the ther Press Volume 23 © Issue 14 © January 20 1999 Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 submit@op.douglas.bc.ca general@op.douglas.bc.ca Fax//604.525.3505 or 604.527.5095 Phone//604.525.3542 David Lam Campus Room a3107 Phone//604.527.5805 The Other Press is Douglas College’s autonomous student newspaper. We've been publishing since 1976. The Other Press is run as a non- hierarchical collective, which means that if anything goes wrong, none will take the blame. Expect us to pass the buck. The OP is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters and monthly [as a magazine] during the summer. When we manage to publish at all. In this case, we blame technology. We receive our funding from a student levy collected every semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. But, if you really want it, we'll give you your money back. Please, don't ask. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a cooperative of student newspapers from across Canada. We adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common Principles and Code of Ethics—not that we claim to understand them, we just stick by them. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what to publish, and what not to publish, but usually we print everything, unless it is racist, sexist or homophobic. If you have any quibbles with what we choose, maybe you should get your lazy butt down here and help. No, really. We can use the help. Coordinators Athletics ~ Hamish Knox sports@op.douglas.bc.ca Culture ~ Jen Swanston a&e@op.douglas.bc.ca Coquitlam ~ Lorenzo Sia cog_coordinator@op.douglas.be.ca CUP Liaison ~ Cathy Tan cup@op.douglas.bc.ca Distribution ~ Pierre Florendo Features ~ Annette Martin features@op.douglas.bc.ca News ~ Annette Martin news@op.douglas.bc.ca OP/Ed ~ Tom Laws opinions@op.douglas.bc.ca Photography ~ Dave Tam photo@op.douglas.bc.ca Photo Assistant: Kristina Holtz Production ~ Bodie Duble production_co@op.douglas.bc.ca Webslinger ~ Mark Smeets op_web@op.douglas.bc.ca Employees New West Advertising ~ Vacant ad@op.douglas.bc.ca Coquitlam Advertising ~ John Morash Bookkeeping ~ Zahra Jamal Production Resource ~ Joyce Robinson production@op.douglas.bc.ca Editorial Resource ~ Corene McKay ed_res@op.douglas.bc.ca Contributors Holly Keyes, Jones, Walace and Gromit, Mickey and Mallory, Dem folks what helped. Thi To place the following in context, here is an excerpt from the Classifieds section of the Other Press, September 30 1998. "Contest—Big Prizes!— design a new student ° society logo, name the Student Society cafeteria and building. Come to the student society office for more details. Deadline end of October 31, 1998.” The Great Douglas College Student Society Logo Contest A despondent contestant debate. I don’t think so. So there you have it— the great logo contest. What lesson did I learn in all this? Well if I see another small ad. in the classifieds an- nouncing that the student society is holding a logo contest I will almost cer- tainly laugh derisively and ignore it absolutely. When the Other Press asked Amanda Wheeler, VP external of the Student Society, to clarify what happened to the logo and name contest. She e-mailed “the committee has to meet regarding what to do. We did meet last semester but none of the submissions suited what we were looking for. Contestants were told upon bringing in or picking up forms that if none were liked none would be used; however, we will be meeting to decide what we want to do next. If we decide to continue the contest, or whatever, people that submitted for DCSS rather than DSU will not be hin- dered as it is the design we are looking for and letters can always be changed.” resubmit their logo designs. I thought it was odd that I got all this information second-hand. The student society people must have been too busy to call and notify the too few entrants of the changes. Oh well, so much for winning my winter semester's fees. At this point I decided I didn’t want to play with these people anymore. Figured who's to say if I put any more effort into the affair that they wouldn't change the rules again? Now the latest rumour I hear on this matter is that the reason they didn’t choose a winning design was because they didn’t like any of the entries. Furthermore, a spokes- person for the student society, or union, of whatever the hell they're calling themselves these days, has said that contest entrants were told up front going in that if the contest judges didn't like the entries then there would be no winner. I don’t recall any conver- sation like this. And, anyway, just exactly who are these judges? And do I really want to get into a she-said-I-said tuition. Now that’ ieafly att my attention. I was enrolled in a design course and my class- mates and myself figured that we knew a thing or two about designing logos. I must have submitted almost two dozen different designs. And I know some of my classmates worked just as hard preparing their submissions. When the contest deadline of October 31 came and went without any an- nouncement of a winner, I began to wonder what the hell was going on. A couple of weeks later I heard on the rumour line that the contest had been extended a month because it had been decided that there hadn't been enough contest entrants. Damn funny way to run a contest—but what can you do? Then in early December when once more I expected the winning entry to be announced, I learned, again through the rumour line, that the society executive had decided to change its name, and that the contest deadline had been extended until February 1999. Past entrants were invited to redesign and The story unfolded something like this: Sitting in class one day last fall, one of my classmates brought an item to my attention in the classifieds section of the college paper, the Other Press. It was a small ad announcing that the Douglas College Student Society was staging a logo contest. Apparently, they were un- happy with their current logo and the society executive decided that a contest would be just the ticket. And the prize? A full semester's paid What ATM Machine? Michael Cox (David Lam) don't have one. If someone wants to buy lunch at the cafeteria and doesn't have way to get it out. It is very irritating to go to class for six to eight hours a day without a about a year ago by the then I am quite distraught over ~ a A rg the lack of promises kept by the first and second vice money, they have to walk to the nearest ATM, which is the break, day after day, with nothing to eat. And why, do Rep. Massanio Chang for his election platform. Now that he’s the Vice-President of president here at the David Lam Campus. This campus has been open for three years now and still we have no way of getting one of our most valuable resources. It’s money that we want. Not just money, but a medium to get money, called the ATM machine. Our reason for wanting an ATM machine is simple: we CIBC on Lincoln and Pinetree, about a ten minute walk. It is really irritating to go down to the Coquitlam Centre area just to get money for a meal. Another item that students, as well as everyone else in the world, needs is food. Starving students may be able to put money into their account, but there is no you ask, is it like this? Be- cause we can’t get our money out of the ATM machine to go to the cafeteria to buy some- thing for our stomachs. New Westminster Campus has an ATM machine, why don’t we? Anything that New Westminster has is something that we should have. We were promised an ATM machine David Lam Campus, and a whole year has passed, what has been done? As students, we have not been informed on what's happening with our promised ATM. I think it’s high time to question the DCSS about getting the ATM machine. Perhaps they've forgotten about it. Mtasakelay ail: i you say or dois wrong by default. But write it down anyway and send it to: nea ener OPAC meh ASLOy Dre the Other Press Ry ? January 20 1999 the Other Press