diff --git a/xsl/media.xsl b/xsl/media.xsl
index 61cda46..24e2372 100644
--- a/xsl/media.xsl
+++ b/xsl/media.xsl
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
   <xsl:call-template name="makemediaitem">
     <xsl:with-param name="mirror" select="$mirror_csc" />
     <xsl:with-param name="bittorrent">yes</xsl:with-param>
+    <xsl:with-param name="ads">yes</xsl:with-param>
   </xsl:call-template>
   <xsl:call-template name="makemediaitem">
     <xsl:with-param name="suffix">-uw</xsl:with-param>
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@
   <xsl:param name="infotext" />
   <xsl:param name="mirror" />
   <xsl:param name="bittorrent" />
+  <xsl:param name="ads" />
   <xsl:variable name="realurl" select="concat('http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/', fn:encode-for-uri(@title), '.html')" />
   <xsl:result-document method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
       doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
@@ -137,24 +139,24 @@
             <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
           </script>
         </p>
-        <!-- google ads -->
-        <!--
-        <p>
-          <script type="text/javascript">
-            google_ad_client = "pub-5235744946475097";
-            google_ad_width = 728;
-            google_ad_height = 90;
-            google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
-            google_ad_type = "text_image";
-            //2007-03-21: mcc
-            google_ad_channel = "1106187834";
-          </script>
-          <script type="text/javascript"
-                  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
-            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
-          </script>
-        </p>
-        -->
+        <xsl:if test="$ads">
+          <!-- google ads -->
+          <p>
+            <script type="text/javascript">
+              google_ad_client = "pub-5235744946475097";
+              google_ad_width = 728;
+              google_ad_height = 90;
+              google_ad_format = "728x90_as";
+              google_ad_type = "text_image";
+              //2007-03-21: mcc
+              google_ad_channel = "1106187834";
+            </script>
+            <script type="text/javascript"
+              src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
+              <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
+            </script>
+          </p>
+        </xsl:if>
         <xsl:call-template name="footer" />
       </div></body>
     </html>