December 9th 1981 to 1982 The Other Press Page 5 delhi i Apathetic | — pathetic with an ‘A’ in front The Other Press has everything to do with it and you. It is your voice - your chance/place to find out, to speak up, to get support - let others know ‘‘out there’’ you care, you’re concerned and ‘‘you’re mad as hell and are not going to take it anymore”’. As much as The Other Press may need vast amounts of improvement, it is time credit and support are given where credit and support are due. It may be full of spelling errors; it may be full of weird or wonderful poetry; and it may be full of | space filling garbage, but in between it holds news that is relevant to what concerns you, the students, now and in | the future. There are a few dedicated people who publish The Other Press and continue to fight the disease called Douglas : College apathy. but, as rumor has it, they are fighting a losing battle. They.need a hand and that means more than putting both yours together and making a clapping noise. The Other Press needs imput from you to stay alive. It has been waiting patiently in the corner offering you a place ‘to vent your frustrations, expound your views, tell it like it is, or publish your first poem. It makes no literary demands on you other than to put words onpaper. The editor will clean up.your E that’s your excuse, the cafeteria, tell the other students instead of bitchng to your classmates. Who knows, you may find a lot of support out there. If you don’t want your fees raised next semester, make the issue now before damage is done, not next semester when it is too late. And most of all if you don’t like what you read in The Other Press tell them (the staff, they can take it) not the rest of the apathy - ridden group you hang out with. A genuine letter ( a few words will do) is worth a thousand inches of space-filling _gobbledy-gook. The Other Press has the potential to become a lively, entertaining focus of you, the students if you will just take a minute or two to put something on paper, slip it under the door ‘and read the next issue. It’s time to rid Douglas College of apathy; kick it in the ass and send it on its way. The Other Press can cure Douglas College of its desease and become a first-class reflection of you, the students, who pay for it. On the other hand, The Other Press could die a sad, lonely death in the corner and | would be forced to label you not by apathetic, but by quite a different word - English and grammar if Yup, you say, that’s me, but so what? If you don’t like the.. mess or smoke in ora 4 pathetic. The Other Press is just another student newspaper. Right? It’s just another radical rag put out by radical students. Right? It’s just another place for a few students to publish their practiced writing and a place to drink beer on campus. Right? Wrong wrong, wrong. The Other Press is not just another radical, student newspaper published for the joy of writing (unpaid at that) by a few beer-drinking students. It’s your newspaper. Bought and paid for by you, the students of Douglas College. It doesn’t sit high upon the journalistic mountain, out of reach, it lives in the corner of the cafeteria with an open door for you to visit anytime (but you should bring your own beer) to see what goes on there and even (heaven forbid) become involved with. Oh, you say. | can’t get involved, I’m too busy doing homework or | can’t write - let someone else do it. Well come on you sufferers of apathy. You’d better get involved or The Other Press, your voice is going to die. Or do you even know what apathy means - do you even care? Well, tough, I’m going to tell you anyways. Apathy means: absence of emotion; lack of interest or concern. I’m telling you so what. Apathy is part of what’s making your fees go up Fees go up because of apathy? | thought fees go up because of inflation. Listen, while | tell you a sad tale of a student suffering from apathy until it was too late and he ended up suffering period. Dateline: Spetember 1982 John Student has to leave school because he can no- longer afford it. He _ sits pathetically bemoaning his woes to his fellow students who nod their heads up and down wondering too how the college can just up and raise the fees. Now John’s mad; want to do something about it, but alas it’s too late. ‘‘Why didn’t someone do, something’ he cries. They did but he didn’t listen. They begged him, cajoled him, pleaded with him to get involved last year when the time for doing something was at hand. ut apathy make him blind. Didn’t you read The Other Press says the voice of semesters past. The Other Press? he says. What does that have to do with it? And so ends his sad student life - another victim of apathy. 2 = Do you think that the Other Press should be allowed to keep the couch without being charged for it | the lounge.’’ Mats Wong: ‘‘If there is protest from the students, you should not keep it, if not, you should keep it... Na, keep the couch, they’re not using it in Sandy Brown: ‘‘You should have a couch. But there should be an agreement made between the paper and the DCSS on _ the acquisition of the couch.’’ Mike Nielson: ‘‘Yes, be- cause it belongs to all students. ’’ Jami Hill: ‘‘Yes, there is enough space out there. | don’t think you should be charged for it.’’ C First Other Press Staff Meeting of 1982 will be in the Other Press room on Tuesday January 12th at 4 pm. This page ot The Other Press 1s reserved soley for the purpose of correspondence and opinion. The views expressed on this page do not necessarily reflect those of this newspaper. All letters and opinions must be typed at a 60-stroke line, double-spaced and must bear the name of the author for reasons of validity. Submissions which are not sighned will not be published. Letters should be no more than 200 words in length and opinion pieces should be either 450 words in length do to space and layour require- ments. wary, aS¥ We reserve the right to edit all letters and opinions L for clarity and libie.