Groupies: loving the music for the right reasons?

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Weekend Edition
The Gazette
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VOLUME
98,
ISSUE
68
Western’s Daily Student Newspaper • Est.1906
FRIDAY, JANUARY
28, 2005
Groupies: loving the music for the right reasons?
By Anna Coutts
Gazette Staff
Dave Picard/Gazette
Since the days of Elvis and Beatlemania, the term “groupie” has
become a quintessential part of the
music industry. While the image of
a groupie often has negative sexual
connotations for female music fans,
it continues to endure, despite the
many progressions over the years
to dispel gender stereotypes. With
the media constantly perpetuating
the traditional stereotype, will the
groupie stigma ever be shattered?
The idea of the crazed female
fan who lusts after the male musician can be traced back through the
decades. Elizabeth ChorneyBooth, news editor for Chart Magazine, agreed. “This ‘groupiesm’
has always existed, but can really
be traced back to beginning in the
days of big band,” she said.
Eric Alper of Koch Entertainment believes the strong sexual connection began in the 1960s and ’70s.
“I knew who people like Jim
Morrison and Jimi Hendrix were
before I had heard a single note of
their music,” Alper said, adding
that their images as ‘sex gods’ usually preceded their musical talent.
“Ever since the introduction of
MTV, the sexualization of music
has become more prevalent. Music
has become secondary to... sex.”
Tonya Guillani, a third-year
media, information and technoculture student and long-time music
fan, agreed that sex is often placed
before the music. “Once someone
subscribes... to the groupie
lifestyle, the music becomes secondary,” she said.
To her, these fans-turnedgroupies do not only perpetuate the
stereotype, but also discredit other
fans. “They contaminate what is
supposed to be an almost religious
experience, and their mere presence can spoil any sort of fun [others] may be having at a show,”
Guillani said.
Western student Nick Cino
plays guitar and sings in the popular local rock band The Drunken
Bastards and finds the groupie
label to be problematic.
While he is aware that some girls
fit the groupie mold, the vast majority of women he knows are “neutral” music lovers who don’t “throw
themselves” at musicians and he
thinks “it’s sad how the images portrayed within music is that you can’t
just be fans, you can just be sluts.”
Unfortunately, this negative
image extends beyond the borders
of the female fan and stretches deep
within the entertainment industry.
“Even if you are a professional
within the industry, if you are girl,
no matter what you do — whether
you are a fan, a journalist, working
in promotions — all of it is always
assumed that you are just trying to
get closer to the bands,” ChorneyPLEASE SEE FEMINISM P7
Volunteering abroad Hiring practices under scrutiny
offers new benefits
By Marshall Bellamy
Gazette Staff
By Ravi Amarnath
Gazette Staff
Despite the traditional emphasis on
books, studying and grades, an
increasing number of students is
choosing to take time off before or
while they are in school to volunteer for organizations domestically
and abroad.
“There are many kinds of benefits for youths to take off school,”
stated Mikael Bélanger, communications and development officer
for the Ontario office of Katimavik, a nine-month program that
allows Canadian youth to volunteer in three different provinces
across the country.
“You can understand a little bit
better about yourself and what
your strengths and weaknesses are.
The more you learn about yourself,
the more you’ll know what you
want to do in your life,” he said.
“We’re certainly seeing a
tripling in the number of people
who have applied to the program in
the last couple of years,” said
Matthew Pearce, president and
chief executive officer of Canada
World Youth, a seven-month program that pairs Canadians between
the ages of 17 and 24 with counterparts in a foreign nation.
“Based on the heightened interest, we’re lobbying the federal
government for more funds to
increase the number of spaces that
we have available,” he added.
Besides getting the opportunity
to explore different areas of the
world, volunteering or working
before coming to university may
allow students to gain a greater
perspective on their education.
“I personally think that students
shouldn’t be going to university at
17- or 18-years-old in any case,”
stated sociology professor Doug
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Inside the
Weekend Edition
Western President Paul Davenport
and the Board of Governors
responded to criticism yesterday
over the administration’s faculty
hiring standards.
The criticism originated from
an opinion piece written in the
Western News two weeks ago,
which claimed that the selection
process for filling a position within
an unspecified department was not
based on teaching and research.
Rather an applicant was chosen
solely because she was a woman.
The article went further, stating
the female candidate was less
qualified than the most qualified of
the applicants, and charged that
universities across Canada have
been favouring women over qualified men.
Undergraduate student BOG
representative Brian Whitmore
asked if there was any response
being prepared to address the
piece, but did not question the arti-
cle’s validity.
“I didn’t necessarily agree with
the article, but it did raise some pretty convincing arguments,” he said.
Alan Weedon, vice provost of
faculty, planning and policy, dismissed the accusations in the article. “Some of the assertions are
incorrect — the best way to
respond to this is indirectly,” he
stated, adding the only response
from administration will be using
accurate information.
According to Davenport, the
last two Strategic Plans indicated
that Western was well behind most
other universities in terms of hiring
female faculty members.
“The policy initiated was that in
the case of regular appointments of
female faculty members, we will
pay 50 per cent [of their first year’s
salary] from the capital budget,” he
said.
The faculties, when receiving
this injection of money, must
demonstrate that they are properly
using the funds in their efforts to
recruit more female employees.
“The hiring is still done in academic committees,” Davenport
asserted, noting faculty hiring is
not under the auspices of administration.
Greg Moran, Western’s VP-academic, noted the university was
anticipating backlash when the
aggressive recruitment program
was initiated, but has yet to receive
much criticism because using the
money to attract female faculty
members works.
“It didn’t occur. It absolutely
did not occur because [the program] doesn’t discriminate,” he
said. “It simply provides us with an
advantage in recruiting women.”
According to information Weedon presented to BOG, females
accounted for 22.2 per cent of Western’s total faculty in 2002, while the
rest of the G-10 universities of
Canada were at 26.6 per cent.
He also pointed to newly tabulated results, which revealed that in
2004 Western acquired 33 new
female faculty members compared
with 30 new males.
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Friday, January 28, 2005
News Briefs
Shriners taking a shine to London?
Shinerama sophs have a whole new motivation to
sell candy to frosh this coming O-Week.
A committee of Shriners met with London community leaders last Tuesday to discuss the prospect
of a new $50-million Shriners Children’s Hospital
to be built beside the London Health Sciences
Centre.
This new hospital would replace the older
Shriners Hospital in Montreal, which is currently
the only Shriners medical facility outside of the
United States.
Western’s delegates at the meeting were President Paul Davenport and Schulich School of Medicine dean Carol Herbert.
“We presented ourselves as well as we could,”
Herbert said. “We demonstrated our collaboration
across the city and our vision for children’s orthopedic care, as well as teaching and research.”
It is not yet decided if the Shriners Children’s
Hospital will be located in London; Montreal
and Ottawa are two other possibilities for the
building. The Shriners will vote on the location
this summer.
— Erica Timmerman
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DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION. Shannon Kelly and Shawna Eisenstat teach a dance to participants in the Caribbean Student
Organization’s cultural show, which takes place this Saturday.
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Hewitt can do it!
Western named Ted Hewitt as its new VP-research
during yesterday’s Board of Governors meeting.
Hewitt, who was serving as acting VP-research
in former VP-research Nils Petersen’s stead, said he
hopes to continue with efforts to ensure Western
remains one of the foremost research-intensive universities in Canada.
University Students’ Council President Nick
Staubitz pointed out Hewitt will be very capable in
furthering Western’s Strategic Plan, which includes
a focus on research.
He added Hewitt is also competent and a good
partner within administration.
“Although the USC doesn’t deal with the VPresearch often, when we do need to talk with him,
I’ll know he’s a nice guy and has always been
decent,” Staubitz noted.
—Marshall Bellamy
Celebration of Caribbean culture
Are you looking to enjoy fine fashion, art and
dance, all while supporting a worthwhile cause?
The Caribbean Students’ Organization will be offering all of these perks at its annual cultural show on
Saturday, Jan. 29 at Centennial Hall.
“The show will feature highly choreographed
performances showcasing our culture and our
theme for the event, which is revelations,” stated
Seldon Woolridge, vice-president of the CSO.
“Our show is focusing on Caribbean people and
how our roots have played a pivotal part in shaping
our culture.”
In addition to performers from Western, the
show will also feature guest appearances from a
dance group from Toronto, in addition to a comedian.
Doors for the event will open at 2 p.m. and the
show will begin at 3 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the
kiosk in the University Community Centre until Friday and will be available at the door for $15.
Woolridge confirmed a portion of all sales will
be donated to the relief fund for the hurricane that
recently struck the Caribbean.
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Art is pain
In partnership with the department of visual arts, the
faculty of medicine and dentistry at Western is presenting the works of artists Claude Monet, Vincent
van Gogh and others who were inspired by their
medical conditions.
The presentation is taking place at Museum London and will run from Jan. 27 to Feb. 17 between 7
and 8:30 p.m.
“Paint and Suffering will be a revealing look at
the very nature of illness and its connection with the
individuals,” said Jim Silcox, vice-dean of education in the faculty of medicine and dentistry.
The lecture will begin with a 30-minute informal
presentation by an art historian and a physician and
will be followed by an open forum.
“Artists do not work in a vacuum. Their artistic
expression reflects the reality of their worlds,
including their personal joys and sorrows. It will be
instructive to consider how we might discern evidence of such expression in the form and content of
their paintings,” said Madeline Lennon, professor
of visual arts, who will be discussing Jack Chambers’s paintings on Feb. 10.
Admission for the presentation is free, but seating for the lectures is limited and will be available
on a first-come, first-serve basis.
—Shobita Sharma
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LIVE FROM LONDON, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT. Though temperatures continue to drop, a pedestrian-friendly campus means you’ll see plenty of Western students walking during the winter.
CFS to protest potential Rae findings
By Mark Polishuk
Gazette Staff
The Canadian Federation of Students is organizing rallies in Windsor, Sudbury and Toronto on Feb. 3
to protest the final recommendations of the review of Ontario’s
colleges and universities by former
premier Bob Rae.
According to CFS Ontario chairperson Jesse Greener, the rallies are
aimed at a possible raise in tuition
fees Rae is allegedly planning to
recommend. “It’s pretty clear from
his material that that’s the angle he’s
taking,” Greener said.
“We’re not criticizing anything.
We have a core message and when
you stack it up against what you
expect to be hearing from Bob Rae,
students and the public can see the
difference for themselves. We’re
asking for reinvestment in educa-
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Mann. “I feel that students
receive social pressure from their
parents and friends to rush into
school.”
Malaspina University-College,
located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, provides students who have
completed the Katimavik program
with three credits in recreation
management. The idea was originally proposed by Sasha Colby, an
instructor in the Malaspina English
department.
“I was interested in seeing the
university become more socially
responsible,” Colby stated. “I took
the initiative to the administration
and they made it happen.”
In spite of the rising number of
students who choose to volunteer
before coming to university, many
institutions across Canada refuse
to allow students to defer a year of
school before entering.
“I think that every young Canadian should break away at some
point from formal studies by getting experiential studies. We undervalue what that does,” Pearce said.
Glen Tigert, director of student
financial services for the Office of
the Registrar at Western, confirmed
that Western currently offers
deferred admissions for students
who want to volunteer abroad.
tion that at least brings us up to the
national average; nothing crazy
there,” Greener added.
University Students’ Council
VP-education Alison Forbes said
the prediction from CFS is premature, and Rae may actually recommend the provincial government
increase funding for schools.
“From what we hear, the tuition
freeze is still on from talking to the
government and our administration,” she said. “If our funding is
raised to the national average, then
costs will not be downloaded onto
students.
“There is a danger in using simple tag-lines like ‘lower tuition’ to
promote a cause. Funding is much
more complicated than just
tuition,” Forbes added.
Greener’s hope for the rallies is
for the CFS message to go “beyond
the usual student newspaper circles
and into the broader scope of the
general public.
“Our meetings [with the government] are good, but they’re better when followed up with a visible
show of support. It shows we’re
not just people working behind the
scenes in an office and that we’re
connected with our student members. This leads to a much more
serious consideration of our cause
from the government,” he added.
Canadian Alliance of Student
Associations national director
James Kusie offered no comment
on the workings of his fellow student organization, but noted that
“students in Canada are facing some
tough barriers, and I think it’s a
good way to get their message out.
“Students have been taxed
enough, and it’s time that the government steps up to the plate and
reinvests in our schools.”
Auschwitz remembered: Over
5,000 mourners gathered in
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary
of the liberation of the Nazis’ largest
and most notorious death camp.
The ceremony was attended by
heads of state from around the
world, including Canadian Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson,
and was marked by the lighting of
candles in commemoration of the
estimated 1.5-million Jewish people killed at Auschwitz.
The most moving testimonials
were from Holocaust survivors,
many of whom suffered in the
Auschwitz camp during World War
II. Most speakers reminded listeners that hate persists in the world
and atrocities such as the Holocaust must be prevented from ever
Insurgents wreck Iraqi poll: Signs
of trouble continue to overshadow
the first democratic election in Iraq
since the end of Baathist rule.
On Thursday, a group of insurgents attempting to spoil the
upcoming election bombed a
polling station, killing 19 civilians
and one U.S. marine. A militant
group called Army of Ansar alSunna issued a death threat to anyone who enters the stations before
or after the election.
Violence has been rampant as
the Jan. 30 election nears. Recent
incidents include the kidnapping
and murder of four National
Guardsmen in Ramadi, a roadside bomb in Samarra that killed
three civilians, another explosion
close to an Iraqi Army patrol that
killed two bystanders and a soldier, and the bombing of numerous polling stations.
Chirac proposes AIDS tax: On
Wednesday, French President
Jacques Chirac proposed the development of an AIDS tax at the
World Economic Forum. The tax
would be imposed on financial
transactions or airline tickets and
could raise $10-billion annually.
The tax has already come under
fire from Japan’s Finance Minister
Hiroshi Wanatabe, who says unless
all countries impose the tax, there
will be holes in the structure.
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Volume 98, Issue 68
“I’d love to be a pop idol.
Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50.”
— KEVIN BACON
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Are groupies
empowered?
Sidewalks for walking, keep ’em clean
On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha.
You can listen to the engine
moanin’ out as one long song.
You can think about the woman or the girl
you knew the night before.
Bob Seger’s lyrics tell the tale of the rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle
from the star’s perspective. But what about the woman or
the girl from the night before?
Chances are she is seen as a “groupie,” a term that has
come to be associated with women who use sexuality to
gain backstage access at concerts. In today’s music scene,
being known as a groupie is rarely considered flattering.
The effects of these negative connotations can be seen
and heard at most concerts. Many music lovers consider
groupies as a lesser breed of fan. This tension between
groupies and people who consider themselves to be “true
music fans” has created a subculture in which the two
sides are decidedly pitted against one another.
Why can’t both groups accept each other as music
fans? The answer seems to be the question of ethics
involved in the groupie lifestyle. At many concerts, the
road crew is responsible for offering backstage passes to
the most attractive and scantily-clad women. These are the
women deemed to be worthy of pleasing the band. But
what makes these girls want to engage in such a process?
Presumably, they are attracted to the prestige of
celebrity. The infatuation with rock stars seems to have
something to do with a desire for power and people who
have it. Others may be attracted to this type of situation
because of their love for the music.
It is fairly easy to see the argument against this behaviour. Many would argue the situation is demeaning to
women. But this isn’t necessarily the case.
Being given the choice to partake in back stage antics
can be seen as empowering to women. Is it fair to criticize a groupie for her attraction to a celebrity? Why
shouldn’t she be able to express her feelings for a given
artist? How is this situation any different from a girl who
becomes attracted to a man at a bar or a house party?
The only problem with the promotion of this lifestyle
is the possible implications for young music fans. With
the recording industry’s trend of marketing artists to
young teens, we need to be sure that young girls don’t get
the wrong idea. Flaunting your sexuality is not the way to
be accepted. Teaching these morals, though, should not
be the responsibility of the groupies themselves.
In the end, it all comes down to choice. As long as
women are old enough to make appropriate choices for
themselves based upon their own value systems, they
should be allowed to show their appreciation for rock
stars in whatever manner they choose, free from scrutiny.
Likewise, people who disagree with the groupie
lifestyle are free to travel their long and lonesome highway in whatever manner they choose.
Annaconda
Anna Coutts
A&E Editor
Icy cold winds, piles of winter’s white
gift of snow and storms that literally
knock your socks off. As a Canadian, I
am fully aware that part of living in this
country means living with such wintry
weather for half the year. However,
while dealing with snow is something I
can accept, living in a city where sidewalks go unplowed for weeks on end is
something I cannot.
Walking to school while snow is
blinding me is one thing; not being able
to walk down the street because sidewalks have snow piled several feet high
is another. Not only is it a pain in the ass,
it’s dangerous.
Too many times I have found myself
stumbling to the ground because I was
Re: “Should backlash mean money?,”
Jan. 27, 2005
New Question
The results from the previous Poll Vault.
Have you ever kept an opinion or argument to yourself out of aniexty or fear?
How do you feel about the USC survey
results released this week?
20%
• They are an accurate representation
of students’ feelings
Yes
I’m afraid of being called a racist, a sexist or some-
• Not enough students completed it
to make it significant
thing else
18%
Yes
I’m so tired of toothless debates that I don’t participate
22%
No
I feel free to say what I want all the time
40%
No
I simply don’t care about debate or classes at all
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To the Editor:
Leave it to The Gazette to get a word in
edgewise about political correctness in
the recent controversy over Summers’s
comment, and to leave out the other
reasons — scientific, social and ethical
— that make people believe comments
like “women are innately worse at
math” are wrong.
Even assuming that girls begin with
an “innate deficiency” does not lead to
the conclusion that we cannot, or should
not, use tools of the social environment
to redress that shortfall. That would be
similar to saying that people born with
eye defects should not receive glasses,
because they weren’t born with good
eyesight and glasses aren’t free.
Curtis W.L. Jones
MA Sociology II
Section Editors 2004-2005
• Please recycle this newspaper •
While these paths clearly do get
attended to sometimes, having to wait for
over a week after a major snowstorm for
these piles to be pushed aside is unacceptable. While I cannot be sure, it’s likely the
reason that these sidewalks are not being
attended to regularly is a lack of funding.
If this is the case, then it is about time
something be done to increase the funding for the maintenance of London’s
sidewalks. Clearing the streets is obviously of utmost importance, but the sidewalks necessitate the same amount of
attention as the roads do. Every once in
awhile just isn’t enough to keep sidewalks manageable.
Whether the problem is funding or
some unknown issue, it doesn’t matter.
In the wicked weather that Canadians are
constantly faced with, snow on the sidewalks is inevitable. We may not be able
control the weather (at least not yet) but
we can control how we adapt to it.
It’s about time we do something about
our sidewalks and keep them as safe and
snow-free as possible.
Girls subpar?
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trying to wade through the icy paths we
call sidewalks. Forget trying to get groceries — just making it to the end of the
street is chore enough. Walking anywhere quickly becomes a difficult task
and a tiresome adventure I would rather
not partake in.
However, while it’s something that
annoys me, I, as a young able-bodied
person, can manage to handle these slippery walkways. What really worries me
is to walk out into the community and see
that even areas such as Cherryhill, where
there is a large senior citizen population,
have gone completely unplowed.
It’s infuriating to see elderly couples
with canes struggling to try and make it
to the bus stop. If I find it a struggle to
walk down these snowy paths, I cannot
even begin to imagine how much of
strain it must be on the elderly and disabled. No doubt at least a few people
have fallen down and injured themselves
on these treacherous pathways, and it’s a
risk no one should have to deal with on
top of the already troublesome weather.
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To the Editor:
As a very loyal reader, your paper
continues to amaze me with its
lameness factor. First off, its seems
your staff missed a very good story
from last weekend — the Purple
Shorts one-act play festival.
Now, call it sour grapes because
my play was in it, but seeing a
half-page article on sex toy
reviews rather than a review of
some of the plays that were performed seems a bit wack.
Shouldn’t your priorities lay in
promoting events on campus?
Now don’t get me wrong, the sex
toys article was the type of lighthearted (filler) article that The
Gazette has trademarked.
However, Purple Shorts showcased the talents of actors and
directors from right here on campus. The nonchalant nature of the
festival would have fit right in with
the material you guys cover. Hell,
your paper’s own Mark Polishuk
did a wonderful job writing and
directing his play The Creative
Process but alas, still no coverage.
Now normally I wouldn’t care
too much, but when I see some
random girl opening a microwave
as a cover photo and I know how
much hard work went into the
shows last weekend, it seems a bit
wack that no staff photographer
was there.
Also in your Usual Suspects
feature you mentioned that there
was a 19-year-old man found dead
in the Thames River right here
behind TD Waterhouse! Am I the
only one who finds it suprising that
such a story was given two paragraphs in a little blurb hidden in
the paper? I’m not saying you need
to monger fear all over campus,
but come on, the dude’s dead!
The stadium is right behind
Essex Hall where I live — I can
see it from the window. However,
it seems to me telling The Gazette
it is nothing but a tabloid is like
telling Satan he’s a mean guy.
Andrew Norton
MIT I
Hippie
ideas?
Re: “Orchard really a hippie?
Find out,” Jan. 25, 2005
To the Editor:
Canadian sovereignty is such an
out-there, hippie idea! Here is
something more relevant you
could have added to your little tidbit of disinformation: Orchard
received a strong second-place finish in the first balloting for the PC
leadership convention in 2003 and
acted as kingmaker for Peter
MacKay after receiving promises
written and verbal.
Of course, MacKay promptly
broke his word and merged the
party with the neoconservative
Canadian Alliance. This lack of
integrity was justified as realpolitik. However, the results of last
year’s election supply evidence
that realism was hardly the driving
force behind the neoconservative’s
agenda. In fact the new party not
only failed to gain the combined
vote of the two old parties, but in
an election which saw an increase
in young voter participation, their
support plummeted in most
regions.
In the 2000 election the PC and
Alliance total was 37.7 per cent
with 4,843,927 votes. In 2004,
after “uniting the right,” the “Conservatives” received 29.6 per cent
of the vote — only 3,994,333
votes, a drop of 849,594, or 17.5
per cent, from the Alliance/PC
vote in 2000.
Although it will obviously be a
shock to the system of delusionals
like O’Toole who think that sycophantic support of the Iraq war (a
war a majority of Americans now
believe is a mistake according to
recent polls) is a winning formula,
Canada is no Red State.
Harper’s recent decision to
make opposing gay marriage the
Conservatives’ new platform is
equally out of touch. But whatever,
Canadian Conservatives seem to
be addicted to losing elections
(what is it, oh-for-five now?), so
keep up the shrill rhetoric aimed at
alienating moderates and preventing the creation of a viable alternative to the corrupt but at least
palatable Liberals.
Haydn Lloyd
History IV
THE GAZETTE
Drinkers
stick up for
drinking
Re: “Drinking and university don’t
mix,” Jan. 25, 2005
To the Editor:
So why do people enjoy getting
drunk? The truth is, life can be
pretty intense and stressful at
times, especially in university
when you have people breathing
down your neck about getting
good grades, about being in a program that will lead you into a good
job and in turn getting you mounds
of money so you can buy that big
house and fancy car you have
always wanted... ahhh, no thanks!
Those who feel this pressure
deal with it in different ways, and
spending some money on drinking, having fun with your friends,
and most importantly taking life a
little less seriously is well worth it.
It is also a very effective social tool
if you are a little on the shy side —
and I’ll admit I am.
As for your grudge against St.
Patrick’s Day, I do agree that peo-
ple shouldn’t go to class drunk.
More importantly, why go to class
at all on the biggest drinking day
of the year? It is very shitty that
you got gooked on, but shit happens and you need to be able to
laugh it off. I got gooked on once
and I am over it; it’s no reason to
be mad at St. Patrick’s day.
The bottom line is that for most
people, drinking is really just a fun
extra curricular activity, and I am
sure you must get the same release
with music. So you have fun with
your music, and I will have fun
with my drinking, and if perhaps
you see me drunk in the library on
St. Patrick’s day while you are trying to study, I am sure you will get
over it… it is one day out of the
whole year.
Taylor Carr
Kinesiology III
Library safe
Re: “Rumours swirling about
library collapse,” Jan. 26, 2005
To the Editor:
After rigorous scientific testing
(i.e. jumping up and down in really big boots), I have come to the
conclusion that the music library is
indeed a safe place to be.
Armageddon isn’t part of the periodicals after all.
A few University Students’
Council meetings ago, I illustrated
the physical limitations of our
beloved music library. Talbot College was not designed to house an
extensive library collection, and as
such is limited in the amount of
weight it can bear. If we were to
triple the volume of books in the
library, they may very well fall
through the floor. And if we stuck
a rhinoceros on top of The Gazette
office, it may very well end up in
Marshall Bellamy’s lap.
Both dilemmas are easily
solved: don’t overload the library
floor, and don’t stick your rhino
where it doesn’t belong. And while
the latter is an ongoing problem,
the former was easily addressed
last summer with extensive building renovations.
As alarmist as this story has
been, it has taught me an important
lesson: don’t be glib around Chicken Little, lest students think the sky
is falling. In the future, I will
endeavour to be more boring, wear
more gray and rid myself of this
disease they call humour.
Jonathan Tan
President,
Faculty of Music Students’ Council
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Shuk does it Sideways... Tuesday
StyleWatch: made to match and big boy buys
Girl Style
Name: Shireen Al-Adeimi
Program: Psychology
Year: 3
Shireen finds her inspiration by combining
religion with a modern twist. However, she
also enjoys browsing at Le Château, one of
her fave stores.
“It doesn’t necessarily carry my kind of
clothing, but I combine things,” she says. She
pairs outfits with her favorite accessories, earrings; she claims to own “tons!”
Shireen prefers to deck herself out with
clothes she designs herself. The best advice
she can give to people about fashion is to
“match.”
Guy Style
Name: Gol Ayie Jal
Program: Economics
Year: 4
Joyce Wang/Gazette
HARD OF EARRING. Shireen Al-Adeimi shows off two of her
alleged tons of earrings. This is known in hip-hop circles as
“rockin’ the bling.”
My aim
is true
Allison Buchan-Terrell
News Editor
In the spirit of equality and fairness, this week’s focus is guy fashion staples, with a little help from
the oh-so-fashionable Gazette
photo editor Dave Picard. I needed
a male perspective since if I wrote
this on my own it might involve
Adam Brody, a cowboy shirt and
nothing else.
Some of these things might
sound similar to the female fashion
staples. But often items cross gender boundaries, and more importantly, they are timeless pieces that
work on both genders.
Just like the ladies, guys should
add (or if they already have one,
start using) blazers as an easy way
to pull outfits together. Picard recommends looking for white, silk or
nice cotton blazers; dark colors,
medium density pinstripes or a
print, but nothing gaudy or overdone. He stressed to avoid “fuckin’
dragons [and] army crap.”
Jeans. Again, it may seem obvious but some people do not do
jeans the right way. Recommendations are non-baggy, regular fit
jeans that are a little faded or worn
with a little fray at the bottom.
Please avoid tapered styles, skin
tight, or overly-baggy jeans. “It’s
okay to have an ass in jeans,”
Picard said.
To add a touch of class to your
wardrobe, look for a light-coloured
cashmere sweater. This is an
extremely versatile item that can be
paired with a blazer or a printed
collared shirt. For all of you guys
saying “whoa, this is a little dressy
for my taste,” sit tight. It is not all
Gol’s style seems to be out of his hands as he
claims that “I haven’t been able to put a control on it.” At the top of his list are ever-popular sports jerseys, and he particularly likes
those with logos of basketball teams. His style
idol is Chris Rock because “he dresses normally and doesn’t try to impress anyone.”
When this boy goes out on the town, he usually gets decked out at George and Rich. Yet
when he can find he moolah, he prefers “to go
to the tailor’s and get clothes custom-made.”
His tip for looking hip? “Just do what you
want and keep it natural.”
—Joyce Wang
Joyce Wang/Gazette
DO YOU SMELL WHAT CHRIS ROCK IS COOKIN’? Despite
claiming to love basketball jerseys, Gol Ayie Jal is dressed in
street clothes. In b-ball circles, this is known as “pulling a
Vince Carter.”
Guys get a lesson in sprucing up their style
formal — there is plenty of room
for casual items.
Printed tees are a hugely versatile item. Dress it up with a blazer
and jeans, or down with a scarf or
hat. It is more fun to scour vintage
shops for one-of-a-kind tees, but
you can also shop at the mall, as
long as you remain wary of cheesy
designs. Picard recommends black
shirts paired with suspenders worn
over the shoulders or down: “A bit
of punk is good, classy punk... but
beware of bargain buys which look
dirty or too faded.”
Hoodies can be great items, but
it is imperative to do them right.
We are not talking ratty, over-worn,
dirty hoodies; we are talking slightly fitted and clean. Hoodies can be
worn with printed tees and jeans, or
a collared shirt.
Shoes are key. I always check
out guys the same way: hair, eyes,
Gazette File Photos
I DON’T WANT TO GO ON WITH YOU (DRESSED) LIKE THAT. Sir Elton John was a fashion nightmare in his younger days, while Adam Brody got his style figured out quickly.
abs, shoes. Much as with girls,
shoes can make or break a guy’s
outfit. Keep it casual with white or
pink Chuck Taylors, jeans and a
blazer, or add retro tennis shoes to
a printed-tee-and-jeans look. In
terms of dress shoes, try shades
besides black. Avoid high-sheen,
bulky soles and straps or buckles.
Accessories frighten most boys
who are afraid of coming off as
effeminate, but they can be really
sexy when done well. Scarves have
been popular with guys this year
and work well with printed tees or
blazers. Prints are great, and Picard
encourages guys to not fear colour,
but seek unsaturated shades.
Watches are often unrated and
underappreciated. Look for cuff
style watches, which add a rugged
feel to your look.
In all seasons, hats can be used
as part of a casual look or to add to
a signature style. Fidel Castro’s cap
of choice works well, but look for a
thicker material such as cord or a
cotton military style. You could
also look for an argyle skull cap.
Meshbacks, although stylish to the
point of vomitus, can really add to
a casual look. “Not wearing something because it got popular at one
point is just as bad as following
every trend,” Picard says.
These are simply guidelines to
help guys add a bit of style to their
everyday clothes. Use these staples
alone, in combination, or with your
regular wardrobe to create a signature look. I am sure there are many
boys out there who are not concerned with whether or not they are
fashionable in their day-to-day routines, but perhaps I can encourage
guys to take an interest in personal
style.
THE GAZETTE
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Feminism vs. Fandemonium
CONTINUED FROM P1
Gazette File Photo
PENNY LANE IS IN MY EARS AND IN MY EYES. Kate Hudson’s
role in Almost Famous showed both the highs and lows of being
a “band-aid.”
Booth said.
However, she is hopeful that as
more women get involved in the
industry, these negative impressions will fade.
Guillani agrees that such stereotypes can be dispelled by true music
fans. “Even though they may not be
aware of it, fans have the power to
change the industry, to stand up and
claim that they will not let themselves and the rest of their peers be
defined by bullshit,” she said.
Alper, however, is not quite as
confident. “Until everyone comes
around a table and together decides
that this sexualization of music
should stop, [the groupie phenomenon] is not going to go away... Guys
get into music for three reasons: the
money, the music and the women.”
While Alper admits that the
sexualization of music is “sad,”
he claims that, unfortunately,
Coldplay and Nelly make
breakin’ up even harder to do
Glamazon
Lori Mastronardi
A&E Editor
year-old Hilary Duff has something to say about the topic in her
latest single “The Getaway.” The
track laments how her man keeps
popping in and out of her life at his
convenience: “The traffic in my
brain’s driving me insane/ This is
more than I can take.” And, suitably, she’s “gotta get away.”
Certain tracks are a bit more
conducive for those aching for a
quick recovery. Angry “I hate you”
guilty pleasure tracks seem to work
particularly well. For example,
Kelly Clarkson’s single “Since U
Been Gone” expresses how there
are positives of a break-up: she can
“breathe for the first time,” “move
on” and “get what [she] wants.”
Still, even the angsty heartbreak
songs are laced with sadness. Probably the best bet is to compile collections of man-hating (or femalehating!) music, or rotate albums
centered on politics, rebellion, or
something else unrelated.
However, I... uh, I mean, my
friend, had better recover soon.
The new Coldplay disc will be
released soon, and there’s no way a
break-up is going to stop her from
enjoying the long-awaited album.
tributes to the development of a
harmful image. “If you are an upand-coming band, the best way to
build up hype for yourself is to let
people see screaming fans lined
up outside.”
He believes that the groupie
label is just another part of “creating
an atmosphere of importance” so
that musicians can sell themselves.
Guillani believes groupie-ism
is “so deeply embedded” within
celebrity culture because the culture needs it. She noted that
while music should be about
“emotion and passion and appreciation and understanding,” the
media usually hones in on crazed
fans like those on MuchMusic’s
Fandemonium.
“[The media] want people who
are even more than groupies, people who are just crazy. There is no
sane explanation for people who
tattoo Justin Timberlake’s face on
their ass,” Guillani said.
“We tried it dry, but
everyone knows
it’s better wet.”
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Props to Ludacris, the rap shaker and the history maker. The
Sundance Film Festival has
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in doing so, broken history
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Ludacris’s film Hustle and
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Working together with
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Ludacris stars as a rapper
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After coming home from a grueling day of school, a “friend” of
mine sat down at her computer and
started playing Coldplay’s “Don’t
Panic.” Suddenly, her roommate
yelled from across the hall, “I can
hear you listening to Coldplay —
turn that shit off!”
What was going on? Why wasn’t she allowed to listen to Coldplay? Well, I’ll explain. My friend
had just endured a far from ideal
weekend, complete with a tiring
break-up. Apparently, during such
times there are rules as to what kind
of music one should and shouldn’t
listen to. Simply put, during times
of sorrow, certain albums and
artists need to be put to rest.
While the majority of mainstream songs seem to be laced with
lyrical love, the words simply don’t
seem to register until they directly
relate to your current situation, or,
in my friend’s case, a break-up.
Mainstream radio is fueled by a
slew of sappy, love-drenched
songs. There are few artists who
stray from songs about relationships, love, heartbreak, or the
lonely, single life.
For example, FM 103.1’s regular mix is pervaded by a steady
rotation of songs that speak about
wanting a relationship, being in a
relationship, and ending a relationship. The double cheese ballad by
Bryan Adams pervades the station’s
airwaves, as it slowly moans “Let’s
just make love allll night.” Vomit.
Then there’s the Nelly/McGraw
venture that would make the
detached listener groan, but tends
to affect hopeless romantics. The
sample lyrics read: “Cause it’s all
in my head/I think about it over
and over again/I replay it over and
over again/And I can’t shake it
yeah I can’t shake it.” The song
continues to stress how impossible
it is to get over a relationship; “I
can’t go on not loving you.”
Regardless of age or gender,
everyone seems to have something
to say about the often messy world
of relationships. Damn, even 17-
there is some truth to the stereotype. “If guys get into music, they
get the girls.”
Alper also believes that this
sexual stigma will not disappear
until women themselves stop
playing such a large role in propelling it. “Women can be their
own worst enemy. They start
rumours, and can get so catty and
jealous over musicians.”
He also notes that women’s magazines contribute to the sexual connection with music, making young
girls think that “this is what [girls]
are expected to do.” Magazines like
Fashion 18, Jane and Seventeen all
emphasize looks and the sexualization of artists with articles like “The
Top Ten Hottest Musicians.”
“The media continues to assist
in breeding the mentality that male
musicians are on a pedestal, and
this makes sleeping with them look
appealing,” Alper explained.
Cino agreed the media con-
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Notable
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Geek Show takes the
web’s best comedy
By David Lee
Gazette Staff
It’s about time the Canadian airwaves had something like The
Geek Show.
Based out of Edmonton, The
Geek Show focuses on the comedic
content of the Internet. Co-hosts
Wes Borg and Neil Grahn broadcast from Borg’s living room and
bring a sense of humour to the
high-tech TV genre.
Clips
from
sites
like
www.homestarrunner.com
and
www.archive.org are liberally
sprinkled throughout the broadcast,
and the interplay between Borg and
Grahn will appeal to those with a
twisted sense of humour. If you
enjoyed the dialogue in Anchorman
and FUBAR, chances are you’ll like
what TGS has to offer.
According to its promotional
DVD, TGS “makes no apologies
for being low-budget and halfassed.” Though it doesn’t have the
flashy intros and transitions com-
mon to many high-tech TV shows,
the show’s comedy more than
makes up for it. While the show is
filmed in Borg’s living room, you
can’t help but note the sheer sense
of fun that goes into the filming of
each segment.
TGS never takes itself too seriously. During an episode about
“disinfected teens,” one of the four
audience members is continually
caught yawning. However, the
yawns become the comedy — an
ongoing “yawn count” tracks the
teen’s displays of boredom without
his knowledge.
Like any new show, TGS isn’t
perfect. The first episode of the
show’s inaugural 13-episode season is not as impressive as the rest.
It focuses loosely on music, and
while songs from Homestarrunner
are still comic gold, cartoons
mocking the Metallica vs. Napster
debate touch on a subject nearly
five years old. Also, there are times
during the pilot that Borg seems to
be doing a knock-off of Bubbles
from Trailer Park Boys.
The biggest knock against the
show, though, is that for people
who stay current on what’s funny,
wacky and zany on the net, many
of the clips will be old hat. However, if you don’t have time to visit all
the URLs sent your way in emails
from friends, TGS is a fun way to
stay up-to-date.
TGS is currently airing on
ACCESS, BookTV and Canadian
Learning Television. Unfortunately, the show isn’t currently shown
in Ontario, and though the tie-in
web site (www.thegeekshow.com)
is extensive, as of publication there
are not full-blown archives of aired
episodes. Fans will have to settle
for outtakes and links to the material featured in the shows.
All in all, the show is a quick
‘n’ dirty way to get your fill of
Internet comedy. If you’re not yet
acquainted with Strong Bad, Trogdor or the goodness that is the vintage 1950s educational film, forget
about the nerdy title and check out
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The Spoke Pub presents
LIVE MUSIC
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Some of the major nominees for
the 77th Annual Academy Awards,
to be held on Feb. 27, 2005.
Best Picture: The Aviator, Finding
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Best Actor: Don Cheadle (Hotel
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Frost’s cool sounds
By Chad Nevett
Gazette Staff
The first words out of Lily Frost’s
mouth after saying hello are, “I’m
at the bank right now. Actually,
I’m, like, right in front of the
teller, so can you call back in three
minutes?” Ah, the glamourous life
of a musician.
When the interview resumes,
Frost is eager to answer questions.
“I always wanted to be a singer,”
she says enthusiastically. She got
into performing when she went to
Concordia in Montreal and fell in
with a group of people who were
into the Mod scene. “Before that,
I was listening to Black Sabbath,
Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd —
the stuff you’d hear in rural
Ontario.”
It was in this scene that she
honed her talents and began playing with her then-boyfriend’s
band The Minstrels. “It just
seemed like a good lifestyle,” she
explains.
In 1992, they moved to Vancouver while she was playing keyboards for The Minstrels, and
ended up forming a new band
called The Colorifics. The band’s
goal was to blend pop and jazz,
and it started out from the very bottom. “We made our living through
welfare and busking,” Frost says.
“We would travel around the
islands and busk on the ferry to pay
for the ferry. It really, really blossomed gradually on its own.”
The band eventually broke up
in a not-so-friendly way. “There
were shows near the end where
we couldn’t look at one another,”
Frost remembers.
But this break-up led to her
pursuing a solo career, which
began with her 1998 album CosmiComic Country, followed-up
with 2001’s Lunamarium, which
gained critical acclaim and international success.
In 2003, she recorded Situation
with ex-Odds member Steven
Drake and she describes it as
being “closer and closer to what I
would buy myself,” noting she
wanted a very stripped-down
sound, but Drake added drums
and bass to make it fuller.
On her next record, Frost plans
to go in the more stripped down
direction and says, “I feel like the
next record will be more ‘this is
who I am’ [than previous
albums].” She also plans on incorporating more Spanish sounds, an
influence she has gained through
her husband, Jose Contreras of
Canadian art rock band By Divine
Right.
“I make it a habit of trying to
be inspired everyday,” Frost says,
adding that she doesn’t watch TV
because she thinks it leads to bad
writing. “It’s like, I get jingles
stuck in my head, and that messes
it up.”
She doesn’t have a set way of
writing her songs, though. “I’m
not super disciplined, in that I
have to work eight hours a day on
songwriting,” she laughs.
But if she does get inspired, it’s
hard to break away from it. “I’ll
end up saying to friends ‘I can’t
go to the movie because this song
won’t leave me alone’.”
Lily Frost will be performing with
Harmony Throwbridge at the Alex
P. Keaton on Monday, Jan. 31.
Admission is free and the show
begins at 10 p.m.
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Pierre Bismuth (Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind); Terry
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Delpy and Ethan Hawke (Before
Sunset); David Magee (Finding
Neverland); Paul Haggis (Million
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Motorcycle Diaries); Alexander
Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways)
Best Cinematography: Robert
Richardson (The Aviator), Xiaoding Zhao (House of Flying Daggers), Caleb Deschanel (The Passion of the Christ), John Mathieson
(The Phantom of the Opera),
Bruno Delbonnel (A Very Long
Engagement)
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Rwanda), Natalie Portman (Closer)
Best Original Song: Les Choristes
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Barratier (“Look To Your Path”);
The Motorcycle Diaries — Jorge
Drexler (“Al Otro Lado Del Río”);
The Phantom of the Opera —
Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Charles Hart (“Learn To Be Lonely”); The Polar Express — Glen
Ballard and Alan Silvestri
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The obvious omissions of Oscar
By Matt Larkin
Gazette Staff
Looking back at the Oscars’ big
winners and losers over the last 76
years, it is important to remember
that nobody’s perfect. Every once
in awhile the Academy makes a
blunder and dishes out a statuette
to an undeserving recipient.
10. Whoopi for Whoopi! (1990):
In what was assumed to be an April
Fool’s joke at the time, Whoopi
“Hollywood Squares” Goldberg
was named Best Supporting
Actress for Ghost. Circle gets the
square... and the Oscar.
9. Heston honoured for... acting? (1959): Charlton Heston fired
his rifle in celebration over winning Best Actor for his hokey work
in Ben-Hur.
6. Hitchcock robbed (1960):
Hitchcock was never more deserving of the Best Director prize than
in 1960, when his quintessential
horror film Psycho was shafted.
5. A Titanic mistake (1997): By
handing Best Picture to Titanic and
its $200-million budget, the Academy proved that size does matter.
4. Art Carney, master thief
(1974): Carney, Best Actor winner
for Harry and Tonto, somehow
escaped theft charges after beating
out Al Pacino in The Godfather,
Part II.
3. The Greatest Crock on Earth
(1952): The Greatest Show on
Earth defeated such all-time critical favourites as High Noon and
Singin’ in the Rain.
2. John Wayne takes down a
couple of Cowboys (1969): The
Academy opted for sympathy, giving the worn-down Wayne the Best
Actor Oscar for True Grit. Wayne’s
win left the unforgettable efforts of
Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in
Midnight Cowboy in the cold.
1. Citizen Kane snubbed (1941):
Often considered the greatest
movie of all time, Citizen Kane
couldn’t even come out a winner in
its own year, losing the Best Picture Oscar to How Green Was My
Valley. Rosebud!
8. Fosse beats Coppola (1972):
With all due respect to Bob Fosse’s
masterful directing job in Cabaret,
blanking Francis Ford Coppola for
The Godfather was criminal.
7. Kevin Costner Dances for
joy (1990): Costner’s sprawling
epic Dances With Wolves snatched
Best Picture and the Best Director
Oscar from Martin Scorsese for
Goodfellas.
Peter O’Toole
Oscar’s greatest WTF? results
• Charlie Chaplin won his only
Oscar (Best Original Score) for
his film Limelight in 1972. Oscar
rules state that a film is only eligible if it runs for at least one
week in both New York and Los
Angeles, and thus the 1952 picture wasn’t awarded until 20
years later.
• Sir Richard Burton and Peter
O’Toole share the record for most
acting nominations without a win
(seven each).
• Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
own Oscars for writing Good Will
Hunting. Hollywood rumour states
that the script needed extensive
rewriting from noted script doctor
William Goldman to make it seem
like... well, something other than a
script written by Damon and
Affleck.
“make-up” for not winning Best
Actress for Mrs. Brown the year
before, Judi Dench won Best Supporting Actress for Shakespeare In
Love. Her screentime of eight minutes is the shortest role for a winner
in Oscar history.
• Sound engineer Kevin O’Connell has been nominated 17 times
without a victory, and is a current
nominee for Spider-Man II.
—Mark Polishuk
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Mark Polishuk
A&E Editor
Dozens of Hollywood’s finest are
celebrating their Oscar nominations, though come the Feb. 27
ceremony, many will be pulling
the ol’ “hold a tight smile and look
like a good sport” routine while
someone else takes home the coveted statue.
For every actor or filmmaker
who wins an Oscar, there are four
unsuccessful nominees. “Losers”
is too harsh a term (after all, these
are still some of the very best of
the year in their fields), but perhaps “the snubbed” is a better fit.
Forget the hype: the Academy
Awards aren’t about picking the
“best” films of any given year.
Oscar history is filled with alltime classics that failed to bring
home the statuette. For every
Casablanca or Gone With The
Wind that won Best Picture,
movies like Citizen Kane and Dr.
Strangelove won nothing.
For a bunch of “Hollywood
liberals,” the Academy sure
makes some conservative choices.
Backstage politics, the social climate of the era and a general feel-
ing of “who deserves it” rather
than “who has earned it” all come
into play for Academy voters casting their ballots.
The “better late than never”
attitude is often the backbone of
many snubs and omissions.
Many-a-superior performance has
been ignored by the Academy in
favour of honouring some old
actor who is getting his first nomination or has been snubbed a
bunch of times himself. In this
case, one mistake begets another
and the vicious cycle continues.
Some might argue that picking
the ‘best’ of any given year is
totally arbitrary, and just being
nominated is enough of an honour. This might be a good point,
were it not for the self-absorbed
pomp that the Academy wraps
itself up in every year.
So to this year’s list of the
snubbed (Sideways’ Paul Giamatti, Kill Bill Volume II’s David Carradine, Fahrenheit 9/11’s Michael
Moore), take heart. People win
Oscars every year, but only a
select few can join the ranks of the
memorably omitted.
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THE GAZETTE
Mustangs’ lack of intensity leads to another loss
By Marshall Bellamy
Gazette Staff
Tim Toplak/Gazette
MORE BLOCKS THAN LEGO LAND. Western forward Alan Paron
(No. 42) gets stuffed in Wednesday night’s loss to Waterloo. The
Mustangs record fell to 4-11.
It just isn’t easy.
It isn’t easy having a record of
4-10. It isn’t easy facing off against
the sixth-best team in Canada with
a record like that. And it certainly
isn’t easy walking out of Alumni
Hall with a record of 4-11.
So when Western’s men’s basketball team was dispatched by a
visibly superior Waterloo Warriors
squad Wednesday night in a 67-54
decision, there really was not much
to be said.
“We have to pick up the intensity,” Mustang forward Alan Paron
reflected after the loss. “We have to
play with intensity and heart
because there isn’t any right now;
we’ve lost so many games because
we don’t have any heart.”
Intensity. Effort. Heart. Any
other intangibles that Mustangs
acting head coach Bradley Campbell could think of after the game
were absent during play and
against a team like Waterloo, he
noted that some of those intangibles were needed.
“Waterloo is the sixth-ranked
team in the country,” Campbell
said. “They’re a very veteran team,
and they play like it — we play like
we’re youthful and have a lack of
size and we need to compensate for
that with effort and playing physi-
cally and doing things more fundamentally.”
The absence of these factors
was apparent at the end of the first
half when the Mustangs left the
court trailing the Warriors 36-21,
largely because the older, larger
and taller Warriors were able to get
their hands on almost any rebound
that came their way, be it under
Mustang glass or under their own.
“As for rebounding, we just get
beat on the offensive and defensive
board because we don’t box out
and no one hits,” Paron said.
“When a shot goes up, you’ve got
to hit somebody and just go in and
get the rebound, because everyone
just sneaks in behind us and gets
the rebound.”
“It’s been a focus for us all year
because there’s been a weakness
under the glass and our rebounding
today was unacceptable,” Campbell agreed. “[Rebounding and] a
few other things... pretty much
killed us in this game.”
Waterloo coach Tom Kieswetter
admitted rebounding and dominating the key was the Warriors’ main
strategy.
“[The Mustangs are] a very
explosive team; they’re young and
they’re fearless. So what we had to
do was take some ball control.
Defensively, we tried mixing up
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ball,” Kieswetter said, adding that
his team was able to accomplish its
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“It was definitely lacking in the
first half, and that was a problem
[for Western], and it’s a little disappointing,” he said of the
rebound war.
That being said, the beginning
of the second half saw a different
collection of Mustang ballers who
seemed to possess the very intensity they had been lacking. The Mustangs outscored the Warriors and
won the second half 33-31.
“It was a little better. The effort
was better,” Campbell noted. “As I
told our guys after the game, technically we did things much better.
We just worked harder and that
made up our difference.
“We come out and try to get our
act together in the second half, but
against very good teams, that’s
probably going to be too late,”
Campbell admitted.
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THE GAZETTE
P11
Purple Pipe: Bradley Smith
By Brad Yandon
Gazette Writer
Bradley Smith is this week’s winner of The Gazette’s Purple Pipe
award.
On Saturday, the 6’6” men’s
basketball forward came off the
bench to throw down a monstrous
21 points in 21 minutes, adding
four rebounds and two steals
against a tough McMaster team.
Smith used all of his 222
pounds while aggressively driving
to the net against the Marauders,
and also showed some finesse by
hitting most of his open shot
opportunities.
The Churchill native was a
standout athlete in high school. In a
regional all-star tournament near
Barrie, Smith played well enough
to earn the Most Valuable Player
honours.
Smith’s accomplishment Satur-
day is even more impressive when
taking into consideration that he’s
in his rookie season. As a first-year
kinesiology student, he is learning
to balance the weight of academic
and athletic commitments.
The men’s basketball team got
off to a hot start this season at 3-0,
but has since slid to 4-10 and now
sits at the bottom of the Ontario
University Athletics West division.
However, the mixture of youth
and veteran leadership on the team
has helped create a positive outlook on the season, and Smith
knows that there is still lots of ball
to play before the season’s end.
Jock Talk with Brad Smith
The Gazette sat down with
Bradley Smith to talk hoops and
the white man’s vertical game.
Who is your favourite player in
the NBA right now?
Lebron James. He’s just so incredibly athletic, and he sees the court
so well. Watching him, you can
just tell that he’s doing what he’s
supposed to do. He’s supposed to
play basketball.
of sports. I’m a pretty good golfer.
In high school I was the MVP of
the golf, volleyball and basketball
teams.
What’s the role of team captain
Kyle Coatsworth?
He’s the leader on and off the
court. Everybody listens to what he
has to say, no matter what. He’s
just been great for us this year, and
he’s really gone out of his way to
help out with the younger guys.
We’re so young, but that doesn’t
mean we don’t expect to do well.
This season’s been pretty tough so
far, but I still think it’s possible for
us to turn it around. I think we’ve
got a good outlook for the future.
Anything’s possible for us in the
next couple years.
Which is the better basketball
movie: Hoosiers or White Men
Can’t Jump?
(Laughing) White Men Can’t
Jump! But my favourite of all-time
is still He Got Game.
Do you play anything aside from
basketball?
When I was younger I played a lot
What’s it like to play on such a
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ON DECK:
Western-Lakehead results... Tuesday
Lakehead, Western ready to square off at JLC
By Aron Yeomanson
Gazette Staff
Get ready London — the Lakehead
Thunderwolves are coming to town.
When Western hosts two games
against its nemesis from Thunder
Bay this weekend, it will mark the
renewal of what is billed as one of
the fiercest rivalries in Canadian
Interuniversity Sport hockey.
Making the occasion even more
momentous is the fact that Saturday’s contest will be held in downtown London at the John Labatt
Centre, a venue that has never hosted a CIS game before.
The close to 5,000 fans expected at Saturday’s game — as well as
those attending Friday’s scheduled
contest at Thompson Arena —
should be in for a treat.
“Obviously, they’re our biggest
rival,” said Mustangs head coach
Clarke Singer. “Anytime we play
Lakehead, you know it’s going to
be a battle, but this year [with
games later in the season] should
be especially exciting because the
division title is really on the line in
the next few weeks.”
Thunderwolves coach Pete Belliveau echoed Singer’s sentiments.
“When we play Western, it’s not
a normal game. Singer has recruited
well and assembled another really
good team, so this weekend should
be everything you’d expect.”
“Not normal” is a good way to
put it. The last time the Thunderwolves were in town was for the
third game of a best-of-three playoff series in last season’s OUA
West division final. Lakehead won
the classic contest in quadruple
overtime.
Both the Mustangs and the
Thunderwolves — ranked respectively as the No. 3 and No. 8 teams
in Canada — have stumbled lately,
with Western dropping two of its
last three and Lakehead having lost
four in a row.
With many of the players competing in this weekend’s games
having been recent teammates,
some might expect the rivalry to
lose some of its potency. Singer,
who coached the Canadian team in
Austria, doesn’t see new friendships playing a factor.
things back to the way they’ve
always been.”
The Thunderwolves are led
offensively by long-time London
Knights captain Joel Scherban and
Jeff Richards, who has lit up the
CIS in recent years. Containing a
skilled Lakehead offense promises
These results don’t mean too
much, however, as both teams
were missing several key components over this stretch; seven Western players and five Lakehead
players were competing in Austria
for Canada at the World University Games.
“The guys got along great in
Austria, but that doesn’t mean a
whole lot now,” he said. “Now that
we’re back here our focus is on our
team, and their focus is on their
team. Once we get back in our
respective uniforms, it’ll only take
one check and one shift to get
to be a tough task for the Mustangs.
“With Lakehead you really have
to make sure to limit their opportunities,” Singer said. “You have to
give them as few special teams
opportunities as possible, because
skilled guys like Scherban and
Richards can really hurt you.
“We also have to be sure to keep
a high man in the offensive zone
and limit odd-man rushes. They
have too many weapons to take a
lot of chances.”
This year’s Mustangs squad
plays a decidedly different style
than the dejected bunch that left the
ice in the seventh period last year.
Singer has built a bigger, stronger
team capable of playing a more
physical game than last year’s
smaller, more skilled group.
“When you look at the best
teams in the country, you really
have to be physical to be successful,” Singer said. “This weekend
will be a good test to see how we
do against one of those teams.”
While the Thunderwolves are
used to playing before large crowds
— their home games usually draw
over 4,000 — Saturday night’s
game should be a welcome change
for the Mustangs. According to
Singer, the larger crowd won’t play
a role in the Mustangs’ game plan.
“We usually draw really well
when Lakehead comes to London,
so the change of venue shouldn’t
be that important to the way we
play,” he said. “Certainly, it will be
nice to expose our brand of hockey
to a broader audience. The JLC is
one of the best venues in the country for this type of event and we’re
happy to be a part of it.”
Both Friday’s and Saturday’s
games start at 7:35 p.m. and can be
heard live on CHRW 94.9FM.
Tickets for Saturday night are on
sale in the University Community
Centre atrium and at the JLC box
office, as well as through the Mustang Ticket Line and Ticketmaster.
Western bounces back with win against Waterloo
By Chris Scott
Gazette Staff
The Waterloo Warriors had no
idea what they were in for against
the Western Mustangs in Wednesday night’s women’s basketball
game.
Coming off two straight losses,
the ’Stangs were hungry, came out
of the gates hot and never looked
back. They easily handled the Warriors, beating them 60-47, but the
game was never as close as the
score would indicate.
Western jumped out to a 17-6
lead 10 minutes into the first half
and enjoyed a 20-point cushion
throughout most of the game. With
three minutes left, the team became
slightly lackadaisical and let the
gap close to only 13 points.
The ’Stangs suffocated the Warriors with tight defense and clutch
inside and outside, shooting up and
down the lineup.
Coming off the bench, Paula
Romkey led Western offensively,
toying with Waterloo’s low post
defenders and basically scoring at
will.
Romkey played 17 minutes,
dropped 16 points and added four
rebounds on 55 per cent shooting
from the field.
“Coming off two losses, this is a
big win for us,” Romkey said after
the game. “We just needed to
believe in ourselves and remain
confident in our ability. We don’t
like losing, especially at home, and
no one outworks us on our home
court.”
The game was a tune-up of sorts
for Western, a team that could possibly move into a tie for second
place in the Ontario University
Athletics West division if it defeats
Laurier on Saturday afternoon, as
well as gets some help from other
teams in the league.
Western forced Waterloo to
expend the entire 30-second shot
clock more than once and forced
rushed shots and protected its own
net with tenacious defense the
entire game.
Karenina Aguilar was a model
of consistency and hit a big three
down the stretch for the ’Stangs,
led the defense with three steals
and turned many turnovers into
quick fast-break points for her
team.
“Tonight we played to win
instead of just playing not to lose,”
Aguilar said. “This game got us
mentally focused and pumped up
for our big game with Laurier,” she
added.
Western head coach Mike
Milne was pleased with his team’s
effort and hustle on Wednesday
night. The Mustang players were
still diving on the floor for loose
balls in the closing moments of the
game, despite the significant lead.
“We worked harder than
[Waterloo] tonight. Our zone press
worked well and other than the last
few minutes of the game, we were
very focused and executed well,”
Milne said.
Regarding how well this game
prepared the Mustangs for the big
game against the Laurier team,
Milne touched on his team’s practice habits.
“We did a lot of good things that
we worked on in practice, and that
should prepare us for Laurier,”
Milne said.
Romkey dominated any of the
post defenders from Waterloo that
attempted to hold her down with
her silky smooth post moves and
slick finishing ability around the
net.
Perhaps the best praise a player
can get is from her coach, and
Romkey certainly earned a lot of
praise from Milne after her performance against the Warriors.
“Paula finished really well for
us and didn’t turn the ball over,”
Milne commented. Romkey was
the only player on the court for
either team to refrain from turning
the ball over.
The Warriors were quite dejected after the game and rumblings
from their fans suggested the
Waterloo effort was among its
worst this season.
Tim Toplak/Gazette
FADING AWAY ON THE COURT, BUT NOT IN THE STANDINGS.
The Mustang women’s hoopsters snapped a two game losing
skid with a decisive victory over the Waterloo Warriors.

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