It’s an unseasonably warm Septem-ber Saturday—perhaps the last real t-shirt-and-shorts kind of Saturday we’ll get this year. The sun is unobscured by the few wisps of cloud wafting lazily above Springett parking lot, which is mostly empty but for a small group of engineering students gathered at one end. There is just enough of a breeze to keep the heat comfortably at bay. It’s a beautiful day for a drive.

The car sits waiting as some of the students set up a makeshift track with battered orange pylons. Out here, compared to the pickup trucks and sports cars, the car doesn’t seem very big. At a glance, it could be mistaken for a large go-kart—though if you sat in a go-kart to race against this ma-chine, it would be moving at 100 kilo-metres an hour before you figured out which pedal was the gas.

This is no go-kart. It’s a Formula racecar. It goes from zero to 100 ki-lometres an hour in just 3.4 seconds, and it was designed and built by the students of Western’s Formula racing team to compete against other cars designed, built and driven by students from universities around the world.

Today, Miguel Achtymichuk will drive the car for the first time. The second-year mechanical engineering student is the team’s brakes manager, and was a member of the team for his entire first year at Western.

When the engine fires, it doesn’t roar so much as it rumbles and sput-ters. With two team members standing at the ready at either end of the track with fire extinguishers, Achtymichuk drives over to the track and begins his first lap.

He starts off slowly, to get a feel for the car’s unique handling. He takes

each lap a bit faster than the one be-fore, and though he hits the odd pylon, you can soon tell by the sound of the engine that he’s growing comfortable with the car. By the sixth lap, the car is howling down the straightaway and careening around hairpin turns—now the engine is roaring.

This car is loud, and this car is fast. By the 12th lap, Springett feels less like a parking lot and more like a speed-way, and by the 15th lap, the car is going around the track so fast that the other students barely have time to re-place the knocked-over pylons before it’s back around again.

The car will have at least six driv-ers today, many of them first-timers. When the weather is favourable, the team does this about once a week. Every committed member of the team gets a chance to drive the car, and eventually may even get to race it in competition.

“It’s unlike anything I’ve ever driven before,” says Adam Bezzina, technical lead and chief driver for the Western team. “It accelerates so fast, brakes so fast, you can corner a lot faster—the corners that we take at 60 kilometres an hour. An average car couldn’t even make that corner because the turn ra-dius is larger.”

“Obviously, we don’t have anywhere near the technology that a Formula One car does, nor do we approach the speeds that they hit. But the driving is difficult nonetheless, and it takes a lot of practice.”

Each year, the team builds a new car to compete in Formula SAE events, organized by the Society of Automo-tive Engineers International. The SAE sets the rules and standards for the cars, and organizes competitions that

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Nothing shows you care like a gift card for

the Wave/SpokeBuying food on campus at stu-dent-run operations is about to get a lot easier.

The Wave and the Spoke have recently begun selling reloadable gift cards. The objective of the gift cards is to improve the wait times for students and staff that pur-chase meals at either restaurant—especially at the Spoke, where wait times can be long during peak

business hours.“[The gift cards] will improve

service, as they process faster than cash, debit and credit. It also makes a great gift,” Tony Ayala, vice-presi-dent finance for the University Stu-dents’ Council, stated.

The cards are unique because they process quicker, as students do not need to fill out a piece of paper, like they currently do with Western ONEcards.

“If you use the gift card, it’s a quick chi-read and go. This should really speed up lines, specifically in the Spoke,” Ayala explained.

The same gift card can be used at both the Wave and the Spoke. They do not require a start-up fee, and can be purchased in any denomi-nation from either location. Ac-cording to Ayala, all students need to do is simply to ask for a manager.

The USC has prioritized im-proving convenience for students in student-run operations.

“We are excited to keep coming up with new initiatives to better our customer service to students. We take pride in our student-run oper-ations, and the constant direction of improving our service levels to where students want it,” Ayala con-cluded in a press release yesterday.

—Amanda Law

OSAP Express pulls into Western

Ontario post-secondary students who rely on OSAP will no longer have to spend hours of their time waiting around in financial aid offices.

This semester, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universi-ties introduced OSAP Express—a streamlined application process aimed to make the entire OSAP pro-cedure easier for students. Accord-ing to the ministry, OSAP Express

requires a student to sign a loan agreement only once throughout their entire post-secondary stud-ies, and speeds up the enrollment verification process and direct de-posit options. The procedure will also result in government savings of over $150,000.

When Joanne Afghani, a second-year psychology student at West-ern, first heard about the new pro-cess, she didn’t know what to think.

“To be honest, my first reac-tion to the new OSAP Express sys-tem was, ‘oh great, there’s going to be more annoying paperwork to fill out,’” she admitted. “But once I found out you only complete the [Master Student Financial Assis-tance Agreement] form once, and they keep it on file for years to come, [...] I was super happy because, let’s face it, no one likes lines.”

According to the ministry, wasted time was the main reason behind the switch to a new for-mat. Last year, when financial aid offices were still using the paper-based loan document process, a typical student would receive their first electronic payment between September 19 and 26. This year, students received their first elec-tronic payments between Septem-ber 17 and 21.

With the additional free time, the ministry explained financial aid offices would be able to dedi-cate more time to answering stu-dent questions.

Afghani agreed this is a better system for everyone involved.

“I didn’t have any problems with the system—everything was right on schedule,” she said. “Now that the form is out of the way, I won’t have to fill it out again next year or wait in line. It’s definitely a great system.”

—Jesica Hurst

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Jesica HurstNeWS ediTor

Please welcome Western presi-dent Amit Chakma—er, @PresWe-sternU—to the Twitterverse.

In an attempt to catch up with the times, and bring a more spe-cific focus to the initiatives the president is involved with on be-half of the university, the media relations team at Western thought it would be beneficial for Chakma to finally jump on the social media bandwagon and join the rest of us in 2012.

“Up until now, it has been tricky to get a good handle on the various types of interactions the president has with individual campus com-munity members—particularly students,” Keith Marnoch, director of media and communications for Western, said. “We hope that this communication vehicle will pro-vide the community with some in-sight into the great work and initia-tives happening around campus,

as seen through the eyes of the president.”

“Both he and a communica-tions support staff will contribute to the account in hopes of mak-ing it as relevant and timely as possible.”

With nearly 200 followers in less than 24 hours, Chakma has re-ceived a very warm welcome and an abundance of support from the staff and students at Western. But don’t expect a follow for a follow.

“When it comes to following, the president far prefers meeting with students in person in all cor-ners of the university, and puts a priority on that happening as soon as possible,” Marnoch explained. “While the president recognizes that dialogue and sharing are im-portant elements of micro-blog-ging, for now he will concentrate on the sharing aspect of Twitter and see where it leads him.”

According to Marnoch, the tweets from Chakma’s personal ac-count will differ from the already

established @westernu account.“The profile of the account is

specifically geared to activities that the president come across through the normal course of his daily schedule,” he said. “The @westernu account is more of a public address account about anything ‘Western’—not as much about what the president is doing or seeing.”

Marnoch hopes Chakma’s per-sonal account will serve as an ef-fective tool for reaching out to the entire student body.

“This account represents a tan-gible outreach to students, as well as to the general Western com-munity,” he said. “Hopefully, the account will bring a greater un-derstanding to those priorities and encourage students to either get more involved with particu-lar initiatives, or at least know more about where the university is headed.”

Next up, Instagram.

host teams from around the world. The biggest event happens each May in Michigan, and this year it hosted 120 teams. Western has sent a car every year since 1996.

These cars aren’t cheap—Bez-zina estimates Western’s cost be-tween $50,000 and $60,000. While Western provides part of that, the majority is paid for by sponsors in the automotive and engineering industries.

The team’s business arm, com-prised mostly of non-engineering students, organizes the sponsors. Some provide cash, while others provide free or discounted parts, or perform some of the more com-plex machining and laser cutting that the team doesn’t have the re-sources to do themselves. How-ever, the whole car is assembled by the students on the team.

“The whole goal of this, and the reason the SAE puts it on, is to prepare engineers for the automo-tive industry when they graduate,” Bezzina says. Many former team members credit the team with helping them get a job, and some even go on to work for sponsor companies.

The majority of the team—which is open to all students, not just engineers—has no previous experience with cars. Older team members teach the younger ones, and the rest comes from books, Shaun Salisbury, the team’s faculty advisor, says.

“They’re obviously very com-mitted. They do all their work after hours, so it’s weekends, after school and in the summer that they work on it,” he says.

Teams must build a new car every year to compete in SAE events. While some of the better-funded teams in Europe are able to

save their car from each year and put them all on display, Western must dismantle each year’s car for parts to build the next.

Formula racing is much more popular in Europe, accounting for some much more lucrative spon-sorships common with European universities. “Some of the Euro-pean teams have $50,000 moulds just for their carbon fiber rims,” Andrew Kisielewski, a former team member, explains.

The European teams may have the money and the renown, but that doesn’t change the experience for Western’s engineers. The team’s more-involved members will often put in 30 to 40 hours a week on the car, on top of their heavy course loads. These students probably won’t go on to win the Grand Prix, and they might not get the most lu-crative sponsorships for their car, but that’s not the point.

“That’s the epitome of our team—no one hears about us,” Na-than Leifer, the team’s fuel systems manager, says.

“It’s not a glamourous, fantasy thing. We’re not the Mustangs—well, we consider ourselves Mus-tangs—but we do it because we love it.”

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Earnings inequality may be higher in Europe than in North Amer-ica, according to recent study conducted by Western’s CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity.

Presented in a policy brief re-leased earlier this week, studies showed that depending on how inequality is defined and the mea-sures used to examine it, lifetime inequality is similar between North American and Europe.

Previous studies on inequality have only taken into account one year of data, but Audra Bowlus, CIBC faculty fellow, chair of West-ern’s department of economics and co-author of the policy brief, said single-year trends are impor-tant, but measuring inequality based on a lifetime earnings might be more accurate.

“Current inequality tells us something about that current year, and the situation that people faced in that current year and […] what was the difference between the top and the bottom in that current year,” she explained. “But it is only a snapshot, and people’s earnings go up and down over the course of their life cycles for lots of different reasons.”

The report also looked at earn-ings mobility, a measure of an indi-vidual’s movement in the earnings distribution and employment risk, which is the risk an individual may be unemployed. Bowlus explained both factors played a role in clos-ing the inequality gap.

“The U.S. and Canada, in par-ticular, exhibit a lot of earnings mobility than the other countries we studied, which were in conti-nental Europe,” she said. “If we just took a current snapshot and we don’t incorporate that mobility, we don’t get really how much inequal-

ity there is.”Including employment risk

also greatly affected the results of the study. European countries tend to have more generous un-employment benefits than North America, meaning Europeans tended to have longer spells of unemployment.

Bowlus also explained when people were returning to the work-force in Europe, they were more likely to enter the distribution at the lower end, whereas people in North America were able to re-enter at the middle or even higher end of the earning distribution.

“If I put in earnings mobil-ity, the North American countries shrink substantially and the Euro-pean countries shrink somewhat substantially,” she explained. “If I then add in employment risk, North American countries actu-ally shrink more in inequality, but Europe goes back up. In the end, they look very similar in terms of inequality but they got there from very different processes.”

Although Bowlus said it’s an open debate as to which is better, she added policy makers should consider both factors.

“They should not only think about current inequality when they are developing polices, they should also be thinking about long-run and lifetime inequality.”

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it’s not a glamourous, fantasy thing. We’re not the Mustangs—well, we consider ourselves Mustangs—but we do it because we love it.

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Western’s Formula racing team

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Cultivating a sense of communityStudent plants new addition to the Huron environment

Brent HolmesArT&liFe ediTor

Huron University College has got-ten a little greener. A student-led initiative to grow a garden for stu-dent reading and reflection has just sprouted up.

Huron students Gideon Bell and Rebecca Barr built the garden, lo-cated behind Benson House and Huron University College, because they wanted to provide a space where students could get outside and enjoy their environment. Rest-ing on the top of a hill with a great view of the surrounding area, they couldn’t have asked for a better spot.

“We started this initiative last year when we found this area that we felt could be turned into a gar-den,” Barr says. “There’s not a lot of outdoor space for students to read on campus, or [to] just enjoy na-ture. It’s a lot of time in the library, a lot of time indoors.”

The garden is funded by the Huron University College Stu-dents’ Council with assistance from the Huron administration. Now that the garden is built, Bell and Barr are hoping it will inspire future generations of students as a site for reflection and reading, and to encourage other students to en-gage their community.

“It’s a great example of allow-ing students to make changes to the community. It doesn’t have to be from one central source, peo-ple can step up and take that kind of leadership,” emphasizes Vivek Prabhu, president of the HUCSC.

The Huron administration has also responded positively to the initiative, helping to locate a site that would be noticeable and would be easy for students to use.

“[Bell and Barr’s] work has meant

that students, faculty, staff and visi-tors have a comfortable outdoor space on the Huron campus for con-versation, reading and reflection,” comments Neil Carruthers, chief ad-ministrative officer at Huron.

Now, after a substantial amount of work, the garden is complete. After Bell and Barr move on to fu-ture studies, the caretaking and potential expansion of the garden will fall to the HUCSC, who hopes other students will take interest in

keeping the garden blooming.“I would love to see if it

expands.I don’t know if it can be-cause it’s on the side of a cliff, but there are so many different pos-sibilities,” Prabhu comments. “I think students should make that decision and we will definitely be looking forward to that in the future.”

“We want to find some students who we can teach, so that we can pass on what we’ve learned from

this project so that they can carry it on,” Barr echoes. “[Through this], we’ve become closer to the Huron community and administration, but also just the nature around Huron and how it has made us ap-preciate what Huron has to offer and how we can build upon it.”

For Bell and Barr, student awareness around opportunities to develop their campus environ-ment is paramount.

“Our ultimate goal was to de-velop a student awareness. If you want something done, if you see something wrong with the campus or you feel something needs more improvement, you can make that motion,” Bell says.

“We see people out there for lunches and reading. We are really happy because we are leaving be-hind something that will allow stu-dents to be involved as well,” Barr concludes. “There are a lot of avail-able resources that are untapped.”

our ultimate goal was to develop student awareness. if you want something done, if you see something wrong with the campus or you feel needs improvement, you can make that motion.

—Gideon BellHuron student.

Cameron Wilson Gazette

FLOWER POWER. After planting the seeds this past summer, Gideon Bell and rebecca Barr’s garden has sprouted up, giving Huron students good soil to read, reflect and relax with.

Laura TrabuccoGAzeTTe STAFF

GGFFFDirector: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Anurag Kashyap

Trishna touts itself as a modern update of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Tess of the D’Ubervilles. While the trope of rich boy falls in love with poor girl continues to enchant, Michael Winterbottom’s adapta-tion causes the story to lose much of its poignancy. The problems in Trishna stem from the lovers’ failure to communicate with each other. It makes for a far less sympa-thetic tale than the novel, and ulti-mately falls flat.

Frida Pinto, as the title charac-ter, provides a pretty face, but re-mains inaccessible—at the end of the film, Trisha feels like a stranger. Much of the script is spent admir-ing her pretty face, while little is done to develop her personality. Riz Ahmed, as the male lead, deliv-ers a promising performance, but is limited by poor writing. With so little insight, the actions of both seem contrived and bizarre. A cast of flat and clichéd secondary char-

acters supplements the leading roles.

Winterbottom relies heav-ily on the film’s unconventional soundtrack to reveal tense or re-demptive moments that would otherwise be lost. The film is in-terspersed with beautiful shots of both rural and urban India, but they seem to have little to do with the struggles of the glossy looking Pinto.

Trishna strives to impart an im-portant social commentary, end-ing with a blunt political message

that seems like an afterthought. Hardy’s novel is a classic, but it was originally written for serializa-tion in a newspaper. Translated to the big screen, the drawn out plot seems dull and haphazard.

It is frustrating to watch Trishna, like Tess before her, fail to speak up for herself until it is too late. What is praised as stoicism in the nineteenth century just seems like weakness in the twenty-first.

Overall, the visually appealing movie fails to achieve the same sta-tus as the classic novel.

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Dada Life brings both energy and bananas Danielle Bozinoff

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Swedish electro house duo Dada Life began their musical career in 2010, and have since attained in-ternational success. This week, they are touring Ontario university cities, including Guelph, London, Toronto and Ottawa.

But where did their journey to international stardom all begin and why did they decide to collab-orate in a realm dominated by solo artists? Oddly enough, Olle Corn-eer and Stefan Engblom met while waiting in line for a ride at Disney-land. They bonded instantly over their hometown of Stockholm and similar taste in music. Next thing they knew, their track “Big Time” became popular in England. It was then they realized this fun project could turn into something bigger.

Now, they are performing for sold-out concerts around the world, with a large university stu-dent following in Canada.

“The Canadian audience is awesome. I would say the ones that come to our shows, they just live the Dada Life. They rage so hard, people stage dive—it’s mad-ness,” Stefan Engblom says. “Spe-

cifically, in regard to Canadian students, playing the shows in Canada, we get so much energy from the crowd, and hopefully we give it back so it just escalates.”

‘The Dada Life’ is a term often used by the duo—it’s a way of life they feel strongly about.

“Dada is whatever you want it to mean,” Engblom explains. “It’s more like a feeling and way of life. Have fun and don’t think too much. If you bring your brain to a rave, then you’re screwed from the beginning. Just leave your brain at home, go have fun—jump off the walls. If you’re smiling, then you know you’re having fun.”

More so than the confusion over Dada Life, fans often scratch their heads at the recurring theme of bananas as seen throughout their music videos, concerts and logo.

“The thing with bananas is that they are the best. Bananas on their own, not so good. You need to com-bine them with champagne. You should try it,” Engblom says. While this seems like a peculiar combina-tion, Engblom insists it’s not.

“Bananas are the perfect food at a club because you don’t want to eat an apple or a sloppy sandwich. Everything is going to get messy.

But a banana is in a perfect pro-tective shell. You open it up and it’s fresh. Combined with champagne, it’s explosive.”

The inventive duo’s motto is “destroy dance music and have

fun. Do the Dada.” “Try to destroy what has been

done and make new things,” Eng-blom urges. “Always look forward and don’t follow trends or listen to top 40s—we do what we feel like

and lucky for us, people love it.”Dada Life made their stop at the

London Music Hall last night. Look for the review in Tuesday’s issue of the Gazette.

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GOING BANANAS. The Swedish duo that performed in london last night, swears by the combination of bananas and champagne at their shows.

Classic tale, modern twistJason Oncz

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GGGHFWilliam Shakespeare’s Othello, di-rected by Jason Rip, brings a classic tale of deception, lust and jealousy to the stage at The ARTS Proj-ect. This adaptation brings an old plight into modern day context by marrying major themes with war-torn Afghanistan.

Othello tells the story of the Moor of Venice and his recent mar-riage to the Venetian Desdemona. Othello (Demis Odanga), having recently risen in his military rank-ing, earns the ire of fellow soldier Ensign Dana Iago (Danika Barker) when he promotes the less expe-rienced Cassio (Colt Forgrave) to lieutenant instead of Iago. Iago becomes the central character of the play by learning secrets from each of the men, and orchestrates the downfall of Othello. Through the course of the play, Iago learns of a wealthy man named Roderigo (Sarah Abbott), and Cassio’s love for Desdemona (Sarah Stanton).

Strong performances by the lead actors bring the characters to life, and the audience into their world. Barker’s interpretation of Iago as a female ensign is an empowering rendition of the cold and calculat-ing character. Her ability to bring full emotion into the dialogue, and extensive command of the lan-guage, brings forward a believable performance. This is ever pres-ent in scenes alongside Odanga as Othello, in which the two actors play well against each other.

The emotional spectrum of Odanga is powerful, whether it’s smitten love when with Des-demonda, or full-on anger and jealousy when speaking of Cas-sio—even the raw angst when he discovers the error of his ways. He is able to navigate these emotional variants with a fine-tuned compass.

Rip wants to remind the au-dience that they’re still imagin-ing these events in Afghanistan amongst the barracks, on the base and in the field. He effectively ac-

complishes this with modern dress, weapons and context.

The play suffers in two areas. While performances by Turner, Sheppard, Forgrave and Adler are strong, others are not. While comi-cal at times, Sam O’Beirn’s por-trayal of Montano betrays the raw emotions contained within any scene in which he partakes.

Additionally, while Michael Van Holst is well-versed in his charac-ter of Lodovico, he too lacks the conviction to bring the character forward on stage into something more real.

It may seem easy to criticize a community production for a lack of set design, but in this case, it’s not so much the lack of design. Rather, it is the issue of set changes.

There is no indication between

each act that there is a change in location, and it isn’t until the sec-ond half of the play that we see the welcomed sign of a new set piece. It’s not to say that the changes in scenes aren’t signalled—the di-rector has chosen modern songs as well as sounds of war to indi-cate venue changes—but the play would benefit from some other indicators.

With the overall runtime com-ing in at just over two hours, this artful rendition of a literary classic would be well-received amongst Shakespeare fans and any fan of the theatre looking for a new twist on an old play.

Othello plays at The ARTS Proj-ect until tomorrow. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 at InfoSource, or at the door.

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GGGFFEnglish WordsRed PotionThis is Luck ProductionsHighlight Tracks: “Pay to Play” “All my Lovers”

English Words, formerly Smoth-ered in Hugs, is looking for a good time, and they aren’t looking to re-invent the wheel while they do it.

Ryan Crane’s vocals on Red Po-tion’s opening track “Bumblebee” have the timbre of another Prince Ed-ward Island band, Two Hours Traffic.

The similarities taper off from there, and English Words leaves the Atlantic behind. Instrumen-tally, the minimalist punchy guitar melodies ride over the drum ma-chine, while the synthesizer does the leg work.

Red Potion works when the band slows things down and al-lows the layers to breathe. With the heartbeat drum machine and subtle synthesizer, English Words finds steady ground.

“Pay to Play” offers a loose nar-rative, suggesting listeners pay their dues and to endure life’s hardships.

On “All my Lovers,” he croons through the reverb about kiss-ing former lovers on the neck. His words resonate with detail, but at times, he seems more concerned with rhyming than producing a co-herent thought.

Shakespeare it’s not, but English Words is looking to keep you either dancing or tapping your feet in a trance while staring at the pretty lights. In their first time out, the band achieves both of those ends with ease.

— Alex J. Carey

GGGGFWomenPublic StrainFlemish Eye RecordsHighlight Tracks: “Can’t You See” “Heat Distraction” “Eyesore”

Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, art rock band Women provide a sound incomparable to most bands on the radio today. On their second studio album Public Strain, the quartet comes together to create a mood that is both spacey and am-bient, while at the same time me-lodic and progressive.

The reverb-splashed, airy vo-cals of guitarists Chris Reimer and Patrick Flegel, combined with the simple, yet soulful grooves of bass-ist Matthew Flegel, and Michael Wallace’s aggressive drum beat drums, create a sound suitable for a rainy day.

The album kicks off with “Can’t You See,” a dense concoction of sounds from every register, all guided by a deep, dark and distant vocal line hidden carefully in the background.

The initial dreary tone of the album is quickly washed away by the second track entitled “Heat Distraction,” an oddly-metered, progressive tune reminiscent of a 1970s rock band.

The album concludes with the more mainstream, upbeat “Eye-sore,” with a beginning drumbeat and explosion of the full band into the mix helplessly captures the listener.

The organized chaos of Public Strain is an innovative bouquet of sounds pleasurable to the ear and soothing for the soul.

—Shane Rodak

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Opinions Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing—the result.

—Vince lombardi, former American football coach.

Fair prof evaluations

important for students

A recent study published in the journal Aggressive Behaviour revealed students who receive a low grade in a class are significantly more likely to give a professor a poor teaching evaluation.

When picking courses, one of the most important considerations students make is who’s teaching the class. A good professor can make a class exceptional, whereas a bad one can make it a nightmare. It’s important to know what kind of experience to expect before you sign up for a class. For this, students can turn to online resources, like ratemyprofessors.com, to find reviews of professors written by other students.

However, it’s important to be discerning when researching a professor online. Oftentimes, reviews will be extreme, as not many students will take the time to say their professor was perfectly adequate. It’s important to look beyond both the diatribes and love letters, and see if the reviews give specific pros and cons. The best method is to look for reviews that touch on aspects of the professor’s performance, such as entertaining lectures, understanding of concepts and interaction with students.

Of course, ratemyprofessors.com is an informal system and may not always provide the information a student is looking for—it’s hard to imagine how a professor’s looks could impact the learning experience too much. Students can also turn to the in-class professor evaluations given out towards the end of each course. However, this system has its own problems. Not everybody fills them out, resulting in similar selection bias to ratemyprofessors.com. Making the evaluations mandatory would also present problems, as students will often fill them out with little to no thought, giving perfect or zero in every category.

Since there may not be a perfect system to accurately review professors, schools shouldn’t place too much emphasis on them when considering things like promotions. However, professors should still be aware of their reviews—there may be specific or general improvements they can make based on constructive criticism. Overall, nobody is better equipped to review professors than the students they are teaching.

Students should take responsibility for providing accurate, non-biased reviews. A good grade in the class should not wash out a professor’s flaws, just as a bad grade shouldn’t overshadow their positive qualities. It’s important for students to put serious consideration and try to provide useful, thoughtful feedback, rather than basing it on the course material or the grade they received.

—The Gazette Editorial Board

An opportunity for a degree of success

Aaron ZaltzmanNeWS ediTor

Hi student. How are you? Are you hav-ing a good first few weeks of school? Making friends, expanding your mind, stuff like that? Great! Unfortunately, I have something sad to tell you. You should probably sit down for this, hy-pothetical student—it won’t be easy to hear. Okay, hear it goes…

Your degree is worthless.That’s okay, you can cry. Let it all out.

It’s never an easy thing to learn. You’ve been told your whole life that this is what it’s all about. Getting good grades so you can go to a great university and get a great job and live a great life. That’s been the dream—living the successful life of a university graduate and earning $1 million more than somebody with-out a university degree.

Well, it’s all a lie. This chain of events is not quite so linear.

However, this is not to say you shouldn’t go to university. In fact, there’s a high chance if you don’t get your de-gree, you won’t get a good job—you need it just to be in the running.

The truth is, whatever you do in life will at most be tangentially related to what you learn in this place. The courses you’re taking now aren’t even close to vocational training. Nothing you learn is going to apply to your fu-ture career—unless you’re in engineer-ing, in which case you may stand up and leave. At most, your degree is going to be a standard qualification for a job or a ticket to graduate school. Other than that, it’s just a very expensive piece of toilet paper.

I’m sorry to lay all of this on you,

but you need to understand why you’re here. Even though university may be a station on your path to career land, you shouldn’t treat it like high school. You pay far too much money and put far too much time into this place to just coast through it. For over $6,000 per year, your academic experience here better mean something.

So if you aren’t here to prepare for your job, and if you really don’t need your lessons here to help you succeed in graduate school, why are you here? The answer, simple as it may seem, is to learn something.

Yes, you are here to learn just for learning’s sake, not for any other pur-pose. You are here to understand that not everything done in a classroom is a means to an end. You have to real-ize that the value of your lesson here is the inherent benefit of learning some-thing new. To make this place worth it, you have to fall in love with learning—otherwise you will end up completely burnt out by the time you have to write your 50th theory-based essay.

And if you absolutely feel the need to obtain some tangible benefit from your four-year degree, use the opportunity to improve some skills. Even the seem-ingly pointless stuff you have to do to pass your classes is a way to build your critical thinking, reasoning and writing skills—something that apparently half of all university students don’t seem to realize.

So if you find yourself skipping class or resenting your program, stop and take a second to reevaluate. Sign up for an elective you like rather than one that’s an easy A. And if you really hate all your courses, take another look at your program—what’s the point of doing it if you hate everything you’re learning?

So rest easy, student. That critical analysis essay may not help you get a job, but it’s the most important thing you’ll do here.

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Dear Life, What won’t Meat loaf do for love?

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Dear Life, i didn’t understand why drivers needed those signs on the bridge telling them not to pass cyclists, until i was driving on the bridge behind a cyclist.

Dear Life, An open-faced sandwich is not a sandwich.

Dear Life, i’m so easily seduced by violins that it’s shameful.

Dear Life, Why are there so few “J” words, but so many “J” names?

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What is your favourite thing about autumn?

“Stepping on crunchy leaves.”

“My fall wardrobe.”

“The crisp and cold outdoor air.”

“The smell of the autumn air as leaves decompose.”

“The reintegration of scarves into my outfits.”

“The upcoming NHL season. Oh, wait.”

“Pumpkin pie.”

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Sports gamedayThe men’s hockey team will kick off their season with an exhibi-tion game against concordia this Friday at 7:30 p.m. The Mus-tangs will be on a mission this season, looking to avenge their championship loss to McGill from last year.

Rundown >> The Mustangs men’s baseball team fell by a score of 12-8 to the Brock Badgers > Travelling to George Taylor Field, the Mustangs put up a strong fight against their division rivals, but fell on the strength of an eight run fourth inning by the Badgers.

Identical 2-1 records ensure major playoff implications

Mustangs look to bounce back against Windsor

Richard RaycraftSporTS ediTor

This Saturday afternoon will see the Mustangs line up against their Southwestern Ontario rivals in the Windsor Lancers. Western looks to get back in the win column after a tough 18-11 loss to the Queen’s Gaels in their last game. The Lanc-ers are coming off a dominating 55-4 win against the Toronto Var-sity Blues.

Western beat Windsor 33-27 in last year’s Ontario University Ath-letics semifinal.

Both teams have posted two wins and one loss so far this sea-son, making this a crucial contest for their respective playoff hopes. The teams have had equal suc-cess on offence, scoring 127 points apiece across their first three games. Western has been slightly more solid on defence, allowing 35 points to Windsor’s 50.

The Mustangs are looking for their offence to rack up points after it failed to score a touchdown against Queen’s last weekend. It will be led by veteran quarterback Donnie Marshall, who typically relies on his ability to run the ball, but who was shut out completely by Queen’s.

Running backs Garret Sanvido and Yannick Harou will also be es-sential. Sanvido currently leads Can-ada Interuniversity Sport in yards rushed with 377. Despite sharing duties with Sanvido, Harou has managed to post 210 yards on the season. Both are currently averaging just less than seven yards a carry.

“We know [Western] runs the ball extremely well,” Joe D’Amore, coach of the Lancers, said. “You’re

not going to stop it, so we’re just going to try to control it and hope-fully get them into some passing downs.”

Though the running game is a big part of the Mustang’s offensive threat, Marshall will have some strong options down field in re-ceivers Brian Marshall and Justin Sanvido.

“We need to get back the con-sistency that we had with the foot-ball in our first two games,” Greg

Marshall, Mustangs coach, said. “I think we might have to get a lit-tle more aggressive throwing the football.”

The defence looks to put up another strong performance after holding the line well in their last three contests. The defence is cur-rently allowing an average of 11.7 points per game, the lowest in Can-ada. Linebackers Marcus Babic, Sean Blake and defensive end Ricky Osei-Kusi have posted three

sacks apiece, while the Mustangs have a total of 15, good for second in the CIS. Linebacker Pawel Kruba has also been strong defensively, intercepting a pass to score the Mustangs’ lone touchdown in their last game.

The Lancers possess a danger-ous pass-oriented offence led by Windsor native Austin Kennedy. Kennedy currently leads the CIS in passing yards with 1026 and in touchdowns with eight. Kennedy

may prove a tough nut to crack for the Mustangs, as he has thrown only one interception in three contests.

“[Kennedy] is as good a quarter-back as we’ll play this year,” Mar-shall explained. “They’re not going to run the ball a ton, but Kennedy is slippery—with pressure he can take off and run with it.”

You can catch the decisive match-up at 1 p.m. Saturday at TD Waterhouse Stadium.

Ritchie Sham GAZETTE

WHERE DID ALL THE OTHER PLAYERS GO? The Western Mustangs will host the Windsor Lancers tomorrow afternoon at TD Waterhouse Stadium. With both teams boasting 2-1 records, and the exact same number of points scored, the match is sure to be a tough one. Additionally, this game will have huge playoff implications.

Western to try to return to winning ways vs. GaelsJason SinukoffSporTS ediTor

Autumn is upon us and that means two, and only two things—pump-kin spice lattes at Starbucks, and rugby.

The Mustangs men’s rugby team is already 1-1 this season—with a 40-3 win against the Water-loo Warriors and a 12-5 loss to the Guelph Gryphons. And tomorrow, when the Mustangs head to Kings-ton, they will face the very team that they defeated in last year’s On-tario University Athletics champi-onship—their rivals, the Queen’s Gaels.

“It’s going to be a tough, hard-fought battle like most games with Queen’s usually are,” Steve Thomas, head coach for the Mus-tangs, said.

The Mustangs will have a lot on their plate against Queen’s to-morrow. A big difference between last year’s OUA finals and this time

around is that last year, the purple and white had the pleasure of play-ing at TD Waterhouse Stadium. Unfortunately, Western didn’t get so lucky this time, as the Mustangs will challenge the Gaels tomorrow on Queens’ home turf.

“They’ve got home-field advan-tage. It’s huge,” Thomas explained.

However, the Mustangs were able to dodge a bullet, as this Sat-urday was also supposed to be Queen’s homecoming—which means a sold-out, hostile crowd.

“The fortunate thing for us is that it was supposed to be Queen’s homecoming this week, but that has been pushed back a week,” Thomas said. “So we will still deal with a hostile crowd, but perhaps not as hostile as they would have been on homecoming. It plays a huge part.”

“But we’ll be going over there with a game plan in mind and

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Western continues journey back to OUA finals after 1-1 start

we’ll stick to the game plan and see what happens,” he continued.

If playing away from home and dealing with travel fatigue weren’t enough, the Mustangs are rusty and are also missing some key cogs in the machine that was their championship winning team from a year ago.

“We’ve only had a month to-gether, so we’re still a bit rusty,” Thomas said. “We’re still dealing with a number of injuries, and also to add to that, we have three people away with the Ontario Blues—which is the provincial team—so they’re not available to us,” Thomas said. “But you know, we have some good guys, we’ve got a strong squad.”

However, regardless of what their record is after this game and whether they win or lose against the Gaels, Thomas and the rest of the Mustangs know that the season

is far from over. “With the guys we have on the

team, they’re really focused and will-ing to learn. We know we have some key players out, but we know that they will come back,” Thomas said.

“So if we happen to go 1-2 against Queen’s, we know the sea-son is not done because we’ve got returning players, and it gives us a number of weeks to build for those key games. So it’s not over until the fat lady sings—or in my case, the fat guy.”

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Corey Stanford Gazette

Corey Stanford Gazette

Do you think Yunel Esobar’s pun-ishment was too lenient? Too harsh? Or just right?

Tim Andersen, Social Science I

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Blue Jays fan. But on this, they missed their mark. When you’re a role model in the public eye, as Escobar is, you cannot make jokes like those. As a professional athlete, Escobar should know this. So should his team. They’re partially to blame for this—one of them must have seen it, and they let it go without saying anything. Three games? That’s a slap on the wrist. I’m not saying he should be kicked out of the league, but a little more time—or a lot—to reflect wouldn’t have been amiss.

Do you think it is fair that locked-out NHL players are taking jobs from their overseas counterparts?

Evan Gropper, Ivey III

With all due respect to the play-ers losing their jobs to NHL stars, I have no issue with this practice. From the sides of both the locked-out players, and the franchises at-taining these world-class talents, these deals are a no-brainer.

For the players, it gives them a chance to get on the ice and stay in shape while earning paychecks and staying out of trouble. Along with that, it bodes well for their negotiations with the NHL owners because it lets them rely less on the return of the NHL.

As for the owners of the vari-ous overseas teams, they should be head over heels that the NHL is locked out again. Foreign play-ers returning back to their home countries will undoubtedly fill the arenas, along with also giving own-ers a chance to sell their teams to North Americans.

Other than the players out of jobs, this seems to be a good deal all around. In this case the old adage “you snooze you lose” is applicable.

What do you make of Jay Cutler bumping his left tackle J’Marcus Webb during their game against the Packers last Thursday? What does this mean for the rest of the Bears season?

Nathan Leifer, Engineering II

Truthfully I think this incident has little bearing—excuse the pun—on the outcome of the Bears sea-son. Those who have followed Jay Cutler throughout his career un-derstand that he is prone to these kinds of childish fits, and when the Bears traded for him prior to the 2009 season, they knew this was the Jay Cutler they were getting.

As much as Bears fans want Cutler to be their leader on of-fence, he clearly does not have the chops for it. In his not-so-young career, Cutler has barely amassed a .500 record as a starting quar-terback—42-38 to date—and he has never shown a sustained abil-

ity to win. If the Bears are going to be successful on offence this year, it will have to be through star run-ning back Matt Forte.

As for leadership in the Bears locker room, the buck does not stop at Jay Cutler. Brian Urlacher is the undisputed face of the Bears and Cutler’s incident has only so-lidified that further.

With all that said, Cutler is going to have to pick up his game if the Bears are to have any shot at the post season. If I were him, I would also send an apology to his offen-sive line if he wants to survive the season.

What are your thoughts on Greg Schiano’s game ending tenacity? Fair or foul?

Cameron Reich, English II

My thought is that if the clock is running and it is a legal football hit, I see no issue. Tom Coughlin and the Giants need to stop crying because the Bucs broke an ‘unwrit-ten rule’.

At one point in Coughlin’s illus-trious coaching career, he has un-doubtedly lectured his players on playing until they hear the whistle.

The Giants need to realize that the game is not over until it is over. Schiano is trying to send a mes-sage to his young team and Cough-lin needs to keep his veteran team muzzled, because the play was a legal play between the white lines.

Hazed and confusedThe Laurier Golden Hawks base-ball team will not be taking flight any time soon, thanks to some un-ruly behaviour.

The Golden Hawks have sus-pended their baseball team for four games—including a double header against the Mustangs this weekend—with the possibility of the suspension continuing on for the rest of the season, due to a haz-ing incident amongst the players.

In communication with the Ontario University Athletics, the Laurier Athletic Department has handed down the suspension due to a violation of the university’s Student Athlete Code of Conduct.

”Like our schools, we have a zero tolerance policy for hazing. We as a league are responsible for what happens in games. These kinds of situations occur outside of it and that is why schools make the decisions themselves,” OUA Exec-utive Director, Ward Dilse, said.

The suspended games will be forfeited with the final score read-ing 1-0 in favour of the opposing teams.

—Ryan Stern

it’s going to be a tough, hard-fought battle like most games with Queen’s usually are.

--Steve ThomasMustangs head coach