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Douglas College mentioned
in taggers message

By Dylan Hackett, News Editor

ast week, near the David

Lam campus, a series of
re-election campaign ads for
Douglas Horne, BC Liberal MLA
for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain,
were targeted by vandals.
While one ad was tagged with
a graffiti artist’s name, the more
prominent sign was scribbled
with a subversive message

The bus bench sign, located
by the Henderson Place mall at
a TransLink stop, functioning

as a campaign ad for Horne,
was defaced with a message
implying the vandals’ distaste
for Douglas College’s transit
ads. The graffiti comically
adorned the photograph of the
MLA with a horn, extra series
of eyes, and a triangle across his
face, likely to imply illuminati
affiliation. The message
accompanying the defacing
offered a mock campaign
promise to constituents and
passersby, claiming that Horne
will remove Douglas College’s
“Do” campaign signs displayed
across transit ads spaces in the
Metro Vancouver region. The
sharpie scribbling also made use
of the “Using your gut” idiom,

This Week at Douglas

By Dylan Hackett,
News Editor

Tuesday, April 9

Softball vs. Everett, from 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m.

Cross the Alex Fraser Bridge

to cheer on the Douglas Royals
ladies softball team as they play
against American rivals from

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Everett, Washington at Surrey’s
Softball City.

Wednesday, April 10

Audio engineering program
information session, 5:30 p.m.
Students looking to study audio
engineering at Douglas College
Community Music School with
Dan Cardona are encouraged

to come to an information

more recently popularized by
Stephen Colbert, often tied to
Right-wing politics.

“[Vandalism] happens
from time to time. It’s a way for
people to express themselves, I
guess. Whether it’s my bench or
one of the realtor’s benches, or
one of the lawyers benches that
are around [the riding], they all
seem to equally be susceptible,”
reflected Horne.

Even though one of
the tagged signs featured a
personalized message, Horne
figures that his signs aren't
being targeted by his detractors
for political purposes and are
defaced likely because of their
location.

session in room 3220 of the New
Westminster campus.

Friday, April 12

Douglas College Budget
Consultation, from 1:30 p.m. to
3 p.m.

Student input on next year’s
Douglas College annual budget
will be welcome in room 4920 of
the New Westminster campus

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__ Douglas Hornes vandalized campaign ad | Photo courtesy of Dylan Hackett

“The bench that has tag
on it right now has been
targeted, regardless of what
advertisement is there, for a
while. Quite frankly, I should
choose a different location,”
Horne confided and chuckled.

Stephanie Toth, a Douglas
creative writing student whose
likeness is used in the “Do”
ads, dismissed any artistic
value in the vandalism: “1
think specifically calling out
the Douglas ads in particular is
unwarranted—and I mean that
regardless of the fact that I’m in
them. What makes the Douglas
ads any different from any other
ad campaign?”

Commenting on the

with a concurrent live stream
taking place for David Lam
students in room B3011. The
draw for a pair of Canucks tickets
will take place for student who
filled out last month’s student
survey.

Student Concert Performance,
7:30 p.m.

Come watch and listen to
Douglas music students perform

 

Douglas “Do” campaign
mention on the Horne sign,
Dave Taylor, marketing and
communications director for
Douglas chided, “Don’t like the
candidates’ ads? Volunteer for
one of them and come up with
something better.”

“Having worked in politics,
I can say that vandalism of
campaign signs is sadly pretty
common. It’s unfortunate,
because if the vandals put the
same effort into getting other
young people out to vote,
they could actually have some
influence and change things,”
Taylor pondered. “Why not
turn that energy into something
positive?”

their own compositions in an end
of semester performance in the
Laura C. Muir Performing Arts
Theatre for free.

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