F Page 2 Other Press Ceecuadan wy i e vin aad -ocratically run, | Typesetting Co-ordina' 3 | The Orther Press The Other Press is a dem- autonomous student newspaper __ serving Douglas College since 1976. It publishes 16 times a seme- ster, once @ week, under the auspices of The Other Publi- cations Society. Our funding comes by way of a direct stu- dent levy paid at registration and through local and _natio- nal advertising. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press and subscribes to its state- ment of principles. OPS Board of Directors Chairperson: Member at Large: Vacant Member at Large: Vacant Staff Representative: John McDonald Staff Representative: Kirstin Shaw Business Manager: j Mark Roberts _ Other Press Staff Production Co-ordinator: - John McDonald tor: . Jeff House Production Assistants: Rob Hancock Jennifer Whiteside and Mike Copy Editor: News Co-ordinator: Vacant Vacant Editorial Co-ordinator: Vacant Entertainment Co-ordinator: Vacant Features Co-ordinator: Vacant Classifieds Co-ordinator: Vacant Sports Co-ordinator: Vacant Recruitment Co-ordinator: Vacant Graphics Co-ordinator: Vacant Photographic Co-ordinator: Vacant Contributors: John McDonald . Jordan Acomba Lori Donald Rob Hancock Richard Haines Phinder Dulai Chris Brown Jeff House Paul Gill To the students: Bill Vander Zalm; Gardener, Ac- tor, Premier and now Medical Specialist. Once again the Premier of our province is THINKING and when he THINKS, everyone should watch out. We all know what Bill Vander Zalm THINKS when it comes to the issue of abortion. Vander Zalm has also told us what he THINKS about South Africa and of the Christian Prayer and Bible readings in schools. This time Vander Zalm THINKS that a sex-education program in schools promoting the use of con- doms to prevent the spread of AIDS To the students of Douglas College “Big Brother?” Re: The sanction- ing of RCMP videotaping of ac- cused peoples with their lawyers. The RCMP has been bugging phones and _ videotaping people for years. Now these tapes are admissable as evidence in a trial. This, in my opinion, is unconstitu- tional. © oe Mm a PT fe = © =. oe —j =y ©) would encourage permissiveness. Giving us some more insight as to how he THINKS, Vander Zalm says that AIDS is not a problem that affects young people because there has not yet been a report of AIDS in our schools. Maybe Vander Zalm THINKS that we should wait till there are a few students who have died from AIDS before any attempt is made to educate people against this disease. Then again, Vander Zalm may THINK that AIDS is God’s way of punishing us for our sins. A word of advice to our Premier; How about giving some thought to the idea that we are not all followers of your fundementalist philosophy and your job is to provide good government not a God-fearing christian society. Some problems sure to rise are the defendant having his trail strategy exposed to the prosecu- tor. This could convict an innocent man of a crime he has not commit- ted, even with all the safety clauses in the law. This law has screwed up the justice system to a new level, but hey, if you can pass a bill like that don’t you think it is screwed up to begin with. Jordon Acomba that of the next highest which is Quebec. 5: : M. Ellerbeck Our Question this week was: YES 28 opinion we do feel it’s interesting. Some notable replys were: “No, It’s just another disease.” Yes, AIDS worries me, I heard on the news this No, its no direct threat to me. I do know quite a bit moming that Vancouver has the highest number of about AIDS because I have done some research on cases of AIDS in Canada -- almost double this subject but it is something to be concerned about in the future. “Does Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) worry you?” We asked 23 females and males this question. 61% of those polled said that they were worried about AIDS. Fe-males were almost evenly split on whether or not AIDS worried them. Worried males outnumbered unworried males by close to 2 to 1. Though we are not saying that this mini-survey is a correct statistical sample of Douglas College public “Yes I’m worried, its gonna wipe out the human race as we know it now if we don’t care, we've gotta become more aware of this problem.” “Yes, I believe it is a serious problem and that there has not been a sufficient response to it by provincial or federal governments.” T. Nordstrand NO 18 G. Specht G. Parkinson A. Marques t ie Press soom (under the door) Other Press Douglas College’s Autonomous Student Newspaper To the Students: During the third week in Janu- ary in Forsyth County, Georgia, a bus carrying black peace marchers drove to a country road where the marchers exited and began their rally. Big deal? Several score of what Forsyth Co. gov’t officials call white trash were out in force, physical force. So were the police and the media. This confrontation happened in an “all-white county”. Strong with K.K.K. support. That’s why the black people were bused in. Here we must get one thing str-- aight. The black marchers who got off the bus were not small, at all, in fact they were rather big. They probably didn’t expect chicken and biscuits from the demonstra-- tors waving rebel flags and signs that read “Forsyth Stays White”. I am also sure that the police weren’t there to hand out football cards to the local folk or that the media just happened to stumble upon a riot. No, all of this seemed very planned. The fact that pockets of white society, “segregated” from the rest of the state exist is a little shocking. The fact that the K.K.K. has a good grip on this certain community is not. The fact that black people drove a bus-load of people into the county to march says a lot of things. Black people are realizing their rights, and they used the people of Forsyth Co. to let North America know about the injustices being done. So if we are to assume the act was planned, who got the better of it? Well, the media in this area of the country showed us the ugly _ side of the K.K.K. and the rights of blacks being infringed upon. The black people have an honest beef and the gov’t has to look at it now. But, the whole thing smelled a bit like a South American political demonstration, where all the picket-signs are in english. It was a media event. A violent press con- ference if you please. The black people got on the bus after the white people had roughly proved why they were there. This prob- lem, however, is not a new one, it just died down a bit. “Remember the Alamo”. A U.S. civil war was fought over this issue and a couple of hundred bags of hot air in a con- gress building aren’t going to fix this, no matter how many laws they pass. In conclusion, the black people have every right to do what they did. They have been “shoved” for over one hundred years. Now they pushed back intelligently. No matter how just it is though, in my opinion, I don’t know if it will help. Jordan Acomba MONEY - the word alone is enough to get anybody’s attention. Currency plays a large part in ev- eryday life, yet how many of us re- ally pay attention to those cute lit- tle bills other than to ascertain if it’s a twenty or (God forbid) a one dollar bill? Personally speaking, I make it a habit to give a tearful farewell to Queen Lizzie everytime we part ways (which is much too often). In doing so, I have actually developed a _ close _ relationship with our Canadian currency. Have you ever. realized how many times Elizibeth II shows up on our money? She’s on the one, two, twenty and one thousand dollar bills, not to mention the coinage. Whatsamatter with us? Don’t we have enough Canadian heroes to fill this void? Must I look at a bust of our Queen everytime I buy a Diet 7up? You know, I couldn’t even tell you who was on the five dollar bill without looking. There...it’s Laurier, and Sir John A. is on the ten. I never see a fifty so that will have to remain a mystery. Aren’t there any modern Canadian idols out there? I believe that it is my pa- triotic duty to nominate some great Canadian people for the honour of money models. Number one: arguments here. Number two: How about Pierre Berton, if he doesn’t represent Canada, I don’t know who does. Terry Fox. No A Hobbsian view of money Besides, when I was a child "The Secret World of Og” was my favor- ite book. Number three: Pierre Trudeau. Hey, wait! It wasn’t MY idea...but some people do believe that he deserves a spot somewhere for his work on the 1982 Constitution. I would only feel right about it if he was pictured in his most famous pose: giving someone the finger. And while we’re being facetious, how about that great B.C. bastion of sputtering political innuendo, Jack Webster. We could create a new bill and call it nine dollars precisely! (Oh, sorry, he’s changed time slots, that won’t work. Too bad, Jack). Yes, it certainly would be nice to see some new faces on our curren- cy. Although new bills are being produced (the two and the five) that same face is still there. Have you noticed that the Queen still wears the same hairstyle? She was probably born like that (and as a baby cried only with a stiff upper lip but never with ’slitty eyes’). One day we will have to produce new bills in honour of the future King, Charles. It will be sad to see Queen Elizabeth head on up to the palace in the sky, but it will be in- teresting to learn how the artists at the treasury handle Charles’ portrait. The bills will undoubted- ly have to be enlarged to accomo- date his ears. Does this mean we’ll have more money? 2 Hobbs