The Other Press has been
accused of stealing a couch
from the. Student Society
lounge. What had started as

some affectionally know as
the Other Mess may have
escalated to an all out war
between members of the OP

piece of furniture..

The incident ~- began last
Thursday afternoon when two

saw fit to relieve the student
lounge of a semi-delapidated
couch, wedged between the
wall and several other pieces
of furniture, and put it where
it would be of far greater use,

within the office of the Other
Press.

A visibly shaken Kevin Hall-
gate (father figure of the
Douglas College Student Soc-
iety) came over to the OP

joffice and said, ‘‘What do

you think you guys are do-
ing? That couch is Student
Society property. If you don’t

won't pay you the $245.45 we
owe you in ad payments. Now
do you really think that sofa
is worth $2452’’

After half an hour of at-
tempting to remove the couch
it was decided that the only
honorable thing to do would
be to draft and pass a motion
to the effect that the OP
would keep the couch and
send the motion to Hallgate.
It goes as follows...

Other Motion

Whereas: The members of
the Other Publications Society

are all students of Douglas

College, and

Whereas; all of the members
of TOPS have paid student
fees, and

Whereas; there is a desperate
need for a couch within the
confines of the other Press
Office, and

Whereas; the confines of the
Other Press are within the
confines of the student cafe-
teria, and.

Whereas; within the students
lounge lie a number of
couches in various stages of
use and abuse; said lounge
lounge is also located ‘within
the confines of the student
cafeteria, and

Whereas; students of Douglas
College are free to use any

 

ae within the confines

a minor facelifting of what .

members of the Other Press.

bring it back to where you -
found it, in one hour, we

   

and the DCSS...all over a bee

a couch.

[From left to right] Lina Meagher,. Perry.
Obedinski, Ian Hunter, Roo Anthony, Clair
Christian, Helene Wistoski and Paul Sum
prove that the Other Press does indeed need

The Other Press

   

and several

Thwates].

Those intending to disprove the
motion were Cal Reyburn, Warren Laine,
Christopher Page, Tom Goode, Peter Julian

December 9th 1981 to 1982

 

people who shall remain

nameless because we forgot. [Photo by Rick

An Other sick

of the Other Press (including
couches), and

Whereas; the staff of the
Other Press, in a collective
decision, moved a then un-
occupied couch from the
south west corner of the
confines of the cafeteria,
therefore,

Be it Resolved That the Other
Press should be allowed to
have said couch within the
confines of the Other Press
with no punitive action (such
as witholding of ad payments)
being taken by the Student
Society.

The next morning a letter
arrived from the Student Soc-
iety in response to the OP
motion.

The Other Press
Publications Society
Douglas College
New Westminster
Box 2503

The Other Press, Re: Furn-
iture re-allocation

| have brought to the atten-
tion of Multi‘Campus Council
the theft of one couch from
the New Westminster Student
Lounge and after much dis-
cussion about your aptly
worded request of said stolen
couch, Multi Campus Council
has directed me to present
for your viewing a motion
passed in regard to above
topic.

Whereas: it is the belief of
M.C.C. that all monies spent
on behalf of the students of
Douglas College should be of
benefit to all students.

Whereas: It is not the duty of
the Douglas College Student
Society membership to funish
office space for the auto-
nomous self collecting Other
Press Publications Society,

Whereas: the staff of The
Other Press Publications Soc-
iety have, without consulta-
tion with the Executive of
Multi Campus Council, re-
moved by under handed
means, the property of Doug-
las college students,

Whereas; we have placed a
value of two hundred and
forty-five dollars and ninety-
five cents ($245.95) plus sales
tax of $22.14 on the aboved
mentioned couch, ;

And Whereas: the above
mentioned couch in now re-
siding in the -autonomous
Other Press Publications Soc-
iety Business Office: we have
unanimously agreed to make
available to you at ten per
cent discount, ownership of
the aforementioned couch. In
the event that you do not
desire to purchase, a suitable
leasing plan will be made
available. If neither of these
alternatives meets with your
satisfaction, we would expect
to see the couch replaced in

the Douglas College McBride
site student lounge.

Kevin Hallgate
President, D.C.S.S.

A visibly shaken Other Press
staff then collectively decided
to make the Other Corner
question: ‘‘Do you think the
Other Press should be al-
lowed to keep the couch
without being charged foi
it?’’ they also decided to try
and rally student support for
the OP. A Save the Sofa fund
was thought of and dismiss-
ed. Blocking the doors to the
Student Society with all the
furniture in the student
lounge and proclaiming that
“we are doing now to the
Student Society what the Stu-
dent Society would someday
like to do ‘to the Other
Press,’’ but this was thought
to be too radical by some of
the more conservative mem-
bers of the staff.

It was finally decided to
draft and pass another motion
to the Student Society, as
follows...

We’re pleased that some
discussion resulted from our
last communique, although
we do have some mixed
feelings about . 2 finer points
of your offer, which seems to
be a little exorbitant (read:
extortionate).

Whereas: It is the belief of

The Other

Society that the figure two-
hundren and forty-five dollars
ninety-five cents ($245.95),

~ plus sales tax of $22.14, for a

grand total of $268.09, as a
realistic value of said chester-
field amounts to something
very like blackmail. = _
Whereas; We promised not to
restrict access to the chester-
field; it was hidden before
now anyway when it was in
the cafeteria.

Whereas; The cafeteria is
certainly not lacking in decor:
there as five (5) other chest-
terfields (of similar dimen-
sions as the one presently in
our office), and six (6) large
armchairs. an
Whereas; Other students see
fit to -move the . existing
furniture from pillar to post
in the cafeteria (albeit within
the confines of the ‘‘alcove’’),
without any threats from
other students or the Student

Society...
Whereas; We did not con-
sider our action ‘’under-

handed’’, but merely a sign
of initiative; after all, we had
spent the day cleaning our
office, and we thought, owing.
to the surplus of.furniture in
the cafeteria, that a chester-
field in our. office might
make it:a nice addition with-_
out detracting from the orig-
inal scheme of the alcove.
And Whereas: The Other
Publications Society is now
ptaced in ‘a tenuous financial
situation because of your
ultimatum and our present
shortage of capital. We would
however, be willing to cont-
inue negotiations (read: bar-
ter), and , hopefully, reach a
decision that is feasible for
both parties.

What we have here is a
question of principles, which
cannot easily be rectified by
monetary means. It is unfor-
tunate that there were out-
standing debts, which can be
used as ransom.

Please reconsider your re-
sponse to our action, which
was excecuted with the best
of intentions. We regret any
inconvenience this incident
may have caused, but, be-
lieve it or not, we have ethics

as well.
Sorry, Dad.

The other Press received no
official word back from the
Student Society but the mat-
ter is expected to be resolved
at the next multi Campus

Publications Council Meeting.

 

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