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Aboutown, London Taxi on collision course By Arden Zwelling and Stuart A. Thompson Gazette Staff

London’s largest cab company and its smallest are locked in a war of words that could lead to lawsuits and changes to the City’s taxi laws. On one hand is taxi giant Aboutown, which has operated in the Forest City for more than 50 years. On the other is London Taxi, an upstart cab company founded by former Aboutown driver Hasan Savehilaghi.

they agree with the contract or not.” The current bylaw does not include any mention of flat rates. However, it does stipulate a taxi driver must run the meter during any trip. The meter does not run during flat rates, which, according to London’s manager of bylaw enforcement Orest Katolyk, is not in compliance with the current bylaw. Not so, according to Aboutown vice-president Jamie Donnelly, who claimed the City conducted a complete overhaul of their bylaw in 2004 and through a clerical error forgot to include the provision that says flat rates

there’s a legitimate challenge,” Wilde said. “Common law has led to challenges of bylaw provisions that in some cases leads to them being overturned but in others the bylaw has been upheld.” Alfuady left Aboutown and the taxi business in 2005. He stepped back into this turbulent taxi world just a few weeks ago. After losing money on another business he was left with few alternatives. “What else I can do?” he said of his return to be a cab driver. “It doesn’t [take] rocket science as much as common sense.”

“We haven’t issued any new plates in years,” Katolyck said. “That’s the free market working. We don’t have any position on people leasing or selling their plates.” Savehilaghi said he purchased a plate from Aboutown in the 1980s for $42,000. He recently purchased a second plate for his fleet and said the current going rate is $130,000. Alfuady wouldn’t say how much his plate cost. Alfuady is directly invested in London Taxi’s success. Unlike other companies in the city, London Taxi is a co-operative where dri-

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The two are feuding over Aboutown’s flat rate program, which Savehilaghi says is illegal and undercuts city-regulated meters, according to the current City of London taxi bylaw. “Why do you even have a meter in there?” Savehilaghi questioned. “There is a big difference between what you are getting paid when you are running your meter and the flat rate that Aboutown imposes on cab drivers. That difference is straight into the pockets of Aboutown. That’s the reason they insist on keeping that business.” Aboutown has had an exclusive fixed rate program with the University Students’ Council since 1994. London Taxi does not offer flat rates. Savehilaghi said drivers from Aboutown have grumbled about them for years to no avail. The flat rates are imposed by the taxi dispatcher and the money, therefore, goes to that company, not the driver. “The flat rate is imposed on cab drivers, while they have no idea of the nature of the contract,” Salim Alfuady, a former Aboutown driver, said. “[Drivers] believe they are entitled to make any kind of decision and know about any kinds of contract that are being signed behind their [backs]. They want to be consulted — they want to be asked whether

are allowed. Katolyk confirmed the bylaw was amended in 2004 and the former bylaw included a provision about flat rates. He would not, however, elaborate on why the provision was left off the new bylaw or whether the City would be making any amendments. Donnelly also argued that because he’s been operating with flat rates since before the new bylaw was instituted, common law dictates he can continue to operate the flat rate program, despite the new bylaw. “We’ve been operating under the University contract now since 1994. That’s what makes it legal,” Donnelly said. “It’s point-topoint transportation.” Katolyk, whose department is currently investigating flat rate programs after a complaint filed earlier this week, would not comment on the legality of Aboutown’s program. “We are receiving a lot of complaints right now from citizens […] We’re investigating it right now. The current bylaw does not allow [flat rates],” Katolyk said. “I’m not a lawyer and I don’t believe Mr. Donnelly is either.” Kendell Wilde is a lawyer —she works for the USC. She said there could be grounds for a dispute. “You have to analyze what the common law says versus what the bylaw says and see if

Cab owners like Alfuady are more like small business entrepreneurs than drivers. At great expense, a driver purchases a car and has it painted, insured, licensed and retrofitted at a minimum cost of $22,000, Savehilaghi said. The cab company takes care of dispatching, but little else, he added. The most expensive cost for taxi newcomers is licence plates. The City licenses taxi plates for a yearly fee of $520. But unlike normal licence plates, taxi plates are limited by the size of the city’s population. This creates incredible demand and adds thousands of dollars to the price, creating a black market where plates are sold to the highest bidder in a market unwatched by the City, according to Savehilaghi.

vers hold shares and see a payout at the end of the year. Donnelly responded to the new competition, saying this was the fourth co-operative London’s seen in the past 30 years. “None of the previous co-operatives have made it through,” he said. “It was a combination of lack of a strong leadership as well as a lack of business experience.” One thing’s for certain — every time a customer steps in a cab, they’re making a decision that reverberates much further than they are likely aware. “Most of the public don’t even know this is happening,” Savehilaghi said. “$111 million a year is made on [London roads] by cabs […] This affects every single cab driver in the city.”

Council passes motion for UCC referendum By Shreya Tekriwal Gazette Staff

For the second time in one year, students will be voting on a referendum about renovations in the University Community Centre. “Students liked the plan [proposed by the University Students’

Council] last year. What they didn’t like was the fee — which was too high,” Sacha Kumar, vice-president finance for the USC, said. At $25, the proposed fee is considerably cheaper than last year’s suggested $95, which was voted down by 56 per cent of the student population.

The motion, decided in Wednesday night’s council meeting, would put the student fee towards two main purposes — renovations and the upkeep of old assets. The capital project involves the renovation of all newly acquired spaces in the UCC, including the gymnasium, squash courts and for-

mer campus recreation offices. Priority will be given to the creation of additional lounge and 24-hour study space, programmable space and additional meeting and storage space. The capital project proposed last year would have cost $30 million total.

“[This time], the cap is at $2 million. The $95 was only for renovations last year. If the referendum passes, the $25 fee will be collected annually, beginning in the 2010-11 academic year. The ballot for the referendum will be held on Feb. 9 and 10, 2010 in accordance with USC bylaws.

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What next? Part III: Law School By Lauren Pelley

Where to Start

Acing the LSATs Law school hopefuls must take the LSAT, or Law School Admission Test, to assess their logical and verbal reasoning skills. With five 35-minute sections on subjects like logical reasoning, logical games, reading comprehension and a written component, the LSAT is a challenging and time-consuming test to prep for. And according to Ramsay, there’s no right way to do it. While some find LSAT courses helpful, she says, others find them confusing. “What worked best for me was to study from a guide-type book that used actual LSAT questions.”

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The process of applying to law school starts years before the application deadlines. Keeping your grades up through university is half the battle, according to Steph Ramsay, second-year student at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Second-year Western law student Chris Sinal offered a different perspective. “My average was monstrous,” he says. Yet, with a stacked resumé including the University Students’ Council presidency, he presented himself as a well-rounded candidate. “Do not construct your undergrad experience […] based on the fact that you want to get into law school,” Sinal says. “Law schools can tell; they see it all the time. And does that really differentiate you? No. Because everyone else is doing it.” Extracurriculars balance your application, first-year Western law student Tyler Wagg says, since wellrounded experience is important. “They don’t want to see you’ve spent the last four years in your

room studying. That 85 per cent doesn’t look so amazing anymore.” However, this doesn’t mean resumé padding. “Having 10 clubs on your personal statement isn’t going to help as much as one club that you got a lot of experience out of,” Sinal adds.

“It’s like playing a sport,” adds second-year McGill University law student Malcolm Aboud. “You can’t have anyone tell you how to do it, but the more you do it the better it gets.” In terms of the test itself, Sinal says the LSAT doesn’t penalize you for skipping questions — so you need to be smart enough to remember the time constraints and skip questions you’re unsure about. It’s also good to keep in mind there’s no shame in writing it again. “A lot of my classmates wrote [the LSATs] twice,” Ramsay says. “Some people even wrote it five times. Anyone can have a bad day or get nervous.”

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“Buy an LSAT prep book a year ahead of time, and read it, just to see if you find it vaguely interesting,” Sinal agrees. “If you don’t, you probably won’t like law school.” Wagg used both prep books and took an Oxford LSAT prep class, which he says forced him to understand the reasoning behind the exam. Regardless of their method, law students agree the most import a n t approach to studying is to practice, practice, practice. “The test has a lot to do with timing, so writing real tests, under real time constraints, was the most helpful, in terms of getting into the rhythm of the test and feeling comfortable for the real thing,” Ramsay says.

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thegazette Volume 103, issue 49 “One thing about being a cabbie is that you don’t have to worry about being fired from a good job.” — ALEX RIEGER, TAXI

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Taxi Riders: Show Some Respect Imagine someone came into your workplace completely intoxicated, puked on your floor and used the services you provided them without so much as a thank you. That’s a typical Friday night for a London cab driver. Let’s face it — there’s often tension between students and cab drivers, and more often than not, fault lies with the students. The drinking aspect is a given –– one glance at how rowdy Richmond Row gets on a weekend proves it. Put a few of those ramped-up students in the cramped, enclosed space of a taxi and it’s a recipe for trouble. It’s something you are much less likely to see on a London bus, where there’s more distance between riders and the driver, not too mention any unfair treatment would be in front of a dozen or so other riders. In the back of a cab, alcohol-induced disrespect is far more common. Some students don’t even need the excuse of alcohol to give attitude to cab drivers, however. Whether it’s racism, pretension or just common ignorance, there’s a certain stigma many of us attach to cab drivers. We’re all fortunate enough to attend university, and for some, this is reason enough to look down on them. Yet many cab drivers are quite well educated. Some come from abroad and have degrees that unfortunately don’t qualify them to work in Canada. Regardless of their personal situation, all cab drivers are deserving of respect. Of course, it’s also a two-way street. Cab drivers can often be testy themselves, although that isn’t surprising after a long night shift. However, they do need to provide a certain level of customer service. The service industry and dealing with people is their job, after all. As small business owners, it’s in cab drivers’ best interests to maintain a good relationship with Western students since we make up a large portion of their customer base. In an ideal world respect would obviously come from both sides of this equation –– but, unfortunately, history tends to repeat itself. So how can this issue be solved? Perhaps less tolerant cab drivers could refrain from working busy weekend nights to avoid drunk students –– but that’s where the best money is, and when the most people need rides. Perhaps London cab drivers can take cues from those in bigger cities and begin using glass barriers between the front and back seats –– except those would further increase the divide between students and cab drivers. No solution, it seems, is perfect. So it just comes down to us. Take it upon yourself to be polite to your next cab driver; in the wake of the transit strike, you’ll probably have lots. Engage them in a conversation. Tip them fairly. And please, don’t puke on their floor. Editorials appearing under the ‘opinions’ heading are decided upon by a majority of the editorial board and are written by a member of the editorial board but are not necessarily the expressed opinion of each editorial board member. All other opinions are strictly those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the USC, The Gazette, its editors or staff. Letters: Must include the contributor’s name, identification (ie. History II, Dean of Arts) and be submitted to [email protected]. Letters judged by the Editor-In-Chief to be libelous or derogatory will not be published. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters and submissions and makes no guarantees that a letter will be published. All articles, letters, photographs, graphics, illustrations and cartoons published in The Gazette, both in the newspaper and online versions, are the property of The Gazette. By submitting any such material to The Gazette for publication, you grant to The Gazette a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable license to publish such material in perpetuity in any media, including but not limited to, The Gazette‘s hard copy and online archives. • Please recycle this newspaper •

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Merry Christmas Toronto Star editorial staff. Go clean out your desks. The Toronto Star has announced it will be cutting 78 jobs from its editorial department, a move that will save the corporation $4 million annually. After the Star’s operating profit declined by 53 per cent in the last quarter, the paper will be asking one-fifth of the editorial staff to take a trip to the unemployment office. Me? I applied for an internship at the Star last week in hopes of it leading to a job. I feel sheepish to say the least. Gazette editor Lauren Pelley’s ongoing series about life past undergraduate studies has fascinated me (see P 3). I’m terrified that while I spent all this time spinning my hamster wheel, I could have been working towards a feasible, pragmatic solution to my existence by positioning myself for med or law school instead of journalism. I hadn’t even thought about graduate studies until this year when everyone around me suddenly became lawyers, doctors and teachers-to-be. I’ve been in school since I was five. That’s 17 years of my life committed to education and, to be frank, I feel that I’ll be leaving my edification under the same circumstances I entered — jobless, broke and without direction. I suppose I can blame myself for one thing. Last year I decided I wanted to be a journalist. When I read stories about cutbacks at places like the Star I get scared. It’s not an isolated incident. The Globe and Mail

Nursing students need break To the editor: As fourth-year nursing students, we know all too well how stressful nursing can be, regardless of what year of the program you are in. Balancing a large academic caseload along with lab time, heavy examination schedules as well as clinical rotations nearly every semester is extremely demanding. Nursing students experience extreme pressure to perform well in the clinical setting throughout all years of nursing. Working alongside experienced nurses or taking on several patients at the hospital is enough to make anyone’s stress levels skyrocket. This build up of stress creates many mental and physical problems that impede students’ abilities to function well in school and in clinical. Undoubtedly there are several programs at Western that deserve a fall break as well. Other universities in Ontario are given a break; don’t we deserve one as well? —Laura Harvey Alyssa Hiemstra Melissa Holman Danielle Juneau Rachelle Le Cunff Nursing IV

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laid off close to 90 employees last year. The London Free Press has also contracted its newsroom in the last five years. Everyone from rookies to seasoned newsroom veterans has ended up unemployed during the decline of print media, and, as painful as it is to admit, it’s necessary for the survival of the medium. Newspapers have to adapt to the changing landscape of the market — the archaic, advertising-based system just doesn’t work anymore. Newspaper ad sales are projected to have dropped 26.2 per cent by the end of 2009 according to the Newspaper Association of Canada. How is it possible to survive without a quarter of your largest profit sector? Furthermore, by putting all content online for free, newspapers have devalued their content. If I can read all the stories on the Internet, why would I pay at a newsstand? At the same time, when you force people to pay for content they feel they have the right to access for free, they will find ways around your roadblocks. Just look at what’s happened in the music industry. It wasn’t that long ago when the only option was to pay for music at something called a record store. Now we download and access music without even thinking about what the hard copy would cost. Like myself, newspapers have found themselves lost in the wilderness. Journalists need to adapt, turning to new platforms and new media to draw in eyes and ears. Media companies will continue to demand individuals who can work on a variety of platforms and engage the reader more than ever before. It’s where this ship is sailing, and those who deny it will eventually fall overboard. That’s a lesson this hopeful journalist is learning the hard way. Next time around I’m going to law school.

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“The Call the Office stage could not contain the rollicking alternative-country band as they jumped around, swinging guitars and switching instruments mid-song.”

OH MY GOD. Wooden Sky’s laid-back performance at Call the Office displayed songs off both their albums, along with a couple popular covers.

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SWEET LIKE SUGAR. Halifax native Jenn Grant played her playful folk-inspired songs but could not get her London fans to sing along.

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After scoring 21 points in Western’s 66-53 win over the Queen’s Gaels on Saturday, Mustang guard Amanda Anderson earned this week’s Purple Pipe for an outstanding athletic performance. The Gazette caught up with Anderson at practice to discuss winning awards, playing in Europe and having her pants pulled down. How long have you been playing basketball and why did you start? I started in Grade three. I had an older sister who played so I would go to her practices and I came to love the sport. I started playing competitively in Grade 10. What makes this team different from last year’s? A lot of things actually. This year we’re a lot more gritty and aggressive on defence. We’re still a great team but just a totally different style of play. We got a bunch of recruits and some transfers, which is nice. We have one coming in at Christmas and she’s from the States, and I know she’ll be a big help. What does the team need to work on? We definitely need to work on rebounding. Boxing out is number one on our list. We have to make that a point of emphasis to really box out and then once we grab defensive balls it gets our offensive game going. We have a few six-footers but for the most part we’re a small team […] so we just have to work [hard] all of the time. How did it feel to become the alltime leading scorer in Mustangs history? It was pretty awesome. I had no idea it was coming until the day before. It was really nice to have Michele Vesprini — the [woman] who had the record before me — [come] and [present] me with the award. It was really nice that she could come back and do that cause she was a really great player, one of the best in Western history, so that was really fun. Any pre-game rituals? Last year, with [teammate] Bess Lennox, it’s really ridiculous but we’d listen to Soulja Boy and just laugh because it was ridiculous. This year there isn’t really a ritual that I do before the game, but I always eat the same bagel from The Great Canadian Bagel every game.

Amanda Anderson Statistics Career Totals Games Min/game FG FG% 93 31.8 440 39.6 2009-10 Games Min/game FG FG% 5 34.2 27 42.9

What’s it like playing for coach Stephan Barrie? He’s a really intense coach for sure. We have a really good relationship on and off the court. He knows how to push players to the limit. He came in [during] my second year, so being with him for four years has really helped improve my game because he pushes me in practice. He’s a really good coach. This is your last year at Western. What are your plans for next year? I’m hoping to go play overseas for a couple of years. I think that would be really awesome. I’m not done basketball. Five years isn’t enough at university, so I just want to keep playing if I can. Favourite basketball memory? Last year was the first time in four years that I had won a playoff game. We beat [McMaster]. Every year we’d been second in the league [and] we got a first round bye, so I had never played in the quarterfinal. Last year we got our bye and we actually won, which was a big accomplishment because we’d had that on our backs for four years and everyone knew it. Unfortunately we lost to Windsor in the finals, but we’re going to go get them this year. Most embarrassing athletic moment? In high school I got a pass and I was just holding the ball over my head to outlet the ball. A girl was running back on defence, and she didn’t really mean to but she pulled my shorts down. I had spandex on, but I was just holding the ball over my head and the refs didn’t know if they should blow the whistle or not, so I just passed the ball and pulled my pants back up. My mom was so embarrassed. I was in Grade 10, so it wasn’t too bad, but it was pretty embarrassing. For a while everyone would ask if I had my pants tied, so I never made that mistake again. What does the team normally do to stay entertained on the bus? We watch movies a lot. We travel with the men’s team and it’s always a battle on the bus for who gets to pick the movie. We always have to watch, I don’t even know, stupid war movies or something and then they’ll get [upset] if we put on a chick-flick. This year we went with them to Laval, [which] was a nine-hour trip, so we went back and forth with movies. We do a lot of schoolwork too. Best pump up music? Actually, before games our

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coach makes a video — kind of a highlight reel of the game before — and it’s really awesome. He’ll have the plays from the game before to get you fired up and just to show you how good you can be when you play at your best. We always watch one of those before a game, which is really good. If you had to choose, which of your teammates would you least like to encounter opposing you and why? Jenny Vaughan. She’s a redshirt this year, and every day in practice we […] have to go head-to-head. She’s such a competitor and she played down in the States too. She’s [a] transfer, so she can’t play for another year. She’s so competitive. We both are; so every day in practice you want to be on each other’s team so you don’t have to deal with each other.

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#14 AMANDA ANDERSON Position: Guard Height: 5’8” Hometown: Chatham, ON High School: Chatham-Kent Major: Psychology Career Accomplishments • 3-time 1st team OUA All-Star (2005-06, 2006-07, 2008-09) • 2nd team OUA All-Star (2007-08) • 2005-06 CIS Rookie of the Year • 2006-07 2nd team CIS All-Canadian • 2006-07 Mustang MVP • Member of the Junior National Team in 2004 • On February 7, 2009, Anderson become the all-time leading scorer in Western Mustangs history

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