the — Gther Volume 22 + Issue 23 -Aprril 1998 Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 general@op.douglas.be.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 majority 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. No experience required.) 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, generally speaking, adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common Principles and Code of Ethics. The Other Press reserves the right to choose what to publish; however, we'll print most things, unless they're racist, sexist, homophobic, libelous or illegal. All opinions appearing in the Other Press are the responsibility of their creators and are not necessarily the opinions of all members of the Other Press. We try to believe in the freedom of the press. We want you to be part of the publishing process, so when you submit a letter or article to us, include a way we can contact you. 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Advertising - John Morash ad@op. douglas. be.ca Bookkeeping - May Leong Production Resource - Trent Ernst production@op. douglas. be.ca Editorial Resource - Corene McKay ed_res@op.douglas. be.ca All materials appearing in she Other Press are copyright their creators and may not be reproduced in any form without their creators’ express written consent. whe Mer Labelling ARE Whe IN THE ‘Conapeigy oo DwplasColle$e THE S/X TREES IN FRONT THE SCHool OF STUDENT. ANd MUST BE SAVED) AT ALL o Q HEALTS COS TSice pTHe New Frotest.c. Devil’s Advocate - vil comes in many forms. Some Be say Hitler is evil, some would say Bill Gates is evil and still others would say MacMillan Bloedel or Weyerhaeuser are evil. The latter two are said to be evil for cutting down the forests of BC to make money. Yet, no one would ever accuse Greenpeace of being evil, for they are the saviour of our trees. They are the saviour of our animals, of our wildlife, of all that is right in the world. Except the thing that keeps the world running on a regular basis: money. Recently, a group called the Western Canada Wilderness Committee has started a Mickey Mouse campaign to save a plot of trees they call the Great Bear Rainforest at the cost of a few hundred jobs, and millions of dollars of revenue for this province. Putting people out of work and helping to destroy an entire economy certainly CAVE THE Doue-as Carene Gel TES ARE For STUDENTS isn't evil; it’s good. By standing around in a little circle waving their arms and stopping trucks, they will grind the BC economy to a screeching halt, all in the name of saving a renewable resource. The Western Canada Wilderness Committee has also been in such trendy “save everything” protests as Clayoquot Sound and the Stoltmann Rainforest gathering. These are the same idiots that propose we give the logging jobs up to a super cool Eco-tourism market, where we can save the environment by charging thousands of people per year to come and trample these natural wonders. Instead of merely cutting down the trees, and using them as exports or within our country for building supplies or the like, we'd be much better off having foreigners come in and slowly destroy the ecosystem by killing all the small plants, and wrecking the soil by pouring out the unused portions of Coca Cola onto the ground, rather than harvesting the trees, and replanting for them to grow again. It’s a much better idea if you just think about it. Trendy protest groups, like the government, don't believe in facts, just hype, and they hope that if you dress 4 enatssance Spooks 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 BOOKS WANTED: Native culture related 525-4566 804 -—12th Street New Westminster Le : PTHE Time is ges VE HAD Too Marry PITS AT f Dondcos, C MT BEeroese CLASSES, THE CLLEGE NATURE 15 9 Foe. you PRESEQVED To PRSS out iN? American store like Walmart to save tha money. Just as protestors don’t ever bother to think of the ramifications. Most of said protestors come out on weekends when they don’t have school, or when they are off from their jobs, so why should they care about the people in the forestry industry they put out of business? But no one will pay that extra something up as Granola, you'll get a bunch of kids yelling and shouting for you. Why not get Starbucks to open a stand just to enhance the whole atmosphere and help all your protestors feel at home? It’s doubtful that anyone would bat an eye if Mountain Equip- ment Co-op decided to open a megastore where a forest of old growth trees used to be. Which they've done, as MEC, the official Granola save- everything tree-hugger store, is built on an old rainforest site, just as all of Vancouver is. amount from their paycheques for unemployment insurance to pay the ou of work loggers. No one bothers to thin about all the propaganda flyers these people hand out. Printed on recycled newsprint or not, they came from trees that loggers cut down. Does the Wester: Canada Wilderness Committee go out to personally check every fax machine they send press releases to to check and It’s always best to get your whiners from the group that consists of the lowest common denominator of the populace; that way you'll be sure to get support. It’s also a good bet that none of the protestors are willing to pay any see if it uses hemp instead of pulp in its more taxes than they already do. But, if the single largest industry in BC goes under, the money needed will have to paper? Or if that paper is even 100% recycled? Once again, ignorant people will rule the populace with help from come from somewhere. Or maybe we the Western Canada Wilderness Group. could all get jobs as protest leaders to Once again we can all look forward to protest the new taxes. No one ever months of useless protest that will thinks about that, though. No one is achieve nothing just so people can take willing to pay a few extra dollars for the __ pictures of themselves holding hands same piece of clothing at a Canadian and say “I did it.” Once again, humanit owned store rather than go to a giant decides it is too stupid to think for itsel Are you a IVE Ey | T' Feeling Trapped? Wanna escape? Looking for Adventure? Well, you won't find it here. But we can offer you something to do while you're here at school. Come help us out. We're looking for people to join us over the summer. Who knows, you might actually enjoy summer school. \iy Biher Press Room 1020 New West Campus. 2 April 1998 The Other Press