-Monday, August 27, 1984

The Other Press

page 7

 

~PAPER RAIDED —

NEW WESTMINSTER [AP] -
The United States of America
today set up a provisional
editorial committee to. rule The
Other Press student newspaper
at Douglas College.

President Ronald Rotgut said
he authorized the move because

~~ “the staff didn’t like me.’’

Helping in the raid were a
group of Hunduran ‘counter-
insurgents who gained the con-
fidence of the staff by posing as
starving El Salvadoran rebels.

Not all the staff were killed in
the raid, but Martin Hemerik,
one of two former members left
alive said, ‘“‘We sure could use

some more help after a tradegy

like this.’’

Rotgut appointed Hemerik
and new staffer Omar Shariff
Mohammed as the provisional
‘editors until staff elections can
be held sometime before 1989.

Interim elections for posi-

   

tions on the staff will be held in

advertisement in The Other
Press.

‘Those bleeding hearts, I’m
making sure that there get a
strong leader in there who can
take control of that thing and do
things my way,’’ said Rotgut.

Slaughtered in the raid were
former editorial writer Donna
Forbes, news coordinator Dan
Hilborn, board members lan
Lyon and Victor J. Cromarty.

Reports from the college say
production coordinator Roger

Bolen managed to sneak off into
the dark during the confusion.

Critics of the American gov-
ernment said the raid was
poorly planned.

The majority of staff mem-
bers weren’t even near the
college at the time the troops
moved in, they said.

Three staff members heard
rumours of the impending raid
and managed to flee from the
province.

““Gosh, this place just isn’t
safe for a guy like me who
wears collarless shirts,’’ said
Sean Valentini who escaped to
Toronto where he is reportedly
infiltrating Ryerson Polytech-
nical Institute.

 

Other people who were for-

tunate enough to escape the
carnage were Stewart Woolver-
ton, Kathy Nichols, Eddy
Alexander, Jean Joyce, Robin
Robertson, Sandra McMillan,
Caroline Hardon, Pat O’Do-
herty, Ernest Hawker, Murray
Budden, Alan Snider, Robert
Guzyk, Carl Svangtum, Sean
Schonfeld, Nettie Boulanger,
and Dave Watson.
“IT have a feeling we’ll be
getting a lot of new members,”’
said Hemerik as he roamed
around the college with his
recently issued American made
M-16 rifle.

“‘Ha, ha. I’m positive we’ll
get more,’’ he said.

 

This isa test of the emergency type

setting system. In event of a real

emergency, you would be given only

enough time to realize the folly of
your local and federal governments.

If this were a real emergency please

phone your mother and wish her a

Mary Palffy is said to be in Happy Birthday alittle early this year.
Ottawa, Ontario celebrating her
birthday. Doug Parsons has
been sending communiques to
the remaining staffers from his
hiding place in London, Eng-
land.

late September, but Rotgut
refuses to allow former staffers
to run.

‘‘Most of that old gang were
just plain un-American,’’ Rot-
gut said.

The changes are an abrupt
turn from previous staff poli-
cies. Even last semester the
staff were given the right to
question any editorial copy or

 

SIGNING OFF