A brave new Other Press S° we've somehow made it all the way into 2018. While that may be a little less exciting than the 40-year anniversary we welcomed two years ago (established 1976, yo) it is still a cause for celebration. Every so often the Other Press decides to print a themed issue, and every so often happened to be this very week. You, Dear Reader, have in your hands the Other Press’ Futurism issue, because we figured what better time to write about the future than when we are already living in it—or at least it feels that way. 2018 is not a year that has much significance in the grand scheme of pop-culture. It isn’t the titular year from George Orwell’s 1984, it isn’t the Rm 1020 — 700 Royal Ave. Douglas College New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 & 604.525.3542 Chandler Walter Editor-in-Chief M editor@theotherpress.ca a Jake Wray News Editor © news@theotherpress.ca 4 Jessica Berget 7%, Opinions Editor ii M opinions@theotherpress.ca Mercedes Deutscher Social Media Coordinator € me M multimedia@theotherpress.ca USN &4 dystopian future Blade Runner depicted, nor is it the year that Marty McFly travelled to in Back To the Future. But, to me at least—a guy who spent the majority of the early 2000s growing up—finding myself on the tail end of the 2010S is a very strange thing. 2020 always seemed so far away, something that I never really gave much thought to... kind of just how much I’ve considered what my life will be like on the other side of 25; both hurtling towards me faster now than ever before. Enough about me and my ramblings on how omg time keeps moving ever onward!!?! This already half-finished Lettitor is about this paper. The Other Press, as mentioned in my last Lettitor of 2017, has gone through @ theotherpress.ca M editor@theotherpress.ca ¥ © /theotherpress f/DouglasOtherPress ge Rebecca Peterson Assistant Editor aA\ M assistant@theotherpress.ca Caroline Ho Arts Editor © arts@theotherpress.ca fr) Brittney MacDonald = Life & Style Editor M lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca Klara Woldenga Humour Editor © humour@theotherpress.ca i Kwiigay iiwans Layout Manager M layout@theotherpress.ca Still from ‘Back to the Future Part II’ some significant changes. We have lost our Sports Editor, Davie Wong (don't worry, he’s not dead or anything, though he may soon freeze—he moved to Calgary) and we've been left with the absence of a Sports Section. Our news team will be pulling that weight by incorporating Douglas College sports into their section, though the days of fully athletic pages are officially at an end. As such, we have removed one physical page from the paper, resulting in four pages of content being cut. If you dont really get how one becomes four (I didn't either), pull a page out and count how many distinct sides it has, and it should all become crystal clear. We've done this in a hotly-debated attempt to cut down on fluff, trim the fat, value quality over quantity, or whatever other relevant cliché youd like to go with. We're hoping to improve going into 2018, to put it simply, for our readers here at Douglas College, but also for ourselves as aspiring journalists, writers, photographers, and illustrators. I just hope I don’t mess it all up. Fingers crossed. Cheers, Che hha, Wal Anyway, we've cut the pages down, Angela Ho Business Manager Jacey Gibb Distribution Manager Lauren Kelly Graphics Manager Elizabeth Jacob Production Assistant Cara Seccafien Illustrator Colten Kamlade Staff Reporter Greg Waldock, Jillian McMullen, and Katie Czenczek Staff Writers Analyn Cuarto Staff Photographer Jerrison Oracion, Duncan Fingarson Senior Colomnist Sophie Isbister Columnists resulting in one page coming out of Arts. v Chandler Walter The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the student union. We are a registered society under the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board of directors appointed by our staff. Our head office is located in the New Westminster campus. The Other Press is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly during the summer. We receive our funding from a student levy collected through tutition fees every semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers that includes papers from all across Canada. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what we will publish, and we will not publish material that is hateful, obscene, or condones or promotes illegal activities. Submissions may be edited for clarity and brevity if necessary. All images used are copyright to their respective owners.