or Here we are, loyal readers! The end of another semester and the end of the Other Press! These past few weeks of structural reorganization, criminal investigations, religious disputes, and wild, drug induced sijo parties have taken their toll. | am alone, here in the office. The last decaying body has just been carried out of the door,-and the smoke is slowly beginning to clear. Poor lan, he gave his all, but the final production night now was beyond his capability; he was the first to go. Nancy, overcome with a rare typesetting disease, was found early Wednesday half melted onto the keyboard. Dan, ~-Pete and Mike we had to pry out of the bottom drawer of the front desk. Were they trying to hide from the tragic reality that they would never write for the paper again? And Chris, our grammar and spelling was just too much for him; he jumped from his typewriter into the beer cooler, drowning instantly. Cal, our business manager, poor chap, became overloaded in a frenzy of electric guitars and glowing synths. He died bravely though; still clutching our summer budget. Finally, through a mixture of graphic hallucinations and 3rd degree pencil burns, caused by the unorganized drawing schedule, Charlene collapsed; face down in the scattered flats. The only survivor of this holocaust was our courier Perry, who embezzled 25 dollars from the safe and escaped to Hawaii. I’m going fast; bleeding profusely from a chopstick embedded in my cheek. | have to thank you. My fiance, Hee-Jeong, thanks you too. It’s been a good year (regardless of the cut in rice rations). Hopefully one of you loyal readers can rummage through the office debris and salvage enough material to start your own paper. Please. Remember us. Good-bye. Warren Laine Staff Box Nancy McRitchie Typesetter Charlene Kamachi Graphic ‘Finale’ person Pete Julian contributing writer Chris Page Copy editor Mike Wilson contributing writer Mike Knowles Photographer Cal Reyburn Business manager Dan Hilborn Old Hack Jody Gilbert Poetry coordinator lan Hunter Editorial coordinator Warren Laine Production coordinator The Other Press April 15th to Sep a by Ian Hunter INTRODUCTION This past year at Douglas we have seen it all. From normally conservative business students, we hear radical words of dissent. From the consistentally conservative Provincial and Federal governments, we hear tales of a shattered economy and the need for cutbacks. From the College administration, we hear~virtual silence. Douglas College isn’t as dull as it seems. Throughout the year the call of ‘‘They say cutbacks, we say fight back,’’ was heard across this College anc across the country. Certainly cutbacks was not the only thing to happen at Douglas over the past year, there’s the new building that will hold far fewer students than it was designed for. Around that same building there is an ongoing development plan that will have ALRT, bars, discos, a yacht club and urban blight all within a few blocks of each other. NOVEMBER: ‘Douglas College woke up. November 20th, the student lh - alive.The Douglas College St a previous week preparing for t posters, going from classroom and planting ideas in virgin he DCSS President Kevin Hallg padlocked the doors to the daring Post Secondary Educa open the locks with either the p “‘l oppose cutbacks’’. Smith ne was pursued later that day by a students at the Social Credit Co media event, there were two students, like a Disney versi The students gave the mes there was opposition to what th education in our province, and tl cutback after cutback without s SEPTEMBER We had a lack of housing that was forcing some students to live in their cars. Nobody was getting their student loans because the computer that processed them screwed up for the entire month of August, which delayed clearing of the backlog because student loans were a low priority for the B.C. government. The B.C. government asked the question, ‘‘What, would your institution do if it got the same amount of dollars next year as this year...with No inflationary increase?’’ The answer was panic. College President Bill Day complied with the Government’s request to provide information on what the College would cut, in order of priority, given no of little increase of funds. The ‘onion scenario’ Day made explained how the College would peel off layers of the ‘‘College onion’’ leaving the core. This scenario made several people weep as the future of summer school, Adult Basic Education and the Winslow Campus became doubtful. * ‘ali. DECEMBER: Kevin Hallgate went to Victoria Smith. Hallgate gave Smith so to help pay for post-secondary ¢ the November rally. Smith winc JANUARY: Anew year, and the beginnin the Other Press and the § repercussions for both Societies one of the main participants | inappropriate to detail the ma conflicts that made life at Doug The new governance syste administrators (most notably Co implemented. They system i automomy to the groups withi more information to the people the final decisons.