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VOLUME 101, ISSUE 52 • TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
OPINIONS
A&E
SPORTS
LTC ACCESSIBILITY
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
MAILBAG
A solution is always possible... p.4
Review... p.5
Readers sound off on the Leafs... p.7
‘London
Transit
broken’
ATTACK OF THE CLONES
By Sarah Berman
Gazette Staff
Justin Wu/Gazette
GEE, GOD REALLY HAS A DANDRUFF PROBLEM. Heavy snow flew down from the heavens to coat Western students in wet sloppiness
yesterday. If this keeps up, those wishes for a white holiday season are going to be right on the money.
While thousands of students pile
onto crowded buses every morning, many students with physical
disabilities are left out in the cold.
Two media and the public interest students, Nicole Catenazzi and
Jill Ritchot, want to change the status quo with a petition requesting
more wheelchair accessible transit
on campus.
The petition reads: “By signing
the petition you ask that all regularly scheduled London Transit Commission buses that stop on campus
be designated wheelchair accessible.”
The request, addressed to the
LTC, includes the 13 Wellington, 2
Dundas and 10 Wonderland routes,
which are not labeled accessible.
Catenazzi and Ritchot have collected 250 signatures so far, though
they aim to obtain 5,000.
For students, faculty and staff
with physical disabilities, using
London’s current transit system is
problematic.
“Transit in London is broken,”
Jeff Preston, a graduate student of
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Video throws
Axe in Dove
campaign
London councillor proposes taser moratorium
Councillor, London Police agree it is a safety issue, disagree on whose safety
By Mike Hayes
By Jaela Bernstien
Gazette Staff
Gazette Staff
As part of its Campaign for Real
Beauty, Dove is asking women to free
themselves from society’s unreasonable beauty stereotypes, but a recent
Internet video questions the Dove
campaign’s legitimacy.
In Dove’s Onslaught TV advertisements a fair, redheaded girl
smiles at the camera while images
of models and beauty products fly
across the screen.
A recent video parody posted on
Youtube reveals the company may
be responsible for promoting those
unreasonable body images.
Entitled “A Message from
Unilever,” the movie parodies
Dove’s commercial by using clips of
women from Axe Body Spray commercials as a substitute for the
models in the original version.
The segment ends with a play on
Dove’s recent advertising tagline:
“Talk to your daughter before
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The national debate on tasers has found its way to London, as one city councillor is advocating a moratorium
on their use.
“I didn’t want it on my conscience that I hadn’t spoken out about the risk that tasers pose to human life,”
Ward 11 councillor David Winninger said. “I thought in
my position of council I would bring forward a motion
to urge the Police Services Board to put a moratorium
on taser use.”
Winninger first brought a motion to London city
council two weeks ago, but did not get the two-thirds
majority to allow for debate on the issue. At last night’s
council meeting, Winninger needed only a simple
majority for discussion to proceed.
“I’m hoping for some show of support from council,” Winninger said before the meeting; “but either way
I’ll still be going to the Police Services Board on [Dec.
18].”
London’s City Council does not have the power to
change Police Services Board policy, and so even if the
motion passes, the London Police Service may still use
the devices.
“[Tasers] are a safe and effective way of controlling
and arresting an individual where other more forceful
devices could have been used,” Constable Amy Philippo, media representative of LPS, said.
Philippo illustrated an example of a taser’s useful-
ness: “If someone is suffering from cocaine-induced
delirium it’s hard to subdue them. [A taser] presents a
window of opportunity to take control.
“It’s more safe for the person and more safe for the
officer.”
But others, such as City of London Controller Gina
Barber, question the safety of the device.
“I think police have been led to believe that this is a
safe means of subduing persons who are problematic,” Barber said.
“It’s basically a safety issue — we’ve seen about 20
deaths since 2003. Whether or not they were directly
caused by the taser or tasers were indirectly involved,
we do know that deaths occurred shortly after,” Barber
added.
“If there was any other product associated with that
many deaths we would immediately have a recall, a
moratorium, or a suspension of activity.”
Taser International, the company producing the
devices, claims numerous independent research studies support its claims the devices are safe, but Winninger remains skeptical.
“It’s not necessarily independent research. They
pay for this research, they pay people to come to
their conferences and they know those who are on
their side.
“Big tobacco has a big lobby, too,” he said.
As for LPS’ support of a moratorium on the device,
Winninger said: “The police functioned in recent
decades without a taser, didn’t they?”
Taser Related Deaths in Canada
Since April 2003, 20 deaths have
occurred after victims were tasered.
Although certain cases are still under
inquiry, tasers have yet to be directly
blamed for any deaths. These are some
of the victims.
April 2003:
Terry Hanna, Burnaby B.C.
July 22, 2003:
Clayton Willey, Prince George, B.C.
Mar. 19, 2004:
Ronald Perry, Edmonton, AB
May 14, 2004:
Peter Lamonday, London, ON.
July 17, 2004:
Jerry Knight, Brampton, ON.
May 5, 2005:
Kevin Geldart, Moncton, N.B.
June 30, 2005:
Gurmit Sundhu, Surrey, B.C.
July 1, 2005:
James Foldi, St. Catherines, ON.
Dec. 24, 2005:
Alesandro Fiacco, Edmonton, AB.
Oct. 14, 2007:
Robert Dziekanski, Vancouver, B.C.
Nov. 19, 2007:
Robert Knipstrom, Chilliwack, B.C.
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Although he admitted the campaign draws attention to important
issues about body image, Golin said
it is important to realize the motive
behind Dove’s advertisements.
“It’s not to help girls resist these
messages, it’s to sell Dove.”
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media studies who uses an electric
wheelchair, said. “It just doesn’t
work.”
Preston shared his experiences
using the London Transit system.
“The busiest routes in the city
are the least accessible,” he said. “I
have no way of getting to major
malls or grocery stores using public transit.”
John Ford, director of transportation and planning at the LTC,
said major routes require more
buses, and are thus harder to make
fully accessible.
Under LTC’s current policy, lowfloor accessible buses will only be
added to replace old buses.
“We should be fully accessible in
10 years,” Ford said.
Paratransit, a specialized doorto-door service offered by the LTC
to help with accessibility in London, comes with its own set of
inconveniences.
“I have to book three days in
advance, and cancellations must be
made 24 hours beforehand,” Preston said.
Catenazzi noted the Paratransit
system is known for being late, or
not showing up at all. “It’s simply
not consistent with a student’s busy
schedule,” she said.
Paratransit could not be reached
for comment.
“Average individuals would
never allow companies to dictate
when and where they are able to
go ... and yet it’s OK for people
with disabilities,” Preston said,
adding the disabled population is
marginalized from the community as a result.
Catenazzi said opponents of the
motion point to lengthy boarding
procedures, or the considerable
financial costs.
Both Catenazzi and Ritchot
agreed these were indefensible
complaints.
“Inaccessibility is just another
form of discrimination,” Ritchot said.
Unilever does.”
Women depicted in Axe commercials portray the beauty ideals
Dove is attacking, yet both companies are owned by Unilever, a ‘surprising’ contradiction according to
Rye Clifton, the creator of the video.
Clifton made the movie after
learning about the connection from
a colleague.
“The Real Beauty campaign is a
great message for their target, just
as Axe is a great message for their
respective target ... but it is just that
— a marketing position,” Clifton
said.
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood Campaign initiated the “Ax the Axe Campaign” to
expose what the Dove campaign
really is and help people to look at it
in a larger context.
“We don’t think corporations
should be the ones trying to teach
media literacy,” Josh Golin, associate director of the CCFC said.
He added, “If Dove was really
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show the contradiction between
the two marketing campaigns.
“This video was just more palatable to the general population and
easier to share than an article or
other document,” he said.
Lisa Lang, account director of
Unilever, responded to the accusations:
“Unilever is a large, global company with many brands in its portfolio that speak to the lifestyles of
diverse audiences.”
But Golin said the scantily clad
women in Axe commercials are
unhealthy for young men and
women.
In a Toronto Star article, Geoff
Craig, vice-president and general
manager of brand building for
Unilever, defended the Axe commercials, saying it is obvious they
are spoofs on the mating game.
But Golin retorted, “Axe has
become a popular brand among
adolescent boys and that’s not
because the boys are looking at
these ads and thinking of it as great
satire.”
concerned about the harmful
effects of exploitative marketing on
young girls, they would call attention to the Axe campaign themselves.
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Transit
solutions
are possible
A petition organized by a group of media and public interest students asks whether respondents would support
making all London Transit Commission buses that pass
through campus wheelchair accessible.
Given that the petition proposes no solutions as to
how to make this possible, it raises a number of questions
about the feasibility of such a motion.
The LTC is cash-strapped as it is. The cost of retrofitting
outright all buses that pass through campus to make
them wheelchair accessible is prohibitive. While this is no
excuse not to try and accommodate the disabled, the
basic proposal is not feasible.
The LTC’s policy is to replace all aged buses with
wheelchair accessible models, which is the very least that
can be expected. Add to this its Paratransit program and
it is clear the LTC is doing what it can to accommodate
the disabled.
Still, more can be done, and there are a number of
options worth considering.
It is odd that some of London’s major routes are not
more accessible. The 2 Dundas, 10 Wonderland and 13
Wellington routes span the city, yet the number of wheelchair-accessible busses that cover the routes is limited.
Meanwhile, wheelchair-accessible buses fully cover many
other routes.
With such limited resources at its disposal, one solution would be for the LTC to spread out accessible buses
more to meet the needs of the Western community.
Pulling wheelchair-accessible buses from predetermined,
lower-traffic routes to cover the 2 Dundas, 10 Wonderland
and 13 Wellington routes at specific intervals would benefit not only the Western community but the disabled
throughout the city.
If this is not possible, the LTC could at least do more to
make the number of wheelchair-accessible buses on
these routes more frequent. The times they come could
then be indicated on the routes’ schedules.
Another possibilty is to continue to focus on improving the Paratransit program, currently plagued with inadequacies. Having to book rides at least three days in
advance and cancel bookings at least 24 hours prior are
highly problematic. There is room for improvement, but
presently the Paratransit system is the best method for
meeting the specific needs of the disabled community.
The LTC and the public must continue to work together to find a solution. In the meantime, we must listen to
the disabled community to ensure they are able to participate in public, and that public services can meet those
needs.
While the petition offers no solutions, initiating this
dialogue is exactly what its organizers aim to achieve.
Letters to the Editor
Dre’s argument has serious imperfections
Re: “Weed not as harmful as Aleks,
government claim”
Nov. 23, 2007
To the editor:
Dre’s entire argument is ridiculous. He
claims governments decide whether drugs
are legal or not, and says governments
make mistakes because of pressure from
wholesome and God-fearing lobby groups
such as the temperance movement.
I’m not sure if Dre remembers this,
but the government was elected by the
people, so it must represent the people’s opinions. Although most Canadi-
To the editor:
Much like yourself, I am also an editor
at this school, but I go about my business in a much more anonymous way. I
like to be referred to as the “Bathroom
Editor.”
As my copyrighted title suggests, I go
into washroom stalls and edit the slanderous, mean and hateful things written
on the stall wall into nice, joyous and
funny things.
My most recent work can be found in
the male washrooms at D.B. Weldon
Library on the third and fourth floors.
Although I do not condone bathroom
writing, I sometimes find it necessary to
—Aleks Gertzman
Medical Science 2007
edit the filth on the wall. With a few
strokes of the pen, I alter letters and
insert new words.
Here are a few examples of my work
over the last month. I changed “Fuck
You!” into “I play hockey with a puck,
don’t you?” by carefully editing the “f”
into a “p” and inserting a couple
words.
Another one I found said “Hollister =
Gay.” I changed this into “Hollister = May
I be your friend” — a nice twist encouraging friendship between Hollister clothing supporters.
I changed “How many girls have you
had sex with?” into “How many exams
have you written?” since it was around
the time of midterms.
My most recent example was “White
Pride World Wide.” After thinking about
it for several minutes I edited this into “A
White Manned Pride of Lions cannot be
found World Wide, only in African
Safaris.” Wow, I’m good.
Voilã. There you have it. I would
encourage my fellow students to take on
this behaviour as well. Anytime you see
bathroom filth, whip out that red pen
and edit it. Clean up campus one letter
at a time.
—Eddie
Biology II
Scientologists tricked into community service
Re: “Scientologists help more than their
critics do”
Nov. 30, 2007
To the editor:
I must have been dreaming, because I
swore I just read a letter to the editor
written by a damage control expert from
the Church of Scientology. The Gazette
would know better than to print something so pathetic and nonsensical,
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number, and be typed double-spaced, submitted on disk
in Macintosh or IBM word-processing format, or be
emailed to [email protected]. Letters more than
300 words or judged by the Editor-In-Chief to be libellous, sexist or racist will not be published. The Gazette
reserves the right to edit letters and submissions and
makes no guarantees that a letter will be published.
Associate Editor
Dave Ward
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• Please recycle this newspaper •
in their downtime, he admits they’re
criminals because they “break the law
once in a while.” No wonder he’s so quick
to defend others like Ryan.
I wonder if Dre wants to be a doctor
— reminds me of an album called The
Chronic.
Finally, he tells us “the LD50 (toxicology term for ‘lethal dose’) of cannabis is
lower than aspirin, alcohol, and nicotine.” Wouldn’t this imply that weed is
more harmful than cigarettes, alcohol or
aspirin? Checkmate.
Washroom editor cleans up slanderous scribble
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ans don’t want marijuana to be criminalized, our elected government took
the liberty of letting us know that we
do want it criminalized, because we
elected the government and that’s its
policy.
He is also a hypocrite, because after
bashing governments for making weed
illegal, he endorses a “notable study”
commissioned by disgraced ex-President Richard Nixon. Turns out that the
government is bad when you disagree
with its policies, but good when you like
what it has to say.
As for his engineer friends who smoke
wouldn’t it?
Sadly, no. As I read through the
mawkish apologies for a laughable cult, I
couldn’t help but wonder what we’ll see
next. Invitations to a witchcraft seminar
in NCB 101? The department of Alchemy
and Astrology opening up across from
the Natural Sciences Centre?
Angela Ilasi can list good deeds
done by her so-called “religion” all day
long, and it won’t matter. If people
have to be brainwashed into behaving
well by an organization created by the
conscious charlatan L. Ron Hubbard,
then fine.
But let the megaphone for these
frauds be a pulp newsletter handed out
on Adelaide Street, and not the school
newspaper of a highly respected academic institution.
—Henry Gould
Anatomy & Cell Biology III
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ArtsEntertainment
Cat balances both humour and heartbreak
| Western students’ drastic transformation impresses audience |
By Julia Lovgren
Gazette Writer
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Theatre Western
Director: Dan Harvey
Equal doses of humour and heartbreak made
the weekend opening of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
at the McManus Theatre a success.
Theatre Western effectively transformed
the downstairs stage of the Grand Theatre into
a space of black comedy and intense emotion.
Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
is the tale of a dysfunctional family gathered
at its plantation estate to celebrate the birthday of patriarch Big Daddy (Shaun Higgins).
As the night wears on, the play delves into the
strained relationship between Big Daddy’s
favourite son Brick (Michael Ligeti) and his
frustrated wife Maggie (Karyn Roantree).
Walking into the theatre was akin to walking into a private bedroom; watching the play
was like viewing dialogue that would normally occur behind closed doors.
Brick and Maggie’s unused bed dominated centrestage, and as Big Mamma (Kendra
Hamilton) astutely points out, if there are
problems with a couple, the bed is the first
sign of them.
The dynamic interplay between actors,
dancing in and around family dysfunction, is
what made the production a success. The
lead roles were captivating and complemented one another.
Roantree as Maggie captured attention
during the first act by using her musical
southern drawl to delicately maneuver
through emotional situations. In a play where
most of the central issues remain unspeakable, Roantree expertly filled the silences with
meaning — her reactions to Brick said more
than words.
Ligeti as Brick remained mostly calm
throughout the beginning of the play. Maggie’s falsetto speeches were balanced by
Brick’s baritone quips, which were as funny
as they were devastating. However, it was not
until the second act that Ligeti truly distinguished himself as capable of handling
Brick’s psychological complexity.
The interplay between Brick and Big
Daddy during the second act was intense and
revealing.
The family is deceiving Big Daddy about
the true state of his health while it fights
amongst itself for control of his inheritance.
The only one who doesn’t participate in the
power struggle is Brick, Big Daddy’s favourite
son.
Higgins provided the play’s most drastic
transformation in his role as Big Daddy. The
superb use of makeup gave Higgins the look
of an aged and dying man, so that Big
Daddy’s appearance said what none of the
other characters wanted to about his malignant cancer.
Since Big Daddy believes he has a clean
bill of health, he wanted to use the opportunity to confront Brick about his alcoholism,
his deteriorating marriage and his
repressed
homosexual
desire
toward
his dead
friend
Skipper.
As Maggie and Big
Daddy successively explore the problems
plaguing Brick, all three characters are forced
to confront painful and sometimes liberating
truths about themselves and the ones they
love. The cast and crew conveyed those truths
to the audience in a memorable, humorous
and touching way.
Dillinger Escape Plan revamps its old roster
Talented new drummer and guitarist complete new lineup
By Jonathan Pinkus
Gazette Writer
Not long ago things looked pretty
grim for Dillinger Escape Plan.
With its drummer Chris Pennie
moving to Coheed and Cambria
and a guitarist too injured to tour, it
was uncertain whether the band
could continue.
Vocalist Greg Puciato found
himself talking to guitarist Ben
Weinman about what he would do
for a living once the band was over.
“Things have been pretty tumultuous,” Puciato says. “We got the
record done and we thought that
was the end of our problems. But
then of course Weinman breaks his
foot in a video shoot. Who breaks
their foot in a video shoot? He’s like
a real life Dennis the Menace. I told
him I was gonna wrap him in bubble wrap for the next two months.”
Weinman’s foot injury was mild
compared to the drama the band
endured leading up to the release of
Ire Works. The departure of two
band members left the band frustrated and confused.
While in DEP, Pennie played
some of the most difficult and
unique drum parts, making his
shoes hard to fill.
“We had a dream team of drummers, some from [the metal] scene,
some not. As we were going
through them, we found they
couldn’t do it — not because of
their availability; they were just
physically daunted at the prospect
of actually doing it, whether it was
the actual playing or the amount
they would need to tour,” Puciato
explains.
“We talked to everyone, people
like Terry Bozzio, and when they all
said ‘No’ we were like, ‘We’re really
up shit’s creek.’”
Just when it seemed like the end
of DEP, there was finally a break in
the clouds. As soon as Gil Sharone,
formally from Stolen Babies, came
into the picture, things started to
look up.
“My friend Chris Hornerbrook
from Poison the Well just told me, ‘I
know this guy Gil who’s been giving
me lessons. He’s the only guy I
know who plays better than Chris
[Pennie].’ I was really skeptical,”
Puciato confesses.
“How could someone that
young — 29 years old — be that
good? None of us had ever heard
Stolen Babies, but if you do hear
them, it’s not even close to showing
how good he really is.”
Sharone proved to be just what
the band needed. Seamlessly
blending into the mix, He immediately became attached to the band.
The members were astounded and
impressed at how quickly he picked
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up the parts, and how someone so
young and relatively unheard of
could play them at all.
“He sent us a video of him doing
it and it was just so raw,” Puciato
recalls. “Some people would tell us
they had ‘Panasonic Youth’ nailed
and I would be like, ‘Oh, cool man.
Send it over’ and it would just be
someone playing a blast beat for
three minutes,” Puciato says.
“So I talked to [Sharone] on the
phone and sent him what would
end up being ‘Lurch’ and ‘Fix Your
Face.’ We thought it would be like
two weeks, but two days later he
called me at like 3 a.m. and was like
‘Dude listen to this, I got you on
speaker phone.’ And he just ripped
through it perfectly. I tried to stay
cool and told him ‘Yeah man, that
sounds cool, we’ll get back to you.’
But then I just called Ben and went
nuts.”
Not only was last Saturday’s
show the first the band has played
in 15 months, it was also the first
time DEP played with its brand new
lineup, which included both
Sharone and guitarist Jeff Tuttle.
Thinking back to the last time DEP
toured with AFI and Between the
Buried and Me, Puciato is occasionally appalled at how wild his
onstage antics have been.
“I have no idea what people
should expect at a [DEP] show,”
Puciato says. “I could tell you three
years ago but I don’t even know
now. I look at videos of us playing
on YouTube and I’m just thinking,
‘Wow — that’s fucking crazy! Who
does that?’
“I see videos of myself running
across people’s heads and I say,
‘Why would I do that? That’s not
safe.’ I know that I have it in me
now, like when I would throw a mic
stand across the room. Maybe now
I’ll just pick it up and midway
through I’ll just gently set it down.”
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Bedouin Soundclash rocked the audience at Cowboys Ranch last Thursday.
Bedouin Soundclash gets
the fans dancing at Cowboys
CONCERT REVIEW
Performance:
Openers:
Crowd:
By Jennifer Gautier
Gazette Writer
Just in time for some pre-exam
stress relief, Bedouin Soundclash
played Cowboys Ranch with Saint
Alvia Cartel and Matt Costa last
Thursday night.
The reggae/rock band, consisting of three Queen’s University
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alumni, has been touring Canada
the past two weeks promoting its
latest album, Street Gospels, and will
finish on Dec. 12 in Victoria, B.C.
If you’ve never been to Cowboys
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Being an all-ages event, the bar’s
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stage, leaving little room to move —
perfect for a real rock show experience.
The second floor, reserved for
those of legal drinking age, was
more relaxed, with a balcony set up
where patrons could lean against
the railing or grab a seat and watch
the concert with a few drinks.
Doors opened at 7 p.m., and an
hour after the long line of determined fans filed into the building,
the first opening act came onstage.
Saint Alvia Cartel put on a great
performance despite the fact it is a
hardcore punk band. The crowd
was not ideal as it had come expecting Bedouin Soundclash’s softer,
more soulful reggae sound.
However, some of the fans in the
pit were into it. Saint Alvia Cartel’s
half-hour set was a fine warmup to
the night.
The next performer to hit the
stage was California native Matt
Costa. Costa boasted a soulful,
acoustic style better suited to
Bedouin Soundclash fans.
Costa’s set was well received.
Audience members, many of which
were already fans, sung along to
almost every song. A multitalented
performer, Costa played the
acoustic guitar and the harmonica
while singing beautifully, all the
while maintaining a commanding
stage presence.
At 10 p.m., Bedouin Soundclash
finally hit the stage, and was
received by a very anxious and
excited crowd. Bedouin Soundclash
dedicated its performance to “the
dancers in the crowd,” and rightfully so. From the opening guitar
chord to the final encore, the fans
at the front of the stage were dancing, jumping and waving their
arms.
Since its performance on campus last year, a rumour has circulated saying Bedouin Soundclash
doesn’t sound half as good live as it
does on the radio.
If anyone believed the rumour,
Thursday night’s show would have
proved them wrong. Frontman Jay
Malinowski’s voice sounds even
better live than on record.
Unfortunately, Bedouin Soundclash’s set was only slightly over an
hour in length. With three records
under its belt, it had enough material to lengthen its performance.
Despite the short set list, the
band’s performance was a hit. Fans
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Sports
ON DECK:
Hockey pool update... Wednesday
Roundup: women’s
hoopsters sweep
road trip
By Ravi Amarnath and
Stephanie Ramsay
Gazette Staff
With the holidays just around the
corner, Western’s basketball and
hockey teams saw their last action
of the season.
After suffering back-to-back
losses last weekend, the men’s basketball team split a pair of games
against the Toronto Varsity Blues
and Ryerson Rams.
On Friday, forward Colin
Laforme scored 17 points in his
debut versus the Blues. Teammate
Brad Smith added 20 points to pace
the Mustangs to an 86-77 victory
against the nationally-ranked
Blues. Western trailed by 12 points
at the half, but rallied for the win.
Despite another strong performance from Smith, Western could
not complete the sweep in Toronto,
losing on Saturday to the Rams by
a score of 80-76.
Western held a 32-26 lead at
halftime, but encountered foul
trouble in the second half. The
Rams were paced by Igor and Boris
Bakovic, who combined for 43
points on the night.
On the women’s side, veteran
forward Bess Lennox had a monster weekend, pouring in a combined 51 points and 21 rebounds to
lead Western to two consecutive
victories.
Western dispatched Toronto 8575 on Friday evening after overcoming a 25-18 first quarter deficit.
Lennox, along with forwards
Amanda Anderson and Lauren
Parkes, combined for 58 points.
The ’Stangs got off to a better
start on Saturday, taking a 25-14
lead in the first quarter en route to a
78-66 victory over Ryerson. The victory put Western at 8-2 for the season and second place in Ontario
University Athletics West standings.
The women’s hockey squad
ended its five-game losing streak on
Saturday afternoon with a 4-1 win
over the visiting Queen’s Golden
Gaels.
Mississauga native Kailey
Hooker scored the first goal for the
Purple and Silver at 13:39 of the first
Jonas Hrebeniuk/Gazette
THERE’S A CERTAIN BOND TO THE FROZEN POND. Our first solid gust of winter weather this season certainly
gets everyone fired up for hockey. The men and women’s hockey teams were two of several Mustangs squads
in action over the weekend; it made for some great spectatorship.
period. Holly Ouellette, Bianca
Emanuele and Kaley Sisler also got
on the board for the Mustangs,
while netminder Danielle Le Ber
faced 25 shots in the important victory.
After a 3-2 shootout loss to the
University of Ontario Institute of
Technology Ridgebacks on Friday
night, the men’s hockey team
rebounded with a 4-1 victory over
the York Lions on Saturday.
Although the Lions were first on
the board with Matt Passfield scoring halfway through the first period, Western answered back when
Marcus Smith scored his third goal
of the season to tie the game.
The Mustangs dominated the
second period as Kyle Lamb scored
his fifth goal of the season, followed
by Kevin Richardson with his 13th.
Richardson currently tops the
Canadian Interuniversity Sport
scoring race.
Western winger Jeff Martens
capped off the scoring with a goal
mid-way through the third frame.
With the win, Western cemented its first-place position in the Far
West division. The Lakehead Thunderwolves occupy second-place,
just two points behind.
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Mailbag: Readers critique overpaid Leafs squad
To the Editor:
Have you ever tried to watch a Leafs
game with fans who talk complete
nonsense? I know you know the
type. These are the guys sitting there
making the most ridiculous comments at every stoppage of play.
They say things like “If I were a
GM, I’d take 10 Chad Kilgers over 10
Kyle Wellwoods any day.” Or maybe
they’ll tell you how they have a
Steen jersey and how Steen is the
best player the Leafs have. Every
word that comes out of these guys’
mouths makes your jaw drop lower.
Just when you are wondering if
they are watching the same sport as
you, everything is made perfectly
clear when they say, “McCabe is
one of the best defenceman in the
league!”
At this point you know there’s
something wrong with this person,
or they simply don’t understand
hockey.
Arguments such as, “Bryan
McCabe scored over 50 points the
last two seasons” and “All people
remember is the bad stuff he does,
not the positives he brings to the
ice” are ridiculous. Put simply,
McCabe and his handlebar mous-
tache are not worth over $5 million
a year.
There’s a reason people remember McCabe’s poor performances:
they are frequent and come at
inopportune times. For example,
giving the puck away in overtime to
give the Canadiens a game-winning
breakaway is not worth $5 million.
Putting the puck in your own net
is not worth $5 million. When he
does score, they are fluke goals
from crappy shots that redirect in
front of the net, and are not worth
$5 million.
I’ve heard all the “You couldn’t
do any better” arguments and I
agree. That’s why I don’t make $5
million a year.
In fact, I shell out my money to
watch the Leafs piss it away on players like McCabe. Bryan McCabe has
no business being a number one
defenceman in the NHL.
Toronto seems to have a knack
for trading away young talent for
unproductive veterans. Ferguson
should try the reverse and trade
away unproductive McCabe for
some young talent.
The Leafs’ defensive core is saturated with overpaid, overrated
players. The only reason McCabe is
the leader on Toronto’s blueline is
because he’s worst of the bunch.
— Ryan Appleby
Science III
To the Editor:
I have to agree Bryan McCabe is
one of the worst defencemen in the
NHL, because he has such a onedimensional game. However, I
think your efforts to stir up some
revulsion against him are in vain.
We need to direct our support
towards getting rid of the blubbering idiot who gave McCabe such a
ridiculous contract — with a notrade clause — to begin with. Not
that the team could get rid of him if
it wanted to, anyway.
The latest news that John Ferguson made comments about coach
Paul Maurice being on the hot seat
is absolutely ludicrous! He’s an idiot
who’s always trying to pass the buck
and deflect negative attention.
The only reason Ferguson is still
there is because of his father’s reputation. What has he done to avoid
taking the majority of this blame?
Ferguson is the person solely
responsible for handcuffing the
whole organization with the insane
contracts of McCabe and Pavel
Kubina. Kubina isn’t as bad as
McCabe, but he certainly never
deserved the $4 or 5 million a year
he’s getting.
Before coming to Toronto, Kubina had a career plus/minus of -93
(only one positive season) and
averaged 21 minutes a game, scoring 30 points a season.
These are third or fourth
defenceman statistics, and there’s
nothing here to justify giving him
“first line-D” money. [Tomas]
Kaberle is good, but he’s no Wade
Redden, who is negotiating a contract for less money. What Toronto
needs is to revamp and start by getting rid of Ferguson!
I am not a Leafs fan. I do, however, feel great pity for all those
Leafs fans out there supporting
such a hopeless cause, and feel sorrow for my own unfortunate circumstance; I’ll likely never be able
to celebrate any local Canadian
team winning the Cup. Like them
or not, the Leafs winning the Cup
would be a wonderful thing for
Toronto and southern Ontario in
general.
As much as everybody blames
the Leafs’ woes on the Teachers’
union (who have a majority stake in
the franchise’s ownership), you
can’t support the theory that it
makes business sense to prevent
the Leafs from winning the Stanley
Cup. They are fools if they don’t
think their memorabilia sales
would soar.
In this day of salary-cap hockey,
what more could they really do in
terms of the team, anyway? They
can only spend so much on
salaries, and they’ve spent it all! The
real problem is the way they’ve
spent it, and again, look no further
than Ferguson.
When the Paul Maurice story
came up the other night, I was
thinking how misled people are and
how bad they need to get rid of the
GM.
The problem is, I really don’t
have the time or the means to lobby
for this. Hopefully you agree and
can start a movement towards
righting the ship in Toronto once
and for all!
—Ryan Aarts
M.E.Sc Candidate
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