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Anyone walking through the Uni-versity Community Centre is usedto seeing ocks o students an-grily swiping at their phones, rus-trated with the building’s horriblecellphone reception. But take an-other look. Since returning romthe winter holidays, the number o students desperately waving theirphones around in search o a sig-nal appear to have been reduceddramatically—at least among Rog-ers subscribers.

Cellphone reception has beena major issue or a number o years. Andrew Forgione, presidento the University Students’ Coun-cil, made improving campus cell-phone reception one o his cam-paign promises during the USCpresidential election campaign last year. He explained this latest pushor better reception on campus hasbeen in the works or months, and was not immediately successul.

“I started [working on this]over the summer, as it was in my

platorm to lobby or cellphoneboosters. Western started withimplementing the boosters allover campus, with their frst targetbeing the UCC,” he said.

“Once that didn’t work they moved on to contacting largercellphone companies to do a ullassessment.”

According to Forgione, new towers and boosters were likely installed near campus by at leastsome o the major cellphone com-panies over the break, which is why there has been such a jump inquality.

“A ew months ago I was told

that cellphone companies werecoming in to do signal testing, andexpressed interest in building a ew towers to boost the signal since themain issue was that the servers

were over capacity,” he said.Forgione deduced students

have taken notice simply by thereduction in the reception-relatedcomplaints he used to receive on aregular basis.

“I’ve stopped receiving negativeeedback rom students regarding cellphone reception in the UCC,and it’s turned quite positive. Now I even see more students tweeting while they’re in class in the UCC, soI’m not sure i it was such a goodinvestment,” he quipped.

Reception, or most, can now even be ound in the UCC and Nat-ural Science basements.

“This morning I noticed I hadalmost ull bars in the Nat Scibasement!” Renee Tamming, athird-year science student andRogers subscriber, exclaimed overFacebook.

This problem, while reduced,does not seem to have gone away entirely. The change seems to havemostly aected Rogers and Fidosubscribers, with Bell users still letbarless.

“I haven’t noticed a major im-

provement, I didn’t even noticethey had changed anything,” DianaNikolaou, a third-year social sci-ence student and Bell subscriber,lamented.

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As the new semester rolls around,students who fnd themselves ap-plying to post-graduate programsor internships might soon need areerence letter or two rom theirproessors. While students may be tempted to request a reerencerom whomever gave them theirhighest grade, the best choice may

be the proessor they get along with best.

“In a reerence letter one can talk about specifc things. I think otena student’s transcript speaks or it-sel, and at a certain point I don’thave to talk about their grades,”Mike Atkinson, a psychology pro-essor at Western, explained. “I there’s more personal stu to talk about, I will, but i grades are allI have, that’s all I can talk about.Typically, i all I can say about youis your grade, that’s probably not aletter you want sent.”

Atkinson explained most poten-tial employers or graduate schoolsaren’t looking or a reerence aboutthe applicant’s grades, but rather who they are as a person. Thatmeans students should be getting letters rom those proessors they have a relationship with.

This can be difcult to accom-plish in large classes such as At-kinson’s introductory psychology class, which has over 500 studentsin each lecture. Atkinson said thisrequires students to be more ac-tive in building a relationship withtheir proessor.

“Students can come ask ques-tions, not just in class but beoreand ater as well—in other words,they can engage intellectually,” Atkinson explained. “It may notoccur during class, but students

can build a relationship with theirproessors by engaging outside thelectures.”

Nigmendra Narain, who teachesan introductory political science

course, elaborated on the difcul-ties acing both proessors and stu-dents in those classes.

“It’s difcult to write a reer-ence letter or a student you don’tknow as well because you can’tclaim certain things,” Narain said.“Given that in frst-year [courses]the teaching assistants mark theessays and run the tutorials, it’s notthe same as i the student is in my third-year class and I can person-ally assess them.”

Narian also noted he would noteel comortable writing a letter orstudents he didn’t eel as confdentin.

“I there is a student who I can-not support, I don’t think it’s air to write a letter on their behal. I it wouldn’t be a good letter, I wouldsuggest they go somewhere else.”

Atkinson highlighted somethings to consider when asking aproessor or a letter.

“In essence all you have to do iscome up to any proessor and ask.

A lot o students don’t do that,” At-kinson said. “I somebody is look-ing or a reerence letter, it’s re-ally important to actually ask inperson.”

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Neeles e sc According to recent data, less thanhal o Ontario healthcare provid-ers have the inuenza vaccination,and London’s vaccination rates areamong the lowest. In 2011, only 36 per cent o London healthcare workers received the u shot, com-pared to 42 per cent o their On-tario peers.

Flu shot rates have been de-creasing across the province overthe last ew years. The lower rateso vaccination among health-care workers are increasingly putting

patients at risk o contracting theu. Individuals with the inu-enza virus are contagious or 24hours beore they begin to show symptoms.

London healthcare workers arenot normally required to get theu vaccination, except in certaincircumstances. “When there is anoutbreak, people who are un-im-munized are excluded rom work,”Cathy Stark, London Health Sci-ences Centre’s occupation healthand saety service manager, said.“We have done a pretty extensivecampaign this year.”

Stark added the centre hasendeavoured to educate peopleabout vaccination beore and dur-ing the u season.

As o now, 47.7 per cent o LHSC workers have been vaccinated, ac-cording to Stark.

—Taylor Rodrigues

Bze pices isingConsumers o the cheapest spiritsand beer will need to dig out a ew extra nickels and dimes. Starting March 1, minimum liquor prices inOntario will increase.

The increase will only aect 1 ½per cent o all liquor products soldin Ontario, including 10 per cent o spirits and three to our per cent o beers. The cheapest spirit will now cost 50 cents more, up to a mini-mum price o $23.90 at 750 ml. Thecheapest 24 pack o beer will alsorise to $29.35, up rom $28.80.

Selling prices or wine will notchange, as the Liquor ControlBoard o Ontario does not sell any wines at the minimum price. How-ever, the minimum price or a 750ml bottle o wine will rise fve centsto $5.90.

The LCBO maintains minimumprices as a procedure o social re-sponsibility to limit excessive con-sumption. Despite this, many seethe increase as a cash grab, includ-ing Andrea Horwath, the OntarioNDP leader.

Chris Layton, media relations

coordinator at the LCBO, said theaverage consumer will see very lit-tle change on March 1. “The reality is most o the products sold in On-tario are above the minimum priceanyway,” he said.

“The minimum prices are di-rectly indexed to the rate o ina-tion,” he continued. “Ontario stillhas on average the lowest liquorprices in Canada.”

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t ke e gMarket Lane is to be renovated aspart o London City Council’s ini-tiative to encourage growth down-town. For those who have neverventured past Richmond Row inLondon’s downtown core, MarketLane is a pedestrian walkway thatlinks Covent Garden Market toDundas Street.

In an online survey conductedby the City o London in 2011, morethan 400 people oered their opin-ion on how Market Lane could beimproved. The survey showed pe-destrians like areas to be welcom-ing. “When they’re walking, they like sae, well-lit areas, they likeattractive things to look at, they would like improvements to shop-ping,” Andrew Macpherson, man-ager o parks, planning and design,said. “It could certainly use en-hancement and we should do more

than just the basic upgrades.”Council held a contest or de-

signs in 2011, and by October, hadnarrowed the competition to fvefnalists rom a total o 18 qualiy-ing submissions. The winning de-sign was announced on Monday to be awarded to Hapa Collabora-tive, a Vancouver-based consulting team.

According to Macpherson, theproject has a budget o $650,000, o which $75,000 goes to the designteam. Construction is set or com-pletion in November.

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The Liberal Party o Canada hasadded its voice to the growing movement to bring high-speed rail

to Southwestern Ontario. At their convention in Ottawalast weekend, the Liberals passed apolicy resolution calling or the de-velopment o a high-speed rail linebetween Windsor and Quebec City,receiving support rom 94 per cento delegates.

Policy resolutions do not neces-sarily translate into uture platormpoints, Doug Ferguson, ormer Lib-eral Party president, explained.

“[The platorm] is up to the pol-icy and platorm committee andour leader, whoever that is in thenext election,” he said. “However,I’m hoping that it will play a prom-inent role. I think this shows how enthusiastic the party is about it.”

Ferguson, who helped drat thepolicy resolution on behal o theLondon West Liberal Association,explained high-speed rail is neces-

sary or both London and Canadato remain competitive in an in-creasingly connected world.

“Canada is the only country in the G8 that doesn’t have high-speed rail built or in the planning

stages. China is in the midst o building 12,000 km o high-speedrail,” Ferguson said.

“It will reduce carbon emis-sions, the construction will cre-ate tens o thousands o jobs, themanuacturing o the locomotivesand cars will create jobs, and it willalso make things more convenient.I think people rom Toronto, or ex-ample, would like to move to Lon-don i we had high-speed rail. Youcould be in Toronto in less than anhour and work on the train on the way in.”

Bob Nichols, a spokespersonor the Ontario Ministry o Trans-portation, explained the ministry had completed a joint study with

the governments o Quebec andCanada that suggested high-speedrail would be easible.

“The study determined high-

speed rail is easible by providing an analysis on easibility, technol-ogy, costs and ridership using rep-resentative routes and stations de-veloped or modeling purposes,”he said.

“[High-speed rail] could poten-tially connect 16 million peoplerom Windsor to Quebec City. Thegovernments are currently evalu-ating the study to identiy the ap-propriate next steps.”

But despite the Liberals’ claimsthat high-speed rail would be aboon or the economy, TransportCanada says the cost—at an es-timated $30 billion—is just toohigh.

“In these fscal circumstances,a new project o this scope is nota priority or our government,”Maryse Durette, a spokespersonor Transport Canada, explained.She continued to say the govern-ment was investing in the Wind-

sor-Quebec corridor through a$923 million capital program or VIA Rail instead.

Without support rom the ed-

eral government, a cross-provin-cial high-speed rail line is not likely to move orward, Ferguson said.

“Because this goes betweenprovinces, I think it’s got to be theederal government that takes the

lead. I we were just within oneprovince, that’s dierent, but Ithink it’s too big to have just onelevel o government work on it.”

The resolution came during aproductive weekend or the Liber-als. The party also passed a resolu-tion calling or the legalization andregulation o marijuana, rejecteda motion to sever ties with themonarchy and elected a new party president, Mike Crawley, a Westernalumnus.

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Want to know the ins and outs o Western? There will soon be an appor that.

A group o PhD students at Western is working on the frststeps o a smartphone application which will allow users access to thetimetables o rooms on campus,and get inormation on campusbuildings.

“Western has a huge campus which makes it easy to get lost,”Camelia Nunez, a student work-ing on the project, said. “This app will help everyone fnd their way around and make it to their nextclass or meeting just on time.”

The group has created a 3-Dmodel o campus or Google Earthto allow students to take photos o buildings and receive inormationabout them. The app will also ea-ture the ability to use QR codes orclassrooms and fnd the scheduleor the room.

“I all goes according to plan, it

is our hope to have this applica-tion ready or the beginning o the2012-13 academic school year,”

Nunez explained.Terry Rice, director o marketing

and creative services at Western,said applications were no longeran optional investment or institu-tions. “It’s no longer just a ‘nice tohave,’ it’s expected.”

Western created the iWesternapp using Inormation Technol-ogy Services, and also enlisted thehelp o several computer sciencestudents. The app, or all types o smartphones, eatures campusnews eeds, the Western directory and access to Western libraries.

“We’re looking at it and trying to update it on a regular basis,”Rice explained. He noted there wasa wish list o eatures or the nextversion o the app.

Vincent Manzerolle, a lecturerin the aculty o inormation andmedia studies, predicted user-cre-ated applications would becomemore common. He explained there were many packages and programs

which would allow users with basiccoding knowledge to create theirown apps.

He also noted apps specializedto a specifc area or population would become common as well.“It really encourages people to dothat.”

“We want to make lie easieror people visiting Western, be itstudents during orientation week and frst weeks o classes. Anyone,including mysel, that is not very amiliar with the campus I think would fnd this app very helpul,”Nunez said.

Nunez explained projects likethe app were common in the Cul-turePlex Lab where it was created.

“The CulturePlex Lab is a multi-disciplinary environment and as itoten happens, someone comes up with an idea and then others jumpin and contribute their thoughts,”she noted. “This particular proj-ect is a good example o what cancome out when people rom di-erent disciplines think towards acommon goal.”

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Re: Health plan reerendum announced (Jan. 11, 2012)

To the Editor:

I am very pleased that the University Students’ Council will be holding areerendum in February regarding thepurposed increase to the cost o thestudent health plan to accommodatedental coverage.

I’m glad that the USC is responding to the wishes o the student body, andtaking steps to ensure that the studenthealth plan oered to Western studentsis at par with other universities.

Having access to dental care is es-sential or one’s oral health, and isimportant or overall good health. Istrongly eel that many students standto beneft rom the addition o dentalcoverage to the current student healthplan. I am especially considering stu-dents, like mysel, who fnd themselves

without dental coverage under a par-ent’s health insurance due to loss o ortransition in employment. Mature stu-

dents who are returning to school alsodeserve consideration.

I appreciate that many students at Western may not fnd themselves in aposition where they would beneft romthe addition o dental coverage to thestudent health plan; however, I urgethese students to consider ellow stu-dents who may beneft rom such addi-tions during the reerendum on Febru-ary 14 and 15.

—Elizabeth LeasaKing’s, IV

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Re: What’s in a name (Jan. 17, 2012)

To the Editor:

The article “What’s in a name?” really resonated with me.

As a airly normal person who wasgiven a very ethnic name, I oten runinto trouble flling out orms, applying

or OSAP, or even getting my quizzesback in class because o my name.

My frst name is so strange, I stopped

using it and instead started going by my middle name very early in lie.

But my frst name resuraced in highschool, where I had to correct every teacher I ever had. I think parents havea responsibility to their child. They werekids once too, and should be all too a-miliar with how hard it is to ft in.

My name, by the way, is Athana-sios Demetrios Pananos, and yes, I amGreek.

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Sometimes you don’t know what you’vegot till it’s gone.

The amous words once sung by JoniMitchell seem oddly pertinent to my lieright now. And no, it’s not because I’vegone through some devastating break-up, because I haven’t. Still single—very,very single. But let’s not go down that

road, and instead let me steer this col-umn back on course.

What I’m actually reerring to is therecent announcement that Wikipedia,the online encyclopedia and every stu-dent’s study tool, is shutting down or 24hours. Today, Wikipedia is no more—atleast until tonight at midnight. Mean-ing, today there will be lots o conusedand desperate students wondering what the heck their textbook is talking about, and having no access to a sim-plifed translation.

The reason or the English-languageversion o Wikipedia blackout is to pro-test the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act, better known as PIPA and SOPA,

which are currently under consider-ation in Congress.

The bills, which are meant to pre-vent online piracy and protect the un-authorized sale o US products and in-tellectual property overseas, have been

gaining a lot o attention lately due tosome controversial provisions in the billthat would essentially give the US gov-ernment the right to immediately shutdown any website that is suspected o pirating material, or compel search en-gines to remove any links to sites sus-pected o copyright inringement.

Basically, it’s an issue o censorship.Now I’m no expert, and I’ll admit

that I wasn’t very aware o SOPA, otherthan knowing it’s that thing they talk about a lot on Reddit.com—conse-quently another website that is black-ing out in protest. I actually only oundout about the blackout through a tweetrom one o my colleagues here at theGazette who was lamenting about the

act that he’d have to fnish all his as-signments early because Wikipedia wasgoing down.

So I immediately went to Google—again, another site that would be a-ected by these bills—and browsed orthe latest news on the blackout to be-come better educated about what thesebills were proposing. It’s interesting thatin the last ew sentences I’ve revealed toall o you how much my lie revolvesaround the Internet, and thereore thevery thought o some o these websitesbeing shut down due to a law passedin the United States makes me wantto cry like a girl who just got dumpedvia text message (again, didn’t actually happen).

But to return to my original state-ment, you don’t really appreciate how much you rely on something until it’sgone, which is exactly why these large websites are using this tactic to dem-onstrate how much we rely on these

technologies. And this strategy is com-pletely eective.

The blackout is an extreme reactionto an extremely irrational law, but per-haps it takes this type o action to getpeople’s attention.

For example, beore today I hadheard grumblings on the Internet aboutthe proposed laws, but it wasn’t until Iheard my precious Wikipedia wouldbe taken away that I actually took thetime to care, read about the issue andbecome inormed. And Wikipediaounder Jimmy Wales probably hopesmany people have this reaction, whichis why he’s urged US citizens to contacttheir local members o Congress to op-pose the bill.

I’ve immediately become passion-ate about a cause that I had almost noknowledge about two days ago, andI’d be willing to bet that ater “Black Wednesday”—I don’t know i that’s athing yet, I just decided to call it that—many other people who were in thedark about SOPA and PIPA beore mightimmediately become flled with ha-tred about the restrictions they wouldintroduce.

Would the bills pass i these black-outs weren’t occurring? Probably not,especially considering the Obama ad-ministration has already suggested they would oppose any anti-piracy laws that would encourage censorship.

But these blackouts bring the issue

to the oreront o people’s minds,merely imitating the concept that ourree speech could be censored, and you’ve immediately got almost the en-tire Internet community on your side.

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As we move on rom our undergraduate education, we might think that as long as our marks are accept-ably high and our mandatory courses are complete, we are going to be set or our next step, whether thatbe grad school or a career. However, one thing many students might not realize is that many grad schoolsand proessional schools require reerence letters.

These short reports on your character becomevaluable as soon as you realize you’d like to move

beyond your bachelor’s degree, and can be difcult,or at least nerve-wracking, to obtain. It’s hard to as-certain what sort o relationship one should have with their proessors beore making that frst moveto ask or a reerence letter. In a class o 500 people,it may not even be possible to get the proessor to re-member your name, let alone know enough about you and your work ethic to make that importantrecommendation.

That being said, the threshold does change withclass size. In a 20-person class, i you haven’t hadany sort o continuing conversation with the proes-sor, or haven’t at least shown a keen interest in thecourse, it’s probably not appropriate to approachthem or a letter. That being said, a solid mark and aew key questions over the course o a semester may be enough to stick in the mind o that proessor whoteaches hundreds o other kids at the same time.

Once you’ve decided to take that next step, what’sthe best way to go about asking or a letter? Again,this might depend on the proessor. A busy, tech-savvy proessor may appreciate an email, allowing them to respond however they see ft without thatsudden awkward encounter.

On the other hand, it’s important to not come o as lazy or uncaring. Many proessors probably appre-ciate you coming to their ofce to speak with them,because i they know you well enough to vouch or you, then you should probably know them wellenough to talk to them in person.

In the end, there is more to lie than grades. It’simportant students realize this, and base their edu-cation accordingly. A mid-80s average is impressive,but i you have no one there to speak to your char-acter, it’s going to be difcult to prove to people that you know what you’re doing.

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Ater fnal exams are written, new graduates may be wondering,“What happens next?” For Westernalumni Drew Skitt, the answer wassimple—assemble a creative team

and produce a hit television show. While completing his our year

media, inormation and technocul-ture degree, Skitt brainstormedideas or a youth-oriented pro-gram. “I was constantly rambling to riends about a music show,like Speaker’s Corner . People couldcome into a booth to select a beator make their own and the show would be a collage o what thebooth could attract,” he explains.

Unortunately Skitt, like otherentrepreneurs, aced the difculty o bringing his idea to lie. “Decid-ing to carve my own path—andund it—was where I was really taken aback,” he reveals. Luck-

ily, Skitt’s amily and riends sup-ported him throughout the show’searly stages o development.

In 2007, Skitt pitched his idea orthe television show London Calling to RogersTV and production soonollowed. Over the past fve years,the show has exposed viewers tothe best independent musicians,artists, comedians and poets Can-

ada has to oer.In previous seasons, Lon-

don Calling has eatured inter-views with Bedouin Soundclash,

the Arkells, Shad and Wild Domes-tic. The show has also covered es-tivals throughout Canada, includ-ing Toronto’s North by Northeastand Sarnia’s Bayest. With eachnew season, London Calling strivesto keep content resh or its ans.

This upcoming season is espe-cially exciting or all members o the London Calling team because

episodes are now available to Ca-nadians coast-to-coast via Rogerson Demand.

When asked whether this up-

coming season will be the best yet, Skitt jokingly replies “How could this not be the best sea-son yet?” Featuring appearancesby Canadaʼs post-punk broth-ers METZ, Montrealʼs HandsomeFurs and hip-hop legend Slug o Atmosphere, this upcoming sea-son is defnitely not to be missed.

Even though Western provided

Skitt with the knowledge to suc-ceed in the media business, it washis perseverance and passion thatbrought London Calling to lie.

He leaves new graduates just onepiece o advice: “know your skillsand embrace those who are goodat what you do and what you don’tdo.”

London Calling season fve airs this January on Rogers, channel 13.Catch the latest episodes on Rogers on Demand or blackdogmedia.tv.

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When Perfect Isn’t Good EnoughMartin M. Antony and Richard P.SwinsonNew Harbinger

You probably know a perection-ist or two. They’re the riends whostay up until the wee hours o themorning putting the fnal toucheson their essay. They’re the room-mates who spend way too long get-ting ready or a night out becausetheir hair needs to be awless.

Having perectionist traits canbe healthy in moderation, but when it begins controlling your lie,something may need to be done.

In Martin M. Antony and Rich-

ard P. Swinson’s book When Perect Isn’t Good Enough: Second Edition,the authors go into detail describ-ing not only what perectionism isand whom it aects, but also how to decide when it has become anunmanageable trait.

For lovers o sel-help books andthose who like reading non-fctionto learn something new, When Per- ect Isn’t Good Enough is a antas-tic, detailed read. Broken up intoour in-depth sections, Antony andSwinson touch on every part o how perectionism can aect yourlie and how you can deal with it.

Part one ocuses solely on un-derstanding what perectionismis, part two gives strategies on how to overcome the pressure and partour gives prevention strategies andurther reading options. Althoughat frst it may seem like these sec-tions are too generalized to helpreaders cope with their own per-sonal needs, part three goes intourther detail about specifc prob-lems as a cause o perectionism.

Working through issues likedepression, social anxiety, worry,dieting and body image, WhenPerect Isn’t Good Enough bringsconnections into play and helpsreaders understand why these is-sues may be linked to the pressureo being perect.

Although there is a stigma at-

tached to sel-help books andbooks about personal growth,When Perect Isn’t Good Enough isloaded with credible inormationas well as several activities, making it a workbook style ormat. Mixing knowledge with mini-projects orreaders to work on keeps the book entertaining, all while providing necessary inormation.

For those students who think they may have perectionist traitsbut aren’t certain whether they want to speak to someone about it,this is a antastic place to start.

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The days o laser-protected paint-ings and security cameras areover—welcome to the world o contemporary installation art.

Playing with the juxtapositiono light and space, Andrea Car-valho decorates the Forest City Gallery with unique creationscharacterized by an unconven-tional combination o materi-als. Interactive, each in their ownrespect—whether it be standing under an elevated translucent can-vas or walking along the path o uorescent lights—this Montreal

artist has created works o art pro-voking continual curiosity and the

communication o resh perspec-tives in a amiliar environment.Carvalho brings together wood,plastic, metal and other materi-als to display critiques on society through her work in Ontario, Que-bec and Newoundland.

“Canopy,” the leading piece o the exhibit, eatures a stretch o ock over a handcrated woodencanvas. Almost as an imitation o the sun, a single red light simmersthrough the translucent abric. Per-haps the piece is a rendition o theshelter ound so commonly in ourcommunity, stripped to its bare,

minimalistic core. It possibly leadsto the interpretation that its pur-

pose is to critique society’s growing dependence on materialism. Anextension may also entail that thebalance o this liestyle is on a thinand breakable composition, muchlike that o the ock.

Equally notable in conceptualstimulation is the piece “An OpenRoad Where I Can Breathe.” A clearplastic cover attached to a exibleplexi rod covers uorescent lights, while the duplicate o the arrange-ment o lights is placed outside theplastic container. Ater encourage-ment rom the receptionist to reely adjust each piece, it was discov-

ered that the plastic cover could betaken o and placed aside. Noting

that Carvalho designs each instal-lation with the notion o belonging,the concept o restraint in choos-ing one’s path comes to mind.

The above is simply one inter-pretation o pieces shown in Car-valho’s exhibit. The essence o con-temporary art is in the interaction with its viewers.

Made to Measure: Andrea Car-valho is running until Feb. 10 at the Forest City Gallery, located at 258 Richmond St. Admission is ree.Visit orestcitygallery.com or more inormation.

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Director: David Cronenberg Starring: Viggo Mortensen, KeiraKnightley, Michael Fassbender

David Cronenberg is one o thegreatest Canadian flmmakers. Thebrilliant architect o the venerealhorror flm, who terrifed audi-ences with flms such as The Fly ,Dead Ringers and Videodrome , re- joins Viggo Mortenson or a thirdtime in one o his most repressedflms, A Dangerous Method .

Cronenberg’s flms usually

tackle violence and sexuality ina clinical manner, presented onscreen with almost surgical pre-cision. Surprisingly, A Dangerous Method , a flm about SigmundFreud and Carl Jung, does not gointo nearly as much depth aboutpsychoanalysis as some o his ear-lier work.

It’s almost as i Cronenberg isrepressing himsel, teasing the au-dience with a flm about two o thegreatest theoreticians on humansexuality and then desexualizing the flm. In which case, this may be one o the most highbrow jokes

presented in cinema.The flm ollows a rather com-

petitive relationship betweenFreud (Mortenson) and Jung (Mi-chael Fassbender). With the frst World War looming overhead, Jung and Freud debate the directionthat psychoanalytic theory shouldmove towards—Jung wants to useit to cure people, Freud wants touse it to explain.

The two psychologists’ rela-tionship is started through SabinaSpielrein (Keira Knightley), a hys-terical woman who Jung treatsusing Freud’s “talking cure.” Jung and Spielrein develop a romanticrelationship which threatens each

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Cronenberg, when Sabina explainsthe idea o a destructive orce—aclash that occurs in sex that de-stroys the ego—she is describing the twins o Dead Ringers . Her re-lationship with Jung is one wherethe roles o patient and doctor areredefned through their oppositenatures.

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nds out like a sore phallus. It’shard to tell i it’s Fassbender’s act-ing, Jung’s character or Hampton’s writing, but he is simply not ascompelling. Jung melodramati-cally goes rom being a restraineddoctor to ree hedonist, and dutiulhusband to unapologetic adulterer within seconds, making him eelpainully inconsistent.

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While the method may beawed, the diagnosis remains thesame—Cronenberg is still a bril-liant Canadian flmmaker and A Dangerous Method is still bet-ter than anything coming out o Hollywood.

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When two teams sporting an iden-tical 4-7 record collide, sparks arebound to y. Wednesday nightsaw exactly that when the WesternMustangs women’s basketball teamtook on the Guelph Gryphons in aheated contest at Alumni Hall.

Both teams had come o con-secutive losses, with the Mustangslosing two games to the LakeheadThunderwolves last week whileGuelph lost to both the Brock Bad-gers and the Windsor Lancers. For-tunately or the purple and white,the Gryphons didn’t are much bet-ter on Wednesday night.

The game started out relatively close, with the Mustangs only up 33-30 at haltime. However,the stats told a dierent story. Inthe frst hal, the Gryphons only made 27.8 per cent o their shots, whereas the Mustangs shot 41.9per cent. What kept the Gryphonsclose were the turnovers and the

rebounds the Mustangs gave up.They had three ewer turnovers inthe hal, and got 13 extra chancesto score a basket o o their oen-sive rebounds.

Guelph coach Tom O’Brien washappy with his team’s oensive re-bounding profciency.

“Our two post players Saman-tha Russell and Jasmine Douglasare both very athletic [...] so I think that has something to do with it. We’ve done pretty well on the o-ensive rebounds throughout theseason, so it’s something we work on,” he said.

Ater haltime, however, it wasalmost a completely dierentgame. The Mustangs started o the quarter on an 10-0 run, and

never looked back. They led by as much as 25 points at times by playing excellent deence, limit-ing the Gryphons to shooting 18.5per cent, and by making more thanthree times as many shots as theGryphons.

“[We tried] to box out. In thefrst hal we were kind o getting killed on the [oensive] boards, andthey were getting put backs, so themore we boxed out the more stops we got,” Jenny Vaughan, Mustangsguard, said about the team’s sec-ond hal changes.

Vaughan led the Mustangsthrough the second hal o thegame, scoring 19 o her 30 overallpoints in the second hal, whileadding six assists. Another big contributor to the game was Kate-lyn Leddy, who scored 19 pointsand collected 12 rebounds to givehersel a double double in thecontest.

Mustangs coach Brian Cheng has been impressed with Vaughanall season, and this game was noexception.

“Undoubtedly Jenny has been atremendous leader or the group.She does so much o the court andshe can just do so much on oence.She can score or hersel, she cancreate her own shot, she can pen-

etrate. She’s a quintessential pointguard,” Cheng explained.

The Mustangs look to continuetheir winning ways and bring somemomentum into Saturday’s gameat Brock, and then to next week’sgames when they host the WindsorLancers and the Laurier GoldenHawks.

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oH My God i’M on fire!!The Mustangs looked to improve to 5-7 on the season with a win over the Gryphons on Wednesday.

Ater leading by just three to end the frst hal, the Mustangs looked like a dierent team going into the third quarter. Led by

an explosive Jenny Vaughan, the purple and white ended the game with a 76-54 victory.

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wednesday, january 18, 2011

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