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St. Paddy’s quiet this yearStudents and police show mutual respect

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TIME ISN’T WASTED WHEN YOU’RE GETTING WASTED. Not all Western students let the frigid temperatures yesterday get in the way of their St. Patrick’s Day festivities. This funnel was spotted on Huron Street.

New app makes going out easier

Jesica HurstONLINE EDITOR

Going out tonight?Because of the free new iPhone

application Tethr, making plans to party no longer has to be as stress-ful as writing an essay.

Laura Smith, a fifth-year soft-ware engineering and Ivey HBA stu-dent at Western, recently released Tethr with two Western alumni, Myles Lane and Drew Stevens, as well as Matt Hornick, a Ryerson graduate. According to Smith, Tethr, helps users make plans by seeing what their friends are up to, and giving them the opportunity to broadcast their own plans as well.

“Tethr provides a clear list of which friends are going out and not going out,” Smith explained. “It also shows where your friends are going if they have decided and which places are most popular.”

According to the application’s description on iTunes, Tethr not only provides a detailed map of where users’ friends are headed in their city, but also shows which “friends of friends” are going out and provides destination reviews from Foursquare.

Smith explained the creation of Tethr was not an assignment — it was a group effort that took long hours outside of work and school for everyone involved in the development.

“Matt designed the app, I coded it and Myles and Drew developed the strategy and business end of it,” Smith said. “We all immediately saw the value in the idea since we’ve all experienced the stress of making plans. Trying to coordinate where

people are interested in going and managing the expectations of your different social circles is a time-consuming and stressful process.”

According to Smith, the team’s long hours have paid off — Tethr has been downloaded nearly 1,000 times since its release two weeks ago, and 40 per cent of users who have downloaded it have been using it on a regular basis.

Recient spikes in usage began last Wednesday when students started going out, and there was a peak in usage this past Monday, on St. Patrick’s Day.

“We’ve had a lot [of] excellent feedback from Western students and have already submitted an update, which will be coming out this weekend,” Smith said. “One feature we added to this update is the option to see friends every-where — not just in your city.”

“For example, if you’re deciding whether to go back to your home city or stay in London tonight, you’ll be able to see what’s happening in both cities.”

While the current version of Tethr is only available for the iPhone, the team is scoping out the development of an Android version. At this point, Smith explained the team’s focus isn’t on making money — their primary goal is to expand the number of users, since Tethr becomes more valuable as more friends are added to the network.

If you’re interested in trying out the application, download it from the iTunes app. Or, if you are inter-ested in giving the team feedback or ideas, you can do so on the app’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/tethred.

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Students took to the streets to cel-ebrate St. Patrick’s Day once more this year, but much to the London Police Service’s relief, the day passed without a lot of commotion — aside from a few keggers that were shut down.

The LPS removed a total of 11 kegs this year, nine of which came from a house party on Westview Drive. The remaining two were removed from a residence on Huron Street. This number is down from the 21 kegs that were confiscated last year.

Notably, this St. Patrick’s Day marks the London police scaling back from a zero tolerance policy to a combination of warnings and the issuance of offence notices. The LPS released a press statement detailing that 74 offence notices were issued this year, which pales

in comparison to the 274 issued in 2013. Additionally, there were no criminal charges or arrests in connection with St. Patrick’s Day activities.

There were also 190 warnings issued for a variety of inractions, including noise complaints and Liqour Licence Act violations.

The police also publicly thanked the Fanshawe Student Union and Western’s University Students’ Council, who worked hard to stress the importance of mutual respect to each of their student populations.

USC president Pat Whelan, reflected on the importance of a healthy relationship between the police force and Western.

“The relationship between stu-dents and police has been strained in the past and it’s an issue we care passionately about because stu-dents have said over and over again they don’t always appreciate the [police’s] practices,” Whelan said.

“We’ve really reached out this year and have been building stronger relationships and working together to solve the problem.”

Like the LPS, Deepak Jain, a first-year student at Western, stated that his St. Patrick’s Day was ultimately a success.

“Everyone was dressed up and it was just exactly what you wanted […] overall it was a fantastic day and I love the spirit that Western brings to [St.Patrick’s Day],” Jain said.

Whelan explained that he was happy with how Western celebrated the Irish holiday this year.

“It’s important as students that we continue to show our neighbors out in London that we care to be part of this city and we care to be a good neighbor and that doesn’t mean that we don’t enjoy ourselves on St. Patrick’s Day or homecom-ing.” Whelan said. “We’re all in this together, as opposed to separated camps.”

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Aquatic Centre closing for

renovationsLondon’s Canada Games Aquatic Centre will be shutting down its interior pool on Monday, April 7 and will be reopening next November

after renovations take place.After four years of planning,

funds have been appropriated by London city council and approved in the capital budget. Repairs to the floor, replacement of pool fil-ters, water treatment systems, new lighting and newly painted walls are a sneak peak at what is to come at the London Aquatics Centre.

“A lot of swim clubs will be displaced,” said Mike Szarka, supervisor of aquatic services in London. “We’re aiming to have the big 50-metre pool in Thames Park open in May, two months earlier than usual.”

The indoor Carling Heights Optimist Community Centre located at Adelaide and Oxford as well as the South London Community Pool at White Oaks,

will be open along with 11 outdoor pools that will be up and running between June and July.

“The dive team was the hardest hit in terms of finding other pool space. All of the other clubs have been augmented over at Western or other small community pools,” Szarka mentioned.

The dive team has looked at renting out space in Windsor, Kitchener and Brantford pools due to the lack of high diving boards in London.

“In terms of displacement of our staff, we have it so that no one is going to be out of work,” he continued.

The centre was built in 1990–91 and it is estimated to have served over 8.5 million users. The Aquatic Centre is visited by 1,000-1,500 people daily.

— Morgann Sampson

Canadian universities fall in rankings

Canadian universities continue to face a downward trend in interna-tional rankings.

Western ranks in the 226–250 bracket of the Times Higher Education 2013–2014 world uni-versity rankings.

Although the validity of the university’ ranking system is often brought into question, the recent downward spiral of the national universities in an international and numerous think-tanks’ perspective is indeed a cause of concern.

The Time’s Higher Education world reputations ranking, which is a spin-off of their international rankings, includes a list of the top 100 universities of the world based on the opinion of global scholars.

The only three Canadian uni-versities to make the list are the University of British Columbia, McGill University and the University of Toronto, and all three have slipped from their previous ranks.

This academic reputation survey used the United Nations’ global data to ensure all scholarly demo-graphics were covered, and was available in ten languages. The sur-veyors received 10,536 responses from 133 countries.

Recent initiatives by the federal government to increase the num-ber of international students, and Western’s new strategic plan to maximize the university’s poten-tial, come at a much needed time and could play a role in turning the tide for Canadian universities in the future.

— Hamza Tariq

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RELAY FOR LIFE. The annual Relay for Life event will be coming to Western next Tuesday, March 22 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. in the UCC. Participants will walk in a relay for 12 hours and raise funds for cancer research.

F ortunately, Western’s Student Success Centre has got you covered. We are your touch point for all the job post - ings, advice and twitter content you need to formulate your own strategy to get Hired for Summer.

Start by reviewing jobs on Western’s CareerCentral. It is a peak time of year when recruiters are posting summer posi - tions daily. Perhaps there is a position just for you.

You probably heard from family members and friends that networking is an effective technique to accessing the hidden job market. With that advice in mind, consider every event and opportunity where you can meet people and share your job search story. Talk about your education, professional creden - tials, certifications, skills and long-term career aspirations. If you present succinctly and effectively, you can expand your own professional network and make an advocate out of the person you are speaking with.

Despite technological changes in the job search process, direct contact is still one of the most consistent methods for procuring employment. Consider a telephone campaign launched at your top 40 employers. While sometimes daunting, the act of reaching out to an Employer beyond an online appli - cation is what will distinguish you from other job seekers and yield positive outcomes.

One of the main ways you can see continuous content about summer job searching is on Twitter. Follow Western’s Student Success Centre @Success_Centre to be connected to advice and resources about summer job searching and summer job postings from CareerCentral. Look for the #HiredforSummer hash tag for all content related to summer job searching. When you follow and engage with Western’s Student Success Centre

on twitter, it can pay off. Report when you get hired for your summer job and who your employer is and we will register you in a contest to win a Visa Gift Card.

Summer will be here before you know it. Through intentional networking and direct contact, you will take control of your job search. We hope you are able to leverage our CareerCentral job postings, advice and twitter content to be successful in your job search and get Hired For Summer.

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Can you believe how quickly Can you believe how quickly time is slipping away? You time is slipping away? You are going into the last leg of are going into the last leg of classes on the road to final classes on the road to final exams in April. Do you know exams in April. Do you know what that means? If you want what that means? If you want to have a job over the to have a job over the summer, it’s important to job summer, it’s important to job search now. With all the search now. With all the advice about job searching advice about job searching out there, where do you even out there, where do you even begin to start? begin to start?

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Cryptic notes found in Weldon booksAaron Zaltzman

ASSOCIATE EDITOR

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,” wrote Arthur Conan Doyle in 1890, speaking through his charac-ter Sherlock Holmes. The detective would certainly be useful in a case at D.B. Weldon Library, in which mysterious notes have been found in various books.

Displaying a series of characters that range from a hand to a hook to a yinyang, the notes have been found inside envelopes by students, fac-ulty and staff, and have so far defied attempts at deciphering. One such note was found by Mike Moffat, a professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business, on March 9.

“I was doing a little research and I had taken several books off the shelf, one of them being a book on inter-national economics. I opened it up and there was an envelope inside,” Moffat said. “I opened it and found a note inside with strange symbols, and a leaf with two red and grainy dots on it.”

Moffat immediately took to the public for assistance on decipher-ing his find.

“I posted a picture of it on Twitter and asked if anyone knew about it or had seen something similar, or if they knew what it might mean,” Moffat said. “After that, people started coming forward saying they had found notes before.”

It appears that the notes have been popping up at Weldon for

several years, according to Crystal Mills, a library assistant at Weldon, who has witnessed a few discoveries.

“One was in May 2013 and another one was in August. When we found the first one, everyone had kind of seen them before,” Mills said. “They’ve been around for a while, although nobody is totally sure how long — I would guess a few years.”

Of the books that have been con-firmed to have notes found in them, there appears to be no significant pattern.

“Given the diversity, and how many notes there are, I would guess whoever put the notes in the

books didn’t check them all out,” Mills explained. “There are six that we have a record of, but probably more that we haven’t.”

The leaf in the note Moffat found appears to be one example of a strange pattern in the notes. Each one comes with some sort of coloured plastic object — so far a green leaf, orange feather, green feather, green jewel and a blue jewel have been included. The objects appear to have some significance to the pattern.

“In the one I found with the green leaf, all the leaf symbols are green and the other symbols are black,” Moffat explained. “The other letters

come with different coloured jewels or feathers, and the corresponding symbol on the note is the same colour as the object.”

However, Moffat said whatever the code, if one exists, it will be all but impossible to crack without some sort of key. There are 49 indi-vidual characters, which would pre-clude a simple substitution cipher, along with the added confusion of the coloured object and an indi-vidual picture accompanying each note.

Of the many theories that have been thrown around, a popular one seems to be that the notes were left over as part of a scavenger hunt

between different teams. One of the notes was found with a URL on the back, which links to a custom blog entitled “DBW Stack.” The blog is empty now, but Mills thinks it may have held the key to deciphering the code — it has had over 1,000 visits before. Moffat said at this point he would take any answer to satisfy his curiosity — no doubt it would require some high level deduction.

As Doyle once wrote for his char-acter, “You know my methods. Apply them.”

If you have a note or know any information about them, there are amateur sleuths who would appre-ciate it.

Courtesy of Mike Moffat

A STUDY IN WELDON. Letters with mysterious symbols have been found in books at the D.B. Weldon library, and so far people haven’t been able to decipher them. This phenomenon has apparently been going on for years.

MLHU warns public as measles visits campus

Megan DevlinNEWS EDITOR

The Middlesex London Health Unit is cautioning people to watch for signs of measles after a case was confirmed in the community on Tuesday, March 15.

The infected individual visited the University Hospital on campus on Thursday, March 10 between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Measles is a virus that can be vaccinated for, and most children receive the vaccine as part of their MMR shot — for measles, mumps and German measles.

However, those without their two doses of Measles vaccination are at risk.

“Measles is a very infectious dis-ease. It can spread through the air, so just being in the same airspace as someone could lead to trans-mission,” said Bryna Warshawsky, associate medical officer of health for the MLHU.

“Most people of university age would have had two doses of their measles of vaccine and most people who have had two doses are pro-tected,” she continued.

Symptoms of measles can appear anywhere from seven to 21 days after exposure to the pathogen, but generally appear around the tenth day after exposure.

The first symptoms are non-specific including fever, cough and runny nose. Some patients also experience red, irritated eyes.

However, the telltale sign of a measles infection is the red rash that appears around 14 days after exposure. The rash begins on the

face and proceeds to spread to the rest of the body.

Warshawksy hopes that people will suspect the disease right away when they experience general symptoms instead of waiting for the rash to appear.

“Measles can be a serious dis-ease. It can cause complications like pneumonia, ear infections, brain infection and it can be fatal in about one to two per thousand cases,” Warshawksy said.

She explained the role of the MLHU was to track the path of the infected person while they were contagious.

The infected individual traveled to several locations around London between March 7 and March 8, including the Adelaide-Southdale Medical Centre, Victoria Hospital, University Hospital, Wal-Mart at Whiteoaks, Metro at Commisioners and Wellington and Shoppers Drug Mart at Adelaide and Southdale.

The MLHU advised people who experience symptoms to stay home and to not allow visitors until at least four days after rash onset.

Most people of university age would have had two doses of their measles of vaccine and most people who have had two doses are protected.

— Bryna WarshawskyMLHU associate medical officer of health

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Hip hop hoists London community higherJenny Jay

GAZETTE STAFF

The city of London is well known for its musical talent and diversity in entertainment. Hip-hop, how-ever, is at the risk of becoming an endangered genre.

Sean ‘Soliloquy’ Gilmore, a third-year philosophy and psychology student at Western, shares a love for the small but persistent hip-hop scene in London, as he admits the best part about performing in the city is the people in the community.

“I think because a lot of people can relate and see that we’re about making music, there’s a lot of sup-port from the community,” Gilmore says.

However, the hip-hop niche comes with a stigma preventing many locations from allowing these young artists to actually perform, share their music and spit their truths.

“[Venues] don’t want to book hip-hop shows,” says Mike Donaldson, whose stage name is ‘SkinnyLivity’ in the group ‘TypeWriters.’

“It’s the whole speculation that this group of people are trouble-makers because it’s the perception that you get — punk music once got that.”

What the city of London fails to notice, according to Donaldson and Gilmore, is that most of these hip-hop artists are young adults, includ-ing many students, who simply want to share their views and their music with the world.

Fadesola Adedayo, who refers to himself as ‘Black Al,’ is a fourth-year civil engineering student at Western who is subject to the stereo-types associated with the hip-hop community.

“A lot of people think it’s odd — like why is an engineer rapping? I think it’s one of these boxes [peo-ple] put themselves into,” Adedayo says. “I think it should be considered weird that engineers can’t be rappers — that is what should be considered weird, not the other way around.”

The APK, a local bar, is one of the few venues to recognize the need to host hip-hop artists.

“The APK is very big on the

local scene, local beers, local food, trying to keep our own city alive, and although there is a little bit of a bad scene with some people in the crowd when it comes to rap shows, the ones that still play with us are fantastic,” explains Kayla Schryer, manager at the APK.

For Schryer, it’s simply about making sure that there is respect from the artists and the crowds that they bring.

“We just want to support that side of the music scene because there really aren’t a lot of venues that will accept them anymore,” Schryer says.

What makes this lack of

acceptance even more disappoint-ing is that London’s hip-hop scene is filled with talent and incorporates aspects of a variety of genres,.

“Hip-hop is so experimental that you could make a hip-hop song using anything from R & B to folk music […] the boundaries of hip-hop are literally endless,” Donaldson explains.

Additionally noteworthy is the passion that these underground artists all share for the genre.

“I would go into my brother’s room and I would steal his pants — he’s six years older than me, so they were baggy — and watch MC Hammer music videos on TV. It was like Saturday morning cartoons for me,” Gilmore tells.

Adedayo shares the same remi-niscence of an early love for hip-hop.

“When I was six, I vividly remem-ber watching Tupac’s ‘Changes’ on a screen in London, England. I’ll never forget this — I didn’t know what the music was called, or what he was doing, but it just seemed like the coolest thing ever,” says Adedayo.

Although the passion for the London hip-hop scene is evi-dent among the individual artists, Donaldson says artists need to start coming together and work as a col-lective if they want more shows and awareness about their niche genre.

“I’d like to see all the talent and variety in London shake itself up like all the other scenes do […] We need to show these venues that we can come together as one group and bring out a good crowd.”

Courtesy of Sean Gilmore

MUSIC MAKES YOU LOSE CONTROL. Local hip hop artist Sean Gilmore performs at the APK where he gets the crowd moving. Gilmore was performing as part of the L.O. Cipher show which he subsequently went on to win.

Hip-hop is so experimental that you could make a hip-hop song using anything from R & B to folk music […] the boundaries of hip-hop are literally endless

— Mike DonaldsonSkinnyLivity in the band Typewriters.

Need for Speed needs a serious pitstopConrad FloryanGAZETTE STAFF

GGHFFNeed for SpeedDirector: Scott WaughStars: Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots, Kid Cudi, Michael Keaton

When DreamWorks executives com-mitted to adapt the immensely suc-cessful Need for Speed video game franchise into a feature film, they had money on their mind. The result is a mildly entertaining movie care-fully calibrated to appeal to the low-est common denominator. Need for Speed goes for the green, but gets stalled by too many red lights.

Viewer expectations have a key influence on the film-going experience. Those anticipating a genre picture with a spectacle of cars-gone-wild will enjoy the film. Generally accepted flaws in this movie like a cliché-riddled script and sentimentality are actually features that satisfy much of the movie-going public — particularly children. Before criticizing the pic-ture for lacking the nuanced crafts-manship of an Ingmar Bergman film, it’s important to remember that most people wouldn’t want to sit through The Seventh Seal. That being said, Need for Speed could use some fine-tuning.

Finding plot holes in the story would be a full-time job with

benefits. It’s best to leave your mind at home — ideally in a cool dry place — before racing to the theatre. Need for Speed is one of those movies that are hyped in advertisements as a “thrill ride.” The whole object of going on an amusement park ride is to surrender yourself — the ride does all the work.

Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) leads the excitement as the owner of a body shop who takes part in illegal street racing. Paul is hot off the heels of Breaking Bad, and he imbues the movie with zeitgeist coolness. He develops palpable chemistry with exotic car dealer Julia Maddon (Imogen Poots). These

up-and-coming actors are talented enough to make their stock charac-ters engrossing — the strong silent type, and the princess who can hang with the boys. The same can’t be said for Kid Cudi, who awkwardly jests for laughs as Tobey’s comic relief pal Benny.

Hurtling cars are the real stars of the film, and they don’t disappoint. CGI is wisely eschewed in favor of old-school stunts that conjure the daredevil thrills of 70s golden age car movies. Memorable stunts include Tobey jumping his car over four lanes of traffic to evade the cops. Michael Keaton’s turn as Monarch — the eccentric billionaire host of the

climactic street race called the “De Leon” — is a stunt in and of itself.

The film embodies the fun of the video game where players enjoy a wide variety of breathtaking rac-ing environments. Tobey et. al. shred through bustling cityscapes, the Bonneville Salt Flats and the Pacific Coast Highway. The sites stun despite the generic quasi-modern soundtrack that diverts from the poetic roaring of engines and clash-ing of fenders.

Amidst the ruckus, director Scott Waugh displays glimpses of talent. An opening street race is juxtaposed with an adjacent storming train, arousing the rugged lyricism of

man-made propulsion that captures why so many people love cars. In an opening drive-in theatre scene, there’s a shot of silhouetted children on a swing set before a close-up of Steve McQueen in Bullitt in the background. It’s the type of stunning composition that auteur filmmakers stay up nights striving to conceive.

Until Fast & Furious 7 comes out, Need for Speed will satisfy car enthu-siasts looking to get their money’s worth at the theatre. Although the film is mostly forgettable, it will have viewers driving with reinvigorated zeal for the following few days. Just be careful for potholes and plot holes.

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A little advice for oral

Janice FungGAZETTE STAFF

When thinking of diseases such as diabetes and dementia, rarely do people look towards improving our oral hygiene as a method of preven-tion. In reality, mastering the proper tooth brushing techniques can truly improve one’s general health. Dr. Kandry Galil, a passionate perio-dontist and a professor of dentistry at Western, provides students with some tips on how to improve their daily teeth brushing.

“Gum disease has correlation to diabetes, obesity, premature birth, heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, psoriasis, pancreatic can-cer and, most recently, a paper pub-lished here at Western University talks about bacteria in the oral cav-ity [triggering] colorectal cancer. So taking care of your oral health is very important,” explains Galil.

According to Galil, the first step

to maintaining proper oral hygiene is choosing the correct toothbrush.

“Many times, people think the harder the toothbrush, the bet-ter it is. That is absolutely wrong. A soft toothbrush will do a good job,” explains Galil. “A hard tooth-brush will remove the enamel and you will end up with what we call [gum] recession. [A soft toothbrush] will remove the plaque and it won’t hurt the teeth.”

While some people may think it’s important to scrub and shine each and every tooth, this is not the proper technique. Galil recom-mends individuals brush from the gum to the tooth as brushing the other way will lead to gum reces-sion. As for the time factor, Galil recommends his patients brush their teeth for about a minute and a half each time.

As most dentists recommend, flossing is just as important as brushing your teeth. The two must

always be paired together.“You brush your teeth to get rid

of the big bulky stuff and then you do the fine-tuning,” explains Galil. “Cavities always start on the side of the teeth […] the parts which are hidden, and that is where flossing helps a lot.”

Finally, bad breath might also be an indication that a routine change is required.

“I always advise my patients, if you think you have [bad breath], you should buy yourself a tooth-brush with a brush on the back of it to clean the tongue, or you can buy at the drugstores what they call tongue scrapers,” says Galil. “Studies have shown that bacteria that sits on the tongue is the same bacteria that attacks the gums and the same bacteria attacks the teeth.”

While these tips might be helpful, the best recommendation that Galil can provide students is to regularly visit their dentist.

Bill Wang GAZETTE

OPEN WIDE. Going in deep and investigating your mouth in an attempt to ensure there is proper oral health is important. Flossing and brushing are obviously important for your teeth but overall oral hygiene is also essential.

Lizzie McGuire (2001-2004)

Lizzie McGuire may not have been the prettiest or coolest girl in school but this Disney star’s life was surely never a dull moment. From swoon-ing over middle school hottie Ethan Craft to consistently friendzoning her best guy friend Gordo, to the awkwardness of getting her first bra, to dealing with Kate’s popular girl attitude that accompanied her early development, Lizzie’s teenage life was far from atypical — and that’s exactly what made this show such a hit.

Aside from the show’s animated interruptions that excessively dra-matized Lizzie’s situation at the time, the topics were things to which nearly everyone could relate.

Seeing as most of Western’s students would have been around Lizzie’s age when the show initially aired, those segments are likely what now cause us to overthink and overana-lyze such petty situations.

Overall, the show promoted healthy relationships, mature con-frontation and communication with your peers — every episode was essentially a 22 minute lecture from your parents jam packed with life lessons. These tips and tricks gained from experiencing Lizzie’s predica-ments have hopefully played some influential role in guiding our child-hood in the right direction.

Along with eating your vegeta-bles and doing your homework, Lizzie McGuire taught youngsters the importance of having really

great friends. There will always be drop dead gorgeous Ethans and insufferably bitchy Kates, but best friends are one of a kind. Lizzie might not have survived middle school without Miranda’s sassy realism and Gordo’s sarcastic witticisms.

So maybe Lizzie McGuire was just an average girl with a schem-ing little brother and socially awk-ward parents — was she really any different from most of us? Along with winning two Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards for Favourite TV Show, the values instilled in this program are sure to follow us throughout our years and can be passed on to generations of teen-agers to come.

— Robert Nanni Jr.

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For the shells:

· 2 large egg whites· ¼ cup icing sugar· ¾ cup almond flour· ¾ cup confectioners’ sugar· Feel free to add your own dry flavouring (matcha green tea, Earl Grey tea leaves, cocoa powder, etc.)

1. Beat the eggs until frothy and slowly add 1 tbsp of the confectioners’ sugar at a time. Keep beating until stiff peaks form.2. In a separate bowl, sift together the icing sugar and the almond flour.3. Add the egg white mix-ture into the dry ingredi-ents and fold gently with a rubber spatula until all the ingredients are well com-bined and flows like lava.4. Pour batter into a pastry bag and pipe onto a parch-ment paper into equal sized

circles. Let rest for about 30 minutes while preheating the oven to 275°F.5. Bake in the oven for about 12–13 minutes, keeping an eye on them to make sure they don’t brown.

For the filling:

· ½ cup heavy cream· 3 ½ ounces dark chocolate· ½ ounce unsalted butter, softened1. Bring cream to a boil in a saucepan over medium-high heat.2. Pour cream over choco-late in a heatproof bowl, let stand for two minutes.3. Add butter, then whisk together until smooth.4. Pipe small portions onto the macaron shells and sandwich together.

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Dear Life

Ian BoekhoffActing Editor-In-Chief

Brent HolmesActing Deputy Editor

Richard RaycraftActing Managing Editor

Bradley MetlinARTS&LIFE EDITOR

St. Patrick’s Day was noticeably different this year. Two years ago featured groups of belligerent students rioting in the street, culminating when they lit a CTV News van on fire. It was exciting and engaging — so much so that London was featured on the news…in Toronto!

This year, London’s police chief was tweeting throughout the day, giving updates on the situation. His tweets did not take on a malevolent tone, but rather were quite lighthearted. I’m just going off my own memory but I’m 78 per cent sure he posted a selfie. I mean, what a try-hard, right? Ellen DeGenegeres won that game three weeks ago at the Oscars.

I think I speak for many when I ask: Who wants a nice chief of police? Who’s going to protect us when people burglarize our homes? The chief of police seems to be harnessing his inner Mister Rogers while simultaneously testing his material before he takes the stage at Yuk Yuk’s amateur night.

His police force seized a number of kegs from residences on Monday, but the students didn’t seem to care. No, in hearing from these students, they noted the respectable nature of the police. Good God people, don’t you know you’re supposed to be hating on each other?

I don’t think I’m being off base when I say: Hey! Remember Project LEARN? That awful Project LEARN that oppressed students! Do we need cheerleaders chanting “O-P-R-E-S-S-I-O-N!” on the streets to remind you? Oh wait. They couldn’t because the police are awful and would have arrested them.

Walking down Broughdale on Monday, I noticed police officers patrolling the streets, which was a refreshing sight. Then it just got suddenly inappropriate, when students went up to said officers and started conversing. It was all very strange and I thought someone had replaced the people of London with robots that actually have fruitful dialogue.

What happened next just really disturbed me. It was, pardon my French, pretty fucked up. One of these students offered the police officers a cupcake smothered in green frosting. The officers, who apparently had been lobotomized that morning, accepted the confectionery and started chowing down.

What’s next, Western? Are the police officers going to bring the sniffer dogs out during Homecoming so you can pet them? Are students going to offer police officers water on a hot summer day? This relationship has become too cozy and I, for one, hope it comes to an end. Just think of all the Torontonians who watch their news and need drama in another city. I think it’s clear that we need to start setting cars on fire again.

Apocolypse 2014: students and cops getting along

“You can’t debate satire. Either you get it or you don’t.”

— Michael Moore

Kevin HurrenOPINIONS EDITOR

There were very few redeeming quali-ties to the recently released DVD, That Awkward Moment. Yes, watching the unique and charismatic Imogen Poots play the lead love interest was enjoyable. Sure, the frequent semi-nude scenes with ex-Disney heartthrob Zac Efron made more than a few awkward moments in the pants of audience members every-where. But neither charming actresses nor chiseled abs could distract from the weak dialogue and eye-rolling clichés that populate the script.

This, however, isn’t a movie review. Feel free to judge the 94 minute flick for yourself, freeze-framing scenes where Efron takes it all off. The reason why the movie caught my eye is the fact that the film has been promoting itself as “a chick flick for guys.”

The story follows three male best friends as they attempt to navigate the treacherous land of relationships and commitment. Though the film is sure to end up in the discount movie bins of Wal-Mart and Target, it did scrape at the surface of something original — a film focusing on the male side of a relationship.

I’m not talking about idealized, romanticized versions of men who fall in love at first sight and overcome all odds to proclaim their love. I’m talking about contemporary, honest stories about guys dating.

This is what That Awkward Moment does, or at least tries to do. The three male leads meet-up at several points in the story to discuss, debate and give advice about love. The problem, for me at least, is that the movie doesn’t go much further. It sets the stage, gets some interesting male friends together, and then lets the fart jokes fly.

Because that’s just what guys do, right? They insult each other. They tease each other. They make dick jokes, bathroom jokes, and — of course — commitment jokes.

Or do they? This monolithic narrative of the male identity is what we’re used to, but is it honest? These superficial, “troll-ing” kinds of relationships may exist, but men can be so much more emotionally articulate.

In fact, some of best advice I’ve ever received about love, intimacy and rela-tionships have been from straight men. I’ve met “bros” with big hearts, frat guys in long-term relationships and athletes who put as much effort into their rela-tionships as they do their sport.

But we don’t hear about these guys, and I often wonder why. After all, each of us craves some kind of companionship. We want to support, care for and com-mit to someone – and we hope someone does the same for us. But young men on the big screen can’t seem to care about relationships, or anything for that matter.

We need to work towards creating spaces where men feel comfortable enough to go beyond the surface-level vulnerability portrayed in popular cul-ture. What I’m advocating for is much more than saying boys can cry. Boys can cry, but they should also be given the chance to laugh, to fall in love, to lose someone and to care. Why? Because they can.

The awkward and unemotional men

Your anonymous letters to life

Dear Life,I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the coldest winter in recent memory coincides with the release of Frozen.

Dear Life,I love you Phil Anderson for your amazing letter to the editor about Salim Mansur.

Dear Life,I’d be cool when LikeALittle comes back. Tinder is too personal.

Dear Life,To the person who chirped FIMS professors in last week’s Dear Life: Really?

Dear Life,LTC being the top of the municipal advocacy poll says as much about our own selfishness as it does about the quality of LTC’s services.

Dear Life,Since when did the Dear Life section become so judgmental?

Dear Life,We were bored one day so my friend and I took a tour of Westervelt College.

Dear Life,Edward Snowden had to be working with the Russians, unless he was planted like Joseph Allen (Call of Duty reference).

Dear Life,I never knew Matt Helfand was Jewish?!

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Seven Minutes in Kevin

RE: “Israeli Apartheid Week,” Friday, March 14, 2014 To The Editor:The situation between Palestine and Israel is by no means a simple mat-ter, and I don’t believe students regard politics as simple. In response to Aaron Zaltzman’s “head to head” article, I believe that he contradicts his argument several times. He, ironically, simplifies the conflict between Palestine and Israel by stating that IAW is a one-sided cam-paign. Conflicts are never one sided – if they were, a conflict doesn’t exist. IAW has never advocated that Israelis are bad. If the organizers did ever display photos, the pictures only portray the struggles experienced by civilians in

the name of apartheid.Apartheid is the discrimination of

one group on the grounds of race, and if you delve deeper into the bigger issue that’s what’s occurring in Israel. I don’t believe students base their judgments on a couple of pictures, because they are intelligent enough to realize this would simplify a political context. Rather, pho-tos or emotional appeals should encour-age them to seek out facts and issues presented by IAW. If Zaltzman accuses IAW’s work as a “smear campaign,” then you need to apply the same label to Israeli public relations. By doing so, Zaltzman seems to be looking at things in a one-sided perspective, and as he continuously mentioned, conflicts are never one-sided. To remain just, you must apply the same argument to both sides.

People know the media smears everything, so as university students, we

should be skeptical of both sides of any argument. Additionally, if you strongly believe that “maybe this civilian was killed by accident or by friendly fire,” you’re again simplifying things because civilians are never killed by accident. In a political conflict, killing doesn’t happen by accident or by “friendly fire” as you simplify it as. Even if friendly fire occurs, it is within a context of destruction and war. There is a reason why shots are fired in the first place.

To say that IAW is “activism with a slant” really makes me question this journalist’s understanding of activism – no activism promotes the status quo. The real conflict is human injustice. When it comes to immoral treatment of people, that’s where people need to engage in active discussions and seek solutions.

— Maram AlbakriScience II

Simplicity not good for issues

Letter to the Editor

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SportsRundown >> Western graduate and former Mustangs cheerleader Mark Ideson had a taste of Olympic glory last week in Sochi > He served as an alternate for Canada’s Paralympics curling team, which took home gold and made Canada the first nation to ever win Paralympics and Olympic men’s and women’s curling titles in the same year.

saywhat?“But I can’t ignore the years I spent playing in Montreal and the reconciliation I had with Montreal when they retired my jersey. I have a lot of respect for this organization and the Canadiens fans.”

>> Former Canadiens goalie and current Colorado Avalanche coach Patrick Roy on his first trip back to the Bell Centre as a visiting head coach.

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