PE RT AP Te DLS PLT SD 1 Ty ee page 2 the Other press Wed. Feb. 4, 1976 other ’ Since this is the first issue of the Other press the first editorial will deal with who we are, where we came from, and what we’re all about. As is implied by the title, the Other press, we are the Other newspaper at the college. A number of students at the college felt that the Pinion, though a very professional and well produced newspaper, could not provide the regular information service that students so badly need. e7 So, over the past few months, the students involved have been talking about the need for another newspaper. We’ve always refered to it as the ‘‘other’’ paper, so it seemed that we should name it the Other press. Besides, Student Society Chairman Grant Dahling wanted to call it ‘‘Drag’’? Also as the name implies, it is our intention to provide ‘“‘another’’ point of view, ‘‘another’’ side of the story, ‘“‘another’’ way of seeing things, etc. It wasn’t long before all the ‘‘other’’ people were philosophically embaraced by a total cosmic “‘Otherness’’. We try to run the newspaper as democratically as possible: all major decisions are made democratically, and when we are all more familiar with the process, mostt of the responsibilities will be collectively shared. The idea of collective responsibility is not an idealistic one, nor is it simply a moral sentiment, it’s a question of survival. To ensure continuity, it is necessary to provide all staff members with an adequate knowledge of newspaper production, so that in the evvent of an editor, office manager, or production manager leaving, the many Canadian university and college papers. One such paper was discovered by some ‘‘other’’ people as we were moving into trailer A-3 in Surrey, which is now our office. Clearing out the debris of four years activity in the trailer was like carrying out an archaeological expedition. We filtered through an Optics lab, a radio station and a Student Council office before we came across “‘the Game’’, the Douglas College student newspaper. It seems to have lasted one semester. Our editorial policy has not gone much beyond what I have already stated concerning decision making. Our advertising policy is simple, we will not accept any racist, sexist, or military advertising. We invite anyone at the college to-submit articles, letters to the editor, poems, prose, graphics, and whatever you have a mind to. Come out and see us sometime. The editorial column will be writen on a rotating basis by other people, and will not necessarily reflect the opinions of all staff members. After the Canadian University Press conference in Montreal this winter, myself and another person went to ‘he University of Toronto to work on an issue of the Varsity, the newspaper there. Everyone asserted how exciting it must be to start up a student newspaper. The Varsity has been around for eighty-five years. Let’s hope the Other press lasts as long as Douglas College. editorial paper won’t falter and die out. This is the fate of too. e « ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ WeeeeeeSeSHSESOSSHSSHHHHHSHSEHEEHHEHESHEHESHHEHHEHEEESEESD eooerrreccescecc cy SC OCS SHESSSHSSSSSSSSHSSHSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSFSFEHFSSS SRE RSES @ the CE Other press The Other Press is published weekly by the Douglas College Student Society Staff: Darlene Holmiquist, Ralph Huntley, Janice Noyls (office manager), Steve Sapers, Terry Glavin (editor), Gina Fiorillo, Grant Dahling (Advertising Manager), Maureen Cassi, Scott Simpson, Catherine Smailes, Kathy Harle, Jim Wallace, Tony Woods. Ad _ Deadline: ; Deadline: Friday noon. Advertising rates — $2.00 a column inch, special rates for continuing advertise- ments. ‘Office hours: 12-3 Tuesday-Friday, Phone:584-3113, ¢ Production ‘office (Mondays) 588-4411, Advertising * Grant 521-6502. Wednesday, Copy SCHHSSSHOARAHSSSSSSSSSSSOSSSSCSSCOCSSSeTesTeeHeeseees Registration Farce Over CATHERINE SMAILES Whoa there. Just because you completed registration in five minutes last year, did you really believe you could do a Roger Bannister this year? The first hurdle upon arriving at New Westminster Campus was to find registration. All that the signs said was Info. Nary a word about registration. But on rounding the corner of a building. there was a sight to delight the cockles of every beaurocrats’ heart. A line up. ‘ The girl at the second desk inside the door looked lonely so I skipped the first line up and was promptly docked $15.58 for an outstanding library book. Pay up or you go no further. Then it was back one station for queue jumping, and start again. Collect a few blue cards and sprint across the garden to the second building. This was obvi- ously designed so that all those who realised, at this stage, the futility and errors of their ways, could cut loose and run. Met by a weary official who agreed a certified cheque was a certified cheque, but that the last one he looked at was signed by the girls father. Hand over blue cards, hand over money, total time: 45 minutes. That was thursday when 1300 students went through. My spies tell me it was very quiet on Friday. Time for jaded instruc- tors to sip cinnamon tea, tell - rude jokes of which they had forgotten the punch line and lay the paper towelling to catch the tears of saturdays hopefuls. The poor suckers who were greeted with’‘courses full,courses full! Officially, Jerry Dellamatia, in charge of the Douglas College Admissions department; said, **3,800 students registered in four days. There were a few hectic periods but no serious holdups. It worked better than Sept. when many students pre- registered, and because of pre- . requisites in some courses got into the wrong courses and caused havoc for the administra- tion’’. Just one thing. Would some-one please kick the com- puter next time they go past it. I returned my library book the next day but I’m still waiting — for my $15.58. HOLD THE PRESS : WE NEED I Artists Photographers Writers Short Stories Poems Sporting events We are located at; Surrey Campus. Trailer A3 Phone; 584-3113 Production office phone 588-4411 Deadline for copy Friday noon Ads. Wednesday noon. Mailing Address Douglas College Student Society, Douglas College, 8th Ave & McBride,New Westminster.