The Other Press www.otherpress.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 J.J. McCullough editor@theotherpress.ca ASSISTANT EDITOR Laura Kelsey assistant@theotherpress.ca ACCOUNTANT AND BUSINESS MANAGER Mark Fisher accountant@theotherpress.ca NEWS EDITOR Nikalas Kryzanowski news@theotherpress.ca ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR Monica Carino associate@theotherpress.ca SPORTS EDITOR Garth McLennan sports@theotherpress.ca ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Luke Simcoe arts@theotherpress.ca OPINIONS EDITOR Aimee Ouellette opinions@theotherpress.ca HUMOUR EDITOR Liam Britten humour@theotherpress.ca GRAPHICS Brian Yoo graphics@theotherpress.ca LAYOUT Angela Blattmann layout@theotherpress.ca PHOTOGRAPHER Shannon MacKay shannon.mackay@gmail.com WEB/I.T. Angela Szczur web@theotherpress.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Garth McLennan (acting) ADVERTISING MANAGER Luke Simcoe lukesimcoe@yahoo.ca This Week’s Headlines April 7, 2008 Outsiders beat establishment in student union election. So what happened? | -Nikalas Kryzanowski, page 4 Men need to grow up when it comes to dealing with menstruation. Stop giggling! -Aimee Ouellette, page 7 Waa Wis | Clowns: silly, playful harlequins or psychotic, unholy i | beasts of death? 4 -Zerah Lurie, page 10 AS Sa a REM are back, but is their return worth it? -Mark Fisher, page 14 So how about those Canucks missing the playoffs, eh? -Garth McLennan, page 16 WRITE FOR US! Anyone can get published in the ee 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 ao the right. student who writes an article of at least SPORTS SUBMISSIONS Please send your file as an MS Word : words ne the — soe ; 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@ theotherpres s.ca “time-sensitive” articles (weekend news, interested students are welcome. PINION SUB O sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted 0 Oo MISSIONS until Saturday at noon and can be submitted to the editor at editor@theotherpress.ca 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 2 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.