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November 17, 2011 / Vol. 47 No. 32
How to know
who owns what
IP war of words takes centre
stage between universities
B y H e at h e r T r av i s
Behind the scenes
of South Pacific
story // page 8–9
It’s a game of good cop, bad cop.
Paul Paolatto knows how to coach a hesitant
researcher through the process of bringing an invention to market. But when it comes to the businessend of things, he isn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves and
do the dirty work to get it off the ground.
“We serve as agents or advocates on behalf of
the researcher, that way the researcher can maintain
a positive and healthy relationship with the commercial partner and we get to be the bad guys,” the
WORLDiscoveries executive director says. “I’m not
an academic, I’m a business guy. My job is to protect
the interests of the researchers and try to extract as
much value on behalf of the researchers and institution as possible.
“So, I’m the Mean Business Guy.”
Developed out of a partnership between The
University of Western Ontario, Robarts Research
Institute and Lawson Health Research Institute,
WORLDiscoveries draws upon a mix of industry
connections, sector-specific market knowledge and
business development expertise, to help researchers
and local inventors commercialize their discoveries
through licensing and new company spin-offs.
It is a key organization in Western’s Intellectual
Property (IP) approach, an area that has been in the
spotlight across Canada for months.
The University of Waterloo brought IP policy to
the forefront when it recently launched a redesign
of its main homepage. Calling up the site, uwaterloo.ca, visitors are immediately hit with the phrase,
‘Everything you discover at Waterloo belongs to
you.’
The words are bigger than anything else on the
page, including the name of the university. It’s quite
a bold pronouncement, a stake in the ground other
Canadian universities have been responding to
since.
And Western is no different, trying to get its message out that everything you discover at Western
belongs to you, too.
And, as Paolatto points out, they’ll help you along
the way as well.
Western’s IP policy is best described as the ‘inventor-choice’ option.
When researchers come up with a new invention,
they are obligated – through the faculty association’s
collective bargaining agreement – to disclose the
discovery to the university. This allows the university
to evaluate the commercial potential for the invention.
Researchers are sometimes quick to publish, but
this can compromise their ability to protect their
IP. “Once they’ve published it’s simply too late,”
Paolatto says.
The invention is evaluated on a series of criteria: product attributes; value proposition; prior art
review (ensuring it is a novel idea); market prospects
by partner; and a life-cycle return on investment
analysis.
From there, the inventor has three options –
either a university-led, inventor-led or inventor-alone
option – each with a different revenue-sharing
model.
IP // continued on page 12
The University of Western Ontario’s newspaper of record
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November 17, 2011
Coming Events
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Don Wright Faculty of Music
Gwen Beamish and Friends present a recital of Canadian music. von Kuster Hall,
12:30 p.m.
Writing Support Centre Workshop
Writing a Thesis Statement WSS Room
3134. Register at: sdc.uwo.ca/writing.
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Student Success Centre
Professional Development Summit to
assist graduate students in their transition from academia to industry. Keynote
address from Bonnie Schmidt, President
and Founder Let’s Talk Science, networking forum and concurrent workshops on:
“Making The Transition From Academia
To Industry, Turning Your Research
Into Dollars And Communicating Your
Research Without Confusing Your Audience.” Great Hall, Somerville House,
3:45 – 7 p.m. Free admission, register
now at careercentral.uwo.ca.
odontics, University of Toronto. “Emerging Nanotechnology in Endodontics.”
HSA 101, 12:15 p.m. schulich.uwo.ca/
dentistry/news.
Western Engineering Distinguished
Lecture
Douglas Muzyka, Sr. Vice President &
Chief Technology Officer, Dupont. “Inclusive Innovation Driving a Sustainable
Future.” Spencer Engineering Building,
Room 3109. 12:30 p.m.
Faculty of Information and
Media Studies
Annual Clissold Lecture in Journalism.
Michelle Shepherd, national-security
reporter, the Toronto Star. “Decade of
Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey
Zone.” UC, Room 224. Conron Hall. Free
admission, everyone welcome. 5 – 6 p.m.
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium
Sjoerd Roorda, Département de physique Université de Montréal. “Megavolts and Nanometers: Materials Analysis
and Modification with High Energy Ion
Beams.” Physics & Astronomy Seminar
Room 22. 1:30 p.m.
Classes without Quizzes
“Music and Politics: How does music
influence politics?” During the Cold
War, the U.S. government used music as
a tool to promote democratic capitalism
overseas. Emily Abrams Ansari, professor in Western’s Don Wright Faculty of
Music, will examine these efforts alongside other political appropriations of
music during this period. London Music
Club, 470 Colborne Street. 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Doors open 6:30 p.m. To register visit:
classeswithoutquizzes.uwo.ca.
Dentistry Research Seminar Series
Anil Kishen, Associate Professor, End-
King’s University College
Religious Life Lecture Series. Most Rev-
erend Brian Joseph Dunn. Antigonish,
Nova Scotia. “Liturgy and the Call to Holiness.” Elizabeth A. Bessie, Labatt Hall,
7:30 p.m. Free admission and parking.
18 // Friday
Don Wright Faculty of Music
Fiona Wilkinson, flute and friends feature
Canadian music. von Kuster Hall, 12:30
p.m.
Sociology Colloquium
Scott Shaffer, Sociology. “‘As the smoke
of our hopes rose high from the field…’:
The Arab Spring, the British riots, and the
Honneth/Fraser debate.” Everyone welcome. SSC 5220. 1 – 2 p.m. Post talk tea
and conversation: SSC 5230.
We are hosting our National Recruitment of outstanding Canadian
and landed-immigrant candidates for PhD graduate studies.
Twelve (12) top ranked students will be flown to Calgary to meet
potential supervisors and visit the city. All expenses paid.
Application deadline: January 9, 2012
Visit to Calgary: February 22 - 25, 2012
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Leaders in Medicine (joint MD/PhD program)
Upon registration in one of our PhD programs you will receive the
Achievers in Medical Science Recruitment Award of $25,000.
Graduate students receive a guaranteed stipend.
Women’s Wrestling
Harry Geris – Women’s Dual Meet at
Western 8 a.m.
21 // Monday
GradWrite Workshops
Putting your Best Work Forward: Writing Effective Research Proposals. WSS
Room 3134. Register at sdc.uwo.ca/writing. 1p.m.
Women’s Hockey
Rochester Institute of Technology at
Western. 2:30 p.m.
Retired Academics Group
Burns Cheadle, Earth Sciences. “Crude
2.0: A Short History of the Future of
Oil Exploration.” Windermere on the
Mount. Meet 2 p.m. talk at 2:30 p.m.
GradWrite Workshops
So You’ve Read the Literature – Now
What?: Writing Your Literature Review.
WSS Room 3134. Register at sdc.uwo.ca/
writing. 2:30 p.m.
Rotman Institute of Philosophy
Alison Wylie, University of Washington.
“A Plurality of Pluralisms - Collaborative
Practice in Archaeology.” 3:30 – 5 p.m.
The Chu International Centre, 2130 WSS.
For more information and parking details
please visit rotman.uwo.ca or email rotman@uwo.ca.
The Chinese Program at Huron
University College
Tea and Conversation. Anyone wishing to speak Chinese and meet people
who study Chinese at Huron is welcome.
5:30 – 6:20 p.m. Mondays. International
Lounge, Huron. E-mail hwu1@huron.
uwo.ca.
Modern Languages & Literatures,
Hispanic Studies
Spanish Film Series. “Biutiful” (A.
González I., 2010) (148 mins) Mexico.
SEB, room 1200. 7 p.m. All screenings are
free, Spanish with English subtitles.
The Book Store at Western and
The Ivey Idea Forum
Kevin O’Leary of the Dragon’s Den and
ABC’s Shark Tank. “An Evening of the
‘Cold Hard Truth’ about business, money
and life.” 7pm. Great Hall, Somerville
House. 7 p.m. Tickets available at the
Book Store - $15. ivey.uwo.ca/discover/
ivey-idea-forum/events/Cold-HardTruth.htm.
Don Wright Faculty of Music
Mauricio Veloso, piano and Franco E.
Souza, flute, come to Western from Brazil to present a lecture and recital. von
Kuster Hall, 8 p.m.
GREAT RESEARCH IN A GREAT ENVIRONMENT!
the Registrar at 519-438-7224 ext. 204. 1 –
4 p.m. (following Western’s Open House,
Kingsmill Room).
Don Wright Faculty of Music
South Pacific. A study in contrasts – war
amidst beautiful tropical islands; racial
prejudice and love, creates one of the
greatest musicals. Paul Davenport Theatre. Tickets $15 adults; $10 students/
seniors. Grand Theatre box office 519672-8800, online: tickets.grandtheatre.
com. 8 p.m. Sat. Nov. 19; 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.
and Sun. 8 p.m.
19 // Saturday
Western Fall Preview Day
Get an in-depth look at academic programs, residences, meet professors,
staff and students and tour the campus.
9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration is required.
Visit: studentservices.uwo.ca/secure/liaison/FPD/fpdapp.cfm.
Brescia University College Fall
Preview Day
An open house for students interested in
attending Brescia. The day features opportunities to learn more about Brescia’s
academic programs, student services,
scholarship opportunities, and a chance
to meet current students and faculty.
You will have the opportunity to tour the
campus, and even have coffee with the
principal. 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Foods
and Nutrition session beginning 10 a.m.
Register at: brescia.uwo.ca.
Huron University College Fall
Preview Day
Future students have the opportunity to
meet with faculty, staff and students and
find out what Huron has to offer. The
day’s agenda will include a faculty and
department roam, admissions, scholarship, and international opportunities
information sessions, as well as tours of
residences and the campus. For more
information please contact the Office of
22 // tuesday
Senior Alumni Program
Gordon ‘Oz’ Osinski, Industrial Research
Chair in Planetary Geology, Depts. of
Earth Sciences, Physics and Astronomy,
Deputy Director, Centre for Planetary
Science and Exploration, Western. “Exploring Other Worlds by Exploring Our
Own.” Using the Earth as a reference,
interpretations can be made of other
plants. These terrestrial analogues can
be used to train and prepare scientists,
engineers and astronauts for future planetary missions. McKellar Room, UCC.
9:30 a.m.
Writing Support Centre Workshop
Writing in the Arts and Humanities. WSS
Room 3134. Register at: sdc.uwo.ca/writing. 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Faculty of Law
Annual Beattie Family Business and Law
Speaker. Lawrence Summers, President
Emeritus, Harvard University and former
Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration. Faculty
of Law, Room 38. 5 p.m.
Modern Languages & Literatures
CineClub Italiano – “II generale Della Rovere” (General Della Rovere, R. Rossellini
1959). University College, Room 84. 7:30
p.m. All screenings will be with English
subtitles. Admission is free.
GradWrite Workshops
Beyond Nouns and Verbs: Refining your
Grammar Skills. WSS Room 3134. Register at sdc.uwo.ca/writing. 12:30 p.m.
Statistics and Data Series
Exploring Data with Statistical Graphics
in R. Duncan Murdoch, Statistical & Actuarial Sciences presents practical information for students, researchers, and faculty. 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. SSC 5220. Lunch,
12 p.m. SSC 5230.
GradWrite Workshops
Writing for the Outside World: Getting
Published. WSS Room 3134. Register at
sdc.uwo.ca/writing. 1:30 p.m.
Faculty of Education Seminar
George Gadnidis, Ann Langeman,
Amanda Lewis, Ricardo Scucuglia. “Research Performance and New Media.”
FEB 1010. 2 p.m.
Green Tours
Facilities Management and EnviroWestern have teamed up to provide tours at
four of Western’s top performing buildings. The free tour starts at McIntosh
Gallery, travels to Stevenson Hall and
through the campus’ underground tunnels to Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion and end at Ivey. Sign-up at: uwo.ca/
ppd/greentours/index.html. 2:30 – 4:30
p.m.
Writing Support Centre Workshop
Annotated Bibliographies. WSS Room
3134. Register at: sdc.uwo.ca/writing.
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
The Department of Modern
Languages and Literatures
“La Tertulia” Spanish Conversation
Group. Anyone wishing to speak Spanish and meet people from different
Spanish-speaking countries is welcome.
Wednesdays at 3:30 p.m. UC 117. E-mail
tertulia@uwo.ca.
Huron University College
Cynthia Good, Director, Creative Book
Publishing Program, Humber College
and former President, Publisher, Editorin-Chief of Penguin Canada A talk about
new reading devices and new text-delivery methods, review the current “biodiversity” of the publishing world, and
address the question of whether we are
facing another revolution of Gutenbergian proportions or simply the logical
and exciting extension of the book as we
know it. Huron, Great Hall, 4:30 p.m. For
more information contact FASS Dean,
Mark Blagrave at mblagrav@huron.uwo.
ca.
Western Italian Conversation Club
Put your Italian into action! Join our
group discussions about Italian food,
culture, language, travel, daily life in Italy,
and much more! It’s a great way to practice your Italian with other students. All
are welcome! Every Wednesday, UC 201.
5 – 7 p.m.
The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures
Russian Contemporary Cinema (Brother,
1997,directed by Alexei Balabanov, 96
min.) University College 205. 6:30 p.m. All
screenings will be with English subtitles.
Admission is free.
23 // wednesday
Toastmaster’s Campus
Communicators
Build your confidence in public speaking. Meets every Wednesday 12 -1 p.m.
in the UCC – check the website for specific room: 9119.toastmastersclubs.org.
Contact Donna Moore, dmoore@uwo.
ca or 85159.
Have an event?
Let us know.
E-mail: comingevents@uwo.ca
Western News
• November 17, 2011
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Events
Star journalist brings the world to Western
If you go:
Award-winning Toronto Star
national security reporter
Michelle Shephard delivers
the 2011 annual Clissold
Lecture in Journalism at 5
p.m. tonight in University
College, Room 224.
provided by Michelle Shephard
B y Ad e l a Ta lbo t
In a government compound in Mogadishu, Somalia, Michelle Shephard fought back
tears as she readied her camera.
On the other side of the lens, with a childlike expression of supplication on his face, was
17-year-old Ismail Khalif Abdulle. He was showing Shephard stumps where his right hand and
left foot used to be – a consequence of refusing
to join the ranks of al Shabab, a Somali-based
insurgency and self-declared proxy of al Qaeda.
Shephard, a national security reporter with the
Toronto Star, still remembers everything about
that day. That first meeting with Ismail, nearly two
years ago, broke Shephard’s heart.
“It was really hard leaving Mogadishu … I was
so impressed by (Ismail) and his strength. He was
begging for help and to get out,” she explains.
The story she wrote after interviewing him in
January 2010 also resonated with readers whose
widespread efforts ensured that within a year,
Ismail had a sponsor, a safe home in Norway
and a new life.
Shephard has worked as a journalist for the
last 16 years and, at 39, she has filed stories from
across the world, from places like Norway, villages in Somalia, Yemen and refugee camps in
Kenya and Pakistan – just to name a few.
She is the author of two books – Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr
(2008) and Decade of Fear: Reporting from Terrorism’s Grey Zone (2011). The latter, taking a
close look at the impact of “the War on Terror,”
recently made the longlist for British Columbia’s
National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, one
of Canada’s largest literary non-fiction prizes.
Shephard is also the recipient of two National
Newspaper Awards and the Governor General’s
Michener Award for Public Service Journalism.
Stories like Ismail’s, or that of a hospitalized,
malnourished 3-year-old Somali boy, are all too
common, Shephard says, and often overlooked.
These are the stories she wants to tell.
“Most recently, I’ve been to Somalia and
Yemen … (those) regions are not as covered as
the rest of the world. Both countries have some
of the most beautiful, hospitable people. Both
are so tragic. It’s a challenge to get people to
understand and care about (them),” Shephard
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they travel frequently and enjoy camping trips
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After that summer with the Star, Shephard
studied journalism at Ryerson University and in
1997, she returned to the paper full-time.
In 2002, she was on a team of five Star reporters that helped shed light on an overlooked
subject at home.
The team wrote an investigative series
addressing racial profiling, showing that in certain circumstances, blacks were treated more
harshly than whites by the Toronto police force.
The series led to a $2.7 billion class-action libel
suit against the paper, which the courts dismissed on three levels, including the Supreme
Court of Canada.
The series changed the way police across
the country think of racial profiling, says Rankin,
who still works as a reporter and photographer
for the Star.
Despite the frustrations and obstacles of the
crime and national security beats, Shephard has
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“If everyone could see (what was going on),
they certainly would care.”
Originally from Toronto, Shephard grew up
in Thornhill. She studied political science and
English at the University of Toronto and following
her graduation in 1995, she worked as a summer
intern at the Toronto Star.
It wasn’t long until she met fellow journalist
and future husband, Jim Rankin.
“We met at the gates to the Star parking lot
in 1995. Michelle was probably in her first week
as an intern summer reporter and was in one
of our pool cars and couldn’t figure out how to
open the gate. Stuck behind her, I came to the
rescue,” Rankin explains.
The two started dating in the months that followed and were married three years later.
Rankin admires Shephard’s genuine dedication and care, both personally and professionally.
“I definitely married up … (Michelle) is generous
with her time and energy, caring, has a terrific ear
and is just naturally a good person. She is passionate about stories and the people involved.”
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•
November 17, 2011
Penn State offers lessons for us all
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There are weeks when I am glad she is
too young to understand. This was one of them.
I consider myself lucky my daughter does not
require explanations from me on the horrors of
the world. Not yet anyway. For now, I am happy
to let her watch Elmo and play in the fall leaves,
as I have no idea how I would have explained the
happenings at Penn State University last week.
Understand, I am not one of these people who
think every ill of the world needs to be broken
down into child-sized portions for consumption.
It can be a dirty place, and not everything needs
an explanation for the youngest among us.
But when the victims of a particular event are
children, then I think we own them fair warning.
Last week, Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was arrested after a
grand jury indicted him on multiple sexual abuse
charges. In the days that followed, the sickening charges were almost eclipsed by the depth
of the conspiracy to protect him, his team and
the institution. They were the sort of plot twists
which, if inserted into the first draft of a script,
would eventually be rewritten because of their
weak believability.
So, how do you explain not only the sexual
abuse, which seems almost too weak a phrase
for systematic child rape, but a decade’s worth
of organization-wide conspiracy and personal
moral indifference?
In recent days, Penn State has been backpedaling faster than a Russian bear circus act. Somehow, a week’s worth of faux sympathy for the
victims rings a bit empty after a decade-plus of
indifference and a campuswide riot in defense of
a head coach who chose to shield a child rapist.
Well, they always told me college football was
a religion. So no surprise Penn State would follow the Catholic Church’s blueprint for cover-up.
But such is the culture of big-time college
sports in the United States.
I worked in one of these towns, the university
equivalent of a company town where everyone
conspires to protect the sacred or, should I say,
cash cow. I wrote about players, coaches and
boosters who were allowed to exist above the
law, protected by a powerful machine and corrupt officials willing to turn their backs on all
sorts of crimes.
But we’re talking about billions of dollars here.
Penn State’s football program brought in $72.7
million last season, ranking fifth in college foot-
ball team profits. Add to that, the team brought
in $42.1 million from merchandising. That’s not
to mention the millions brought into the community on game days.
Those involved in the Penn State affair are
familiar characters to anyone who has ever
worked in a university town – out-of-control athletic programs, paranoid university administrators, short-armed police investigators, crooked
judges – all bound by the same influencing
force. Greed.
Certainly, I never saw anything on this scale.
No one has. But it’s amazing what kind of sins
get covered up.
I do wonder, if a university turns its back on
the most vulnerable, then don’t parents have
the right to question a university’s commitment
to the thousands of young men and women who
are turned over to their campuses every year.
What says they would not be sacrificed for the
‘good of the organization’ if they got in the way.
Every university president should sit down
with the 23-page grand jury report. Find all the
missed opportunities, all the places where coverup compromised truth. Then look at their organizations and ask, ‘What would my people do?’
Universities are entrusted with the greatest
possessions of many families. And last week
showed some of them are not up to the task.
Just happy I don’t have to explain it.
WN
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London Free Press Collection of Negatives // Western Archives
Beginning in 1948, anatomy professor Murray Barr and graduate student Ewart George Bertram began to study changes in the structure of cells
following increased nerve activity. Their work led to the discovery of the sex chromatin body, later to be renamed the Barr Body. Professor Barr (190895) received numerous honours during his lifetime, including a nomination for a Nobel Prize. Bertram (left) is photographed with Barr conferring in
the lab at the South Street Medical School shortly before the announcement of their discovery.
Western News
• November 17, 2011
Commentary
Don’t shrug off the power
of the Occupy movement
Bernie
H a mmond
London Mayor Joe Fontana’s
rush to be the first Canadian mayor
to trash and shut down an Occupy
encampment betrays not only a failure
to understand the message of the
movement, but also demonstrates
an apparent failure to understand its
impact on his own political future.
Repression of this movement on
behalf of the wealthy 1 per cent holds
no long-term political rewards. In fact,
he may have just dug his own political
grave as his already spiraling public
career comes to a close.
Beginning in September 2011, the
protest movement that began on Wall
Street in New York City quickly spread
to other cities in the United States,
Canada and around the globe. Parks
and public spaces were occupied in
an expression of mounting anger at a
criminal financial system that permitted uncontrolled bankers to steer the
global economy into its worst crash
since the Great Depression.
The state then stepped in to bail
out the bankers with billions of tax
dollars, even while they shamelessly
rewarded themselves with outrageous
bonuses. Having rescued the 1 per
cent, governments around the world
then called for ‘austerity’ and cutbacks
in social programs that mainly benefit
the poor, in effect requiring the poor
to subsidize the rich.
This renders democracy less than
meaningless for the 99 per cent.
Elected governments serve the rich,
not the majority of the electorate.
The fact is Fontana’s actions do
nothing to change – or even acknowledge – the fundamental reality that
has generated the moral outrage
behind the Occupy movement. Shutting down occupied sites, especially
with the insensitive destruction to
property characterizing the London
action, will not make the movement
go away. It will re-emerge in other
forms and continue to re-emerge
until something meaningful is done
to address the egregious and scandalous conditions that inspired it in the
first place.
A famous American sociologist
once counseled that if we wish to
understand the poor, it is best to study
the rich.
Those of us who teach about
inequality and social justice recognize
this as an admonition to focus on the
power structure in any given society
to see how the powerful elite shapes
policies affecting the well-being of
all citizens. This influence is especially salient, however, with respect
to conditions that affect the poor, the
marginalized and the least powerful.
Since September 2011, and for-
evermore, this admonition will be understood
to mean we should focus
on the 1 per cent, whose
concentration of economic
and political power is such
they have the ability to
construct and implement social
policies favouring their own interests,
and in an unregulated capitalist environment, they do so with callous and
unlimited greed. In doing so, they also
shape the life chances of the other 99
per cent, you and me, but especially
the life chances of the poor.
For a variety of reasons, this simple
equation is difficult to get across in
the classroom and to the general public. People experience themselves
first and foremost on a psychological
plane and as individuals. It takes some
effort to place oneself in the larger
social and economic context of one’s
particular period in history.
In addition, there are active forces
in popular culture masking this larger
reality. This would include the corporately owned mainstream media, and
other social institutions beholden to
and rewarded by the status quo.
One important, if not the most
important, accomplishment of the
Occupy movement has been to
make transparent this most important
fact: unregulated capitalism results
in wealth trickling up to the already
wealthy, and not down to the masses
as ‘free market’ ideology would have
us believe.
In the United States, where the
Occupy movement began, the richest 1 per cent of Americans – we are
all now aware – accounted for an
incredible 65 per cent of total income
growth between 2002-07. According
to Armine Yalnizyan, a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives, the comparable figure
in Canada was 32 percent, still an
outrageous level of inequality. By the
end of 2009, 3.8 per cent of Canadian
households controlled $1.78 trillion,
or 67 per cent, of financial wealth.
(Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives).
This growing gap between rich and
poor that occurred over the past generation began with the neoliberal policies of former British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher and former U.S.
President Ronald Regan in the early
1980s. These saw the dismantling of
regulations on capital imposed after
the 1930s depression, coupled with
corporate tax cuts and lowering the
marginal tax rate for the wealthy.
This resulted in not just an economic gap, but a moral one, as the
Occupy movement eloquently attests.
This was reinforced with the release
on Oct. 24 of a statement from the
Vatican’s Pontifical Council on Social
Justice and Peace entitled, Towards
Reforming The International Financial And Monetary Systems In The
Context Of Global Public Authority. It names “a liberalist approach,
unsympathetic towards public
intervention in the markets” as a
major source of the current crisis
in the global economy and especially in its impact on the poor.
The statement continues,
“After the Second Vatican Council in his Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio of 1967, Paul VI
already clearly and prophetically
denounced the dangers of an
economic development conceived in liberalist terms because
of its harmful consequences for
world equilibrium and peace.”
The document calls for more
stringent regulation of global
financial markets, a tax on financial transactions and a global
authority to regulate capital
in defense of the least powerful victims of an unregulated
market.
No doubt this unsolicited
vote of confidence from the
Vatican would have taken
the Occupy movement
by surprise. Nevertheless,
the statement should be
accepted with gratitude. It
powerfully echoes – and gives
legitimacy to – many of the
complaints heard in the Occupy
movement in cities around the
world, including here in Fontana’s
London.
Bernie Hammond, an associate professor of sociology, is
coordinator for Social Justice and
Peace Studies and director, Centre for Social Concern at King’s
University College at The University of Western Ontario.
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Becky Pieterson, a fourth-year nursing student, helped lead the team to a fifth-place finish at the Ontario University
Athletics provincial meet, after she placed ninth individually.
Pieterson in life for the long run
B y Z a r a M cAl i s t e r
In Grade 11, Becky Pieterson
decided to take up long-distance running at Regina Mundi High School in
London because her friend said it was
a safe way to skip classes without getting detention.
She was an average runner, preferring to play soccer with her friends
over training for running. But over
time, she favoured running. “It
became more fun running for the ball
in soccer than kicking it,” she jokes.
After she qualified with her crosscountry team for the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations
meet in her final year of high school,
her coach told her she had the potential to go far. If only she kept running.
And so she did.
Now, the 21-year-old Londoner is
a key member of the women’s crosscountry team at The University of
Western Ontario. Pieterson helped
lead the team to a fifth-place finish
at the Ontario University Athletics
provincial meet, after she placed
ninth individually. That qualified her
for the Canadian Interuniversity Sport
Nationals, where she finished 19th.
When not running, Pieterson is a
fourth-year nursing student, her second passion. In fact, it’s the only thing
she sees herself doing outside of running.
She dedicates equal time to nursing and running, working her nursing
placements on Thursdays and Fridays,
and then hopping on a bus to compete in meets on the weekends. She
credits multitasking as a way to remain
dedicated and focused to running
and everyday life.
Pieterson juggles her nursing program, a rigorous daily training schedule and a job she’s had throughout
university at the grocery store No
Frills.
When she’s not competing at weekend meets, she works a long shift
at the store on Sundays. Then she
changes into her running gear and
heads out for a 45-minute run back
home. Rather than looking tired, her
face is glowing when she sits down on
a park bench to take a break.
Pieterson explaines she’s used to
having a lot of energy.
“When I was younger, both of my
parents really encouraged me to be
athletic in general,” she says. “In
public school, they would give us $5
for every sports team my sister and I
joined.”
She said her parents, John and
Susan, were happy with the sport she
chose to stick with after high school,
and they’ve supported her ever since
by coming to all of her meets.
While Pieterson is proud of her
individual accomplishments, what she
treasures most is sharing her triumphs
with her team. “Team is actually a very
important part of running, and not a
lot of people get that. They think running is more of an individual sport, but
it isn’t,” she explains.
After the provincial meet last year,
Pieterson says her fondest memory,
besides beating some women who
had always done better than she did,
was her celebration with the team
afterward.
Although she’s a dedicated runner,
Pieterson says she has insecurities like
all athletes. One of her biggest is letting her team down.
“It’s easy to be negative in this
sport,” she said.
Talking with her teammates is
the best way to overcome her anxiety about not being fit enough, or
over-thinking strategy during a race,
because they share the same fears.
She hopes to overcome them as
she considers running with a team
professionally in the future, while also
nursing in rural areas.
Pieterson believes she and her
friends can make it to the 2016 Olympics. This year, she’ll settle for medalling at the CIS nationals, individually
and with her team.
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• When she’s not running,
Becky Pieterson plays
soccer, tennis and Mario
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•Her favourite song to hum while she runs is Carry
on My Wayward Son by
Kansas;
•She watches the films
Without Limits and
Remember the Titans the
night before a race;
•Her favourite runner is Rob
Watson, who’s originally
from London; and
•Her favourite meal is
pancakes for dinner.
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Western professor leaves lifetime collection to Museum of Nature
B y Pa ul M ay n e
While it was simply a hobby for Frank Cook,
the Canadian Museum of Nature has cashed in with
the amateur naturalist’s donation of more than 1,500
plant specimens including rare and endangered
species of mosses.
The University of
Western Ontario professor emeritus (botany/biology) amassed
his collection over more
than 35 years of fieldwork, starting around
1970. The 90-year-old
Cook, who now lives
in Barrie, taught plant
physiology at Western
for 35 years prior to
C ook
retiring in 1987.
The new additions to
Canada’s national plant collection include mosses
and liverworts, both part of a distinctive group of
small plants known as bryophytes. The specimens
are mostly from locales in southern Ontario, with
some from British Columbia as well as Australia and
New Zealand.
“A lot of them are especially valuable as they
represent unusual or rare species, and all of them
add new information to our collections,” says Jennifer Doubt, manager for the National Herbarium of
Canada (plant collection). “The specimens are also
in amazing shape, all meticulously packaged and
identified. For a donation of this size, it’s fantastic to
have all that information already in place.”
Bryophytes are abundant throughout Canada,
having more than a thousand Canadian species,
dominating some iconic northern and alpine wild
habitats. Many are pioneer plants that grow on rock
and contribute to soil development. They can form
a thick carpet, helping to reduce erosion, and provide habitat for small animals and microorganisms.
Cook’s collection encompasses rare species
such as pale cord moss and spoon-leaved moss, for
which southern Ontario is the only known Canadian
home. Many species in this ‘Carolinian’ region of
Canada have declined in abundance because of
urban and agricultural development, and Cook’s
specimens help to document these changes.
The samples will now be incorporated into the
museum’s national collection of bryophytes, the
largest in Canada with 255,000 specimens.
While it will still take anywhere from four to six
months to go through each specimen, Doubt says
the meticulous work of Cook has cut that time
substantially.
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“It’s very rare for us to get such a large number of
specimens so well curated. Each was labeled and
everything was categorized according to its family,”
says Doubt, adding it is the largest single donation
the museum has received in her five years there.
“Bryologists aren’t really a dime a dozen, so to have
someone who was so knowledgeable, and work for
such a long time, donate such a large number of
well-identified specimens is fantastic.”
For Cook, bryology was always in his blood.
“I had a general interest in natural history, particularly birds and plants, from childhood,” he says.
“One of my undergrad biology profs at the University of Toronto introduced me to bryophytes in a
general botany course. I was particularly intrigued
by their interesting and unusual reproductive cycle.”
Bryology would end up being an all-encompassing hobby for Cook, who was always eager to introduce colleagues and students to these interesting
plants in the hopes “some of my enthusiasm would
rub off.”
Cook’s collection has a good representation from
Middlesex and Simcoe counties. In fact, some of
the specimens came from Western’s campus, where
Cook adds the Thames River valley is an excellent
habitat for mosses and ferns.
The dried specimens in the collection range in
size from a dime-sized nodule to a fist-sized clump.
Each is delicately stored in an acid-free envelope
and labelled with identifying information such as
species name, location found and date collected.
While Cook had donated specimens in the past,
the bulk of these new tiny treasures remained stored
in his basement, carefully recorded and organized in
dozens of shoeboxes.
“Retirement from active collecting and downsizing prompted me to look for a permanent home for
my collection. I wanted a place where they could be
studied by others and where they would be properly
preserved,” says Cook, noting the herbarium at
the Canadian Museum of Nature was the perfect
choice.
Cook also left Western a smaller representative
sample of his collection upon his retirement.
“Under the microscope, they have all these beautiful details that you might not initially appreciate
when you find them in nature,” Doubt says, noting
these and other specimens will be used for public
viewing as well as research.
“Each specimen has a date and location associated with them, so those concerned with preserving
species can use this information. Each one is unique
and valuable in its own way and will, quite significantly, add to our knowledge of the distribution of
such plants. These are going to very valuable to us
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Western professor emeritus Frank
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November 17, 2011
Behind the scenes of
South Pacific
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Western News
B y J a n i s W a ll a c e
O
utside the sun is
shining, and many
Western
students
are enjoying the fall
day either at the football game or
with friends around campus. But the
cast members of the UWOpera
production of South Pacific are in
the Paul Davenport Theatre
preparing for the first dress-rehearsal
of the show.
They rehearsed until late Friday
night and returned for a call time of
noon Saturday to go through the
show twice, once with each cast, not
finishing until 10 or 11 p.m.
“It’s fun. It’s fantastic,” director
Michael Cavanaugh says.
One of Canada’s leading directors,
Cavanaugh says the enthusiasm of
the students is infectious. It’s clear
he is enjoying himself as much as
the cast. “We are pretty much on
schedule. Today, we add wardrobe,”
he says. “For me, it’s giving them a
comfort level so they can relax into
the roles.”
Also new during this run-through
are lights, microphones and the
orchestra. The night before was a
sitzprobe – sing through the songs
with the orchestra, but unstaged.
Now they add the blocking, or movement around stage, and costumes.
Some of the lead roles are double cast, so each cast will have three
complete runs before opening night
Friday, Nov. 18. The others have six
chances to hone their parts.
The orchestra of student musicians is also getting a taste of professional scheduling. They had only two
rehearsals before the sitzprobe. It’s
a reduced pit of 11 players: two violins, cello, double bass, flute, clarinet,
horn, trumpet, percussion and two
keyboards.
“It all comes together,” says music
director Mark Payne. “It’s a minor
miracle. It’s Rogers and Hammerstein, so it’s not difficult playing. But
it’s not about a single line’s technical
difficulty, but putting it together with
what’s going on onstage. … It’s like
nothing else they’ll get in their undergrad, and they have fun doing it.
“If you’re going to work in this
business, this is what you’ll be doing.”
South Pacific is the first time
Cavanaugh and Payne have worked
together.
“We both came from a similar
perspective of what we wanted to
get out of the show,” Payne says.
“It’s been a really easy collaboration. Michael doesn’t waste time. He’s
perfect for an educational setting
– nurturing but efficient. We have a
week before opening and it’s in pretty
good shape.”
To experience how well prepared
everyone was, here is an inside look
at that first dress rehearsal on Saturday.
1:15 p.m.
Payne is running excerpts with
some of the members of the pit
orchestra. “Make the accents at 54
very short.”
Above them, two Seabees practice
leap-frogging across the stage, while
Alex Baerg does mic checks with
the two Bloody Marys, a Tonkinese
female charachter who emigrated to
the island as part of a wave of migrant
workers to the plantations.
Stage manager Kelsey Gordon
flips through her script marking
pages with stickies. Blue, red and
white lights flash on and off. Everyone
is focused on their own activity.
1:30 p.m.
Backstage, Cavanaugh leans on
the piano as he gives notes to the
Bloody Marys. “Get down almost
like a gunslinger there. When you
hit the wing, stop and wait – they’re
two separate moves.” He checks the
‘aging’ makeup of Emile de Becque,
and substititues a roll of tape for a
boar’s tooth bracelet.
Members of the chorus flit through
the greenroom in various stages of
dress. The females get shorts pinned
to fit, mics taped in place, hair curled.
The males roll their T-shirt sleeves,
jean cuffs and tuck battery packs into
waitbands.
1:40 p.m.
A small dressing room is packed
with young women in tied shirts, halter tops and short shorts adding finishing touches to makeup and hair.
Cavanaugh tells Billis, the ultimate
war-time opportunist with a heart of
gold, to wait for the audience reaction after a certain line. “Don’t be
afraid to give me too much silence.”
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nurse who signed up to serve her
country and seek some adventure,
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asks for clarification about blocking in
one scene. Bryan Hart, technical specialist, walks through with an armload
of prop guns. In the pit, the players
check stand lights and mark instructions from Payne in their scores.
1:50 p.m.
The orchestra takes a quick break
while the cast gathers in the house,
much like the team talk before a
game. Cavanaugh tells them they’ll
have these before each run rather
than staying for notes after. He also
tells them no bare feet for safety reasons, and that there will be no flying
pieces (of set) today.
Each day will have new elements in
the lead-up to opening night.
Then it’s “Places everyone” as the
stage manager gets the go-ahead
from the technical crew. The house
goes dark.
2 p.m.
Downlight on Payne, followed by a
spot on centre stage where a conch
player will prelude the overture. Chorus members stroll out and take seats
on the stage floor. At the end of the
overture, they quickly reset for Scene
1 and the show begins.
During the run, Cavanaugh comments to the technical crew and
members of the second cast. At one
point, set designer Eric Bunnell yells
“Stop!” He and Hart quickly bolt
down a swaying pole with speakers.
It’s a first for Bunnell who has a long
history of theatre design. He hated
to stop the action, but safety is paramount. While the pole is secured,
Cavanaugh goes over the ‘whistling
line’ with the Seabees.
3:10 p.m.
The run resumes. During the song
Bali Ha’i, Cavanaugh sprints onto the
stage to move a box, returns to the
audience to check sightlines, then
goes back up to readjust it. The cast
carries on as if he was invisible. Later,
there is a short wait for a lead who
wrote an exam elsewhere on campus.
Shannon Halliwell, one of the
Bloody Marys, tells Bunnell it’s a
scramble to get upstage to grab a
grass skirt in time. He makes it quicker
to retrieve with a hook on the side of
a ladder.
A side stage door opens and
closes as cast members and technical crew come and go continuously.
4 p.m.
Intermission in the run means a
quick snack of raw carrots and celery
or bananas, costume changes and
conferences between directors, crew
and cast. It’s over in no time, and
everyone launches into Act II.
While not on stage, cast members
watch the action and listen to a television monitor.
“Are we on next?” one chorus
member queries another.
“No, there is still another scene.”
They try on the new costumes.
One texts. Two assistant stage managers dash about solving problems.
It’s also a chance to vent about
small annoyances: props not being in
the right places, costumes not complete. “I’m not having a good night,”
admits one. Someone else replies,
“That’s always the way for a first dress
rehearsal. Another replies, “We’ve
got six more to go before opening.”
“No, you have six, I only have three,”
says a double-cast lead.
One of those times is just two hours
away. All the chorus and orchestra (as
well as some of the leads) will repeat
this whole process for the second
cast.
The greenroom is littered with
backpacks, grass skirts and guns, but
the air of excitement is palpable as
the young cast revs up for opening
night.
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Janet Loebach and Sarah
McCans hope clean air around one
schoolyard will be child’s play.
As PhD students working out of the
Human Environments Analysis Lab
(Geography) at Western, Loebach
and McCans are adding a community
‘greening’ project for a London elementary school to their already busy
academic schedules. And through a
recent $25,000 grant from the London Community Foundation, the duo
have a great head start in making one
schoolyard a healthier place to play.
“We want to find a way the students
can reclaim this area and start using it
again,” Loebach says. “We want to try
and create a natural play space.”
Located in a high-traffic area
on busy Oxford Street, one of the
school’s play areas is considered ‘outof-bounds’ for the children over safety
concerns. Testing the area has also
shown high levels of pollutants from
idling vehicles as well as the exhaust
of nearby vehicles.
“Greening or ‘naturalizing’ school
grounds, for example adding trees,
shrubs, sand and mulch, can help
reduce exposure to airborne pollutants in several ways,” McCans
says. “Removing asphalt and planting shade trees help to reduce the
amount of heat given off by impermeable surfaces which contributes
to smog formation as well as severe
heat exposure for students and staff.
As vegetation captures airborne contaminants, increasing the amount
of trees and other plants on school
grounds can also reduce site levels of
air pollution.”
With Loebach’s environmental
design background and McCans’
landscape design talents, it could be
a project the two could handle alone.
However, they are planning to involve
the most important clients in the project – the school children.
“We believe children have a lot a
capacity to help change the communities they are part of,” Loebach says.
“Children should be involved and
have the ability to be involved in the
designs that are made. Plus, they have
a lot of great design ideas.”
Over the winter, Loebach and
McCans will hold a series of workshops at the school to receive input
from students, teachers and parents.
The process positions citizens as coresearchers and decision-makers,
instilling a sense of pride and ownership, McCans says.
“As adults we tend to think we
know what kids want,” she adds.
“They know their own environment
and are able to point out issues we
may overlook.”
Along with improving air quality,
the pair hope to generate evidence of
the impact of school grounds greening, raise community awareness about
air-quality issues and build capacity
among the children and stakeholders
in their school.
All of which will possibly lead to
additional greening projects.
In working with the principal and
teachers, McCans hopes the process
will be embedded into the curriculum
and used as a way introduce students
to air-quality issues and principles of
environmental planning through fun,
hands-on activities.
“Naturalized school grounds also
provide inspiring places to teach
in, about and for the environment,”
McCans says.
For Loebach, it’s a very empowering process to participate in a project
that “creates change in the community.”
“The process is as important as
the product,” she says. “Since kids,
in general, don’t often get much say
with such things, when they can have
some ownership in something like this
it becomes a space of pride for all. It
also gives us the chance to re-enforce
some of the ideas about how important nature and habitats are.”
Air quality measurements and heat
imaging tests – along with student
and teacher surveys – will be administered after the project to test the
impact of greening on air quality on
the children’s activities taking place on
the school grounds.
While it may be a year until the
project is actually complete and kids
are once again playing in front of the
school, McCans loves the opportunity
to be involved in such a project.
“We know we’ll be getting to that
point of completion eventually, but
it’s the journey along the way as well,”
she says. “We get so much in working
with the kids; that’s where you get your
energy from to make it such a rewarding experience.” WN
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Taylor Eckert came to The
University of Western Ontario on the
back of a 120-pound robot. Now, the
first-year engineering student wants
to offer today’s high school students
the same ride.
Eckert is a member of the WE FIRST
(Western Engineering For Inspiration
and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Mentorship Club. In
partnership with FIRST Canada, the
group offers Western students the
opportunity to provide their expertise
– and moral support – to area high
school students exploring the world
of robotics.
Eckert was part of the Laurier Secondary School team assisted by Western last year.
“When I did FIRST it cemented the
idea that this was what I wanted to
do for a living,” he says. “I knew I was
coming to Western anyway, but it was
taking part in it, that I knew I wanted
to do engineering.”
The Western group was the brainchild of Eugen Porter, Faculty of Engineering technology specialist. In it, he
saw an opportunity for his students to
get much-needed mentoring experience through robotics.
“Western believes mentoring high
school students helps our undergraduates acquire skills that will assist them
Bringing together more than 80 high
schools across the country and given six
weeks to build a 120-pound robot using
common parts and software, you can’t
help but get hooked.
academically and in their careers plus
inspire high school students to pursue
engineering,” he says.
Last year, through an existing robotics club, WE Bots, Porter mentored
Eckert and his Laurier team with their
FIRST competition entry.
FIRST competitions bring together
more than 80 high schools across the
country each year. In January, schools
are sent instructions for a robot (the
tasks are secret until that moment)
and given six weeks to build a 120pound robot using common parts and
software. In the past, competitions
have included a soccer game and
stacking inner tubes.
Like Eckert, WE FIRST vice-president Susan Dang, who in high school
participated in the FIRST challenge,
couldn’t shake the spirit of competition either.
“I miss the competition so I knew
I wanted to continue with it in some
way,” says the Ivey business student.
“There’s also the business aspect to
this, so if I’m able to help other students, it’s a great feeling to give back
to whenever you can.”
Eckert knows first-hand the commitment that’s involved. For him,
nothing beats the excitement of the
actual competitions, held in Waterloo
and Toronto.
“This is actually a big deal. It’s overwhelming,” he says. “I played sports
all through high school, and the first
regionals and championship of (FIRST)
were more exciting than any basketball tournament or volleyball game
I’ve played in. You look around and
it’s amazing.
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Staff Profile
Spending her time walkin’ the line
B y L e s l i e K o s ta l
While living with her young
daughter in Huddersfield, U.K., Margaret Moulton was crushed over a
broken relationship. Fortunately, she
discovered a way to relieve her stress
and peel back layers of her naturally
shy character.
How did she do it? She simply
stepped in line.
“Oh, it’s a stress releaser,” Moulton
says of her passion for line dancing.
“When you’re there you have to pay
attention, otherwise you’re messing
up. So you concentrate and it just
melts the stress away. I can’t believe
how good it is at that.
The financial assistant and health/
safety administrator, Department of
Earth Sciences, explains how in many
small working men’s clubs in England,
line dancing is all the rage.
“On every corner there’s a little club
which is a social club,” she says. “You
go there, even as kids while your parents are there, and they’ll have entertainment and spend the afternoon.”
Electric Slide. Stroll Away Cha Cha.
Boot Scootin’ Boogie. “It goes on and
on,” she says. “Names get really silly
after a while.”
Moulton says one of the best
aspects about line dancing is your
partner; that is, you don’t need one.
Despite never having danced in
school, and with no musical background, her feel-good repetitive step
sequences caught the attention of
her fellow club-goers. “When they
saw me dance they asked if I would
be interested in instructing and I kind
of laughed at them,” she says. “And
then I thought, ‘OK, I’ll try.’”
Weekend courses on dance instruction gave her the confidence to take
the challenge.
“There is a lot of preparation to it,”
Moulton adds. “When people say that
looks easy being up there for an hour,
the hour is the fun hour. You’ve got to
find the music, get the dances, learn
the dances, tweak the dances and
learn how to call them.”
Her terrific timing with dance was
outdone by an astonishing coincidence in life.
After five years of teaching, and
while preparing for her return home
to London in 2000, she met a multiple
award-winning and world-famous
line dance choreographer/instructor,
Peter Metelnick, also from London. He
was not planning a return home, but
was looking for an instructor.
“We had a little bit of a teaching
interview,” she says. “And then away
I went.”
Upon her return home, Moulton
had 17 classes. From 2000-05 she also
participated in line dance competitions in Fort Wayne, Ind. “But rather
than straight dance,” she says, “we
did more like a little bit of a skit, a
comedy sort of thing.”
Moulton incorporates a little bit of
everything – waltzes and cha chas,
tangos and night club two-steps. “All
the rhythms that you have anywhere
else, we do that in line dance,” she
says.
Two years ago, the University of
Western Ontario Staff Association
hired Moulton for its annual retreat.
As an exercise, it’s whatever you
put into it: bigger steps, bigger kicks,
bigger profit. If you concentrate on
upright positions and hold those
muscles in tight, it’s going to do great
for you, she says. For every session,
Moulton tries to teach 10 dances
for each level. At the beginner level,
you’ve got basic steps – a vine, step
quarter turn, step touches.
“It’s something that I think I can
carry with me all my life,” she says. “It’s
something when I retire that I can still
be in. It’s good for the heart, good for
the rhythm and good for the mind.”
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Western staff members. E-mail Leslie.
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IP // continued from page 1
option – each with a different revenue-sharing model.
In the university-led option,
WOLRDiscoveries will ask the
researcher to assign the invention
(legally transfer ownership of the
IP) to the university. The net income
derived from the invention, after
paying third-party expenses (such
as legal expenses), will be divided in
half between the university and the
inventors.
WORLDiscoveries will find seed
money, spin off a company, find
management support and market
the company to outside parties,
Paolatto says.
“The university is willing to bear
the risk associated with technologies that may or may not ultimately
generate a return to the university,”
he says.
This option worked well for Hanif
Ladak, Department of Medical Biophysics, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering and
Otolaryngology.
With the help of WOLRDiscoveries, he developed a spin-off company, ENT Simulation Technologies,
offering medical students the ability
to practice disease diagnosis and
surgery using a virtual, 3-D anatomical model with realistic graphics and
touch feedback.
“WORLDiscoveries has essentially
handled all business aspects of our
spin-off company and allowed me
and my team to focus on product
development and testing, which
is our strength,” Ladak says. “Had
WORLDiscoveries not assisted us,
it would not have been possible
to balance academic work with
business development and bring a
product to market in a reasonable
amount of time.”
But zero obligation exists for
inventors to assign the technology
to Western.
In the inventor-led option, either
inventor chooses not to assign to
Western the IP or WORLDiscoveries
chooses not to invest in it. At that
point, the university is entitled to
12.5-25 per cent of the inventor’s net
income depending on the nature of
the invention.
In the inventor-alone option, they
are just that, on their own to pursue
the IP’s commercialization in any
way they wish with no compensation
owed to Western.
“If an inventor discloses something to us and then subsequently
says that they would like to advance
the invention on their own or independent of the university, we give
them that choice and we will assign
it back to them,” Paolatto says. “No
questions asked.”
WORLDiscoveries generates
between $5-6 million annually in
income (in returns to the university and researchers), while costing
the university about $2 million each
year to operate. And while not all
of the inventions are going to be
successful, many offer significant
social value, such as providing green
technologies.
“Those types of initiatives are
more important than the return
itself because you are putting the
researcher’s life work into the marketplace where it can do some good
for people,” he says.
Nevertheless, Western ranks third
in Canada for commercial income
and tops the list in the number of
spin-off companies.
“Sometimes you hit a home run
and, when you hit a home run, it can
be very lucrative,” Paolatto says.
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Paul Mayne // Western News
Several years ago, Margaret Moulton (left), financial assistant and health/
safety administrator, Department of Earth Sciences, turned to line dancing for
a creative outlet. And she hasn’t stopped ever boot scootin’ boogin’ since.
How does Western
compare?
See how Western’s intellectual
property ownership policy measures
against other comparative Canadian
institutions.
University of Western Ontario:
“Intellectual Property not arising
from Contract Arrangements, unless
otherwise assigned, shall be owned
by the IP Creator(s).”
University of Waterloo: “It is
University policy that ownership of
rights in IP created in the course of
teaching and research activities belong
to the creator(s).” Exception made for
contract research.
University of Toronto: “The inventor
and the University will normally share
the rights to an invention, unless a
third party, such as a corporate sponsor,
is granted rights in a preexisting
contractual agreement.
An inventor may choose to assume full
responsibility for the legal protection
and commercialization of the invention.
In this case, the University will assign
its rights to the inventor in return for
25 per cent of future net revenues.”
Queen’s University: “Ownership
of all types of intellectual property
and for all members of the University
should rest with the creators, unless
other arrangements have been agreed
to in advance for certain categories
of employment, for certain types of
funding, or by individual contract.”
Exceptions made for contract research
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The London Hunt and Country Club, an 18-hole golf course
that wended its way between the buildings and along both
sides of the Thames River.
While it has been more than 50 years since Western
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also be sent by email to provostvpa@uwo.ca.
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from all qualified women and men, including visible
minorities, Aboriginal people and persons with
disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged
to apply; however, Canadians and permanent
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Campus Digest
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// Fall Preview Day set
It will be one of the first opportunities for more
than 10,000 visitors this weekend to check out
what has been deemed Canada’s most beautiful campus.
This weekend, The University of Western
Ontario’s annual Fall Preview Day will see thousands of prospective students, accompanied by
families and friends, exploring campus, checking
out faculties and talking with professors.
Along with the opportunity to meet with faculty and staff, students will also be on hand to
discuss academic programs and extra-curricular
opportunities, as well as offer a tour residences
and university facilities. The faculties of Education, Law, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Richard Ivey School of Business as well
as the university’s Indigenous Services will hold
special presentations throughout the day.
Among the activities across campus are an
open rehearsal of the UWO Chamber Orchestra
in the Don Wright Faculty of Music; a mini-
lecture in the Faculty of Information and Media
Studies; a virtual lab in the biology department;
and a demonstration of the 3-D anatorium laboratory in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
For a complete schedule or to register, visit
welcome.uwo.ca/preview/visitus/fall.
// The Book Store, Google
partner on eBooks
Through an affiliation with Campus eBookstore, The Book Store at Western has reached
an agreement with Google eBooks to distribute
public domain and commercial eBooks.
Google eBooks is a new form of cloud-based
digital book allowing readers to access their
libraries on almost any device from one single
repository regardless of where the books were
purchased.
“This aligns perfectly with our goal to provide
more choice in the materials we deliver, and
positions us to remain competitive in the changing marketplace,” says Steve Alb, Western Retail
2011 J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine
Symposium - Stem Cell Research
Monday, November 21 - University Hospital, Auditorium A
Morning Session: 9:00 - 11:45 a.m.
DEREK VAN DER KOOY PhD
University of Toronto
Stem Cells Reveal the Evolution of the Pancrease from the Brain
CHERYLE SÉGUIN PhD
The University of Western Ontario
Defining Pathways that Regulate Stem Cell Fate
MICK BHATIA PhD
McMaster University
Programming Human Hematopoietic Development
Afternoon Session: 2:15 - 4:15 p.m.
FREDA MILLER PhD
University of Toronto
Neural Stem Cells: From Development to Repair
J. Allyn Taylor International Prize
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RUDOLF JAENISCH MD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Stem Cells, the Molecular Conrol of
Pluripotency and the Promise for
Personalized Medicine
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they are already using for academic texts. In
the future, look for offerings from smaller and
academic publishing houses to expand, even to
the point of offering students the opportunity to
buy textbooks multiple formats.
Integration of the platform to approximately
200 individual campus store websites is underway. Integration and affiliation for other campus
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// Info session set for
Rwanda course
All students are invited to an information session on the Rwanda: Culture, Society and Reconstruction course at 5:30 p.m. today in University
Community Centre, room 147A. Applications
would be due Nov. 24. The session will feature
first-hand accounts from organizers and former
students about this unique community service
learning experience.
The Department of French Studies course,
which started three years ago, involves a fourweek international community service learning
experience in Rwanda. Professor Henri Boyi is
the lead instructor.
For details, contact Boyi at hboyi@uwo.ca or
Mirela Parau at mpara2@uwo.ca.
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Emergency Management regularly checks
the various technologies used for emergency
communications at the university. A new iPhone
app, recently developed by Information Technology Services, provides the ability to send an
alert from the Campus Police Communications
Centre to the iPhones of approximately 50
leaders on the Emergency Response Team and
Emergency Operations Control Group.
One leader on university business in Germany
received this week’s emergency test at 7:45:16
a.m. His reply was in the Communications Centre less than one minute later at 7:46:11 a.m.
“While it is recognized that he would not
be of much help in an emergency,” says Elgin
Austen, Campus Community Police Services
director, “the speed with which the transmissions occurred was quite impressive.”
// Put those skills into practice
The Student Success Centre invites Western’s
graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to
After the Defense, Put It Into Practice, a professional development summit to assist in the
transition from academia to industry. The event
is scheduled for 3:45-7 p.m. today in the Great
Hall, Somerville House.
In the keynote address, From PhD to President, Bonnie Schmidt, Let’s Talk Science president and founder, shares career strategies and
recalls her own transition. Participants can also
attend concurrent workshops on one of the following: making the transition from academia to
industry; turning your research into dollars; or
communicating your research without confusing
your audience.
A networking forum will follow.
Admission is free. Register at careercentral.
uwo.ca.
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