesn’t want Greece to leave the Euro and wants some structural changes [in the Greek economy], so Greece can use that as a bit of leverage to get debt reduction.”

Morrison says Greeks are broadly in favour of keeping the Euro, which is why no party in the elec-tion has outright proposed leaving the Eurozone, though the threat remains if Syriza is elected and its restructuring demands aren’t met.

“Eurozone membership is very popular in Greece — the Greeks still want … the Euro currency, they have not gotten to a position of wanting to abandon that,” he observed. “Any governing party would have to take that into consideration.”

In addition to the incumbent

New Democracy and the poll-lead-ing Syriza, another party to watch is the neo-fascist and xenophobic Golden Dawn. The rise of populist right wing parties has swept Europe as economic stagnation persists, though Greece may prove an excep-tion. Morrison says there are signs that Syriza has captured populist anger — possibly at Golden Dawn’s expense.

“A couple of years ago there were signs of growth on the part of the Golden Dawn,” he said. “But actually, in last year’s European elections, they only got nine per cent. They look like they’re mired at well below 10 per cent — six or seven per cent in the polls right now … so basically the dissenting views in Greece right now seem to be moving in the direction of Syriza.”

Morrison speculates that Syriza will probably emerge victorious, though they will likely need a coali-tion partner in the 300-seat Hellenic Parliament. This result could, after almost a decade, start a new nar-rative of the European economic crisis.

“There are a lot of things that are greatly difficult here, because [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel knows that every benefit provided to Greece right now is deeply unpopu-lar in Germany,” he said. “So in my view, this election might be a

beginning not just of the renegoti-ation of the terms for Greece but also a reinterpretation of what has actually occurred in Europe.”

“If that works out, even in spite of the difficulties and tensions, that will not be an unfavourable result.”

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GGGGFWildDirector: Jean-Marc ValleeStarring: Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern

Wild seems like the kind of film that would be enjoyed and for-gotten within a span of months. The “inspirational survivor’s” tale has been done to death by films like 127 Hours, Cast Away and the absolutely abysmal Soul Surfer. It would seem easy to dismiss Jean-Marc Vallee’s follow-up to his much acclaimed Dallas Buyer’s Club as nothing more than saccharine-rid-den drama, especially given the sur-prisingly lack of Oscar nominations. To dismiss Wild, however, would be a total injustice to the film itself. It manages to hold up amongst the best of the survival sub-genre and features a raw performance by Reese Witherspoon, who plays the strong-est female character Hollywood has given us in quite some time.

The film tells the true story of Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon), a woman who decides to hike the gruelling Pacific Crest Trail, which stretches from Southern California to British Colombia. Searching for answers amidst the grief stricken, sex and drug-fuelled era of her life, Cheryl spends 96 days on the trail, reflecting on her life in the process. The audience watches both Cheryl’s journey on the PCT and the frag-mented memories of the life she is desperately trying to leave.

As previously stated, this type of story has been seen in film many times before. Audiences going into Wild will likely expect the familiar survival tropes and will see the film’s overall message coming a mile away. In the hands of lesser talent, Wild

would have been nothing more than a cliché-ridden story about a truly remarkable journey. This is not the case.

Witherspoon has always been a talented actress, but it’s rare to see her shine like this. The last time audiences saw Witherspoon in a role this great was in 2005’s Walk the Line, a role for which she won an Oscar. It is also worth noting how startling it is to see such a strong, fully realized female character in this year’s Oscar race. Cheryl is treated well by the actress playing her, as well as the film’s screenwriter Nick Hornby. The About a Boy and An Education scribe can add this picture to his increasingly impres-sive resume.

Jean-Marc Vallee’s direction has certainly become more distin-guished since his last outing. Unlike the excess of grit which shrouded every frame of Dallas Buyer’s Club, Wild evokes shades of pure beauty in its psychologically-driven montage sequences. Like a secular Terrence Malick, Valée captures the raw emo-tions of Cheryl in a grounded, yet powerful way. While some of the characters suffer from being overly romanticized, the film does manage to evoke one’s sympathies for Cheryl every step of the way.

It’s also worth noting that the film makes excellent use of music, both through Cheryl’s humming down the stroll and the songs we hear stuck inside her head. The use of repetition and careful selection of music provides a great amount of insight into the character — but are also just awesome songs.

Do not let the air of familiar-ity scare you away. Wild may be another survival film, but it’s an incredibly well-crafted and expertly performed one.

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The knee-length tan peacoat, a classic from Hudson’s Bay, gives off that sought-after business casual look. “It’s my favourite piece,” says Meteke. “I really like the … colour of it, the length; it’s very fall-like but still warm.”

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As I plan my first weekend back home with my family, I don’t know what to expect. While at school I buy my own groceries. I enjoy cooking for myself and, as I’ve men-tioned previously, I like to know what’s in the food I’m eating. This contrasts starkly with my Italian family.

My family likes to gather around copi-ous amounts of lasagna and veal parmi-giana — my weaknesses. Over the years, I’ve attempted to make subtle changes to their diet. For example, I have introduced my family to quinoa, shown them that sub-stituting sour cream for Greek yoghurt is a better solution and that not everything tastes better fried.

While I’m thrilled that my family has made progress towards a healthier lifestyle, I also don’t want to completely take away from a family tradition.

I don’t want to be the person who sin-gle-handedly bars my father from making his beloved pasta with homemade tomato sauce on Sundays. Where I look to food as a means for sustenance, my family views food as an expression of love. How could I deny that? Especially since I’m the one who chose to eat this way and not them.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to holding myself accountable while compromising.

This weekend, I plan on integrating the best of both worlds. My parents encourage me to help them make dinner, which is a way to spend time and show my love, and yet make food that appeals more to my lifestyle. Instead of just having a plate of pasta, I can compromise and have a small portion along with my quinoa.

This way, I can share in the tradition and stay close to my goals.

• Olivia Zollino

After a wonderful weekend in Ottawa, I man-aged to get back on track with my diet and workout plan. Luckily, I didn’t go completely overboard, though I will admit to having some drinks and enjoying my first beaver tail. That being said, I also worked out at the hotel gym (shocking, I know) and skated a few kilometres on the Rideau Canal. I say this like it’s no big deal but I’m actually a terrible skater. As I forced myself to make it down the canal, I was always praying that a rest stop would be around the next bend. When I finally made it to the BeaverTails stand I felt it was nothing short of victory.

The main thing I took away from the weekend is the importance of balance and moderation. While it may not be justifiable to blow a whole week’s progress by binging all weekend, I don’t believe anybody should completely restrict themselves either. I used to have the mentality “It’s just one weekend, I should take advantage of it.” But I learned that it’s possible to enjoy your trip, have some treats and even get in a bit of exercise too.

Now that I’m back to my regular rou-tine, I’ve been trying to think of some more

exciting meals. I’m so sick of hummus right now it’s unbelievable, so I’m going to take a break from that for a while. Instead, I’ve been bringing turkey wraps and hard-boiled eggs for lunch. I know that might sound like a weird combo, but the wraps aren’t extremely filling. I find that having a hard-boiled egg for a little pre-lunch snack is helpful for fill-ing me up.

I’m not a huge egg-lover, so getting used to hard-boiled eggs took some work. I started with devilled eggs, adding a little bit of mayo and a lot of pepper (I am a pepper fiend.) After having eggs like this a couple times, I moved on to hard-boiled eggs. I actually quite like them now and I found transitioning the way I did really helped. It’s hard to dive in and force yourself to eat something that you don’t typically eat. But by making slow changes to your diet you may find it easier to make the move. I’m hoping to eventually do this with peanut butter so I don’t have to listen to Olivia complain about my “crappy peanut butter” on a daily basis.

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Hamzi TariqNEWS EDITOR

@HamzaAtGazette

Did you know that Western sophs are told to not call first-year students ‘frosh’ anymore?

I didn’t either, and I had the same exasperated look on my face as you probably do now.

The different groups involved with orientation plan-ning — committees, orientation leaders, head sophs and sophs — are being actively discouraged in their training from using the word ‘frosh’ when referring to their first-year students.

According to Sam Kilgour, vice-president student events for the University Students’ Council, the move is to make incoming students feel more comfortable and welcome. Students coming into the orientation program include international, exchange and mature students, and are not all in fact first-year students.

“We’re just trying to move to a more open dialogue usually with the word ‘incoming students,’ ” he said.

Sophie Helpard, orientation coordinator for the 2014 O-week, had similar thoughts on the topic. She feels that mature, transfer, exchange and other students might feel excluded from the O-week festivities by labelling everyone as ‘frosh’.

Both Kilgour and Helpard confirmed, however, that they have received no complaints regarding the use of the word from any students.

So what is it about the word ‘frosh’ that gives it such a negative tinge?

According to Kilgour, the word is associated with the ‘negative aspects’ of O-week. Helpard says that the word has ‘negative connotations’ because it refers to older orien-tation weeks that were less about campus community and more about drinking.

I personally have failed to come across a persuasive and compelling argument against the use of the word, and I refuse to accept the justifications stated above.

After an extensive Google search of the origins of the word, I found that the word did indeed originate from ‘freshmen.’ So did ‘freshers,’ ‘fish,’ ‘fresh,’ ‘freshy’ and ‘froshies,’ all words that have been traditionally and con-temporarily used for students entering their first year of college education, across North America, Europe and Australia.

My experience with sophs in first-year showed me that the word is used as term of endearment. There was nothing condescending or demeaning about it. I did not look for a hidden meaning and nor did the sophs mean otherwise.

If using the word is a matter of inclusivity, then the university’s stress on having dry O-week runs against these principles of inclusiveness. A number of students enter Western for their first-year already past the legal drink-ing age in Ontario. By imposing a dry O-week, doesn’t the university exclude older students who might prefer to celebrate their first week at Western differently?

In my opinion, this is a case of extreme micromanage-ment and bureaucratization of the whole orientation process. The use of a simple word was made into a case of political correctness that is both unnecessary and unwarranted, and only serves to put limitations on how orientation leaders can make their frosh feel more com-fortable and welcome to a new chapter of their lives.

Frosh, frosh, frosh, frosh

Your anonymous

letters to life

Dear Life,The live music in the UCC on Wednesday was blessed.

Dear Life,So the Spoke is giving away those “structurally unsound” tables they replaced. The cynic in me is wondering if it’s not all just a ploy to get more tables and people crammed in there and not actually an issue with those evil tables. Because why would you give away unsafe tables? Et tu, Helfy?

Dear Life,The new table setup in the Spoke totally sucks. It ruins the chill vibe and I’m not happy about it.

Dear Life,Seriously though Spoke … this place is claustrophobic now. BRING BACK THE OLD TABLES!

Dear Life,As a structural engineering student, I’m gonna have to call bullshit on Matt Helfand’s comment about the Spoke tables being “structurally unsafe.”

Dear Life,Ah, the USC elections: teaching us that racial diversity doesn’t mean you’re not still all the same.

Dear Life,I wish I was a poet

For then I would

Write a love poem

To the most amazing,

Wonderful young woman

But alas, I am no poet

Just a mere pleb

At the University of Western Ontario

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Megan DevlinASSOCIATE EDITOR

@MegAtGazette

If you’re dead, can you still be selfish? I think you can, particularly if you haven’t registered to be an organ donor.

Organ donation is one of the most pressing issues for the healthcare system. Supply just can’t meet demand.

In Canada, only 15.5 out of every one million potential donors actually donates. In the United States, the situa-tion is even worse. Eighteen patients die each day waiting for an organ.

Patients waiting for a kidney can get by on dialysis, but those waiting on a heart, intestine or lung will die if they don’t find a donor in time.

One proposed method to help is pre-sumed consent laws.

Right now, Canadians must declare their intent to donate their organs upon death. You can register online through ServiceOntario, which proclaims “one donor can save up to seven lives” in a red banner atop its site.

But even if a deceased Canadian declares his or her intent, family mem-bers can trump that decision. Doctors use registration as evidence for consent, but the registration is not a binding legal decision.

Many continental European coun-tries, such as France, Spain and Croatia have presumed consent laws. This means citizens are presumed to consent to donating their organs upon death unless they specifically opt out during their lifetime.

In practice, doctors still ask the family in countries with presumed consent laws. They don’t donate a deceased patient’s organs unless grieving family members give permission.

But still, only 20–30 per cent of Spanish and French families refuse consent, compared with about half of American families.

While presumed consent laws don’t function to force families to donate a loved one’s organs, they do drastically increase the likelihood that the family will give consent, an article in the Journal of Health Economics by Abadie and Gay says.

Presumed consent legislation makes organ donation more of a social norm, and makes families more likely to give consent to donate their loved one’s organs.

Another reason presumed consent legislation is a good idea in Canada is that people are simply too lazy to register to be donors.

In an American study, 69 per cent of survey respondents indicated they sup-port organ donation and would like to donate upon death, but only 28 per cent registered to be donors.

Our generation has been criticized for our apathy before. I could call on all of us to go online and register, but I know none of you would actually do it.

I think presumed consent laws make the most sense. If, for religious or per-sonal reasons, you don’t want to donate your organs then you’re able to opt out.

As for the rest of us “lazy” millenials, I can hazard a guess none of us have planned our death. At our age, the most common cause of death is accident. Presumed consent laws would mean that people who intended to donate but never got around to registering wouldn’t be robbed of their chance to save a life. Or seven, as ServiceOntario proclaims.

Getting to the heart of organ donation

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

• Jack Kevorkian

Devlin’s Advocate

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Schwartz and co. beat up on BadgersDevin Golets

SPORTS EDITOR@DevinGolets

Four goals in the first period were more than enough as the men’s hockey team never looked back en route to a 7–3 victory Wednesday night over Brock.

Forward Noah Schwartz stole the show, kicking off the scoring parade early in the first period on a rebound goal. He added another marker on the power play at 16:07 to put the ‘Stangs up 4–1 after one period.

After a scoreless second per-iod, Schwartz went back to work in the third, setting up Matt Marantz and Julian Cimadamore for goals to cap off the win. The four-point effort represented a career high and matched his point total from all of last season.

“It was a good game,” Schwartz admitted. “I got a couple of rebound goals 10 feet away from the net that weren’t going in for me at the begin-ning of the year and they finally went in.”

Schwartz has been stellar for the ‘Stangs this year. After playing mostly on the fourth line last sea-son, he now sits third on the team in scoring with 21 points through 19 games. However, the former local Junior B star says his game plan has never changed.

“I always play the same way. I pride myself on being a two-way player – playing defence, penalty killing and blocking shots,” he said. “Defence first and then the goals will come.”

Despite the big win, the Mustangs lost two key players to injury in the second period. Luke Karaim and Cody Brown were on the wrong end of two high hits that resulted in game misconducts for the Badgers’ Kane Geldart and Andrew Radjenovic. Neither player returned to the game.

Karaim is feared to potentially have endured a concussion. He has been a solid depth player all season long as his eight goals tie him for third on the team. While there’s a chance he will return before play-offs, Brown is on the shelf for the year after breaking his collarbone on what Schwartz called “a brutal hit.”

Since returning to the lineup from a concussion, Brown picked up four points in his first four games, earning him Mustang Male Athlete of the Week honours.

“He just came back and was play-ing amazing,” explained Schwartz. “He’s been one of our top players for sure over the last five games. Losing him is going to hurt us but guys have to step up now. Guys are going to get more opportunity.”

Injuries aside, the win vaulted Western into a tie with Windsor for first in the Ontario University Athletics west division. But with Windsor having a game in hand, Schwartz knows tonight’s tilt with the York Lions is all the more crucial.

“[Tonight] is probably the big-gest game of the year,” he said. “We play Waterloo and Windsor next week – the other top two teams in our division. So getting two points [tonight] is huge because if we don’t, the games next week won’t mean as much.”

Tracking down Windsor is as much about pride as it is about home ice throughout the playoffs. Under the tutelage of head coach Clarke Singer, the team has finished first in each of the past five seasons. You can watch the Mustangs take on the Lions tonight at Thompson Arena. Students watch for free and puck drop is at 7 p.m.

Eunhae Chung • WESTERN MUSTANGS


sportsRundown >> Canadian Interuniversity Sport has released is top 10 lists for the week > Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams ranked third in the nation.

gamedayThe Mustangs men’s basketball team looks to continue their four-game winning streak tonight at 8 p.m. They play the undefeated University of Ottawa Gee Gees at Alumni Hall.

Mustangs hope to continue their successWomen’s hockey team looks to rebound from defeat against Windsor

Bradley MetlinSPORTS EDITOR@BradAtGazette

The women’s hockey team has had a lot to celebrate this season as they have fought to the top of the Ontario University Athletics standings. They are currently ranked third in the nation and the prospects of advan-cing the Canadian Interuniversity Sport final are promising.

Last weekend, however, the CIS final seemed a little more elusive as the Mustangs fell to the Windsor Lancers in a 4–0 loss. This marked the first loss of the season in regula-tion time for Western. The Lancers are undoubtedly a strong rival as they are ranked third in the OUA — Western narrowly defeated them earlier in the season after a tense shootout.

On Saturday, Western will face-off against the York Lions. Hoping to regain some lost momentum, the Mustangs will likely be energized. These teams have met before when Western cruised to victory 6–3 in the

fifth week of the regular season.York will likely apply pressure

with a solid offence led by Lisa Stathopulos who leads the team in points with 27. As a team, the Lions have an average of 28 shots on goal per game — identical to the Mustangs.

Besting Western in total points for the season, the Lions depend on four players — Stathopulos, Rianna Langford, Kristen Barbara, and Amy Locke — who all have all earned over 10 points this season. Whereas Western has a more even distribution, they lack a team of power forwards. While all four of the mentioned York players are in the top 20 of the OUA for point scorers, the Mustangs only have 1 represent-ative on that list — Kendra Broad.

The Mustangs will look to goal-tender Kelly Campbell to stifle any pressure that York may apply. Campbell currently leads the OUA in save percentage with .946 and ranks second in goals against aver-age (1.44). The St. Thomas native has spent three years with the

Mustangs, improving with each year, culminating with her OUA leading performance this season.

Despite ranking 7th in the OUA, York is a strong team that will likely prove aggressive competition against Western. With nine goals between them in their last meeting,

fans can expect a game that will highlight relatively strong offences from both teams.

When these two teams meet Saturday in Toronto, the game will ultimately come down to who has the stronger defence that day. While Lions goaltender Megan Lee

is a solid performer, Campbell has the edge.

If York can pull together their usually more scattered defence, they stand a good chance of pro-viding a challenge.

The puck drops Saturday at 2 p.m. in Toronto.

Eunhae Chung • WESTERN MUSTANGS

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