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December 14, 2017 / Vol. 53 No. 34 westernnews.ca PM 41195534 Western’s newspaper of record since 1972 JO ANN JOHNSTON // SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS 2 westernnews.ca Western News December 14, 2017 westernnews.ca Western News December 14, 2017 3 emale surgeons and residents from the Western News (ISSNO316- Schulich School of Med- 8654), a publication of West- ern University’s Department of F icine & Dentistry, Lon- Communications and Public don Health Sciences Centre and St. Affairs, is published every Thurs- Joseph’s Health Care London gath- day throughout the school year The Year That Was ered in operating rooms across the and operates under a reduced city to add their voices to a global ral- schedule during December, May, June, July and August. lying cry for female surgeons in 2017. We are certain Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko had no That year, they chose Charles Lindbergh. At 25, They did so by taking a photo and An award-winning weekly news- idea what he started. he remains the youngest selection to date. sharing it for the world to see. paper and electronic news ser- On April 3, The New Yorker cover vice, Western News serves as In 1945, Gouzenko, a cipher clerk at the Soviet The magazine’s move, however, was not based depicted an illustration of four female the university’s newspaper of Embassy in Ottawa, sparked an international on celebrating an aviation pioneer, but on cover- surgeons peering down below an record. The publication traces its roots to The University of incident when he defected to Canada. The move ing its own backside. In one of the great under- operating light. Since then, female Western Ontario Newsletter, a would have gone unnoticed by history, or at best plays in journalistic history, Time failed to put surgeons around the globe replicated one-page leaflet-style publica- the magazine cover and shared their tion which debuted on Sept. relegated to footnote status, had Gouzenko not Lindbergh on the cover of its magazine the week photos on social media using the 23, 1965. The first issue of the brought along more than 100 documents proving after he became the first person to fly solo across hashtag #ILookLikeASurgeon. The Western News, under found- hope was to shed light on the growing ing editor Alan Johnston, was the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. the Atlantic Ocean. Andre Tardieu, who two years number of women entering this once published on Nov. 16, 1972 The ensuing firestorm, and intense distrust and later would rise to prime minister of France, took replacing the UWO Times and male-dominated profession. Western Times. Today, West- paranoia created by the discovery, helped fuel the cover that day. The photos represented the pride ern News continues to provide the Cold War. As you might guess, that decision Seemingly, every year since, every newspaper these women take in the work that timely news, information and would colour the rest of Gouzenko’s life, much of and magazine has come up with its own version they do for patients in London. a forum for discussion of post- At Schulich, there are currently 35 secondary issues in the campus it spent in hiding under an assumed name until his of the tradition. Part contemplative retrospective, and broader community. female residents of 92 in the Depart- death in 1982. part generating news during the calendar’s slow- ment of Surgery – that makes up But his actions also changed something funda- est period, newsmakers are one of those old-time almost 40 per cent of the cohort. mental about how we cover the news. traditions I cannot help but love. WESTERN NEWS Or, at least, how we review it. Today, we offer you the 8th annual Western WesternNews.ca In 1946, the Canadian Press (CP) named News Newsmakers of the Year – a celebration Westminster Hall, Suite 360 Gouzenko its first Canadian Newsmaker of the of some of the people, places and things that Western University London, ON N6A 3K7 Year. Ever since, media outlets across Canada and shaped the year at this institution. Telephone 519-661-2045 the world have paused each year’s end to reflect Before we start looking ahead to 2018 – we take Fax 519-661-3921 on individuals who shaped the year that was. one last look at 2017. CRYSTAL MACKAY // SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS PUBLISHER Helen Connell CP continues the tradition to this day. Last year, Here’s to the year that was. [email protected], the wire service named Gord Downie the winner 519-661-2111 Ext. 85469 after his fight with terminal brain cancer struck a EDITOR chord with Canadians. Pierre Trudeau received the Jason Winders honour eight straight times from 1968-75, and 11 [email protected], 519-661-2111 Ext. 85465 times overall. Justin was so honoured for the first time in 2015. REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER Paul Mayne Although unique to Canada in 1946, the News- [email protected], maker practice wasn’t a new idea for mainstream 519 661-2111 Ext. 85463 media even then. Time magazine had been nam- el Goodale, Director of the Brain and Mind REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHER ing a Man of the Year (changed to Person of the Institute at Western, and Adela Talbot Year in 1999) since 1927. Tzvi Ganel, Ben-Gurion [email protected], M 519-661-2111 Ext. 85464 University of the Negev, co-authored a study in 2017 that indicates smiling PRODUCTION DESIGNER can make you appear to be one year Frank Neufeld older than if you wear a poker face. [email protected], We associate a smile with happi- 519-661-2111 Ext. 89334 ness, youth and vivacity. It’s an idea EDITORIAL SERVICES the media and cosmetics companies COORDINATOR sell every day, said Goodale. Angie Wiseman Up until this study, researchers [email protected], tested perceptions of expression 519-661-2111 Ext. 81530 and age by presenting participants with photographs of the same face ADVERTISING Chris Amyot, Campus Ad – one smiling, one neutral. This led [email protected], to flawed results. If the participant 519-434-9990 already held the belief a smiling per- son looks younger – a commonly held POSTAL RECOVERY belief – their pre-existing view would $50 Canada, $65 United States, contaminate their age rating of the $85 Other smiling individual. POST OFFICE For their study, Goodale and Ganel Please do not forward. tested perceptions of expressions by Return to Western News, presenting participants with different Western University, London, sets of photographs showing smiling Ontario N6A 3K7 with new and neutral faces. It was deliberately address when possible. arranged to ensure the expressions were worn by different people for each set of participants. No one saw “Our objective is to report the same face smiling and in a neutral events as objectively as possible, expression. without bias or editorial comment. We hope you will read it and contribute to it.” – L.T. Moore, University Relations FRANK NEUFELD // WESTERN NEWS and Information director, Nov. 16, 1972 4 westernnews.ca Western News December 14, 2017 westernnews.ca Western News December 14, 2017 5 or Joy Spear Chief-Mor- evi Hord, a fourth-year ris, track and field was an Sexuality Studies, School escape. The sport was a for Advanced Studies F place to get away from L in Arts & Humanities the world, a place she sensed she and Scholar’s Electives student, was belonged and, most of all, a place named a recipient of the 2018 Rhodes where she chased dreams she never Scholarship, an international post- thought possible. Earlier this year, graduate award for students to study she was honoured for her dedica- at the University of Oxford in London, tion to sport and academics with the U.K. Tom Longboat Award, an honour that Over the course of their under- recognizes Aboriginal athletes for graduate studies at Western, Hord outstanding contributions to sport in has undertaken extensive research on Canada. the use of gender-neutral language in Today, Spear Chief-Morris, BA’17 transgender communities, and how (History, First Nations Studies), is chas- linguistic identity expression varies ing down her biggest dream yet – based on grammatical gender sys- training with the prestigious Santa tems. This project is part of a larger Barbara Track Club, with her sights mission to raise awareness of, and set on the 2020 Summer Olympics in enhance research into, transgender Tokyo, Japan. identities and how they are embod- Still adjusting to being out of school ied and experienced in society. Hord and training with a new team, she is a hopes to play an integral part in break- talented hurdler and winner of eight ing through the social and intellectual Ontario University Athletics medals barriers that remain for those who and seven U Sports national medals. subvert the binary gender system. Hord is Western’s 23rd Rhodes Scholar. The award is widely consid- ered to be one of the world’s most prestigious scholarships. SPECIAL TO WESTERN NEWS ADELA TALBOT // WESTERN NEWS nly four Canadian musi- ver the past four years, cals in history have Peninsula Sinking has seen the light of day shed its skin many times. O on Broadway. In 2017, O English PhD candi- producer Michael Rubinoff’s Come date David Huebert first workshopped From Away – a heart-warming tale of the short-story collection in 2013 with kindness and generosity in the face of award-winning writer and University of tragedy – made it five. Toronto professor David Layton. It was Rubinoff, BA’98, LLB’01, who has only after one of its stories, Enigma, been the associate dean of Visual and won the CBC Short Story Prize in 2017 Performing Arts at Sheridan College that the book started to take shape.