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TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2015

Chilly weather here to stay Western welcomed back students yesterday with biting winds and a campus that felt more like the arctic tundra. Southwestern Ontario has been hit by a cold spell that’s set to stick around. Monday’s low reached minus 15 degrees and an afternoon wind chill that dropped the temperature to a piercing minus 24 degrees at times. James Voogt, associate professor in Western’s department of geography, said the chilly temperatures are expected to continue throughout most of the week. “The storm system we had over the weekend has moved east, and in its wake there was a strong cold front that brought much colder air, an arctic air mass, to the region.” Shahrukh Saleem, a fourth-year BMOS student, said he suspects the cold is only the beginning of the frosty weather in store for the winter. “[The weather] is not too exciting, to be honest,” Saleem said. “It’s a change because it was pretty pleasant a few days back but now it’s pretty cold. I think it’s still doable because it’s just the start.” Voogt added that while the temperatures might feel extreme they aren’t especially unusual and are the result of normal storm systems that give us our winter conditions. Canadian and U.S. forecast agencies haven’t predicted any significant departures from typical winter temperatures over the next few weeks although the temperatures are below average for early January. Students should take heed and bundle up. • Amy O’Kruk

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CELEBRITY SKIN. Third-year Western student Mina Gerges has become Insta-famous for his Instagram account, which features parodied versions of celebrity photos. Above: Gerges poses in two as of yet unreleased photos provided to The Gazette. Read the full story on page 4.

Two Western professors named to the bench

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Two Western Law professors have left the classroom and are now appointed to the bench. The new judicial designations of former professors, Grant Huscroft and Bradley Miller, were announced in mid-December. Huscroft was selected to serve on the Ontario Court of Appeal while Miller joined the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. Both professors have had prolific careers in law and have published widely on Constitutional Law and Constitutional Theory. In 2008,

Huscroft and Miller founded the Public Law and Legal Philosophy Research Group at Western. Erika Chamberlain, associate dean in Western’s faculty of law, said the group raised the international profile of Western Law and its public law scholarship. “They’ve hosted a number of workshops and colloquia where they brought in leading scholars and judges from all over the world to debate current issues in public law,” Chamberlain said. “It’s been a real chance for Western to get in on the international scene.” Chamberlain noted that with Huscroft and Miller’s departure, the Public Law and Legal Philosophy

Research Group has been reduced to two active members, professors Andrew Botterell and Margaret Martin. Chamberlain said, however, the group will repopulate and continue its work. Before their appointments to the bench, both professors were members of Western’s law faculty for close to or over a decade each. “It’s a real honour for professors Huscroft and Miller, and it’s a real honour for Western law as well,” Chamberlain said. “It shows the depth and quality of the public law scholarship, in particular, we have here at the law school.”

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