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Volume 23 « Issue 22 » March 24 1999

 

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The Other Press is Douglas
College’s autonomous student
newspaper. We’ve been pub-
lishing since 1976. The Other
Press is run as a non-hierarchi-
cal collective, which means
that if anything goes wrong,
blame it on Trent.

The OP is published weekly
during the fall and winter
semesters and monthly [as a
magazine] during the summer.

We receive our funding from
a student levy collected every
semester at registration, and
from local and national adver-
tising revenue.

The Other Press is a member
of the Canadian University
Press (CUP), a cooperative of
student newspapers from
across Canada. We adhere to
CUP’s Statement of Common
Principles and Code of Ethics.
The Other Press reserves the
right to choose what to pub-
lish, and what not to publish,
but usually we print every-
thing, unless it is racist, sexist
or homophobic. If you have
any quibbles with what we
choose, maybe you should get
your lazy butt down here and
help.

Coordinators
Athletics ~ Hamish Knox
sports@op. douglas. bc.ca
Athletics Assistant:
Culture ~ Jen Swanston
a&e@op.douglas.bc.ca
Culture Assist:
Coquitlam ~ Lorenzo Sia
coq_coordinator@op. douglas. bc.ca
Coq. Assist:
CUP Liaison ~ Cathy Tan
cup@op.douglas.bc.ca
CUP Assist: Jennifer Swanston
Distribution ~ Pierre Florendo
Dist. Assist provided by:
Features ~ the Martin/Swanston
connection
features@op.douglas.bc.ca
News ~ Annette Martin
news@op. douglas. bc.ca
News Assist:
OP/Ed ~ Tom Laws
opinions@op. douglas. bc.ca
Photography ~ Dave Tam
photo@op.douglas.bc.ca
Photo Assistant: Kristina Holtz
Production ~ TomenHame
production_co@op.douglas.bc.ca
Production Assistants:
Webslinger ~ Mark Smeets
op_web@op.douglas.bc.ca
Web Assistant:

Employees
Advertising ~ John Morash
ad@op.douglas.bc.ca
Bookkeeping ~ Zahra Jamal
Production Resource ~

Joyce Robinson
production@op.douglas.bc.ca
Editorial Resource ~

Corene McKay
cormc@vcn.bc.ca

Contributors the

people what helped out:
Quark, the almighty God
that is Hewlett Packard,
Hooly, The Rev., Hame,
bygone days remembering
what sleeping for eight
hours was, the Universal
brotherhood Local 891
Pianist Association “We
are not a UNION!” greater
Betelguese, Tania, an

_| earthy chardonnay w/a

piquant nose and vocal
strains of Geothe’s Faust,
Marlowe's Faustus, his
immortal soul, the damag-
ing power of pride and our
eternal nemesis: Insanity.
Oh, and Dan Carnrite.
Merci.

 

 

 

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SARAH TURVEY

 

At Douglas College we're
supposed to be champions of
equal rights. In fact, the entire
feminist movement was meant
to secure equal rights for
women. It has achieved great
things, but it has left men in
an unfortunate position. Have
you ever wondered why
Douglas College has a women’s
centre but doesn't have a men’s
centre? The women’s centre is
not just a great support to
women students, an organizer
of women-only workshops, and
a source of reference materials
for women, it is also a place for
women to go when they want
to escape the company of men.
Where do the men go?

Now, I know a lot of you are
laughing right now, why would
men need a men’s centre? If
people are equal, and I believe
they are, then men need a
men’s centre. In Quebec there
were 1,366 suicides last year
and 80% of them were male.
Although the BC numbers are
significantly lower, male sui-
cides are much higher than
female sucicides, does that not
substantiate the need for sup-

Letters

Douglas College Language Partner

Tribute to
Volunteers

People who are making a
difference in our community
Winter 1999

14 semesters (7 years)
Patrick Longworth

12 semesters (6 years)
Hiroshi Yasuoka

11 semesters (5.5 years)
Margaret & Al Cope

10 semesters (5 years)
Scott Dalgleish

8 semesters (4 years)
Ampy Tercias
Diane Wiesner

7 semesters (3.5 years)
Scotty Harris
Jennie Johns
Daniel Le Van

oe aS au F

Where's the men’s centre?

port of our male students?

There are other implications
to the women’s centre. By sup-
porting a women’s centre but
failing to provide a men’s cen-
tre, Douglas College is stating
that women are in need of spe-
cial services provided by the
women’s centre and that men
are strong enough to attend
school without the necessity of
a special gender based centre. I
don’t agree. I think that there
are men who get beat up, just
like there are women who get
beat up, so men would benefit
from a self-defence course. I
think that men would enjoy a
room they could go to without
worrying about women walking
in. I think that in order for our
school to promote equality
between the genders we must
rid ourselves of hypocrisy by
ensuring that the opportunities
for women and men are equal.
We are learning a terrible les-
son here at Douglas College. We
are learning that women have
needs that must be addressed
but that men have no needs.

Men are losing their rights.
Douglas College is a symptom
of what is going on in other

6 semesters (3 years)
Aaron Louis Buma
Alan Loo

Michael Pierre
Michael Soliven

5 semesters (2.5 years)
David Low

4 semesters (2 years)
Mercy Calixterio

Cam Chau

Mei Ho

Adrian Leong
Matthew Savage
Jason Wong

Vivian Wong

3 semesters (1.5 years)
Rumi Ishikawa

Roger Sehra

Olly Sumner-Richter

Second semester
Ken Ang
Jennifer Baxter

aspects of Canadian society. Do
you know any women who
belong to a women’s only fit-
ness club? What a great idea!
Many women feel uncomfort-
able exercising in front of men,
so they create a club where
they can exercise without men.
You would think that if women
can have a women’s only club,
men can have a men’s only
club. Unfortunately not. A lot
of men would feel more com-
fortable if they could go to a
club after work, play pool, read
a book, or talk over drinks,
without having a woman pres-
ent. Men have been denied this
right while women are happily
exercising it. The argument has
been made that men use their
gentlemen clubs to further
their careers, but I think that
the woman who attends aero-
bics classes with her boss has
an unfair advantage over her
male colleague who cannot.
The most dangerous right
that men are losing is their
right to safety. There are 80
women’s shelters in BC to pro-
vide a safe place for abused
women and their children.
There is only one men’s shelter

Lana Chang
Sean Chou
Fred Gimenez
Alice Hsiao
Obediya Jones-Darrell
Tracy Kong
Chanda Kuang
Priscilla Lam
Erica Lee
Miyeun Claire Lee
Jason Lu
Duncan Mao
Fawn Ngo
Hung Ngo
Ronan Ortega
Cindy Randall
Lorenzo Sia
Anita Siu
Anne Thai
Paul Tsai
Jennifer Wong
Andy Yuen

First Semester
Simon Au
Sharlane Chase
Jarrett Chow

in BC and although the 80
women’s shelters have funding,
the one shelter for men may
have to close its doors due to
lack of funding. You're probably
thinking that men don’t need a
shelter. According to the
British Columbia Ministry of
Women’s Equality,in 81% of
reports of domestic violence
since 1992 the victim was
female, in 9% of the cases both
partners were abused and in
10% of the cases it was the
male who was abused. I think
that those statistics, along
with the men who are currently
in the shelter, substantiate the
need to protect the safety of
men as well as the safety of
women.

We are learning, in Douglas
College, to ignore the needs of
men and to focus solely on pro-
viding assistance to women.
This is a dangerous lesson to
learn and it leads directly to
practices such as closing the
only men’s shelter in BC. I
want to be thought of as equal
to men, not much more needy
than men. Whatever happened
to equality?

Program

Laurence Enriquez
Kristina Erickson

Shu Hashimoto

Tracy Hewgill
Nausheen Ismail

Leng Boon (Christine) Kann
Amy Law

Peter MacDonald

Matt Pearl

Earl Peng

Mike Ressalei
Steven-Anderson Smith
Gordon Stewart

Ericka Tait

Lori Trieu

Jeremy Wallace
Barbarah Yee

Chris Yu

Tina Zargar

Thank You for your
dedication to the
Language Partner
Program