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thegazetteTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 WESTERN UNIVERSITY • CANADA’S ONLY DAILY STUDENT NEWSPAPER • FOUNDED 1906 VOLUME 108, ISSUE 15

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Kevin HurrenNEWS EDITOR-AT-LARGE

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Researchers at Western have taken their pharmacological study to new heights – or at least new highs.

After examining the effects of dif-ferent marijuana doses in a variety of animal tests, a research team from the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry came to better understand the chemical consequences of drug use.

“Marijuana is a highly complex plant that has over 70 different chemical components,” explained professor and lead researcher Steven Laviolette. “Some of these com-pounds have positive effects and some of them have negative effects.”

The negative effects Laviolette refers to include the paranoia and emotional imbalances caused by small doses of the drug. Specifically, Laviolette and his peers looked at the way these compounds inter-acted with cannabinoid receptors in the brain. These receptors, located in a region of the brain called the prefrontal cortex, have a direct link to our dopamine system. This

system is a key factor in controlling our emotions.

As such, the dopamine system becomes impaired and a state of emotional hyper-responsiveness is created. The researchers discovered, however, that this effect does not remain consistent with increased dosage.

“When we injected a much higher dose of the cannabinoid drugs we basically flooded the entire pre-frontal cortex [and] we saw a blunt-ing of emotional responsiveness.”

Laviolette observed that after a certain point of exposure test ani-mals became numb to emotionally salient experiences – a finding that further supports existing percep-tions on long-term marijuana use.

“Often we see feelings of apathy in chronic users and this effect cor-related with a shutting down of the dopamine system.”

Though anecdotally supported, the findings were still a surprise for the research team. Michael Loureiro, a postdoctoral fellow, assisted Laviolette by writing and recording experimental tests concerning the dopamine patterns.

“We didn’t know what we would

observe in the prefrontal cortex regarding fear conditioning – so the first step was to study a single dose of the compound,” Loureiro said. “To our surprise we observe a total opposite effect when we use the second dose.”

These conclusions not only offer a better insight into drug use but can also be used to better control med-ical marijuana use.

“Given that there’s so many people right now in Canada and around the world that are using medical marijuana for various con-ditions, ideally what you want to do is develop a way to avoid some of these undesirable side effects,” Laviolette said.

As such, the research team also used antipsychotic medication to prevent both the paranoid behav-iour induced by low doses and the blunted emotional responses brought on by higher doses.

“What we’re doing now is sort of teasing apart these different chem-ical components of marijuana and trying to link these different chem-icals to specific neurotransmitters in the brain,” Laviolette said.“The ultimate goal is to develop novel pharmaceuticals that contain all of the benefits of marijuana while at the same time preventing or revers-ing the side-effects that are associ-ated with them.”

Kelly Samuel • GAZETTE

RESEARCH LIGHTING UP. Researchers at Western conducted a pharmacological study where they used marijuana in animal testing experiments to better determine the chemical results from drug use.

Katie LearNEWS EDITOR@KatieAtGazette

Enrolment for universities and colleges in Ontario directly from high schools is trending down, according to statistics released by the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre.

Of the 28 colleges and uni-versities included in OUAC’s monthly confirmation statistics, 21 schools registered decreased enrolment in September 2014, in comparison to September 2013.

The downward trend is mostly attributed to children of the baby boomer demographic completing their post-secondary education.

“What we’re seeing right now is we’ve hit the demographic pla-teau for people our age,” said Jen Carter, president of the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance.

“The ministry of training, col-leges and universities, and insti-tutions in Ontario are very well aware that what we’re actually going to see is the amount of young people that are eligible and able to go to school are going to taper off a little bit,” she said.

However, according to the statistics released by OUAC, Western’s overall enrolment is up 5.9 per cent.

“We’re up across the board in terms of first, second and third choices as universities. We’ve had a really good year, a really positive year in terms of attracting really good students,” Jeff Renaud, senior media relations’ officer at Western said.

University enrolment down across Ontario

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What the heck is that acronym: OUSA edition

•••InsideFair Trade week at Western • P2

Review: This is Where I Leave You • P5

Editorial: Lower university enrolment is not a crisis • P6

Softball team cleans up at the diamond • P7

Our Purple Pipe winner is… • P8

>> see ENROLMENT pg.3

Amy O’KrukNEWS EDITOR@AmyAtGazette

The Ontario Undergraduate Student Association is a coalition of seven student associations from across the province that advocate on behalf of undergraduates to the Ontario government. OUSA is made up of elected student representatives who together form OUSA’s Steering Committee, the body responsible for determining OUSA’s direction and initiatives. Western’s own University Students’ Council vice-president external, Jen Carter, is the current OUSA president.

Since its founding in 1992, OUSA has been involved in many projects that have had a significant impact on undergraduate student life. In 2012, OUSA worked to introduce the 30 per cent off Ontario tuition grant program that reduced the overall tuition costs of over 300,000 students. This year, OUSA was heavily involved in the $42 million

>> see OUSA pg.3

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Beer on the BeachThe University Students’ Council is holding a Beerfest for students today at Concrete Beach. This event is a competition for participating craft-brewers and a way for students to sample a variety of lesser-known beers.

A variety of craft breweries are expected to be there. The city’s own Forked River Brewery was invited. The USC is pairing the popularity of craft beers, as well as an already standing licensed liquor area on Concrete Beach, to hold the event.

“We haven’t seen that many events take place [there], we thought this would be a really cool and unique one and we’ll see how it goes,” USC president Matt Helfand said.

There will be an entry fee of $5 that includes a burger and a soft drink. After students vote for their favourite beer, the winner will receive a tap at the Wave, a USC owned operation.

Concrete Beach will be ready for the 12 p.m. opening as the beer patio remains from the Gord Bamford Homecoming concert. There will be prizes for students and all proceeds will be given to the Alzheimer’s Society.

• Diego Gonzalez

Fair trade week at Western

A Western student group advocat-ing fair trade is currently hosting its second National Annual Fair Trade Campus Week, which started Monday and will end this Friday.

Fair Trade Western, along with Hospitality Services, the University Students’ Council and Fire Roasted Coffee, is hosting the event which is being held in 30 campuses across Canada in order to publicize the student and administration led initiative that will hopefully lead to Western becoming a fair trade

campus by September 2015.Alex Hockin, student lead for

Fair Trade Western, said fair trade makes sure the exchange of prod-ucts, such as coffee, tea and choco-late, is ethical.

“Fair trade is a certification sys-tem that ensures that producers and farmers in developing countries are paid a fair wage for what they pro-duce,” she said.

Hockin summed up the push-ing force behind the movement by expanding the idea of a good stu-dent experience to the idea of a good experience for all people.

“Western prides itself on giv-ing the best student experience in Canada and I believe strongly that your experiences are not just felt in Canada and [that] after university your experiences are felt all over the world,” she said.

“So when I wake up in the mor-ning and I have my coffee, if I enjoy that coffee, I want to know that the farmer who grew that coffee bean is also enjoying his life halfway across the world.”

• Jonathan Hermina

Honorary degree recipients announced

Western has announced the names of the individuals who will be receiv-ing honorary Western degrees this fall at its 304 convocation.

According to Irene Birrell, univer-sity secretary, the honorary degrees committee consists of a variety of people including the members of the university senate, faculty mem-bers and a student representative.

The committee decides which of the nominees receive the honor-ary degrees at both spring and fall convocations.

“It’s a lot of filtering through nominations and coming up with a balanced slate that makes sense for that particular set of convoca-tions,” she said.

The committee puts out a call for nominations twice a year and those nominations remain active for two years. It then sorts through them and decides which nominations fit

their criteria, keeping in mind any special considerations they may have for this year, such as upcoming anniversaries.

The individuals who will receive honorary degrees are Heather Munroe-Blum, chair designate of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Irving Abella, former president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Thomas d’Au-quino, policy strategist and honor-ary professor at the Ivey School of Business and Jane Urquhart, award winning author.

“The goal is to recognize people who have truly significant accom-plishments in their lives who our graduates could perhaps look up to and try to emulate,” Birrell said.

• Kayla Vanstone

Candidates asked about poverty

The Middlesex-London Health Unit is asking municipal candidates to complete an online survey regard-ing poverty in the local community leading up to the municipal elec-tions next month.

The Ontario Society of Nutrition Professionals in Public Health, in association with local part-ner MLHU, aims to bring aware-ness about poverty in the local community.

According to Dr. Christopher Mackie, medical officer of health and CEO of MLHU, “We have 10,000 children in Middlesex-London living below the poverty line.”

The voluntary survey touches on topics pertaining to poverty, such as access to nutritious foods, transpor-tation fees and affordable housing. This survey allows candidates to express their specific concerns and thoughts on poverty.

If a candidate does not wish to share their results, ‘no response’ will be posted next to his or her name. The survey results will be released online on September 29.

“This is an opportunity for can-didates to make their opinions known,” Mackie said.

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OUSA focus on advocacy

Main campus enrollment is up 11 per cent, but Huron University College has experienced a 27.5 per cent decrease from last year. King’s College has seen a nine per cent decrease, while Brescia University College has had no change.

One of the ways Western hopes to prevent decreasing enrolment trends is to increase the number of international students coming in.

“In any given year right now for recent years, the incoming first-year class at the undergraduate level would be between 10 to 12 per cent international enrolments,” Carolyn Ford, manager of inter-national undergraduate recruitment at Western said. “The international plan going forward calls to increase international enrolments to about 15 per cent by September 2018. So what you see by that is a gradual level of increase.”

Along with growing inter-national enrolment, there is also a push to improve accessibility to

post-secondary institutions.“We have to be very aware of stu-

dents that have very specific access barriers to post-secondary educa-tion,” Carter said. “So a really good group to target would be Aboriginal students and making sure we can reach out and make sure there are some really good supports in place for them to come to school because we’re going to have to look beyond our traditional student to make sure our enrolment numbers stay the same.”

She also called for a change in focus for provincial funding to uni-versities and colleges, in light of the declining enrolment. Funding currently comes to post-secondary institutions based on a per-student model.

“It definitely goes back to a broader issue of the funding struc-ture of the universities and making sure that we have a very successful way to make sure that our univer-sities can keep their doors open,” Carter said. “Unfortunately, the per-student model isn’t going to

fly when we have to deal with not as many students coming in and obviously it’s going to be a challenge for the USC as well because we base our fees on the exact same thing.”

Martin Hicks, executive direc-tor of data and statistics at Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, also agreed that change is necessary and suggests focusing on alternate funding models.

“The most powerful lever that government has available to help drive those things is the funding lever. So right now the funding lever is all about enrolment — maybe it’s time to think about diversifying the funding formulas to drive those other things as well, and that’s a great opportunity for us to keep improving the system,” Hicks said.

“Maybe some other things we really want are quality outcomes for students, equity of access for under-represented groups that aren’t doing as well as others and differentiation of institutions within the system and student mobility.”

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Ontario Undergraduate Student AllianceFounded: 1992

President: Jen Carter, vice-president external of the USC

Members: Brock University, McMaster University, Queen’s Uni-versity, Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, University of Waterloo and Western University

Mission: to provide a common voice on educational issues for students; unite Ontario’s students to lobby for a better, more af-fordable and inclusive education

How much it costs: $2.90 per full-time equivalent student

How it works: Universities are represented proportionally, mean-ing Western has the highest number of representatives. Policy is set annually by elected student leaders from member campuses. Full-time staff members research, write and fine-tune policy po-sitions based on recommendations from student leaders.

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provincial investment to create an online course guide for the province, coined Ontario Online.

Carter said that OUSA’s agenda for 2014 will also concentrate on mental health issues, teaching qual-ity, student union autonomy and a push for the reallocation of tax cred-its into up front grants for students.

Carter added that a couple of OUSA campaigns will be coming to Western’s campus.

“[A campaign] that we’re really excited about is highlighting when your OSAP funding runs out,” Carter said. “OSAP allots $250 a week for a living allowance which is actually slightly under the poverty line, […] we would really like as a start, for OSAP to raise that living allowance.”

OUSA is run by the elected student leaders from its member campuses, which include Brock University, McMaster University, Queen’s University, Trent University, Wilfrid Laurier University, the University of Waterloo and, of course, Western. Besides the steer-ing committee, the association also has a twice annual general assembly in which student delegations can help set policy and shape OUSA.

Brandon Sloan, director of com-munications for OUSA, said that there are a number of ways under-grads at Western can contribute to the alliance. Students can join Western’s student delegation or contribute to OUSA’s publications which include blogs, newsletters and a magazine.

“We produce a ton of editorial content, we run about three blogs a week […] I’m often pitching stories that students have brought to me,” Sloan said. “We’re always looking for student authorship.”

Western has played leadership role within OUSA since its concep-tion. Almost half of OUSA’s previous presidents have been Western stu-dents. OUSA carries out the majority of its work through five focuses: dir-ect lobbying, public advocacy, issue awareness campaigns, research and policy solutions and partnerships.

Sloan emphasized the import-ance of organizations that fight for bettering the student experience.

“The issues that we work on actually affect the everyday lives of

students,” Sloan said.“Without divisions acting on

behalf of students, like OUSA does, there’s a good chance we could see the quality of the experience that students are having here at Western decline. If students care about that experience, hopefully they’ll be interested in the work that we do.”

Carter added Ontario 30 per cent off tuition grant has been one of OUSA’s crowning achievements.

“We’re always continuing to fight for more funding for universities but also more funding for students,” Carter said. “Making sure that uni-versity is accessible.”

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WITHOUT DIVISIONS ACTING ON

BEHALF OF STUDENTS, LIKE OUSA DOES, THERE’S A GOOD CHANCE WE COULD SEE THE QUALITY OF THE EXPERIENCE THAT STUDENTS ARE HAVING HERE AT WESTERN DECLINE. IF STUDENTS CARE ABOUT THAT EXPERIENCE, HOPEFULLY THEY’LL BE INTERESTED IN THE WORK THAT WE DO.

BRANDON SLOANDIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR OUSA


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Gazette Tested > Best Place to go for a first date on campus

ROBERT NANNI

Saugeen

To everyone’s utter disbelief, the object of your affections muttered a quick “sure” when you ask them out. But now you’ve got no idea where to take them — you’re struggling enough as it is being a student, so a fancy night on the town is simply out of the question. You need somewhere economical, close, efficient – you need Saugeen.

As you and your special friend pull up on the LTC and enter this classy establishment, you begin to make chit-chat while waiting in the mile-long lineup for food. You pick up whatever mystery meat the staff have procured for you this evening and eventually find your seat at a (slightly sticky) table.

After you set up your candlelight app to set the ambience amidst hundreds of belligerent residents and finish your meals, it’s time to go back to your room for a movie. It will only take you 20 minutes or so to convince your roommate they can find somewhere else to sleep for the night. And it’s fine if they refuse, I’m sure no one will mind their presence.

While you begin the process of finding a position on your barely twin bed that comfortably suits two, the movie begins, and so does the rest of your life together. This magical first date ensures a long-lasting partnership with no walk of shame in the morning. An undoubtable fantasy: lovebirds in the zoo.

JENNAFER FREEMAN

Picnic on UC Hill

Looking for something cute and creative to try for a first date? Well there couldn’t be anything better than a picnic on UC hill. It’s creative, romantic and sure to impress whoever you’re with. The UC tower has been photographed and Instagrammed by virtually every student who has ever walked past the building, accompanied by an abundance of hashtags: #pretty #uwo #westernlove #lovemyschool – the proof is in the hashtags, there’s no better place for a first date.

It’s more personal than a restaurant or movie theatre and allows you to display your gourmet picnic-packing skills. Spread out a blanket, break out the noms and turn on your charm. You may have a few hundred geese surrounding you and eyeing your lunch, but this could work out in your favour. If your date is an animal lover then this is merely a less expensive version of a petting zoo. Admittedly, this date would work better if UC hill wasn’t covered in snow for eight months of the year. However, all this really means is that if there’s someone you’re looking to impress you shouldn’t delay — ask them out now, there’s no harm in trying. And hey — if the date doesn’t work out, at least you can add a classic instagram photo to display your romanticism and entice a future lover with your charm and creativity.

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Canoe on the Thames

“Mille e cchiu appuntamente aggio tenuto... Tante e cchiu sigarette aggio appicciato...” These sublime lyrics to “Luna Rossa” probably mean little to English-speaking Mustangs. We’re not in Venice, folks — but you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference when you’re drifting down the River Thames on a canoe with that special someone.

Wikihow.com recommends not picking an overtly romantic place for a first date. Wikihow can go fuck itself. When it comes to first dates, it’s go big or go home alone. There’s good reason why Webster’s Dictionary defines “first date” as “horse shit” — they’re awkward, terrifying and generally disappointing.

But those are regular first dates. There’s nothing regular about you and your sweetheart gliding past the Thames Bridge glistening in the waning afternoon sun as harried onlookers daydream. That goo dripping from the bridge isn’t merely from delinquent scholars spitting on you — right now, when you’re lost in each other’s eyes, that’s a shower of shooting stars. Feel free to mix things up and tailor your pleasure cruise to your date’s tastes — is he more of a pontoon man? Has she mentioned before how she loves jet-skiing? On the fume of fantasies, possibilities are endless. That’s not just another first date … that’s amore.

BRENT HOLMES

Green Leaf Café

In terms of nice places to eat, Western does not offer a lot of top-notch options. For a first date, you want to show off your class taking that special someone somewhere significant. Going for overpriced Centre Spot lunch, the same old Spoke bagels or waiting an eternity for service at the Wave is a surefire way to kill that first impression.

Thankfully, the Green Leaf Café just opened yesterday to solve all of your first-date problems. Located in Sommerville House, the café offers a high-quality buffet for only $15.

The Café is open from 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. every Tuesday to Friday. Reservations are encouraged, as the café tends to fill up quickly. Tuesday offers a buy one, get one half price buffet deal and Friday is Fish and Chips day.

In a world filled with food porn clogging up your Instagram, Green Leaf Café provides a food orgy offering seasonal, local foods.

While it may be tempting to jump straight from the awkward get-to-know-you appetizers to a delightful post-lunch desert, don’t. Green Leaf Café’s créme brûlée is delicious and fantastic for sharing. Now that you’ve given the most impressive first date possible, go make-out in some back corner of Sommerville. You’re welcome.

JENNY JAY

The Tim Hortons in the UCC

Class is over and that cute guy/girl you were talking to in class is about to leave but you want to get to know them better. There’s no better place to have your first date with the future love of your life by going to the Timmies at the UCC. It begins with a casual asking them to join you for coffee and subsequently standing in the guaranteed ridiculously long line.

They’re now forced to engage in polite conversation until you both indulge in overly processed chemical liquid drugs. It is here that you’re guaranteed to learn about their two brothers and pet cat, and that if not for the cat, you would have fallen in love with them already. Loudly shouting “What? I couldn’t hear you” multiple times over the chatter of the UCC will only add to your charm as you later reminisce about your first date on your wedding day.

Make sure you offer to pay for their coffee and a cookie that was only under three dollars — showing that you are both generous and also intelligent because as a student, real dates are over our budgets. A first date without the awkward expectations that comes with a first date, make them laugh and get their number and soon you’ll be on to date number two.

Photos by Kelly Samuel and Taylor Lasota

After weeks of planning, you’re finally ready to ask that person you’ve been eyeing up in class. You do it, they say yes — now the only problem you have is what you are going to do. Options are limited — you both have class, other com-mitments and no understanding of how the buses work. You’re going to have to go out on campus and, let’s be honest, camping out on Concrete Beach isn’t the most romantic option.

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Forest City ready for close-up at Hyland

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Londoners will have a chance to see their city on the silver screen at the Hyland this Thursday.

Weaving between the lives of nine 20-somethings, Liminality was inspired by mumblecore — a gritty, low budget, documentary style seen in indie films such as Tiny Furniture. Director, co-producer and co-writer Darryl Callcott has spent the last two years making his first feature film happen.

“We sort of drop audiences into this random day and kind of see how the characters are having a quar-ter-life crisis and how they’re react-ing and responding to that,” Callcott says. “There’s some relationship issues, there’s career issues, there’s what am I doing with my life issues, and everybody kind of tackles a tiny little piece.”

Callcott explains he always loved the style of Dazed and Confused, where audiences tag along with characters for one day, and what happened before and after is irrel-evant to the story being told.

“In the big picture you can see it for what it is. But it takes those tiny little pieces from all the characters kind of interconnecting to really show off the diversity of struggles of 20-somethings,” he says.

Funded almost entirely by Indiegogo, Liminality was filmed over eight days in locations around London last September. Choosing various businesses and spots the team wanted to showcase in London makes the film extra local.

“Everybody really helped out,” Callcott says. “It was very commun-ity driven, this movie, I feel.”

After a year of editing, the pre-miere at the Hyland, London’s only indie theatre, is something Callcott is excited to see.

“I’ve always really admired the Hyland for the quality of movies that they show – they’re very independ-ent. I love that old theatre, I love how it feels like a really nice place

to watch a movie,” he says.Callcott, now 30, explains he had

the idea for Liminality in his early twenties but it was very superficial. It wasn’t until he sat down co-writer Nick Scott that Callcott realized the potential for the film to address very real “coming of age” challen-ges people come across in their twenties.

Callcott has always loved film-making and has been doing it for as long as he can remember. Along with production partner Jason Clark, Callcott has been making short films and music videos in London for the past ten years. The pair also ran the Short Film Showcase for filmmakers in the past. Callcott does not have any formal education in film.

“I bypassed film school,” Callcott says. “I just bought every DVD that I could possibly get my hands on and studied directly from the source. I love movies. Commentaries and behind the scenes – it doesn’t get any better than that – better than reading a textbook.”

Throughout the production of Liminality, Callcott was continually surprised by how much they were able to do given funding and access to location challenges. His favourite scene, filmed on a Ferris wheel at the Western Fair, is one he didn’t know if they’d be able to get or not.

“It turned out to be a really beautiful scene in the movie. And it was really nice to get the camera on the Ferris wheel and shoot the actors in this real environment. That for an independent movie is pretty rare,” Callcott says.

Shooting in London was bene-ficial to the team because they had more freedom in how and where they wanted to shoot without the hassles of a big city, Calcott says.

“It was fantastic working with everyone – they were all doing it for the love of making a movie together.”

Catch the premiere of Liminality at the Hyland Cinema tonight at 9 p.m. Tickets are available for $15.

Leaving viewers disaapointedKevin Hurren

NEWS EDITOR-AT-LARGE

GHFFFDirector: Shawn LevyStarring: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver

This Is Where I Leave You sticks true to its title. The plot leaves you quickly after setting up the movie’s premise.

What is this premise? Four estranged siblings (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver and Corey Stoll) are brought back together after their father’s death. In an attempt to strengthen family ties, their mother (Jane Fonda) grounds the siblings by forcing them to sit Shiva – a week-long Jewish mourning ceremony.

But much like the siblings in the film, audience members will similarly feel trapped in their seats waiting for what feels like a week of unimportant scenes to be over.

The film hastily transitions from a focus on Jason Bateman’s charac-ter to the funeral. You’d assume this

quick shift is a result of the narrative picking up. Rather, the film almost slows down — forcing the audience to watch one irrelevant scene after the other and, before you know it, the plot feels as dead as the father.

While This Is Where I Leave You tries to adopt a quirky awkwardness, every performance just feels over-done. Driver plays the exact same sporadic and off-putting role he’s known for in HBO’s Girls. Bateman is, once again, a grouchy man-child learning to love again reminiscent of The Switch or The Change Up. The second House of Cards’ Corey Stoll is framed as the responsible older brother, everything feels a bit too formulaic.

The only one to really stand out is Fey, who delivers a few good comedic — and sometimes literal — punches in the film. Too bad that Fey was really only used as a proverbial whoopee cushion, brought out from the background to say something funny and then tucked back away into narrative irrelevance.

The other ladies in the film,

however, don’t reach up to Fey’s potential. Although Rose Byrne throws herself into the role of Bateman’s new oddball love interest, she fails to capture the same com-edic levels she did in Bridesmaids. This is most likely because Byrne can’t play the quirky lover in the same way someone like Zooey Deschanel is known for.

Even the iconic Jane Fonda feels miscast in the film. As the matri-arch of the household, Fonda sur-prisingly contributes little to plot development or character growth. If all the film wanted to do was make a few mother-related breast jokes, they could have dragged someone other than Fonda to set every day.

It’s a shame, really, that a film with such a great cast can fall so short. This Is Where I Leave You designed itself as a black comedy but turned into a bunch of white noise. Between a clichéd cast, slow development and poor narrative conclusions This Is Where I Leave You didn’t just leave us – it never arrived.

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Dear LifeExcessive enrolment eventually endingFor the first time in 15 years, enrolment in post-secondary education is down. Of the 28 schools for which statistics were released, 21 reported a decrease in direct enrolment from high schools, including Huron and King’s.

Universities have long been on an exponential increase in enrollment and Western is no exception. Taking a look down your classroom, full of partiers and belligerent drunks, it seems like anyone can get into university. A decrease in enrolment would not entirely be a bad thing.

While this is only the first year that enrolment has not increased for many of these schools, it is hinting at a coming trend. The student-age population in general is in decline. If universities want to maintain these numbers, it will be either through international students or by decreasing the cutoff for admission.

Higher education is a business and a decrease in the number of students coming to university will be looked upon as a problem in the future. While every university wants to grow — is forced to grow, in fact, by the provin-cial government — it is simply unsustainable and idiotic to think we can have all of them grow when we have a declining population and still maintain some sort of standards.

A large part of this problem is not even in the univer-sity’s control. High schools, both public and private, have simplified curriculums and inflated grades to get students into post-secondary education.

University can be a rewarding experience for those who want to engage with higher education but it is not for every-one. Selling a bachelor’s degree as necessary for everyone is irresponsible. With bachelor’s degrees as common as they are, having one does not help graduates find a job out of school or give students a clue as to what they want to do with their life.

While universities are probably worried about the decrease in enrolment, if there is a decline, it may not be an entirely bad thing for students. Post-secondary institutions need to recognize that having a quality education is about more than the number of students that come in the door.

It is about the ways in which education can enhance an individual’s life. With a declining population, young people may be able to look at what education is best for them rather than just grabbing the most expensive bachelor’s degree they can. Universities will have to adapt to deal with that — after all, they’re the ones who wanted post-secondary education to be a business.

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I wouldn’t advise making a four-year commitment to eventually land an

$8.00/hour job. Skip college. Read Wikipedia for free instead.”

• Jarod Kintz

Hamza TariqNEWS EDITOR

@HamzaAtGazette I woke up last Thursday morning and completed my ever too repetitive bed routine: picking up my phone, switch-ing the alarm off with annoyance and opening my Facebook to scroll through my newsfeed — yes, I know it’s not a good habit.

But as I was leisurely scrolling, some-thing caught my eye. The second story I came across was something one of my friends in Pakistan had shared. A young boy had been killed. I’ll spare you the gory details — he had been shot dead in an incident of road rage in front of his mother.

I was born and raised in Pakistan. I spent 18 years of my life there. However, incidents such as the one mentioned above have become all too frequent in the past few years. My family, friends and I have sporadically been the targets of varying degrees of assault. Somehow, in some twisted way, these things become the norm and you learn to move past them.

Reading about this incident moved me. The sheer brutality of it, and know-ing that the perpetuators would most probably never be caught, is depressing to say the least.

Here lies something to contemplate for a lot of us in the West. No, it is not that we need to realize how lucky we are (though we are), nor is it that we should feel sorry for people who do not have

the same privileges as us (though we should). The lesson is that no matter what our political views might be, we need to realize that people in “those” countries, in “that” part of the world, are just that: regular, normal people. Like you. Like me. Regular people with normal aspirations in life, just like us.

In the midst of the instability, insec-urity and terror around the world, a very disregarded and silent majority exists. These are the people we will almost never see on the TV, or read about in the news-paper as we hear the various debates and points of view of how the situation half-way around the globe affects us. Isn’t that some form of sardonic self-importance that we reserve for ourselves and the media perpetuates? That the family who fears for the life of their sole breadwinner as he or she leaves home every morning, or the mother who says a prayer for her child’s safety every time he or she leaves for school, doesn’t even make it to the list of things that we talk about when we discuss global issues?

It isn’t always enough to feel sorry for these masses when we see a post on social media depicting a graphic image with a tragic story. It isn’t always enough to empathize when a friend tells us about a tragedy that has befallen their friends or relatives in a volatile region of the world.

It is important, however, that as we watch the global events unfold, we keep these fellow citizens of the world in our hearts. It is important that as we discuss the nuances of global politics and the war against terrorism that we think of those who struggle to survive between the bombs falling from the skies and the crazed ideologies that surround them. For the sake of those millions — the bond of humanity and the sentiment of compassion should transcend above all other debates.

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Dear Life, Got lost and ended up in the Law building. The sternness on their faces was palpable.

Dear Life, The Spoke didn’t put Buffalo sauce on my Buff wrap.

Dear Life, Thank you for Jenny’s poetry. Seriously thank you.

Dear Life, Do you believe that guys and girls can be just friends?

Dear Life, Heat waves aren’t good for Uggs but lovely for boys and their showcased biceps.

Dear Life, Who needs horror stories when you have the unspeakable acts of Homecoming?

Dear Life, Helfand hasn’t done a PR photo in a week, should be a new cause soon.

Dear Life, Why does UC smell like mildew?

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sportsRundown During Homecoming Saturday, the men’s rugby team registered a big 55-10 victory against the Laurier Golden Hawks • Armin Gurdic, Peter Gray and Jesse Richardson each registered a try which got the Mustangs off to an early lead.

thursdaytweet“Were losing at home to forrest, so we bring on.... Harry Kane... And Ryan Mason. God have mercy.”

• @jessalex1996, tweeted regarding the Tottenham Hotspur v. Nottingham Forrest. Mason went on to score ten minutes later.

Women’s golfThis past week, the Western Mustangs women’s golf team secured second place in the Western Invitational golf tournament. This was a two-day event in which vari-ous university golf teams came to London to play each other.

The women played the Thursday at St. Thomas Golf and Country Club, followed by Friday’s con-tinuation at West Haven Country Club. The women’s results carried over from day one to day two, at which point they were leading the tournament.

Though Western was unable to maintain the lead as the second day progressed, Jessie Mercer finished in a first place tie of 154 points over two days with Waterloo Warrior Stephanie Chu.

This allowed the Mustangs as a whole to earn a silver medal, relin-quishing the gold to the Warriors. The McMaster Marauders followed closely behind Western for bronze.

Mercer shot a score of 77 in each of her rounds, while Chu shot 80 on the first day and 74 on the second. In the end, Western trailed Waterloo by five strokes.

Waterloo’s Devon Rizzo was a close second overall with 155 points, while Toronto’s Sarah Dunning finished third with 159 points.

The Mustangs’ women’s team will return on October 4, where they will face off at the Cambridge Golf and Country Club.

Men’s golfWestern’s men’s golf team played in the Western Invitational golf tourna-ment this past week. The men came in fifth place on the second day, but scored the gold medal on day one of the event.

The men played the Thursday at St. Thomas Golf and Country Club, followed by Friday’s continuation at West Haven Country Club. Each day procured its own winners and losers, as the results were not carried over.

Though Western was able to acquire the lead position on Thursday, the gameplay of the second day proved unsuccessful. Queen’s University took the gold in a very close game, shooting an overall total of 303. Waterloo, Laurier and Toronto all tied for second with a grand total of 305.

While Waterloo took the offi-cial silver medal due to individual scores, Western was awarded fifth place, with a relatively unimpressive score of 318.

Mustang Sam Hebert shot a score of 73, engaging in a three-way tie for second place with Laurier’s Dayly Byles and Queen’s Russell Bowie.

Also mentionable for finish-ing within the top 20 players are Mustangs Austin Kirkwood and Harris Bundy, shooting 75 and 77 respectively.

The Mustangs’ men’s team will return on October 4, where they will compete at the Grey Silo in Waterloo.

Women’s cross countryThe Western Mustang’s cross country team placed first this past Saturday in the 40th annual Western International.

The late morning run began at 10 a.m. and took place at Thames Valley Golf Course, where the ladies ran for five kilometres. The mild, cloudy atmosphere made it an effective day for this race to occur.

The 2014 Western International hosted 12 teams this year, with 111 finishers overall. The most notable Mustang in the race was Amanda Truelove, placing second in her individual event with a time of 17:53. She was simply 10 minutes short of tying Toronto’s Gabriela Stafford for first overall.

Alongside Truelove were Bridget Pyke in fifth, Stephanie MacNeill in sixth and Melissa Caruso in ninth. Four more Mustangs placed in the top 30 as well and not a single woman was beyond the top 50, making it a very successful event for Western.

Climbing the top tier of the podium with 37 points, the Mustangs out ran both the Toronto Varsity Blues and the McMaster Marauders, garnering second and third place respectively.

The Mustang women head to the Windsor Open on Saturday, September 27, where they aspire to maintain this win streak.

Men’s cross countryWhile Saturday morning proved successful for the women’s cross country team, the male Mustangs did not fare as well.

This Saturday was the 40th annual Western International, a cross country tournament begin-ning at 10 a.m., located at Thames Valley Golf Course. The men partook in an eight kilometre run, where the mild weather matched the bleak results.

Of the 13 teams in the 2014 Western International this year, composed of 119 competitors over-all, the Mustangs placed fifth. The top Mustang of the race was Kevin Blackney, who placed twelfth overall with a time of 26:25 — a mere five minutes short of being a part of the top ten runners.

Joining Blackney in the top 30 was Ben Carson in 27th with 26:59, yet that was the extent of it. The next three Mustangs to cross the finish line were Phil Parrot-Migas in 32nd, Liam Lees in 34th and Shane Roberts in 35th. No Mustang was outside the top 80, but it was an overall dis-appointing day for the men.

With an overall score of 12, the Mustangs walked away without climbing the winner’s podium. The McMaster Marauders claimed the top tier with 44 points, followed by Windsor with 75 and Lakehead with 89.

The men hope to reclaim them-selves at the Windsor Open on Saturday, September 27.

Women’s field hockeyThe Mustangs’ women’s field hockey team took the five hour trip to Queen’s University this past week-end, where they faced the Waterloo Warriors and York Lions on Saturday morning and afternoon respectively.

Although the game against Waterloo began with Western in the lead, the 70-minute combat against the Warriors resulted in a tight 1–1 tie. The first half of the game was enforced by consistent goaltend-ing by Bethan Blackburn, saving the game on numerous occasions.

The Mustangs’ gameplay flowed very well, as the team played strongly within the scoreless first half. Following a halftime regroup-ing, the desire to get on the score-board was strong, allowing Mustang forward Katelynn Roganowicz to gain possession of the ball.

As this resulted in the first goal of the game against goalkeeper Hillary Neeb, Warriors’ midfielder Stephanie Snyder pushed right back to tie up the game.

While Western hoped to gain retribution for the tie with a win, the Lions took an early lead. As Waterloo forward Megan Connolly made two goals in the second half, Mustang Megan Duffy got the Mustangs into the game as she got an assisted goal.

With only a few remaining min-utes, the Mustangs were unable to retie the score, thrusting the Warriors into the winner’s circle. Western hopes for revenge against the Guelph Gryphons on an away game.

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Over the Homecoming weekend, the Western softball team traveled to Southern Ontario to battle the only undefeated team that chal-lenged their lead during the sea-son. Unsurprisingly, the Mustangs came out on top, winning all four of their games and continuing their undefeated winning streak. With these four wins under their belts, Western now has a seasonal score of 10–0.

The ladies started their week-end off in St. Catharines, stepping up onto the plate to test their skills against the Brock Badgers. Needless to say, Western passed the test with flying colours. The Badgers were battered with the number of hits the Mustangs sent out and failed to reciprocate in kind. The final score was 13–1, with two home runs and a number of double runs batted in by the ‘Stangs.

The second game of the day went similarly, with Western beating the Badgers a second time, 8–1.

Western’s softball coach Pete Lemon was more than pleased with the outcomes.

“I was very pleased. Brock was the only other undefeated team

going into the Saturday games, and we did very well in both of those and we continued on Sunday against McMaster,” coach Lemon said.

The Sunday games against McMaster were equivalent to the previous games in results and in game style. Storming into Hamilton, the Mustangs rode into the games like a stampede, finishing with a 7–0 score in the first game and a 19–3 end score for the second game.

Individually or collectively, the team played well and played hard.

When asked who the star players on the team were, Lemon responded with a very long list of players.

“We had three different pitch-ers, and all preformed very well; Stacie Cox won two games, Amber Smolenaars won one and Rachael Jacques won one as well,” he com-mented. “But as I said our batters were awesome! There were three or four that really came through; Shannon Davidson had a great weekend at the plate, Brittany Hicks was tremendous as well. Both of

them had home runs. Tricia MacKay hit a home run as well as a num-ber of extra base hits and Michelle Reynolds had a great weekend at the plate.”

Currently, the softball team aver-ages one hit against versus eight hits for and with a large mixture of both freshmen and senior power-players on the team; the distant future of the softball team looks bright. Western is working a playing style that is very difficult to beat, as most teams within Ontario can attest.

Unfortunately, there are more than just the Ontario teams that the Mustangs have to hurdle for a chance at glory.

In the weekend to come, Western will be playing two teams that both have a chance of pulling ahead of the Mustangs, if they win the game. On Friday, Laurier will come to Stronach Park in London and on Saturday Toronto will also make the trip to contend against Western. The games will take place at seven and two p.m. respectively.

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It was a rare feat for Nolan Anderson this past Sunday. An extremely rare feat.

Typically a shortstop, Anderson was called on to pitch in extra innings. And he answered the bell, retiring all five batters faced.

Then it was the bottom of the eighth and he was up to bat. Could he pull it off on offence as well? With one man on base, he had an oppor-tunity to cash in the winning run. A loss would drop Western to 4–4 on the season, and after beating York by 17 runs earlier in the day, being tied 5-5 in game two of the doubleheader was not a positive sign.

Low and behold, Anderson smashed a home run to end the game, crediting him with the win and the winning RBI with a single swing of the bat.

“Getting to close the game and hit a walk-off home run was definitely one of the cooler things I’ve done in my baseball career,” he said. “I’ve hit one walk-off home run before but that was to mercy a team, so I don’t really count that one.”

Anderson didn’t just shine in that final game on Sunday. The Mustangs played four games over the course of the weekend and the London native went 5-for-14 with five RBI. That’s why The Gazette has named him our Purple Pipe Athlete of the Week. For his efforts he was also named the OUA Male Athlete of the Week.

Being the hero was a cool

experience for Anderson but for him this season is all about the team and winning an Ontario University Athletics title.

“It’s been three or four years since Western has won one after we won four or five in a row,” Anderson said. “We’ve been in the OUA’s the last two years and just kind of choked. I’m really hoping this year we can turn it around and take the OUA by storm.”

In Anderson’s eyes, the key for the Mustangs will be their pitching.

“We have a deep pitching staff, especially compared to a lot of the other teams who will just have one or two pitchers,” he explained. “Our best pitcher from last year, he has mono and will be back for this upcoming weekend. So hopefully when he comes back we will be at full force and nobody can stop us.”

The teams to beat for Western are the Brock Badgers and Guelph Gryphons, according to Anderson. On the weekend they beat Brock 10–0, but then lost the second half of the double header 11–2. And although they lost both games so far to Guelph this season, those were the first two games of the year, and Western has gone 5–1 since then.

“The Guelph games were our first games so I don’t really think that was a good indicator of how things will go,” Anderson said.

There are still plenty of games left in the regular season and Western currently sits in fourth out of 10 teams. If Western can stay healthy and work on their defensive con-sistency, they will be in good shape heading into the playoffs.

Our first logo journey takes us to Brock University as their logo fea-turing a particularly ferocious look-ing badger could best be described as manic.

We could easily shit on the choice of badger for Brock University — let’s be honest, if that whole “honey badger” Internet meme didn’t explode, they would have the most pansy logo in Ontario.

Looking at the design, that typeface is atrocious. The badger element of the logo (which will be discussed later) looks relatively modern so one must muse why the university decided to pick a font you’re told to use when writing your essays. Sure, it can’t be confirmed that the font is some boring shit like “Tahoma” but it’s definitely likely.

Also, why is the “S” in Badgers as big as the “B” that begins the word? Perhaps the designer hoped that it would offer some symmetry but it really just offers a bit of subliminal

messaging. The “B” and “S” of the logo are so prominent perhaps the designer knew their effort was truly trash.

But let’s go back to that typeface once more, because you know, stretched fonts are so hip right now. Not to mention those beautiful strokes on each individual letter. The Badgers’ logo is a classic example of over-designing. Rather than going for a simple silhouette or a nice B logo, instead they go for a full blown heavily detailed badger who is also stretched to the point of no return.

To finish off Brock’s logo destruc-tion, just look at those colours. Why are there three shades of grey on the same logo? Why does the badger have grey teeth? Why are there three lines of strokes around the Badgers’ word mark? This logo is simply an atrocity of Canadian University sports.

When designing a logo, everyone will tell you that the cardinal rule is minimalism: make the design clean and crisp. Brock’s logo is a clear example of someone who decided to go completely in the wrong dir-ection, seemingly using as many colour and Photoshop options as possible. Brock needs to take a page out of the Carleton Ravens’ redesign and go simple.

Brock, however, goes incredibly busy and it makes for a god-awful logo.

• Bradley Metlin and Mike Laine

Name:NOLAN ANDERSON

Position:Shortstop, Pitcher

Program:Engineering

Nickname:“DH”

Favourite TV Show:The Simpsons

Last Movie Watched:22 Jump Street, Neighbors

Who would play you in a movie:Michael Cera

Secret Talent:Grade 7 Piano

Favourite place to eat on campus:Extreme Pita

Favourite thing about Western:“I like that no matter who I talk to, at whatever school across Ontario, they hate you. No matter who it is.”

The other key is their pitching staff, which will need to stay healthy to make an impact.

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