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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Volume 105, issue 61
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“I don’t know about you, but itsure looks beautiul out there romup here,” Tim Carrie, president o the Canadian Auto Workers unionlocal 27, said to the crowd. A crowd, which some estimatesput at 15,000 people, rom unionsacross Ontario and the NorthernUnited States gathered in VictoriaPark this past Saturday to voicetheir support or the CAW workersat the Electro-Motive Diesel plant.Since January 1, the workers havebeen locked out ollowing a con-tract dispute with plant-ownersCaterpillar Inc. Electro-Motive o-ered workers wage cuts o up to 55per cent, and the elimination o the workers’ pension plans.“Caterpillar has a history o beating down workers, […] butnot this time Caterpillar, not thistime,” Carrie shared. Cheers werereturned by the crowd. “I know I’mnot mincing words, but you know,they kind o piss us o.”Caterpillar was not the only group Carrie had choice words or.“We should have the prime minis-ter here with us and he should beghting or our jobs,” he explained.He noted the prime minster hadbeen invited to the rally, but heand the Conservative party had re-mained silent on the situation.
“Get your ass down here, PrimeMinister Harper,” Joe Fontana,mayor of London, urged. He andcouncil passed a resolution this past week calling on federal support forthe workers and to encourage Cat-erpillar to come back to the table.
“I want to publicly thank ourcity councillors or passing a reso-lution or Caterpillar to smartenup,” Carrie said.“I’m joined here with my coun-cillors because we are unanimousin support or our workers,” Fon-tana explained. “We’re talking over1,200 to 1,500 jobs which are di-rectly related.” He explained many o these jobs were skilled, and re-quired high salaries to match. “Youcan’t think you can build locomo-tives or 15 to 16 bucks an hour.”Fontana said he was in con-tact with Caterpillar and the unionevery two days, urging them to getback to the table. “I’m optimis-tic Electro-Motive will understandand know that a company’s biggestasset is its people.”“People make a dierence. Youare not a number on a payrollslip, you are what makes compa-nies successul,” Fontana told thecrowd.Brianne Jones, daughter o an Electro-Motive employee, ex-plained her ather’s job had helpedher pay or school. Without it, she would have to make some cuts.“For the past ve years my dad’scollective agreement had con-tained a tuition reimbursementthat’s helped me paid or schoolcosts which are sky high,” Jonessaid. She noted her sister wouldstart post-secondary school in theall. “She and I will not be able tocover the expenses o school onour own.”Jones wasn’t the only student la-menting the plant’s temporary clo-sure. Katy Fuler, president o thePublic Service Alliance o Canadalocal 610, noted the oer the work-ers were given could represent the jobs o the uture.“I am 27 years old, I have my en-tire lie in ront o me. What Cater-pillar is saying is that job creationequals jobs without a living wage,”she said. “To me, what Caterpillarrepresents is the uture we can look orward to i things do not change.”PSAC represents 2,500 teaching as-sistants at Western.She also noted uture studentsmay not be able to aord school i their parents cannot aord to helpthem save.“Families suer when workersdon’t and can’t earn a living wage,”she noted. “I’m lucky, my amily issmall—me and my cat. That isn’tthe case or so many out here.”“This is what the ght’s allabout. It’s about amilies, it’s aboutour communities,” Carrie said. Heexplained the workers not only bettered the lives o their amilies,but bettered their communities as well. “We are an important parto the community o London,” hetold the crowd.
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• tdy, Jy 24, 2012
Crossword By Eugene sheffe
The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands or another. I you thinkthat X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and wordsusing an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error.© 2002 by Kings Features Syndicate, Inc.
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THAT COULD BUY A LOT AT THE DOLLAR STORE.
Yesterday
wt c  c-bkg gt  $716,632 bh   th 1,300 ct, t, t  tt, kg t th gt v t t th c ut w.Th   c  13 p ct  t ’ t  $631,487.
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Research In Motion Ltd. co-chief executives Jim Balsillie and MikeLazaridis have stepped down after a year of major investor losses in themost dramatic reorganization of the Waterloo-based smartphone giantsince its founding 27 years ago.
The board o directors o RIMnamed Thorsten Heins, previously RIM’s chie operating ocer, aspresident and chie executive o-cer eective immediately.“There comes a time in thegrowth o every successul com-pany when the ounders recog-nize the need to pass the baton tonew leadership. Jim and I went tothe board and told them that wethought that time was now,” Laza-ridis said in a press release.“I agree this is the right time topass the baton to new leadershipand I have complete condence inThorsten, the management teamand the company,” Balsillie stated.“I remain a signicant shareholderand a director and, o course, they  will have my ull support.”Heins said he believes RIM hastremendous potential. “Going or- ward, we will continue to ocusboth on short-term and long-termgrowth, strategic planning, a cus-tomer and market-based productapproach, and fawless execution. We are in the process o recruiting anew chie marketing ocer to work closely with our product and salesteams to deliver the most compel-ling products and services.”
—Kevin Estakhri
Sex venuese bck 
Though
 Adventures in Sex City 
may sound like something in an adultvideo store, it’s not—it’s actually an online game the Middlesex-London Health Unit launched two years ago in an attempt to educatelocal youth about sexual healthissues.Superhero characters such asThe Sperminator and Power Papappear in the comic-esque on-line trivia game, which has gainedinternational success and over350,000 hits since its debut in Feb-ruary o 2010.Shaya Dhinsa, manager o theMLHU’s sexual promotions team,explained most o the design orthe game was executed by youthpulled directly rom their targetdemographic. “The key was using  youth to target youth, that was ourbig ocus,” she said.This year brings a new start orthe characters o 
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, which will premiere in an up-dated version o the game that iscurrently being reviewed or webrelease next month. Changes to thegame include a new character anda new angle.“Last time we ocused just onsexually transmitted inections,”said Dhinsa. “This time we are o-cusing on STIs, but in relation toalcohol and drug use, and sexualassault.”The old version o 
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is still available at geti-tonlondon.ca. The new version isscheduled to go live next month.
—Kelly Hobson
Cup size ges infe
Students will now be able to rely on Tim Hortons’ new 24-oz extra-large coee to make it throughthose gruelling all-nighters. Thenew cup sizes were launched onJanuary 23, ater rst being re-leased in test markets like Kingstonand Sudbury.“Canadians were asking us ora bigger cup o coee. In responseto that, we’re introducing the new 24-oz cup,” Michelle Robichaud,manager o public relations,explained.Since an extra-large cup al-ready existed, the change involvedrenaming the entire system. “Itmade sense or us to change all o the cup names so that extra largemeant that you were getting thelargest cup available and extrasmall meant you were getting thesmallest cup available.” Currently all sizes have been shited one stepdown, with the old small being thenew extra-small.Robichaud did not seem tothink it would take long or cus-tomers to get used to the new sizesystem based on test market re-sults. “It took about three to vedays or customers to get accus-tomed to the new cup size names,and beyond that it seemed to bepretty straightorward.”However large the new size may seem, it is still dwared by currentUS sizes like Starbucks’ colossal31-oz Trenta. When asked i TimHorton’s would consider expand-ing sizes urther, Robichaud stated,“Never say never, but right now I don’t think there are any moreplans to expand the cup sizes.”
—Mike Bertrand
 wesen unies ke big ne 
In an announcement made in theMustang Lounge yesterday, West-ern revealed it had raised $716,632or the United Way o London-Middlesex, surpassing this year’sgoal o $650,000. With the dona-tion, Western will have raised over$7 million or the United Way since1994.“I think what we really did this year was ocus on the leadershiplevel o contributions, as well asspecial events,” Lynn Logan, asso-ciate vice-president o nance at Western, said. “It really is a caring community at Western, and today’sannouncement is proo.”Central to the success o thecampaign were special eventssuch as the annual stair climb, which brought over $170,000 tothe United Way this year. Fiteenteams rom Western participatedin the event, totaling over 2,000climbers. The Schulich School o Medicine and Dentistry raised themost money o any team with over$10,000.The total came as a shock toeven those closely involved withthe campaign, such as this year’ssponsored employee rom Western,Lisa Lopes. “I’m a bit speechless,”she said. “Our goal or this year was$650,000, so I’m a bit speechless tosee that number.”
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• tdy, Jy 24, 2012
 
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UBC shis unegue issins piiies
New policy puts ocus on personality, moves away rom grades
 Julin Uzielli
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High school students planning onapplying to the University o Brit-ish Columbia are going to have tostart worrying about more than just their grades.UBC is adopting a “broad-based admissions” policy that willevaluate prospective students ontheir Grade 12 marks as well asengagement in their community,extra-curricular activities and lieexperiences. Applicants will haveto answer our to six questionsabout their personality and expe-rience, depending on the programto which they are applying.“We’re really doing it or a num-ber o reasons,” James Ridge, as-sociate vice-president and regis-trar at UBC, explained. “AlthoughGrade 12 marks tell us a bit aboutthe student’s academic ability inGrade 12—and they’re still power-ul predictors o success—there’s just so much we don’t know aboutstudents that we think are legiti-mate criteria or admission that we want to learn more about beore we make an admission decision.”Each application will bestripped o identiying inorma-tion like names and demograph-ics, then reviewed by two separatepeople. I the scores arrived at by the evaluators are too disparate,the application will be reviewed by a third.Though Ridge said UBC eltstrongly that this was a better sys-tem or admissions, not everyoneagreed.“I don’t think it’s air to every-one,” Zach Dayler, national direc-tor o the Canadian Alliance o Stu-dent Associations, said. “There’s noend to types o learners—there’sthe individual who just goes toclass and listens to the proessorand does the homework and goeshome, and there’s the student whohas hands up every chance thereis to comment, and obviously they  just have a dierent approach totheir learning.”Though UBC has cited highschool grade infation as anotherreason or adopting the new sys-tem, Dayler added he didn’t think personality testing was a good way to combat the problem. “I we’re worried about grade infation, are we also worried about ‘personal-ity infation,’ i you will? What i one person runs around and getsall these really involved reerences just so they can get in on their per-sonality? It’s six o one, hal a dozeno another.”Despite criticisms o broad-based admission, Ridge noted asimilar admission system has al-ready been in place or seven yearsat UBC’s Sauder School o Business,and has delivered measurable re-sults. “In discussions with the em-ployers who hire their graduates,the employers eel their graduatesare much more engaged, have ahigher quality education and bet-ter leadership skills,” he said.“We are saying very clearly thateven i you’ve got extraordinary marks, i you don’t have a personalprole that suggests that you havesome other rich lie experience tobring to the university, you may not get in.”
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Following a atal collision on High- way 3 last Tuesday, 63-year-oldMurray Bryant, a proessor o man-agerial accounting at the RichardIvey School o Business, has beencharged with careless driving. According to an Essex County Ontario Provincial Police press re-lease, Bryant, also the husband o London Ward 13 councillor Judy Bryant, struck a 49-year-old tow truck operator changing a tire onthe side o the highway on January 17. The man later succumbed tohis injuries in hospital. Bryant wasallegedly travelling westbound atthe time o the incident.I convicted, the maximumpenalty is a $2,000 ne and/or six months in jail.Bryant currently teachescourses both in Ivey’s honors busi-ness administration and master o business administration program.Keith Marnoch, director o media relations or Western, notedthere was a contingency plan inplace to have classes covered.“People who have classes withhim will continue to have classes,”Marnoch said, adding they willhave to determine how to moveorward once details o Bryant’savailability are clearer. When asked whether such in-cidents were common at Western,Marnoch observed, “It’s outsidethe norm, I would say, but there’salways allowances or dierenttypes o leaves—not that this is aleave, necessarily—but when pro-essors aren’t available or variousreasons, there are plans in place toaccommodate that.” According to Marnoch, stu-dents in Bryant’s section have re-ceived notication o the changesbeing made.“There was a note sent out toIvey specically—people are awareo the case and that the classes[Bryant is] involved with will becarried on in some way.”
iv p chgth c vg gt c
Th’ jt  ch ’t k bttt tht  thk  gtt ct  tht t t  bt b  k  c.
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