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Volume 23 @ Issue 1 * September 16
1998

Room 1020-700 Royal
Avenue

New Westminster, BC

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The Other Press is Douglas
College’s autonomous stu-
dent newspaper. We've
been publishing since
1976. The Other Press is
run as a non-hierarchical
collective, which means
that if anything goes
wrong, blame it on Trent.

The OP is published
weekly during the fall and
winter semesters and
monthly [as a magazine]
during the summer.

We receive our funding
from a student levy col-
lected every semester at
registration, and from
local and national adver-
tising revenue.

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.

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 homo-
phobic. If you have any
quibbles with what we
choose, maybe you

should get your lazy butt
down here and help.

Coordinators

Athletics ~ Hamish Knox

sports@op.douglas. bc.ca
Culture ~ Jochen
Beirptumpel

a&e@op. douglas. bc.ca
Coquitlam ~ Lorenzo Sia
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ca
CUP Liaison ~ Cathy Tan

cup@op. douglas. bc.ca
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advertising @op. douglas. bc.ca
Features ~ Annette Martin

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News ~ Homan Sanaie

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OP/Ed ~ Tom Laws

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Photography ~ Dave Tam
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Production ~ Joanna Cole
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Webslinger ~ Mark Smeets

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Employees
Advertising ~ John
Morash
ad@op.douglas.bc.ca
Bookkeeping ~ Zahra
Jamal
Production Resource ~
Joyce Robinson
production@op.douglas.bc
.ca
Editorial Resource ~
Corene McKay
corene@mortimer.com

Contributors
Kristina Holtz, Jim
Chliboyko, Mike Quong,
Julia Cornestor, Brad
Larson, Jason Kurylo,
Jason Humber, Kimberly
Miller, Jim chliboyko,
Sean clark, Johnson C.H.
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‘lthy stinking rich thai you can.
come to a post secondary school
such as Douglas and flunk out. It
must be nice to have mommy and
daddy pay for everything, and not
having to bother taking a part-time
job to pay for your extravagant
lifestyle. It must be nice.
Unfortunately, this is obviously the
case here, with so many rich snobs
running around. And those who
don't have unlimited funds from
parental units can go get a student
loan and lease an education. Or a
car. Or a stereo. Or a state of the art
computer.

So many students nowadays have
found the government a convenient
way to live beyond their means. Just
look around the school at all the
DKNY clothes. Or the Gap clothes.
Or Tommy Hilfiger pasted on every-
thing to drive up the price 600%.
Or look at all the Nike apparel

around. These are not inexpensive

 

A typical Douglas student car

clothes, but expensive status symbols
worn by people who are insecure
about who they are. In a mere ten
minute glance around the main con-
course, a crack Other Press investiga-
tive team saw that not less than
89% of all clothing worn had some
designer's logo on it. The most pop-
ular of which was Mr. Hilfiger.
Ironically, most of these trendy
expensive fashions have very little
material in them (normal thinking
people would associate the amount
of material in clothing to be the set-
ting point of the price), allowing
women’s bra straps to poke through
on the shoulders.

This ts not to say that nobody
should have nice clothes, but be fru-
gal. People also buy home stereos
with their student loans, as though a
stereo were an essential part of a
college education. A quick perusal '
of the underground parking lot
yielded five convertible Mazda

   

Annette Martin Photo

   
  

tas, 23.s watiity vehicles, two
Honda CRX's, a convertible BMW,
a regular BMW, a Porsche, and two
Corvettes. And the cars are all with-
in a few years of being purchased.
Very few (if any) of these cars are
used models. Apparently, the old

 

starving student stereotype has been
replaced with the rich, whining stu-
dent complaining about how bad off
they are. Cars and stereos are things
that could not be purchased without
the help of a student loan. What
people don’t seem to realize is that
you have to give the money back
after you leave school and get a job
with that useless arts degree. Why
not try living within your means?
Many students get along just fine by
working over the summer, and saving
that money for tuition and living
expenses during the year rather than
pissing it away at the bar with bud-
dies. Yet, a majority of students
must feel that working is beneath
them, and that the world owes them
a living. These
people will make
very responsible
adults when the
real world hits
home. Agreed,
working during
the year takes
away from your
study time, but
how many stu-
dents who don't
work take a walk
down to the pub or take a drive in
one of those BMW’s that adorn the
parking lot? It must be nice to be
rich.

This is not to take away from
those students who genuinely need a
student loan. If you need the money
for rent and food’ and tuition and
books, power to you. If you work,
and scrimp, and save, and take a loan
to make ends meet, no problem.
This piece is not for you, but for
those that use the loan system as a
prosthesis instead of the cane that it
was intended to be. Those of us
who work hard to avoid the loan
and the hefty debt incurred after
school, and those of us that take a
sum of cash from the government in
order to get an education and better
ourselves without spending like
morons, flip all of you—who drive
up interest rates and make those
loans harder to get for those who

need them—the bird.

Vege

The tragic
product of a
World Gone Mad

KIMBERLY MILLER

his isn’t the part they were
meant to play on life’s great
stage. There was a script

 

rewrite somewhere along the way
and no one thought to tell the
props.

They didnt realize the gravity of
the situation until it was too late to
do anything except be consumed by
the moment. But now they're seri-
ously choked. Is this the dawning of
the age of asparagus? A time when
peas can be spread to all the
enslaved Veggie races and cultures?
Perhaps, my friends, perhaps.

If only we, made conscious of
our vegetarian focused perversities,
can come to their aid in this hour
(give or take a few minutes) of
need.

At the core of this issue is our
human obstinacy. We do not hear
the agonized cries of our Veggie
brethren (and sistren) as we so
coldly topple them into the depths
of juicers and blenders the world
over.

We force ourselves to ignore the
sight of cucumbers cruelly mutated
and trapped in impenetrable glass
jars lining supermarket shelves,
mocked by the sight of fresh pro-
duce in its comparative state of
freedom. Is this humane? Is this
just? Can we sit idly by as this mass
Vegecide movement (no doubt per-

Letter

S a born again Christian

with a sincere love for Jesus

Christ and respect for His
teachings in the Bible—teachings
which if followed can help one
develop wisdom, discernment,
prudence, and knowledge of right
living—I take grave offense to the
publication of your Reverend Tom
column. This column seems
focused on making ignorant,
contemptuous, defamatory and

 

Vegetable corpses, all in a row, pile,
whatever. OP File P

petrated by that most foul
Vegetarian Faction) crawls ever
onwards beneath our very noses?

I do not doubt that animals
more easily gain our sympathy a
affections. Sure, it’s easy to love
things with eyes and noses and
such endearing bits and pieces o
anatomy. But this is so superfici
Will you take the life of a carrot
simply because of its colour, its
ture, its wrinkled flesh? For sha

Vegetables have suffered too |
the oppression from their anim
cousins, scorned by creatures ru
ning free whilst they lay penned
and helpless in crude backyard g
dens. But no more! Rise with m
comrades! Spare a beet and eat
beef! Forget veal and concentrat
your horror and disgust on the
natal baby carrots so brutally re
from their kinfolk!

If you prick them, are they n
pricked? If you bite a beet, does
not bleed? Or at least ooze? Ple
join the LTV (Liberate The
Vegetables) movement, while th
still time.

malicious comments about the
Christian faith, God, Jesus Chris
and the Bible. Such reckless
disregard for the Truths expresse
in Christianity should be
unacceptable in a publication
representing Douglas College—
college where people of all faith
are welcome and free to live thei
faiths in peace.

Maureen Bai

 

 

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