THE OTHER PRESS Contents | January 15 2007 4 Snow Replaces Lumber As The Leading BC Export. Cold Times In A Hot . Economy! OPINIONS 6 Less Talk, More Snowshoes. Forget Tai-Bo, This Is The New Style! ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 9 The Hidden Danger Of Pointy Snowman Noses Kevin Lalonde Goes In-Depth On This Major Safety Violation. FEATURES -14Ski Goggles Are Go! SPORTS * 17 Ice Ice Baby Cool As Ice. 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 lain 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 CONTRIBUTORS FEATURES EDITOR Travis Paterson opfeatures@gmail.com FICTION EDITOR Sajia Kabir sajiakabir@yahoo.com PROOFREADER Vince Yim vinceyim@hotmail.com GRAPHICS Vacant LAYOUT Angela Blattmann boomboomdarkroom@yahoo.ca PHOTOGRAPHY Angel Desjariais seraph3000@hotmail.com Alex King, Ryan Unger, JJ McCullough, Ed Ronald, Luke Simcoe, Jeff Hammersmark 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. WEBIL.T. Ed ‘The Western Stranger with a disk drive’ Keech other_press@shaw.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Mr. Derek OFFICE MANAGER J.J. ‘Velvet’ McCullough wart_mamu@yahoo.com ACCOUNTANT Alyona Luganskaya tradexlic@hotmail.com ILLUSTRATOR J.J. McCullough wart_mamu@yahoo.com ADVERTISING MANAGER Luke Simcoe lukesimcoe@yahoo.ca SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The weekly deadline for submissions is Wednesday for publication the following Wednesday. Letters to the Editor, vacant sections, and “time-sensitive” articles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted until Saturday noon and can be submitted to the editor at othereditor@yahoo.ca All other submissions should be forwarded to the appropriate section editor. Please include your name, phone number/email address, and word count, and sub- mit via email as an MS Word.doc attachment to the atten tion of the appropriate editor. The Other Press is run by a collective, which means a decisions are reached via a democratic voting process. Membership in the voting collective is open to any perso who has contributed to at least two of three consecutive issues. Those interested in joining the Other Press collec tive should contact the editor at othereditor@yahoo.ca News opnewseditor@gmail.com Features Sports opfeatures@gmail.com opsports@gmail.com Opinions A&E opinionsubmit@hotmail.com aeditor@gmail.com We receive our funding from a student levy collected every semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member 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 nec- essary. All images are copyright to their respective owners.