WHO WE ARE The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student registration, and from local and national advertising newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian autonomous publication, independent of the student University Press (CUP), a syndicate of student union. We are a registered society under the Society newspapers that includes papers from all across Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person Canada. board of directors appointed by Wand from our staff. The Other Press reserves the right to choose Our head office is located in the New Westminster what we will publish, and we will not publish campus. material that is hateful, obscene, or condones or The Other Press is published weekly during promotes illegal activities. Submissions may be the fall and winter semesters, and monthly during edited for clarity and brevity if necessary. All images the summer. We receive our funding from a student used are copyright to their respective owners. levy collected through tutition fees every semester at The SUT RB eee ls e I I eSs e student newspaper since 1978 Room 1020 - 700 Royal Ave. TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 Douglas College WEBSITE: www-theotherpress.ca New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 EMAIL: editor@theotherpress.ca Letter fro the Editor: ] ] 1 e EDITOR IN CHIEF ASSISTANT EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER Homework Sharon Miki Jacey Gibb Angela Ho editor@theotherpress.ca assistant@theotherpress.ca accounting@theotherpress.ca ummer semester is here, and while I’m sure there are SOCIAL MEDIA many important and interesting things to study for your COORDINATOR DISTRIBUTION MANAGER NEWS EDITOR classes, I would also like to challenge you with some extra- ey curricular life assignments for the month of May. Why? At the risk of sounding like Drake, you only live once. Stay up all night, but not because you have to. There will be plenty of time to pull all-nighters out of essay- writing-induced bitterness later: deprive yourself of a little sleep and see what happens when you're Jonathan Roy Chris Paik Dylan Hackett usually sleeping and/or in front of a computer. If this socialmedia distribution news@theotherpress.ca can involve nature in some way, you'll receive bonus @theotherpress.ca @theotherpress.ca marks. ARTS EDITOR LIFE & STYLE EDITOR OPINIONS EDITOR Clean your slate. Too often, we get trapped in routines that aren’t satisfying out of weird obligations. Sure, there are things that you really have to do (like go to class); but there are also things that you do just because you usually do them (like watching American Idol). Breaking up with things that you don’t like anymore can be very liberating—or at least that’s what my ex- boyfriend said when he cleaned his slate of me. Angela Espinoza Sophie Isbister Natalie Serafini arts@theotherpress.ca lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca opinions@theotherpress.ca . Eat something you never have. You only have so many STAFF WRITER years to live, and you can only realistically eat a few times a day. Do you really want to die without having tried wasabi-flavoured gelato? SPORTS EDITOR oe \ a That's it for now, but I urge you to give these assignments a try. Send me photographic evidence of your results before May 27, and I might just feature them online at 4 theotherpress.ca. Josh Martin Livia Turnbull Eric Wilkins sports@theotherpress.ca humour@theotherpress.ca Sharon Miki STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER LAYOUT MANAGER a Aidan Mouellic Elliot Chan Cody Klyne layout @theotherpress.ca GRAPHICS ILLUSTRATOR _ CONTRIBUTORS Avalon Doyle Savis lrandoost Joel MacKenzie Adam Tatelman Lisa Theriault Joel McCarthy Ed Appleby graphics@theotherpress.ca illustrator@theotherpress.ca Klara Woldenga