February 18, 2004

 

From The Editor

 

Midterms are upon us; some of us are done
and some of us are just starting to read the
required chapters. School is really important
to me. Learning something and being intro-
duced to concepts that are unknown to me is
the reason why I attend school. But lately,
there seems to be more pressing issues that
need to be tended to and studying seems to
have been unconsciously put on the back
burner.

There are so many things I am interested in
and want to be a part of. Maybe the funda-
mentals of school book learning have worn
out their welcome, for me anyhow. The past
four years introduced me to a vast amount of
information I wouldn't have learned out in the
“real world.” But maybe now I am finally
ready to put my textbooks on the shelf... for
good

I have been working over the past few years
as well as all the volunteer work and board
positions I hold. I think that taking away the
restrains of homework on the weekends and
evenings, I will have the energy to apply to
each of my interests more whole-heartedly. I
feel like just a piece of me gets given to each
of my interests and I would love the opportu-
nity to be more involved.

I just want to make the most of my time
because you never know how much you
have...not really. I don’t want to have any
regrets. Now that this semester is rapidly com-
ing to an end, and I will have completed two
hard-earned diplomas from Douglas, I can
reflect and know I made the right choice for
the last four years but now it is time to move
on. The chapter of school is over...well,
almost. I think there may be some papers,
labs, and exams required of me.

So now I must start to plan for May. It will
be interesting to see where the next four years
of my life will take me. Interesting to see if the
last four years will be a huge influence in my
future,

I love school and it’s sad that we have to
part but I’m all learned up now! The next cou-
ple months are going to fly by. Is anyone else
graduating? What are your plans? Maybe we
should start a support group because this tran-
sition will be a rough one. We could meet on
Saturdays in the cafeteria and reminisce about
the good old days. What do ya think?

 

 

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Mailbag
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News

= Student Action Day

4 “Window Dressing” Throne Speech Closes Doors
to Students

4 Anti-Depressant Advisory

5 Canada’s Great Literacy Awards: Finalists
Announced

5 Black History Month: A Time to Expand Your
Horizons

6 Bowie Drummer Beaten for Speaking Truth in
China

Opinions

Funding Farce in the Dentist’s Chair

In The Pagoda

Paparazzi

Science Matters

Stolen Words

Janklow Sentenced is Justice Denied
The Liberals, the Drunks, and the Booze
Third Degree

A Lesson Learned From the Province Newspaper
on Student Activism?

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Wilson’s Section

12 If Mazatlan, Cancun, Puerta Vallarta and Acupulco
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13 Word Search

13 Ski Story
13 Poetry
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14 Poto[graphic]

Culture

15 What’s On Around Town

15 This Week in (Motley Crue) History

16 Fanboy’s Corner

16 The Breakfast Club

17 A Tribe of One

17 Sylmarillion: Achieving New Depth
in the World of Suck

18 The Decemberists

18 Cinematic Sweets

Features
19 Can You Disappear
20 What'’s in a Name

Sports

21 Blues tie the Clan!

21 Future Stars on the Big Court
21 Douglas Volleyball Rocked at Home
21 Off-the-Court: lan Hogan

22 Women’s Only Golf Workshops
22 Kudo’s to Kamloops

22 Flash’s Weekly 5 Fitness Tips
22 The Jury is Still Out!

22 Bollocks

22 BCCAA Weekend Scoreboard

22 Canucks’ Corner

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