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Liquor flow threatened by LCBo strike voteCam Smith

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In what might be an event tanta-mount in horror to a student apoca-lypse, the LCBO is facing a workers’ strike after the union decided to vote on the issue following the LCBO’s decision to implement a four-year wage freeze, among a list of other grievances.

“[The wage freeze] is an issue, but of equal concern to our mem-bers is that 60 per cent of our retail employees are part-time workers,” Greg Hamara, communications officer for Ontario Public Service Employees Union, said. “The four-year wage freeze essentially amounts to an eight per cent cut in wages, because of inflation. They also want to ‘review benefits’ and what that really means is ‘cut back on benefits.’”

Compounding the issue is the LCBO’s unwillingness or inability to provide full-time opportunities to employees.

“We have in our contract

language [something] that allows them, under restrictive conditions, to move into permanent full-time positions, which is what the vast majority of them really want, like most people,” Hamara explained. “The LCBO is making that move-ment more restrictive than ever. The number of permanent jobs that have increased in the last five years is 156. The number of part-timers has increased by almost 1,000.”

According to Hamara, this has nothing to do with fiscal shortages, because the LCBO’s profits continue to grow.

“This is a company that earns almost $1.6 billion in profit annu-ally and they have had 17 consecu-tive years of increased dividends to the province,” he said. “They could afford a very modest fairness in some of the things we’re looking for.”

However, the LCBO contends that despite this profit, extend-ing wage growth and allowing for more full-time positions is just not feasible.

“Compensation restraint is a

key part of the government’s plan to eliminate the deficit and has been accepted as necessary by OPSEU in previous negotiations with the Ontario Public Service. Recent public sector settlements have included zero per cent wage increases,” Heather MacGregor, media relations coordinator for the LCBO, said. “LCBO must negotiate in the context of this economic real-ity, the current retail climate and tax-payers’ expectations that we operate efficiently and that includes manag-ing labour costs.”

MacGregor also noted the LCBO’s disappointment in the union for leaving the bargaining table after only 10 hours of negotiation.

“We are disappointed that after only 10 hours of face-to-face bar-gaining, the Liquor Board Employees Division of OPSEU has put talks on hold to issue a media release about their plans to obtain a strike vote,” she explained. “Bargaining had originally been agreed to and scheduled to continue over the next two weeks.”Andrei Calinescu GAZette

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London begins charging up for electric carsJeremiah rodriguez

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On Monday, as part of London’s green initiative, the city bumped up the number of electric vehicle charging stations to nine–with three new sta-tions being placed in the downtown core, encouraging Londoners to con-sider driving electric. Fully charging an EV at the three new stations would be free for the first six months of the one-year pilot program.

The three new stations are out-side Budweiser Gardens and in the underground parking lots in Covent Garden Market and city hall.

The $20,000 installation cost was mostly shouldered by Sun Country Highway, ChargePoint and HD Supply Canada Inc. with the city only putting up 25 per cent of the costs according to Harold Usher, Ward 12

councillor.“The world is moving toward a

greener world and London is no exception. Even our buses aren’t electric yet, but we’re getting started with hybrids first—the same with these electric cars. We have to start somewhere,” Usher explained.

Jay Stanford, London’s director of environment, said the program has been in the works for about six months and monitoring would be through customer surveys, user statistics and discussions with other cities following similar avenues.

Awareness seems to be critical to mass implementation, Christopher Misch, vice-president of Sun Country Highway, indicated. His goal is to have 90 cent of the population acces-sible to an EV infrastructure within just the next year.

“What we really wanted to do was

to get people used to seeing them around [in London]—sending a strong, greener message,” Misch said.

According to a recent Harris/Decima poll done for the Canadian Automotive Association, problems facing EVs include how 65 per cent of Canadians had a lack of knowledge about EVs, grossly overestimating the cost of ownership and unreliability compared to gasoline vehicles and finally how they didn’t know where most EV networks were.

“The cost ranges on the status and size of battery, but generally it’s about a cup of coffee to charge. Or a latte, for more sporty cars,” Misch amended.

To put the charging cost in per-spective, the City of London has only put aside $500 to cover the six-month period of free EV charging.

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memorial for western student

A memorial service is being held on campus tomorrow to remem-ber and celebrate the life of Noah Kishinevsky, a 19-year-old first-year faculty of science student who passed away March 17.

The service, which is open to the public, is taking place at 12 p.m. in the Main Lounge of Saugeen-Maitland Hall—the residence in which Noah lived. The service will also be followed by a lunch reception.

Noah was the beloved son of Michael and Karen Kishinevsky, and the brother of Josh and Liam Kishinevsky. He was also the grand-son of Sam and Zina Kishinevsky, and Penny and the late Douglas Gillingham.

For those who wish to drop off cards of sympathy, they can do so at the front desk of the residence. Cards will also be collected during the service. Memorial donations may be made to CAMH—the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

—Jesica Hurst

western releases sunshine list

As per Ontario regulations, Western disclosed their annual list of employ-ees making $100,000 or more yester-day—a list that tops out at a total of 1,101 staff members.

The disclosure is mandated by the Ontario Public Sector Disclosure Act, passed in 1996 to provide employ-ees and potential employees with insight into the salaries of various organizations. Any public organiza-tion, or one that receives significant provincial funding, must make pub-lic all of its employees with salaries of $100,000 or more.

While it may be shocking to some to find 27 per cent of Western’s staff making such money, Keith Marnoch, director of media relations for Western, said the University was happy with its employees’ relatively competitive salaries.

“From Western’s point of view, [we’re] satisfied that the salaries these faculty and staff earn reflect fair com-pensation,” Marnoch said. “That’s taking into consideration their responsibility, their academic cre-dentials and their years of service.”

He said staff salaries are a big component of what makes Western an attractive institution.

“We look to try to attract the best and brightest students, as well as staff and faculty, so we have to con-sider what it takes to attract people to come to us,” he said. “Obviously, compensation is a major part of that.”

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Smartphones let patients track changes in mood

Jaclyn CarboneGAZette StAff

A new program that uses smart-phones could benefit those suffer-ing from mental illness.

Cheryl Forchuk, assistant direc-tor at Lawson Health Research Institute in London, explained how she and group leaders collaborated to discover how technology could assist in monitoring patients’ mood changes and enhancing services.

Using smartphones equipped with each patient’s personal health records, patients can track their moods, sleep patterns and set up alerts to their health care provider if something is wrong.

Although in its beginning stages, Forchuck is excited about where the program is going.

“We’re only part way through, so we don’t have the final quantitative results yet. The first 200 people for phase one have been trained on the use of the device and we know, from our hits in terms of the web pages and mobile views, that people are using it, and using it regularly. We’re literally getting thousands of hits,” she said.

The mood tracker also allows patients to see dangerous patterns and prevent crisis.

“A client said they thought they were depressed all the time, but now they realized they’re depressed in the evening,” Forchuck explained. “They can zero in on what’s going on in the evening, and can actually create graphs and charts, and plot it against other things, and track it.”

Forchuck stressed one of the most important aspects of the

program is increased communica-tion with care providers.

“Clients use the web browser to access a secure site that allows them to track, plot and more effectively interact with their care provider. The interaction with the care pro-vider […] is what’s so different and

important,” she said.Forchuck emphasized the posi-

tive responses from clients. She says they feel empowered because they are not restrained by pen and paper, but can actually take control of their illness, and find ways to combat it.

“This plan enables people to identify early signs of relapse and what they’re going to do about it,” she explained. “People will have this crisis plan on their phone, rather than just a piece of paper. The idea is to prevent crisis because they use their individualized crisis plan, and they have reminders about what they need to do when they start heading into trouble.”

Only halfway through, the pro-gram has a very bright future.

“It’s part of an overall vision of really trying to move the mental health system in London to more of a smart system.”

The interaction with the care provider […] is what’s so different and important.

—Cheryl ForchukAssistant director at Lawson

Health Research Institute in London

Food services negotiates contractLily robinsonGAZette StAff

Greg Long has been appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Labour to act as conciliator between uni-versity administration and 574 food service workers represented under Canadian Union for Public Employees Local 292.

The process of collective bar-gaining is centered on reaching an agreement that suits both parties—a process that does not always come as easily as hoped, often requiring such an appointment.

Western’s food service workers include those employed under one of four subcategories within the union—residence operations, cash operations, Great Hall Catering and Spencer.

On June 30, 2012, CUPE Local 2692’s contract with the University expired. While policies and agree-ments dictated by the contract continue to be abided by until a new contract is in place, reaching a consensus for the terms of the new collective agreement has proven to be a lengthy process.

“The contract in place before [the most recent collective agree-ment] expired in June of 2011, and

we didn’t come to an agreement until the following March, so it’s not strange that it would go this long. It all depends on people’s timeta-bles, and there are so many people involved,” Michelle Peckham, chief steward of CUPE Local 2692, said.

The University’s request for conciliation calls into question the nature of the proceedings to date. While negotiations and spe-cific points of dispute remain to be a closed matter, Keith Marnoch, director of media and commu-nity relations for Western, assured

requesting the services of a concili-ator is not outside the norm.

“A third party conciliator is something we’ve used in the past that’s helped us reach agreements with groups on campus. Having not reached an agreement through face-to-face bargaining, this is a rea-sonable step to take,” Marnoch said. “The food services workers here on campus are extremely important and valued with regards to the stu-dent experience, so [it’s important that we] come to an agreement with [this group].”


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Arts&Life word of the dayPulchritudinous Adjective. Physically beautiful.

Indian Handcrafts comes to London’s Budweiser Gardens

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Any head-banging, hard-rocking, funk-loving Mustang out there has something to look forward to this April. London will once again welcome duo Indian Handcrafts, who will be performing at the Budweiser Gardens on April 3.

The pair from Barrie formed in 2010. Brandyn Aikins, the duo’s drummer, elaborates about his first encounter with rock music in his youth, and how the band’s sound echoes these childhood influences.

“I think the age of 12 was right when I started listening to rock ‘n’ roll. I mean, I discovered Nirvana because of one of my good friends,” Aikins explains. “We were riding the school bus together and he said ‘Hey, check this song out,’ and he played me—the song ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit.’ It just totally changed the trajectory of my life.”

“I decided that playing drums was a cool idea and I got a drum kit from my uncle and set it up in my basement,” he adds. “Kind of haphazardly, I just started teaching myself how to play.”

Since the release of their lat-est album, Civil Disobedience For Losers, in October 2012, the band has been touring North America, playing for thousands of people in the United States and Canada. Aikins says there are two things that distinguish the band’s latest album from their debut record.

“Firstly, Civil Disobedience For Losers was recorded in L.A. with a man named Toshi Kasai—he’s been the producer for The Melvins for

about a couple of years [...] and we also had Dale and Cody from The Melvins play some drums on the album,” Aikins says.

The second thing that makes the album strong is broken-handed guitarist Daniel Allen recorded it.

“He broke his hand about four weeks before we had to go record, so we were a little worried. But luckily it was his right hand—his picking hand—so he was able to play,” Aikins explains. “During the day, he had a removable cast sort of thing. So during the day, he would play, and then at night he would wear his cast. He did pretty well, it was a little sore a lot of the time,

but he managed.”Indian Handcrafts has been

busy since their last visit to London. Usually, when visiting the Forest City, their known venue is Call the Office. Now performing at the Budweiser Gardens, the band is enthusiastic about their new and larger surroundings.

“It is pretty exciting, and it’s quite the jump,” Aikins says. “It’s a little out of our element, but we’re starting to get used to it now.”

Indian Handcrafts is opening for Hollerado, Sum 41 and Billy Talent on April 3 at Budweiser Gardens. Tickets can be purchased at indian-handcrfts.net starting from $38.50.

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I decided that playing drums was a cool idea and I got a drum kit from my uncle and set it up in my basement. Kind of haphazardly, I just started teaching myself how to play.

—Brandyn AikinsIndian Handcrafts’ drummer.

a motherly spectaclemary ann CioskGAZette StAff

GGGFFMom’s The Word-For Crying Out Loud

The Grand Theatre’s Mom’s The Word-For Crying Out Loud offers a bold, outspoken and humourous perspective on motherhood—it’s not a play for university students.

Five middle-aged women take turns sharing their personal expe-riences of being a mother through a variety of medians, including monologues, songs and skits. Some particularly memorable antics include a reenactment of giving birth, one heavy-set mother bound-ing across the stage wearing only a towel on her head in the alleged pursuit of her child, breast milk squirting into the audience out of trench coats and a Broadway-esque musical number involving the women dressed up as breasts singing about menopause.

Although the play was received with tremendous laughter through-out, it’s worthwhile to note the audience was composed almost exclusively of middle-aged adults or older.

The play progresses from the mothers’ stories and skits about pregnancy, giving birth and taking care of babies and young children in the first act, and focused on the difficulty of raising teenagers in the second act.

The typical university student’s life balancing friends, school, extra-curricular activities and romantic interests are extremely far removed from a mother struggling to cope with the demands of her newborn.

Just as students’ parents often don’t understand the movies and TV shows their children enjoy because they can’t relate to them, a student will miss much of the humour and significance of this play because they simply aren’t at that stage in their life yet.

However, Mom’s The Word-For Crying Out Loud had diverse sub-ject matter, superb acting, was well-choreographed and the stories were both heartfelt and amusing. Narratives ranged from experiences with a hospitalized infant, dealing with breast cancer and the temp-tation of an extra-marital affair, as well as more comic events such as the common difficulty of finding condiments in the refrigerator.

The monologues, skits and songs were skillfully woven together to provide a cohesive narrative while each individual piece was diverse and novel to keep the audience’s interest.

Although the play was extremely well-received by the audience and ended with a standing ovation, non-mothers may find it difficult to relate to the warm, fuzzy feeling gained from reminiscing about parenting.

However, if you’re looking for something to do with your mother or grandmother, then Mom’s The Word-For Crying Out Loud might be a good idea. It’s still enjoyable for those without children.

Mom’s the Word-For Crying Out Loud is on at The Grand Theatre until April 6. For tickets and show times, visit grandtheatre.com.

New menu for wave

GGGHFRachel ZeffiraThe DesertersPaper Bag Records

Following her time as one half of the duo Cat’s Eyes, Canadian classi-cally-trained soprano singer Rachel Zeffira released her debut solo album The Deserters last December in the United Kingdom. The album was released in North America ear-lier this month. While Zeffira is a talented vocalist, her voice is often drowned out by the repetitive, but peaceful instrumentals.

The 10-track symphony begins with a short and slow title track. Most, if not all, of the album con-sists of ballads with similar tempos. Halfway through the disc, the stron-gest track “Break The Spell” picks up the speed. The rest of The Deserters fluctuates between slow and mod-erately-paced ballads.

The Deserters, especially the first four songs, can be repetitive, as many of the tracks sound a bit too similar in tempo and melody. That said, the album itself is very sooth-ing and showcases a lot of instru-ments such as piano, drums, guitar, flute and harp.

Overall, Zeffira’s debut is a relax-ing compilation that will be sure to soothe the mind.

—Emily Stewart

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A new menu is making a splash on campus this week.

The Wave, located on the second floor of the University Community Centre, introduced a new feature menu yesterday called Go Big and Go Home.

The menu features one appe-tizer for $6.99, three entrées at $13.99 and one dessert at $4.99.

According to Jeremy Santucci VP communications for the USC, the Wave introduced the new menu in order to celebrate the restaurants success this year.

The head chef’s favourite dishes inspired the new menu. It will be a Wave feature until exams end April 30.

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a mostly suspenseful fall

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GGGHFOlympus Has Fallen

Director: Antoine FuquaStarring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd

Olympus Has Fallen follows the life of Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) and his close friendship with the president of the United States, Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart). In a tragic accident involving a blizzard, the first lady (Ashley Judd) dies. Blaming himself for the accident, Banning resigns from his post for a simple desk job.

Some time passes and a terror-ist group invades the White House and implements a masterfully planned attack—the president is kidnapped. Under motivation to remove the insurgency in South Korea in order to let the Civil War there finally take place, things take an unexpected turn of events. The former agent takes it upon him-self to go into the White House and single-handedly save the day.

Overall, the film is pleasantly entertaining. The suspenseful moments keep the audience in nail-biting suspense, and the action sequences flow very nicely to help push the story forward.

However, the film’s depic-tion of Banning seems slightly flawed—he is just too much of a badass. Despite the challenges this

character endures, he does not lose his cool or his momentum. In the face of reality, this can be a tad annoying.

Regardless, the film under-stands how fear in today’s world works. After everything that has happened in the last couple of years, the most terrifying thing we can think of as the modern boogeyman is an intelligent and a masterfully conniving terrorist.

Overall, this was an enjoyable film. The filmmakers created sus-pense well—they knew when to be quiet and when to be loud. A decent cast of characters and a satisfying if not overly done end-ing contribute to an entertaining movie—despite the fact that this story has been done a hundred times before.

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OBAMA FINISHES READING A STORM OF SWORDS. starring Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and Gerard Butler, Olympus Has Fallen tells a story of the White House under siege by north Korean terrorists.

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Recently, clothing line LuluLemon became the butt of many jokes, after being forced to pull 17 per cent of women’s yoga pants when it was revealed they were too sheer.

This, of course, presents them with some obvious problems—they’re short on that particular brand of pants, and also have a huge stockpile of unsellable clothing.

The unsellable clothing is the less obvious problem, but a more important one, in my opinion. Where does this so-called ‘broken’ clothing go?

Here-in lies an alleged ‘dirty secret’ of retail—simply throwing away clothing that can’t be sold. I think this is ludicrous.

So they can’t sell the pants as pants. Instead of pulling them from shelves, couldn’t they re-brand them? Maybe sell them as underwear, or tights? They could cut the price a bit—or increase it, I don’t know—and not waste a large amount of clothing. I doubt people will care if their underwear is sheer, and as far as I’m aware, tights are meant to be see-through. The best part? They can keep making money.

Another option would be to donate the clothing. Sure, this means they don’t make a profit, but I don’t see much money in throwing clothes into a landfill either. Donate it to a discount retail store, where people don’t expect as much from their clothes. Of course, some stores don’t do this because they don’t want the stigma of discount stores associated with their brand—well, then, simply cut the brand out. The clothing would still serve a much better purpose hanging on a rack in Winners than in a landfill somewhere.

Or better yet, if the clothing is unsellable and unable to be fixed, why not donate it to a homeless shelter? I actually think this could be a good PR move. I’m sure those out on the streets wouldn’t mind the extra layer of clothing—even if it’s sheer—and one could argue that the brand would be a good way to show the company is invested in human issues.

I mean, it may not be the best option, since it doesn’t bring in about $120 per pair of pants, but why toss them? In the past, there have been reports of people catching employees destroying clothing—with scissors, spray paint, etc.—before tossing it away, presumably to ensure some poor homeless child didn’t accidentally find it while rooting through a trash bin.

That’s a joke. What’s the point in that? Broken pants are clothes too—so give them a chance to be worn.

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Putting a class schedule together is like completing a jigsaw puzzle that directly affects your university career. While tirelessly attempting to create a schedule that doesn’t overlap, we are all tempted by the succubus that is the 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. time slot.

Simply put, there should be no class at this time of night.

When people crawl into class at 7 p.m., there is a fatigue of the daily grind that does not present itself earlier in the day. Both students and professors are tired, and the blackened landscape of the winter months does little to improve their demeanour.

While 10 p.m. is already fairly late, the time it takes to travel home creates even later nights for already sleepless students. While those in residence may not have such a problem, buses at night only tend to come once every half hour, and waiting for one can be the start of a very late night before an early morning.

Even professors seem to lose inter-est in classes that go on to late, as per-sonal experience has had classes let out far earlier than an equivalent class in the afternoon. If students are losing so much learning time, then this insti-tution is doing a disservice in terms of educating its populace.

An argument against night classes would simply be not to take them in the first place, but this is more absurd than the time slot itself.

Brushing aside the fact mandatory

classes are sometimes shoved into this undesirable spot, a basic accommo-dation of the university should be to allow its students to take the courses they want without worrying about outside forces. Students should not be dissuaded to learn about something they love simply because it occurs too late in the day.

Shifting night class over by even one hour could make a huge differ-ence in how students and professors are able to learn and lecture. Giving both shorter days on campus would make the class easier to handle, while also opening up extra time for home-work at night.

Other universities already schedule their classes so they don’t go so late, and when students from those insti-tutions look at my schedule, they’re appalled at the fact Western allows me to attempt to learn so late at night.

This difficulty only becomes mag-nified when there is an exam in one of these classes, as any few hours that carry so much weight should not be mercy to outside forces such as the time of day—especially when they are surrounded by other work that has to be done later in the week.

Western should take a good look at its scheduling process and realize they can help students simply by remov-ing class from times where it is less beneficial to students. While planning one’s day can help, it only goes so far when students get stuck in a situation where they have to spend an entire day on campus.

If we truly want our institution to capture the title of “best student experience,” then we should make our learning easier and more accom-modating—not just convenient for scheduling purposes.

Night class needs to fade into the dark

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

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#failReports state Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was tossed from a charity fundraiser because of intoxication. While Ford denies the allegations completely, this situation isn’t exactly something that could be twisted into a good thing. so, whether the onus falls on Ford or illegitimate reporting, this whole situation spells out one big #fail.

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Hockey’s most important stat is being ignoredaaron Zaltzman

NewS editor

Last year, I got into an argument with sports editor Jason Sinukoff about Erik Karlson winning the Norris trophy for the NHL’s best defence-man. His side was that 78 points from a defenceman was so unbe-lievably good that it warranted the award, whereas mine boiled down to points being a bad indicator of defensive merit, sprinkled with a healthy dose of prejudice against any Ottawa Senator.

While I still maintain my points about defensive merit, I began to

realize there might have been more to Karlson’s stupid amount of points than I realized. Originally, I assumed he was just a glorified forward, given that he was ranked 140th in hits and 168th in blocked shots among defencemen.

However, lovers of performance metrics will note that these catego-ries, when compared to team suc-cess, tend to be negatively correlated with wins. On the other hand, cat-egories such as shots, missed shots, giveaways and takeaways—all of which Karlson placed in the top five for among defencemen—tend to correlate to high success. How

could this be?The answer, quite simply, is they

all relate to the most important sta-tistic the NHL doesn’t track—puck possession.

See, while Glenn Healy gushes over the Rangers and this year’s Leafs for leading the league in blocked shots, they’re overlooking the fact that these teams are put-ting themselves in a position where they are forced to block those shots. This explains not only why the Rangers had the fifth-worst Corsi rating—attempted shot differen-tial—in 2011–12, but also why none of the top 10 shot-blocking teams

accomplished much last year. A similar analysis can be done for hits. Any guesses which team in the league has the fewest hits? It’s the unbeatable Chicago Blackhawks, mostly because there’s no point in hitting when you constantly have the puck. It’s why Erik Karlson can throw a whopping 60 hits all year and still be +16. Nobody is going to score on you if you have the puck.

All this is inference, but it also stands to reason why puck posses-sion stands out as an important metric. If you have the puck, not only does your team have a better chance to score, the opposing team has no

chance of scoring. It’s obvious, but then all the more surprising why the league doesn’t track puck possession during games.

Tracking puck possession could help coaches utilize players better. They could create strategies that revolve around using high-energy players like Leo Komarov to get the puck. It would reinvent defensive strategy, especially those revolving around so-called shutdown defence-men. Perhaps we would see less focus on blocked shots and other plays that don’t create turnovers, and more of a switch toward a highly aggressive, even run and gun, style of play.

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Four Western all-stars invited to showcase talent

mustangs at CFL Combine

richard raycraftsPoRTs EdIToR

Four Western Mustangs partici-pated in the Canadian Football League combine this past weekend.

Linebacker Pawel Kruba, offen-sive lineman Eric Artimage, defen-sive back Mike Spence and kicker Lirim Hajrullahu were all invited to the event. Western tied with Saint Mary’s and McMaster for second with four players at the combine, while Calgary led the way with six players.

All four players were instru-mental in helping the Mustangs reach the Ontario University Athletics semifinal this past sea-son, where they fell to the McMaster Marauders.

Hajrullahu described his feel-ings upon being invited to the combine.

“I was ecstatic,” he said. “I knew that this was my shot to move to the next level.”

Hajrullahu reaffirmed his posi-tion as one of the top kickers in Canadian Interuniversity Sport last season with the Mustangs. He went 19 for 25 on field goal attempts and scored a total of 98 points.

He also excelled at punting, being named the punter for the OUA’s All-Star First Team, averag-ing 40.6 yards a punt.

“I needed to have a strong sea-son in order to be invited to this,” Hajrullahu said.

Kruba led the Mustangs with 32

tackles, including 26 solo tackles. Kruba also put up two intercep-tions, including one that led to the Mustangs’ sole touchdown in a loss to the Queen’s Gaels. Kruba was named to the OUA First All-Star Team.

Artimage and Spence were named OUA Second Team All-Stars on the backs of strong 2012 seasons.

The combine took place pri-marily on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was primarily concerned with weigh-ins and strength testing, while Sunday was concerned with agility and on-field skills.

Athletes were evaluated on a number of tests, including bench-press, vertical jump and specific tests related to their position.

“Sunday was all of your agility testing, so your 40-yard dash time, then it was your on-field stuff,” Hajrullahu said. “For kickers, we had about a half hour to show off our skills to the coaches.”

Hajrullahu commented on the intense atmosphere of the combine.

“You had to weigh in, it was almost like a UFC fight,” he said. “It was all done very professionally. It was a neat experience.”

The event was put on to show-case the abilities of the top CIS athletes. For every position, a num-ber of players from a variety of CIS teams were selected in January.

The high skill level of the ath-letes invited ensured a large num-ber of coaches were watching very closely.

“You had 50 to 80 coaches on the field, watching you while you kick,” Hajrullahu commented. “It was a very high pressure point, but my kicking and punting went very well and I was very happy with my performance.”

Hajrullahu prepared for the combine following his invite with high-intensity training and a new diet.

“Mike Spence’s mom is a nutri-tionist, so I got some help from her,” he said. “I worked with our strength and conditioning coach in the mornings when no one else was there.”

“I just tried to do everything I could,” he continued. “From here I just work harder, and my goal [is] to make a roster and play profes-sional football.”

Performance at the combine will be a key factor in determining who gets drafted into the CFL. The draft takes place on May 6.

Western hopes to represent once again at the CFL draft. Last year, at the 2012 draft, the Mustangs’ Matt Norman was selected by the British Columbia Lions.

“My mom would prefer some-where close to home, maybe Toronto or Hamilton,” Hajrullahu said of the upcoming draft. “I don’t have specific interest in any partic-ular team.”

“Those were the teams I met with over the weekend, it was great to meet with them and there coach-ing staffs and organizations.”

Mike Laine GAZette

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