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VOLUME
100, ISSUE 42 • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2006
Registrar’s
website
down for a
month
Shutdown for update delays
grade posting, transcript orders
By Claire Neary
Gazette Staff
Upper-year students applying to graduate school programs must plan ahead this year, as several services
provided by the Office of the Registrar, including
ordering and receiving transcripts, will be unavailable
throughout December.
From Dec. 5 to Jan. 2, Student Administration System services like myUWO will shut down for a software
upgrade. Other services affected include updating
contact information, updating tuition account balances, viewing grades, transcript processing, online
transcript ordering and processing letters of permission requests.
Students were notified about the upgrade in a mass
e-mail sent yesterday and by posters in many busy oncampus locations.
Roma Harris, vice-provost and registrar, said the
Office of the Registrar recognizes the upgrade will
result in some inconvenience, but has tried to minimize it as much as possible.
She said the upgrade couldn’t be done during the
summer because students needed to register for
courses.
Glen Tigert, associate registrar and director of student financial services and student records, said
December was chosen because it’s the slowest time of
year for business processes in administration.
“Admissions and applications become busy in January, and we’re managing around this activity,” he said.
Krys Chelchowski, manager of business operations,
said January is the busiest month for transcripts since
most applications are due then. Regular transcript
orders take two weeks and cost $8, and rush orders
take three to four business days and cost $10.
However, Shannon Dea, president of the Society of
Graduate Students, expressed concern over the timing
of the upgrade for students applying to grad school.
“Both undergrads and grads order transcripts in
December for January grad school application deadlines,” she said.
Dea also worries students won’t be aware of the
changes until it’s too late.
“The university has made every effort to disseminate the information widely,” she said. “However, I am
concerned that there are many students who are still
not aware of the upgrade.
“There may be undergrads who haven’t yet begun
to assemble their application packages for grad school
and don’t yet realize that they will be affected by this
upgrade.
“We need to make sure students know how this will
affect them so that we don’t have a whole generation of
students who have to defer their careers by a year
because they were unable to get their applications in
on time.”
Students requiring transcripts prior to the upgrade
must order them by Nov. 30. During the upgrade, transcripts can still be requested — though not online —
but won’t be processed until Jan. 2, 2007.
The upgrade will be the most significant since the
system was introduced in 1999. According to the Office
of the Registrar, the change is much needed.
For more information on the upgrade, e-mail the
Office of the Registrar at [email protected].
Andrew Mastronardi/Gazette
GRADUATE STUDENTS MIGHT BE AVAILABLE, BUT TRANSCRIPTS AREN’T. The Office of the Registrar’s website shuts
down Dec. 5 to Jan. 2, shutting down services like viewing grades, transcript processing, online transcript ordering
and processing letters of permission requests.
New program York prof granted
Scholar Ship pot-smoking room
to let students
study aboard
a cruise boat
By Claire Neary
Gazette Staff
By Jennifer Davidson
Gazette Staff
Imagine going to class, looking out the window, and
seeing the ocean. A new program, The Scholar Ship,
will let university students spend a semester aboard a
ship starting next September.
The Scholarship Ship will house 600 students from
around the world for its 16-week maiden voyage. The
ship will visit five continents and approximately eight
ports, starting in Greece before heading to Panama,
Ecuador, Fiji, Australia, Portugal and Japan.
Students must take two courses, “Global Issues”
and “Intercultural Communication,” and two electives, including courses like “International Business”
and “Communication and Worlds of Art and Culture.”
“The world needs students to graduate with intercultural leadership skills,” said Joseph Olander, president of The Scholar Ship. “Students and professors will
be from around the world so it will increase multicultural learning.
“We have multinational corporations in need of
people who are interculturally literate and sensitive.
Even a traditional learning abroad program won’t
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A professor at York University has
been granted a private, ventilated
room for smoking medicinal marijuana.
Brian MacLean, a criminology
professor at York on a one year contract, suffers from a degenerative
bone disease and manages his condition with anti-inflammatories
and medicinal marijuana.
MacLean has a Health Canada
certificate letting him use marijuana to alleviate his symptoms.
“It’s like a miracle,” MacLean
said. “At least I’m walking now, and
I’m able to do my work.”
MacLean asked York to accommodate his medical need in September, and on Nov. 6 he was given
a key to his own private, ventilated
room.
“It took us about two months
because we had to follow certain
procedures,” said Keith Marnoch,
associate director of media relations for York. “We needed to find a
space and make it available to him
and, ultimately, our decision was
based on the need for medical
accommodation.”
MacLean said he’s satisfied with
the room and believes York has
provided a solution for everybody.
“We have to balance off my right
to medicate and people’s right to
live and work in a smoke-free environment,” he said.
“My only worry is that because
it took a while for this to happen, I
was left kind of vulnerable. I had to
walk around York’s big campus
smoking marijuana cigarettes outside, and you can’t do something
like that surreptitiously before people find out.
“They smell it on you, so without a proper context, people won’t
know it’s legal, they won’t know it’s
medical, and they’ll assume and
make certain attributions and all of
those would have to be negative.”
MacLean said Ontario is fairly
progressive in its tolerance for prescribed medical marijuana, and
hopes other institutions will see
him and Doug Hutchinson, a professor at the University of Toronto
who was recently provided similar
accommodations, as precedents.
“These cases should tell
Ontario, and not just other universities, that any workplace governed
by a collective agreement and any
person working in that situation as
an employee should be able to go
to their union [representative] and
demand medical accommodation,
and the institution would have to
provide it.”
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SURF’S UP AT BREAKER HIGH! The Scholar Ship, which lets students learn while travelling on a
cruise ship, might actually be cooler than Breaker High.
The Scholar Ship cruises
worldwide while educating
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accomplish that.”
The ship’s facilities include a
bookstore, convenience store, fitness centre, medical clinic, dining
rooms, recreation room and theatre.
Olander said the program will
focus on intercultural learning.
“No two students sharing a
room will be from the same country,” Olander said, adding no
nationality will dominate the ship.
“As well, there will be intercultural meals and even medical services will be offered in traditional
Western medicine as well as Chinese and Indian medicine,” Olander said.
Olander said the program’s aca-
demic governing board will ensure
its quality. While it’s affiliated with
various universities around the
world, including the University of
California, Berkeley, and Fudan
University, China, the issuing university delivering the transcript is
Macquarie University in Australia.
This lets credits be delivered to students’ home university.
Students must have completed
one year of university to apply for
the undergraduate program and
have a bachelor degree to apply for
the postgraduate program.
Jackie O’Mara, a mass communication major at the University of
California, Berkeley, participated in
Semester at Sea, a similar program.
During the fall 2005 term,
O’Mara visited 10 countries,
including the Bahamas, Venezuela,
South Africa, Vietnam, China,
Japan and India.
“I enjoyed every minute of it...
and I loved seeing waves out my
window,” O’Mara said. “It was
interesting because on the way to
South Africa we learned about the
apartheid.”
O’Mara said the classes were
interesting and the professors were
well-versed and passed on lots of
information about their international experiences.
“I’m used to more readings, and
the classes were smaller, and it was
more about class participation,”
she said.
“It was kind of like living in a
dorm where no one can leave; it
was like freshman year with about
700 people all around, and even the
teachers are living there.”
Porn roughly 1% of Internet
By Mike Hayes
Gazette Staff
Apparently, the Internet isn’t for
porn.
According to a study by the U.S.
Department of Justice, roughly one
per cent of all Internet websites
contain explicit adult content.
The study is part of a recent bid
by the Department of Justice to
restore the Childhood Online Protection Act, a piece of legislature
immediately challenged by the
American Civil Liberties Union for
First Amendment violations.
The case went to the Supreme
Court, which sent the case back to
district court to research Internet
filters further. This decision led to
the study by University of California, Berkeley statistics Professor
Philip B. Stark.
The study concluded — after
receiving 50,000 random web pages
from Google’s web index and one
million websites from MSN’s index
— less than one per cent of web
content is pornographic.
Western Media, Information
and Technoculture professor Allison Hearn offered an explanation
of why there’s a public assumption
the Internet exists purely for
pornography.
“People are obsessed with sex,”
she said. “People go on the Internet
and it is intensely private — just
them and their computers.
“Others make the assumption
that what happens behind closed
doors must be elicit, and pornography is one of the first items to come
to mind.”
“It’s an area of concern for people, so they are more inclined to
worry about it,” said MIT Professor
Isola Ajiferuke. “Nobody hears stories about the websites on the
Internet that don’t have pornography.”
The study also tested search filters’ efficiency at filtering out adult
content. When filters were turned
on, only six per cent of search
results contained sexually explicit
websites.
Organizations such as the
Media Awareness Network feel legislation or filters aren’t the proper
methods for dealing with underage
access to pornography.
“The real challenge is to start a
dialogue between parents and
kids,” said Cathy Wing, acting
director of education for the Media
Awareness Network. “Children will
access pornography even if it has
been banned.”
A handful of Western students
were surprised to hear how low the
numbers are.
“Seriously? Wow, I’ve never had
any trouble finding it,” said Adam
Poirier, a first-year music student.
“I thought [the statistic] would
be a lot higher,” said Justine Sousa,
a third-year business, management
and organization studies student.
“It seems that everything that pops
up is porn.”
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News Briefs
From Belgrade to Baghdad
Today, Scott Taylor, an award-winning Canadian journalist, will present “From Belgrade to Baghdad,”
a lecture on his experiences covering areas of international conflict.
Much of his lecture will focus
on his time in Iraq, which he has
visited 20 times since 2000. In the
past, he reported on the depleted
uranium and heightened tensions
after the Gulf War. Taylor was kidnapped in 2004 and was beaten
and threatened with death before
his release five days later.
Taylor was once a professional
soldier and is currently the editor
and publisher of Esprit de Corps,
an Ottawa-based military magazine.
“He’s someone who can’t talk
about things from a distance —
he’s spent so much time on the
ground,” said Mary Doyle, a representative for the lecture series.
The lecture starts at 5 p.m. in
Conron Hall, located in Room 224
of University College. Admission is
free. For more information call
519-661-3542.
—Lyndsey Janzen
Volunteers needed for
Kids Help Phone
Andrew Mastronardi/Gazette
WE’VE GOT A SHORT-TERM PLAN FOR YOU, FAB — TAKE THAT SHIRT OFF, STUD. University Students’ Council President Fab Dolan discussed his long-term plan at a town hall meeting yesterday.
Garth Turner hits London to
support Green Party leader
Criticizes Conservative candidate
By Cigdem Iltan
Gazette Staff
Halton independent MP Garth
Turner was in London yesterday
supporting Green candidate Elizabeth May and offering opinions on
local political happenings.
Turner, who was recently
removed from the Conservative
caucus and stripped of his privileges to run for the Tories in the
next election, is pleased to help the
Green Party leader.
“I get to go past partisan politics
and support people who I think are
really the best candidates,” Turner
said. “In this riding, I think [May] is
an outstanding candidate, and also
in terms of the House of Commons,
I think absolutely [her] kind of
voice is deserved.”
May echoed Turner’s comments
before the pair travelled around the
old-North London neighbourhood
where Turner grew up.
“I’m certainly thrilled to have
Garth Turner here expressing
independence of mind, spirit, and
support for my campaign,” May
said.
Turner, who has revelled in his
independent status and emphasized his increased influence in
the House of Commons, criticized his former party’s apparent
trend of muzzling MPs and candidates.
Turner said Conservative candidate Dianne Haskett is making a
mistake by staying out of the media
spotlight, as the media are a
pipeline to the people.
“I think it’s kind of the same disease I’ve seen as a Conservative
member in Ottawa,” he said. “If you
don’t talk to the media, how are
people going to know what you are
doing and what you think?
“[Haskett] is making a big mis-
take if she is already falling into that
trap. She will be comfortable being
muzzled as a Tory MP, I’m sure of
that — she’s getting good training
on the ground now.”
In regards to Liberal candidate
Glen Pearson’s problem with his
former communications director’s
blog — which posted several controversial comments — Turner
described the blog’s comments as
an error in judgment, adding it will
reflect badly not just on the author
but the candidate associated with
them.
“Blogging is a serious form of
political communication and you
can’t just dash off something and
hope for the best,” Turner said. “It’s
a rival to the mainstream media.
“We’re in a new age now — a
clash of new and old style politics
today. Blogging and using the Internet, that’s the way to do politics. It’s
not through party controls.”
Working for Gazette
News is heavy work —
we could use some help.
Roll by Room 263 in the UCC to
join the Gazette News team.
And bring something to eat.
Kids Help Phone is reaching out to
the Western community seeking
volunteers to help with a Western
fundraising chapter.
Kids Help Phone has 13 volunteer-led chapters in Canada, one of
which is in London. The non-profit organization provides immediate support, counselling and referrals for youths. The professional
counsellors answer the toll-free
phone line 24 hours a day, 365 days
a year.
“People tend to associate Kids
Help Phone with younger children,
but in reality it’s for all kids, including university students, who are
having a hard time dealing with
things like growing up,” said Vi Vo,
one of the volunteer co-ordinators.
Kids Help Phone can help with
feelings like loneliness, anxiety,
relationships, health and abuse.
Kids can also post questions at
www.kidshelpphone.ca.
“There has never been an
established fundraising chapter at
Western but it’s such a big community with so many students
who could benefit from this,” Vo
said.
Vo said the opportunity would
be fitting for anyone who wants to
help kids in their own community
or work with kids in the future and
for students who understand how
important an outlet like Kids Help
Phone can be.
“It’s important to keep this
going for kids who don’t have anyone to confide in,” she said.
Anyone interested should contact Vo at [email protected].
—Jennifer Davidson
Western to be painted
Green next week
Over the next week, the UWO
Campus Greens host several
events students are invited to
attend.
On Monday, Nov. 20, the group
hosts a post-secondary conference
in the University Students’ Council
chambers on the third floor of the
University Community Centre
from 9 a.m to 5 p.m. The event is
free and no registration is required.
“We have Elizabeth May, leader
and candidate for London-NorthCentre, and four exciting speakers
lined up,” said Pamela Reid, president of the club.
From next Tuesday to Friday,
the Greens will also show the film
End of Suburbia at 1 p.m. in the
USC council chambers in conjunction with special guest Post Carbon
London.
“We would like everyone to see
the film and we will not be pressuring students or faculty into any
political leanings,” Reid said. “This
is a film that raises awareness and
encourages everyone to begin to
ask the big questions surrounding
energy.
“If people enjoyed The Corporation, Who Killed the Electric Car?
and An Inconvenient Truth, they
will love this film. Actually, anybody who wants to know what’s
really going on in the world will
love this film.”
—Ravi Amarnath
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Students
deserved
earlier warning
This week, some students may have noticed an e-mail
from the Office of the Registrar or posters around campus informing them the registrar website will shut down
for most of December for software updates. Other students may not have noticed at all.
For a month, students will be unable to see grades or
get transcripts from the registrar. Students have until Nov.
30 — roughly two weeks from when the notice was issued
— to submit a transcript request to receive it on Jan. 2.
This is an important time of year for many students,
especially those filling out graduate school applications,
many of which are due in early January and require transcripts.
While most graduating students are old enough and
mature enough to be responsible for their own affairs,
some matters are beyond their control.
For example, many applications due in January
require fall-term marks. Though the closure still leaves
students time to submit their marks and transcripts, it
cuts things close. If there’s an error in students’ marks or
transcripts, there will be little to no time for correction.
Students also need time to plan ahead. For example, if
their midterm marks are higher or lower then expected,
they’ll need time to adjust where and what they’re applying for.
The Office of the Registrar selected December for the
shutdown and upgrade because it’s the month with the
least usage, but perhaps it’s not the month with the least
important usage.
Grad school applications affect students’ impressions
on other institutions. Those schools won’t necessarily be
lenient if a problem arises because of the registrar shutdown.
Maybe the website should close at a time when most
usage is Western-based activity so the school can fix any
glitches.
Maybe alternative options for obtaining transcripts
could be offered. After all, transcripts were invented
before computers and websites.
Presumably, the Office of the Registrar knew it needed
to upgrade the website for some time, since it’s a major
undertaking. It therefore should’ve warned students
much earlier.
Also, recent Western graduates are among the most
likely to need transcripts. Since they no longer have a
UWO e-mail account and won’t see posters on campus,
how will they receive information?
Students often ignore or delete e-mails in their UWO
accounts. An earlier message coupled with a second
one around now could’ve reached students more effectively.
Western’s first priority is to serve students, and that
includes properly informing them so they can avoid any
problems with the website shutdown.
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Girls’ Dream Life to be rich, stylish?
Video game reinforces stereotypes
Gettin’
Ciggy Wit It
Cigdem Iltan
News Editor
I’m well aware many toy companies
profit off values unfriendly to kids. But
while flipping through TV one day, I
came across a commercial for a toy
telling me about “the power to live your
dreams.” Intrigued that this kind of persuasive language was being promoted
outside of Sunday morning television,
my curiosity soon turned into incredulity.
According to Hasbro, the perfect educational tool on the Canadian scene has
emerged — but not in elementary school
hallways, sports leagues, or at a local
public library. It’s the Dream Life interactive role-playing game, which, for the low
price of $39.99 US, lets young girls create
a dream world — complete with dream
parties, dream shopping trips, dream
boyfriends, and the dream salon — all
without leaving the comfort of the
female stereotype!
Admittedly, I haven’t played the
game. But after viewing the commercial
— which I initially interpreted as a joke
— depicting how girls can become the
“dream you” by choosing the perfect
hair colour, face shape, and fashion
sense before venturing into their
“dream world,” an unsettling feeling
washed over me. Why is this game
insinuating there’s something wrong
with the real you, or real life? Furthermore, why can’t you make changes to
yourself or your life in reality? And lastly, why is a dream life defined by such
superficial values?
My sentiments didn’t dissipate after
exploring the game’s website: “The
DREAM LIFE plug-in game lets you create the life you dream about! Make new
friends, choose a new lifestyle, and pick
your fashion… Bad hair day? Swing by
the salon & try out a new hairstyle. Make
money by doing chores around the
house or get a job & go shopping!”
Again, disquieting feelings transformed into horror, as I learned success
in the game is determined by three factors: fashion, friends, and lifestyle.
Fashion points are gained by the
number of cute outfits the user has and
how many times she visits the salon to
update her “dream look,” while friend
points are gained through a fruitful social
life. At first, lifestyle points appeared
somewhat legitimate, as they’re earned
through participation in sports and
after-school programs. Further investigation revealed points are also received
for having the latest technological gadgets.
Of late, most video game criticism
relates to male-oriented and often violent games; high-profile politicians, like
Hillary Clinton, condemn games like
Grand Theft Auto.
But with so few interactive games —
such as Dream Life — targeted at young
females, it disturbs me that these are the
kinds of games available for the eight to
12-year-old market. At such an influential time in children’s lives, Hasbro created a game that instills materialism, consumerism, and superficiality.
Unfortunately, it appears Dream Life
will continue promoting ideals that
make some aspects of the “dream society” we live in a nightmare.
“I think it would affect girls, since
they’re playing with it during developmental ages.”
“I don’t see how it can be taken seriously because games aimed at boys that
involve killing don’t really affect them.
They’re just games.”
—Stephanie Kovacs
French IV
—Richard Tyrell
Medical Science IV
What do students think about Dream
Life?
“It’s probably all right, although it could
give them the wrong idea about how
girls are supposed to act.”
“You can’t take games too seriously. But
is that a reflection of our society?”
—Jim Elsley
MSc II
—Jamie Sutherland
“How is this that different from Barbies?
Games shouldn’t be taken so seriously.”
—Lisa Slaven
Medical Science III
Medical Science IV
“It’s sad games for girls are stereotyped
like that in an attempt to sell. It’s not
surprising, but I don’t think it will sell.”
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Maggie McCutcheon
Andrew Sullivan
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Andrew Mastronardi
Jon Purdy
Joyce Wang
Web
Shawn Foster
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BEd. I
“This is not the impression we should
be giving to young people. Gender roles
ruin society.”
—David Simmonds
Political Science IV
“I think it’s sad that they would actually
design this and believe people will buy
it.”
—Kelly Newton
MIT III
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O’ MICROPHONE, YOU ARE SUCH A BETTER LISTENER THAN RAINE! WANNA MAKE OUT? I’LL TAKE THAT AS A ‘YES’. Chantal Kreviazuk and husband Raine Maida, of Our Lady Peace fame, play the London Convention Centre tonight. The microphone will also be
present.
Kreviazuk juggles kids and work
Despite time constraints, her and husband Raine Maida still make music
By Melissa Kim
Gazette Staff
Singer/songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk is quite the multitasker. Not
only is she happily married to Our
Lady Peace singer Raine Maida and
the mother of two children, but she
recently wrote and starred in the
film Pretty Broken. Now Kreviazuk
is on tour promoting her fourth
album, Ghost Stories.
Kreviazuk explains the difficulties of being both a mother and a
musician.
“The problem is getting into the
studio because [Raine and I] have a
family, so it’s really easy to say, ‘Oh
yeah, we’ll get to our stuff later,’”
Kreviazuk says. “We have to get our
other work done, be with the kids
and do our stuff. Unfortunately, our
stuff ends up being the last thing
we get to, and that’s the tough part.
“Raine will be in the other side
of the house, where the studio is
not and where the living quarters
are, and saying, ‘Get in here! What
are you doing?’ and I’ll be like,
‘Well, Rowan’s crying, and I can’t
come in right now.’ It’s just a matter
of us being focused and just making it happen.”
Kreviazuk feels Ghost Stories is
her best release yet.
“I’m more comfortable in the
record-making process [now],” she
says. “I don’t even really even know
how to put it into words. I have to
make the record of my dreams, and
I think you can feel that [on Ghost
Stories].”
Kreviazuk says she had difficulty
writing the lyrics for the album’s
first single, “All I Can Do.”
“It literally took two years to
write the lyrics. I would be trying to
write the lyrics and Raine would be
like, ‘That sucks, that sucks.’”
Despite Maida’s harsh criticism,
he has always supported Kreviazuk.
“[Raine] and I are very much in
love,” Kreviazuk says. “We have an
amazing life together, and I think it
shows in what we do together as
artists and as a team, and it always
will.
“I don’t think that we’re going to
make bad music together. We have
high expectations for ourselves as
artists, so I’m not really concerned.”
The Winnipeg native is a classically-trained pianist and recommends other artists do the same.
“You can’t duplicate that kind of
background and foundation in
your skill; there’s just no way, and
you should get into it as young as
possible,” Kreviazuk says. “I’m a
huge advocate for getting kids into
music lessons very young.”
At age 16, Kreviazuk was already
doing jingles and backup work.
“I obviously did other work as
well,” she says. “I was in retail, I was
a waitress, I sold vacuums — all the
crap you do to get through school
and so you have gas money for your
car....but for the most part, I’ve
always been guided by music.”
Having written songs for Avril
Lavigne, Gwen Stefani and Canadian Idol Eva Avila, Kreviazuk knows
when to step aside.
“If I write something that is personal and someone is going
around the world singing it, it
doesn’t mean any less to me. It’s
not like I harp on a song; I write a
song and I let it go.”
Kreviazuk says she doesn’t try to
please everyone.
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Maeve Binchy’s Whitethorn Woods worth the read
Stories about Irish town offer insight into the thoughts of others
By Anna Coutts
Gazette Staff
Whitethorn Woods
Written by: Maeve Binchy
Published by: McArthur &
Company
343 pgs.
Filled with wishing and wanting,
the whimsical and the weird,
Whitethorn Woods has it all.
Bestselling author Maeve
Binchy’s latest novel is an easy,
delightful read. It’s divided in three
parts, each filled with short anecdotes.
Though each story’s characters
are radically different, they’re all
connected
by
one
place:
Whitethorn Woods. Situated in the
small Irish town of Rossmore,
Whitethorn Woods contains a mysterious well dedicated to St. Ann.
People from around the world visit
the well, believing it has spiritual
powers and produces miracles.
The town becomes divided
when the well’s existence is threatened by the possible construction of a new road
through the woods.
However, Binchy doesn’t
focus on the well controversy;
it’s merely the backdrop for
various character sketches.
She loosely connects each tale
through the well and the town’s
curate, Father Brian Flynn, the
only character narrating several
chapters.
Binchy perfectly mixes sorrow, joy and humour. The firstperson narratives create a strong
personal connection between
the reader and the characters. It’s
so intimate, it feels like you’re
reading someone’s diary.
Binchy also divides each chapter, telling the same story from
two people’s perspectives. Seeing
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situation is interesting and insightful.
The stories
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people are and how different their
views can be. The enjoyable and
intriguing stories remove readers
from their own thoughts and let
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thoughts and feelings.
The tales will likely remind
readers of their own secrets and
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into what they are thinking and
feeling.
Young, old, male, female,
religious, generous, cruel,
heartbroken, hopeful, dying,
divorcing, growing up and
insane — Binchy covers them
all. It’s particularly impressive
the stories don’t seem forced
or fake; each character is
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ferent they are from the others.
Some particularly interesting
stories include “Bank Holiday
Party,” where one seemingly snobby business woman bonds with an
unlikely crowd after being excluded from a holiday retreat; “The
Singles Holiday,” where an elderly
woman accidentally ends up on a
wild vacation with a group of
twenty-somethings; and “Friendship,” where two radically different women help each other
through marriage and mother
problems.
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Father Flynn and the well loosely
thread them together, they could
have been better unified to create a
more satisfying conclusion.
Despite this minor flaw,
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who reads it.
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Fame since she’s one of the most
famous people in the world. Obviously Hilton doesn’t understand
the difference between famous and
infamous. Famous people have talent. Infamous people make sex
tapes.
Since Love’s clean, she must have
given her drugs to the mag’s editors.
Beer goggles make not-so-attractive people seem hot, so maybe
heroin goggles make Cobain’s trainwreck of a widow look like Marilyn
Monroe.
• Last week was amazing for North
Americans: The U.S. House and
Senate were liberated from Republican control and Britney Spears
finally freed herself of deadbeat KFed! Word is Spears has an ironclad pre-nup leaving Federline with
next to nothing. He’s asking for sole
custody of their two sons in hopes
of squeezing more money out of
Brit. K-Fed doesn’t realize no judge
would hand two kids over to the
guy behind “Popozao.”
• Denise Richards must be
desperate to make headlines. This week, Richards
threw a photographer’s
laptop over a Vancouver
casino balcony, injuring
an 80-year-old woman in
the process. They say
there’s no such thing as
bad press, but dating your
best friend’s husband and
then assaulting an octogenarian is pretty much
career suicide.
• Get your wallets ready, kids… the
Backstreet Boys are releasing an
album in 2007! Since it’s not 1998
anymore, it’s hard to know which
label is backing the guys, as dismal sales are guaranteed and
there’s something really
pathetic about four 30-yearold men harmonizing and
dancing with chairs. At least
Nick Carter can take consolation in knowing it’s nearly
impossible to sell fewer
albums than his ex, Paris Hilton.
• Paris Hilton says she deserves a
star on the Hollywood Walk of
• Courtney Love is posing
nude for a British magazine.
By Kaitlin Martin
Gazette Staff
Britney Spears
• Lindsay Lohan continues her
quest to be known as a walking,
talking anti-drug ad. The paparazzi
recently videotaped her calling
Paris Hilton a cunt as she left an
L.A. nightclub. When asked to elaborate, Lindsay looked confused and
said, “Paris is my friend…I love
her.” Apparently in Hollywood,
“friends” steal each other’s
boyfriends, give each other fun
nicknames like Firecrotch and top
off their friendship-sundae with a
cherry called “cunt.”
• Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are
in Italy preparing for their upcoming wedding. The pair is rumoured
to be getting married in an old
hotel Mussolini frequented during
his hey-day. This would probably
creep most couples out, but based
on Katie Holmes’ robotic mannerisms since the birth of their possible alien-baby Suri, it’s clear why
Tom picked the location: he’s the
relationship’s dictator.
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The Strays
Le Futur Noir
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Kreviazuk multitasks
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“You’re not going to make everyone happy, no matter who you are,”
she says. “You’re not going to have a
perfect dynamic with everyone on
every level. You just have to accept
that and once you do, I think you’re
okay.
“My job is very rewarding, and
not just because I’ve found a higher purpose within it. It’s not some
of that self-perpetuation of me sitting at home polishing my trophies
or reading Chart, because I don’t
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care [about that],” she says.
“I’m so involved in my family
and what I do on a musical level. I
just let a lot of stuff roll after that. I
think a great song will always be
heard, and sometimes you have to
be patient and you just have to
keep getting up and holding your
head high.
“Do what you believe and be
authentic; that’s what I do and I
don’t have any complaints.”
Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine
Maida play tonight at the London
Convention Centre.
The Futur is bright for The Strays.
Old school throwbacks The
Strays mix classic punk and psychedelic rock on their first fulllength, Le Futur Noir. Influenced by
The Clash, The Strays sound like a
cross between Jet, The Killers and
The Replacements.
Le Futur Noir should be listened
to from beginning to end. The
album is well-arranged, with each
track flowing perfectly into the
next. Highlights include “You are
the Evolution,” “Miracles,” and
“Peach Acid.” These songs showcase the band’s energy, catchiness
and maturity.
Although The Strays’ members
hail from various countries, no
strong cultural influences are present on the album.
Le Futur Noir isn’t lyrically deep,
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rock ‘n’ roll is gonna save me” fit
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sum up the album’s overall feel.
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There’s no doubt The Tragically Hip
is one of Canada’s most prominent
rock bands. Despite having
released 14 albums over nearly two
decades, the band’s latest album,
World Container, proves The Hip
can still create new and exciting
music.
Produced by Canadian Bob
Rock (Metallica, Mötley Crüe),
World Container might seem foreign to hardcore Hip fans, but sonically delightful to others.
Bob Rock’s influence is noticeable from the first ringing chords of
its opening track, “Yer Not the
Ocean,” to it sombre title track. The
Hip pushes its time-tested sound to
new limits by adding keyboard and
piano on several tracks. Also, tracks
like “The Kids Don’t Get It” have a
Clash-like feel.
Fans won’t be disappointed by
the album’s vocals, as frontman
Gord Downie’s poetic lyrics and
distinct delivery remain present.
Though World Container is one
of the year’s more interesting and
listenable albums, it does require
repeat listens to prove it’s more
than just another notch on The
Hip’s musical bedpost.
—Erik Adler
Lamb of God
Sacrament
Sony BMG Entertainment
With a name like Lamb of God, one
can only assume the band produces music appealing to the Pope.
However, tracks like “Walk with Me
in Hell” and “More Time to Kill,”
make it clear your church choir
won’t be reciting these lyrics anytime soon.
The album’s main themes
include religion, pain, misery and
politics. “Again We Rise” is
undoubtedly the album’s best song.
If you’ve ever lost big bucks in an
online poker, witnessed your exgirlfriend wheel your best friend or
gotten a single-digit grade on an
exam, listening to this song will
turn your frown upside down.
Earsplitting lyrics and highspeed electric guitar tempos in
“Foot to the Throat” will pump you
up before a big game.
Most tracks are repetitive lyrically and instrumentally. However,
if you like Pantera or Children of
Sodom, this album is worth checking out. It’s also likely appealing to
belligerent drunks who take pleasure in destroying their annoying
roommates’ personal property
while rocking out.
—Matt Horvatin
Sparklehorse
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly
of a Mountain
Capitol
Sparklehorse’s latest album combines mellow indie pop, folk rock,
distorted vocals and some electronic effects.
Sparklehorse is basically Mark
Linkous — he’s the band’s only constant member and plays every
instrument on a couple tracks. For
Light Years, Linkous collaborated
with artists like DJ Dangermouse
and Tom Waits, who plays piano on
“Morning Hollow.”
Linkous’ surreal lyrics and harmonies add to the relatively dull
melodies, but the vocals are sometimes encrypted by the distortion.
A few upbeat tunes, including “It’s
Not So Hard” and “Ghost in the
Sky,” contrast the subdued, Iron &
Wine-esque songs.
The album ends with the 10minute instrumental title track,
and though its melancholy piano is
beautiful, it might put you to sleep.
While Light Years is appealing, it
doesn’t quite live up to expectations.
—Alexis Stoymenoff
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Elizabeth Gillies hasn’t had a moment’s rest since
coming to Western in July.
Gillies, an assistant chemistry professor, was
appointed a Canada Research Chair and awarded a
John Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry in September.
The Polanyi awards are given annually by the
Ontario government to the province’s top young
researchers continuing their post-doctoral studies
at an Ontario university.
This fall, Gillies established a research lab at Western and already has several undergraduate and graduate students working for her. Her research focuses
on specific molecules, such as oligomers and dendrimers, that can interact with the body for therapeutic purposes. Her research could lead to the
development of molecules interacting with
cell membranes to deliver
antibiotics or other molecules
into cells, among other potential
applications.
Gillies said her interest in research was
established while she was a psychology
major at Queen’s University.
“We had in our classes some professors come
in and talk about their research and that was what
partly inspired me to switch [from psychology] and
major in chemistry,” she said.
After graduating from Queen’s, Gillies completed
her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley,
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Promising research project
New molecules could serve
therapeutic, diagnostic functions
tems for direct delivery, in conjunction with a group from the University of California, San Francisco.
“When I was at Berkeley, I
worked on polymers for drug delivery,” she said. “So we were designing new polymers which we could
attach anti-cancer drugs to and
these polymers would naturally be
targeted to tumour tissue.
“I spent a lot of time synthesizing the new polymers, which is
organic synthesis and polymer
synthesis, and I also learned
some biology background as I did
that.”
Gillies then completed a Marie
Curie post-doctoral fellowship at
the University of Bordeaux. She
feels her prior experiences have
assisted her in developing her new
lab.
“Here we’re not focusing specifically now on cancer drug delivery,
but we’re using some of the same
principles to, for example, develop
MRI contrast agents [that help to
improve the resolution of MRI
images], anti-bacterials and just
generally developing chemistry
that other people in the biomaterials community can use.
“You can develop a set of skills
you know and that leads you in different directions,” she said.
The lab currently conducts
purely academic research, but may
expand to commercial use in the
future.
“Our end goal really is to develop new therapeutic and diagnostic
strategies using chemistry,” she
said.
“We would like to design molecules that have a function and
we want them to do something
other than just academic purposes, but it takes a long time to
develop new technology, and I
think the start of it has to be with
academic research, and learning
fundamental new things about
chemistry.”
Gillies hopes the lab team
expands to 10 people in the next
few years.
“We’re aiming to expand, but
it’s something you want to do
gradually so you can build up
expertise, so that by the time I’m
in my third year of recruiting students I’ll have some experienced
people that are able to train new
students,” she said.
Gillies currently has three
undergraduate students working
on their fourth-year thesis projects
in her lab and a few others wanting
to learn more about research. She
hopes the lab will expose students
to research at an early stage of their
undergraduate degree.
“One of the main things is to get
students actually involved in
research as early as possible,” she
said. “The way to draw students
into chemistry and into research is
to give them those examples of how
chemistry is actually used in real
life and what kind of things chemistry researchers are doing. Otherwise, people don’t really know what
research is, I think.
“So my goal in teaching is to
introduce [research] to the students at a relatively early stage to
hopefully get them interested [in
research] and then also to give
them opportunities to work in my
lab.”
Gillies received her Polanyi prize
at a ceremony attended by the King
and Queen of Sweden in late October. To mark the prize’s 20th
anniversary, winners were awarded
$20,000, up from the previous
reward of $15,000.
The Polanyi prizes were established in honour of John Charles
Polanyi, a chemistry professor
and researcher at the University of
Toronto. Polanyi received the
Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1986.
Similar to the Nobel Prize, the
award is given in the fields of
chemistry, literature, physics,
physiology, medicine and economics.
In the coming weeks, look for
information in Campus Life on
Western’s other 2006 Polanyi Prize
recipient, Peter Cadieux, who won
the award in the category of physiology/medicine.
Previous Western
Polanyi Prize Winners
Jason Haslam, Department of
English (2005) — researched the
representation of prison in American fiction and the role played by
popular literature in challenging
and supporting the American
penal system.
Paul Ragogna, Department of
Chemistry (2005) — researched
the structure and properties of
heavier main group elements and
the potential of these compounds
to serve as new materials in electronic, polymer and pharmaceutical industries.
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Sports
ON DECK:
Layin’ pipe like
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Clash of the titans: what’s the best football?
THREE GREAT LEAGUES = A GREAT DEBATE. There are different reasons to like NCAA college football, the NFL and the CFL, respectively. Don’t let Heisman Trophy winners and Pro Bowlers make up your mind.
College is a great call
Patriot
James
James Hayes
Sports Editor
Let’s be honest: football is an American
game. On the global stage, it’s called “American football” for a reason; the Yanks perfected and popularized the sport. With that in
mind, give me the history, tradition and stirring emotion of NCAA college pigskin.
I’ll take the gut-wrenching MichiganOhio State rivalry, considered the most passionate sports rivalry in North America by
many. I’ll take the frenzied in-state hatred of
the Iron Bowl (Auburn-Alabama) or the Civil
War (Oregon-Oregon State). I’ll take the deafening blare — a cornucopia of screaming
fans (upwards of 120,000 in some stadiums)
and dozens of brass and percussion instruments from the marching bands.
As a pure football fan, I’ll take the undiluted passion of college players and their
fans. Sure, no matter what NCAA brass tell
you, college football is a business of preparing players for the pros. But most of these
young men will never play professional football; they’re on this stage to put a swan song
on their football careers.
If you want to talk tradition, talk about the
Army and Navy academies duking it out
since 1890. The University of Michigan’s
Wolverines and The Ohio State University’s
Buckeyes have clawed and battled since
1897. These rivalries swell on crisp autumn
days as we watch some of the marquee
matchups in sports.
My argument hits a roadblock when we
discuss the Bowl Championship Series — the
computer-generated ranking system determining the national champion. There is serious money at stake for the university programs with the current system, so the NCAA
is unlikely to change to a playoff format for
some time. Still, the BCS system usually
delivers a champion without controversy.
I still think there are enough top-flight
reasons to tune into college football over the
CFL or the NFL.
NFL is second to none
Hurkin’
off
Ian Van Den Hurk
Editor-In-Chief
Every time I flip on the CFL, receivers
drop passes, defenders miss tackles, refs
blow games, and coaches prove they couldn’t
manage a Starbucks in downtown Seattle.
The league is a joke. Just because something is Canadian doesn’t make it good.
Céline Dion is Canadian, and she sucks harder than a puck bunny in the Leafs’ dressing
room.
NCAA football, on the other hand, is a
pretty respectable product. The quality of
play is high, and it’s great watching athletes
playing for the love of the game, not because
it could lead to a new shoe deal. One fatal
flaw: the Bowl Championship Series. I want a
true champion, and until the NCAA institutes
a playoff, it won’t measure up to the NFL.
The reasons for the NFL’s superiority are
numerous, and the other leagues’ failings
alone should be more than convincing. However, one thing in particular makes the NFL
great: every game matters.
With just 16 regular season games, NFL
teams can’t afford a slip-up. Each game goes
a long way to determine the playoff field.
The CFL plays more games than the NFL
and has only eight teams. Who cares about
the regular season when three quarters of the
league will make the postseason anyway?
Admittedly, NCAA games are incredibly
important, since a single loss can eliminate
a team from BCS contention. But considering most powerhouses’ schedules regularly
include football powers like Middle Tennessee State and the University of Toronto,
running the table isn’t as impressive as it
seems.
The CFL and NCAA aren’t horrible products, but neither is a competent substitute for
the NFL. They’re both like the crappy kid you
need for even teams in a three-on-three basketball game. Sure, you’ll take him if you
need him — but you’d rather have that tall
guy at the YMCA who can dunk.
CFL is better than our
neighbours south of the border
Real
Canadians
Malcom Aboud and
Ravi Amarnath
Gazette Staff
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Whether you’re walking around
campus or reading Gazette sports,
it’s clear the CFL doesn’t get the
respect it deserves.
CFL detractors make two main
arguments for its inferiority: the
quality of its players and its reliance
on passing.
Although the overall talent base
in the NFL is higher, the disparity
isn’t as large as many believe. While
CFL stars like Doug Flutie couldn’t
replicate their success down south,
success in the NFL doesn’t guarantee results in the north either.
For example, former Heisman
Trophy winner Ricky Williams aver-
aged a respectable five yards per
carry this year for the Toronto Argonauts, but didn’t lead or dominate
the league as expected.
College advocates also like to
claim their players are more talented, ignoring that NCAA players are
years away from their primes and
that the CFL’s calibre of play is higher.
Also, contrary to what many
critics believe, running is a crucial
to the CFL. The Winnipeg Blue
Bombers, for example, consistently
rely on 1,600-yard running back
Charles Roberts to anchor their
offence.
One of the CFL’s many selling
points is that its 65-yard-wide field
opens the game up for running
backs and receivers, creating a
more exciting game. This big-play
potential, combined with a 20-second play clock and a three-down
system, ensures no game is decided
until the dying seconds.
Also, the Grey Cup is perennially a better game than the Super
Bowl. Nail-biters like last years 3835 overtime contest between the
Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes are common, whereas the
only exciting Super Bowl in recent
memory came back when Marshall
Faulk was the NFL MVP.
We don’t even need to touch on
the NCAA’s Bowl Championship
Series. Any system in which an
undefeated team can’t compete for
a championship isn’t worth our
time.
The bottom line is the CFL features a more exciting game and a
talent pool close to that of the NFL
and superior to the NCAA.
And if you think the CFL lacks
credibility because six of eight
teams make the playoffs, ask yourself whether the Stanley Cup was
meaningful before 1968.