In the beginning

he Other Press is the oldest
student newspaper in North
America. Started in 1792 (the
year Capt. George Vancouver
sailed into English Bay) by
the Mihikkie Mowcce (pro-
nounced | Mickey Mous In-:
djans, the Other Press
(indian translation;

Other: embarassing news
Press:torn piece of cloth)
‘vas the autonomous vocal organ of, what was then, the
yet-unnamed college of the area, located around what is
now New Westminster,

From the beginning the O.P. stridently opposed Van-
couver’s presence in their land. As a result of this vocal
opposition the paper was generally considered to be quite
leftist—even before there was a left. Besides dealing with
socially relevant issues O.P. provided comprehensive
ceverage of student events, regularly covering council
meetings and announcing lacrosse results.

The O.P. died in 1798, the victim of drug and alcohol
abuse on staff (problems which still haunt the current
publication) and the apathy of the readership.

 

 

Mr. Hacker, our printer in 1775.

Other born again

ut The Other Press was revived

againin 1976 by Terry Glavin,
_ then a journalism student at

Douglas, now a staff reporter on

the Columbian. Glavin ques-

tioned whether The Pinion,

Douglas Colleges’ journalism

school paper, was, in fact, a

student paper, reflecting stud-

ent news and veiws.

After much inquiry and discussion it was resolved that
The Pinion was as much for the staff and faculty of
Douglas College and the surrounding communities as for
the students on The Pinion who were doing their work,
not out of genuine concern for the paper and the
importance of the student press, but for the marks.
Cie 165 instructor Charlie Giordano had final

 

 

say over what went in (Giordano was linked to the 1979
Socred letter scandle—he wrote the letters).

    
  

t was decided by the Student
Society, that an autonomous
STUDENT newspaper was need-,
ed at Douglas and so the O.P.
was born.

An early OTHER SPEAK
excert:

The Other Press was created as an alternative to The
Pinion, whose high-calibre writing and content has, in the
highest of taste, accurately covered student, faculty, staff
and community news.

The only problem with The Pinion, aside from the fact
that it isn’t a ‘student newspaper’ as such, is.that Douglas
College students aren’t looking for a newspaper with‘good
taste’. Sorry, Charlie.’’

ince then the O.P. has had its
ups and downs. In 1978 The
Other Press became the Other
Publications Society, a non-pro-
fit publishing place for poetry,
the student newspaper and
other books and publications of
no commercial appeal. In the
spring of 1981 the O.P. nego-
tiated a seperate fee levy for the
students of Douglas College.
This reaffirmed our autonomy from the Student Society.
We were previously alloted a percentage of the student
society budget.

This year we hope to replace our archaic and broken
down typesetters and also Our well abused furniture for
the move into the new campus.

We also plan to improve the paper (as we do every year)
but to do that, and to make the paper responsive and
responsible to the students of Douglas we need people,
lots of people, both to submit the occasional story and
perhaps show up for a couple of hours on production
nights and people who are willing to give more of a
commitment to the paper and become an active partici-
pant of the student press. (but remember, no matter how
much you may or may not contribute to the paper you still
have a voice in what is going on—remember that you will
be tested on it later).

If we don’t get more people contributing to the paper
and if nobody seems to care about the paper then what is
the point in putting one out?

, If apathy once again kills the Other Press then that may
“mean the end of other history.

 

 

 

  

Volume 12 Number 1 January 21 to Febuary 4th 1982

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serving all of Douglas College

The Other Press

 

 

 

 

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Inside:

News; pg.1&3
the Other Womyn pg..6
Otherthan Review pg.7

Entertainment; pg9
Other Events pg.11

plus a whole lot more!!!!!

 

 

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