February 23, 2007 The Other Press THE OTHER PRESS - PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 Room 1020 — 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 FAX: 604.525.3505 EDITOR IN CHIEF Trevor Hargreaves editor.otherpress@ gmail.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Tain Reeve op.associate @ gmail.com NEWS EDITOR Nicole Burton opnewseditor@ gmail.com SPORTS EDITOR Steph ‘Tank’ Smith op.sports @ gmail.com ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Kevin ‘Yes Conference’ Lalonde aeditor@ gmail.com OPINIONS EDITOR Brady Ehler bradyehler@ gmail.com FEATURES EDITOR Travis Paterson opfeatures @ gmail.com PROOFREADER Vince Yim vinceyim @hotmail.com GRAPHICS Vacant LAYOUT Angela Blattmann boomboomdarkroom@yahoo.ca PHOTOGRAPHY Angel Desjarlais seraph3000@hotmail.com WEBILT. Keech other_press@shaw.ca DISTRIBUTION MANAGER Derek Ungless OFFICE MANAGER J.J. ‘Velvet’ McCullough wart_mamu@yahoo.com ACCOUNTANT Mark Fisher ILLUSTRATOR J.J. McCullough wart_mamu@yahoo.com ADVERTISING MANAGER Luke Simcoe lukesimcoe@ yahoo.ca Ed ‘The Western Stranger with a disk drive’ News Pg 4 Features Pg 13 Opinions Pg 6 Arts and Entertainment Pg 10 Sports Pg 16 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The weekly deadline for submissions is Wednesday for publication the following Wednesday. Letters to the Editor, vacant sections, and “time-sensitive” articles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted until Saturday noon and can be submitted to the editor at: othereditor@ yahoo.ca All other submissions should be forwarded to the appropriate section editor. Please include your name, phone number/email address, and word count, and submit via email as an MS Word.doc attachment to the attention of the appropriate editor. The Other Press is run by a collective, which means all decisions are reached via a ee gmail.com SPORTS opsports@ gmail.com A&E democratic voting process. Membership in the voting collective is open to any person who has contributed to at least two of three consecutive issues. Those interested in joining the Other Press collective should contact the editor at othereditor@yahoo.ca aeditor@ gmail.com FEATURES opfeatures @ gmail.com OPINIONS opinionsubmit@hotmail.com CONTRIBUTORS The Other Press is Douglas College’s autonomous student newspaper. Vince Yim, Brandon Ferguson, Christine Simmons Romain The Other Press is run by a collective and is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly (as a magazine) during the summer. We receive our funding from a student levy collected every semester at registration, and from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian University Press (CUP), a cooperative of student newspapers from across Canada. We adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common Principles and Code of Ethics— except when it suits us not to. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what to publish, and will not publish material that is racist, sexist, or homophobic. Submissions may be edited for clarity and brevity if necessary. All images are copyright to their respective owners. COLUMNISTS JJ McCullough, Luke Simcoe, Brady Ehler, David Suzuki, Kevin Lalonde, Stephanie Smith