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Wednesday, november 23, 2011
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volume 105, issue 45
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 alex Cn
neWs editor
Students who missed the occupa-tion o Victoria Park had anotherchance to see the movement inaction yesterday, when the Uni-versity Community Centre atrium was temporarily host to an Occupy teach-in.“This is basically a way o rais-ing awareness on campus o what’sgoing on right now around the world with the Occupy movement.It’s to try and get students engagedand aware o what’s going on,”Gemma Richardson, one organizero the event, said.The event, however, did not goas smoothly as planned. Some stu-dents participating in the teach-in were accused o being too ag-gressive in the promotion o theirevent. According to Mark Welling-ton, student lie manager or theUniversity Students’ Council, thepolicy on atrium usage orbidsparticipants in scheduled eventsrom straying more than three eetrom their booths. He noted there were at least three students whocomplained they were “literally chased into the Spoke.” Wellingtonstressed the importance o the pol-icy, stating “the reason it exists isthat a long time ago students madeit clear they were tired o having torun a gauntlet around the atriumto avoid getting nailed by undrais-ers, iers and other things o thatnature.” Wellington also said memberso the protest were asked by theUSC to remain by their tent, butthe request was rebued.Inormational pamphlets werealso distributed at the event, whichincluded a condemnation o cer-tain aspects o Western’s univer-sity code o conduct. The pam-phlet described one clause o thecode as giving the university “thereedom to construe any action—rom coughing too loud in class tospeaking your mind about tuitionees on concrete beach—as a dis-ruption, which can be punishablehowever they deem ft.” The pam-phlet continued to assert the code“has the potential to be used as apolitical tool against students.” An issue arose as a result o thepamphlets as well, but there seemsto have been a disconnect betweenthe USC and the occupiers as to what that was. Adrienne Berchtold, a partici-
dgn givesfnncil vice
michell dvisn
Contributor
 You may know Kevin O’Leary asthe cold-hearted realist rom CBC’s
Dragon’s Den
concerned only withmaking money, but on Monday night O’Leary shared some use-ul inormation with Western stu-dents. The advice ranged romspecifc fnancial recommenda-tions—never invest in a stock thatdoes not pay dividends—to how tobe an entrepreneur, which O’Leary called “the most noble pursuit youcould have.”In an interview beore thespeech O’Leary revealed his secretto early success as a youth. “I’vealways elt every student is alwaysgiven money or borrows money or whatever. I’ve ound i you take20 per cent o what you earn in thesummer [...] and invest it with se-curities that have yield, either debtor equities with dividends, you will die rich, there’s no question,”O’Leary said.O’Leary stressed that this ad-vice can work or everyone, em-ployee or entrepreneur. He em-phasized discipline to meet that 20per cent goal and never spending the principle investment, only theinterest gained, are the keys to suc-cess. “It’s the discipline o saving 20per cent so you don’t buy that co-ee in the morning and you don’tbuy some stupid electronic toy youdon’t need. You end up a lot hap-pier when you’re older.”O’Leary gave the audiencemany useul tips including expos-ing the growing markets in Bra-zil, India and China, but the mostpoignant advice discussed the al-lacy o a balanced lie. “You haveto sacrifce everything you have to work 24-7 because you’re compet-ing globally now. You’re competing  with others that are willing to work that way,” he said. He stressed thatthe lie o an entrepreneur is notor everyone. “You have to sacrifceeverything or some period o time,it may be 8, 10, 15 years, you don’tknow. It’s tough—it’s very tough.”To O’Leary, money equals ree-dom. “The whole idea is the pur-suit o reedom—it’s not the pur-suit o money,” he said. Despite thehard work, he mentioned the grati-fcation that comes with the job. “I was willing to sacrifce everything to get where I got and I’m glad I didit and I wouldn’t change a day inmy lie. And now I can do whateverI want.”This reedom, which O’Leary discussed in his lecture and in hisnew book 
Cold Hard Truth: OnBusiness, Money & Life 
, may bestbe represented by the anecdotehe told to the eager audience.O’Leary told o his son Trevor ask-ing why he couldn’t sit in frst class with his dad on a ight back romSwitzerland and O’Leary simply retorted, “because you don’t haveany money.”
Nyssa Kuwahara
Gazette
th  c  w g w c  wh’ gg gh w h w wh hocc . i’   g gg  w wh’ gg .
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 g  h 
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lwc s,  u.s. c    c   H u,  h h  b F b lw g wh k   ckc h  c cc, g     gh.
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On Sunday night, the University o Toronto announced a new und-raising campaign with a loty $2billion target. The campaign is thelargest o its kind in Canadian his-tory. It seeks to top their last cam-paign in 2003, which raised $1billion.The university has already raised $966 million in the past six  years and calculated that anotherbillion in the years to come is com-pletely easible. The campaign isprojected to end in 2016.The announcement comes at atime when, as a result o the pastrecession and general economicinstability, university undraising has decreased across the board.However, there is optimism thatdonations to higher education willsoon bounce back. According toLaurie Stephens, director o mediarelations and stakeholder commu-nications at the University o To-ronto, donors seemed to have re-acted avourably to the campaign.“The campaign has been in aquiet phase. It’s been an ongoing campaign, and we launched it pub-licly to attract more donations,”Stephens explained. “We had athousand people at the launch soit was defnitely a positive event.”The money raised rom the cam-paign will be put to a multitude o uses. Current priorities include im-proving student experience, brick-and-mortar projects, new researchprograms and chairs, as well asscholarships and bursaries.
 —Danielle Xu
 Sp hing u bl
 A blood donation challenge hasbeen issued to all law schools inCanada.The Graduate Law Students’ As-sociation, the Jewish Law Students’ Association and the Muslim Law Students’ Association have joinedtogether to help raise awarenessabout the importance o donat-ing blood. With the support o the Western aculty o law, they haveteamed up with the Partners orLie program and challenged law schools around the country to raiseawareness.“I am sure a lot o donors havealready signed up or the blooddonor clinics without knowing  what an important part they will beplaying,” Tom Weihmayr, presidento the Graduate Law Students’ As-sociation, said.“Whether or not they under-stand the importance o the chal-lenge when they get there, I canassure you that they will ully un-derstand the truly important rolethey have played by the time they leave.”Last year, only 1 in 60 peopledonated blood. Weihmayr washopeul that this number wouldincrease ater the challenge.“This statistic is even more dif-cult to understand when you think that almost hal o all Canadians areeligible to donate,” he explained“A great many people thatneeded blood today had no ideathey would be needing it whenthey went to bed yesterday,” hecontinued.Donations will take place in thestudent lounge in the law building on November 22 rom 12:30 to 2p.m., as well as on November 24 atHuron University College and No-vember 30 at the University Com-munity Centre, both rom 10 a.m.to 3 p.m.
—Julian Panchaud
 
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 wenes, Nvebe 23
 A Conversation with Cynthia Good:The Future of the Book 
What:
Ch G,  -, h  e--Ch pg C, c wg c  x-h, g h qwhh h  w   hc  h .
Where:
th G H, sH
When:
4:30 ..
Cost:
F .
Fi, Nvebe 25
United Way Event – Geography’s Got Talent 
What:
a  hw    h u W cg.
Where:
sc scc, r 2333
When:
12-1:30 ..
Cost:
$2   wh g.
Su, Nvebe 26
Exploring the Stars Open House
What:
a hw  -w   g  c x-. o h  hghh ’ 25 c cc  k   h cc.
Where:
C o
When:
7-9 ..
Cost:
F .
Sun, Nvebe 27
The Museum of Ontario Archaeology  Annual Christmas in a Longhouse
What:
C h Ch -  h m  o a-chg. th   Fn c ,  c,g  ck  h g-h, ch’ c  g h g.
Where:
th m  oachg, 1600 awr.
When:
10 ..-4:30 ..
Cost:
$5  , $4  
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Chel Sne
neWs Features editor
Smokers in London are one stepcloser to being told to butt out ontheir nights out.Last week the Board o Health, which oversees the Middlesex-London Health Unit, approved aproposal or the MLHU to begin working with the city to put a banon smoking in many public places.The ban keeps smokers romlighting up on bar and restaurantpatios, parks and playgrounds, as well as smoking within nine metreso entrances to public buildings.Linda Stobo, program managero chronic disease prevention andtobacco control, explained theMLHU wanted to see the ban putin place to protect patrons o thesespaces, the people who worked inthem and children who may alsobe exposed.“It’s also about protecting ev-eryone rom the eects o second-hand smoke,” Stobo explained.Stephen Orser, councillor or Ward 4, said he elt there wereelements o the ban that werecounterintuitive.“I we ban smoking on these pa-tios, people will be lawully allowedto go stand on the street, by the busstop, in droves, where a dozen kidsare sitting,” he explained. “We asa city cannot regulate smoking onsidewalks or roads, so currently  we’ve got a process in place wherethere’s bars and patios where peo-ple can chose to go to and not to goto.”Orser also explained employ-ees could choose to work in thesespaces as well.Quincy Roberts, manager o Up on Carling, explained he wasconcerned about the ban. “It’s justmore o an inconvenience,” he ex-plained. He expressed his concernsabout how his customers wouldreact to having to leave the bar viaa ight o stairs.“I eel that people are going to go on the patio anyway,” heexplained.Stobo explained previous stud-ies had shown local businesses were not impacted by municipalsmoking bylaws.“I think we need to remind our-selves that currently we have an un-level playing feld,” she explained,noting the Smoke-Free Ontario Act prohibited smoking on patios which were covered partially, whilesmokers could use completely un-covered patios.“We have emerging evidence[including public opinion polls]that has demonstrated the currentlevel o protection provided underthe Smoke-Free Ontario Act is nothigh enough or Middlesex-Lon-don residents,” she explained.Orser said, even as a casualsmoker, he would rather see acomplete ban on tobacco handeddown rom the province than whatthe city was doing.“It’s a personal reedom issue,”he explained. According to Stobo, the healthunit now needs to take a report tocouncil about the potential ban.She hoped to see this presentationin the new year.
Corey Stanford
Gazette
i w  kg h , w  ww  g  h ,  h ,  , wh  k  g.
—sh o,
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pant in the event, said the USC hada problem with their critical analy-sis o the code o conduct.“We had concerns brought to usby the student lie department andby reservations because our pam-phlet ino had been orwarded tothe university administration andthey were upset that we had dis-cussed the code o conduct in ourinormation pamphlet,” she said.“I think there was a breakdownin communication [between Oc-cupy and the USC] because when you say you’re going to do an ed-ucational event on the Occupy movement, I don’t think it auto-matically clicks with everyone thatin order to educate on the Occupy movement you have to educate onthe types o complaints or typeso concerns that are raised withinthat movement,” she said. Wellington, speaking on behal o the USC, countered that theissue arose or a completely dier-ent reason.“The issue here is that we hadnot seen any o the literature untiltoday. So it’s not about the con-tent—we don’t get into being thearbiters o truth,” he said.Berchtold’s assessment o thesituation did not match up to Wellington’s.“No one asked to see the litera-ture we were going to hand out,even though it was made clear [tothe USC] that we were going tobe handing literature out,” she ar-gued. “Also, when we sent our ma-terials into InPrint we orwarded itto the USC. At that point their con-cerns could have been respondedto, but it wasn’t [brought up] untilfve minutes beore we were sup-posed to set up today.” Another violation brought tothe attention o the USC by theuniversity administration was themovement’s ailure to obtain ap-proval or their posters.No action was taken by theUSC or the university against theteach-in.“At this point we’re just going to let things go, debrie aterwardand fgure how we can better han-dle this sort o thing in the uture,” Wellington said.
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 an Zlzn
neWs editor
Student representatives on the uni-versity senate are eeling neglectedby the election process. At Friday’s meeting, Adam Fear-nall, a senator-at-large, raised theissue o reimbursement or sena-torial candidates. As it stands now,candidates who run or senate donot get reimbursed or their cam-paign expenses—something thatis the case or students who runor positions on the University Stu-dents’ Council.“Candidates [or senate] have atendency to run campaigns that donot have many expenses becauseo the lack o fnancial support,”Fearnall said. “The fnancial con-straints prevent candidates romdoing things that acilitate voterawareness.”Fearnall added the current sen-ators want to see the inequality rectifed.“While it is possible to arguethat the lack o budget encouragescreativity, it oten merely results inapathy,” Fearnall continued. “A bal-ance needs to be struck betweenproviding candidates enoughmoney to run a reasonable cam-paign and the necessity o control-ling budgets or the interest o pro-moting creativity and outreach.”“I do hope we can [change it].Ideally it will come rom the uni-versity. They should step up to en-able students to become engaged,regardless o their economic back-ground,” Brent Duncan, senatoror social science and the aculty o inormation and media studies,said. “I suppose this would be adiscussion we have to have withincommittees and in senate closer tobudget time.”Irene Birrell, secretary o thesenate, said the issue could beraised at senate.“I think one o the things that would have to be considered is whether or not this would be ex-clusive to student candidates.There are 102 members o senate,”Birrell explained. “So would thisbe something that would be lim-ited to students? I don’t know. I wepaid or students to run would wealso have to pay or other constitu-encies to run? So the cost o suchreimbursements would vary basedon that decision.”However, Fearnall said he waseager to see a change.“The lack o a budget has theability to prevent a student romrunning or senate. We don’t hearabout the candidates who decidenot to run because fnancial acces-sibility is not something that peo-ple are very willing to talk about,”Fearnall said. “We should level theplaying feld to prevent this rombeing an issue.”
Genevieve Moreau
Gazette
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