-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

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‘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

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