January 31, 1977 the other press page 7 Rugby teams split with | U of W The Douglas College Rugby Club opened its spring itinerary with two matches against the University of Washington Hus- kies in Seattle on Saturday, and came away with a win and a loss. The second team lost 13-4 to the Huskies second squad. The Douglas forwards were far sup- erior to their opponents, but the Douglas backs were sadly out- classed. Thus on the few occa- sions that the Huskies backs did get the ball from their forwards, they either scored or threatened to score. The sole touchdown for Douglas was scored by Larry Backs, who, incidentally is a forward. The Douglas first team fared better and dominated play early ‘in the game to go ahead 10-0. But the Huskies never quit and in the second half Douglas poured on the pressure to go ahead 15-10. This seemed to jolt the young Canucks back to their senses as they again switched into top gear to score two touchdowns in the last seven minutes of the game to win 20-15. This was a most improved Huskies Club over the teams that got thrashed by Douglas last year to the tune of 22-0 and, believe it or not, 80-4! As usual, the Americans proved great hosts and provided much mer- riment for the Douglas teams after the games. Scorers for Douglas were Dave Jagger and Jamie Booth with touchdowns, Mark An- drews with 2 touchdowns and Burt Kirby and Dave Jagger with a convert each. seemed to tire and in a space of ten minutes the University track... sports Ski trip a success The annual Douglas College ski trip to Crystal Mountain, Jan. 9-14, was a tremendous success this year...there was even some skiing at times. During one 24 hour period, over 100 gallons of beer was consumed by the 70 skiers, and needless to say, they all had a good time of it. The snow conditions at Cry- stal, when they arrived, weren’t much better than the local mountains, just as rocky and icy. The luck of the Canadians “ paid off though, not long after they arrived the snow began to fall, leaving about ten inches of fine white powder. Crystal is a massive moun- tain, with 29 different runs, seven chairs, three tow ropes and two t-bars. Unfortunately, only three of the seven chairs were in operation, but the Douglas College ski club was the only group of people on the mountain. This year, the ski club broke all records made by the club last year. Some of the records broken were: most beer con- sumed (224 gallons), most hours spent in a washroom being sick--6 hours, most broken win- dows (five). Also, the highest number of skinny dippers in the heated outdoor pool (seven). The lack of snow was a bad break for the people that hadn’t been to Crystal before because two of the mountains most famous features were closed. One was the Campbell basin chair lift, which is apparently the longest continuous chair in North America. This chair stretches one and half times as far as the red chair at Whistler. From the top of the Campbell basin chair there is about 5 miles of continuous skiing. Thgre are runs to satisfy the fresh beginner or the maniac hot dog skier. Another feature that Crystal is famous for is a run called exterminator. This run is well named, it is about 2 miles of an almost vertical mogul field. The run is fairly wide’ open and ends in a] spectacular jump, formerly used by the U.S. Ski team. Some people took advantage of a fantastic sale that the Crystal Ski Shop had, while we were there. There was 30 per cent knocked off all items in the store which were normally lower than what we pay in Vancouver anyway. Some examples of the bargains were Olin Mark IV skis for $125.00 and top of the line Scott poles for $17.00 The Douglas College Ski Club trips to Crystal Mt. are an annual event, and hopefully the tradition will be continue? next year. There have been rumors of a spring trip to Crystal as the people there expect the skiing to last into June. So keep your eyes and ears open and pray for more snow. Intramural KATHERINE OF NEILSEN Welcome to something different-sorta. This is a weekly column of idiocy, ridicule and blatant stupidity. Nothing here is the opinion of the staff of the other press, the readers or the author. These are just senseless wanderings of an even more senseless mind. I also do requests, so if there is someone you have a grudge against and would like to see publically humiliated, just ask. To begin this trek across nowhere here’s ‘‘What I did on my Christmas Vacation.’’. ‘T reread an old Penthouse underlining the verbs. I repeated the name Naomi until my lips went numb. Islept. Dreams...dreams...strange, strange dreams. I dreamt I was dying...my life passing before my eyes...growing up in Switzerland...Sven showing me how to ski...going down to the village to get some goats milk for mama...and I realized the wrong life was passing before my | eyes. Undaunted, I died and went to that big tutorial in the sky...I had been wondering for some time if the ‘‘pearly gates’’ of heaven were not really carefully disguised linoleum, but there was only a turnstile (a la Shoppers, Drug Mart)... I signed in (noticing the number of Mr. and Mrs. J. Smiths’ on the books) and made my way toward afterlife...Unfortun- ately no jeans were allowed so I couldn’t go in...... What do the words ‘‘Derwood Kirby’’ make you think of? Send responses to the offices of the Other Press. My excuse for all this is my home life. My father used to eat popcorn with a fork. planned for new semester GABOR HAROMPOLY Douglas College is off on another semester and intramur- als are soon to follow. We have a fairly extensive list of planned activities and these are just a few of them: Soccer, Ice Hoc- key, Volleyball, Badminton, Floor Hockey, Inner-tube and Waterpolo, and Flag football. All sports will probably be co-ed and will get underway as soon as response is greater. Some other possible activities are Frisbee, 2-on-2 basketball, Darts, Duplicate Bridge, Under- water Hockey and Curling. Anyone interested is asked to contact the people in the intra- murals office, (Formerly the athletics store-room) and sign up for these activities. There is also a list of free swimming times posted. on the intramural bulletin board. DOUGLAS COLLEGE TOTEM CONFERENCE HOCKEY SCHEDULE Jan. 31 - Monday, 7:30 p.m. Cloverdale Arena - vs. Trinity Western Feb. 10 - Thursday, 7:45 p.m. Newton Arena - vs. Langara (vce) Feb. 14- Monday, 7:30 p.m. Cloverdale Arena - vs. Capi!ano College College dates: Jan. 22 and March 12. Intramurals ice time Intramural hockey and skating clinics will take place every Saturday from Nov. 27 to Dec. 11, and from Jan. 15 to March 19, at the Queens’ Park Arena from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., except the following The Douglas College Over-30 men’s basketball team will prac- tice again Nov. 24, 5-6:30 p.m. | at the Queen’s Park Arenex. Our first basketball game will take place Nov. 25. Co-ed Floor Hockey Do you like fast moving sports, with close body contact? Do you like group activity? Maybe you’re one of those who like to work out until you reach the point of physical exhaustion! Come out and have fun playing co-ed Floor Hockey with other ‘students on Friday afternoons, from 4:30 to 6:00 at the New West YM-YWCA. Ping - Pong Attention all you Ping-Pong enthusiasts. The first Annual Douglas College Intramural Ping-Pong tournament has be- gun. Check the schedule by the ping-pong table in the cafeteria for player match-ups. Check to see who you play against and phone him up to arrange a playing time. Winners and losers be sure to write your name on the board. Two competition paddles will be avilable in the Athletic storeroom during business hours. Thank you and good luck.