Would you ever agree to work full-time for free? Every year, across Canada, up to 300,000 students and young workers do just that.

Unpaid internships are the grim reality for a generation of young people entering the workforce when youth unemployment is at an all-time high.

Recent news reports of interns meeting their death after coming off lengthy shifts has sparked debate about the legality of the unpaid internships — be it academic or otherwise.

Lisa Hamilton, a recent gradu-ate from Western’s occupational health and safety management program through continuing stud-ies at Western, was indignant when her practicum ended without compensation.

“My internship was at a foundry, a machining facility in Stratford,” Hamilton said. “I could not afford to move to Stratford for the course of my practicum, and therefore, had to drive, unpaid, to Stratford to com-plete my 560-plus hours.”

“However, upon completion, I received a company keychain, and some cake. This was a disappoint-ment, as others in my class received job offers, perks [from their work], or a stipend,” she continued.

Hamilton also said she was blindsided by the $3,000 tuition fee Western expected her to pay after she completed her practicum.

There’s more sinister aspects than just unpaid work — the culture of unpaid internships also has a gen-dered, raced, and classed element to it, in which already-vulnerable members of society lose out in the job market.

“There’s been research out of the United States that indicates that 77 per cent of unpaid interns are female,” Andres Langille, a labour lawyer with the Canadian Internship Association, said.

He explained that the industries with a preponderance of unpaid internships included public rela-tions, fashion, radio and television, journalism, social work, teaching, nutrition, nursing, advertising and magazine publishing.

“Those are all mainly female-dominated professions. You don’t see the same level of unpaid intern-ships in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematical oriented fields. Those internships are paid,” Langille said.

Langille viewed unpaid intern-ships as the latest example of sys-temic discrimination of women in the labour market, citing the his-toric de-valuation of work done by females.

Young people from historically marginalized groups aren’t getting the same shot at the labour market as the children of the dominant class, in what Langille referred to as a “creeping cultural apartheid.”

“Students from lower socio-eco-nomic backgrounds, students who are racialized, students who are first or second generation immigrants typically don’t have the same abil-ity to engage in unpaid labour that wealthier students[…] would have,” Langille said.

These students were effectively being blocked from accessing key professions in journalism, law, poli-tics, and public administration.

Colleen Sutherland, the

internship coordinator in the stu-dent success centre, said that while she believes in the legitimacy of Western’s academic internships, she is concerned about unpaid intern-ships students find on their own that aren’t vetted by the school.

It is this type of internship — one without pay or academic credit — that is illegal under Ontario labour law. Langille estimated there are between 100,000 and 300,000 of these illegal internships happening every year in Canada.

The trend has not gone unno-ticed by student groups. Earlier this month, the Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance released a policy paper urging the provincial govern-ment to address the growing prob-lem of unpaid labour.

“Unpaid internships are a con-cern as many in Ontario aren’t providing students with the high-impact educational experiences they want or deserve,” said Amir Eftekarpour, OUSA president, in

a release. “Students are calling on the province to better enforce the Ontario Employment Standards Act to protect them from unfair unpaid work, while also includ-ing provisions that support those meaningful, unpaid positions tied to academic study.

Kyle Iannuzzi, vice-president operations with the Canadian Internship Association, explained some of the systemic problems unpaid internships create.

“The issue is that entry-level jobs now become available for the elite, those that can take on free work, as opposed to the person that might deserve the position the most,” Iannuzzi said.

While some students have had positive learning experiences at their internships, the sad reality is that only students who come from money can afford these experiences.

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THE LAST DAYS OF SUMMER. as the crisp autumn air sneaks up around the corner, students on campus soak up the last bit of summer sun on the grass in front of the natural science building.

Western researchers get $2.4M in grants

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has granted $2.4 million worth of awards to 27 Western University researchers.

Researchers at Canadian post-secondary schools have been awarded funds totalling $107 million.

James MacGee, a professor in the economics department, was amongst them. He intends on

investigating how high debt levels and the rise in interest rates affect household spending habits and business operations, as well as lenders’ decisions regarding credit extensions for businesses, families and students.

MacGee explained the data could be evaluated through time and across countries in order to better understand spending patterns.

“The idea is to try to approach this general question in two ways,” he explained “One is to look at data through time and data across coun-tries to see what the relationship is between volatility of consumption across households and how that’s related to debt levels.”

He clarified that this is done through theoretical economic mod-els. Once numerically solved, they can be used to understand people’s spending behaviours.

MacGee commented that he recognized students starting careers with high debt loads out of univer-sity as a potential issue that he is interested in further exploring with the grant funds he received.

—Aisha Masood

LTC-Google partnership to be

delayedBus passengers likely won’t be able to use Google Maps to plan their trips around London this academic year. The long awaited service has been pushed off again until the spring of 2014.

After three years of planning, the London Transit Commission had been hoping to allow transit users to plans their trips using Google’s popular Google Maps application. In February, the LTC announced that they expected their bus routes would be searchable by the end of the summer. Larry Ducharme, London Transit general manager, said that although everything is ready, they are waiting on Google to get the service up and running.

“We did extensive testing over the summer, we’re waiting for Google,” Ducharme said.

“Google has probably got a ton of these things and we’re just in the queue. From our standpoint everything’s a go, we’re just waiting for Google, for all intents and pur-poses, to flip the switch,” Ducharme

said. “We did the testing and all that other stuff — the interface — that’s all done. Everything’s done.”

Google Maps Transit planner is used worldwide by transit systems. The system uses a standardized route and schedule format pro-vided by the city to allow for point-to-point travelling directions using bus routes and times.

Several other Ontario cities have already integrated their transit sys-tems with Google, with Hamilton being the first city in Ontario to get the service back in 2008. London citizens will have to wait at least a few more months. In the mean time, Passengers will have to continue to use the LTC website to navigate the city by bus and to check for bus times.

—Michael Rosen

United Way sets goalThe United Way announced their fundraising goal of $8.9 million at the Harvest Lunch event yesterday at Budweiser Gardens.

Kelly Ziegner, director of Community Engagement for the United Way of London-Middlesex, said the event, as predicted, was very successful.

“Harvest Lunch was a great suc-cess, we are still tallying our final numbers. We ordered 3,000 sand-wiches and we think it was close to a sell out,” she said.

“This event we use primarily as our launch event. We don’t use it as fundraising event per se,” said Zeigner. “[It’s] more about aware-ness and getting the community rallied behind the goal.”

Zeigner explained that the United Way fundraises to support programs in three areas — poverty, mental health and people going through life transitions, such as children and immigrants.

Ziegner is hopeful that the London community will rise to meet the $8.9 million fundraising goal.

“I think people understand that London has had some tough eco-nomic times. In spite of those tough times the last number of years we’ve had a successful campaign and Londoners have really rolled up their sleeves to support their friends and neighbours.”

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Dyer-Witheford, acting dean of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies, unpaid internships create a culture where employers in certain fields become accustomed to the free labour provided by students and recent graduates, which fit in to a cost-cutting labour reduction strat-egy that could damage the economy in the long term.

To add insult to injury, these workers cannot claim this time under their Canadian Pension Plan.

According to Iannuzzi, unpaid interns are unable to file their hours worked into their Canadian Pension Plans, reducing what they could claim down the road. In addition, the Canadian government is losing out on income taxes that unpaid interns do not pay.

Numerous faculties at Western run unpaid internship or practicum programs that students choose to take advantage of before they gradu-ate. One such service is the Faculty of Information and Media Studies internship program, run by Susan Weekes.

Weekes explained that, in her program, the vast majority of avail-able internships are unpaid for academic credit. She explained that she monitored the job descriptions carefully and vetted the number of hours required to be completed by the intern.

“Our goal is not to have students overworked, our goal is to have them doing mostly professional things,” Weekes said.

“It’s a sad reality for students in this business that the culture is such that they don’t get paid. But on the other hand I believe that they do get opportunities that they wouldn’t have had otherwise and they get credit for it,” Weekes continued.

She stressed that her depart-ment strives to find mutually ben-eficial placements, and when that is achieved it benefits both the student and the employer, and is a much more beneficial relationship than someone working for free.

Shannon Cross, a fourth-year MIT student, said she learned a lot while working at her public relations internship she set up through FIMS last year.

“I thought it was a good expe-rience to be able to work in the [London] community,” Cross said. “I learned a lot of communication skills.”

Although internships aren’t always negative, Langille thought students deserved to be paid even for the labour they complete as part of an academic program.

“The best practices are from the University of Waterloo, which has a very strong co-op program. The vast majority of their co-op posi-tions are paid. They’ve been doing this for close to 50 years. If they have adopted using mostly paid posi-tions, I think that’s the model that schools should adhere to,” Langille said.

For unpaid workers being exploited, there are legal methods to demand pay.

Iannuzzi explained one of the

things his organization advocates for is that people in illegal intern-ship situations file claims for their back-wages.

Iannuzzi himself first got involved with the Canadian Intern Association when he had one of the first successful cases reclaiming his wages.

“I was hired and signed a contract that I would be an unpaid intern, or volunteer, for a six-month period. Three months in to the intern-ship I realized I felt like I was being exploited — I was doing things that were outside the job description I applied to — and wasn’t really get-ting any learning in return from the employer,” he explained.

“I spoke to [my employer] about it and said ‘I don’t think I’m focused on what we said I would be focused on. This is fine, I don’t mind doing it, but if you want me to do that I need to get paid. Otherwise you need to refocus me or we go our own way, and if we do that I’m going to ask that you pay me for the work that I’ve done,” Iannuzzi continued.

Iannuzzi’s employer elected to sever the relationship, and their law-yer determined nothing substantial was found in Iannuzzi’s claim.

However, when Iannuzzi sent an unpaid wages claim to Employment Standards Ontario, they agreed that he should be paid and he received his retroactive pay.

“I don’t think this is a lazy genera-tion,” Iannuzzi said. “This is a gen-eration that’s saying, ‘Not only do we want to work, but we’re also empow-ered to speak up for ourselves.’”

iThefts in student housesKaitlyn McGrathassociate editor

Apple laptops have been the item of choice in a string of break-ins in the campus area.

Eight student-rented homes have been broken into in the past two weeks, including four in the Summit Avenue area this past weekend, where both MacBooks and items of jewelry were stolen, according to London Police Service constable Krissy Belanger.

The break-ins have occurred between the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m. on weekends, when students are often away from their homes, Belanger added.

Belanger also noted break-ins tend to increase when students return to London.

“It’s a whole new string of stu-dents in the area with all new laptops and things,” Belanger explained. “It just makes them a little bit more prone to these types of offences in

their area.”London Police are reminding

students to lock their doors and win-dows to prevent break-ins. Students can also protect their laptops by using cable locks and installing GPS locating software, Belanger said.

On campus, laptop theft has always been a problem. Libraries and the campus recreation centre are where the majority of thefts occur, J.C. Aubin, campus police staff sergeant, said.

According to Aubin, campus police increased patrolling in cam-pus libraries last year.

“Not too long after that the thefts really dropped down — they dropped down considerably,” Aubin said.

So far this year, there have not been many reported laptop thefts, but they often don’t occur this early in the year, Aubin explained.

“Exam time is usually when it peaks,” he said.

During the April exam period in

his first year, now third-year music student Trevor Bowman said his MacBook pro laptop was stolen from his room in Delaware Hall.

He admitted his door was wide open and his laptop was not locked to his desk. However, he said his wal-let and iPod touch were nearby and only his laptop was taken. Luckily, his insurance covered it, but it still wasn’t a pleasant experience.

“It was a hassle and I wouldn’t really wish it on anybody,” Bowman said.

As far as MacBooks being tar-geted on campus, Aubin said they are stolen more often, but only because there are more on cam-pus. However, he said students should never leave any personal item unattended.

“If there’s a device unattended, they’re going to take it — doesn’t matter if it’s a Mac or an Acer,” he said.

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Western has hot Middlesex

Aaron Zaltzmanassociate editor

The rooms in Middlesex and Elborn colleges are getting heated, and it has nothing to do with passionate debate.

Sweltering heat in Middlesex 110 and 16B, as well as Elborn College 2038, has been getting more than a few students and teachers a little hot and bothered. The situation has boiled over to the point where facilities management has begun to receive complaints.

Jill Veenendaal, a graduate stu-dent who had a lecture at Middlesex, said the temperature in room 110, a large lecture hall, was “horrible.” Though the hall held 250 students, Veenendaal also said 16B was hot while only holding 10 students.

“The class ended early and we held our TA meeting after class out-side,” she said. “This past Tuesday it was 25 degrees in Elborn 2038 — when it was set to 20 degrees. No fan, nothing.”

Veenendaal also said she made a note of the temperature outside after leaving the classroom — it was only 14 degrees at the time.

London was gripped by a heat wave for several days last week, with temperatures reaching up to 34 degrees. The temperature has dropped since then, though, with the average temperatures hovering somewhere around 21 degrees for

the last week.However, temperatures are

expected to spike briefly at the end of the month, meaning the situation in Middlesex could become more of a problem.

The cause points to a problem in the buildings themselves. Though unable to comment on the exact reasons for the temperature, facili-ties management said they were aware of the problem and intended to work of remedying the situation.

the class ended early and we held our ta meeting after class outside. this past tuesday it was 25 degrees in elborn 2038 — when it was set to 20 degrees. no fan, nothing.

-Jill Veenendaal, graduate student

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Arts&Life badwriting“emerging from the darkness, a scene began to take shape … the interior of a cave … or a giant chamber of some sort. the floor of the cavern was water, like an underground lake.”

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Where to get itGlasses – Versace Sleek and sophisticated, these speck-led frames are unique but neutral enough to compliment any outfit.

Cardigan  – Ralph LaurenThis cardigan with toggles lends a rustic sensibility to this preppy style. The dark blue easily matches with other accessories making this versatile jacket a mainstay for many outfits.

Paint-splattered Khaki chinos – Ralph LaurenThese paint-splattered ‘go-to-hell’ pants are sure to catch the eye of any fashionistos. This distinctive look, popular several years ago, is coming back into style.

Backpack – Rugby Ralph LaurenThis vibrant blue backpack stands out among the more commonly dark colours of autumn.

Shoes – AsicsHigh-top, bright blue shoes add an interesting contrast when paired with neutral pants.

Although “preppy” has gained a negative con-notation more recently,

Kevin Chu, a fourth year economics student at Western, has proven that it remains a highly fashionable style.

Sporting a Ralph Lauren cardigan with paint-splattered khaki pants and matching bright blue shoes and back-pack, Chu stands out from the crowd.

Describing his style as preppy, Chu regularly follows fashion blogs such as Put This On to inspire his look. Despite his obvious sense of flamboyant style, Chu asserts, “I like simple designs. Most of my clothes are kind of similar.”

Dating back to the 1950s from

League schools, preppy can be identi-fied as a style rather than a trend. As Western retains vestiges of this tradi-tion, many students on campus continue to incorporate it into their own sense of style.

With a pin-striped collar visible beneath his cardigan, Chu’s layering adds complexity to the outfit. His chic glasses give him a scholarly edge and his casually tousled hair personalizes his style.

Chu also subtly pairs colours with-out becoming matchy-matchy. His vibrant blue back-pack, blue sneakers, and even the paint splotches on his pants are all complimentary.

Chu easily chooses his unique pants as his favourite item of the outfit.

“They’re pretty special,” he com-ments. Although he bought them three years ago, Chu admitted, “I never got to wear them until this year. I saw them on a blog and the paint-stains are kind of back in style right now.” As a convenient bonus to the style, Chu adds, “I don’t mind if they get dirty.”

Channelling a preppy style with lots of layering, Chu’s look is perfect for starting out the new school year fashionably. The layering, colour pair-ing, and careful casualness all connote a put-together but reserved fall look.

— Mary Ann Ciosk

ios 7 launches to mixed reviews

Gazette Tested: Bright Breakfast Smoothie

Having been released just recently, Apple’s latest operating system upgrade has received a mix of praise and hate. At first glance, the biggest change is the updated interface, which now boasts a much more colourful layout. It’ll take some time before some users adjust to the way it looks — specifically the Control Center which now has more options crammed into it. Like always, these minor changes have resulted in a major backlash.

With iOS 7, no drastic changes are made. You’ll have your basic layout, with just minor tweaks here and there. Changes have been made to cater to all users of the device.

Whether you have a tendency to play and store lots of games and utilities, take lots of pictures, or are a social media butterfly, iOS 7 demands your attention to find new and intricate ways to do what you love most with your iDevice.

Like most technological upgrades, not all users are going to be on board initially, while others will be highly enthused. While iOS 7 maintains its basic structure, some users have been making complaints such as the flat design resulting in more scrolling to get to the info you need, and of course the fact that some new features aren’t available for iPhone 4 and 4S users.

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during the early morning rush to catch buses and make it to class on time, it can be very hard to make sure to eat a healthy breakfast. a breakfast smoothie is a quick, easy, healthy beverage that is good for the student on the run. Frozen raspberries and bananas provide a fresh, exciting mix with a bit more flavour than a frozen strawberry and banana combination.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup of frozen raspberries 

• 1 banana

• 1/2 cup of soy milk

• 2 tablespoons of vanilla Greek yogurt 

• 1 teaspoon of unpasturised honey

Instructions: 

1. peel banana and cut into slices. put banana slices in a blender. 2. add 1/2 cup of raspberries, teaspoon of unpasturised honey, and 2 tablespoons of yogurt. 3. pour in soy milk. Monitor how much milk is in the blender — too much will cause the fruit flavour to be diluted.4. Blend for 30 seconds to one minute or until the mixture is smooth throughout.try vanilla soy milk or chocolate milk for a different flavour.

—Brent Holmes

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Aeolian hosts gamelanMusic house celebrates cultural event

Jenna MonteithcontriButor

Tomorrow, the Aeolian Hall will ring with sounds of beginner instrumen-talists trying out the gamelan for the first time. Aeolian is host to a school of arts, and Nur Intan Murtadza’s lat-est workshop there on the gamelan is a cultural and musical experience that brings participants together through community and music.

“There is no one definition of the gamelan,” Murtadza explains. “You can define it by instruments, social relations and repertoire. From all these perspectives it is very unique.”

The gamelan is a traditional Indonesian apparatus of different interconnected instruments. There are many gamelan groups across North America. Every community and gamelan group partakes in modern composition. His compo-sitions have included using found objects with a string ensemble, and introducing a vocal component to the gamelan based on a First Nations text.

“The concept of the gamelan is based on group collaboration,” Murtadza says. “A negotiation between players. It is about finding out how to put music together.”

When playing the gamelan, people must depend on each oth-ers’ contributions to realize their own part. This form of musical col-laboration is referred to as “Gotong royong.” To successfully collabo-rate, the musicians must hone their senses.

“There is a difference between listening and hearing,” Murtadza explains. “To really listen to each other is an exercise in itself.”

Historically the gamelan was a symbol of influence, believed to bestow power to its owner, whether by regal presence or sacred endow-ment. Alternatively, various myths explain that the instrument was cre-ated by the gods to communicate with one another. The gamelan in pop culture can be heard on the soundtracks of Battlestar Galactica and Life of Pi.

The gamelan has been passed on through Southeast Asia, from Myanmar, Thailand, Malyasia, Indonesia and its islands. Despite the common theme of communal music making, no two gamelans will sound the same. The specific gamelan hosted by Aeolian Hall is of Indonesian descent from the island of Java. The uniqueness of

the Javanese gamelan is defined by different tuning and timbres than the Balinese gamelan, or the Sundanese gamelan.

At the workshop, expect to have lots of fun and laughs and make mis-takes. Not only will it be an introduc-tion to a different musical culture, but it’s about learning a new culture hands-on.

It’s about being patient and work-ing together as one, accommodating strengths and weaknesses.

“There is in all of us, a need to express something beautiful,” Murtadza says. The gamelan is not about musicality. While it is a musi-cal instrument, the act of playing it is about exploring something creative and seeing how far it can go. “Each experience is different.”

The workshop starts at 10 a.m. and runs until 2 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be paid by cash or cheque.— With files from Sarah-Mai Chitty

Goals and fitness go hand in hand, but that doesn’t make goal setting easy. In my fitness classes, I like to ask participants about their goals. The most common response I get is “I want to get fit!” This goal is a great starting point, but I have a little Goal Setting 101 that sets people up for success.

The most popular goal setting advice involves setting “SMART” goals, which is a great place to start:

S: Specific. What do you mean by “fit?” Defining your goal informs how you’ll go about achieving it. If your idea of fitness is being able to walk up UC hill without getting out of breath, your actions will be differ-ent than if you think fitness means being able to finish a triathlon.

M: Measurable. To know if you’ve achieved success, you’ll need a way to measure things. How will you know when you’re fit? Will you be able to run a race within a certain time? Knowing specifics gives you something to shoot for — it’s hard to hit a fuzzy target.

A: Actionable. What are you going to do? Will you be running three times a week? Hitting the weight room? Going to weekly yoga classes?

R: Realistic. If you’ve been a couch potato for years, is running a marathon next month realistic? Making sure that your goal — even though it should be challenging — is within your reach saves you from setting yourself up for failure.

T: Timely. Creating a deadline takes you from dreaming territory into the world of goals. Just like

diving into a reading for class tomor-row is more urgent than exploring an article you’ve been meaning to read, adding a by-when to your goal creates a healthy dose of pressure.

Beyond setting SMART goals, I have a few more tips:

-Ask yourself, “What’s impor-tant about achieving this goal?” Identifying why the goal matters will help you stay motivated when you get stressed with presentations, essays, and tests to juggle.

-Watch your language. When you talk about your goal, speak like you will be successful. “I run a marathon by June 1, 2014” affirms your success and is more powerful than “I want to run a marathon this year.”

-Go for the butterflies. Set goals that make you feel like you’re asking a hot guy/girl out — a little sweating is good! Goals should be different from items on your to do list. When we set challenging goals, we set our-selves up for growth and change.

-Shout it from the rooftops. Telling people about your goal cre-ates accountability and is a state-ment about your commitment to go for it.

No one wants to focus on the prospect of failing, but I’ll end with a question. If you’re not failing every now and again, are you really chal-lenging yourself?

Cheryl is a personal trainer and a fitness instructor at the Western Student Recreation Centre. If you have a question you would like answered in the column, email it to arts@westerngazette.ca!

— Cheryl Madliger

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Few jobs have a worse reputation than one at a call centre.

My father, a proud advocate of the family dinner, hated call centres. Almost every night after corralling my siblings and I into the kitchen, the phone would ring and he would impatiently answer.

Sitting next to him at the table, I could hear the other line. “Good afternoon sir, I’m calling from Western University and I was hoping—”

Click. My dad immediately hung up the phone, making a few begrudging comments. How dare they interrupt our sacred meal? Who do they think they are?

Not until I started a job at Western’s call centre did I find out that my dad was one of the nice ones.

Like most students, a frustrating summer job hunt left me completing a number of odd tasks. One of them was a position at Western’s fundraising centre. As a new caller, my job involved calling alumni, updating their information, and asking if they would like to celebrate their time at Western with a donation to one of the university’s many scholarship funds.

Almost everything about the job was great. My coworkers were other students, so I got to meet an amazing group of funny, intelligent and talented peers. The centre was also close to campus, and other than a few fundraising goals there was very little stress. The only bad thing about the job was, well, the job.

When it came to the calls, there were those who would laugh — no, cackle — at our inquisition. Others adopted a fake persona, impersonating a celebrity or fab-ricated persona. These, too, were better than what I would not-so-affectionately

refer to as “the crazies.”The crazies always seem to be wait-

ing by the phone, anticipating a chance to release their inner rage. These are the calls where we’re accused of funding terrorist plots. The calls where people feel the need to list every grievance they have about Western, the economy, and sometimes their relationship. These are the calls with the insults, the yelling, and the eventual sweet release of a dial tone.

I could usually handle the crazies pretty well. I just tried to remember my own father. For all I knew I could be inter-rupting their family dinner.

The only time I really got bothered was when someone on the other line would ask, “Do you know what time it is?!” Like most call centres, phones con-tinue to dial until 9:30 p.m. Yes, this may seem late, but due to commuting many don’t get home from work until 7 or 8 p.m.

So, whenever someone did frus-tratingly ask me for the time, I calmly explained why we call later. Still, some of the crazies would persist on, demanding that I stare into a clock and re-evaluate my life. What did they expect to happen? Would I look at the clock and say “Oh my, you’re right! I should have stopped call-ing ages ago. I guess I was just having so much fun I completely lost track of time.”

Now, I don’t mean to portray the Western alumni as vicious or disrespect-ful. Many of the former Mustangs I spoke to were kind, friendly and bursting with purple pride. In fact, I was initially sur-prised with how many were more than happy to support the scholarship pro-grams here at Western.

But no matter how many good calls you had, a bad call could always ruin the night. So the next time you answer the phone and it’s from a call centre, try to think of the person of the other end. If it’s a bad time, kindly let them know. If you’re not in the mood to talk, respect-fully tell them. If you want to be taken off the call list, just ask. Don’t be a crazy. Change someone’s night for the better.

I’ll call you, maybe?

They’re known for getting coffee, cleaning up after lunch, and staying later than everyone else. They are the interns, and recently much debate has been occurring about these unpaid positions. As more and more interns are sharing their stories, schools are looking to reevaluate their intern-ship programs and hoping that workplaces are doing the same. The question becomes, do these internships represent students’ best chance at gaining workplace experience? Or is this free work a way for businesses to exploit a desperate and vulnerable workforce?

Students are divided between these two views. This wouldn’t be a problem — there are two sides to every story — but it is a problem when there are so many instances of the second case. There are far too many cases of students being forced to work full-time, doing a job which they would be paid for in the “real world” or, even worse, being told something when they first sign up for an internship and finding it to be something completely different and a waste of their time. There is nothing worse than working for free just to get experience, yet have that experience be worthless.

There’s less of a problem with unpaid internships when working for a startup that really does not have any money to pay for extra employees where the experience they gain is truly valuable, but it’s not okay for large corporations to use students as less than slave labour. It’s also not okay for students to only receive a half credit for a full-time job. Surely those hundreds of hours of work are worth something to the academic institution, if they are not of monetary value.

Another problem with unpaid internships is that they are only doable for those that can afford to live with their parents or on their parents’ money while they work full-time for free. It disadvantages those students who don’t have the means to do that, who would need to work another job just to get by.

Unpaid internships have become a fact of life for many students trying to get their foot in the door in their chosen field. And with the economy still slow after the recession, there is even less opportunity for students to gain paid experience.

Internships are here to stay, but they need to be reformed to ensure the quality of the intern’s experiences.

—The Gazette Editorial Board

Internship culture a sad truth

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To the Editor:I am writing to address the comic fea-tured last Thursday, Sept 19 on the back page of your newspaper. While I do think that a little light-hearted, non-offensive humour is permissible once in a while—joking about the spontaneous amputa-tion of limbs during a football game is not only immature, but is an insult to anybody who has lost an arm, a leg or (god forbid!) a head while playing sports.

The comic was also highly traumatiz-ing. I was one of the unlucky few who witnessed Louisville basketball’s Kevin Ware snap his leg like a twig last year, and since then any sort of reference to the removal of limbs or splitting of leg bones has left me traumatized. How can I live knowing that some trivial comic might make light of such an event? How can I enjoy humor at all? I can’t even watch Scary Movie anymore!

This is just a warning. If you don’t take a serious look at your humour section, I will persist in making your student-run newspaper as censorious and politically correct as possible. Comedy is no laugh-ing matter, and if you continue to depict inanimate objects performing hypotheti-cal non-sequiturs at the expense of real people with real issues, then I will give an arm and a leg to make sure every advocacy group not already busy solving important problems gets on your case. And no, I’m not joking.

—Phil JamesEnglish V

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SportsRundown >> sheehan Mulholland played her first game as a Mustang on the women’s lacrosse team this past sunday > she led the team in assists, resulting in a 21–3 win against the McGill Martlets.

gamedaythe Western Mustangs men’s hockey team is hosting the east-west tournament that started last night, and will end on satur-day. the Mustangs take on the Queen’s Gaels tonight at 7 pm.

Undefeated Mustangs take on LaurierWestern looks to continue streak against a familiar friend

Daniel Weryhasports editor

The Western Mustangs football team will host what may still be an undefeated Queen’s Gaels team in a week. But before then, they travel to Waterloo where they will face a mediocre Laurier Golden Hawks team led by one of Western’s biggest football alumni, Michael Faulds.

Faulds was appointed head coach and offensive coordinator at the start of the season, and is now trying to re-build a struggling pro-gram. Saturday’s game will be his first encounter against his former team. Faulds is still the all-time Canadian Interuniversity Sport passing yard leader with 10,811 yards.

“He’s a great coach, a great player, he’s going to do a good job there,” Greg Marshall, Western Mustangs head coach, said. “Once the game starts they’re like faceless opponents. Across the field it doesn’t matter who it is, we’re going to lineup, we’re going to play […] and we’re going to work hard to try to beat them.”

At 1–3, the Golden Hawks have shown no sign of being ready to win at the Ontario University Athletics level this season. With only one win over their perennial cellar-dwell-ing in-town rivals — the Waterloo Warriors — the Golden Hawks are already beginning to think about next season — which still doesn’t stop them from playing spoiler.

The team ranks 23rd in total offensive yards, while their defence has managed to be slightly more productive by keeping opponents to an average of 375 total yards per game.

The Laurier defence may in fact pose the toughest challenge

the Mustangs have seen so far this season.

“If you look statistically, they’ve held their offence in games. [Laurier’s] offence has been two-and-out a lot, and their defence has been playing very well,” Marshall said.

In contrast, the Mustangs rank first in rushing yards and pass-ing yards per game. The team has allowed an average of 370 total yards this season, and has yet to score less than 50 points in a game.

“They’re going to come pre-pared,” Faulds said. “Even though it’s a 4–0 team against a 1–3 team, they won’t overlook us.”

Sophomore quarterback Will Finch has stepped comfortably into

his starting role, and found chem-istry with a plethora of talented receivers.

But, aside from the expected performance of Western’s big three — Will Finch, Brian Marshall and Garret Sanvido — Western’s offence has enjoyed consistent contribu-tions from a number of players in skilled position.

After Yannic Harou went down in week two, Adam Sinclair stepped in as an effective utility player, taking snaps in the backfield, and even lin-ing-up in place of the injured Matt Uren in the slot.

In four games played, Sinclair put up 218 rushing yards on 24 carries, and 116 receiving yards on seven receptions and four touchdowns.

The London native continues to be a reliable target going into Saturday’s game, and could start in place of the injured Uren in week five.

Limited to only 32 yards in last week’s game, Mustangs wide receiver George Johnson will look to have a bounce-back performance against Laurier’s secondary. While the pass defence has limited their opponents to 218 yards per game, the team has yet to defend against an air attack as efficient as Western’s.

The team ranks first in the CIS in passing touchdowns, and will expect to expand on that total in Saturday’s game.

“Western’s a team that’s averag-ing just over 65 points a game. We know we’re not going to stop them

so we just need to slow them down,” Faulds said.

The Golden Hawks have strug-gled all season to get their run game going, and now face one of the stin-giest run defences in the CIS. The Western front seven, highlighted by the fifth-year defensive captain Pawel Kruba, allows an average of 87 rushing yards per game — the third-highest total in the country. With his pick-six, Kruba now leads the league with three interceptions.

All evidence points towards another Western Mustangs blow-out, but with the daunting thought of playing Queen’s in a packed TD Stadium in next weekend’s Homecoming game, anything can happen.

Purple Pipe: football stars awarded OUA honoursAleks Dalek

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Earlier this week, two of Western’s own were named Ontario University Athletics Football Players of the Week, alongside Guelph’s Jazz Lindsay. The duo — Beau Landry on defence and Lirim Hajrullahu on special teams — excelled alongside their teammates and helped rack up a massive 83 points against the Ottawa Gee-Gees, made even more impressive when compared to their measly score of 27.

But for a game in which the offense managed to score so many points, why is it that the Western players of the week happen to not play offence? Well for Lirim, who plays punter and kicker and has been since coming to Western, he didn’t have to be on the offence to score a ton of points.

“Lirim played great. He was three-for-three on field goals and hit 10 extra points. He played per-fect that day and was a good player,” Beau Landry, #5 for the Mustangs,

said.Hajrullahu is in his fifth year

here at Western working towards a master’s degree in kinesiology. He played various positions on his high school team in St. Catherines, Ontario, before coming here.

“Once I came here, everything was so much more specific. I learned from Darryl Wheeler who was the kicker the year before, and I’ve been very happy with it,” Hajrullahu said.

This is the second week in a row that Hajrullahu has been named the OUA special teams player of the week, and as of yet, there is no indication that he is slowing down.

“Right now I’m just concerned with playing at our best here at Western — keep competing, win-ning and keeping the drive going,” Hajrullahu commented.

On September 14, the Mustangs demolished the Ottawa Gee-Gees, continuing their outstanding win-ning streak for a 4–0 record.

“We were firing on all cylinders and even when they came out and scored a few points on our defence,

we were able to hold them off at the second half,” Landry said.

Landry, who is currently attending his fourth year at King’s University College for criminology, is no stranger to being praised for his performance on the field. Recently he was named the top-ranked OUA prospect for the 2014 CFL draft, and is currently ranked in second among all defenders playing in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

When asked what it was like to be scouted by CFL teams, Landry admitted that it was a good feeling, but said that it was only a starting point.

“It’s good to know that they’re interested, but nothing is set in stone, so I just have to keep work-ing and keep getting better,” Landry said.

Like Hajrullahu, Landry has not always played his current position, playing running back on his high school team in Kingston, and defen-sive halfback for his first few years

>> see MustanGs pg.8

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Nusaiba Al-Azemsports editor

I’m a sucker for underdogs. Jon “Bones” Jones has never

been taken down in his 19-bout mixed martial arts career, and the only fight he has ever lost in the Ultimate Fighting Championship was due to an illegal elbow that resulted in a disqualification. But the current UFC light heavyweight champion might be meeting his match tomorrow when he takes on underdog Alexander “the Mauler” Gustafsson in a title match at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

If, like me, you attribute Jones’ success to his impressive physical build — standing 6-foot-5 at 205 pounds — and extraordinarily long reach of 84.5 inches, this match will be the one to test that theory.

The upcoming fight will provide the top ranked pound-for-pound fighter with an opponent of his calibre in physical characteristics and, perhaps more significantly threatening, in age. The majority of Jones’s previous opponents have been fighters of a smaller build and have all been older, so it will be interesting to watch a fight with a

guy more matched to him in frame.Taking down Bones is no easy

feat — many a fighter has tried. In fact, if Jones manages to secure his belt in UFC 165 he’ll successfully break Tito Ortiz’s five-time title defense record in the light heavy-weight division.

Statistically speaking, Jones takes the cake. Nobody can argue that he is a statistical outlier. His accuracy, power, stand-up strikes, defences, submission finishes and takedown success rates are all above Gustafsson’s. He is a fighter with excellent range control and grap-pling, leading most critics and the general public to predict that Jones will easily steamroll his competition.

But like I said, I’m a sucker for the underdog.

Jones is a strategic and well-timed wrestler, and measures his opponents’ ranges carefully before taking them down. The advantage for Gustafsson here is that he is no rookie on his back — when Jones takes it there, he’ll be prepared to work under submission. On the other hand, Jones has never expe-rienced fighting on his backside because no opponent has been able to put him there.

Though Jones is favoured to win, I would argue that Gustafsson is not the number one contender for noth-ing. The boxer knows how to pack a punch, and we still don’t know what Jones’ chin is made of. No other fighter has really been able to test

his chin strength out, partly because of Jones’s impressive reach, and his offensive command. He dives under, gains control of the fight, and unleashes his vicious elbows.

But despite an eight-inch deficit in reach, Gustaffson has some weap-ons in his arsenal. He’s won 60 per cent of his bouts by knockout — almost 20 per cent more than Jones. He has light-as-a-feather footwork and outstanding jabbing, and has been training for this carefully.

Gustafsson’s best chance seems to be employing his boxing and picking Bones apart while standing.

If Gustafsson is going to win, he’ll have to sharpen up his fight-ing technique in order to eliminate the holes in his defence, like drop-ping his non-striking arm low. If his coaches have trained him well enough to fix those areas, he may be able to pose a serious threat.

Were Gustafsson to defeat Jones, it would not be the first UFC upset in recent history. Champions Benson Henderson and Anderson Silva surprised UFC fans when they were dethroned earlier this year. If anything, I think Jones will be vicari-ously vulnerable going into the fight after watching his counterparts lose their titles, and mental preparation cannot be underestimated.

They say that bad things come in threes, and this rule could very well apply to UFC Champion downfalls too.

Bones looking to retain beltGustafsson can dethrone the champion at ACC

AbracadabraAl-Azem

Mustangs named PotW

at Western. “Just this last year I switched

over to linebacker and this year I’m also playing linebacker,” Landry explained.

Based on his performance thus far, having Landry switch positions was definitely beneficial to the team, and a great decision by the coaches. However, that should not come as a surprise to most people, as Western’s football program has been praised for having a great coaching staff — especially when it comes to head coach and former CFL running

back, Greg Marshall.Hajrullahu mentioned that hav-

ing Marshall as a coach was one of the reasons he chose to come to Western in the first place.

“Greg’s great. He’s great on the field and he’s great off the field, and he’s a competitor. Every time we come out on the field, he wants to win, and he’s going to try to get the best out of you every time,” Hajrullahu said.

With Greg coaching, Lirim kicking, and Beau dominating on defence, one should expect great things from the Mustangs this year.

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