November 19, 2003 From The Editor The secret to debt is to get in as deep as possible. I am thirty-thousand dollars in student loan debt after four years of college. The way I figure it, if ] want to continue to get educated I better stick with it because one days those fools (the government, that is) will cut-off student loans all together. Then what? It will be like a pay and go phone—You don't pay, you don’t go. I am just finishing up my Arts transfer and my Print Futures diplomas. Then what? I should go get a job? I don’t feel satisfied yet. There is more I want to know. I don’t know what my life long career will be and shouldn't I try to get educated in as many areas while I still have the chance? Once I go back out into the workforce it is just too hard to go back to school. I have been here four long, hard years. But I have learned so much. I have learned what I want to do, what I don’t want to do, and about myself. I have worked in various departments of the college and really, I am not ready to say goodbye. What about my two friends sitting back-to-back in the dim office of Event? What about stuffing envelopes like there is no tomorrow up in the CMO? And really, say so long to the fame and fortune that the Other Press provides me with. No way. Since I have been involved at my daughter’s elementary school I have stirred up my childhood dream of working with kids. When I was just a young lass all I wanted to do when I grew up was get married, have babies, then work as a kindergarten teacher once my kids entered full day school. No, I am not going to be a teacher. But I am seri- ously considering taking the Child and Youth Care Counsellor program here at Douglas College. I have to think of way to make all areas of my life coin- cide. I think this is it. I get to work with kids, I get to be around before and after school for my own child, and I would have the time to do freelance writing and editing. But will they accept me? Have I been too candid in the past? Who am I kidding, no one reads the Other Press. (I really hope that’s not true. I know Ingrid is sitting on pins and needles waiting for my next column) Then it’s settled. I will be a professional student until the end of time. Well until I am thirty. But just think, I will have finished three diplomas and be able to work in many different fields. I am giving back to the communi- ty. Okay, but don’t hold me to my position because I still have some thinking to do. What do you think I should do? Until next time my pretties, Managing Editor Kerry Evans e the other press © Contents 2 Mailbag News 4 Finding Beds—Finding Money 4 Shuswap First Nations Salvage Burnt Lumber 4 The Chinese Court S US Loses Steel Battle—Can They Survive the War? 6 Official Opening of The Bug Lab Opinions 7 Death—An Unused Resource i Packin’ It In, Packin’ It On—Who’s to Blame for Fat Kids? 8 Science Matters 8 Paparazzi 9 The Canadian Way 9 The Third Degree 10 Right Hook 10 Editorial Cartoon 11 Pride Column—Over the Rainbow 11 Maher Arar Got Screwed Features 12 Community Healthcare Laboratories Dis-eased by Victoria’s Plans 13. Censorship at Amnesty International Film Festival 14 Shaun Majumder: Up Close and Personal Culture 16 What’s On Around Town 16 This Week in History 17. ~~ A Mighty Wind: Live in Concert Tes ee 18 Inspiration with a Touch of Discontent—Life’s Like That 19 The Laramie Project 20 Joel Plaskett Emergency 21 Paint the Town Red (and Green) Gallery 22 Photo[graphic] 23 Poetry/Fiction/Essays/etc. Sports 24 Partnering Up to Form Badminton Academy 24 Men’s Soccer Team Makes Trip to National Soccer Tournament 24 Women’s Rugby 25 =~ Mariners Steal Opportunity from Royals 26 Mascot Welcomes Royals Back to the Den 26 Canucks Corner 27 Classifieds for publication the following Wednesday. Letters to mitted to the editor via email: The Other Press Submission Guidelines The weekly deadline for submissions is Wednesday Kerry Evans at: editor@otherpress.ca All other submissions should be forwarded to the Culture Amanda Aikman: submit_to_culture@yahoo.ca the Editor, vacant sections, and “time sensitive” arti- appropriate section editor below. Please include your cles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will name, phone number/email address, the word count, be accepted until Saturday midnight and can be sub- and submit via email as an MS Word.doc attachment to the attention of the appropriate editor. News Kelly Parry: kelly-parry@telus.net Representative Opinions Kali Thurber: opinionsubmit@hotmail.com Features Barbara K. Adamski: featureseditor@otherpress.ca Sports Adam Gordon: desportseditor@yahoo.ca David Lam Vacant: editor@otherpress.ca http://www.otherpress.ca Page 3