a yay the ea Bther Press Volume 22 + Issue 20 -March 4 1998 Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L5B2 general@op.douglas.bc.ca Phone 525.3542 Fax 527.5095 or 525.3505 David Lam Office Room A3107 Phone 527.5805 he Other Press is Douglas College's autonomous student newspaper. We've been publishing since 1976. The Other Press is run as an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take turns acting as sort of an executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of this officer must be ratified at a special bi-Weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two thirds majority in the case of... The OP is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters and monthly [as a magazine] during the summer. The Other Press is made by Douglas College students. All DC students are welcome to join. (Bored, Lonely, creatively repressed, need something on your resume, or??? Come down to room 1020. We're usually friendly and we have lots of toys. No experience required.) We receive our funding from a student levy collected every semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a cooperative of student newspapers from across Canada. We, generally speaking, adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common Principles and Code of Ethics. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what to publish; however, we'll print most things, unless they're racist, sexist, homophobic, or really illegal. All opinions appearing in the Other Press are the responsibility of their creators and are not necessarily the opinions of all members of the Other Press. We try to believe in the freedom of the press. We want you to be part of the publishing process, so when you submit a letter or article to us, include a way we can contact you. 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Advertising - John Morash ad @op. douglas. bc.ca Bookkeeping - Ana Yu Production Resource - Trent Ernst production@op. douglas. be.ca Editorial Resource ~- Corene McKay ed_res@op. douglas. be.ca All materials appearing in the Other Press are copyright their creators and may not be reproduced in any form without their creators’ express written consent. Athletics - Hamish Knox on) JE AQVOCAIE Qhoplko Dose Referendum Madlnes N Hmm... I SEE FROM THs Toucu- “ING PAMPHLET THERE ic 4 REFERENDUM NExT WEbie By Jolmine CFS) Dousras STUBEN TS wile Haye A GREATER VOICE IN UPHoLDIN' STUDENT RIGHTS. The women’s movement is celebrating close to one hundred years of fighting oppression. With women rising against their oppressors in the late eighteen hundreds, and “feminism” becoming a household word by the late nineteen sixties, the advancements have been remarkable for women’s equality. Starting with women being able to vote in Manitoba in 1905 (the first in Canada) and ending the millennium with GMC Canada, Ford Canada, Xerox Canada and a few others having women as their CEOs, it would appear as though what women say could be true: there is nothing a man can do that I cannot do. But, why bother? Like every other cause that had a good moral starting, feminism has gone horribly astray. Like the African American people starting a peaceful freedom movement with Martin Luther King Jr. and ending with Malcolm X stating how evil the white man is, feminism too has become a diluted cause that no longer puts women’s rights up but has the radical I-can-do-anything-better-than-a-man stench. Case in point: The military. Thus far, women in both the United States and Canada cannot serve in an active combat position. Yet, feminist groups whine and complain that this is sexist, and that women should be allowed. Allowed to what? Get killed the same as men? Kill or maim another human being the same as men? Come home from war with one leg and never get another job because of it like men? This incredibly diluted thinking makes one wonder why anyone would actively try to do this. Men try to dodge the draft on a regular basis, but women feel they should be allowed to go. So much for the “fairer” sex. I, personally, would love the opportunity to stay behind the front line as a doctor or administrator, but never would I volunteer to be shot. Nor would I try to get into a military academy merely to prove that I could, like a woman did down in the States. She went into a-military ese SO-CALLED RteaTS ihe enaBle A FRo-ACTWE , ‘ ‘>’ PRotesr To VPHOLD STUDENT Sah LOANS ano ESTABLISH NWATIOWA 6 eS tow Foe A UBC TOLITICAS Screnxé GRAD STUBENT THIS IG GREAT | Foe THE Dougias CoLiece Purtass iTS ONE More Way TO SPonce of& THE GovenNHenTt ann PRINK Bee Paip cor sv Geansts. academy just to prove that a woman could do what a man can. Also significant is the movie “GI Jane”, the Hollywood movie showing Demi Moore becoming a Navy Seal in a man’s army. It would appear that we should teach our young girls is that all the things men do, women should do as well. Murder. Rape. Anything, because, damn it, women are just as good as men. Let’s prove to the world that women are as good as men by rising against oppression, and getting ourselves killed. That'll show ‘em! With the inevitable war in Iraq, women may get their chance to see combat duty after all. If Saddam has an olympic men’s hockey team hiding somewhere, the male Americans will lose the battle in the first round, and the women’s olympic hockey team will have to be called in to SPLCIALI2 WY IN Cow form SINet 18SL clean up. [VOLS Ie Lett ers opinions@op.douglas.be.ca Blind & drunk Don’t bite the hand One issue brought to the attention of the th at feed S you Douglas College/British Columbi 2 ve After weeks of being bombarded by Government Employee Union Labour me Management Relations Committee was scandal and political witch-hunts, false the cartoon that appeared in the February allegations and slander, it is time to stand up and cheer for those members of the campaigns, sitting on various provincial nothing but praise to sing of them. As for and scholastic committees on behalf of the _ the neophyte grassroots anti-Fed move- students, working for increased daycare ment seeming to be emanating from the subsidies, equitable student loans, saving Atheletics Department, the old proverb an entire campus etc. The list is endless. “Dont bite the hand that feeds you” comes Indeed, we are entitled to free speech, to mind. And to all of you on the DCSS ae opinion, and press—it is a democratic Rep Committee and Executive, who have 4, ee sion ee Bs DCSS who have given up countless hours fundamental—but at the same time, there _ stuck it out, put in the hours, and ship a ‘ fended by a ae mn of their free time, to dedicate themselves 2%" always two sides to every coin, and itis continue to fight for students: BRAVO! staff member as one who is “blind, drunk for the betterment of this College. ee tee ees nie, ‘ shes Alexandra McCulloug Guid aby speaks Risin,” While the OP and the Atheletics ee so find = the facts . Psychiatric Nursing Rep/Women’s College staff work diligently, often department reps continue to roast Jaimie ae dl ee - eT, & gn a 4 Liaiso under difficult circumstances, to provide McEvoy, Christa Peters and Amanda ae re ae divi ack i oh ow quality support services to students. They Wheeler, they still sacrifice their time, their 2° Cynamuc individuals, anc have deserve to be treated in this regard. energy and their lives, to helping YOU- S. Witter the members of the Student Society-get a p fair shake in this age of cut-backs and S b 0 C # ba SOMETHING President, Douglas College Weanokiaes alti, Chases, andi Arionds T. Marples have done nothing but better the lives of Bargaining Unit Chair DC students-working on tuition freeze Renaissance Jiooks Buy « Sell « Trade Show your DC student card and get 15% off Over 50,000 gently read books covering most subjects. Largest sci-fi selection in town To 525-4566 804 —12th Street New Westminster bc.ca 2 March 4, 1998 The Other Press