The Other Press www.theotherpress.ca THE OTHER PRESS Student Newspaper of Douglas College PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 Room 1020 — 700 Douglas College Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 EDITOR IN CHIEF Liam Britten editor@theotherpress.ca ASSISTANT EDITOR Shawna Swatez assistant@theotherpress.ca ACCOUNTANT AND BUSINESS MANAGER Mark Fisher accounting@theotherpress.ca NEWS EDITOR Nikalas Kryzanowski news@theotherpress.ca ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Matthew Steinbech associate@theotherpress.ca SPORTS EDITOR Garth McLennan sports@theotherpress.ca ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR OPINIONS EDITOR Matthew Steinbach opinions@theotherpress.ca HUMOUR EDITOR Liam Britten humour@theotherpress.ca GRAPHICS Timothy Arndt graphics@theotherpress.ca LAYOUT Brian Yoo layout@theotherpress.ca PHOTOGRAPHER Shannon MacKay shannon.mackay@gmail.com This Week's Headlines October 6, 2008 Do we have election coverage this issue? Spoiler Alert: We do. | By Matthew Steinbach, page 4 - 7 | Is technology really helping us to stay connected? I'll text you the answer after I E check my Facebook. By Crystal Auffray, page 8 New Westminster’s Tony Pep Talks about all things boxing s By Garth McLennan, page 12-13 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Why Parez Hilton is the best thing on the Interweb. By Chloé Bach, Page 16 ; Time is running out for Khabibulin’s NHL career eee SS By Garth McLennan, page 18 ’ re WRITE FOR US! WEBSITE EDITOR/I.T. Angela Szczur web@theotherpress.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Garth McLennan sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted until Saturday at noon and can be submitted to the editor at editor@theotherpress.ca Anyone can get published in the en will be edited for clarity and NEWS SUBMISSIONS Other Press! Just email your story to the style. news @theotherpress.ca appropriate section editor from the list on The Other Press will pay $50 to any + : the right. student who writes an article of at least SPORTS SUBMISSIONS Please send your file as an MS Word its words = the a enn : sports @theotherpress.ca doc file, and include your full name, email ubmit story ideas to the Editor in Chief. address, and word count. Offer good once per semester per student. A&E SUBMISSIONS The weekly deadline for submissions The Other Press holds weekly staff arts@theotherpress.ca is Wednesday night for publication the meetings at 6 PM on Mondays in room FEATURE ARTICLES following Monday. Letters to the Editor and 1020 of the New Westminster campus. All editor@theotherpress.ca “time-sensitive” articles (weekend news, interested students are welcome. dl sane OPINION SUBMISSIONS opinions @theotherpress.ca WHO WE ARE 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. Today we are registered society under the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board of directors appointed by and from 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. 3