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Western is one of only two law schools in Ontario that has incor-porated domestic violence educa-tion as a mandatory component in its academic curriculum.

According to a Toronto Star report, five out of seven Ontario law schools haven’t abided by the recommendations of a report pub-lished by the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee in 2011.

The report strongly recom-mended that domestic violence should be a part of the mandatory courses in first-year modules. The Committee called for this to be implemented for all law students in Ontario beginning in 2015.

The report is based on the committee’s reviews of numerous domestic violence cases. It was found that lawyers had poorly advised victims prior to incidents of domestic violence as a result of a lack of education in handling those cases. As a result, the Law Commission of Ontario created module templates schools could use to incorporate domestic vio-lence education into their curricula.

“Students should be exposed to issues of domestic violence in their mandatory courses,” Erika Chamberlain, associate dean of Western’s law school, said.

“There are a lot of things law stu-dents have to learn in three years and having an extensive module and a mandatory course on domestic violence risk assessment may not be something every law school wants to adopt.”

Although Western doesn’t have a separate module or course on domestic violence education, the topic is integrated into two of its mandatory first-year courses.

Lakehead University’s faculty of law also includes mandatory domestic violence education. The other five Ontario law schools are at the University of Toronto, York University, Queen’s University, University of Ottawa and the University of Windsor.

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Team Litchfield and Team Sophie went head to head at Huron in the last slate debate yesterday before voting started today.

Moderated by the current University Students’ Council vice-president internal Emily Addison, the debate was focused on the concerns of affiliate colleges and improving the relationship between Huron, Brescia, King’s and the USC.

Internal candidates Dilani Logan and Alex Benac began with ques-tions regarding the role of the Peer Support Network.

Logan stressed the need for stu-dents to understand the purpose of PSN and wants to make it more eas-ily accessible, where Benac empha-sized that the service was available to all students, regardless of faculty.

When asked about sexual vio-lence policies at affiliate colleges, Logan said she wants to communi-cate with affiliate councils and pro-vide resources that the USC has to offer.

Benac mentioned the culture variations at affiliate colleges, say-ing a “cultural shift” should occur.

External candidates Lindsee Perkins and Richard Sookraj took to the microphones, although they simply reiterated their platforms and danced around audience

questions.Both candidates agreed that stu-

dent visibility in London is an issue. Perkins, however, pressed Sookraj regarding the one-piece bus pass, stating the process was already in motion. Sookraj seemingly took a note from Team Sophie’s playbook and stated that there needed to be continued advocacy until the bus passes were in the hands of students.

In the final portion, presiden-tial candidates Jack Litchfield and Sophie Helpard went head to head. The two passive-aggressively dis-agreed about most topics, from the logistics of mental health training to soph resources to short-term goals on their platforms.

“By September, all food choices

will be on the menu and available for students,” Helpard said, regard-ing her commitment to a variety of food choices for students.

“What about cost efficacy? Did you look into cost margins?” Litchfield said.

Time ran out before the two came to a conclusion, although Helpard simply said that she had.

Perhaps the greatest part of the debate came from the active involvement of the unusually large audience, who asked questions that concerned a range of issues affect-ing students all over campus.

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Team Sophie’s online “Ask Me Anything” went awry over the weekend when a former Western student’s privacy was allegedly vio-lated by another user in the thread.

The AMA was active on Sunday

night through the popular social networking and news site, Reddit. The thread, now hidden, featured questions to Sophie’s slate from largely anonymous Reddit users.

The AMA broke down after one user published a post claiming Jack Litchfield, Sophie Helpard’s oppos-ing presidential candidate, was a bully during his time as president of the Social Science Students’ Council. Following the statement, another user provided specific infor-mation as to the alleged identity of a victim.

The supposed victim responded in the thread, condemning the user who supplied her information and stating the public disclosure of her name and situation exploited her experiences.

The offended user posted, “For you to blatantly use mental health and my name and experi-ences to back the credibility up for your friend, despite it being false, WITHOUT INFORMING ME, dis-gusts me.”

Helpard said the AMA was deleted because it was clear the ori-ginal intention of the Q&A session went astray. She stated the conten-tious comments were posted after her slate finished responding to questions from 4:30–6:30 p.m.

“After that, there were comments posted from various different users and they were kind of slandering, not only our team, but both sides in this election,” Helpard said. “Unfortunately, there were some personal names and stories brought up which we didn’t think was fair to that individual … we wanted to respect that person and their privacy.”

Before the AMA was shut down, the thread garnered 98 comments, a number comparable to last year’s AMA conducted by the current USC president, Matt Helfand, and his slate during the campaign period.

Helpard said although the Q&A deteriorated, she encourages stu-dents with questions to reach out to her and her team.

“If anyone did still have any questions … there’s still plenty of ways to get in touch,” Helpard said.

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King’s presidential candidates square off

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The King’s University College Students’ Council hosted the most Canadian “debate” known to stu-dent politicians today in Vitali Lounge on Thursday, Feb. 5.

Presidential candidates Nick Darbyshire and Craig Minielly were given the opportunity to open with their own com-ments, followed with questions by KUCSC chief returning officer Emily Soti and later, the audience. Darbyshire and Minielly more or less agreed with each other throughout the debate on various topics, including involvement and communication with students.

The candidates sparred on one of the largest issues of the debate — mental health and student services.

Darbyshire said he met with many administrative staff prior to the debate to discuss student

services.“They all propagate themselves,”

Darbyshire said during the ques-tion period. “They think their ser-vices are the best. Stop pretending because Kings’ students actually don’t know they are there.”

Darbyshire pledged to conduct a full review of mental health services.

Minielly, on the other hand, felt that the problem lay with com-munication and not the service itself.

“We don’t need to recreate everything from scratch, we need to improve it,” Minielly said.

The small audience actively engaged with the candidates throughout the debate, asking a range of questions and challenging the candidates.

One audience member asked about the KUCSC’s involvement with the University Students’ Council and affiliates and noted the upcoming affiliate agreement signing next year.

Minielly said he wasn’t opposed to a fee increase if it gives King’s students the opportunity to access a variety of services. He explained that ultimately King’s is a part of the Western community.

“The pros and cons should be weighed,” he said.

Darbyshire, though admitting that the rate will go up the follow-ing year, said King’s students should not have to pay as much as other affiliates.

“It doesn’t make sense that King’s students pay the same amount because we don’t use the same amount of resources as other affili-ates,” Darbyshire said.

The most important question of the night came from an audience member who asked if money were not an issue, which speaker would the candidate bring to King’s.

“Ellen DeGeneres,” Minielly said. Darbyshire answered with the Pope.

Elections run until next week, with voting on February 11 and 12.


arts&life funwithpunsAt last night’s Grammy Awards, Sam Smith won the first and last award given out. I guess you could stay that throughout the night, the Grammy’s decided to stay with him.

Located between Centennial Hall and City Hall in downtown London, the newly opened Exodus Escape Rooms provides puzzle-solving games where a team of people are locked in a room for an hour and try to solve the puzzles in order to escape.

Exodus Escape Rooms offers two rooms: the Den of Deceit, a more straightforward puzzle room; and Gemini, a more complicated non-linear puzzle-solving layout. The team at Exodus also hopes to open a new room in April creepily called the Nursery.

Last Friday, a team of editors from The Gazette took on the Den of Deceit for this edition of Gazette Tested.

Teams for Exodus Escape Rooms require a minimum of three people to participate. The cost per person is $25. Sessions can be booked online at www.exoduslondon.com

Lots of folks love puzzles. They’re going to love the Exodus Escape Rooms. In fact gamers of any kind — video games, Connect Four — should enjoy the challenge of problem solving through the clues hidden in the room. Besides sports, I don’t play games, so I couldn’t wait to escape.

No group has escaped the room yet within the allotted hour. This game is challenging. We plucked the best and brightest from The Gazette editorial board — itself already a veritable all-star squad of intelli-gentsia — and even we couldn’t solve it. I almost bust a sweat trying to make sense of it all, even though it was chilly that evening.

Although I’m not man enough to handle the game, I definitely appre-ciate the concept. The attention to detail and imagination in the pro-duction design was exceptional. The creators have committed extended effort into a fresh entertainment concept and it seems like finances are the only limit to what enchant-ing puzzles they can concoct. Long story short: more people need to buy tickets so that the creators can build crazier games. Have you ever seen the movie The Game with Michael Douglas? If these guys get enough money, they’re going to make that happen.

The first thing to notice going into Exodus Escape Room’s Den of Deceit is the sheer number of locks immediately visible upon entering. Combination locks, key locks, word locks and the locks of hair we pulled from our scalps trying to figure out where to start were scattered around the room.

Also in the room was a metro-nome, which took us far too long to turn off. Hearing that aggravat-ing ticking noise added to the stress of trying to figure out where to start and gave me flashbacks to when I played piano as a kid.

Having only an hour to solve the room, it’s a shame we didn’t pester the room attendants for clues ear-lier — they practically walked us through some parts of the whole process. The best suggestion is to start pestering them after five min-utes of not making any progress.

It took us probably about 15 min-utes to figure out what the path of clues were and that left little time to get through the rest of the secrets the room had to offer.

The Escape Room was fun. While our team, appropriately named “Gazette Me Out of Here,” did not successfully complete the puzzle, I can’t think of better people to be locked in a room with for an hour.

Exodus London’s only flaw is that they do not have nearly enough Escape Rooms to satisfy my brain-teaser thirst. With only two rooms and a third scheduled to open in the spring, I may be reduced to movie marathons of the Saw-series. While Exodus London is not quite as life and death as Jigsaw’s funhouse, the anxiety definitely climbs as the clock counts down.

I would definitely recommend Escape Rooms to fans of BBC’s Sherlock. When I figured out my first clue I felt like Benedict Cumberbatch — even if I wasn’t exactly cool and collected as I screeched our prog-ress to my teammates. I’m the type of person who thrives off mysteries and puzzles, but I could see how the experience could be frustrating for people unable to think outside the box.

There were some moments where we got stuck on a few clues but luckily the Escape Room was equipped with a walkie-talkie to communicate hints or to reel us back if we veered too far off. Even though The Gazette team was ultim-ately unable to escape the Den of Deceit, I had an amazing time and will definitely be going back to mas-ter the other challenges that Exodus has to offer.

Being locked in a room with other Gazette editors is not my idea of an exciting Friday night. To my sur-prise, it was a very fun experience as we tried to get out.

It felt very much like an episode of Scooby Doo — Jenny Jay was giv-ing me some strong Velma vibes — with each of us sifting through the room for clues. I looked through the many books, desperate to find clues — it felt like one of my last research essay trips at Weldon.

Every time we got one step ahead, I got ridiculously overjoyed. For people who subscribe to the “calm and collected energy is the best” mantra, I totally destroyed the atmosphere. When we unlocked the third of three pivotal locks, I defin-itely had no chill.

While I definitely had ideas about destroying the room and ripping everything apart in order to find the clues, that would have been a hor-rible strategy. You have to use your brain and it really is akin to a brain-teaser that you would get in one of those puzzle books from Indigo.

Working together with everyone made me appreciate some of our personalities more — and for others, let’s just I was glad they let us out at the end of the hour.

Imagine being stuck in a room with only one way out. Now, add your dysfunctional coworkers into the mix. This was the chaotic proposal behind our excursion to Exodus Escape Rooms last Friday.

The entire experience was frus-trating, exhilarating and adrenaline pumping. At one point, I felt like Lucy Pevensie going through the wardrobe in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, having fallen into a story straight out of one of my favourite fantasy books.

I may have gotten carried away with talking to the attendants via the walkie-talkie provided. The staff helped by providing hints when we started going astray, which hap-pened often. Nonetheless, “will someone please take that walkie-talkie away from Jenny?” was a recurrent request from Bradley.

My favourite part had to be Brent’s shouts of “I FOUND SOMETHING” every time something new was dis-covered — behind the shouts you could hear his childhood dreams of being the next Sherlock Holmes finally being realized.

Kirstyn was the true MVP on Friday. She figured out several of the most difficult puzzles that we encountered.

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GFFFFStill AliceDirector: Richard Glatzer, Wash WestmorelandStarring: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart

Second-hand Alzheimer’s is a real illness and the proof is in Still Alice: a mind-numbing, one-and-a-half-hour feature showing stages of ear-ly-onset Alzheimer’s.

Julianne Moore plays a privil-eged, perfectionist professor with a renowned career after losing her family at a young age. Alice (Moore) is everything but dependent, and once diagnosed with Alzheimer’s her life, marriage and career fall apart. The audience witnesses Moore lose her character as the stages of illness worsen.

Moore is monotoned, dreary, condescending and annoying. All notable acting performances fly out the window after the second act of the movie. In an emotional scene, a pivotal moment where tears are meant to be shed, Moore forgets her character is battling an illness that causes her memory to deteriorate. She literally recites a speech about Alzheimer’s without stuttering or skipping a beat, yet her memory is supposed to be failing her.

The movie goes downhill from there. Moore and her supporting players are mired in monotonous performances. Although the family is emotional about Alice’s situation,

no tears are shed by her own hus-band (Alec Baldwin) in a bonding moment with their youngest daugh-ter (Kristen Stewart). Stewart plays the same droning character she has mastered after years of playing Bella in the Twilight saga. Kudos Kristen, you added another element of bor-ing to this film.

The only sliver of hope is the cine-matography that reflects the per-petually fuzzy state of Alzheimer’s patients. Spinning shots dramatize the looming memory loss Moore attempts to convey. Blurred visions of character discussions emphasize the distant relationships between the family and Alice. But it’s a sad thing if a cameraman needs to save the day to make the movie bearable.

Let’s be frank, this is prob-ably the worst acting the cast has

done. Ever. Maybe not Stewart, but close enough. The characters lack pizazz, the plot is dry and the movie drones on for days. Weeks. Months. Years! The after effect of Still Alice replicates the same state Moore maintains throughout the movie: inconsistent, slow, repetitive and dull. There is little emotion and when it appears, it’s overblown to an unbelievable extent. It’s the middle of the night and you’re crying that loud? Please stop.

Don’t watch this movie. Julianne Moore shouldn’t win an Oscar for this garbage. The story is completely lifeless and bland but if Still Alice’s intentions were to display the side effects of Alzheimer’s, then it was a job well done.

Still Alice opens at Rainbow Cinemas on February 20.

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Dear Life,Just saw a dude smoking an e-cig at Weldon.

Dear Life,Your film reviewer is completely off base. The Imitation Game is a masterpiece. I’m sorry they had a bad day, but they shouldn’t take it out on a good movie.

Dear Life,The Black History Month edition just made my year.

Dear Life,Bradley Metlin is correct in his criticism of the USC. Democracy is on life support when it comes to the USC. What an embarrassment.

Dear Life,The feasibility study project is slowly sapping out whatever is now left of my soul. And heart. And life.

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This election season has been unusual, even by the University Students’ Council’s standards. Just two slates are running for the top positions in the USC and one of them didn’t release anything of substance until three days into the campaign period. Presidents were acclaimed in every faculty except science and social science, where just two people are running in each election. There was even a search for councillor candidates in a few faculties, while science inexplicably has 23 candidates. Brescia had an acclaimed presi-dent and both Huron and King’s have seen just two candidates.

Team Litchfield — consisting of Jack Litchfield, Richard Sookraj and Dilani Logan — have strug-gled in their campaign with a poorly executed strategic plan that delayed their campaign launch. They have also looked disjointed as a slate, with contradictory answers to the same questions. Their platform, however, is very detailed and offers realistic plans for accomplishing their goals.

Team Sophie — consisting of Sophie Helpard, Lindsee Perkins and Alex Benac — have run an excellent campaign. Their greatest strength has been communicating and interacting with students.

They have been excellent on social media. Their platform, however, lacks substance and contains advocacy goals that are unrealistic or unattainable within their short one-year term.

All things considered, both slates would do a good job for the USC and both have our con-fidence. However, an endorse-ment of one of the slates would be an endorsement for the very flawed slate system. Among the many problems with it — lack of competition, less diversity in candidates, lack of understanding among the student population of what exactly it is — the biggest is that it complicates a voter’s deci-sion to the point of increasing apathy. When a voter has to not only decide between platforms and presidential candidates, but also platforms and candidates for two other positions, the sentiment, “I wish [insert candidate] was on [opposite slate]” is heard often around campus. It leads to fur-ther indecision and probably dis-courages many people from even trying to find out what the slates are about and what they want for students.

Apathy is one of the major con-cerns we have with elections. It’s even more important this year for

one very big reason — the Western Marching Band.

The Marching Band has been a campus staple for decades. They are also facing severe finan-cial difficulties that could lead to them potentially being unable to perform.

The Marching Band has gone to the University and to the USC to ask for funding and they were rejected every time. But they didn’t give up. They’ve made presenta-tions to the USC, they’ve fund-raised all year and they fought to get on the ballot.

Now it’s up to students to decide the Marching Band’s fate. They’re asking for 50 cents from every student — which is nothing in the grand scheme of the cost of tuition. We believe a yes vote is a no-brainer to keep one of this cam-pus’ traditions alive and thriving.

The catch: at least 20 per cent of eligible voters need to vote in favour of a referendum question in order for it to be adopted.

This year, The Gazette endorses the 20 per cent — the 5,827 under-graduate students at Western, Huron, Brescia and King’s who will make the referendum valid and ensure the survival of the Marching Band.

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A veteran who has been with the Mustangs for five years, McKee thinks the style the Mustangs have gone with this season is better suited for the playoffs, where it’s all about winning the tight games.

“I think our style this year hope-fully will be a little bit conducive to playoff hockey. We’re used to play-ing tight games,” McKee said. “The last couple years we haven’t scored a lot but these are the game that we can win now – those tight 2–1, 3–2

games that you have to win in the playoffs. So I think your group is ready for that.”

McKee’s point is validated by the Mustangs’ 66 goals against in 27 games – third lowest in the OUA, and the lowest in the west division. Lakehead meanwhile allowed 113 goals this season.

The Thunderwolves also scored 109 goals, which is more than Western’s 100, once again echoing Singer’s statement of the parity in the league. But the Mustangs do know that Friday’s game was a great example of how they’ll need to play in the playoffs.

Other Mustang seniors with big nights on Friday were Stefan Salituro, who had a goal and two assists, Kyle DeCoste, with a goal and an assist and David Corrente, who also had a goal and an assist. Although DeCoste left halfway through Friday’s game with an apparent shoulder injury, Singer said after the game he was kept from returning to the game only as a precaution.

Western faces Lakehead in first round>> HOCKEY continued from pg.8

THESE ARE THE GAMES THAT WE CAN WIN NOW —

THOSE TIGHT 2–1, 3–2 GAMES THAT YOU HAVE TO WIN IN THE PLAYOFFS. SO I THINK OUR GROUP IS READY FOR THAT.

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factattackGoalie Evgeni Nabokov will be traded back from Tampa Bay Lightning so he can retire with the San Jose Sharks. The 39 year-old holds franchise records for wins, shutouts and games played.

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Goaltending, defence and special teams.

Those are the three areas head coach Clarke Singer stressed will be key for the men’s hockey team in the 2015 playoffs, which begin tomor-row when the Mustangs travel to Thunder Bay to take on Lakehead. The quarter-final matchup will be a best two-of-three series, with game two being played at Thompson Arena on Saturday afternoon, and game three – if necessary – coming the next day at home as well at 7 p.m.

On Friday night, Western closed out their regular season excelling in all the areas Singer mentioned and came away with a convincing 6–0 win over the Laurier Golden Hawks. The win came on the heels of a dis-appointing 5–2 loss at the hands of the Guelph Gryphons the night before, when Western gave up 40 shots on goal.

“I thought we got away from [our defensive structure] a little bit last night in Guelph — maybe a lot away from it — but for the most part I thought we were fairly tight tonight,” Singer said. “When we weren’t, Marc [Nother] was there to

make some saves and he did a great job for us.”

Nother wasn’t kept too busy throughout the night but made 22 saves for his first career Ontario University Athletics shutout.

The offence was flying all night, with plenty of production from the team’s nine graduating players. Those athletes were honoured in a pre-game ceremony for their con-tributions to the Mustangs over the past few years.

“It’s probably one of the best group of young men graduating that I’ve had in my 15–16 years here,” Singer said. “That counts between the boards and off the ice as well so we really wanted to have a great game for them but they had a great game for each other too.”

Leading the way for Western was fifth-year forward Adam McKee, who had a goal and three helpers. The London native has seen his role evolve in his five years at Western, to the point where he neared a point-per-game this season with 20 points in 22 games — a career high.

But instead of reminiscing on his time at Western, McKee is focused on the next game.

“From year one to now I kind of have the same mindset going into every game,” he said. “It’s a little different obviously walking out

into warmup knowing it’s your last regular season game with these guys ... but I don’t wanna say it’s my last game because I hope we got a run into March and the University Cup.”

“So I’m not thinking about that right now. What I’m figuring out is who we’ve got to go against this week and hopefully moving past that,” he continued.

McKee and the rest of his team-mates will be going against the Lakehead Thunderwolves, a team that has typically battled it out with Western for the top spot in the West.

But not this year, as the Thunderwolves clinched a playoff spot on the second-last day of the regular season with a 3–2 win over Laurier. They finished the season with a 10–14–3 record, good enough for seventh in the West. Western finished in second place thanks to a 19–7–1 record.

As lopsided as that may seem heading into the first round of the series, Singer made one thing clear after Friday’s game: you can never take a night off.

“I think the one thing that people forget is how good this league is,” he said. “I mean, the league is good. You can play good and lose. You have to play your best to win.”

>> see HOCKEY pg.7

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