Wow, Canadian weather sucks m getting pretty tired of all this snow and cold stuff, to be honest. I’m sure that’s not a controversial opinion at this point. When I looked out my window today and saw snow lightly falling, I didn’t think “How pretty!” or “I can’t believe it’s snowing and it’s almost March!” or whatever. I thought, “Shit.” I just feel pretty done with it. Luckily for me, in my part of Coquitlam nothing really stuck, but I’m sure other parts of the Lower Mainland have had it worse. I shouldn’t complain too much— we're incredibly lucky to be out of the worst of it. December and early January were hellish, especially for people like me who get around mostly on foot and Rm 1020 — 700 Royal Ave. Douglas College New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 & 604.525.3542 Lauren Kelly Editor-in-Chief Meditor@theotherpress.ca Mercedes Deutscher News Editor M news@theotherpress.ca Davie Wong Sports Editor M sports@theotherpress.ca Cazzy Lewchuk Opinions Editor M opinions@theotherpress.ca Lauren Paulsen Multimedia Editor M multimedia@theotherpress.ca a fi @ 2 Q transit. Walking was at best frustrating and sock-soaking, and at worst dangerous. I remember skating along the sidewalks by Broadway-City Hall Station in early January and legitimately being scared. And I’m lucky in this regard—many people who aren‘ as able- bodied as am had a much worse go of it, including one of my closest friends, whose back problems would have been aggravated by even a small slip. It hasn't only been snow, either. I’m not sure | remember a time before this winter when I’ve had so many Accuweather weather alerts popping up on my phone, with storms and winds and freezing rain in addition @ theotherpress.ca M editor@theotherpress.ca ¥ © /theotherpress f/DouglasOtherPress Chandler Walter Assistant Editor Massistant@theotherpress.ca Caroline Ho Arts Editor M arts@theotherpress.ca Brittney MacDonald Life & Style Editor M lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca Rebecca Peterson Humour Editor WM humour@theotherpress.ca Cara Seccafien Layout Manager M layout@theotherpress.ca oD }& Yo ew fo to all the snow. Last week there was a day filled with sun, hail, rain, snow, and graupel. I’d never even heard of graupel, pronounced “grapple” by Global News Meteorologist Kristi Gordon but spelt very strangely. It’s apparently a type of soft hail. Things have been weird on the weather front. It would seem a bit sweeter if we'd had a better summer last year, but it was the mildest, cloudiest, rainiest one in recent memory. It barely seemed like summer arrived and then it was gone, turning into months of rain and then snow, then rain, then snow, then rain, then snow. I’ve been looking towards the future to see if things take Angela Ho Business Manager Jacey Gibb Distribution Manager Joel McCarthy Graphics Manager Elizabeth Jacob Production Assistant Ed Appleby IHustrator Jony Roy Social Media Coordinator Aaron Guillen Staff Reporter Greg Waldock, Jessica Berget, & Carlos Bilan Staff Writers Analyn Cuarto Staff Photographer Jerrison Oracion Senior Columnist Colten Kamlade, L.A. Bonté Columnists Jan Prcha Contributor v Photograph by Analyn Cuarto a turn for the not-shitty any time soon, but early to mid March looks like a whole bunch of 5 and 6 degree days. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news! Pretty much, I hope that we have another hot summer. I'll take a too-hot summer, too. I want to forget all about our bizzarely un-BC but very Canadian winter and suffer through months of complaining about the heat, instead. At the least the heat isn’t slippery. Until next issue, Lauren Kelly Editor-in-Chief 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. We are a registered society under the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board of directors appointed by 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 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.