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KIMELLIOTTlance writer__________________________
In their first taste of playoff ac-tion, the Lancers drew blood
in dismissing the feisty Brock Badgers 85-61 in an OUA West
semifinal at home on Saturday.
Both teams came out with playoff intensity from the open
whistle. The Lancers scrapped their way to a 23-18 advantage after
the first quarter. Both teams produced evenly with 19 points apiece
over the next 10 minutes of play. Despite a spirited effort by
Brocks Jame-son Tipping, who topped all first half scorers with 11
points, Windsor maintained a five-point lead at 42-37 heading into
the locker room at the half time.
Energy and production wise, the
Lancers got the leadership on the floor from the players they
needed to get it from, namely in power forward Lien Phillip who
outpaced all scorers with 21 points and 13 rebounds.
The guys really have my back, Phillips said. They were saying,
come on Lien you gotta get into it, we need you. So I started
rebounding aggressively and the buckets started falling easier as
well and that felt really good.
The good thing about our 10-man rotation is that it doesnt
matter who comes in and if someone is having a good game, were just
happy for him and we keep pushing it to him, Phillip added.
The Lancers also got 15 points from sophomore Evan Mathews and
rookie sensation Ismar Seferagic, along with a solid 10 points from
Enricho Diloreto and eight timely points from
Lancers captain Josh Collins.
For the Badgers, Mark Gibson lead the way with 17 points,
Jameson Tipping had 15 points, Mike Luby had 12 points and C. J.
Smith added 11 points.
Percentage wise, both teams shot respectably from the floor with
Windsor having a slight edge of 41.5 per cent versus 35.3 per cent
from two point range and 38.9 per cent versus 36.4 per cent from
three point range. Both teams struggled at the free throw line,
however, with Brock slightly prevailing at 64.3 per cent over 63.6
per cent for Windsor.
I am so proud of our guys today, Lancers head coach Chris Oliver
said. Not only was it a great win, but they really showed how much
of a
team they are today. Our motto is one team, one family and as
families go we may be a bit dysfunctional at times; thats just the
way it is. But, we dem-onstrated today that as a group of
individually talented guys we can put the team before all else.
Hoping to pull off a second post-season upset, disappointed
Brock coach Brad Roots said, We had them within seven at a couple
points in the final quar-ter, but we just couldnt capital-ize. They
hit a couple of threes, then eventually wore us down and were able
to pull away.
It wasnt the Lancers 10-man rotation that wore down the Badgers,
according to Roots.
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opinion
Lets all hope that the University of Windsor Students Alliance
doesnt purchase Ali Babbas restaurant on University Avenue as the
new student pub.
First of all, its off campus. Why should students and staff be
forced off campus?
Secondly, the fact that the UWSA board of direc-tors considered
approving up to $600,000 be used to purchase the restaurant is mind
boggling.
The UWSA has a massive annual budget and, with ev-ery passing
year, a new crop of executives come along to take control of the
purse. Decisions should not be made at whim, and allocating
$600,000 for a facility off campus seems entirely illogical; at
least spend the money on campus.
The Lance reported recently that UWSA general manager Dale
Coffin had reservations about the proj-ect and how quickly the
board was moving: I think someone has got to stand up and say, How
did we go from were going to look into this seven days ago, to we
want $600,000?
The UWSA has a fair share of experience in spend-ing students
money. Having spent over $250,000 on the Coming Home Music
Festival, after all revenue and expenses were accounted for, the
event cost the UWSA meaning they lost $37,000.
Sure students had a great time, but were they directly consulted
when the decision was made? No.
The same goes for this pub. If the UWSA are seri-ous about
replacing the former pub, then the decision should only come after
consultations with the student body.
Many students are still upset and indeed angry that the UWSA
sold off the pub space in the basement of the CAW Student Centre
and rightfully so. Its called the CAW Student Centre, and it was
the students own pub.
While the pub itself had a long history of fiscal mismanagement,
it doesnt mean that students dont deserve nor want a pub; it just
means it needs to be managed differently.
So here is my plea to the UWSA: please dont spend $600,000 off
campus before looking into opportuni-ties to spend that cash on
campus. Also, could you maybe spend a bit less than $600,000?
Thanks,
-Jon Liedtke
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a new pub should be on campus
I AM WEAK. Instead of doing work, I go on Twitter; when its time
to buckle down, I have to turn on an app that shuts down all of my
social media. I cant resist the vortex of information on the
Internet whether Im in class, on the bus, or at home. I read the
news when I walk my dog and browse Foursquare when I come to a new
place. And Im not the only one.
University of Ottawa professors have the ability to ban
electronics in the classroom and Im all for this policy. One glance
around a crowded lecture hall will show that most people are web
surfing. Why listen to a professor drone on when half a dozen of
your friends are dying to tell you about the latest gossip?
Students against the ban might argue that were all grown-ups who
assume responsibility for our own actions, but thats not realistic.
At the end of the day, we know well go on Facebook and Twitter, or
browse cat memes. The reason were mad about laptops banned from
classrooms is that we wouldnt be able to stay plugged in; wed be
forced to learn really boring theory from a guy whose name most of
us cant even remember. Not fun.
Personally, Ive seen a rise in my grades when I put my laptop
away. I dusted off my pen and paper and started bringing it to the
classroom, which made me more engaged and involved the profs can
actually see my face this way instead of trying to make eye contact
with the cat sticker on my computer lid. Its so nice when teachers
know what their students look like.
Whenever I give a presentation and see people texting, I get
nervous and irritated: Was my hard-researched material too boring?
Am I boring? Will they pay attention if I start tap dancing? Our
poor professors have to put up with technologi-cally induced ADD in
every class. Its disrespect-ful and unnecessary. The professors
wont ever top the hilarity of the latest Lazy College Senior meme,
but thats no reason not to pay attention to them.
Thats why I support technology bans in the classroom they are
eye-opening and annoying, and they work. Its good to know I can
survive three hours without my dear laptop, and its nice to work on
my calligraphy skills too. Above all, I want to learn, even if that
means parting with my MacBook for a while.
Jane Lytvynenko The Fulcrum (University of Ottawa)
take the laptop away; why banning laptops in the classroom is a
legit policy
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FAIZAMIRZAnews editor__________________________
The University of Wind-sor was filled with sights, sounds and
smells from every corner of the globe on Feb. 14 as cultural
diversity was championed at the Celebration of Nations.
Many countries, includ-ing Nigeria, Pakistan, India, Saudi
Arabia, China, Brazil and Philippines participated in the CAW
Student Centre com-mons, with performances and displays
representing ethnic delights from their countries.
I think it is certainly a great way to celebrate and under-stand
different cultures. This initiative brought all of us closer to
each other and helped us in appreciating the differ-ences. It made
me feel that we are all a part of one big fam-ily, said Deepthi
Goppumuj-
jall, an international student from India.
For many students the event was another way to remove the stigma
surrounding them and their countries.
Reyous Algohan, a student from Saudi Arabia, said, This is my
second year as a par-ticipant and it [Celebration of Nation] is
definitely getting bigger. Most of the people on this side of the
hemisphere do not know much about us. What they know is generally
stereo-typical, but once they interact with us it is easier for
them to understand that we are not very different from them. This
is exactly what Celebration of Nations does.
Being a multicultural country, Canada is one of the most
attractive locations for interna-tional students. Many of them
travel all the way from Africa and Asia to receive quality
education and get exposed to foreign culture. Some of them are
apprehensive and may suf-fer from cultural shock, how-ever, events
such as these help students transition significantly.
Veronica Olalere, a student from Nigeria, said, I am really glad
that University of Windsor has provided us with a plat-form to
display our diversity in every possible way.
When students and immigrants come to North America, they have no
idea what challenges they will be faced with. These events help us
in understanding North American culture and at the same time
provide North Americans with an opportunity to understand our
culture.
Olalere thinks that initiatives such as Celebration of Nations
serve as an ice breaker between Canadian and international
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JONLIEDTKEfeatures editor__________________________
Ontario New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath is hoping to
bring a new youth employment program to the legislative table.
Horwath, a member of the Legislative Assembly of On-tario
representing the riding of Hamilton Centre, was chosen as NDP
leader in 2009.
As the first woman to lead the Ontario NDPs and the sec-ond ever
female leader with representation in the provincial legislature,
Howath has made waste of glass ceilings and intends to do the same
with the minority Liberal government.
We have heard loudly and
clearly from Ontarians, said Horwath. They want some action and
that is why I really think we can start actually achieving things.
People have been on the back burner for far too long; we need to
get some results for people. The focus has got to be getting back
to business and getting results for Ontario families.
Horwath believes that the lack of job opportunities for youth is
creating pressure where families are torn apart as young people
leave. For Horwath, the youth retention issue is directly connected
to the debt that burdens graduates. Hor-wath claims that she, if
elected, would seek to freeze tuition in an effort to find the way
to ensure that post-secondary education is affordable and of high
quality.
Having toured the province soliciting input from young
Ontarians, Horwath is seeking to lower the youth unemploy-ment rate
through job creation. Statistics Canada reports a national
unemployment rate for youth (ages 15 to 24) of 13.5 per cent last
month compared to seven per cent for adults over 25.
Howaths brain child is the First Start Program. Aimed at
Ontarians aged 16-26, the four- to six-month job placement program
would incorporate a training component and subsi-dize wages to
employers, who would only have to pay hires $12 hourly.
While existing programs ex-ist to assist youth, Horwath
explained that First Start wouldnt require a lot of
hoops to be jumped through or other requirements to be
ful-filled. It really is about getting a chance to learn and
learn.
Under the program, employers would pay a certain amount of wage
and the government would cover majority of it pro-viding the
employer offers both on-site learning and meaning-ful work
experience.
Horwath said she would close tax loopholes to fund the program.
[Ontarians are] more supportive of programs to help young people
get their first job than they would allow com-panies to write-off
expensive meals and entertainment for their customers for
example.
Horwaths success as a woman in politics has been influential to
many young women she
has met in her recent campus appearances. She is openly excited
to know her position creates opportunities and influ-ences young
women.
When you look at all of the municipal councils, provincial
legislatures and the federal government, women are still less than
30 per cent represen-tation and that is not a good thing, said
Horwath. Its a matter of making sure those other ranks are being
equally filled by women.
While there are six female premiers in the country, Horwath
believes that there is still a need for more women in top electoral
positions across Canada.
UWindsor celebrates cultural diversity Celebration of Nations
educates through interest
NDP Horwath says she can cure youth unemploymentOntario NDP
leader plans to make it simple to land work post-grad
Andrea Horeath stopped in at The Lance office to talk about her
new programs photo Jay Verspeelt
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FAIZAMIRZAnews editor__________________________
New concerns over gender based pay inequity have brought the
glass ceiling back in to focus.
In a recent decision by the University of British Columbia, the
base pay of all women in the professoriate and instruc-tor streams
is expected to rise by two per cent in an effort to eliminate
gender pay inequities determined almost seven years ago.
A report published by to Macleans magazine shows that women on
average earn approximately 16 per cent less as compared to men,
according to Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Develop-ment member countries, which includes Canada. OECD claims
in the upper echelon of the corporate hierarchy, women are paid 21
per cent less than their male counterparts.
It is a real problem, not only in the professoriate but across
jobs and occupations, said Martha Reavley, faculty member at the
University of Windsors Odette School of Business. Gender pay
inequity remains one of the biggest challenges faced by North
American women in the working force.
Womens work is generally undervalued. On average, across
occupations, women continue to make approximately 70 cents for
every dollar earned by a man, said Reavley. Women are now receiving
doctorates at the same rate as men. In some disciplines, they now
receive the majority of terminal degrees, however, still face
challenges of getting hired and getting tenure in salary.
Reavley believes that more transparency with salary policy would
go a long way in alleviat-ing this problem. Normally, ne-gotiations
of salaries are rather
blind processes because the salary range is known but that magic
number is not. Deans may have an interest in keeping salaries at
the low end of the range whereas the prospective employee has an
interest in getting the highest salary they can get quite
naturally, said Reavley.
According to Reavley, without reliable and in depth data on what
others have been paid and the nature of overall salary packages,
its hard to know where the best deal from the perspective of the
new-hire really lies. This information is not easily
retrievable.
The University of Windsor is committed to ensuring that there is
no inequity in pay based on gender. It is true that there is ample
evidence of historical inequities across our country, said
University of Windsor president Alan Wildeman.
Through collective bargaining processes and job reviews, we have
systems that discourage against inequity occurring, Wildeman added.
However, if there are situations where some-one feels that there is
gender-based inequity, we try to address it. We review compensation
trends and strive to ensure that they are fair and equitable.
Wildeman showed his commit-ment towards eradication of gender pay
inequity and em-phasized that without question, pay equity for
women is some-thing that we must ensure.
Reavley believes awareness of pay inequity issues is important
from the start in order to prevent a lifetime of suppressed
income.
This first negotiation sets your remuneration throughout your
career generally. So, if you dont do well when hired, you continue
to proceed poorly. There are some exceptions as changes are made in
some cases but they are relatively few in number.
Mind the glass ceiling UWindsor shows commitment to address
gender pay inequity
FAIZAMIRZAnews editor__________________________
Apetition is circulating at the University of Wind-sors law
school over the potential creation of an Aborigi-nal Law
program.
Caitlin L. Beresford, one of the initiators and students of the
law school, said, Windsor Law has two classes in Aboriginal law and
one of them focuses more on social and legal aspects of indigenous
people. Our professor, Ron George, a practicing lawyer out of
Sarnia, gave us insight into what it was like growing up on a
reserve, working on a reserve and living there today.
According to Beresford, frus-tration with a local program that
some of the students were involved in was also one of the reasons
which prompted them to initiate this proposal.
As part of this program, we were seeing where we could take
social justice for Aborigi-nal people. We wanted to get out into
the community and make our presence known. However, we failed to
achieve that success because the pro-gram was in its infancy, said
Beresford. It originally started as a program to assist Aborigi-nal
people within the com-munity but, as we continued discussing
options between our-selves and our class and what was going to be
cost effective, we realized that a specializa-tion program at
Windsor would actually be more relevant.
Michelle Pilutti, assistant dean in administration at Wind-sor
Law School, stressed the significance of providing justice to
different members of the society.
Access to justice is an impor-tant theme at Windsor Law. It is
through this lens that we strive to maintain student
ac-cessibility, particularly from underrepresented groups, and
to provide support structures to ensure success in our academic
programs, said Pilutti.
It is crucial that Canadian Universities, particularly law
schools, respond to the access to justice needs of Aboriginal
people. We are hopeful that by providing an opportunity to
spe-cialize in Aboriginal law it will shed more light on Aboriginal
values, traditions and issues that are faced by this histori-cally
disadvantaged group. In addition, it may encourage our students to
ultimately pursue careers in government, educa-tion, NGOs research,
and policy development, she added.
According to Beresford, very few Canadian universities offer
diverse programs in Aboriginal law but most of them dont provide
students with an option of graduating with a specialized
degree.
The program would allow for those interested in Ab-original law
to gain theoretical and practical knowledge and experience. They
would be able to learn about Aboriginal cultures and the various
issues that communities deal with respect to land claims and treaty
rights, self-governance, poverty, discrimination or criminal law,
said Beresford. The program similarly would allow us to serve a
population in need of legal assistance, by support-ing Aboriginal
clients through advocacy and research.
Douglas Sanderson, assistant professor at University of Toronto
and an expert in Ab-original law, also shares similar views.
It is important that Canadian
law students study Aboriginal law for a number of reasons,
Sanderson said. Most impor-tantly, because Aboriginal law is a
foundational tradition in Canadian law. Another reason is that the
Canadian economy is highly resource develop-ment dependent and
Indigenous people hold rights and interests with respect to those
lands. The Constitution requires consulta-tion with Indigenous
people when their interests may be affected by state action, and
the Constitution further requires accommodation of Indigenous
interests with respect to state actions.
Beresford the law school is cur-rently in the preliminary phase
of curriculum development. For now, the proposal entails inclu-sion
of mandatory Indigenous legal traditions and Aboriginal law in
society classes, as well as participation in the Aboriginal
Kawaskimhon moot and inde-pendent research project.
Pilutti is hopeful that by devel-oping an area of specialization
in Aboriginal law, the interest and number of Aboriginal
ap-plicants will increase.
Currently, the proposal is com-plete and the students are being
approached to sign it. Once the petition is closed and the proposal
is finalized, the request will be submitted to the deans office for
consideration
We have support from Legal Aid Ontario, as well as other firms
that specialize in Ab-original law and, hopefully, this will become
a reality for next semester, said Beresford.
Aboriginal law program proposedProgram to offer insight into
social and legal aspects
It is crucial that Canadian universities respond to the access
to justice needs of Aboriginal peopleMICHELLEPILUTTI ASSISTANT
DEAN, WINDSOR LAW
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JAYVERSPEELTlance writer__________________________
Excitement over planned Sandwich Town St. Pat-ricks Day
celebrations is not shared by all businesses in the west-end.
A street closure approved by city council, allowing festively
minded bar goers to safely travel from one watering-hole to the
next is being tackled by one business owner. Bill Davies, owner of
Wallys Bait and Tackle, is the only person who opposes the
festivi-ties this year.
March is a very important month for us because people are out
there buying tackle our new equipment. Cabin fever people cant wait
to get out as almost 80 per cent of our business is done on
week-ends. BIA stands for Business Improvement Association not Bar
Improvement Association, he said. Davies said his store is
strug-gling and is worried that the festival will negatively affect
his business.
Similar oppositions arose last year over a downtown St.
Pat-ricks Day street closure when a number of Chatham Street
businesses protested over simi-lar reasons.
David Grimaldi, executive di-rector for the Sandwich Towne
Business Association, said the organization plans to close Sandwich
Street between De-troit and Brock streets, save for the foot
traffic of (sometimes tipsy) calibrators of Irelands patron saint
for safety. No alcohol would be sold or festivities happen on the
roads, but patrons would be able to move freely between
establish-ments in the designated area with beverages in hand.
Other BIA members believe the
extra foot traffic may be a posi-tive force although Grimaldi
said that the association is try-ing to mitigate any losses that
Davies may incur. At a Feb. 19 council meeting, Ward 4 Coun. Alan
Halber-stadt questioned, So you are suggesting that there might be
losses? To be fair to him, if you (Davies) are suffering and we are
making profit that day, we are going to work with you and mitigate
your losses, said Grimaldi. That offer stands? asked
Halberstadt.
No, he declined the offer, said Grimaldi Davies told the council
that the offer would have had stayed valid if he had not voiced his
concerns to council members. They were trying to buy my silence,
said Davies. After about 30 minutes of discussion, council approved
the permit. The event, dubbed The Irish Quarter, in Sandwich Town
will take place on Sunday, March 17 starting at 11 a.m.
West-end bars are greening up in preperation for a Sandwich Town
St. Patricks Day festival on March 17 photo Jay Verspeelt
FEB.27.2O13 UWINDSORLANCE.CA/NEWS // O5
Green light for St. Patricks Day party Not all establishments
want to share in the shamrock draped day
JONLIEDTKEfeatures editor__________________________
A new election timeline has been passed by the University of
Windsor Students Alliance after it canceled upcoming elections at
an emergency council meeting earlier this month.
The UWSA had planned to run two new executive positions in the
elec-tion, thereby expanding its executive membership from four to
six, but were informed by legal counsel that policies were not
followed because the positions had not been enacted into bylaw.
There were allegations that the six exec policy passed earlier
was not allowed, which meant that we couldnt include new positions,
explained UWSA vice-president university affairs Mohammad Akbar,
who proposed expanding the number of executives to help improve
efficiency.
Originally, the idea was to take [the two new positions] out.
But a point was brought up that you cant just change the elections
whenever you feel like it ... once its approved, you have to cancel
it and do it again, said Akbar.
The new election timeline moves voting to March 26 through 28.
Voting was ini-tially to take place March 12 to 14. The nomination
period is Feb. 25 through March 6. The campaigning period for
candidates will be from March 10 until March 23.
The two proposed executive positions are not included in the
nominations.
There are 45 seats up for grabs for council, senate and board of
directors, including a new council representative for Schulich
School of Medicine and Dentistry.
The previously announced referen-dum question will remain, which
asks students whether they want the UWSA to continue its membership
with the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance. Students are
currently paying $2.82 per semester, plus inflation, for OUSA
membership.
The only problem Akbar foresees with the upcoming election would
result from candidates who lose and try to appeal because the
election had been recalled.
That happens every year and whether their appeals are legitimate
or not, we have to see, explained Akbar who added that an appeal is
based on a num-ber of rules.
Hiring for the position of deputy return-ing officer is taking
place as Jordan Ren-aud resigned from his position, claiming
corruption and influence were hindering the election.
At a Feb. 7 council meeting, a motion was brought forward to
oust chief return-ing officer Ebenezer Fordjour. Mem-bers of
council alleged that he failed to perform his job duties.
Fordjour is still employed with the UWSA. The next council
meeting is taking place Feb. 28. Akbar explained that while the
motion didnt pass, If something has to happen, it is probably going
to happen then.
UWSA electionsback on trackStaffer blaimed for delay in
process
FARAHAKILlance writer_________________
The City of Windsor has put 18 city parks on the chopping block
including five are in the west-end.
Fabio Costante, a University of Windsor law student and founder
of Our West End, a grass roots organization that strives toward the
improvement and the preservation of parks in west-end, has been
pe-titioning against the proposed park closures.
We took it upon ourselves to provide the community a chance at
feedback, said UWindsor business student Ahmed Farhan, who was
organizing a Feb. 23 petition against the park closures. All the
five parks are within one kilometre radius of each other in the
area called Brid-geview.
The petition was cancelled due to, what Costante called
premature process.
City of Windsor administration will review the 18 parks over the
next nine years, two parks per year, and will make recommendations
to city council regarding the disposition of parks under
consideration, said Costante. One of the two parks up for review
this year is South Tilston, located at the Bridgeview
neigh-bourhood in the west-end.
According to Farhan, the city ad-
ministration is considering closing the parks because its facing
budget-ary constraints.
Earlier this month, west-end residents attended a city-led
meet-ing to hear the rationale behind the proposed closures of Long
and South Tilston parks. However, many of them were dissatisfied
with the proposal. Some believe that the closure will further
decline the real estate value of their houses whereas others were
concerned about the loss of playgrounds for their children.
Bahia Chalhoub, a west-end resi-dent, believes that the park in
her neighbourhood is ideal for her three children and is a place
she relies on for their entertainment and exercise.
I would be very disappointed if the city goes on with their
decision to shut down those parks, said Chal-houb. If anything, we
need more parks. It keeps everyone away from technology, it keeps
the children active and it brings the community closer and that is
what actually pro-vides the positive energy and the im-provement
towards our community.
Costante believes there is no imme-diate threat of city council
closing down any parks.
To legitimatize the shutdown of any public space the city
administra-tion must first hold a public consul-tation with
residents in the area to gauge their thoughts on the potential
closure, said Costante.
Residents against west-end park closuresWest-end habitants
willing to fight to save parks
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PORK BUTCHER DEMONSTRATION DINNER (Wednesday, Feb. 27 @ 6 p.m.,
Rinos Kitchen)Vegetarians beware. Butcher Jamie Waldron will help
guide you through the process of how your dinner ar-rives on your
plate from farm to fork. Beginning with Harold Wagners Farm to
Waldrons butcher block, through Rinos Kitchen and onto your plate.
The four-course dinner menu is inspired by the different meals of
the day, all showcasing local Berkshire Pork. Farm to table Essex
County style.(519-962-8843, $50)
FREEDOM TO READ WEEK LAUNCH(Thursday, Feb. 28 @ 7:30 p.m., Milk
Coffee Bar)The freedom to read can never be taken for granted. Even
in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines
are banned at the border. Schools and libraries are regularly asked
to remove books and magazines from their shelves. Free expres-sion
on the Internet is under attack. Freedom to Read Week is an annual
event that encourages Canadians to think about and reaffirm their
commitment to intellec-tual freedom. Join Biblioasis, the Bookroom
and all lovers of literature at Milk for an evening of reading from
banned or controversial books.(free)
NEFIDOVS CD RELEASE PARTY(Friday, March 1 @ 10 p.m., FM
Lounge)The Nefidovs will release their second full-length album
Better Wake Up with the help of Shared Arms, James-OL and the
Villains and The Rowley Estate this Friday. The Nefidovs six
members combine elements of punk, hardcore, ska and blues with
enough brass to make your high school band blush. Their live show
is loud, politically charged and incredibly fun.(free)
ROBOT DANCE PARTY(Friday, March 1 @ 10 p.m., Villains
Beastro)What better way to spend a night than dressed in a sil-ver
spray painted cardboard box with dryer vent tubes for arms? Enjoy
electronic music from French house, to lento violento to dubstep,
and if you look roboty enough you could win prizes. All proceeds go
to the Windsor Philosophy Club for an upcoming field trip. For the
real robots, here is the same listing in binary 01100011 01101111
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for robots, $5 for humans)
this weeks best bets
Why is no one on
campus?
WALLstructre @ UWindsorno comment.
LOCKERstorage device @ UWindsorno comment.
CHAIR/DESKseat @ UWindsor no comment.
PAY PHONEphone @ UWindsor Please insert 50 cents or your card to
make a call.
[editors note: it was reading week, campus was closed]
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national news briefsPublisher suing McMaster and librarian for
$3.5 millionHAMILTON (CUP) Edwin Mellen Press is suing a McMaster
librarian, along with the university, for $3.5 million in damages
over a libel claim stemming from a 2010 blog post.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice is now trying the case of
Dale Askey and McMaster versus Edwin Mellen Press (EMP). Askey
published a series of personal blog posts critiquing the publisher
under the title, The Curious Case of Edwin Mellen Press three years
ago.
In his blog posts, Askey stated that Edwin Mellen Press produced
books of low quality and was a junk publisher that regularly
published second-class works that were exorbitantly overpriced. He
also claimed that the press treated its authors in an
unprofessional man-ner and, as a librarian, had seen many poorly
edited and poorly bound books published by EMP.
Askey was issued legal notice in June 2012 as a result of the
alleged defamatory statements. The notice also identifies McMaster
University as co-defendant.
The plaintiff, EMP, claims that by refusing to force Askey to
remove his defamatory comments, McMaster has vicariously adopted
his defamatory and libelous statements.
McMaster spokesperson Gord Arbeau said that the university
stands in full support of Askey.
Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma The Silhouette (McMaster University)
Murder brings light to underbelly of Kitchener-Waterloo sex
tradeWATERLOO (CUP) Kelsey Louise Felkers name can now sadly be
added to the ever-growing list of sex workers who have been killed
or are missing in Canada.
Felkers torso was recovered from a dumpster on Jan. 26. Stephen
Roy Johnson, 37, was charged with first-degree murder and indignity
to a human body.
Police could only confirm that Johnson knew Felker. Weve not
commented on the nature of that associa-tion or that relationship,
said Olaf Heinzel, public affairs co-ordinator for the Waterloo
Regional Police Service. Theres nothing in the investigation that
sug-gests we should make any remarks about that. Police also
declined to comment on Felkers occupation.
Kelley and Felker had worked together in the sex trade. Kelley
noted that Felker was simply the latest of her friends to
disappear.
H.G. Watson The Cord (Wilfrid Laurier University)
the big picture
Student groups celebrate through song, dance, food and colourful
displays during the Celebration of Nations at the University of
Windsor on Feb. 14.(Photo: Jay Verspeelt)
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JONLIEDTKEfeatures editor__________________________
S tudents are back on campus following read-ing week and while
they undoubtedly enjoyed the time away from classes, whether or not
students actually took part in any reading is an entirely different
matter.
Reading week, or spring break as its more commonly referred to
by students, finds its historical roots among the ancient Greeks
and Romans who would celebrate the return of spring, the season of
fertil-ity, through the celebration of pagan rituals which paid
hom-age to Dionysus and Bacchus, the Greek and Roman gods of
wine.
Theres a lot of stress that comes with university. Provid-ing
reading week really helps students with dealing with the stress,
explained Mohammad Akbar, UWSA vice-president university affairs,
who added that a reading week gives stu-dents an opportunity to
catch up on both their studies and projects. In my opinion one of
the reasons why students marks are higher in the winter semester
than the fall semester is because you do have that break to catch
up, finish assign-ments.
According to Time Magazine, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. hosted the
College Coaches Swim Forum in 1938, attracting 300 swimmers and
their peers from across America. Local bars capitalized on the
influx of students, who would soon refer to the city as Ft.
Liquordale by offering all you could drink beer for $1.50. The
tradition of heading south spread from campus to campus and soon
became commonplace. This helped to carve out a week of relief from
classes for students across the globe.
A paper written by University of Windsor professor Eleanor
Maticka-Tyndale and Uni-versity of Guelph professors Edward S.
Herold and Dawn Mewhinney published in the Journal of Sex Research
titled Casual Sex on Spring Break: Intentions and Behaviors of
Canadian Students used focus groups and interviews with Canadian
students who had traveled to Florida for spring break. It
determined that the key elements of a spring break vacation
included a group hol-iday with friends traveling and rooming
together, a perpetual party atmosphere, high alcohol consumption,
sexually sugges-tive contests and displays and the perception that
casual sex is common.
Overall, there is the percep-
tion that sexual norms are far more permissive on spring break
vacation than at home, providing an atmosphere of greater sexual
freedom and the opportunity for engaging in new sexual experiences,
the paper continues.
Second-year psychology and criminology student Kayla Rae
intended to complete the large majority of her school work towards
the beginning of the break, but soon found herself saying I dont
have class tomorrow ... I can just do it then.
While she was able to get some work done over the break, Rae
conceded that it wasnt as much as she had intended to complete.
Looks like I should go to Windsor early, Ive gotten, like, zero
reading done on my reading week :| commented Twitter user
@Spenelley.
Rae added that she saw nu-merous social media statuses online,
such as @Spenelleys tweet that many students were pretty much on
the same boat and disappointed in their ef-forts.
Some students expressed dis-may that some food outlets on campus
such as Tim Hortons operated at reduced hours for
the duration of reading week, while The Marketplace, The Bru,
Dividends, Gavel and CEI were shut down entirely.
This prompted University of Windsor Social Science Soci-ety
president to express Here are the food options students have on
campus during reading week. #shameful #uwindsor #uwsa
#uwindsorproblems via Twitter, which included an attached
spreadsheet displaying various hours of operation.
In 2010, the university offered a fall review week, but
can-celed it because administration saw the time off to be
unpro-ductive, according to Akbar.
Administration finds reading week to be unproductive. In 2010
when they first intro-duced review week as a test ... students were
expected to
go to campus, attend events [and] speak with faculty. But I dont
think that was effectively communicated to students, so students
didnt show up.
While surveys conducted by vice-provost Clayton Smiths office
showed that students overwhelmingly supported the fall reading
week, Akbar said the unproductiveness of the 2010 review week has
hindered any future plans for an addi-tional one.
I think theres still interest in a fall reading week as long as
those concerns are ad-dressed and it really requires the UWSA and
the students to fight together, to work together to come up with a
really good solution, said Akbar.
Reading week is not just for booksWhether you spent it sun
drenched on a beach or nose deep in a textbook at least it was a
break
One hungry reading week Twitter user was floored by the lack of
open campus food areas during the week-long break
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JAYVERSPEELTlance reporter__________________________
London, Ont. gypsy folk songstress Sarah Smith returns from
touring and recording in Germany with experience and humility.
Smith, now in her mid-30s, is proud to of the wisdom that comes
with age. She joined the military to follow her dreams in a career
that is the convergence of good luck and a road less traveled.
Someone told me you could make a career out of music, said
Smith. I had no idea you
could. So I quit the army and made a career out of music.
Last year, a record producer heard Smiths music scor-ing a photo
montage video on YouTube and made it his goal to bring her to
Germany.
Whatever, I hear it all the time you should come here, you
should do that, said Smith. Sure enough, the guy never stopped
trying to get me to Germany.
Smith doesnt speak a word of German, but the language bar-rier
was not really an obstacle.
I tried to be a part of the cul-ture and I tried a couple German
words. I was just failing miser-ably so I just spoke English and
everybody accepted that, said Smith, smiling and shaking her
head.
Smith played her first show back on Canadian soil last Saturday
at Phog Lounge to a
packed bar with Leighton Bain and Kelly Authier.
Smith backed by a rhythm sec-tion, danced and jumped, walk-ing
off the short riser and into the crowd; very much a musi-cian of
the people. Reminiscent of artists from a time passed, in a very
romantic way, Smith is like a Janis Joplin of her day.
It takes a special kind of weirdo to live this kind of life and
it creates for plenty of home sickness, but I couldnt imagine
working a regular job. I just knew this is what I wanted to do with
my life. I had a good job at a bank after the military and I was
making good money but I kept calling in sick every day. I couldnt
do it; my soul would not allow me, said Smith.
Although she is from London, Smith is taking up residency in
Windsor, even registering as a Windsorite in CBCs much publicized
Hunt for Canadas Best New Artist Searchlight competition.
Sarah Smith, straight off of the plane from Germany, played Phog
Lounge last Saturday to a packed room photo Jay Verspeelt
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Sarah Smiths music of the people
It takes a special kind of weirdo to live this kind of
lifeSARAHSMITHmonthly planning?
on campus off campus
re-applying is easy! Go to www.uwindsor.ca/residence
and you will be assigned right away!yet more reasons to come
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JAYVERSPEELTlance reporter__________________________
Since the rise of digi-tal photography, film sales have
significantly declined. In spite of this, the Lomography Society is
releasing a new film stock for analog purists.
Can a class clown to pay attention in class? One local club
owner is banking on it.
Leo Dufour, owner of Leos Komedy Korner on Ottawa Street, is
preparing to open a comedy school through his club.
We are going to teach how to use a microphone, how to stand in
front of an audience, the mechanics of stand-up and tricks of the
trade to get the audience involved, said Dufour.
The Komedy Korner plans to offer a three-day, 12-hour weekend
course at a cost of for $225.
Comedy writing, maintaining a 10-minute set and improv will be
the syllabus of silli-ness.
Improv is great because you get to learn how to write, think off
the top of your head and learn how to think funny, said Dufour.
While the Komedy Korner has been open for over 30 years,
stand-up comedians are not widely associated with Wind-sor. There
are many open mic nights around the city, but its rare anyone other
than a musi-cian will don the stage.
In more recent months, Vil-lains Beastro and Milk Coffee Bar
have hosted comedy nights.
(Comedian) Rob Kemeny approached me a year ago and now it is
every first Thursday of the month. Comedy night live we call it,
said Geoff Zanetti, owner of Villains Beastro.
According to Zanetti, turn out has been good with a steady crowd
returning each month. Even Zanetti himself did not know of any
places other than Leos in the comedy game.
Local comedian Jarrett Wil-liam Sorko got his start two years
ago at the Korner.
I wrote some jokes very bad ones to say the least an a capella
rap. I went up and performed it. After one time on stage and having
a room full of people laughing at what youre saying, I was hooked,
said Sorko.
Sorko believes that a comedy
course could be very benefi-cial to a budding comedian and says
that Dufour has an endless knowledge of com-edy. Those are not
looking to preform could still benefit, he added.
The Windsor comedy circuit has actually been improving a lot in
the last few years. A lot of people were unaware that there even
was one, said Sorko, who believes a career can be made out of
laughter as long as its in the heart.
Its like golf, once you learn how to swing at least you look
like you know what youre doing, said Dufour.
Classes are scheduled for July 7-8, 27-29, Aug. 10-12 and 24-26.
For more details, visit leodufour.com.
This school is a jokeLeos Komedy Korner plans to run a comedy
school
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STEPHENHARGREAVESmanaging editor______________________
For the first time in two and a half years, Windsorites have a
grass-roots culture paper.
Since the final issue of Windsor Arts and Music Monthly left
newsstands empty in September 2010, the city has been bereft of an
independent scene paper; the longest gap in over 20 years.
Much to Windsorites sur-prise, a new free monthly, The Windsor
Independent quietly delivered what they hope will fill the gap in
the citys publication bracket.
We see a lot of artists in town that are often not be-ing heard,
said Feed Sor-rell, the papers publisher, who studied advertising
at the University of Windsor. We want to become the community
workhorse to get the word around.
The first issue of The Windsor Independent hit newsstands on
Feb. 15.
Both of us are just non-stop devouring new mu-sic, said
editor-in-chief
Dean Scott.
Sorrell added. Its not just music though, its every-thing. Were
getting more involved, not just sitting in the background, I feel
like Im more involved with the people too.
The black and white tabloid is gaining atten-tion quickly as the
art rag-starved city thumbs through the first edition. While there
are a few ap-parent growing pains, the publication, which also
features poetry, pho-tography and restaurant reviews, has Scott and
Sor-rell diving into the citys culture scene headfirst. Their
primary focus is go-ing to be Windsors music scene, with some
culture stuff and hopefully some Vice-esque pieces too, according
to Sorrell.
Were just getting off the ground right now, said Sorrell. But we
have huge shoes to fill and responsi-bility to this community. WAMM
was great, I really appreciated WAMM for everything it did, but
sadly its not around anymore so somebody had to fill the void.
Though its been
great so far, it has been an opportunity to force me to get out
and check out more live bands and art shows that I wouldnt have
checked out; Ive always done that stuff, but this is a reason to
see even more.
The Windsor Independent hopes to grow beyond the paper and
accompanying website, branching out in to hosting shows, booking
gigs, recording video of live shows and growing relationships with
artist management and publicists in and outside of the city.
I want to bring in great new bands to showcase alongside of our
Windsor bands. I want to help get Windsor bands on the road and get
them seen in other cities too, said Sorrell. Its for the community
and the communitys tak-ing it well.
The premiere issue of The Windsor Independent is available free
in bars, coffee shops and other lo-cations across the city. For
more information, check them out online at
windsorindependent.com.
Editor-in-Chief Dean Scott and publisher Fred Sorrell launched
the first issue of the citys latest culture paper Windsor
Independent last week photo Stephen Hargrevaes
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Start the pressesA new local culture publication his
newsstands
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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 27
The Detroit Design Festival information sessionMichigan State
University Detroit Campus
Butcher Demonstration Dinner - PorkRinos Kitchen & Ale
House
Great Aunt Ida wsg. Petal Shop & Mike Galbraith - FREEPJs
Lager House, Detroit
Windsors First Nerd Nite NerdtacularPhog Lounge
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28
Freedom to Read WindsorMilk Coffee Bar
Stitchn BitchTen Thousand Villages
Mute wsg. The Rowley Estate, Adelleda, Valerie Page &
LifecyclesDominion House
FRIDAY MARCH 1
The Edge productions presentsNeil Simons Barefoot in the ParkThe
Capitol Theatre
The Boom Boom RoomVictor Calderone
Theatre Alive presents PippinChrysler Theatre, 8 p.m.
Young at Heart art openingArtspeak Gallery
Patrick Krief (of the Dears) wsg. DaVila & Grind SchemePJs
Lager House, Detroit
Kevin Buckridan art openingRinos Kitchen & Ale House
Robot Costume Dance Party and Philosophy Club FundraiserVillains
Beastro
Nefidovs album release wsg. Shared Arms, James OL and the
Villains & The Rowley EstateFM Lounge
SATURDAY MARCH 2
Gypsy Chief Goliath wsg. Sophist & The Line DrawnThe Coach
and Horses
Theatre Alive presents PippinChrysler Theatre, 8 p.m.
The Swillingtones Phog Lounge
SUNDAY MARCH 3
Theatre Alive presents PippinChrysler Theatre, 2 p.m.
MONDAY MARCH 4
The Udder GuysMilk Coffee Bar
TUESDAY MARCH 5
Beginner Tango Lesson Nancy Johns Gallery & Framing
ARTS CALENDAR
Argo or Lincoln? Film buffs surely debated over which of those
two films was more likely to take home Sundays Academy Award for
best picture. For those who didnt tune in, Agro won. The U.S. drama
about six Americans taking refuge in the Canadian embassy in Tehran
during the 1979 hostage crisis was a likely winner. It had action,
box office numbers and Ben Affleck.
Watching the Oscars, I rooted for Amour, a French-language drama
about an elderly couple whose rela-tionship suffers after the wife
has a stroke. The film was nominated for best picture, best
original screen-play, best director, best foreign film and best
actress. It took home best foreign film but, unsurprisingly, wasnt
able to capture the other prizes.
Amour won the top honour, the Palme dOr, at the Cannes film
festival last year, along with a slew of awards in other
competitions. That a film such as Argo rather than Amour won best
picture is painstakingly predictable.
International (that is, non-American) films rarely win awards
outside of Oscars best foreign film category.
Sure, British films like 2010s The Kings Speech can pull a best
picture win, even 2011s The Artist may be French but it is a silent
film; non-English foreign films have been largely shafted
throughout Oscars 85-year history. From the first through 84th
Academy Awards only 269 nominations were given to non-English
foreign films, resulting in a mere 33 wins. The highest nominated
category for these films is writing with 76 nominations but only
five wins; directing has had 27 nominations without a single
winner.
Luckily, there seems to be a trend toward more for-eign films
gaining nods in other categories. Skimming over the statistics of
the last decade, its easy to see international cinema making more
headway. In 2006, seven films garnered 16 nominations outside of
the best foreign film category.
But, dont let that fool you; only nine foreign-lan-guage films
have been nominated for best picture. None has won.
We live in an increasingly global, connected and instantaneous
world. Theres online press, numerous film award competitions, art
house cinemas in our cities and Netflix streaming into our living
rooms. Its not hard to find and appreciate foreign films.
Filmgo-ers are often faced with cineplexes that cater to trash
cinema and the almighty box office dollar. Many Hollywood-produced
films are great, but as long as the Academy continues to favour
American films audiences will continue to be out of touch with
great cinema beyond the borders of Hollywood.
do you concur?
FOREIGN FLICKS FORGOTTEN AT ACADEMY AWARDS
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NATASHAMARAReditor-in-chief__________________________
Windsor indie punk band The Frontiers are looking to expand
their music offerings with their first full-length album this year.
Members Richard Kasoian and Max McAuley on guitar and vocals,
bassist Matt Ray and drummer Kain Brown have been jamming for
nearly four years. After releasing an EP, Illu-sions, in 2012 and
leaking a few new songs, the boys are ready to hit the studio this
summer. The Lance sat down with three fourths of The Frontiers
before their set at Phog Lounge last Friday.
NATASHA MARAR: How has the sound changed now that youve had some
music out for a few years?
RICHARD KASOIAN: I set it up to be an indie ambient thing ...
The roots of it is a lot of 70s tones and indie mentality but they
bring completely different things. The rest of the guys are from a
hardcore music mental-ity. Kains drumming is sort of technical,
metal. But thats how we end doing what we do.
KAIN BROWN: For all the metal bands out there, we toured with a
few and we always have a good time. Our thing is, if we wanted to,
we could be a metal band, but we chose not to.
RK: We chose not to (laughs). Weve actually played with a lot of
metal bands form this area ... those are our kind of brethren, but
were not from that scene.NM: You guys have the one EP,
a couple songs and touring, what are the plans for another
record?
RK: Were going to do a one off song shortly. Were going into the
studio this year ... probably around 10 songs.
NM: This is not a full-time thing for you? Do you all have
nine-to-five jobs?
RK: I had a nine-to-five job.(laughs) I just recently lost my
job. Windsor is a kind of difficult city in a lot of differ-ent
ways, whether its music or careers. Its always a hard go, but I
think the people who push the hardest will end up doing the best.
Im still pushing for my full-time career to be web design. Music is
the thing we would like to do we would, but nobody is under the
thought that were going to do this as a career.
NM: It seems like you guys do a lot of promotions for other
bands, can you tell me about your relationship with local
bands?
RK: The bands that were friends with, were really, really good
friends with. ... anybody we make friends with we promote anything
they do. ... we want to see Windsors scene promoted more because I
think we have the best music scene in Canada ... The Walkervilles,
Or-phan Choir, The Unquiet Dead, these are bands from a small city
who have done amazing things in the Canadian music scene. Thats got
to say something about a small city that can put out that much
great music.
Frontiers
pqtrendingmALBERTAS DRIVERS ARE DISTRACTED BY THEIR GLOWING
CROTCHES
Transportation officials in Alberta have rolled out a glossy new
$380,000 radio, billboard and online ad-campaign warning drivers
not to be distracted by their luminescent nethers while merging
onto the highway. The ads feature happy Albertians behind the
wheel, smiling into at their glo-crotch with the massive warning
CROTCHES KILL. Alberta is a strange place.
NEW CHARTS WITH YOUTUBE STREAMS MAKE HARLEM SHAKE NO. 1 IN THE
U.S.
New Billboard chart rules incorporat-ing YouTube streams in with
CDs, records, downloads and radioplay to track what Americans love
to hear have made Baauers stupid Harlem Shake top of the charts in
the U.S. I only hope that a cat on a piano knocks Rihanna off the
charts nexts.
NORWEGIANS REPORT DRUNKS DIVORCE MORE THAN NON DRUNKS
Couples who imbibe heavily are more likely to divorce than other
couples. And the risk of divorce goes up for couples in which one
drinks and the other doesnt, according to new research based on a
very large couples study from Norway.Norway, I thought we were
cool, I, I, you dont even understand what, I mean, who I am, I
loved you Norway and you, you just cant, dont, stuff ...
A PINT WITH ...
Frontiers at Phog Lounge last Friday photo Jay Verspeelt
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Now (Toronto Blues Society)3 FELA KUTI The Best Of The Black
President 2 (Knitting Factory)4 GHETTOSOCKS* Were Gonna Drink A Lot
Of Wine... (Droppin Science)5 GENTLEMAN REG* Leisure Life (Heavy
Head)6 CHRISTIANNE* Algoma (Self-Released)7 MATTY POWELL* Kiss The
City (Self-Released)8 CLASSIFIED* Classified (Half Life)9 JOANNA
CHAPMAN-SMITH* Love Me Deeply (Wound Up)10 MATTHEW DE ZOETE* Colour
Film (Self-Released)11 PETER PETER Une version amliore de la
tristesse (Audiogram)12 UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA II (Jagjaguwar)13
BALLAKE SISSOKO At Peace (Six Degrees)14 KARTHALA 72 Diable Du Feu!
(Electric Cowbell)15 P.O.S. We Dont Even Live Here (Rhymesayers)16
NEW ORDER Lost Sirens (Warner (WEA))17 ORGANISSIMO Dedicated (Big
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(Matador)20 CRYSTAL MESS* Unholy Neckbreaker (Self-Released)21 SOHO
GHETTO* Humble Beginnings Make For Good Night Life
(Self-Released)22 TITUS ANDRONICUS Local Business (XL Recordings)23
EDGE OF ATTACK* Edge of Attack (Spread the Metal)24 SUPERMANSION*
Supermansion II (Self-Released)25 HIDDEN TOWERS* Olympus Mons
(Defiled Under Music (DU:M))26 PAUL BANKS Banks (Matador)27 HAYDEN*
Us Alone (Arts & Crafts)28 FLYING DOWN THUNDER & RISE
ASHEN* North Wind (Balanced)29 PEGGY LEE BAND* Invitation (Drip
Audio)30 FOAM LAKE* Force and Matter (Self-Released)
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charts MURADERZINCLIOGLUMusic Director, CJAM 99.1 FMmore Info?
earshot-online.com & cjam.ca
* indicates Canadian artistcharts tabulated over a one week
period prior to the release of this issue
NATASHAFEGHALIlance writer______________________
THOMAS DARCYWhat We Want(self-released)
Small Sins frontman Thomas DArcys solo debut album What We Want,
released on Feb. 5, reveals who he is as an artist. DArcy was
formerly a member of The Carna-tions and also performed as The
Ladies and Gentlemen for a time.
It can be hard to get the full measure of an artist when a brand
new release has come out, especially when the singer/songwriter is
relatively unknown. Though DArcy has put his time in the Toronto
indie scene, many may argue that those bands (especially Small
Sins) were an alter egos of DArcy. He was the leader, songwriter
and artistic navigator. Its these qualities that set to wow
listeners as every one of his songs are proof of his gutsy decision
to break out and go on his own.
DArcys album rings a strong zing to the cranium as his lyrics
are strong and pro-duced fluidly. The songs are ear-catching and
are mostly about love and working in the music industry. The
production is sparkling with a full palette of synths and guitars.
The song Credit issues a warning to our future generations about
careers and choices all in a Bowie-esque vocal.
CASSIEHUNTERlance writer______________________
HOLLERADO White Paint(Royal Mountain Records)
Fast-rising Canadian band Hollerado released their second
full-length album Tuesday on their own label, Royal Mountain
Records. The Ottawa bands new sound is more modern indie rock
compared to their original tones of guitar pop on their debut
album, Record in a Bag.
Something is also to be said about their new lyrical changes on
White Paint, proving that the band has stepped up and brought a
more mature set of tracks that attempt to challenge their audience
to listen more closely.
This album still has an up-beat sound. Tracks such as Dont Think
and Thanks For the Venom bring a quick, guitar-heavy rhythm, but
slows down with Lonesome George. They clearly havent lost the
previous relentless cre-ativity that Record in a Bag brought to the
alternative music scene, and continue to set the soundtrack for
your everyday car journeys.
Singer Menno Versteegs voice is neither harsh nor soft, but it
lulls you through the guitar riffs and drumming patterns that could
be too overpowering otherwise. The new albums tracks, like Desire
126, without a doubt fall into the category of romantic longing,
but have a twist of venom that pulls you through the regular
monotony.
STEPHENHARGREAVESmanaging editor______________________
On Sunday night, a Swedish/British documentary about a
Mexican-American who is famous in South Africa won the Academy
Award for Best Documentary Feature, though it really was more of a
Detroit documentary.
Directed by Malik Bendjel-loul, Searching for Sugar Man details
the efforts of Stephen Sugar Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom
of Cape Town, South Africa, to find out if the rumoured death of
American musician Rodriguez was true, and, if he
was alive, what had happen to Rodriguez and his music.
In 1997, Segerman set up The Great Rodriguez Hunt, a website
with the intention of finding any information about the mysterious
musician who was rumoured to have com-mitted suicide (some even
say-ing that hed set himself alight on stage).
The documentary follows the two fans looking for a man, who in
South Africa was bigger than Elvis. They do find him, in his home
town of Detroit doing odd jobs, dirty jobs, living a menial life
with his daughters, not even own-ing a phone and completely unaware
of his fame across the
ocean.
Rodriguez released two albums 1970s Cold Fact and 1971s Coming
from Reality. Both were commercial flops in his native country but
became the soundtrack of a movement in in apartheid South
Africa.
No one seemed to be able to recall how his records made it to
Africa, but when they did in 1972 he became a superstar though it
took 25 years for him to find out.
Rodriguezs frank, yet beauti-ful, songs about politically,
racially, economically and sexually charged lyrics ap-pealed to the
dispossessed South Africans. The Swedish
Bendjelloul tells his story almost as beautifully.
Im from Detroit. Im born and bred. Ive done the 40s, the 50s,
the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, the zeros. Im working on the
10s now, and so is everybody else, said Rodriguez in the film. I
know Detroit. Its got history.
And though the film follows Rodriguez to South Africa where he
is treated as a musi-cal god, he comes home to Detroit and hes no
different.
The films streamlined narra-tive flows nicely, if at times
omitting pieces to heighten the suspense, like his success in
Australia in the 1980s and his
late 2000s American tour.
The satisfaction of discover-ing he was an icon in South Africa
is heart-warming, and the realization that hes being scammed out of
any royalties is devastating.
Even before the Oscar win, Searching for Sugar Man already had
claimed most of the award-season prizes and earned $3.3 million at
the do-mestic box office. Despite all of this, Rodriguez is
shocking-ly humble. Simon Chinn, who accepted the award Sunday said
that Rodriguez wanted to stay home in Detroit and watch the Oscars
on TV.
Searching for Sugar Man is almost a methaphor for Detroit
famous, forgotten, drity and beautiful photo courtesy Sony Pictures
Classics
Finding Detroit while Searching for Sugar Man
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FEB.27.2O13 UWINDSORLANCE.CA/SPORTS // 13sportsLancers track
team steps down after 14-year reign as OUA Champions
STEPHANIEMCPHERSONlance writer__________________________
A 14-year reign held by the Lancers Mens Track and Field team
came to an end on the weekend at the OUA Championships at the St.
Denis Centre.
Windsor scored a total of 118.5 points for a silver medal,
eclipsed by the Guelph Gry-phons 175.5-point total.
On the womens side, the three-year de-fending Lancers team
finished fourth with 115 points behind Guelph
(148), Toronto (147) and West-ern (134).
Despite the Lancers streaks coming to an end, head coach Dennis
Fairall was optimistic about Windsors gold-medal haul.
We were able to get seven gold medals this year which is more
than we did last year, he said. Unfortunately the silver medal
earnings went down.
The womens team managed to earn a total of three gold medals.
Lancer Ami Schiman-ski not only won the womens weight throw with a
distance of 17.51 metres, but she also met CIS standards and
qualified for national championship.
Amy Schimanski is a fifth-year person and unfortunately this is
her last competition at the St. Denis Centre, Fai-rall said. But
shes a quality person and well miss her next
year. She had a good competi-tion.
Amilia Di Chiara finished in first-place in the womens 60-metre
hurdles with a time of 8.40 seconds.Celine Freeman-Gibb picked up
the women Lancers only gold medal in the field events, recording a
distance of 15.34 metres in womens shot put.
The Lancers mens team picked up a total of four gold medals.
Matt Walters earned top spot on the podium twice, win-ning in
the mens 3,000 metres (8:20.31) and the 1,500 metres (3:53.06).
He rebounded well from his late cross country season which ended
in late January, Fairall said. He performed very well and that was
a very pleasant surprise.
Teammates Aaron Bowman, Leonae Nichol, Matt McK-eegan and Shane
Kelly posted a time of 1:29.10 to help Windsor win in the mens
4x200-metre relay. Bowman also earned himself a gold when he
domi-nated the mens 60 metres with a time of 6.72 seconds.
Although Fairall was disap-pointed by the results, he said it
was also expected.
We didnt have enough points to challenge Guelph, he said. The
team performed very well considering. The women fought hard as well
and competed hard. We knew it was going to be Toronto or Guelph.
You never know how much points home court advantage is worth but we
got another CIS Cham-pionship so well try to do it then.
The CIS Championships are March 7-9 at the University of Alberta
in Edmonton.
(M-meet record; !-CIS qualifier)Women 60m Run 1. Khamica Bingham
Toronto 7.41M; 2. Karry-Ann Cornwall Guelph 7.59!; 3. Jalicia
Clarke Windsor 7.60!Men 60m Run 1. Aaron Bowman Windsor 6.72!; 2.
Oluwasegun Makinde Ottawa 6.83; 3. Ike Omoruna Western University
6.87Women 300m Run 1. Alicia Brown Toronto 38.63!; 2. Sarah Wells
Toronto 38.84!; 3. Brenna Thomson Western University 39.25!; 6.
Emilie Halle Wind-sor 40.55; 13. Camille Wallace Windsor 41.63; 14.
Tichina Jones Windsor 41.67Men 300m Run 1. Devin Biocchi Ottawa
34.33; 2. Scott Hutchinson McMaster University 34.53; 3.
Olu-wasegun Makinde Ottawa 34.64; 7. Leonae Nichol Windsor 35.71;
11. Matt McKeegan Windsor 36.39; 13. Shane Kelly Windsor 36.80
Women 600m Run 1. Sarah Wells Toronto 1:31.97; 2. Natalie Geiger
Toronto 1:32.26; 3. Emma Galbraith Ottawa 1:32.32; 7. Heather Kurpe
Windsor 1:33.10; 15. Samantha Kellam Windsor 1:36.87; 16.
Alexan-dra Moore Windsor 1:37.31Men 600m Run 1. Anthony Romaniw
Guelph 1:19.63!; 2. Scott Leitch Western University 1:20.31; 3.
Michael Trnkus Toronto 1:20.43; 5. Corey Bellemore Windsor 1:20.93;
-- Alex Ullman Windsor DNFWomen 1000m Run 1. Emma Galbraith Ottawa
2:49.92; 2. Rachel Aubry Guelph 2:50.35; 3. Rosa Se-rafini Toronto
2:51.13; 11. Meaghan Marton Windsor 2:57.95; 12. Samantha Kellam
Windsor 2:57.97; 16 Lindsay Thompson Windsor 3:03.77Men 1000m Run
1. Anthony Romaniw Guelph 2:26.41; 2. Yves Sikubwabo Guelph
2:26.71; 3. Steve Holmes Guelph 2:26.81; 7. Corey Bellemore
Windsor
2:28.20; 9. Taylor McArthur Windsor 2:28.65; 10. Paul La Marra
Windsor 2:29.52Women 1500m Run 1. Andrea Seccafien Guelph 4:28.66;
2. Carise Thompson Guelph 4:29.54; 3. Col-leen Hennessy Toronto
4:29.59; 18. Jenn Corrick Windsor 5:01.22Men 1500m Run 1. Matt
Walters Windsor 3:53.06; 2. Yves Sikubwabo Guelph 3:53.86; 3. Steve
Holmes Guelph 3:54.33; 6. Nick Falk Windsor 3:57.20Women 3000m Run
1. Andrea Seccafien Guelph 9:37.15!; 2. Carise Thompson Guelph
9:42.58!; 3. Vic-toria Coates McMaster University 9:45.02!; 11.
Jenn Corrick Windsor 10:29.37Men 3000m Run 1. Matt Walters Windsor
8:20.31; 2. Aaron Hendrikx Guelph 8:21.30; 3. Nick Falk Wind-sor
8:21.55Women 60m Hurdles 1. Amilia Di Chiara Windsor 8.40!; 2.
Hayley Warren Toronto 8.43!; 3. Devyani Biswal Ottawa 8.56!; 6.
Sarah Swain Windsor 8.75Men 60m Hurdles 1. Matt Brisson Western
Univer-sity 7.88!; 2. Oluwasegun Makinde Ottawa 8.13!; 3. Isoken
Ogieva Western University 8.21!; 4. Austin Roth Windsor 8.32Women
4x200m Relay 1. University of Toronto 1:39.21!; 2. Western
University 1:39.32!; 3. University of Windsor 1:40.37!Men 4x200m
Relay 1. University of Windsor 1:29.10; 2. McMaster 1:31.19; 3.
Western University 1:31.65Women 4x400m Relay 1. University of
Toronto 3:42.21M; 2. Western University 3:49.24!; 3. University of
Windsor 3:49.76! (continued on scoreboard)
Windsors Amilia Di Chiara finished first in the womens 60 metre
hurdles and qualified for the CIS championship. Sarah Swain, right,
was sixth photo courtesy Lancers athletics / Edwin Tam
OUA 2013 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPSAT THE ST. DENIS
CENTREFeb. 21-22 Top 3 and Lancers Results
The mens track and field team loses to Guelph on the weekend at
the provincial championships; Lancers womens team finishes
fourth
Windsor 2 Guelph 1Windsor 1 Guelph 0
TANYAQUAGLIAlance writer__________________________
The Lancers Mens Hock-ey team advanced to the OUA West Finals
for the second straight year after sweeping the Guelph Gryphons in
a best-of-three series last weekend.
Thursday night, Windsor opened the series with a 2-1 win over
the visiting Gryphons.
Windsor took control early in the game with a power play tally
from defenseman Steve Ferry. Evan Stibbard and Spen-cer Pommels
earned the assists on the goal.
Guelph came out strong in the second period and Jordan Mock tied
the game at one a little over two minutes in with a power play
goal.
Parker Van Buskirk made many
key saves to keep Windsor in the game.
Not wanting to lose on home ice, Christian Steingraber and Drew
Palmer set Pommels up for Windsors second power play goal of the
night.
Van Buskirk kept the Gryphons out of the net for the remainder
of the game. He made 29 saves in the Lancers win.
In Saturdays hard fought and evenly matched game, the Lancers
came out on top with a narrow 1-0 victory at Guelph.
After a fast-paced first period, the game remained scoreless.
Both Van Buskirk and Gry-phons goaltender Andrew Lov-erock made
many key saves to keep their team in the game.
Late in the second, Pommels took advantage of a power play
opportunity to give Windsor the 1-0 lead. Ferry and Palmer set
Pommels up for the series-clinching goal.
Van Buskirk was solid in net stopping all 31 shots he faced,
thereby earning his first shutout of the playoffs.
Windsor now faces the Water-loo Warriors, who defeated the
Western Mustangs two games to one to earn a berth in the OUA West
Final.
During the regular season, the Lancers won both their games over
the Warriors and will have home ice advantage for the series.
After losing in the OUA West Finals to the Western Mus-tangs,
the Lancers hope to capi-talize on last years experience and skate
home with a win.
Pommels winning goal clinches OUA West semifinal series
Dennis Fairall
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At the end of the season, most guys are ready to put in big
minutes, he said. It was just the pressure they kept putting on us
that wore us down.
Collins expected a tough game against the Badgers.
Its always a 40-minute game with us and they kept hanging
around, but eventually the game kind of took care of itself, he
said. The lost to Western in our second last game (of the regular
season) was a lesson well learned, especially to our young guys.
That bump in the road and the lessons learned showed in our
intensity today. Quite honestly, our first goal was to get to the
Final Four and now that were here, were still going to focus on one
game at a time.
Brock upset Laurier 81-75 in a quarter-final last Wednesday to
get to the OUA West semifinal matchup with Windsor. In the other
semifinal Saturday, second-place Lakehead beat McMaster 81-76
af-ter McMaster eliminated Waterloo 82-60.
With their victories, first-place Windsor and second-place
Lake-head will open the OUA Final Four with a cross-over game
Friday against their OUA East rivals the Ottawa Gee Gees and
Carleton Ravens at Mattamy Athletic Centre (the former Maple
Gardens) in Toronto.
Each winner of the Final Four semis are guaranteed a berth in
the national tournament the following weekend at Carleton in
Ottawa.
Since sixth-ranked Windsor showed it can handle first-ranked
Carleton after beating the Ravens in their first game of the
regular season, a win Friday by each team will set up a grudge
match in Satur-days OUA final that could eventu-ally be repeated in
the national tournament a week later.
While the Lancers havent struck national gold in several
decades, Carleton is gunning for a record ninth national
championship as the winningest mens basketball program in CIS
history.
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Windsor 78 Western 50
JOHNDOHERTYsports editor__________________________
TThe Lancers Womens Basketball team contin-ued their unbeaten
streak into the post-season Saturday at the St. Denis Centre,
defeating the Western Mustangs 78-50 in an OUA West semifinal
action.
Five Lancers hit double digits, led by Korissa Williams with 15
points. Jessica Clemencon had 12 points and 11 rebounds and
Miah-Marie Langlois recorded 14 points with five rebounds and five
assists. Jocelyn LaRocque and Bojana Kovacevic each had 11 points
with Kovacevic adding seven rebounds.
The defending national champs dominated play early, earning a
23-8 lead with Clemencons scoring tally at 10 points after the
first quarter. In the second quarter, LaRocque recorded two
three-pointers while the
Lancers held the Mustangs to just seven points for a 40-15 lead
at halftime.
A rejuvenated Western offence in the third led to the Mustangs
picking up 14 points. However, the Lancers also enjoyed their
greatest scoring run, posting a 28 points and further distancing
their lead.
Western led the fourth quarter 21-10.
With the victory, the Lancers advance to the OUA West final
Saturday when they host third-seed McMaster Marauders at the St.
Denis Centre at 7 p.m.
The Marauders beat the No. 8 ranked Brock Badgers in St.
Catharines to advance.
A Saturday earlier, the Lancers made history following a 62-45
defeat of the Brock Badgers (18-3) in a final regular season
game.
With the win, the Lancers Womens Basketball team became the
first team in OUA womens basketball history to
go undefeated in the regular season since the conference changed
to a 22-game sched-ule.
In that game, Clemencon led scoring with a game-high 15 points
and seven rebounds. Williams posted 14 points, five
rebounds, five assists and five steals.
Womens hoops team advances to west finals
Korissa Williams leads the Lancers with 15 points in Saturdays
78-50 victory against the Western Mus-tangs in an OUA West
semifinal at the St. Denis Centre photo courtesy Lancers athletics
/ Edwin Tam
KIMELLIOTTlance writer_____________________
The The Windsor Express fell short for a second time in as many
games, after winning five straight in the pursuit of the final
playoff spot in the National Basketball League of Canada.
After starting February soundly beating first place London,
second place Oshawa and then sweeping a three-games series away
from Montreal, Windsor let their 401 rival London Lightning steal
one back 99-92 Wednesday and then allowed their play-off rival
Moncton to get away with one 111-100 in overtime on Saturday.
Saturdays loss was par-ticularly troubling as the Express had an
opportunity to show off their wares at the WFCU to an audience
augmented by hold overs from four area high school championships
played on
their home court preceding their 7 p.m. match-up. Yet all is not
lost, guard Darren Duncan said, We definitely have to play every
game as though it is a playoff of game from here on out. We cannot
play down to other teams level of playing, especially having beat
every team in the league thus far.
With an overall record of 15-18 and still under .500 with only
five games remaining in the season, the teams goal and hope of
making the playoffs is very much alive. However, the Express would
have to be nearly perfect the rest of the way, while hoping the
18-20 Moncton Miracles will falter here and there.
Although the most recent losses could be somewhat justified by
star Express forward Chris Collins being sidelined against London
and still nursing a tender left knee against Moncton, every team is
challenged to stem the tide down the stretch regardless of who
suits up, and in whatever condition.
While the Express have shown a marked increase in their
performance with each new acquisition (the latest being play maker
and scor-ing sensation Eddie Smith), that virtually changed the
face of the team since the start of the season. Theyre racing the
clock in getting the players to gel in time for the post season
playoff run.
Beyond the win-loss column statistically, the team has six
players averaging double figures lead by the 19ppg of Chris Common,
17ppg of Darren Ducan and 17ppg of Mike Helms. Former Wind-sor
Lancer Greg Surmacz is also averaging a respect-able 12ppg. The
team is among the top three in team defence, namely by defend-ing
3pt attempts, blocking shots, defensive rebounding as well as in
their assist to turn-over ratio. They are also No. 1 in FT
percentage at 77 per cent.
Reflecting on the season thus far, Surmacz said, It feels good
going down the stretch now we have beat (1st place) London, weve
beat (2nd place) Oshawa, so coming to practice guys are starting to
believe we can be a winning team and that nobody can really stop us
if we play as a team.
Like the inaugural and soph-omore years of the Windsor Stars
professional Soccer team, the Express must fin-ish this season as
strong as possible and come out firing on all pistons at the start
next season to not relin-quish the foothold theyve established in
the NBLC and, moreover, that theyve teased into the hearts and
minds of Windsors basket-ball community.
Express still optimistic after two straight losses
It feels good going down the stretch knowing we can beat
London
GREGSURMACZ
Mens hoopsset sights on national gold
Our first goal was to get to the Final Four and now that were
here, were still going to focus on one game at a time
JOSHCOLLINS LANCERS CAPTAIN
FROM COVER w
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sport briefs
W O M E N S H O C K E YOUA Quarter-finals
2/14/2013 Windsor 6 Queens 1
2/16/2013 Queens 3 Windsor 2
2/17/2013 Queens 7 Windsor 1
Season ends
JOHNDOHERTYsports editor__________________________
The Lancers mens and womens curling teams finished 1-5 at the
pro-vincial curling championships last Monday in Guelph.
In the first day of the three-day competition, the mens team
started off with a promis-ing 7-5 win over the UOIT Ridgebacks. In
the fifth end, the UOIT skip was heavy on his draw for a single
point and gave up a steal of three to the Lancers.
The rest of the weekend did not go as smoothly for Windsor,
which recorded a 7-4 loss to Toronto, a 6-3 loss to defend-ing
champion Waterloo, a 8-4 loss against Brock, a 9-2 loss to Trent
and a 6-4 loss against Laurier.
The Lancers womens team started off the weekend with an 11-5
loss against Trent, which secured its lead with two big ends in the
fifth and eighth ends. In the Lancers subse-quent game against
Brock, skip Kim Curtin drew perfectly to force the Badgers skip to
pin the button for her single point. The Brock skip delivered a
clutch draw to the button for
her single and a 6-5 win.
Windsors sole win came in the third day of competition, when the
Lancers demolished the Waterloo Warriors with a four-end 8-2
victory. Other scores included a 7-3 loss to Western, a 9-1 loss to
McMaster and an 8-5 loss to Toronto.
It would be easy to explain away this season by blaming the ice,
or lack of funding, or a half dozen other reasons why we didnt meet
our potential, Lancers assistant coach Calin Murgu said. It is
harder, how-ever, to admit that focus and determination were not
consis-tent throughout the weekend. Its not just about skill, its
about cohesion and a team ob-jective; if we can get everyone on the
same page, well really deliver next year.
March 1 in Sarnia, Ont., Lanc-ers Kim Curtin, Ethan McAle-ar,
Sarah King and Murgu will play in a mixed international event.
lancethe
scoreboard
M E N S H O C K E YOUA Playoffs - First Round
2/13/2013 Windsor 3 York 2 (2OT)
2/15/2013 Windsor 4 York 2
OUA Quarter-final
2/21/2013 Windsor 2 Guelph 1
OUA Semifinal
2/23/2013 Windsor 1 Guelph 0
OUA Final TBA
T R A C K & F I E L D3/7-9/2013 CIS Championship in
Edmonton
W I N D S O R E X P R E S S02/20/2013 Windsor 94 Montreal 83
02/21/2013 London 99 Windsor 92
02/23/2013 Moncton 111 Windsor 100
02/27/2013 Montreal 7 p.m.
03/01/2013 Saint John 7 p.m.
03/02/2013 Oshawa 7 p.m.
03/06/2013 at Oshawa 7 p.m.
M E N S B A S K E T B A L LCIS RANKINGS
1. Carleton (1), 2. Cape Breton (3), 3. Acadia (4), 4. UBC (2),
5. Ottawa (6), 6. Windsor (5), 7. Saskatch-ewan (10), 8. Ryerson
(7), 9. Lakehead (8), 10. McGill (NR)
2/13/2013 Western 79 Windosr 74
2/16/2013 Windsor 84 Brock 77
OUA West Semi-Finals
2/23/2013 Windsor 85 Brock 61
OUA Final Four
3/1/2013 vs. Ottawa in Toronto 8 p.m.
W O M E N S B A S K E T B A L LCIS RANKINGS
1. Windsor (1), 2. Regina (3), 3. Saint Marys (2), 4. Fraser
Valley (4), 5. Calgary (7), 6. UBC (5), 7. Car-leton (6), 8. Brock
(8), 9. Ottawa (10), 10. Victoria (9)
2/13/2013 Windsor 94 Western 64
2/16/2013 Windsor 62 Brock 45
OUA West semifinals at St. Denis Centre
2/23/2013 Windsor 78 Western 50
OUA West Finals at St. Denis Centre
3/2/2013 vs. McMaster 7 p.m.
3/9/2013 Tentative OUA Championships
3/15-17/2013 CIS Championships in Regina
Women High Jump 1. Laura Maessen Toronto 1.71m!; 2. Julia
Wallace Guelph 1.68m; 3. Jen Pit-man Western University J1.68m; 6.
Kelly Morrison Windsor J1.59m; 7. Jasmin Kerr Windsor J1.59mMen
High Jump 1. Mitchell Torres Guelph 2.05m!; 2. Brett Georgievski
Toronto 2.02m!; 3. Branden Wil-helm Windsor 1.99m; 10. Mat West
Windsor J1.77m; -- Jesse Drennan Windsor NHWomen Pole Vault 1.
Robin Bone Western Univer-sity 4.18m!; 2. Erika Fiedler Guelph
4.07m!; 3. Sharon Michalak Western University 3.62m; 8. Kendall
Darnay Windsor J3.32mMen Pole Vault 1. David McKay York Lions
4.86m!; 2. Matt Diston Western University 4.81m!; 3. Jake Pfaff
Windsor J4.81m!; 4. Milos Savic Windsor 4.71m; 6. Chris Waugh
Windsor 4.31m; 9. Austin Crough Windsor x4.16mWomen Long Jump 1.
Caroline Ehrhardt Western University 5.80m!; 2. Julia Wallace
Guelph 5.68m; 3. Emily Omahen Windsor 5.54m; 5. Nathana Griffiths
Windsor 5.52m; 12. Caitlin McClurkin Windsor J5.14mMen Long Jump 1.
Taylor Stewart Western Univer-sity 7.69mM; 2. Arren Young Windsor
7.11m!; 3. Jorg Ahne Guelph 7.07m; 4. Branden Wilhelm Windsor
7.03m; 9. Carlin McLean Windsor 6.34mWomen Triple Jump 1. Caroline
Ehrhardt West-ern University 12.50m!; 2. Mila Simulik Western
University 12.19m!; 3. Julia Wallace Guelph 12.16m!; 5. Quinnie
Rwahwire Windsor 11.51m; 6. Danielle Gunsch Windsor 11.40mMen
Triple Jump 1. Taylor Stewart Western Uni-versity 14.66m!; 2. Dahn
Pratt York Lions 13.74m; 3. Daniel Gayle Western University 13.71m;
7. Arren Young Windsor 13.44mWomen Shot Put 1. Celine Freeman-Gibb
Windsor 15.34m!; 2. Shealyn McLaughlin Windsor 14.30m!; 3. Cynthia
Appiah York Lions 13.96m!; 5. Jill Van Damme Windsor 12.46mMen Shot
Put 1. Tim Hendry Guelph 18.36mM; 2. Brent Roubos Guelph 16.68m!;
3. U