Study Me By Sharon Miki, Editor in Chief creative writing, and was lucky enough to have some of my stories and poems selected for the annual Pearls anthologies of student writing over ome of my favourite times at Douglas College have been in weeks ago, when a friend who is currently taking a fiction class mentioned in passing that she read one of my stories for class. “Uh, some of the guys didn’t the Creative Writing the years. I took this like the stuff about department. The asagreathonour,and tampons,” she said. wonderful and patient didn’t really think too —_—‘[ thought back to the instructors spent much of it. story in question: it was hours explaining Then, this year, I a violent, angry story the mechanics of learned that having that I’d written during storytelling tome,and my work published a particularly dark time never made me feel like my work was stupid (not even the time I submitted a sonnet exalting my great love for Diet Coke). I love OthérPress. Room 1020 - 700 Douglas College Royal Avenue EDITOR IN CHIEF Sharon Miki editor @theotherpress.ca ASSISTANT EDITOR Jacey Gibb assistant@theotherpress.ca BUSINESS MANAGER Angela Szczur accounting@theotherpress.ca PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER Stephanie Trembath publicrelations@theotherpress.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Chris Paik distribution@theotherpress.ca NEWS EDITOR Dylan Hackett news@theotherpress.ca ARTS EDITOR Angela Espinoza arts@theotherpress.ca LIFE & STYLE EDITOR Laurel Borrowman lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca WHO WE ARE aa The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the student union. We are a registered society under the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight- person board of directors appointed by and from our staff. Our head office is located in the New Westminster campus. The Other Press is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly during the summer. We receive our funding from a student levy collected through tutition fees every sometimes means that people are actually reading it. And thinking about it. And, most likely, criticizing it. It started a few in my life. Now that that time had passed for me, it felt surreal to think about a classroom of youngsters reliving and analyzing my DOUGLAS COLLEGE’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1976 New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 T; 604.525.3542 LETTITOR. anxiety in print. Last week, another friend texted me to tell me that her class was reading a poem I’d written in her intro poetry class. Poetry is a form of expression that I hold possessively close—what if the class hated it? What if they Googled me and looked at my other work and mocked me? What if they set up a Tumblr to ridicule how bad of a poet Iam? In the end, I realized that it’s highly unlikely that anyone will e Meat again? E. coli risk spawns recall take more than a few minutes to consider my work—reading it was, after all, just a class assignment. Instead of freaking out, I should be excited that the words I'd slaved over would be read once more. Also, I’ll be sure to be more open and less critical when reading other people’s work: I mean, it’s possible that even Margaret Atwood sits at home worrying about what people think about her writing, too... right? Eric Wilkins, page 04 OPINIONS EDITOR Natalie Serafini opinions@theotherpress.ca SPORTS EDITOR Josh Martin sports@theotherpress.ca e@ His guitar gently weeps: Michael Kolk takes on Arts at One Kayla Steinman, page 06 HUMOUR EDITOR Livia Turnbull humour@theotherpress.ca STAFF WRITERS Sophie Isbister k ‘ Caitlin Van Den Brink, page 09 Joel MacKenzie Eric Wilkins LAYOUT MANAGER Cody Klyne layout@theotherpress.ca e Student star? BPA Manuel Cuevas talks the talk Bryce Tarling, page 12 GRAPHICS MANAGER Joel McCarthy graphics@theotherpress.ca ILLUSTRATOR Oliver McTavish Wisden illustrator@theotherpress.ca CONTRIBUTORS Liam Britten, Elliot Chan, Dominic Dutt David Hollinshead, Emily Krauss, Dale Pereira Keating Smith, Kayla Steinman, Bryce Tarlin, Caitlin Van Den Brink semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers that includes papers from all across Canada. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what we will publish, and we will not publish material that is hateful, obscene, or condones or promotes illegal activities. Submissions may be edited for clarity and brevity if necessary. All images used are copyright to their respective owners. e Chairman Meow? The latest cuddly tyrant Liam Britten, page 22