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IlluSTrATIoN By JeNNIFer WIlSoN // WeSTerN NeWS 

Western’s newspaper of record since 1972 

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Ready for 

next steps 

How Idle No More may 

build on its early success 

By AdelA TAlBoT 

The movemenT has been anything but idle for 

more than a month. But where do academics who study 

social movements see Idle No More going from here? 

Idle No More has manifested itself as political demonstrations, 

traffic blockades, flash mobs and a hunger 

strike. It has united Canada’s First Nations, Metis and 

Inuit communities, primarily, in opposing the government’s 

omnibus Bill C-45. Affecting designation and 

management of reserve land, while decreasing environmental 

protection of rivers and lakes, Bill C-45 was 

passed by Senate in december and brings with it 

amendments to the Fisheries Act, the Navigable Waters 

Protection Act as well as the Indian Act. 

Flash mobs, round dances and drum circles became a 

common sight in shopping malls and on the news toward 

the end of 2012; marches through cities across Canada 

continue today. The movement has captured the nation’s 

attention. 

With a broadly defined goal of establishing nationto-nation 

relations with the Canadian government, Idle 

No More was successful in getting a meeting last week 

with both the Prime Minister and the Governor General. 

So, the lines of communication have been opened. 

But now what? 

“All social movements have a struggle, which is how 

do you deal with a chronic problem and make it salient. 

The bill does that, and the strategic actions (of the movement) 

have done that,” said Sociology professor Catherine 

Corrigall-Brown, who studies social movements 

and Indigenous politics. 

Significant political implications have come out of the 

movement, she said, and when looking at the immediate 

outcomes, Idle No More can be measured as a success. 

AdelA TAlBoT // WeSTerN NeWS 

The Idle No More movement has been making 

its way across the country for more than a month 

and academics say it has the potential to build 

on its successes, if talks continue between the 

government and First Nations communities. Here, 

a protestor speaks after an Idle No More flash mob 

demonstration downtown London on January 10. 

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Research 

Western news | January 17, 2013 3 

Children’s footwear find shows new side to Roman military 

By AdelA TAlBoT 

By looking aT someone’s shoes, 

you can tell a lot about the person 

wearing them. 

That old adage certainly rings true 

when looking at children’s shoes from 

ancient rome. Just ask elizabeth 

Greene, a Classics professor, who, 

at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the 

Archaeological Institute of America 

this month, presented research showing 

children of roman military families 

wore footwear that reflected their 

social status. 

“For a really long time, until the 

1990s, really, no one thought about 

or studied families in the roman 

army because soldiers weren’t legally 

allowed to marry,” Greene said. 

“It was a bastion of masculinity – 

this masculine, male-dominated environment 

and no one placed women 

and children there. But when you look 

at the material and historical record, 

there’s a lot of evidence of women and 

children there. one piece of evidence 

is these children’s shoes, and we have 

shoes from the very beginning,” she 

said. 

In her research, Greene has looked 

at shoes found at the roman fort 

at Vindolanda on Hadrian’s Wall in 

Northern england, where more than 

4,000 have been excavated. She 

noticed shoes from high-status, elite 

households were much nicer than 

the more basic shoes found in the 

barracks. 

And that’s to be expected, she said. 

So, why does the difference in style 

of children’s shoes matter? 

By their sheer existence, kid’s shoes 

trump the view children were not 

part of roman military life. What’s 

more, and what’s more important, 

their stylistic differences indicate children 

of high officials were treated and 

dressed as such, and were not only 

present, but also in the public eye, in a 

venue technically forbidden to them. 

“Shoes are very important in the 

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are. So, what I find very interesting is 

that even a tiny infant shoe replicates 

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“Going back to the military, it is 

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definitely be the kind of place where 

status mattered – and everything 

about status mattered. The fact we 

can see (evidence of) this, and you 

could visually show that status when 

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and Information director, 

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Editor’s Letter 

For a newspaper columnist, 

attention is a divine right. 

Seriously, even the Gospels 

– the most look-at-me text I 

can think of right now – weren’t written 

with little pictures of the author 

embedded in the text. (And I say 

that with all awareness of what lurks 

above.) 

If columnists could talk a publisher 

into running his/her words in red text, 

they would. 

So, it comes as no surprise one of 

the silliest proposals to come out of 

the ‘What are we going to do about 

postsecondary education’ handwringing 

should come from the opinion 

pages of a newspaper. 

last week, Montreal Gazette columnist 

Henry Aubin contended there 

is no solution to the war over tuition. 

As such, he suggested creating two 

kinds of universities in Quebec: 

“one kind would get low or zero 

tuition. It would offer a solid academic 

program but it would perform relatively 

little research (which is expensive) 

and would not aim for stardom. 

… The other kind of university would 

charge considerably for tuition while 

offering substantial financial aid. 

The Way We Were: 1975 

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Shed a ‘tier,’ don’t add 

one to postsecondary research 

JASON WINDERS 

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… This kind of university would be 

more research oriented, and it would 

actively pursue excellence.” 

By way of example, he suggested 

McGill university and université de 

Montréal would be among those 

institutions allowed to “pursue excellence” 

and Concordia university and 

université du Québec à Montréal 

would be among those who “would 

not aim for stardom.” To make those 

distinctions, he leaned on Maclean’s 

magazine rankings. 

Gotta love a guy who names names. 

reaction was swift. Concordia’s 

president, faculty and part-time faculty 

association presidents said the 

idea was “better suited to an archaic 

concept of higher education.” 

“our students demand and 

deserve a first-rate education, with 

access to the creative ideas and leading-edge 

tools that will allow all of 

them to pursue excellence and succeed 

not just locally but globally,” 

they wrote. “At a time when Quebec 

is seeking to be a global knowledge 

leader, it is imperative that research 

remain a vital part of teaching and 

learning at our universities.” 

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As a newcomer, I have noticed that 

already. I can only image what lifelong 

ontarians think about our neighbour 

to the east. Perhaps, it’s akin to how 

the other 49 states think of Florida. 

But before Aubin’s idea infects the 

rest of the country, let’s take a bit of a 

breather. 

First off, basing a postsecondary 

strategy on the rankings of a for-profit 

magazine is akin to basing your medical 

decisions on drug commercials 

airing during the evening news. But 

Aubin’s disconnect comes in what he 

(and those like him) expect universities 

to be. 

At its core, Aubin sees research 

and teaching as incompatible, and 

therefore should be separated to save 

money. Beyond that, there is a more 

subtle implication some students 

don’t need to be – perhaps even 

shouldn’t be – exposed to research. 

Such a shame. Going forward, universities 

who do not offer a robust 

research component – the ever-socoveted 

‘real world’ connection to 

learning – will suffer. Creating a vast 

network of institutions offering little 

more than high school-plus does little 

to develop the next generation. 

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Sorry we don’t crank out the widget-makers 

tailored to industry specifications. 

I remember a time when 

companies only wanted smart people 

they could train. Aubin’s idea would 

further download that training – and 

its costs – onto universities. 

Western’s strategy is to expand 

access to research beyond graduate 

students, and incorporate undergrads 

into the mix as soon as they are ready. 

It’s a good plan. 

“From fundamental to applied 

knowledge, Western’s researchers 

make discoveries that provide tangible 

benefits for the economic, social, 

health and cultural development of 

citizens in london, in Canada and 

around the world.” 

read that last sentence again. 

Those are the words research Western 

uses to sell itself. And they explain 

it well. 

research isn’t a reward for an elite 

few; it’s a necessary aspect of what we 

do. even if you are not destined to a 

career in research, the associated skills 

learned – gathering, organizing, synthesizing, 

presenting – are valuable in 

any career pursuit. 

even for newspaper columnists. 

Contributed by Alan Noon 

(anoon@uwo.ca) 

on April 9, 1975, five of Western’s 

six artists-in-residence gathered at 

the McIntosh Gallery for the opening 

of an exhibition showcasing 70 

of their works. The event was sponsored 

by the Alumni Association. Pictured, 

from left, are Claude Breeze, 

Tony urquhart, William roberts and 

Gino lorcini with James Boyd leaping 

behind. (urquhart became Western’s 

first studio professor when the 

department of Visual Arts opened 

in 1967.) Beginning in 1960, a total of 

nine artists held the appointment by 

the time the program ended in 1979. 

In 2011, along a similar line, Western 

launched the inaugural artist/scholarin-residence 

for Visual Arts. 

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Events 

By MArK MCdAyTer ANd elAN 

PAulSoN 

WhaT are The implications for education 

of the tremendous revolution in new media 

reshaping our society and culture? Has technology 

rendered our classrooms, and our teaching, 

obsolete? or does it offer new opportunities 

for rethinking how and what we teach, and for 

exploring new approaches that will help us 

engage with the ‘digital natives’ who now fill our 

lecture halls, labs and seminar rooms? 

Kansas State professor Michael Wesch, an 

anthropologist and ethnographer of the new 

digital world, has argued persuasively that, 

while emergent technologies are challenging 

established pedagogical practices, they are also 

enabling powerful new ones. 

As Wesch has insisted, the time is ripe for an 

exploration of this subject. 

Technology is having a pervasive impact on 

postsecondary education now, a fact recognized 

by ontario’s Ministry of Training, Colleges and 

universities as it seeks to facilitate the development 

of new forms of hybrid and online learning. 

Keeping pace with other postsecondary 

institutions in Canada and around the world as 

they adopt and adapt to new digital realities and 

instructional technologies is a key challenge, 

and a vital component of Western’s continued 

success. At the same time, we must explore 

ways of employing technology that enrich rather 

than undermine our commitment to high quality 

education. 

one of the most powerful advantages offered 

by new technologies is the ability to connect with 

and learn from others. 

At Western, we have much to learn from each 

other, and it is in this spirit that the Technology in 

education Symposium: Making TIeS @ Western 

will showcase and share innovative approaches 

to instructional technology and pedagogy from 

across the entire university. 

While Wesch, an award-winning researcher 

and teacher, will lay the groundwork for the day’s 

collaborations and explorations, Western faculty, 

staff, and students will build upon this through 

subsequent panel and poster presentations. 

undergraduate students will also share their 

perspective through a roundtable presentation 

on the impact technology is having upon their 

education at Western. 

Mark McDayter is a professor in the Department 

of English. Elan Paulson is director of professional 

programs in the Faculty of Education. 


Teachers, technology come together at symposium 

“claSSroomS bUilt to re-enforce 

the top-doWn aUthoritatiVe 

KnoWledGe of the teacher are 

noW enVeloped by a cloUd of 

UbiqUitoUS diGital information 

Where KnoWledGe iS made, 

not foUnd, and aUthority iS 

continUoUSly neGotiated throUGh 

diScUSSion and participation.” 

- Michael Wesch 

A Vision of Students Today (and what Teachers Must Do), 

Oct. 21, 2008 

Making ties 

Kansas State professor Michael Wesch, above, delivers 

the keynote address at Technology in Education 

Symposium: Making TIES @ Western on March 8. 

Sponsored by the Registrar’s Office, Teaching Support 

Centre and Faculty of Education, the event is open to 

educators as well as staff at Western, affiliated university 

colleges and Continuing Studies. 

Proposals may be submitted by Jan. 26. 

Email ties@uwo.ca for details. 

ties-at-western.com on the Web 

@TIESWestern on Twitter 

Technology in Education Symposium at Western on 

Facebook 

Western Research is pleased to announce 

the following competition: 

Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards 

For Western and Robarts Researchers 

Created by endowed donations from Petro-Canada, this 

program recognizes, promotes and supports the work of 

new researchers whose work is particularly innovative, 

impacts positively on the learning environment in the 

department in which they study, and has the potential to be 

of significance to society at large. The program is intended 

to help attract and retain bright young minds at Canadian 

Universities, colleges and major research institutes and 

to help young researchers launch their scholarly careers 

and enable them to carry their research forward. Eligibility 

is award specific. Priority is given to research related to 

Petro-Canada’s areas of interest. 

Grant Amounts: 

Western - $12,500 and Robarts - $3,500 

Deadline: 

RD&S Deadline - February 15, 2013 

For more Funding News, please visit uwo.ca/research/. 

Contact: 

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Athletics 

Former Mustangs QB named Laurier head coach 

By PAul MAyNe 

While miChael faulds faced some pressure 

situations as the Mustangs quarterback from 2005- 

09, the edin Mills, ont., native will soon see the game 

from a whole new perspective. The all-time leading 

passer in Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) history 

has been named the head 

football coach of the laurier 

Golden Hawks. 

Faulds, 29, is only the 

sixth head coach in the 

team’s 52-year history, as 

well as the youngest head 

coach in country today. 

“This is a very exciting 

FAuldS 

time in my life,” said Faulds, 

who was selected from a 

pool of 25 national appli- 

cants. “To be head coach and manager of football 

operations at a university that is rich in tradition and 

history like laurier is terrific.” 

As a player, his prowess on the field can be 

summed up in impressive numbers – two yates 

Cup MVP trophies, CIS all-time passing leader at 

10,811 yards, CIS single-season passing leader at 

3,033 yards. 

He has spent the last three years as offensive 

coordinator for the york university lions, who went 

0-8, 1-7 and 2-6 during his tenure. 

So that, along with the whole age question, will 

surely be brought up as folks question if he’s ‘too 

young’ or ‘too inexperienced’ for a head coaching 

gig. 

“The age question does not bother me. In fact, 

critics, in general, have never bothered me,” Faulds 

said. “I am my own biggest critic and the daily pressures 

I place on myself far outweigh any others could 

place on me. For me, if you are a true leader, have 

a great work ethic and know the game of football, it 

doesn’t matter if you are 29, 40 or 65. you have the 

necessary qualities to be a head coach.” 

Mustangs head football coach Greg Marshall, 

who coached Faulds during his time at Western, 

was not surprised by the hiring. “Michael is a natural 

leader, a hard worker and has a real passion for the 

game,” he said. 

Faulds’ plan to get the Golden Hawks above .500 

for the first time since 2009 is simple. 

“The best teams in the CIS have the best players,” 

he said. “We need to recruit the best players year 

in and year out. laurier offers a beautiful campus, a 

winning tradition and history, great fan support and 

a very good opportunity to play. These qualities will 

allow us to recruit the top players annually.” 

While the next few months will be filled with game 

films, recruiting and meeting after meeting, Faulds 

looks forward to running onto the field for that first 

game as a head coach. 

“My first game will be exciting. I stay focused by 

always focusing on the task at hand,” Faulds said. 

“The only things I ever stress about are things that 

I control. Between now and our first game, I control 

how hard we work and how prepared we will be.” 

on Sept. 21, Faulds and his Golden Hawks host 

the Mustangs in the two teams’ only match-up of 

the year. 

“I know how prepared Coach Marshall will have 

Western and it is my job to match it. The atmosphere 

that week will be intense,” he said. 

Marshall also looks forward to that day this fall. 

“It is going to be fun to coach against Michael. I 

have tremendous respect for him and I know that he 

is going to do a good job,” he said. “He will have 

his team prepared and I sure he will be excited to 

play us. The added emotion of playing against your 

former team will add to the excitement.” 

PAul MAyNe // WeSTerN NeWS FIle PHoTo 

Former Mustangs quarterback Michael Faulds racked up a handful of CIS records 

and MVP honours while playing at Western (2005-09), and now brings his passion 

for the game to the head coaching position at Laurier this fall.

Campus Digest 

student health 

survey arriving soon 

nexT Week, sTudenTs will have 

an opportunity to open up (an email) 

and say ‘ahh.’ 

As part of the National College 

Health Assessment, Western will be 

among 31 Canadian universities conducting 

a survey of student health 

habits, behaviors and perceptions. 

The survey will collect data about risk 

and protective behaviours, perceived 

norms and incidences of a variety of 

health problems/conditions, which 

may affect academic performance 

and retention. 

Since 2000, more than 825,000 stu- 

NEWS AND NOTES 

As of Jan. 1, Thompson Arena 

and the T.d. Waterhouse Stadium 

no longer fall under Western’s 

Housing and Ancillary Services, 

having, as a facility, transitioned 

to Sport and recreation Services. 

The transition means better alignment 

of programs and facilities, 

said Therese Quigley, Sports and 

recreation Services director. 

“It really means much more 

seamless operation between 

facilities and programming, and 

facilitated planning and hosting 

of events, now that that unit is 

embedded in Sport and recreation 

Services,” she said. “Things 

were good before – it’s not a 

change as a result of a problem 

– just a much more efficient way 

of managing programs and facilities.” 

All contacts remain the same 

and there will be no service disruptions 

of any kind as a result 

of this transition, Quigley added. 

dennis McPhee, Western Mustangs 

football defensive coordinator, 

is heading back to the CFl 

for a third stint with the Hamilton 

Tiger-Cats. He spent last season 

at Western under Mustangs head 

coach Greg Marshall, a former 

Hamilton head coach. McPhee, 

54, was with the Tiger-Cats from 

1995-2001 (winning a Grey Cup 

in 1999) and 2004-06. He also 

coached at the university level, at 

St. Francis Xavier and Waterloo. 

Want more? head to 

communications/uwo.ca 

dents at 550 North American colleges 

and universities have participated in 

the survey. 

Starting Monday, a random sampling 

of 6,000 Western students will 

be invited to participate in the confidential, 

64-question online survey. 

Taking approximately 20 minutes to 

complete, the survey covers areas 

such as alcohol/tobacco/drug use, 

sexual behavior, nutrition and exercise 

and mental health. 

The findings will enable Western 

not only to track health trends on 

its campus, but also make compari- 

sons with other Canadian campuses, 

said Nicole Versaevel, Health Services 

health promotion manager. She 

hopes the information can be used 

to design evidence-based health 

promotion programs and marketing 

campaigns 

“Hearing from our student community 

will enable us to understand, 

first-hand, the significant health priorities 

of this population and assist us 

to better tailor campus-wide health 

promotion efforts and health and wellness 

services,” she said. - Jason Winders 

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Elections for membership on the Board Governors 

and Senate will take place in February 2013. 

Nominations for membership on the Board 

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undergraduate student constituencies are now 

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Always 

on call 

SERT stands ready 

around campus, 

around the clock 

STory ANd PHoToS By PAul MAyNe // WeSTerN NeWS 

Western’s Student Emergency Response Team (SERT) 

held its team testing or ‘Big Sit’ this past weekend in 

and around campus. Volunteers acted as casualties in 

different scenarios and locations throughout campus as 

SERT members were tested and evaluated by senior 

team members. Clockwise from top of page, former SERT 

member/actor Leah Hellyer is treated for a gash to the 

neck by responder Brendan Innes. SERT responders Luke 

Knechtel, Kate Mittermaier and Ron Polovitzky arrive on 

scene to treat former SERT member/actor Paul Clement 

following an accident near UC Hill. SERT members make 

a quick assessment of a patient before proceeding with 

treatment. SERT responder Ethan Edwards assesses the 

condition of actor Kimberly Lehman. SERT member Kate 

Mittermaier prepares to transport a patient using a 

backboard, while Ron Polovitzky keeps the head still. 

should a sTudenT suffer a medical 

emergency on campus, the first responders 

could very well be a classmate. Should a staff 

member be suffering from chest pains, the 

first responders could very well be a student 

they assisted with a course. Should a faculty 

member begin having heart trouble, the first 

responders could very well be a student from 

their morning class. 

When it comes to Western’s Student emergency 

response Team (SerT), this group of 

53 student volunteers are ready around the 

clock to respond to every type of call you could 

imagine. 

With Western’s campus population equivalent 

to that of a small city, SerT executive 

director dan Buchanan said at any given 

moment there are thousands of students, 

staff, faculty and visitors that frequent or reside 

on campus. 

While the university has created and continues 

to sustain a safe community, there is 

always the potential for injury. despite best 

efforts to prevent emergencies, issues often 

arise, he said. 

“our response is a 24/7 emergency medical 

service with three co-ed responders on call at 

any time,” Buchanan said. “each team member 

contributes approximately four-five shifts 

per month (10-14 hours per shift). While on 

call, SerT responders remain on campus and 

our night responders sleep in our on-call room 

within Student Health Services.” 

Beyond their regular shifts, the students also 

cover events on campus and attend emergency 

response conferences and competitions. 

As a non-profit organization, SerT 

members regularly teach First-Aid courses to 

students, staff and faculty, as well as within the 

london community, in order to fund the program. 

Western groups such as the university 

Students’ Council and Housing and Ancillary 

Services also contribute annual grants to the 

program. 

Buchanan said SerT continues to have a 

large applicant pool from year to year, where 

the extensive and extremely competitive 

application process begins. Training consists 

of an 80-hour course providing instruction on 

everything from oxygen therapy and spinal 

immobilization to defibrillation and advanced 

first-aid. 

each team member also undergoes 20 

hours of training every September, as well as 

monthly trainings and evaluations – all of which 

are mandatory – to ensure the students have 

the ability to recognize an emergency and 

react accordingly, Buchanan said. He added 

training also includes extrication, identifying 

mental health issues and emergency childbirth. 

“The team has a diverse educational composite 

including both Western and affiliate 

students enrolled in many faculties including 

Science, Health Sciences, Nursing, english, 

Business, Graduate Studies and Medicine,” 

Buchanan said. 

every year, SerT aims to select equal numbers 

from first to fourth-year students, along 

with those in postgraduate programs. However 

this depends solely on the applicant pool. 

In his first year on SerT, Buchanan was a graduate 

student at robarts research Institute. 

Not an ‘everyone can join’ team, he added 

SerT is particular in selecting those individuals 

who demonstrate solid knowledge of first aid 

and practical skills, as well as the ability for critical 

thinking in high-stress situations. 

“I have never met a more motivated and 

dedicated group of people,” Buchanan said. 

“our volunteers live and breathe SerT every 

day while maintaining a focus on school work 

and their other extra-curriculars. These individuals 

are motivated by their passion for 

Western and their fascination with emergency 

response.” 

SerT continues to look for ways to 

improve its ability to respond by expanding 

the response supplies and updating training 

equipment to simulate realistic scenarios. 

Anyone interested in finding out more 

about SerT, and perhaps how to volunteer, 

can visit sert.uwo.ca.


MEET THE TEAM 

Founded: Through the initiative of Western 

student Robert Garland, the Student Emergency 

Response Team (SERT) was born in 1989 as 

part of Brigade 28 of St. John Ambulance. The 

team was overseen by St. John Ambulance and 

by Dr. Tom Macfarlane, Western’s Student Health 

Services director at the time. Garland became 

SERT’s first program director. 

Members: 53 

On-call: 24/7. Should someone call 911, 

London’s central dispatch will forward this call 

to Campus Police, which dispatches SERT as 

the first responder to any medical emergency 

on campus. 

Training: Each team member is certified as 

an Emergency Medical Responder, a level that 

is becoming widely accepted as a standard 

for Emergency First Response Teams across 

Canada. This is an intensive 80-hour course 

providing instruction on oxygen therapy, spinal 

immobilization, automatic external defibrillation 

and advanced first-aid. Each team member 

undergoes 20 hours of training every September, 

as well as monthly trainings and evaluations, all 

of which are mandatory. 

Funding: SERT is a non-profit organization. The 

majority of our funding comes from providing 

Red Cross First Aid courses to the Western and 

greater London communities. 

Equipment: Responders carry top-quality, 

modern equipment at all times including a 

defibrillator, oxygen and symptom-relief drugs 

such as ventolin and epinepherine, allowing 

responders to deal with any situation they 

encounter. 

Transportation: Due to the size of Western’s 

campus, SERT’s primary response vehicle is its 

Toyota Tacoma truck. Responders will also run 

to calls for accessibility, location and speed 

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Student Life 

sportsnet blogger 

gets in the game 

By PAul MAyNe 

all sporTs fans have an opinion, 

and Kyle Myers is no different. 

If you get the fourth-year Media, 

Information & Technoculture/english 

student going on anything sports 

related – in particular detroit sports – 

then prepare for the long haul. Now, 

Myers has taken his love of sports 

and writing to the masses, joining 

Sportsnet’s new website feature Fan 

Fuel – blogs for fans, written by fans. 

“It’s just something I’m passionate 

about,” said Myers, a Kingsville, ont., 

native. “you can talk to your friends 

about sports all you want, but you 

only get to talk to the same four of 

five guys. This gives you such a wider 

audience.” 

It was after taking lecturer Mark 

Kearney’s sports-writing class last 

semester Myers was told of this “cool 

opportunity.” With the blog launched 

this past october, he took advantage 

of the World Series about to 

get underway and submitted his first 

article. 

“I think it was about the Tigers and 

the playoffs,” said the 21-year-old. 

“They emailed me back and said they 

liked it and that it would be up in the 

next day or so. It was pretty surreal to 

see it online. It was a cool moment.” 

next steps // Continued FRoM page 1 

“The movement has put these 

issues on the agenda – that is acceptance. 

It’s established that this is a 

legitimate issue and we should be 

talking about this – and they did get 

a meeting. That is an indication they 

have gotten something, and a new 

advantage, some agreement to have 

more dialogue and some recognition 

they are legitimate actors on environmental 

issues. It’s a huge win for First 

Nations people,” she said. 

“The success over time will be measured 

with how much dialogue do 

they get, how much involvement. The 

more coalitions they make with larger 

groups, the more likely it is they will 

keep issues on the agenda. Their challenge 

now is to stay in the news, but 

they shouldn’t go about it the same 

way,” Corrigall-Brown added. 

law professor Michael Coyle 

agreed. 

“We lack a good enough framework 

for addressing First Nations 

grievances. We don’t have an overall 

timely framework for addressing 

historical issues like individual treaty 

claims or for working out together 

how Aboriginal people can participate 

in a modern economy that allows 

them opportunities to do well in this 

country while at the same time preserving 

their culture,” said Coyle, who 

studies Aboriginal rights and dispute 

resolution theory. 

“If the movement leads to Aboriginal 

people being recognized on issues 

that concern them, it will be successful. 

With the publicity this is creating, 

it’s possible it could lead to awareness 

that steps need to be taken on 

Read all about it 

Logon to sportsnet.ca/fanfuel to read fourth-year Media, Information & Technoculture/ 

English student Kyle Myers’ thoughts on sports. 

Since, Myers has penned 25 or so 

opinion pieces on everything from 

derek Jeter of the New york yankees, 

Andrew luck of the Indianapolis 

Colts, Jose Valverde of the Tigers and, 

of course, the rough season of his 

beloved detroit lions. 

“This is kind of the first step in getting 

my work out there,” said Myers, 

who has rearranged his job schedule 

this semester in hopes of doing 

sports writing for the student Gazette 

newspaper. He also just applied to 

Toronto’s Centennial College for its 

one-year program in sports journalism, 

which includes an internship. 

“It’s more than just a hobby. I never 

really thought of it as a legitimate 

career opportunity until this year,” 

he said. “I was kind of thinking about 

teaching, but have since decided 

to jump in with both feet and have 

enjoyed it so far. It’s something I’m 

definitely interested in. It’s a great way 

to get a little name recognition going 

for me.” 

Myers likes the fact he can write 

both sides – more is needed than just 

meetings.” 

Corrigall-Brown noted the protest 

garnered attention for doing something 

different and should continue to 

innovate and employ different tactics 

to engage the public. 

“That was the problem with occupy. 

They kept doing the same thing,” she 

said. “But (going forward) Idle No 

More has a good Internet and social 

media presence. on their site there’s 

a lot of discussion about reaching out 

to youth, environmentalists and other 

communities. If they can keep that up, 

it will lead to more success.” 

While Idle No More has garnered 

both sympathy and allies across the 

country, it has nevertheless been criticized 

for things like its more radical 

tactics – such as the hunger strike of 

Attawapiskat chief Theresa Spence 

– as well as what some have called a 

lack of clear leadership or a unified 

message. 

radical tactics, diversity of interests 

and lack of leadership don’t have to 

be a bad thing, Corrigall-Brown said. 

If it takes a radical approach to get the 

government’s attention, it’s a tactic 

that can bring all the issues to the 

negotiating table in the end. 

Another challenge for the movement, 

she added, will be to establish 

specific micro-goals as a measure of 

success. 

establishing a better relationship 

with the government is a broad goal, 

she explained, so having a smaller 

goal like being consulted on one 

particular issue, would give people a 

sense of immediate satisfaction. The 

whenever an idea strikes him, but 

admits he doesn’t want to “stretch 

myself too far on something I don’t 

know much about.” That’s why his 

work has a strong focus on detroit 

sports. 

Feedback is always something 

Myers looks forward to with his work, 

but admits the new site is still building 

up an audience, so he hasn’t noticed 

anything too bad yet. 

“Nothing worse than the marks I 

get from professors,” he joked. “As 

long as I’m not too busy with school 

and work, I want to keep plugging 

away.” 

PAul MAyNe // WeSTerN NeWS 

Western Media, Information & 

Technoculture/English student Kyle 

Myers has taken his love of sports 

to the masses, as a contributing 

writer on Sportsnet’s new Fan Fuel 

website, sportsnet.ca/fanfuel. 

“the moVement haS 

pUt theSe iSSUeS on 

the aGenda – that 

iS acceptance. it’S 

eStabliShed that thiS iS a 

leGitimate iSSUe and We 

ShoUld be talKinG aboUt 

thiS. 

- Catherine Corrigall-Brown 

same applies to the goals of environmental 

sustainability – asking to 

protect a certain amount of wildlife 

or specific water access will provide 

a reasonable and immediate agenda. 

“you need micro-goals in place so 

people can have sense of satisfaction,” 

Corrigall-Brown said. 

Coyle noted going forward, both 

the government and First Nations 

leaders need to work harder in establishing 

a better relationship. 

“How can Aboriginal people economically 

fare much better and still 

have their cultures and societies protected? 

We have short-term attention 

to the unfortunate situation of 

Aboriginal people. Non-Aboriginal 

Canadians realize there are some serious 

structural, fundamental issues 

that need to be addressed,” he said. 

“They need to support the idea that 

the government should invest serious 

time in working with Aboriginal 

leaders to construct better ways of 

coexisting.”

Brescia University College Award 

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Brescia University College invites nominations for its Award for Excellence in Teaching. Nominations are 

due February 4, 2013. The purpose of the Brescia award is to acknowledge and celebrate the outstanding 

efforts made by Brescia faculty in fostering the academic development of students. The Award is given to 

professors who excel in two or more of the following activities: 

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2) Academic counselling, which may involve assisting students in selecting courses or choosing programs 

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3) Designing courses or academic programs to suit the needs of students, a Department, or the College 

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4) Producing educational materials such as textbooks, instructional packages, laboratory manuals, 

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5) Participating in teaching development activities like workshops or seminars designed to improve or 

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6) Developing innovative teaching methods, such as providing an opportunity for experiential learning, 

fieldwork, or learning through community service. 

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received, the nominators will then prepare a one-page letter of nomination. The letter may refer to the 

criteria above in making the case. 

Nominations must be submitted to the Selection Committee, Award for Teaching Excellence by February 

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(Coordinator of the Selection Committee). The Selection Committee then 

assists the nominees to prepare a dossier. The decision of the Selection 

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Celebrating the launch of a new 

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Alumni 

Young leader making 

public health connections 

aT 40, WesTern alumnus dr. 

Gabriel leung heads the School of 

Public Health at the university of 

Hong Kong (uHK), where he has been 

a tenured professor since age 34. 

After graduating from Western 

with his Md in 1996, he went on to 

earn a masters of public health from 

Harvard university and an Md from 

uHK, where he joined the faculty as a 

27-year-old professor. He has established 

and directed the school’s Infectious 

disease epidemiology Group 

since the 2003 SArS epidemic. 

In 2008, leung took a four-year 

leave of absence to serve as Hong 

Kong’s first 

under Secretary 

for 

Food and 

Health and 

fifth director 

of the 

chief execu- 

leuNG 

tive’s office. 

Six months 

ago, leung 

returned 

to uHK, where he assisted with the 

merger of the department of Community 

Medicine and the School of 

Public Health. 

leung, who won Western’s Alumni 

Award of Merit-Asia in 2007, has 

hopes of reconnecting with Western 

by establishing collaboration between 

his public health program with Western’s 

soon-to-arrive School of Public 

Health. 

Western News reporter Paul Mayne 

spoke with leung this week about 

his time at Western and the future of 

public health. 

• • • 

WN: You spent the majority of the 

early 1990s here at Western. What do 

you recall from your time in London? 

Gabriel Leung: I still remember the 

first day I arrived at Saugeen-Matiland. 

I stayed there for three years. It 

was then the largest mixed residence 

in North America. Not sure if it still is. 

WN: Those were the days of ‘The 

Zoo.’ That is no longer, but I’m wondering 

how a medical student got 

any work done at that time? 

oh, it’s lost its edge? (laughing.) 

I didn’t have much trouble. It was 

a very good social and supportive 

environment. Contrary to popular 

belief, people actually do study and 

get some sleep – despite the frequent 

fire alarms, which was a bit inconvenient 

when the medical school exam 

schedule was different that the rest of 

the university. 

At Western, I started majoring in 

Chemistry and minoring in Music. It 

was through the Scholar’s elective 

program, which was new at the time, 

where you could mix and match and 

not be bound by traditional disciplinary 

boundaries. That was a lot of fun. 

I remember doing most of my studying 

on scientific subjects in the Music 

building. All in all, it was a very good 

experience. 

“alSo, don’t forGet oUr WorK in health 

SyStemS, economicS and policy. We 

appreciate health reform doeS not taKe 

place in a VacUUm, bUt in indiVidUal 

coUntrieS. We can only improVe by 

learninG from What happenS throUGh 

each other’S experienceS.” 

WN: In 2008, you left academia to 

take on a new role in government. 

Now, you have returned to academia. 

Was the plan always to return? 

I had been at the university for 10 

years when the government came 

calling. I told them right from the start 

I would be doing only one full-term 

(four years) of government, so here I 

am back again. I actually never left; I 

just took a leave of absence. ... It feels 

like being home. 

I think the government experience 

has been exceptionally enriching 

and helped me think from a broader 

angle about some of the critical public 

health questions that face not just 

Hong Kong, but the world, today. It’s 

been an absolute synergy in terms of 

that experience and what I do now 

back at the university. 

I think it gives you real-life perspective 

into vexed policy questions which, 

when viewed from a scientific viewpoint, 

gives you a lot more insight 

into the sorts of questions one should 

be asking. 

WN: As the Department of Community 

Medicine joins the School 

of Public Health at UHK, what are 

you hoping to see come from the 

school in regards to its teaching and 

research surrounding public health? 

I look forward to consolidating our 

strengths within a new vision for the 

future. We will continue to lead the 

country in what we have always done 

quite well – infectious diseases, in particular 

those with major global health 

significance such as influenza, handfoot-and-mouth 

disease and HPV, and 

non-communicable diseases. 

We see fairly different patterns of 

these chronic diseases in Hong Kong, 

China and Asia, as compared to the 

West. These epidemiological differences, 

we believe, point to underlying 

gaps in the scientific mechanisms of 

disease causation, or pathology. From 

an epidemiological viewpoint, we see 

and celebrate these differences and 

exploit them to draw out new scientific 

insights as far as fundamental 

biological pathways, which would ultimately 

benefit global health. 

Also, don’t forget our work in health 

systems, economics and policy. We 

appreciate health reform does not 

take place in a vacuum, but in individual 

countries. We can only improve by 

learning from what happens through 

each other’s experiences. So this is 

kind of experimental learning through 

a systematic science of comparative 

health systems. 

And from my previous conversations 

with your president (Amit Chakma) at 

Western, we very much hope to work 

with Western’s new School of Public 

Health (slated to begin in September) 

and try and build bridges. 

WN: Do you feel the pressure of high 

expectations? 

I have always been very excited 

about returning to the university. Now 

that I’ve been back for six months 

and putting into action some of these 

plans – with some already bearing 

fruit – is enormously satisfying. This is 

what gives us all the collective drive 

to continue to pursue our vision. ultimately, 

it’s really when you see your 

work resulting in policies that protect 

and improves health for whole populations, 

not just within Hong Kong, but 

well beyond our borders, and you’re 

producing graduates who become 

leaders in the field; that’s what makes 

it all worthwhile. 

WN: Your education has taken you 

all over – Hong Kong, Canada, the 

United States and Great Britain. Has 

having these global experiences, 

along with the formal education you 

received, shaped who you are and 

what you hope to bring to your new 

position? 

I really think the world is a global village, 

and this is truer than ever in this 

day and age. Not only because we are 

so interdependent on each other, but 

also because of the means of communication. 

I don’t think anybody would 

dispute that. 

The challenge for us all, including in 

academia, is how to leverage on this 

new ongoing development – which 

is only going to get more intense – to 

give the best student experience and 

also to make sure we leverage on this 

globalization to the best of our advantage 

in our research endeavours. 

Hong Kong has survived and thrived 

on being exactly that – a free port of 

what used to be goods and then, laterally, 

services, and throughout all that 

time, a free port of ideas and people. 

I very much look forward to working 

together with colleagues at Western, 

under the president’s leadership, to 

find commonalities and parallels. 


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sTudenT CenTral in-person 

hours 

9 a.m.-4 p.m Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 

and Friday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday. 

Bursaries To learn frenCh 

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while learning French and living the culture 

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apply To graduaTe 

online application is now open for the 

February in-absentia convocation. The 

deadline to apply is Jan. 22. online 

application opens for the June Convocation 

on Feb. 1 and closes on March 15. 

There is no ceremony for February and 

all graduate names will appear in the 

June convocation programs. Tickets for 

the June convocation will be released 

starting the end of May. 

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course. last day to receive admission 

applications: Business Administration. 

feb. 1: last day to receive admission 

applications: Social Work (King’s university 

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matthew James Ward, Chemistry, X-ray 

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Excited Optical Luminescence Studies 

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Solution Nanostructures, Jan. 17, MSB 

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Jennifer rayner, epidemiology and 

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Health Outcomes Between Children in 

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Brandon rouleau, Anthropology, Tu 

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THE SYMBOL OF QUALITY

ART COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT – CALM (1962) BY TONY URQUHART 

Calm 1962 by Tony Urquhart, oil on canvas, Gift of the Alumni 

Association, 1968. 

In 1962, Tony Urquhart was in his second year as 

Western’s first artist-in-residence. Before Western 

had a Department of Fine Arts, this position 

provided interested students with firsthand learning 

opportunities through sketching classes, exhibitions 

and activities. In addition, Urquhart established 

a studio for his own practice in the lower level of 

McIntosh Gallery. 

Intentionally ambiguous in scale and subject matter 

(Is it a landscape? A haystack? A microcosm?), Calm 

was actually part of a series painted by Urquhart in 

reaction to the ominous tension of the Cold War. 

Though seemingly static, closer examination reveals 

that the central element is layered in thin washes of 

transparent colour, an allusion to the roiling slow 

motion of a nuclear explosion. We are observing it in 

a state of near suspension just before the firestorm 

would reach us. 

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Urquhart and his wife, novelist Jane Urquhart, 

bring lessons from their travels to Western to help 

celebrate the McIntosh Gallery’s 70th anniversary. 

Their lecture, Power and Place: Landscape in the 

Visual and Literary Arts, will be held at 2 p.m. 

Sunday, Jan. 20 in Conron Hall, University College. 

In 1966, the Alumni Association formed a 

committee to research and assemble a collection 

of museum-quality contemporary art. Today, the 

Alumni Art Collection boasts 18 artworks by 

outstanding international, national and regional 

artists including Jack Chambers, Greg Curnoe, Yves 

Gaucher, Michael Snow and Jules Olitski. Over the 

years, these artworks have been enjoyed both on 

campus and in major exhibitions across Canada – a 

proud legacy indeed. 

CATHerINe ellIoT SHAW 

CurATor, MCINToSH GAllery 

ARE YOU A STUDENT, STAFF, FACULTY MEMBER OR COMMUNITY 

PARTNER INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING TO INDIGENOUS ENGAGEMENT 

AT WESTERN UNIVERSITY (WU)? If so, come to the: 

Gathering 

Our Voices 

as part of a new university-wide 

Indigenous Community Engagement Strategy 

Co-hosted by: 

• Office of the Provost 

• Indigenous Services (IS) 

• First Nations Studies Department (FNS) 

• Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Initiative (IHWI) 

• Aboriginal Education and Employment Council (AEEC) 

INDIGENOUS TALKING CIRCLES SERIES 

INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT 

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2013 

Time: 11:00 AM to 4:30 PM 

Location: Western University 

INDIGENOUS STUDENT AND STAFF ADVANCEMENT 

Date: Friday, January 25, 2013 

Time: 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM 


INDIGENOUS RESEARCH & ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT 

Date: Friday, January 25, 2013 

Time: 12:30 PM to 5:00 PM 


All are welcome to attend, RSVP by contacting: Kelly Nicholas at 519-661-4095 

or kjnichol@uwo.ca. Lunch and parking will be provided and confirmed upon 

registration along with address and room location


Arts 

alumnus hopes listeners get the Message 

By JASoN WINderS 

for Jordan mandel, this was his 

final message at Western. 

Mandel recently released The Music is the 

Message, a 13-track album representing the 

culmination of his Popular Music and Culture 

master’s degree. recorded under the name 

Spoke and Mirror, the album marries an 

original digital music score with the words of 

Marshall Mcluhan, the late Canadian media 

theorist famous for his ‘the medium is the 

message’ message. 

“The music is the same as my master’s 

thesis, but the album version is a bit less 

academic,” Mandel said. “It’s a way of illustrating 

Mcluhan on his own terms. He wrote 

a lot about literacy, and the limits of what 

literacy can accomplish (and the irony is that 

he was writing about that). So, it is nice to 

be able to use a different medium than just 

writing about it for my thesis. 

“It’s kind of a neat question from the academic 

side: Is this worth a 100-page master’s 

thesis? As for me, it is far more rewarding 

than the paper would have been – not only 

for Mcluhan’s work, but for a lot of what he 

was talking about.” 

The album grew out of a single track put 

together for a class project more than a 

year ago. From there, Mandel eventually 

would compose a fourtrack 

eP, Forward Through the 

Rearview Mirror, released in summer 2011. It 

was billed as the first talk-rock release featuring 

samples of Mcluhan speeches. 

The tracks were an inventive soundscape 

of electronica combined with remixed spoken 

word. listen today, and they are still 

remarkably entertaining, if not exactly catchy, 

tunes. 

Music professor Jay Hodgson, Mandel’s 

advisor and producer, encouraged him to 

push for a full work beyond the initial eP. 

Music is a repackage version of his master’s 

thesis. 

For Hodgson, the biggest challenge of 

a non-traditional work such as Music is getting 

more conservative elements to open 

up to new ways of learning, researching and 

engaging with ideas as well as other ways of 

using those ideas to further knowledge. 

“It’s very Mcluhan,” he said. “There is 

a serious bias toward print. Someone like 

myself, who does these creative projects and 

is working on unorthodox formats for theses 

in order to accommodate unorthodox learners, 

the biggest difficulty I find people have 

is understanding how to engage with something 

that doesn’t have a precedent. 

“of course, every single thing done at university 

– everything that is traditional – was at 

one point in time unorthodox and radical. I 

let the work justify itself to be honest.” 

The four original tracks – Marsha Marsha 

Marshall, Buzz Saw, The Emperor’s New 

Clothes and Cathode Ray – join nine others 

Mandel composed by drawing on Mcluhan 

material from the CBC, as well as Mcluhan’s 

own archive. 

“Jordan doesn’t just take recordings of 

Mcluhan talking and set them to music. He 

actually takes what is being said, and the 

theories Mcluhan was advancing, and he 

elucidates it in the music in really interesting 

ways,” Hodgson said. 

Since he started the project nearly a year 

and a half ago, Mandel graduated with his 

masters, got married, settled in london and 

even got a dog. And while Mandel, who 

earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy 

from york university, admits he doesn’t think 

he and Mcluhan “are going to go much 

further musically,” this isn’t the end. He is 

exploring ways of performing the album live. 

“That is quite a task because it was never 

recorded live in the first place,” he said. 

“That is what I always loved about music – 

performing live. I just haven’t been able to 

do it in recent years.” 

In the end, Mandel and Hodgson hopes 

the album – much like Mcluhan – offers 

a nugget of something valuable for every 

listener. 

“I hope listeners will hear it more as a 

musical inquiry into Mcluhan’s ideas than 

just a musical celebration and setting of 

Mcluhan,” Hodgson said. 

“It’s an experiment in what people get out 

of it,” Mandel said. “Some people seem to 

get something very cerebral from it – these 

ideas. I am not so convinced everyone is 

going to get that from it. To a lot of people, 

it is kind of how dJs will use random speech 

clips; in that, it almost doesn’t matter what he 

is saying. That’s the neat part. 

Have a listen 

The album can be purchased at iTunes, HMV 

or amazon.ca, as well as spokeandmirror.com. 

Digital download and CD versions are available.

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