4 wT Charlie's in trouble...again By: Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter harlie Sheen was found ( naked and a little under the influence in a trashed hotel room of New York’s Plaza Hotel early last week. As told by officers, a woman was found in Sheen’s completely messy hotel room early in the morning on Tuesday, October 26. The woman was also found naked and hiding from Sheen in the bathroom. The woman has now been identified as a 22 year old porn star named Capri Anderson. According to-other sources, Anderson has told some of her friends that she was “extremely afraid” of Sheen because of whatever he was doing, and she was also “extremely upset” that Sheen was labelling © her as an escort — rather than the company that she was representing. Anderson called hotel security after things got “out of hand” and she felt threatened. The hotel called the police right after her phone call to the staff. This was the first time Sheen and Anderson had met. After they went out for the night, they allegedly had a “great time” and it was only until later on in the night when things got crazy. Sheen admitted to press and officers that he had done cocaine that night in addition to drinking. After the cocaine was in Sheen’s system was when the damage started. As for the hotel room, the hotel and press estimate that the damages will cost up to $7,000. Sheen has promised to the hotel and press that he will pay for all of the damages. Sheen’s reputation is going through a bit of a downward spiral because of this story, and he says he will “do what he can to make it up.” Jam packed action at Douglas College for November By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter to be rainy, but Douglas has some events to keep student’s spirits up in the dark month of November. Starting on Friday, November 5, the Douglas College Studio Theatre in the New West campus will be presenting the Departments of Theatre and Stagecraft and Event Technology: Denmark by Stephen Drover. This is based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. For complete show times and schedules you can go to the Douglas College Arts Events website — the show runs until November 13. For all you gamers, on Tuesday November 9 there is a Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Black Ops tournament. This will be located in the lower cafeteria in New West from 4:30-8:30 pm. There will be a split screen local play tournament draw and game options will be e-mailed to all of those who register. Also, starting on Friday, November 12 the Laura C. Muir Performing Arts Theatre presents: The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford [= going to be cold and it’s going 4 Wilson. This play is set in the mid twentieth century in Eldrich, Missouri, and it is about a decaying religious town that was once a successful mining community. This play has everything, including conflicts, sex and murder. If you’ re in to critical thinking, then on Monday, November 22 there is a Critical Thinking Leadership Workshop. This is also held in New West and in room 1717. This leadership workshop will discuss how leadership and critical thinking is related, and is taught by Brian Storey who works at Douglas College as well as being on the board for Critical Thinking Consortium. Lastly, every weekend there will be a sporting event. Every Friday will have basketball; the first Friday will be the opening game at New West, and the other events in future weeks will be held at various schools. The same goes for volleyball, there will be games every Friday, although the first game of the month will be held at Selkirk College. For more information on college events, check out the events calendar on the Douglas college website. Sign Language Program Wins Award By Maria Asselin-Roy, Staff Reporter North American sign language award was given o the language interpreter department of Douglas College. Douglas is the first post secondary institution to win this nation wide award; it was given for the college’s contributions to the field. Sorenson Communications gave the 2010 Video Relay Service Interpreter Education Program Award of Excellence to Douglas’s Program of Sign Language Interpretation last week. The award is given annually to an interpreter education program that is making a meaningful contribution, usually by expanding the current curriculum and delivering for the ever-increasing demand for sign language interpreters. Jan Carrie, the Dean of Child, Family, and Community studies at the college says that this is an incredible award of excellence for all of North America, and for Douglas College to receive it says a lot for the program. The coordinator of the Douglas College Sign Language Interpretation program agrees and also says that “the award reflects the program’s uniqueness and dedication to it’s students.” Over the past twenty years, the program has had extensive support and much encouragement from the local deaf and interpreting communities. The curriculum is also widely acknowledged as state-of-the- art in the field and draws in students from numerous cities that are looking to work with sign language. The program works so that each student is focused on individually so they can achieve the best results in learning to develop their skills. The standards are fairly high because of the reputation Douglas College has with this program, as many of the students who graduated are some of the best qualified ASL-English interpreters in the business. Because of all the hard work the program has put in to its students and faculty, the program will receive a cash award of $10,000 with an additional $5,500 in credits to purchase different materials. The award is coming from Sorensen Communications which is an American company that provides video relay service for deaf individuals. They are-also the largest supplier of the service in North America and have operations not only across B.C. but across Canada as well.