Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Arrest in the SSC

OCT. 13, 2009

A video circulates on YouTube showing theviolent arrest of Western student Irnes Zeljkovic.The incident gained national and internationalmedia attention with many questioning whetherCampus Community Police and the LondonPolice Service used excessive force during thearrest. The Gazette’s live coverage and videos ofthe event online received a spike in traffic, crashing the website. Zeljkovic’scharges were stayed in late January. Following a lengthy investigation byLondon Police Service, the use of force by Western Campus CommunityPolice and London police in the arrest was deemed appropriate on Feb. 2,2010.

News Year in Review

H1N1 comes to WesternLTC goes on strike

The

Homecoming parade

takes a turn for theworse after organizers realize not enough flatbedtrucks are booked. Some groups drop out of theparade while others cram onto a single flatbedor walk the parade route.Over 300 attend a Halloween party on

FlemingDrive

near Fanshawe College. Some throw bottlesat police. Watch the video at youtube.com/uwogazette

USC Elections

SEPT. 18, 2009SEPT. 24, 2009OCT. 2, 2009

Six candidates began campaigningfor the University Students’ Councilpresidential election in late January.Platforms were characterized bypromises of inclusivity and communi-cation. The campaign season sawhighs and lows, including signvandalism and several debates.Ultimately, Mike Tithecott reignedvictorious on election night with 2,066 votes.

FEB. 10, 2010NOV. 16, 2009

London Taxi comes to town

NOV. 27, 2009

After a summer of concernsurrounding a new strain of influenza,Western is hit with H1N1 in earlySeptember. The Middlesex LondonHealth Unit began distributing itslimited supply of flu vaccines to highrisk groups in late October. InNovember, the Gazette reported on the rising use of hand sanitizer inreaction to the flu panic. Western set up an online absence-reporting toolfor sick students to prevent the disease from spreading. A 29 day strike by the London Transitunion leaves Western studentsscrambling to find alternatearrangements for November andDecember. The University Students’Council and Western set up the“Mustangs moving Mustangs” programand makeshift dorm space in UCC. As aresult of the strike, each student with a bus pass was compensated $18.93,with cheques still available for pick-up at InfoSource. A new taxi company hits city streets inNovember. Within days, its presidentlashed out at his competition, accusing Aboutown of breaking city bylaws byoffering fixed rates and undercuttingcity-mandated meter rates. Aboutown, which has had a fixed rate program with the UniversityStudents’ Council since 1994, claimed this program is legal and a clericalerror in a 2004 bylaw amendment forgot to include a provision allowing it.

OCT. 31, 2009

The library at King’s University College announcesit will stay open for

24-hours

during exam season.

FEB. 24, 2010

Ann Coulter

visits Western tosignificant controversy. Studentsand Londonders line up outside ofthe North Campus Building hopingto enter the sold out event.

MAR. 22, 2010

The USC votes to not renew

tvWestern.ca

’s$3.55 student fee, effectively ending the station.

MAR. 12, 2009

After months of negotiations and debate, Westernofficials announce

D.B. Weldon Library

willremain open for 24-hours during exam season.The majority of the $10,000 price tag will befooted by students.

MAR. 31, 2010

Some members of the

Society of GraduateStudents

circulate a petition to vote to leave the

Canadian Federation of Students

, a largelobbying group. The petition was unsuccessful.

OCT. 22, 2009

Clothing vendors in the Univer-sity Community Centre areseen selling supposedly

inau-thentic merchanise

. The Ga-zette reports the brands werepart of the “grey market” and were not illegal.

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The University of Waterloo varsity football team underwent drug test-ing last Wednesday, after police dis-covered a stash of steroids andhuman growth hormones. While looking for stolen goodsfrom a break and enter, WaterlooRegional Police Service uncoveredthe performance-enhancing drugs, which prompted an immediateinvestigation by both the police andthe University. Details regarding thestash have not yet been revealed tothe public, as the investigation isongoing.University officials have called inCanadian Interuniversity Sport, which oversees sports at universi-ties across the nation.“[CIS] recommended a certainnumber [of athletes] to target test,and we actually made the requestto test the entire team,” BobCopeland, director of athletics andrecreational services at Waterloo,explained.“We felt that it was [important]to exonerate those who are com-peting clean and don’t deserve thattype of cloud.”CIS was disappointed to hear of the circumstances, Marg McGregor,chief executive officer,explained:“[We] wanted to take immediatesteps to ensure that we had confi-dence in the program, and that any athletes that were cheating werecaught.” According to McGregor, the CIShas been conducting drug testing on its athletes since 1990, with only about one per cent of the tests com-ing back positive.“That [statistic] suggests that thevast majority of student athletes arecompeting clean, following therules, respecting the game andrespecting their opponents,” shesaid.Following the results of the test-ing at Waterloo, any athlete whotested positive, self-disclosed orrefused testing will be revealed tothe public through CIS. At Western, athletes may be sub- ject to both random and targeteddrug testing throughout the year, inaccordance with CIS and the Cana-dian Centre for Ethics in Sports,explained Thérèse Quigley, directorof sports and recreation services at Western. According to Quigley, all studentathletes at Canadian universitiesmust also undergo an educationprogram on topics such as drugs, asmandated by the CIS.“The purpose is — obviously —to educate student athletes aboutthe effects of various performance-enhancing substances, but also toeducate them about the policies,protocols and the zero-tolerance[stance] that the CIS has,” sheexplained.Copeland agreed that educationand prevention are key to support-ing clean, fair sport.“My hope is that we’re able todevelop better policies and educa-tion [programs] of benefit to every-body who participates in CIS foot-ball,” he said, noting that his col-leagues from other universitieshave been supportive throughoutthe incident. As the events at Waterloo sug-gest, it is an ongoing battle to keepthe drugs out of the hands of varsi-ty athletesat schools across thecountry, according to McGregor.“We’re not naive enough to think that there will ever be a day wheneveryone will make the right ethicalchoices, but we’re certainly doing what we can to educate people, andto test and catch the folks whothink that they can get away with itand skirt the rules.”

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