The Other Press www.otherpress.ca ‘THE OTHER PRESS Student Newspaper of Douglas College PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 Room 1020 — 700 Douglas College Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 EDITOR IN CHIEF J.J. McCullough editor@theotherpress.ca ASSISTANT EDITOR Laura Kelsey assistant@theotherpress.ca ACCOUNTANT AND BUSINESS MANAGER Mark Fisher accountant@theotherpress.ca NEWS EDITOR Nikalas Kryzanowski news@theotherpress.ca ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Matthew Steinbach associate@theotherpress.ca SPORTS EDITOR Garth McLennan sports@theotherpress.ca ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Luke Simcoe arts@theotherpress.ca OPINIONS EDITOR Aimee Ouellette opinions@theotherpress.ca HUMOUR EDITOR Liam Britten humour@theotherpress.ca GRAPHICS Brian Yoo graphics@theotherpress.ca LAYOUT Angela Blattmann layout@theotherpress.ca PHOTOGRAPHER Shannon MacKay shannon.mackay@gmail.com WEB/I.T. Angela Szczur web@theotherpress.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Garth McLennan (acting) ADVERTISING MANAGER Luke Simcoe lukesimcoe@yahoo.ca This Week’s Headlines June 2, 2008 A desparate piea from the community convinces the College ,, Board to save programs for special needs students. | -Matthew Steinbach, page 4 From terrorism to bird flu, there’s lots of ways the world could end. Let’s discuss the best ones. -Aime Ouellette, page 7 ~ Not just a furry man-ape that tries to kill the Kokanee ranger; A thorough review of the Sasquatch music festival. -Luke Simcoe, page 10 PN Ss Sa Another year, another Grand Theft Auto. How does the latest one compare to the others? -Ramin Ostad, page 16 Douglas’ award-winning basketball team settles on a new coach. -Garth McLennan, page 12 WRITE FOR US! Anyone can get published in the Submissions will be edited for clarity and NEWS SUBMISSIONS cyoete cecion citardomthe ston ‘The Other Press will pay $50 tony _-‘ReWS@theotherpress.ca the right. student who writes an article of at least SPORTS SUBMISSIONS Please send your file as an MS Word 1,000 words for the “features” mae ; sports @theotherpress.ca doc file, and include your full name, email Submit story ideas to the Editor in Chief. address, and word count. Offer good once per semester per student. A&E SUBMISSIONS The weekly deadline for submissions The Other Press holds weekly staff arts@theotherpress.ca is Wednesday night for publication the meetings at 6 PM on Mondays in room FEATURE ARTICLES i i 020 of Westminst . All : cient ee te ceccan atm eitr@theaherres sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted OPINION SUBMISSIONS until Saturday at noon and can be submitted opinions @theotherpress.ca to the editor at editor@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 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 Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board of directors appointed by. andfrom = Canada. 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 2 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.