— the er Press Volume 22+ Issue 14-January 28, 1998 Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 general@op.douglas.bc.ca Phone 525.3542 Fax 527.5095 or 525.3505 David Lam Office Room A3107 Phone 527.5805 he Other Press is Douglas College's autonomous student newspaper. We've been publishing since 1976. The Other Press is run as an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take turns acting as sort of an executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of this officer must be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a wo thirds majoriey'in the case of... The OP is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters and monthly [as a magazine] during the summer. The Other Press is made by Douglas College students. All DC students are welcome to join. (Bored, Lonely, creatively repressed, need something on your resume, or??? Come down to room 1020. We're usually friendly and we have lots of toys. 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Py sabia Scere Advertising - John Morash ad@op. douglas. be.ca Bookkeeping - John Morash Production Resource - Trent Ernst production@op.douglas. be.ca Editorial Resource ~ Corene McKay ed_res@op. douglas. be.ca All materials appearing in the Other Press are copyright their creators and may not be reproduced in any form without their creators’ express written consent. pe > AS Be reg a ptory repeats itsel and the result are usuall just as bad. Suc “ é case Prot the ’ ‘Day of Action” otest happening this nese ay for CFS. What Wedne as tight pants with flared out (bg s to Wie oo bottoms and pike latform sh hogs has esca- ae eS s ly fledged clone of jo eras of the eae and~70s Students are gat perp ‘to protest student debt at the Vancouver Library, or at least, that’s the idea. What’s actually happening is that a bunch of trendy people jumping on the newest anti-anything bandwagon are going downtown to rant and rave about something they have been told is evil. Most people who will be in attendance have no idea what is actually happening. Much like anti-war protests from days of yore, when it didn’t matter to the large populace what the cause was, it was a just a time to walk around naked, and spout out free love, and dress like everyone else while claiming to be an individual. Most importantly, though, a few people sing out and cry and whine and tell everyone that their cause is good, and to fight something, and that we are all being oppressed by someone. The crowd listens with awe, and doesn’t bother to do any research into what may actually be going on. Why bother? Anybody who’s anybody will be there. And if you make a big enough stink, it must be for something good, right? Wrong. What it shows is how com- pletely ill-informed and sheep-like students are becoming, which is Renaissance Pooks Buy « Sell * Trade Show your DC student card and get 15% off Over 50,000 gently read books covering most subjects. Largest sci-fi selection in town 525-4566 804 —12th Street New Westminster CHM 78 “Wow IW SukRound SOuND* painfully ironic in that they are sup- posed to be learning to think for themselves in university. The fact that it is anti-government seems to be an adequate justification, It’s a fairly safe bet that before this whole fiasco, most Douglas College students didn’t even know what CFS stood for. This is not to say that protests aren't useful, Just that they're not when they're in the hands of mental midgets. When you whip a crowd of uninformed people into a frenzy by uttering sound bites, you are creating a cult, not a protest movement. The same govern- ment everyone hates employs the same tactics. By making speeches with the words everyone wants to hear, they can get far more votes than passing out literature telling what the party is really about. Just as you can get far more sheep to a slaughter by leaving a trail of food, rather than running after them bran- dishing butcher knives. It’s too bad this will probably be a unifying thing for Canada, as students all over the country join together in one big bitch. It’s too bad we couldn’t be known for coming together on some- thing useful, rather than showing the rest of the world how we've taken the idea of democracy and flushed it down the toilet. But, we'd rather hop on to “Save the Desert Snail Crusade” or “Suffrage for Chairs NOW” fights to prove how cool we are. And to prove how much of that history book we purchased for $85 we read by going back and imitating bygone decades by dressing and acting like them. Why push on when we can dwell in the past? Wake up. It’s the nineteen nineties. The sheerest form of flattery may well be imitation, but not here. Here, it’s just sickening. Dear Reverend Tom: Should I take it off instead? Dear Red: understand the size of your problem. Dear Reverend Tom: What do “DCSS” and “CFS” stand for? Dear confused: Not much. Ask Reverend Tom | Is it true you can get pregnant if you kiss a boy while wearing a bathing suit ? Red Your matter seems to be one that really shouldn't be discussed in a public forum such as that of the Other Press. However, I know that individual people need their problems solved individually on a one-to-one basis all alone. So, come and see Reverend Tom about 9 pm in his office (the darkroom) for help. Knock twice, wearing said bathing suit to give me a demonstration so I can fully Conta 2 saneny 28 1998 The ee Press ere , Peetoeerv4 lbw