The Other Press THE OTHER PRESS - PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 Room 1020 — 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 FAX: 604.525.3505 EDITOR IN CHIEF Trevor Hargreaves editor.otherpress @ gmail.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Tain Reeve op.associate @ gmail.com NEWS EDITOR Nicole Burton opnewseditor@ gmail.com SPORTS EDITOR Steph ‘Tank’ Smith op.sports @ gmail.com ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Kevin ‘Yes Conference’ Lalonde aeditor@ gmail.com OPINIONS EDITOR Brady Ehler bradyehler@ gmail.com FEATURES EDITOR Travis Paterson opfeatures@ gmail.com PROOFREADER Vince Yim vinceyim@hotmail.com GRAPHICS Azadeh Etemadi et_azadeh@yahoo.ca LAYOUT Angela Blattmann boomboomdarkroom@ yahoo.ca PHOTOGRAPHY Angel Desjarlais seraph3000@hotmail.com WEB/LT. Ed ‘The Western Stranger with a disk drive’ Keech other_press@shaw.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Derek Ungless apres SUBMISSION GUIDELINES J.J. ‘Velvet’ McCullough sir ase Sage The weekly deadline for submissions is address, and word count, and submit via NEWS ACCOUNTANT Wednesday for publication the following email as an MS Word.doc attachment to the opnewseditor@ gmail.com Mark Fisher Wednesday. Letters to the Editor, vacant attention of the appropriate editor. SPORTS sections, and “time-sensitive” articles The Other Press is run by a collective, opsports@ gmail.com ILLUSTRATOR (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) | which means all decisions are reached via a A&E J.J. McCullough will be accepted until Saturday noon andcan democratic voting process. Membership in . . wart_mamu@ yahoo.com be submitted to the editor at: othereditor@ the voting collective is open to any person eodibons gmail.com ADVERTISING MANAGER yahoo.ca who has contributed to at least two of three FEATURES ; Take Simeone All other submissions should be forwarded consecutive issues. Those interested in opfeatures @ gmail.com lukesimcoe@yahoo.ca to the appropriate section editor. Please joining the Other Press collective should OPINIONS include your name, phone number/email contact the editor at othereditor@ yahoo.ca opinionsubmit @hotmail.com NEWS PG 4 > SECRET TRIALS! RITY CERTIFICATES TE HUMAN RIGHTS! . OPINIONS PG 6 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PG 11 FEATURES PG 8 SPORTS PG 14 Contents March 21, 2007 CONTRIBUTORS semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member Luke Simcoe, Mark Fisher, Pat McKenzie, Chelsea Mushaluk, L.S., Stephanie Smith. of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a cooperative of student newspapers from across Canada. We adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common Principles and Code of Ethics—except when it suits us not to. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what to publish, and will not publish material that is racist, sexist, or homophobic. Submissions may be edited for clarity and brevity if necessary. All images are copyright to their respective owners. The Other Press is Douglas College’s autonomous student newspaper. The Other Press is run by a collective and is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly (as a magazine) during the summer. We receive our funding from a student levy collected every 2