thegazette
CARRYING
IT WITH HER
What do you see when you look at Western
student Jessica Grossman? What you can’t
see is the hardship she endured for years.
What you can see is her ostomy.
Arden Zwelling
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
For most dads, it would be a horrify-
ing realization.
Their daughter, their little girl —
all of 19-years-old and away from
home for the first time attending a
university with a reputation for less
than responsible behavior — was
seeing a new boy and she had — gasp
— been sleeping with him.
Even the most even-keeled
father would immediately be on the
phone ordering the chastity belt. But
not Jonathan Grossman — he could-
n’t be happier.
“You can do that?” Jonathan, a
hopelessly positive father if there
ever was one, exuded. “I’m so proud
of you. I would never even think you
could do that. That’s awesome.”
No, it wasn’t sarcasm. He was
genuinely proud of his little angel
who took a little longer to grow into
her wings.
He was just so happy she could
live a normal life.
Waiting for the storm
When Jessica Grossman was 11-
years-old she stood 5’3 and weighed
all of 50 pounds.
Her hemoglobin levels — which
ballpark around 120 for an average
11-year-old girl — hovered at 55. Any-
thing 40 or below would have meant
certain death.
Clearly something with Jessica
was terribly wrong.
Two years prior to that, Jessica
had been diagnosed with Crohn’s
Disease. A brutal intestinal disorder,
Crohn’s often doesn’t develop until
somewhere between the ages of 15
and 30, meaning Jessica could just
sit idly by, waiting for a storm to
come without a weather report.
Yet almost always there is a
switch — an unrelated medical event
that wakes the disease and begins its
savage assault on the intestinal tract.
For Jessica, it was a stomach
virus that she contracted right before
she began Grade 7. In the span of a
>> see JESSICA pg.2
Courtesy of the Intestinal Disease Education and Awareness Society
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Jessica Grossman
>> continued from pg.1
few days Jessica was drained of all
her 11-year-old energy, replaced with
stomach-scraping pain that clawed
at her insides around the clock.
“Basically I’m in a bed in a hospi-
tal — I don’t ever want to get up. The
pain keeps getting worse and worse.
You can’t really describe it. Imagine
your insides having sharp knives
grinding through them constantly.
That was my life,” Jessica said.
Jessica spent the majority of the
ages 12 and 13 immobilized at Sick
Kids Hospital in Toronto, only leaving
briefly to go home and sleep in her
own bed before the pain would get
worse and she would need to go back.
Her mother Julie, a physiothera-
pist and manager of a health clinic
in north Toronto, would spend time
with Jessica during her lunch
breaks, hiding her lunch because she
knew her daughter couldn’t eat. Her
father Jonathan, who worked from
home designing websites, was able
to spend even more time with Jessi-
ca, working from the hospital while
she slept.
Finally, when Jessica was 13 and
after two years of constant suffering
in the hospital, doctors presented
her with two options.
“They said either you get this osto-
my or you die,” Jessica remembered.
“It wasn’t really much of a choice.”
And thus, the doctors at Sick Kids
went into Jessica’s stomach and har-
vested her colon, removing the final
part of her digestive system and with
it her ability to go to the washroom
whenever she pleased. They then
made a small incision in her
abdomen and rerouted her small
intestines out of her body, folding
the edges of the open ended tube
over on itself and stitching them
down to form what’s known as a
stoma. Waste would flow freely from
the stoma into an ostomy, a small,
tan-coloured pouch that collects
any and all waste that passes
through her digestive tract, like a
balloon attached to a water faucet.
And that was that. Off went little
Jessica Grossman, blindly into the
world of having an ostomy after a
life-changing and likely life-saving
surgery.
“I’ve been very lucky. This was a
choice for me,” Grossman said.
“Some people aren’t as lucky. There
are a lot of people who wake up with
an ostomy and have no idea what
happened. They don’t know it’s com-
ing. One day it’s just there.”
The birth of an idea
All of a sudden the pain stopped. Jes-
sica would get dehydrated quickly, on
account of missing her colon, and her
body had trouble storing iron, but
these were minor inconveniences
when compared to being able to live
a healthy, normal life again.
Then in a Grade 12 media class
Jessica was given an assignment to
come up with a marketing tool for a
charitable cause. She didn’t think
much of it until she woke up in the
middle of the night, as if struck by
lightning, and immediately knew
what to do. She was going to bare
one of the most private parts of her
body to her entire class — her osto-
my.
“I decided the best way to get the
point across that I’m okay with this
and I’m positive about it was to
show off my ostomy and just put it
out there,” Grossman said.
Grossman set up a provocative
photo shoot and edited the photos
with the help of her father, a comput-
er whiz with a deft hand for Photo-
shop. The photo caption was: “70,000
people in Canada have an ostomy —
it’s time to stop covering up.”
And then it was over. Grossman
handed it in to be marked — “I didn’t
do as well as I hoped” — and then
thought nothing more of it.
Until an unusually rainy summer
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in Calgary in 2007 when Grossman
met Rob Hill, a fellow colon-less
ostomy-wearer and mountain
climber.
Hill had founded the Intestinal >> continued from pg.2
Disease Education and Awareness
Society (IDEAS) running campaigns Jessica scrambled to reschedule
and providing education to raise the and move her flight so she could be
awareness of intestinal diseases in by her ailing father’s side as doctors
North America. tried to save his life. But Jonathan
He immediately saw potential in was having none of it.
Grossman’s photos and, ever the “He said ‘Jessica, I don’t care.
mountain climber, wanted to take You’re going there and you’re doing
things to the next level. He wanted a this. You’re not going to sit here with
website, a new photo shoot, a brand me and let this pass you by. End of
— he wanted Jessica to be the world’s story,’” Jessica said.
most successful ostomy spokesper- So as her dad lay in a hospital bed
son. It would be called Uncover on the other side of the country
Ostomy. receiving increasingly high levels of
Jubilant to turn words, diagrams chemotherapy radiation that left
and brain storm sessions into a him a vomiting, feverish mess, Jes-
movement, Grossman and Hill made sica was in British Columbia doing
plans to reconvene in Vancouver, BC the photo shoot and laying the
in the summer of 2009 to do the ground work for Uncover Ostomy —
photo shoot. the campaign that was supposed to
For once in her life, Jessica was be the most exciting, substantial
able to take her ostomy and turn it achievement of her life.
into something that could help oth- After completing her photo shoot
ers — not just herself. and updating her aunt and uncle in
Victoria, Jessica raced back to
Against all odds Toronto to be with her ailing father.
Then Jessica came crashing back to
earth. Shortly after planning Uncover A life in 37 days
Ostomy, the news arrived: Jessica’s Jessica Grossman had spent more
dad Jonathan had myelofibrosis. time in hospitals than anyone else
An extremely rare and life-halt- should ever have to in their lives.
ing bone marrow disease, myelofi- And now she was going back.
brosis — which quickly develops into But this time, when Grossman
acute leukemia without treatment — arrived at Princess Margaret Hospi-
disrupts the body’s production of tal in Toronto — right across the street
blood cells, leaving the afflicted with from Sick Kids where she logged her
little to no energy, enlarged organs years in a gown — she was the visitor
and a tremendous amount of pain in and not the patient, sitting by her
the mid-section. It was cruelly sim- father’s side as he lay bedridden,
ilar to Jessica’s Crohn’s, but dissimi- hardly able to move or even talk.
lar in that there was no easy fix. It would go on like that for more
Jonathan was to undergo a bone than a month as Jonathan’s body
marrow transfusion that July. The decided whether it would accept the
exact same day as Jessica’s photo new bone marrow or not. Jessica
shoot in Vancouver. blogged her father’s ordeal, as his
body began bloating and spotting,
>> see IMAGINE pg.3 while the area around his eyes
puffed up like a fish and turned
bright shades of red and yellow.
The Grossmans watched the doc-
tors scrawl Jonathan’s daily blood
work on a white board across from
his bed, clinging to every tenth of an
increase in Jonathan’s neutrophil
level or white blood cell count.
But their optimism remained
guarded. Just finding a donor had
been a miracle in and of itself — it
would take another one entirely for
the transfusion to work.
In order to even receive the trans-
fusion, Jonathan had to endure eight
straight days of chemotherapy to kill
all of the diseased bone marrow in his
body and make room for the new
stem cells. Doctors had surged an
ungodly amount of radioactivity
through every single pore of his being.
On the day the Grossman’s were
supposed to find out if the new bone
marrow was working, the doctors
stopped putting Jonathan’s numbers
up on the whiteboard. Slowly,
Jonathan’s breaths began getting
farther and farther apart.
Just before 1:00 pm. on Sunday,
August 30, 2009, at just 47 years of
age, Jonathan Grossman died of kid-
ney and liver failure. The
chemotherapy had damaged his
organs to the point where they
The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals refused to function.
O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give
you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. Jessica wrote of the news on her
© 2002 by Kings Features Syndicate, Inc. blog, announcing her father’s death
to the wide network of family and
friends who followed it.
“Finally, he’s at peace.”
“I wish he could have
seen where it’s gone”
Through her two-year battle with
Crohn’s, Jonathan was there. When
the doctors told Jessica they were
taking away her colon in order to
keep her alive, Jonathan was there.
Through her darkest nights, curled
up in pain on a hospital bed, just
waiting for the next hour when
maybe the pain would be a little soft-
er, Jonathan was there.
And now he wasn’t. A mere two
months before the expected launch
of Uncover Ostomy, Jessica had lost
her support system. Just like the
colon the doctors removed six years
earlier — how could she function
without it?
But if anyone lives carpe diem, it’s
Jessica Grossman. Her father saw
just 47 years and there was a time
where it seemed like Jessica might
not even make it to half that. If her
dad could have had anything in this
world, it would have been for his
daughter to be successful and to
achieve her dreams.
So on Oct. 3, 2009 — world osto-
my day in Canada — Uncover Osto-
my launched.
The website’s splash page was
anything but subtle, with a seductive
picture of Jessica, hair perfectly
messy, wearing a skimpy white tank
top and black jeans, undone at the
top with a tan ostomy bag peaking
out above the belt line.
Her first blog, complete with
video and a written introduction, was
surprisingly positive for a girl who
had lost her father just a month prior.
But that shouldn’t have been a
surprise — Jonathan was an aston-
ishingly positive man. Uncover
Ostomy wasn’t just for herself or the
thousands of Canadians living with
ostomies. Jessica was doing this for
her dad.
“I’m just so happy that he kept
pushing me to do it no matter what.
He was so involved in my life — he
would never let anything hold me
back,” Grossman said.
“I know he was so proud of the
fact that I had started it. I wish he
could have seen where it’s gone.”
The future is today
If Jonathan was here today he would
see a unique online community, a
one-of-its-kind arena for ostomates
— if you don’t recognize that word,
you aren’t one of them — from around
the world to come together and
exchange ideas, share tips and, most
importantly of all, break the stigma.
“The stigma is there so people
that have [ostomies] hide it. But if
they keep hiding it, the stigma is still
going to be there,” Jessica said.
In the next few months Jessica
and IDEAS are revamping Uncover
Ostomy with a new design, new
photos and improved functionality.
She wants the website to grow into a
support system with areas for those
with ostomies around the world to
interact with each other and share
their own tips and stories.
Solution to puzzle on page 10
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UNDERSTANDING
OSTOMIES
News Briefs
SRP referendum
now valid
Yesterday, the University Students’
Council Appeal Board decided to
overturn the decision deeming the
results of the March’s referendum on
1 The doctor enters the the Student Refugee Program
abdomen and locates the
colon or large intestine.
invalid.
The referendum was ruled
2 A portion of the colon is invalid after a number of demerit
pulled through the incision
points were levied against the “Yes”
in the abdomin.
campaign.
3 The colon is cut. The According to the report, the Board
portion attached to the felt the “Yes” side’s violations were
STOMACH rectum is removed or
sutured closed and left “not substantial enough to change the
inside. results of the referendum.”
“I’m jumping for joy, I’m just so
4 The portion attached to excited that it was overturned and
the stomach is brought
through the incision and [the levy] is going through,” Anna
the ends are folded over Martin, director of Western’s Student
OSTOMY and sutured to the skin, Refugee Program, said.
called a stoma.
COLON Marino Felice, head of the “Vote
No” campaign against the [SRP] pro-
posal, was not as pleased with the
RECTUM
results.
“They cheated, repeatedly, and
significantly — why should the spread
matter at all?” Felice expressed. “The
Anders Kravis, Stuart A. Thompson GAZETTE decision of the Appeal Board basi-
cally says that we acknowledge SRP
cheated, but they won by so much,
their cheating doesn’t matter.”
—Kaleigh Rogers
Jessica doesn’t mind being the
one fielding the questions from first-
time ostomates. But what she really
wants is for others to step up and
follow her lead, putting a positive
spin on life with an ostomy.
“If you come out with it and tell
people about it and say ‘this is what
I have and I’m fine with it,’ then peo-
ple see it positively,” Grossman said.
“If you go up to someone and say
there’s this gross weird thing
attached to me, everyone else is
going to see the same thing.”
Leaving Western after four years
with a BA and going to New York
University to do her Master’s in
graphic communications manage-
ment and technology in the fall,
change constantly fills the air in
Grossman’s world. There’s always
mountains to climb.
“If you don’t have positivity, all
you’re going to do is stop yourself
from doing anything you want to
do,” Grossman said. “I’ve been able
to look at it very positively and the
ostomy hasn’t stopped me from
doing anything.”
That much is clear for Jessica
Grossman. No one needs to tell her
anything is possible. No one can
ever clip those wings.
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YEAR IN REVIEW
So sorry,
it’s over
With this being the Gazette’s last issue of Volume 104,
now is a good time to reflect back on the 98 issues pub-
lished this year.
The Gazette, like all campus newspapers, strug-
gles to define and fulfill a mandate that fluctuates
from year to year. Looking at today’s centre spread,
it’s clear plenty of important stories — like the
municipal election — failed to resonate with readers,
while less newsworthy pieces — like campus WiFi —
proved exceedingly popular.
It’s in this context that campus newspapers must
guide their coverage. Some papers are faulted for
looking too inward, focusing on their university
bubble instead of more significant news happen-
ing elsewhere. It’s true that a mandate focused on
campus news will result in plenty of uninteresting
stories. Covering campus news exclusively also
forces newspapers to eschew more newsworthy
stories happening outside their mandated bubble.
Some newspapers, like Metro, tailor content
specifically to reader interests: shorter stories,
smaller news sections, longer arts sections. But
readers can be a fickle crowd to please, often
demanding in-depth stories while thumbing their
way to the crossword.
All campus and community papers exist in a
bubble. But this focus is sensible because these
newspapers are often the only ones with a critical
eye on the goings-on of their communities. Mean-
while, dozens of larger newspapers fulfill the
requirement for provincial, federal or internation-
al news.
Campus newspapers, like all student organiza-
tions, are a learning experience — one where stu-
dent volunteers try, fail and succeed under public
scrutiny. There is no guidebook setting a specific
path, leaving students the opportunity to experi-
ment and continually adjust their mandate.
It’s here that campus newspapers can find their
single guiding purpose — to cover their geographi-
cal area as best they can with diverse and important
stories. But while striving to fulfill this, they have
the freedom as students to experiment and mean-
der, reporting on a variety of news outside of their
bubble.
It’s crucial for campus and community newspa-
pers to watch their communities closely with a dis-
cerning and critical eye — no matter the conse-
quences or sacrifices.
Because if they don’t, no one will.
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In retrospect, the USC and
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It was a fitting finale yesterday when the
Gazette released its annual University
Students’ Council report cards. These
leaders represent the collective efforts of
a mutli-million dollar organization. And
while they do important work, only some
students will see the results.
Big ticket events like the Purple Finale
succeed by following a winning formula:
free lunch and free punch. Meanwhile,
much of their work goes unnoticed, like
lobbying the province for more access to
education.
While these leaders get the glory and
the scorn, a hefty amount of work is done
by other people: councillors, commis-
sioners, volunteers and staff. So as much
as we love these evaluations, they can
only represent simple summation of a
complex year. They evaluate the leaders,
while the rank-and-file go largely unno-
ticed.
It’s something true of the Gazette as
well. In fact, we mirror each other more
closely than either camps notice. We’re
both student-run, student-led organiza-
tions. Our teams have similar trial-by-fire
mentalities, succeeding and failing in the
public eye. Our achievements go widely
unnoticed while our shortcomings
become the cause de jour for armchair
critics everywhere.
There was a feeling in September that
both groups would achieve something
different this year.
At the Gazette, we overhauled every-
thing we could, including the most sig-
nificant layout change in years. Much of
our work has been behind the scenes, like
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a digital workflow that makes us online-
ready, or a creative section boasting video
and graphics. It was part of a mission to
modernize the Gazette after years of
meekly playing catch-up to a changing
medium.
Meanwhile, the USC dove head-first
into a new governance structure empow-
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helmed by full-time executives. There
was a renewed spirit to involve students,
emphasized by events they’d simply
appreciate, like the widely successful
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and reasonable approach to business and
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But after months of optimism, reality
settled in. The USC floundered in han-
dling the UWO Faculty Association strike,
provoking a salvo of criticism from aver-
age students and the Gazette. Meanwhile,
our incessant interest in USC politics and
Western news kept news coverage local
while offering a handful of forgettable
stories.
Both groups are grappling with a
changing and growing student body, one
far less engaged than years past. So while
the USC preaches about getting students
involved, the Gazette pleads with readers
to volunteer. But most students want
nothing to do with either of us.
This should all be considered when
summarizing a year of work. That student
organizations are always at the mercy of
the people willing to do the work. That
leaders get the brunt of criticism and
praise, but their achievements are owed
to their employees, who in student circles
are the most devoted types you’ll find.
Because it’s the volunteers who do
obscene amounts of work for no discern-
able reason. It’s their devotion to an orga-
nization, a name, an idea. For newspaper
folks, it’s the Gazette and what it repre-
sents. For the politically inclined, it’s the
student government and its aspirations.
But after years at the Gazette and a
term as editor-in-chief, I’m starting to
realize we’re not so different after all.
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Letters to the editor
Library tenants beware
To the Editor:
This is a warning to all students in all
libraries.
With the exam period looming over
the denizens of Western, the value of
library space is at a premium. By 9
o’clock the libraries are packed with stu-
dents stuffing as much information as
possible into their worn out brains to
make up for the fact that they haven’t
done their readings in five weeks and
slept through lecture just as often.
Well, sort of.
You see, half the seats are usually full,
while the other half have been marked as
“taken” by a single sheet of paper, a cou-
ple of pens, or a sweater thrown over the
back of a seat to mark the territory of a
student who hasn’t stepped foot in the
library for hours.
This exam season I’m going to
assume that these articles of academia,
these bits of stationary and these pieces
of clothing are all items that some poor
student has lost in their exam frenzy and
will treat such items with the respect
they deserve. I’m going to take your cor-
ral-hogging shit and give them to the
front desk to keep in the lost and found,
and then I’m going to take your seat, you
inconsiderate bastard.
—Cody Sutherland
MIT IV
Dear Life
Your anonymous letters to life
Dear Life,
Why would Tim Hortons raise the
prices of their food when exams are
just around the corner? The cruelty!
Dear Life,
I didn’t get a chance to write a last
opinion column, so this will have to
do: Math got hard, food tastes good,
university is over forever, goodbye.
wgaz.ca/dearlife
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Haters Hayes’d and Confused, one last time
gonna
hate
Hayes'd and
Confused
Traditionally, these last–issue
columns are offered to the paper’s
Front Office to give them one last
kick at the can. Some choose to write
shout–outs to those who made their
year extra special, others attempt to
pass on information to future gen-
and exciting opportunities, we also
lose unique and talented individuals
at the end of every year.
It’s something symptomatic of
the university system. We forget that
with most students in school for four
years, it only takes two years for half
ering the amount of dust our back
issues are currently gathering in the
office — I’d say make mistakes. Learn
from them, but also revel in them.
If everyone loves you or every-
one hates you, you’re doing some-
thing wrong. But if there’s a group of
Mike Hayes erations of Gazetters. the students to be unaware of an readers willing to storm the office
MANAGING EDITOR I’m also positive these columns event. You may be able to look to the and another group of equal size will-
mike@westerngazette.ca have never in any way been used as student newspaper to provide con- ing to stand in front of them,
Kash-money a way to fill space at a time of year text to current events, but we’re chances are you’re doing something
There’s a certain note of finality to when many section editors are con- prone to exactly the same problems. right.
any piece of writing I’ve produced cerned with final papers and exams. Sure, we attempt to circumvent The Gazette should always be
for the Gazette over the years. Once So where to start? I began at the this problem by writing reports looking for the difficult news sto-
Meagan Kashty it heads off to the printer, the words paper as a volunteer in my first year spanning the entire year, but they’re ries. But we also shouldn’t be afraid
DEPUTY EDITOR I put down on the page aren’t going at Western, back in ‘06/’07. I saw the a poor substitute for an actual per- to have fun. Unfortunately, with an
meagan@westerngazette.ca to change, no matter how much I effects of the Spoof Issue of that year son who can answer questions and increasing blur between campus
may wish to have another crack at and watched as the paper emerged interact with you. newspapers and smaller–focus
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Arts&Life
Shad returns to London with a Juno
Amber Garratt
ARTS & LIFE EDITOR
Nothing seems to stand in the way of
London native Shadrach Kabango,
more commonly known as Shad. At
the age of 29, he holds a degree in
business from Wilfrid Laurier Univer-
sity, is currently working towards a
Master’s degree at Simon Fraser Uni-
versity and is now the proud owner of
a Juno Award for Rap Recording of the
Year. Between his win at the Junos and
his busy touring schedule, Shad took
time to talk with the Gazette about his
“Juno shocker,” coming home and his
musical influences.
What was going through your
head when you won the Juno?
I was laughing. It was a massive
surprise. It will be a cool memory
and something to celebrate with the
team.
They’re calling your win a
“Juno shocker” – were you
expecting it?
No one was expecting it. Drake is
a massive star — he has massive tal-
ent and had a huge year. It was too
bad that he didn’t take anything
home because I think he deserves to,
as much as there is any rationality to
music awards.
Museum London’s exhibit plays with colour
Narayan Chattergoon
GAZETTE STAFF
When reflecting on art, it’s natural to
first think about colour. In fact, the
connection seems so natural that
colour’s importance and breadth of
use is often overlooked.
Colour Fields, hosted by Museum
London, seeks to explore the ways
in which artists use colour to pro-
voke emotional reactions, explore
issues of perception or drive a nar-
rative.
It definitely succeeds in this goal.
The works in Colour Fields are
diverse, depicting scenes that make
excellent use of the colours they
contain. In addition, the pieces vary
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You released a track after the
Junos to thank fans. What
motivated you to do that?
I had that track in the bank — me
and Skratch Bastid had worked on
something. I met up with him after
the Junos on Saturday — he was
spinning downtown — and I said,
“Hey, let’s put this track out on Mon-
day” and he agreed. It worked well
timing-wise.
Are you excited to be heading
home to London for a show? Do
you expect friends and family
to attend?
It’s always fun to come home and
play. We just try to have fun. My
shows have always been the same —
pretty loose. I just try to interact with
people and try to make it a special
experience. Some friends will be
there, but my parents and my broth-
er won’t — they moved back to
Rwanda and live there now.
Who are some of your musical
influences?
I listen to a lot of different stuff
such as [music] from high school
that is just a part of me now like Out-
Kast, Common and Lauryn Hill.
If you could perform alongside
any musician who would it be?
in their choice of medium and use of
texture.
The result of all this variation is
an exhibit that displays how ele-
ments of art are employed and how
effective they are in influencing their
audience. Within the exhibit, there
are two pieces that contain similar
subjects but the use of different
colours for each piece makes them
completely unique, evoking a differ-
ent emotional response from its
audience.
“This type of exhibition is fun as it
lets us reveal the sheer range of art-
work that we have in our collection,
some not seen in a long time, and
explore what it can communicate to
us,” says Cassandra Getty, curator of
That’s always a tough one for me
because [there are] a lot of artists
that I love, but that doesn’t neces-
sarily mean I want to work with
them on a song — I’m just a huge fan.
I’m a big Kanye West fan — I don’t
know if we could make a track
art at Museum London.
Different pieces of art in Colour
Fields follow the traditional defini-
tion of colour field painting —
abstract works consisting of broad
areas of solid colour spread across
the painting surface. However, some
of the other works expand on the
use of colour and texture, adding an
extra element to the painting’s effect.
Colour Fields is a collection of
works that emphasize the impor-
tance of colour in art, engaging its
audience through its variety and
diversity.
Colour Fields will be on display at
Museum London in the Lawson
Gallery until September 11, 2011.
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“Hey, you! What the hell are you doing? That gun’s NOT a toy —
stop waving it around! Look at you — your finger’s still on the
trigger!”
>> Tom Selleck, yelling at an extra on set after he picked up a real gun
and started pointing it at people
together, but you never know. I
would love to be in the studio with
him and see what happens.
What’s coming up for you?
Just going on tour and then after
that get to work on some new music.
Courtesy of John Tamblyn
Oscar Cahen’s Animal Structure, an oil
painting on masonite from 1953, is one
of the pieces found in the collection at
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The sounds of the season
Check out Canadian music festivals this summer
Ashley Perl
GAZETTE STAFF
Summer music festivals attract dis-
tinctive talents and create a com-
munity atmosphere. This year is no
different with four promising festi-
vals to consider.
Home County Folk Festival –
London
The annual Home County Folk Fes-
tival is celebrating its 37th anniver-
sary this year. Taking place from July
15-17, artists like Dan Mangan and
London’s own Basia Bulat will be
playing in Victoria Park. Admission
is free with the option of a donation
that goes towards keeping the event
running each year.
Other than the six music stages,
over 150 craft and food vendors can
be found throughout the park.
More information can be found at
www.homecounty.ca
Rock the Park – London
Another of London’s annual music
festivals will take place from July 21-
23 in Harris Park. Featured headlin-
ers include Stone Temple Pilots and
Sloan, as well as classic rock artists
Meat Loaf and Cheap Trick.
Set up in 2004 as a fundraiser for
Bethany’s Hope fundraiser, a portion
of the profit is donated each year.
FILE PHOTO
More information is available at
We play a few more shows in Ontario www.rockthepark.ca.
then we do some shows in the States
and then back in Canada. I will be on NXNE – Toronto
the road for five or six weeks. This year, NXNE will take place
Shad plays London Music Hall across 50 downtown Toronto venues
tonight. Tickets are $16 and are avail- from June 13-19.
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NXNE has expanded since its
start 17 years ago but McLean says
the essence still remains same.
“We built our reputation on
emerging bands. With no internet [at
Osheaga – Montreal
Speculating rumours about headlin-
ers were finally confirmed this past
week – recently reunited Death
From Above 1979 and The Eels will
that time, we] needed to give a vehi-
cle for upcoming bands to give them
a place to be heard.”
Last year, NXNEi was also added.
be fronting this year’s Montreal fes-
tival, which runs from July 30-31.
Nick Farkas, director and co-
founder, explains Osheaga is all
The interactive conference holds about maintaining the loose Mon-
workshops on media tools and dif- treal vibe and creating a positive fan
ferent technologies for independent experience.
creators. The remainder of this year’s lineup
Visit www.nxne.com for more festi- will be released on April 12 at
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‘He’s never faced a top striker’

>> continued from pg.1
we have this gym here with profes-
sionals like myself and Sam Shields.”
However, Hominick will go into
the fight as a huge underdog because
Aldo, who has a career record of 18-
1, is considered the top featherweight
in the world and the number three
pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.
“He’s one of the best pound-for-
pound fighters in the world and he’s
FILE PHOTO
proved that. He’s dominated every-
one he’s fought thus far,” Hominick
admitted.
Yet Hominick believes his strik-
ing capability is something that Aldo
has yet to face and will pose a diffi-
cult challenge for the champion.
“I think I’m the one question mark.
He’s never faced a top striker yet. Any
time you let Jose dictate the fight, he
dominates. But we will see how he
reacts to me pushing him backward.”
With his first child on the way in
early May right after his first UFC
title shot, Hominick is understand-
ably excited about what promises to
be the best month of his life, regard-
less of what happens against Aldo.
“I couldn’t paint a better picture.
The first live show in Ontario and
my wife is due five days after,” he
said. “Things in life happen for a rea-
son. I just have to go out there and
fulfill my destiny.”

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Sports
Local boy gets UFC title shot
Daniel Da Silva
SPORTS EDITOR
When the UFC holds their first main
event in Ontario at the end of the
month, Canadians everywhere will
be cheering for the national hero in
Georges St–Pierre to retain his wel-
terweight title and status as one of
the greatest fighters in the world.
But London will have its own
hometown fighter going for the
featherweight title at the event, when
Mark “The Machine” Hominick
takes on Brazilian Jose Aldo.
“There is no greater goal than to
be the world champion and to do it
at home would be a dream come
true,” Hominick said in an interview
with the Gazette. “I don’t think we’ve
grasped how big this event will be
until we’re there in Toronto. It will be
the biggest UFC event of all time.”
Hominick was awarded the title
shot earlier this year when he
Anders Kravis GAZETTE
thegazette • Thursday, April 7, 2011
tweet of the week
“The Lakers’ girls are more overrated than the movie Inception.”
>> Paul Bissonnette (Biznasty2point0)
must not have liked that cliffhanger ending to Inception
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defeated fellow featherweight fight-
er George Roop at the “UFC: Fight
for the Troops “event.
“I was treating the fight like I was
I don’t think we have the number one contender before it
was actually announced. [Once I
grasped how big this won that fight], it had been the cra-
event will be […] It will ziest experience of my life,”
be the biggest UFC Hominick said. “It’s great to get that
reward after all the work I put into
event of all time. it. It’s a huge opportunity for me.”
—Mark Hominick Hominick, who trains out of Lon-
UFC fighter, don’s Adrenaline Training Centre,
on the first MMA event in Ontario
hopes his presence as a local fighter
will help grow the sport in the
province and will put a spotlight on
mixed martial arts in Southwestern
Ontario.
“For the Ontario side, it’s great to
have someone local fighting in the
first event fighting for the belt. I’m
honoured to be in that spot,” he said.
“People are starting to realize that
>> see HE’S pg.11