The Other Press www.otherpress.ca THE OTHER PRESS PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 EDITOR IN CHIEF Liam Britten editor@theotherpress.ca ASSISTANT EDITOR Shawna Swatez assistant@theotherpress.ca ACCOUNTANT AND BUSINESS MANAGER Mark Fisher accounting@theotherpress.ca NEWS EDITOR Nikalas Kryzanowski news@theotherpress.ca ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Lisa Bellano associate@theotherpress.ca SPORTS EDITOR Garth McLennan sports@theotherpress.ca ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Chloe Bach arts@theotherpress.ca OPINIONS EDITOR Matthew Steinbach opinions@theotherpress.ca HUMOUR EDITOR Liam Britten humour@theotherpress.ca GRAPHICS Timothy Arndt graphics@theotherpress.ca eB 7 B eres This Week’s Headlines Room 1020 — 700 Dbgkee Callene i) iT re Royal Avenue, ~ | ae. Matthew and Garth cross swords over the soda situation | -Garth McLennan & Matthew Steinbach, page 8 SS Our Pemberton coverage is bigger, longer, and more erect than your Pemberton coverage -Mark Fisher, page 10 ARS aa Luke Simcoe is a lomosexual -Luke Simcoe, page 9 July 7, 2008 Travis Cross to bodyslam competition at Beijing Olympic -Garth McLennan, page 16 PHOTOGRAPHER Anyone can get published in the Shannon MacKay : Other Press! Just email your story to the shannon.mackay@gmail.com appropriate section editor from the list on the right. oa ae Please send your file as an MS Word web@theotherpress.ca doc file, and include your full name, email address, and word count. DISTRIBUTION MANAGER The weekly deadline for submissions Garth McLennan is Wednesday night for publication the following Monday. Letters to the Editor and “time-sensitive” articles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted until Saturday at noon and can be submitted to the editor at editor@theotherpress.ca LAYOUT Brian Yoo i layout@theotherpress.ca = i ada will be edited for clarity and NEWS SUBMISSIONS style. The Other Press will pay $50 to any news @theotherpress.ca student who writes an article of at least SPORTS SUBMISSIONS : — words * the ao a s sports @theotherpress.ca ubmit story ideas to the Editor in Chief. Offer good once per semester per student. A&E SUBMISSIONS The Other Press holds weekly staff arts@theotherpress.ca meetings at 6 PM on Mondays in room FEATURE ARTICLES 1020 of the New Westminster campus. All : interested students are welcome. Senin an pecoruies opinions @theotherpress.ca WHO WE ARE 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. Today we are 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 semester Z 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.