= Big White Socks posed to believe. % = cross off laundry from your list of things to do Iam here my feet smelling longing to be covered Anonymous To Kim Of 316: Fly With Me ' There is a dove who turns north in winter. It flies toward the inhospitable to perch on a winter tree. There its silhouette is lost against the white of the snow; To any other winter creature, it is formless. by Andrew Marchand Th ieee ag GRAN the ne PRavite ADEQUATE STAPF- &ther Press Volume 21 - lesue 15 - February 24 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 Phone 525-3542 Fax 527-5095 . }general@op.douglas.be.ca The Other Press is Douglas College’s autonomous student newspaper. We have been publishing since 1976. The Other Press is run asa _non-hierarchical collective. The OP publishes every week during this semester — we felt like we needed the change — and monthly (as a magazine) during the summer We receive our funding from a student levy collected every semester at registra- tion, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of Canadian University Press, a cooperative of student newspapers from across Canada. We claim to adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common Principles and Code of Ethics. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what to publish, and what not to publish. We don’t publish anything racist, sexist or homophobic. If you have any quibbles with what we choose, maybe you should get your lazy butt down here and help. Coordinating Staff Athletics ~ Jonathan D. 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Measles Misia’ The red Menace of the Nineties. You have to love the hyper strikes terror into the heart of the stoutest individual. You can hide but it will find you in the place where you lie cowering with the bedclothes pulled tight over your head. At least, that’s what we’re sup- We at the Conspiracy see a motive behind the First Cause’s first cause, so we find it quite possible, in fact probable, that there is a govern- ment plot to genetically tag all of us with microscopic tracers. We’ve all seen enough X-files episodes to realize that the government has only the most nefarious intentions at heart. Imagine: unbeknownst to us, the government obtains our desperately willing participation through a clever ruse—all of us tagged subcutaneously, all of the tags visible to special sensors set up at the airport and in all government buildings, each of them specially coded for each of us. It’s possible? No, we say! It is certain! It has happened! It’s too late! In this world of biological paranoia and disease hyper-awareness, it is a deadly certainty that these things have not come to dominate our con- sciousness by accident. We are the Doomed and we are being manipulated by the Screwheads. This has been brought to you by the Conspiracy. Join us before it’s too late for you too. Or stay alone and stare at the en- croaching darkness of your own ignorance as it encloses your fragile consciousness.... NG AT PEAK TIMES ENSURING Low STRESS LEVaS FoR A STAFF. ea ed ia ome Omar and Husker Travelling Without Moving Part Il of Ill hen Candace and | decided to disguise our real identities, we didn’t anticipate meeting someone we actually cared about. I mean, the relationships with people you develop with people while travel- ling are like commodities. You use them for a smashing time, know- ing that once you get on that train, boat, or wagon, their faces will dissolve as the landscape blurs in your vision. But Joiwind is different. I think it’s damn hilari- ous that she’s brought her chemis- try textbooks with her, stuffed into her jumbo backpack. Like she’s getting any studying done. Jezebel If Joiwind finds out about our identity switch, she'll think we're batty. Besides, these past four or five days of heavy drinking have given us the opportunity to really click. Over mouthfuls of stuffed tomatoes, through watery glasses brimming with retsina, she told us about a pitfall she had in Israel a month back. “T don’t know why I'm telling you guys this, but some harsh shit went down in Israel. I met this guy at a bar, he was the bartender. We partied all night, got super drunk, Dear editor: Though The Other Press may not acknowledge the death of Deng Xiaoping (why would it) I feel I should write down my thoughts on his passing. And I feel a student newspaper is the proper place to do it. After all, isn’t a student newspaper the most relevant forum with which to recognize the single most despicable student murderer that the 20th century has so far produced? (Oh, What about Pol Pot? -Ed.) Apparently, Deng had done a lot of good things. Apparently, he did have a conscience: his reluctance to go along with the Cultural Revolution effectively exiled him to the countryside for years. When he eventually did reappear, his reforms helped transform the entire country. The reforms were risky, but they did 2 February 241997 The Other Press succeed, and probably saved a few lives in the process. The people then attempted some reforms of their own. Deng had an answer for them. While there has been argu- ments as to who was responsible for turning Tiananmen Square into an abattoir on that June night in ‘89, Deng did play a role. If it was Li Peng and not Deng who ordered the slaughter, Deng certainly didn’t make a move to stop it. He might have been busy playing bridge at the time, but his presence (or lack of it) in some way facilitated the deaths of hundreds of unarmed student protesters. If there is any sadness hover- ing about the death of Deng, it is only that Deng didn’t die properly. The only fitting way for the man to die would bea la Christopher Bonnallie Graphic and ended up back at his place,” she grimaces and takes a long drag off her Marlboro. “So we spent the night together...didn’t use a condom. A month later I leave the doctor’s office pregnant with a raging case of gonorrhoea.” “Oh...my...God...” in unison. “And it’s sort of ironic that I should say I’m lucky, but I was— because of my family’s position there. Ended up I had to decide whether to tell them everything about my situation, or go back to the States. Here I am.” Think about what this means for her. She decided to keep on Tiananmen Square Ceaucescu: by firing squad, a firing squad consisting of students left disabled by the treads of tanks and the bullets of the People’s Republic. Deng trucking, keep travelling. And it isn’t as frivolous as most people might think. Joiwind’s decision to tell her family about her pregnancy in order to keep travelling means that this person has an incredible capacity to cope as well asa copious amount of self-worth. And this is what life is all about: coping. She could have gone back to America and wallowed in her sorrows. But I call this the victim syndrome. Those people who can’t get past their own problems are people I have no time for. We're all just specks of dust in an immense universe, anyway, right? End of part two deserved to be shot like a dog. A sympathetic person would look at Deng as a tragic hero, whose flaws led him to Tiananmen. Jan Wong said on the news last night that Tiananmen was a mistake. It was a mistake, but it was a calculated political act which led to the — deaths and detentions of thou- sands. For such a promising man to g become such a cold-blooded £ murderer (or fully-knowledge- able accomplice), then to follow up that act with the soulless 5 quote “To become rich is glori- £ous” shows exactly how far the man fell. He has probably landed now, and I hope he is laying prostrate on the floor of Hell, with only the arrival of Li Peng to look forward to. I hope he is not lonely for long. Terrance Yu