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Wooooooah, we’re halfway there Photo of a Lizard on a chair by @peachesanscream o, here we are. Fourteen issues for us, as half the staff will be attending improved—and significantly, at that. Our and slowed wits, but I have faith in this Sdown, 16(ish) more to go. A a conference in Toronto, but that’s an layout team has created some stunning merry band of misfits bringing you nice, long winter break ahead. entirely different Lettitor), though we visuals, editorial is putting out articles the Other Press you’ve come to expect The Other Press will be going into haven’t nailed down a theme quite yet. with perspectives from right here at once Issue 15 hits those happy little something of a voluntary hibernation The past 14 issues have been Douglas College, and have you SEEN stands—or something even better. until January rolls around. Not that there something of a sprint. The first few some of these covers? Everyone is getting I’ll end this one off wishing you all the will be many students walking the halls of were chaotic, getting people into their more comfortable in their position, best in your finals, a great rest of December, Douglas College wondering “Hey, why isn’t designated positions, training, and and I can see that creating opportunity and by encouraging you to seriously quit there a new OP out yet? Where will I get making sure all the timing was just right. to try new things, experiment with procrastinating by reading the Other Press my information on timely events, hilarious While I would like to say that different ideas, and improve overall. and just get to studying already, sheesh. satire, or album reviews?” because you all, things have fallen into a groove, I can’t. But, of course, we still have some That exam is right around the corner. like us, will be taking a few weeks away Newspapers are tricky like that, and ways to go. We’ll be losing our Sports from these hallowed halls of learning. timely. Each week there’s a new fire to put Editor over the winter break, and we Cheers, Our next issue back will be freshly out (though thankfully not literally, yet), still need to figure out what will be done printed on Tuesday, January 8, 2018 so a new challenge to overcome, or a new with the space that he once filled. please, do hold tight until then. It will contributor joining their voice to ours. The winter break may also leave us be a themed issue (to make things easier Over these past 14 issues we’ve also a little out of practice with rusty fingers Chandler Walter

OO The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the student Angela Ho union. We are a registered society under Rm 1020 – 700 Royal Ave.  theotherpress.ca Business Manager the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board Douglas College  [email protected] Jacey Gibb Distribution Manager of directors appointed by our staff. New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2    /theotherpress Our head office is located in the New Lauren Kelly Westminster campus.  604.525.3542 /DouglasOtherPress Graphics Manager O Elizabeth Jacob O The Other Press is published weekly Production Assistant during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly during the summer. We receive Chandler Walter Rebecca Peterson Cara Seccafien Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor Illustrator our funding from a student levy collected  [email protected]  [email protected] through tutition fees every semester at Colten Kamlade registration, and from local and national Staff Reporter Jake Wray Caroline Ho advertising revenue. The Other Press is a News Editor Arts Editor Greg Waldock, Jillian member of the Canadian University Press  [email protected]  [email protected] McMullen, and Katie (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers Czenczek that includes papers from all across Staff Writers Davie Wong Brittney MacDonald Canada. Analyn Cuarto Sports Editor Life & Style Editor OO The Other Press reserves the right to  [email protected]  [email protected] Staff Photographer choose what we will publish, and we Jerrison Oracion, Duncan will not publish material that is hateful, Klara Woldenga Fingarson, Ed Appleby Jessica Berget Senior Colomnist obscene, or condones or promotes illegal Opinions Editor Humour Editor activities. Submissions may be edited for  Joshua Toevs, Cazzy Lewchuk,  [email protected] [email protected] clarity and brevity if necessary. All images Clive Ramoop Columnists used are copyright to their respective Mercedes Deutscher Kwiigay iiwans owners. Social Media Coordinator Layout Manager Veronnica MacKillop, Ida  [email protected]  [email protected] Salmany, Bridget Ivery Contributor Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO Study examines social isolation in Metro Vancouver OO University-to-university conflict turns viral OO Douglas College receives performing arts award News And more! Photos by Analyn Cuarto and Jerrison Oracion

Jerrison Oracion Senior Columnist CBC Open House 2017 Analyn Cuarto It’s CBC Open House, and that means raising money and accepting food donations for the food banks in the Lower Mainland while seeing Staff Photographer your favourite CBC personalities. See if you can recognize some of them in these pictures. Photos by Jerrison Oracion and Analyn Cuarto. news // no. 4 theotherpress.ca Photo by Colten Kamlade Colten by Photo Photo by Analyn Cuarto Analyn by Photo Indigenous garden unveiled at New Westminster campus ööMedicines to be planted in spring us, were gifted to us,” she said. thought towards you, they just have to included in the Indigenous garden is Colten Kamlade McComber described the importance think it about you and sometimes if sweetgrass. McComber described the Staff Reporter of tobacco—which will be planted in the you’re weak and if you aren’t centered, symbolism surrounding the plant. new garden—to indigenous cultures. sometimes that negative energy will “It has an aroma and a fragrance that new garden bed was officially revealed “Tobacco is the first [medicine,] attach to you and will somehow affect is very unique, when it burns it smells Ato students and staff at the New and tobacco is the first according to you,” she said. “Sage is used primarily sweet, and when you hold it, it smells very Westminster campus on November 30. our people because after our creation to help detach those things.” sweet as well,” she said. “The teaching Nothing is currently growing in story […] the creator blessed the whole The third medicine McComber around sweetgrass is that it is to remind us the garden, but in the spring it will be creation story by allowing tobacco to discussed was cedar. that life is good; life is sweet and we are to seeded with plants that have special come first. So, in our culture, and other “The next is cedar, and of course accept that that sweetness is a part of us.” significance to Indigenous cultures. cultures, tobacco is given first before you cedar comes from this territory,” she The garden bed was built by Architek Amelia McComber, an Indigenous ask any spiritual elder or anyone to do said. “The cedar would travel down at cost, and the funds were provided by elder, shared her knowledge during a any customary spiritual work,” she said. to New Mexico, Albuquerque New the Ministry of Advanced Education. In presentation and tour of the new garden. According to the creation story, Mexico. That was the hub trading place the spring there may be opportunities for “My talk today is about the sage is the second medicine given where everything was traded. Then it students and staff to participate in the relationship between us, the people, by the creator. McComber described would be distributed and again come planting of the garden, so keep an eye on and the medicines. So we have four its use in traditional medicine. up the five trails of North America.” the Douglas College calendar of events. sacred medicines that were given to “If someone has a negative The fourth medicine that will be Study examines social isolation in Metro Vancouver öö30 per cent of young adults said they are ‘almost always’ alone

Jake Wray feel loneliness more than others, the report also found that people are willing News Editor to engage with their communities. “Our new findings show that while oung adults and people from everyone experiences the same barriers low-income households are more Y to forging strong connections—work, susceptible to loneliness than other school, financial constraints, and time demographics in Metro Vancouver, pressure all play a role—some experience according to a new study. this more acutely,” McCort said in the The Vancouver Foundation, press release. “But what’s encouraging an organization that promotes to see is how open residents are to community engagement, recently coming together as a community—even released its 2017 Connect and Engage more so among those who have lived report—an online survey of 3,785 here for a shorter period of time.” adults in Metro Vancouver that asked Approximately 75 per cent of questions about loneliness, community respondents attempt to better their participation, and digital socializing. community with activities such as According to the report, 30 per cent of shovelling snow and picking up litter. survey respondents age 18 to 24 said they Conversely, the study found a significant are “almost always” or “often” alone, as decrease in participation with “traditional” did 38 per cent of adults from households community activities, compared to a with incomes under $20,000 per year, similar study conducted by the Vancouver compared to an average of 14 per cent of Foundation in 2012. 58 per cent of respondents across all demographics. respondents in the 2017 survey said they Those two demographics are also more visited their local library, down from 83 per likely to report spending more time alone cent in 2012. 22 per cent of respondents in than they would like, according to data the 2017 survey said they attended religious from the survey. On the other hand, 57 services, down from 40 per cent in 2012. per cent of respondents said they are The study also examined how happy with the amount of time they people use digital tools to socialize. spend alone, while 18 per cent said they 60 per cent of participants said they would like to spend more time alone. prefer socializing in person instead of Kevin McCort, CEO and president online, and 17 per cent said they spend of the Vancouver Foundation, said in too much time online, to the detriment a press release that while some people of their in-person relationships. issue 14// volume 44 news // no. 5 Douglas College embroiled in meme war ööUniversity-to-university conflict turns viral Katie Czenczek a photo of Homer Simpson looking out of his window suspiciously. Staff Writer Amber-Rose Hemm, a Douglas College student who saw the events t was only a matter of time until unfold on social media, said in an UBC and SFU students took to I interview with the Other Press that social media to wage an all-out war. she enjoyed watching the meme war What started out as a post on from a bystander’s perspective. Facebook became a conflict between “It was fun sitting by the sidelines the two local university, as students watching with popcorn as the other from both schools began to post memes schools fought each other,” she said. to insult the opposing university. When asked what she thought Using Twitter and Facebook as their Douglas College Confessions should platforms, both the UBC Confessions post in order to respond to the memes, group and the SFU Confessions group Hemm said that she would like to see saw students anonymously post memes, some posts about how UBC and SFU tagging one another in jabs against the students are paying significantly higher other school. The memes ranged in costs for the exact same education. topics, each discussing the problems “I just don’t get it. They pay with either university. Some were ridiculously higher tuition fees for the more lighthearted, poking fun at the same education. That’s the biggest high tuition costs of UBC, or claiming thing [Douglas College students] have SFU students are only at SFU because to shoot back at [UBC and SFU] is they weren’t admitted to UBC. Others the stupidly expensive costs of going discussed topics such as UBC’s alleged to either university,” Hemm said. reputation for campus sexual assaults. Stephanie Malundo, another BCIT, UVIC, and other British Douglas College student, did not Columbian universities and personally see the memes but said colleges were also mentioned in that she liked the idea of a meme war the flurry of memes posted. between the competing schools. Douglas College was also “It’s a harmless joke that can be mentioned and thrown into the fire something fun to do. Everyone loves as a bystander of the war of memes. a good laugh, especially at this time Douglas College Confessions fired of the year with finals wrapping up. back, posting memes with captions I wish that I got to see it while they such as “watching your neighbours were still posting a tonne,” she said. fight on the street,” accompanied by Facebook on confessions Douglas via Meme Douglas College receives performing arts award öö$38,000 donation will fund additional theatre activities

Colten Kamlade Raymond Burr’s most impressive qualities. “[Ellis] demonstrated outstanding Staff Reporter achievement in his studies, course work, and performance, and emulates he Raymond Burr Performing Arts the passion, commitment, and talent Society presented Douglas College T of Raymond Burr,” states the website. with two awards after the final curtain The awards were presented by Edward of The Diviners—the latest production Eddy, Michelle Sereda, and Maureen put on by the departments of theatre Albanese—members of the Burr 100 and stagecraft and event technology. Committee—during an evening hosted The Award of Distinction came along by the Douglas College Foundation and with $38,000 in funds for future programs. Alumni Association. The evening was In a press release this week, Leanne Poon, sponsored by Canadian Western Savings. executive director of the Douglas College The Raymond Burr Performing Foundation, expressed gratitude to the Arts Society is named after the New Raymond Burr Performing Arts Society. Westminster-born actor, famous for his “Thanks to the Raymond Burr roles in television series such as Perry Performing Arts Society and the Burr Mason and Ironside, and for his parts in 100 Committee, this award will support radio shows like Fort Laramie, where he performing arts, stagecraft, and event played the part of Captain Lee Quince. technology students for generations to According to an article by ABC News, come,” she said in the press release. Burr was also famous for his kindness. During the evening, one individual “[He] contributed generously to in particular was honoured. Nelson Ellis charitable causes” and “sponsored was presented with the 2017 Raymond foster children from Korea and Burr Performing Arts Society 2nd Year Italy,” ABC News reported. Entrance Award of Distinction. Ellis According to the Douglas played the role of C.C. Showers in The College website, the student cast of Diviners, a play set in a small Indiana The Diviners includes Nelson Ellis town during The Great Depression. The (New Westminster), Marina Cindrich story follows the friendship of Showers, an (Vancouver), Dayna Hoffmann (Surrey), ex-preacher, and Buddy, an intellectually Emma Davis (Delta), Kobe Doi (Surrey), disabled teenager who has the ability to Dani Break (Surrey), Dahlia Kerr divine water. The play was written by Jim (Victoria/Chilliwack), Alex van Geyn Leonard Jr. and was produced in 1980. (Coquitlam), Emily Thorne (Delta),

The Douglas College website Poster for ‘The Diviners’ and Christian Krushel (Coquitlam). described Ellis as possessing some of Have an idea for a story?   [email protected]

OO This year in animated films OO What to play when you’re sick of ‘Jingle Bells’ OO Thick as thieves Arts And more! A year in 2017: music ööBests, worsts, and everything in between

Joshua Toevs probably have Swift romantically because We take a break from the The California trio released Days Are he made her famous. Kanye claimed that superlatives for some lists! Gone in 2014, which featured beautiful Columnist Swift gave her blessing for that line and melodies, rocking chords, and great rock everything seemed okay. A little while later, Interesting Hip Hop Albums songs that were reminiscent of bands of ere is a list of lists and superlatives Swift refuted this claim and stated she 1. Big Fish Theory by Vince Staples yesteryear like Fleetwood Mac. In 2017, for the year that was 2017. H would never give the okay for something 2. Saturation I by Brockhampton Haim returned with an album that was like this. Usually everyone would just side 3. Saturation II by Brockhampton anything but. This album is lyrically flat, Music’s Best New Act: Cardi B with Swift, but unbeknownst to her, Kim 4. Still Striving by A$AP Ferg sonically boring, and features changes This is really just an excuse to praise the Kardashian West had video evidence to 5. More Life by Drake to the sound that just don’t make sense. rise and cultural impact of Cardi B. In less refute her claims. Kanye recorded all of his They incorporated electronic samples than a year, the stripper-turned-reality- conversations and on one faithful night, try and bring their sound into 2017 but it star-turned-rapper has shaken the musical Five Albums You’ve Probably Kardashian went on Snapchat to play the sounds manufactured and shallow. Where landscape to its core. With the release of Never Heard Of recordings of Swift giving her approval. It was Days Are Gone was a love letter to the her hazy trap banger, “Bodak Yellow,” Cardi 1. Brick Body Kids Still Daydream a big deal in that we rarely see holes in the ’70s without sounding dated, Something reached heights that female rappers haven’t by Open Mike Eagle (hip-hop) Swift armour, and for one of the first times to Tell You is a bargain bin reject. hit in years. The song oozes confidence and 2. Rina EP by Rina Sawayama (pop) we were able to see Swift as less than perfect. glistens sonically. The song is constantly 3. Semper Femina by Laura Favourite Album of the Year: Run played at parties and the club but even more Marling (singer-songwriter) Comeback Record of the Year: the Jewels’ Run the Jewels 3 importantly it found charting success, halting 4. Now That the Light is Fading by Paramore’s After Laughter The hip hop duo El-P and Killer Mike Taylor Swift from a lengthy stay at the top of Maggie Rogers (singer-songwriter) After Laughter presented a new sound for the does it again with their third album as a the Billboard Charts as Cardi found herself 5. Ash by Ibeyi (art-pop) veteran rockers of Paramore. Gone is the edgy duo. The production is denser and in your sitting at number one for seven weeks. Cardi and abrasive pop punk production and in its face, mixing newer, fresher sounds with at number one marked the first time a female place are silkier guitar strings, softer drum Five Albums So Boring, They the timeless boom bap beats. The lyrical rapper had a solo number one record since compositions, and electronic overtones. Might Help You Sleep content is more politically charged given Lauryn Hill’s “Killing Me Softly,” and she has It is a welcome new sound as the music is 1. Everybody by Logic the landscape while also keeping with their translated that to greater successes. While fun and easy to listen to. “Hard Times” is 2. Relaxer by alt-J bully attitude. Songs like “Legend Has It,” we have yet to see an album from her, she an up-tempo bop, “Told You So” is a groovy 3. Hopeless Fountain “Talk To Me,” and “Hey Kids” are hard- has released a number of great features and electro-rock mishmash in all the right ways, Kingdom by Halsey nosed and aggressive, while “A Report to the the sky is the limit for the young rapper. and “Tell Me How” is a crushing ballad. There 4. Trip by Jhene Aiko Shareholders” is a dark, sombre look at the are so many different styles and sounds that 5. Reputation by Taylor Swift world during the Trump era. Run the Jewels Most Interesting Story of 2017: blend so well together without ever feeling takes more risks and are more introspective Kim Kardashian has receipts too uniform. If this is a sign of things to come Most Disappointing Album of 2017: on this record than previous efforts, and In 2016, Kanye West released a song titled for Paramore, then I am personally excited. Haim’s Something to Tell You as a result it is my favorite album of 2017. “Famous,” a song in which he says he could ‘You’re a classic… Mr. Grinch’ ööThe 60th anniversary of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’

Clive Ramroop and The Grinch,” originally published was “the easiest book of his career to write, 1956. Compounded by his own dislike in the May 1955 issue of Redbook except for its conclusion.” Seuss wrote most of the commercialization of the Columnist magazine, predating his Christmas story of the story in only a few weeks, but toiled holiday, he wrote the book “to see if by two years. Unlike the more familiar over the ending for three months, trying to [he] could rediscover something about very Who down in Whoville liked malevolent Christmas hater, this early explain the Grinch’s change of heart—or Christmas that obviously [he’d] lost,” Christmas a lot…” Can you say the “E version of the Grinch is a con artist who increase in three sizes—without feeling like he said in a 1957 Redbook article. next line? Yep, that’s what I thought. meets an everyman-esque Hoobub a “second-rate preacher or some Biblical -The Grinch was Seuss’ first By now, virtually everyone should relaxing in the sun, and swindles him truism.” Desperate to finish the book, Seuss main character in his books to be know this story and its distinct imagery into buying an otherwise useless piece gave up on bothering to make a statement an adult, as well as a villain. from the mind of Dr. Seuss—the overloaded of green string. In archetypal used- and simply had the Grinch return the -Some observers including Seuss sleigh on Mount Crumpit, Max the dog car-salesman fashion, he aggrandizes stolen loot to the Whos without any karmic himself have pointed out common links with an antler tied to his head, Cindy Lou the scant “virtues” of the string and consequences whatsoever, and as a result between the Grinch and Seuss’ real-life Who, and, of course, that familiar guy exaggerates the natural dangers of excess become the guest of honor to carve the self, one of which being the two having in green whose heart was two sizes too solar exposure en-route to a successful roast beast for their Christmas banquet. the same age. He was 53 years old when small. This enduringly popular children’s sale—a parable-like critique on marketers The completed story was first published in he wrote the book; in the story, the Grinch book by Seuss is now 60 years old, having aggressively (and deceptively) pushing Redbook magazine that fall, and released complains that he’d suffered through spawned adaptations into an animated items on the public that they don’t need. as a stand-alone book by Random House the Whos’ celebrations for 53 years. Christmas TV special, a live-action Jim Seuss began writing How the Grinch in time for the Christmas season. -Seuss’ car had a license Carrey film in 2000, and a CGI film coming Stole Christmas! in early 1957, with his wife plate that read “GRINCH.” next year with Benedict Cumberbatch Helen Palmer Geisel as an uncredited editor Other Grinch trivia: -Aside from the animated adaptation voicing the title character. However, the despite suffering a mild stroke, among other -The inspiration behind the story of the book, the Grinch also appeared story of the Grinch goes further than that. health problems. According to the 2004 came from a grimacing reflection in in two other TV specials: Halloween Seuss’ first use of his Grinch character biography The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and the mirror while Seuss was brushing Is Grinch Night (1977) and The Grinch was in a 32-line poem titled “The Hoobub Nothing But the Seuss, the Grinch story his teeth the morning after Christmas Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982). issue 14 // volume 44 arts // no. 7 ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi ööComing packed with new species Veronnica MacKillop puffins, after he saw them covering According to Entertainment Weekly, the of just tolerate his presence on Ahch-To. He Skellig Michael Island while scouting vulptices can burrow into crevices to hide. also said that they are amphibious creatures Contributor the space for the film. He found the In the trailer, the vulptices are seen who rose up from the sea to take care of the creatures hilarious and thought we running into some sort of shelter, which fans buildings. Scanlan said that the Caretakers tar Wars: The Last Jedi is coming needed a Star Wars version of this. assume is the Resistance hideout on Crait. are an “extrapolation from the Porgs.” to theatres December 15, and the S Some fans have noticed a shot of Since it seems they are running away from The Caretakers are animatronics, new episode is bringing some new Chewbacca with a feather in his mouth, and something, many assume that the foxes are played by people inside the suits. Since one species to the Star Wars universe. are speculating that it may be a Porg feather. going to be helping the Resistance. Perhaps, of the buildings that they care for is the The trailer that dropped on October This seems unlikely since there will also be a because they are so climatized to Crait, they first Jedi temple, fans speculate that the 9 gave us a look at some of these species, children’s book called Chewie and the Porgs, are being used by the Resistance to gather Caretakers most likely worship the Force. but many fans agree that one creature but perhaps Chewie attempting to eat a Porg food and supplies, or to be on lookout. Star Wars News Net found photos stole the spotlight: Porgs. The newly- doesn’t actually result in the Porg being Caretakers are the final new species of another creature that may be in the beloved creature was seen screaming eaten, and this will be played off as a joke. seen in the trailer. Johnson described them upcoming film, but rather than releasing beside Chewbacca in the Millennium The next new species we see to Entertainment Weekly as “these sort of the photos, they had artist Eli Hyder Falcon, and they immediately became a in the trailer is the Crystalline Fox fish-bird type aliens who live on the island come up with concept art for another fan favourite. So, what do we know about called the vulptex. They live on Crait, [of Ahch-To].” He explained that they have new creature that may be on Ahch-To: the Porgs? According to the Star Wars a mineral planet where members of lived there for thousands of years, and The sea monster. We know that the Wookieepedia, Porgs are a seabird from the Resistance are hiding out. they tend to the structures on the island. monster will be white and up to nine Ahch-To, the planet where Rey found The creatures have developed the The Caretakers are all female, large, feet tall, and that there is a possibility Luke Skywalker at the end of The Force crystalline nature due to feeding off the but with small bird-like feet, they speak in that Rey will go up against it in the film, Awakens. The Porgs are curious creatures planet for so long, claims creature effects an alien language that Johnson describes as but it may just be in the background. who can fly and build nests. Baby Porgs creator Neal Scanlan. He also said that “a blubbery sort of Scottish fish talk”, and From Ewoks to Porgs, Star Wars is are called Porglets, and a group of Porgs the inspiration from the creatures came they wear nun-like clothing. Johnson said always bringing interesting new creatures is called a murder. The Porgs are created from glass chandeliers, and they put a suit that he wanted them to seem like a little for fans to love, and with the December 15 using animatronics, puppetry, and CGI. made of plastic straws on a dog to figure nunnery. Luke is able to understand them, date fast approaching, we’ll soon see how Director Rian Johnson explained out how the crystalline fur would move. but Johnson said that the Caretakers sort these new species will fit into the universe. that the Porgs are actually inspired by Racism and poverty: A muddy situation öö‘Mudbound’ film review Ida Salmany their own narrative voiceover, which else, the Jacksons worry about their when a car backfires, leading them to makes the viewers see what they see son Ronsel, who has gone to war. bond because of their nightmares. Contributor and challenges the assumptions that This leads us to the two characters The performances in the film viewers may have of race and gender. in the film presented as the leads: are incredible, with Mulligan raising From the very beginning, the Two soldiers, Ronsel Jackson (Jason her children in terrible conditions; film sets the stage for tension, as Mitchell) and Jamie McAllan (Garrett Mary J. Blige, wonderfully stoic and nother modern period drama Laura McAllan (Carey Mulligan) Hedlund), who is Henry’s younger powerful as Ronsel’s mother; Jason Athat has earned high reviews at describes the challenges she faces brother living with Henry’s family on Mitchell, proud and defiant as Ronsel; Sundance has hit the screens, and being married off to an insensitive the mud-ridden farm. Both are haunted and the under-appreciated Garrett it is well worth the two hours! and stubborn husband, Henry by different things. Ronsel, who is a Hedlund as Jamie. Cinematographer Based on Hillary Jordan’s McAllan (Jason Clarke), and how hero at war defending his country, Rachel Morrison does a fantastic job novel of the same name, Mudbound moving to a large, desolate piece of comes home to Mississippi to see that capturing the beauty of colours in this is a compelling and absorbing muddy land has altered her life. Next, even as a hero, he has to sit at the back film and having captivating scenery. film, with a stunning cast and we are introduced to the Jacksons, of the bus and exit stores through the Mudbound has a marvelous a realistic depiction of racism, an African-American family that is back door. He strikes up a friendship cast and is tremendously acted out, sexism, and poverty in the 1940s. leasing parts of the McAllan’s farm with Jamie, who is haunted by his especially Mitchell and Hedlund, This film is here to make you and trying their best to live a good, experience at war, relying on his drinks who are able to make their unlikely feel uncomfortable. Full of suffering, happy life. Hap (Rob Morgan) and to suppress his memories. Though they friendship feel so real and meaningful, the movie follows the lives of five Florence (Mary J. Blige) have a constant see the colour in each other, they find making the audience feel their characters in rural Mississippi during struggle with money and dealing comfort in the wounds of one another. pain, happiness, and sadness. and after World War II. Dee Rees, with Henry as their inconsiderate During their first encounter, they both the director, gives each character landlord, and on top of everything plunge back into the horrors of war What makes funk music funky? ööThe art of skipping a beat Katie Czenczek as the rightfully-titled “Uptown Funk” syncopated beats veer away from the to be more complicated and interesting and Gambino’s “Redbone” both have standard four-count beat, or “one, two, (both rhythmically and harmonically) Staff Writer characteristics of funk music, and sound three, four,” and move onto a “one-and- than rock or blues. The other rhythm almost like odes to the songs that came two-and-three-and-four” beat, thus causing instruments will often play sparsely—filling ut all of the various genres that erupted before them. Both Mars and Gambino and disturbances in the rhythm of everyday the gaps left by bass and drums,” Fisher said. out of the 1960s African-American O Göransson are up for nominations this year pop songs. The reason that pop songs are When done right, the way that music scene, funk music is the genre to most at the 2017 Grammy Awards, and there’s a so easily stuck in your head is the opposite funk artists have been doing since the likely to get you up and dancing. A blend good reason for it: You can’t stop the funk. reason for why funk beats make you want ’60s, the beat is almost unstoppable. of R&B, soul, and jazz, this genre spiked in However, defining what funk exactly to get up and dance. The disturbances in There needs to be a balance between popularity during the ’70s when groups like is can prove to be quite the challenge. the flow of rhythm allows for empty gaps to staying on beat and adding syncopation Sly and The Family Stone, James Brown, and The blend of R&B, soul and jazz often fill in the space of the song, which triggers to the song, similar to when writers Funkadelic were at large. Later, as electronic makes it easy to categorize funk songs an impulse in your brain to anticipate break traditional writing structure and beats became more popular in the ’80s, as one of those three genres, but such the next beat. As you anticipate the beat, format their work in a meaningful way. artists such as Michael Jackson, Prince, and classification then fails to fully describe the your body fills in the gaps by dancing. In both instances, it takes a nuanced Kool and the Gang all fell into their genre very special and eclectic mashup of genres Blair Fisher, the Music Technology and advanced grasp of the structure of with their danceable and memorable hits. that defines funk. As far as music theory Coordinator at Douglas, said in an music and writing in order to pull it off. In the 21st century, and this year goes, one of the defining features of funk interview with the Other Press that However, it also helps to have some in particular, there has been a revival of music is the use of the syncopated beat. what separates funk from rock and horns, singing chops, and background funk music. Acts such as Mark Ronson Syncopated beat is a term that blues is the happy medium between singers to fully fill out the song, said Fisher. featuring Bruno Mars and the combined describes the intentional “disturbance or simplicity and complicatedness. “Add in some horns, a great efforts of Childish Gambino and Ludwig interruption of the regular flow of rhythm,” “Bass and drums provide the singer, some background vocals, and Göransson have brought funk music to as described by Wikipedia. In order words, foundation, and in my opinion, funk tends you have the basic ingredients.” a contemporary audience. Tracks such arts // no. 8 theotherpress.ca Five albums to gently weep your rainy Vancouver nights away to ööFrom bedroom pop to break-up rock, we’ve got you covered Jacey Gibb Distribution Manger

t has begun. I The time of year where 98 per cent of the forecasts call for rain, and the other two per cent predict “partly cloudy, with a chance of showers.” It’s a commonly-known fact that your will to leave your house plummets dramatically during the winter months, which means a surplus of cozy nights spent indoors. Here are five suggested soundtracks to help drown out the torrential downpour happening outside your window.

Turn Out the Lights by Julien Baker When Baker self-released a hodgepodge of tracks back in 2014, I doubt anyone was expecting things to blow up quite like they did. In a world saturated with stadium-rock anthems and cookie- cutter club tracks, Baker’s minimalist sound and reverberating vocals are here to save us from, well, ourselves. a (possibly fictional?) relationship inside, in the background, as you’re name, The First Days of Spring fits in My friends and I have an ongoing joke from its formative days to the patient’s buried under three layers of bedding. perfectly with Vancouver’s autumn. about how Baker is the perfect music to inevitable medical decline, Hospice is bring down any fun, upbeat situation— as much a love story as it is a eulogy. In The First Days of Spring by Too Bright by Perfume Genius so her latest album is quintessential other words, get ready to crank those Noah and The Whale For years I considered myself a mere listening for your limitless rainy nights. speakers and dab your leaky eye sockets. Towards the end of their career, Noah and dabbler in Perfume Genius, until a fateful The Whale deviated hard into upbeat, show back in 2015, where he opened for Hospice by The Antlers Everybody Works by Jay Som mostly-forgettable pop music; back in the Belle & Sebastian at the Vogue Theatre. Is it an autobiographical album about Som’s music is frequently referred to as earlier days, though (i.e. 2009), we were Unaccompanied on stage, Mike Hadreas a nurse and a hospice patient, or is it “bedroom pop,” so what better album gifted with The First Days of Spring, the a.k.a. Perfume Genius commanded simply a well-crafted, eerie concept to play while you contemplate never rare sophomore album that surpasses a more attention by his lonesome than album? While The Antlers’ frontman leaving your bedroom again. Dreamy band’s debut in almost every conceivable the combined 10-or-so members of the Peter Silberman continues to dodge and mellow, but with enough rock to way. Lyrically, the album centres around night’s headlining act. Throw on his the question, we can instead focus on keep you from nodding off, Everybody the breakup between frontman Charlie third (and arguably, best) album and what listeners do know: That Silberman Works has it all. You might argue that Fink and former bandmate Laura Marling, sink back into the dizzying vocals and et al.’s third album is as achingly this is a multi-purpose album that pairs but hints of optimism occasionally power piano ballads—or better yet, learn beautiful as it is haunting. Chronicling well with both indoor and outdoor flicker through the album’s overarching to play these tracks on the piano, and activities—but for optimal usage, play sombre tone. Despite its seasonal then you can shout-harmonize yourself! Chairman of the Board: Yee-haw! öö‘Colt Express’ board game review Ed Appleby skills that each character possesses. Like many programing games Senior Columnist there is a lot of psychology and strategy involved, as you attempt to predict how your opponents will move and act. However, unlike other planned- here is something exciting about action games, you see some of what Tthe Old West. Even though most the other players are planning, and of what we think we know comes the injuries you sustain add useless from the likes of John Ford and Sergio cards to your hand, which adds Leone—filmmakers, not historians— elements of deck building to the mix. we have created a wild and fantastic If I have one criticism of Colt world that rivals Tolkien. Who wouldn’t Express, it is that it falls heavily into like to spend a little time in the the stereotypes associated with the world of sagebrush and six-guns? Old West genre. This is glaringly Colt Express (2014) is a thematic evident with Cheyenne, the native planned-action game for two to woman who has the special skill of six players designed by Christophe “pickpocketing.” She also has a bit of Raimbault and published by Asmodee. a Tiger Lily look and plays a little too In the game, players are bandits far into the “exotic savage” type. This on board the Union Pacific Express isn’t too bad with the other character out of Folsom, New Mexico. Players designs, with all other body types and utilize cards in their hands in order races represented—even Belle, the to plan the actions they wish to take, “pretty one,” isn’t overly sexualized. but both the environment and other Points for diversity, with one exception. players can interfere with those plans, I loved this game. I found it fun and Illustration by Ed Appleby making everything go awry. The play fast-paced, with rules that were complex play. The strategies for gameplay are especially families and groups of casual occurs on a constructed board of train enough to keep things interesting and diverse and no game runs the same. All players. I would definitely recommend cars with a cabin and a roof that the weren’t so complicated as to bog down player types can find this game enjoying, that you track this one down. bandits can utilize, as well as special issue 14 // volume 44 arts // no. 9

Promotional image for ‘My Entire Highschool is Sinking into the Sea’

This year in animated films ööA review of some of 2017’s animated offerings

Jerrison Oracion company in Quebec to make the ballet New Wave. The film’s soundtrack made Nature, The Lego Ninjago Movie, and scenes in the film. Go see it because by RADWIMPS is in English and has The Star. There was also My Little Pony: Senior Columnist Mission’s Carly Rae Jepsen is in it. the essence of Japanese rock music. The Movie if you are into that series. The following month, The Boss Baby Another limited release film, My Recently, we saw the release of Coco, 017 has been an amazing year for was released with Alec Baldwin saying a Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, is which is musically entertaining, explores animated films. There were films that 2 lot of vulgar things as Boss Baby, and it an indie film as well as an animated film. Mexican culture, and has a spectacular had great stories, beautiful imagery, and appealed to adults despite being a children’s In June, there was Captain Underpants: image of the Land of the Dead. Before brilliant soundtracks. However, there film. Then, more animated films started to The First Epic Movie, which stays true to the film is shown, they show the Frozen were also films that were not great and did be released with Smurfs: The Lost Village in the book series that inspired it: It shows short film Olaf’s Frozen Adventure, not wow as much as they were promoted April, which did not have anyone from the that the arts are important, and it has the which is pretty much Frozen 2 in 20 to. Some of the animated films this year first two films in The Smurfs film series. comedy of Dav Pilkey. Next, there were minutes, and the song in the end of it will only came out in limited release, so a lot After that, the highest grossing film two third installments in series. Cars 3 probably be the holiday hit of this year. of people may not have seen them yet. in Japan, your name., came to North was good, but it did not wow me as much There are still two notable animated The year began with not a lot of America in a limited release. The opening because it focuses on Cruz Ramirez, which films to be released this year: The movies in this genre being released. titles of the film look like the opening causes the film to talk about feminism Breadwinner, which is based on the In February we had The Lego Batman titles of a TV show. It has beautiful images and makes Lighting McQueen and the bestselling book, and Ferdinand. Movie, which is funny and looks and the time-lapse scenes are like the other male race cars sexist. The other Some of the animated films this interesting, although I couldn’t watch it opening titles of House of Cards. The third film is Despicable Me 3, which is very year are brilliant, and with the Academy because I haven’t seen The Lego Movie editing in the film has aspects that I funny and has a lot of 1980s jokes in it. Awards race about to begin, the three yet. Also, Ballerina was released, and haven’t seen before in an anime film, so The next few months had a lot films that could be nominated for Best it has a Canadian connection because director Makoto Shinkai would be part of bad animated films including The Animated Feature next year are your the producers worked with a ballet of what I would describe as the Anime Emoji Movie, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by name., Coco, and The Breadwinner. The best non-traditional Christmas songs ööWhat to play when you’re sick of ‘Jingle Bells’ Duncan Fingarson World Trade Center attack. Instead it’s “Fairytale of New York,” by the Pogues funny and incredibly catchy. about imminent nuclear war, which This one gets quite a lot of play in New Senior Columnist was a much more pressing concern at York, or so I’m told, but I’ve never heard “Carol of the Bells,” by various artists the time. The song is a bouncy, cheery it here. It’s got a bit of a folk feel too Who loves metal? This guy. “Carol of track about setting up for Christmas it, and features some unconventional the Bells” lends itself astoundingly well Christmas songs are a holiday staple. while being simultaneously nuked. lyrics. It’s not supposed to be offensive to symphonic heavy metal, with a few Love ‘em or hate ‘em, we’ve pretty to anyone, but fair warning: The traditional instruments thrown in for much all heard them. They play at “Fishmen,” by the H.P. lyrics in question involve Irish slang good measure. Orion’s Reign, Little V, the mall, on the radio, and on CDs at Lovecraft Historical Society for a lazy person. That aside, the and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra have family gatherings. There is a wealth of This song isn’t technically about juxtaposition of mixed styles and the all done versions of this Christmas songs, however, that get basically no Christmas, but it is set to the tune fact that the song is a duet make it classic, and all of them are good. air time at the holidays despite being of “It’s beginning to look a lot like an interesting, and good, choice. Pick your favourite and rock out. about the holidays. Here are five of Christmas,” and that’s good enough in my personal favourites, from a variety my books. Released as part of a series “Christmas Time in Hell,” Honourable mention: The honourable of sources. Without further ado, and of Lovecraft-themed Christmas song by Trey Parker mention goes to Bob and Doug in no particular order, I present: parodies, “Fishmen” is my favourite of This song, coming to us courtesy McKenzie of the “Great White North,” the lot, although some of the others of South Park, probably IS intended for their uniquely Canadian take “Christmas at Ground are pretty good as well. Put a little to be offensive, but it’s South Park, on “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Zero,” by Weird Al cosmic horror in your Christmas. so nobody should be surprised by Unfortunately, this one didn’t quite Originally released back in the ’80s, this that. The song follows Satan and the make the list, because there is no song has nothing to do with the more damned as they prepare for the season way to make “The Twelve Days of recent “ground zero” attributed to the down in Hell, and is both incredibly Christmas” not be annoying as hell. Thick as thieves ööA review of the ‘Gentleman Bastard’ series

Bridget Ivery Locke Lamora as he’s introduced to the life heist movie, part pirate adventure, this love, is introduced in this novel. In similar of a Gentleman Bastard, while the second one is a tonne of fun. Like the first book, it style to the first two books, the storylines Contributor follows Locke and his friends, now young skips back and forth from the past to the of the present election and the characters’ adults, as the city’s underground faces peril present, showing how they prepare for the pasts together run parallel, each coming have recently finished reading the first from the ruthless Grey King. The story heist but never quite revealing the plan. to a crescendo at about the same time. three books of Scott Lynch’s Gentleman I picks up speed as Locke races to outwit The ending is another mad dash, as all the The Republic of Thieves, which I Bastard series, and I thoroughly enjoyed the Grey King and the Camorri nobility in plot elements come crashing together, and originally thought was the end of the them. Unfortunately, the fourth book an effort to save his friends and the city he it keeps you guessing right to the finish. trilogy, left me craving more. Locke doesn’t come out until October 2018, calls home, and still come out on top as he The third book of the Gentleman and Jean, and perhaps Sabetha, will so I have to satisfy myself with getting tries to pull off a con at the same time. Bastard is The Republic of Thieves. It picks appear in the next novel, The Thorn of all of you hooked on them, too. Red Seas Under Red Skies is the second up almost immediately after Red Seas Emberlain. War has broken out in the The first book in the series, The book in the series. Taking place two years Under Red Skies, and it follows Locke and northern kingdoms, and the Gentlemen Lies of Locke Lamora, takes place in the after the end of the first book, Locke and Jean as they enter the world of politics Bastards hope to run a con but are soon fictional city of Camorr, a fantastical version his best friend Jean are looking to make the in Karthain, the city of the infamous pulled into the fighting—and poor Locke of Renaissance Venice where gangs of biggest heist of their careers. Their target: Bondsmagi. Feared for once having was never very good with a sword! thieves rule the streets and noblemen and The Sinspire of Tal Verrar, an Elderglass destroyed an empire, the Bondsmagi have From the first chapter of The Lies women live in high glass towers built by tower full of gambling and luxury with a hired Locke and Jean to fix an election. of Locke Lamora I was hooked on these the ancient and mysterious Eldren. The reportedly unbreakable vault. The thieves’ Much to their surprise, their rival in this books, and I hope you will find them as novel follows two storylines, one telling past catches up with them, though, and contest is another Gentleman Bastard, or I page-turningly wonderful as I have. the early development of the titular thief complications send them out to sea. Part should say Lady: Sabetha, Locke’s childhood Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO Sport: Forever OO Rampin’ Royals OO In it to win it Sports And more! Post-Grey Cup musings ööCanadian football culture versus American college football culture

Jillian McMullen offered fans that professional and high school football could not was a local team Staff Writer competing in the national arena.” College football fans are attracted to particular ccording to the CFL website, teams because their players reflect the the audience for the Grey Cup A regions they play for, and subsequently championship game between the Toronto represent that region on a prestigious, Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders national scale. This helps to establish peaked during the fourth quarter to 6 the college football team as a source of million simultaneous viewers. In light of regional pride for their fans. this, I was speaking with some classmates I don’t think I’ve ever met a Canadian and coworkers about my plan to cover football fan who had the same amount of the game for this very article, but, upon ferocious devotion to a team as what you mentioning the Grey Cup, I was more see in leagues like the SEC. So why doesn’t often than not met with questions of a similar kind of identity-building translate what exactly that was, rather than with to the Canadian football scene? Perhaps it’s enthusiasm. However, had I mentioned because it lacks the same regional referents the Stanley Cup, I think it’s fair to assume as with American football. If you look at everyone would know what I was talking the Argonauts’ active roster, only about 35 about. This got me thinking about why the per cent of the players are from Canadian Canadian Football League might not be universities, with the Stampeders around part of our national consciousness despite the same figure. There has always been the league’s television success. Yes, you cross-border athlete drafting amongst could chalk this particular instance up to sports. Just under half the players of last personal disinterest in the game. However, year’s Stanley Cup winner, the Pittsburg I think there might be something in the Penguins, are Canadian-born. However, US’s influence on football that prevents it it is interesting that one might be able from having the same cultural significance to question the “Canadianness” of what as something like hockey. one could consider an innately Canadian In his book Violence in Southern league. It is difficult to organize that kind Sport and Culture, Eric Bain-Selbo shows of societal devotion to the sport when the that in 2015, Southeastern Conference region receiving the prestige for superior (SEC) schools had an average of 80,000 athleticism is located anywhere other than fans in attendance per game. To put this in the society itself. perspective, TD Place Stadium (where the Despite the pervasive Hockey- Grey Cup was held) only sat about 36,000 loving Canadian trope, the Grey Cup’s people for the national championship. large audience is testament to our more Bain-Selbo also quotes Michael Oriard, a basic motivations for watching sports: former Associate Dean at Oregon State, Ultimately, it’s just about the enjoyment of Photo by Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press who claimed that “what college football the game. Conor McGregor and the Irish mob ööMMA champ has fights and friends with a drug cartel McGregor’s off-ring reputation, but no Greg Waldock charges were filed here, either. Staff Writer Even less surprising than an overaggressive MMA champion is the pparently, MMA champion Conor involvement of a mob in martial arts. The AMcGregor is not content to pick Kinahan gang is reported to have been fights with just boxing champions. He has active in many sporting competitions reportedly directed his attention towards across the Republic of Ireland, and since the Irish drug cartels. More specifically, 2015 have been a part of a large on-going according to multiple news outlets, gang war with other families. Among McGregor allegedly had an incident on those notable killed in the past two years November 27 in a Dublin pub where he have been Paul Kavanagh, a brother of punched a 50-year-old man repeatedly in a major Irish boxer and son of a rival to the face. The man is allegedly connected the Kinahan cartel, and David Byrne, a to the Kinahan drug cartel, a large and gangster with strong ties to the Kinahan wealthy gang with connections across cartel and a close friend of McGregor’s. the Irish underworld. According to the McGregor attended both of their funerals. DailyMail, no charges were filed, and the Given their connections, it appears Kinahan gang may be investigating to unlikely that the Kinahan family plan “intervene before it escalates.” to start a feud with McGregor over It has been an aggressive month for the incident, and Dublin police have McGregor. On November 10, he leapt apparently insisted that no investigation into the ring during a Bellator match is underway due to a lack of charges filed. in Dublin after one fighter had been McGregor’s alleged connections to this knocked out. He shoved the referee, large cartel has had little visible impact prevented the downed fighter from on his MMA career, though his behaviour getting up, and slapped a commissioner at the Bellator match has caused the in the face, causing the fight to end early. company to drop him from future games Photo of Conor McGregor via extra.ie This does not come as a surprise, given until further notice. issue 14 // volume 44 sports // no. 11 Who wants to spend the holidays in traction? ööThe winter sports least likely to injure you Ed Appleby for you. Like hiking, though, there is a great Senior Columnist risk of getting lost or injured in the backcountry. North Shore Search hat is it with winter sports? and Rescue advise sticking Does something strange W to the snowshoe trails happen in the human brain when it and keeping a charged snows—similar to the entire cellphone handy in population of the Lower case something goes Mainland forgetting wrong. Many snowshoers how to drive—that overestimate their skill and makes us think that underestimate the weather strapping wood to and terrain—the results can our feet and hurtling be deadly. down a hill is fun? Or strapping knives to our feet Ice fishing and swinging sticks at each Cut a hole other? Shockingly, some of us in the ice are averse to injuring ourselves and throw for fun, so maybe—just maybe—

out a line. Illustration by Ed Appleby there is some sort of seasonal sport Ice fishing for those of us who wish to make it to can be a great March without concussions and broken activity for bones. those who aren’t looking to overexert Curling themselves. The culture The great Canadian pastime Cross- and social nature around that is not hockey. For those country skiing (XC the activity is prevalent and of you who are unfamiliar with skiing) there are many festivals and the sport, it involves sliding The great Nordic sport is one of the best such competitions, as well as many a big rock down a sheet of ice full-body cardio exercises you can engage things as knee viable lakes throughout the interior in order to get it closest to a target, in, outside of swimming. Unlike downhill pain, rotator cuff and tendon of British Columbia that allows such like lawn bowling on ice with sweeping. skis, cross-country skis are long, only damage, and lower back pain. Acute activities. Just remember to get a fishing And unlike other ice sports, the surface attached at the toes, and are designed injuries can include ankle sprains, thumb licence. isn’t kept mirror smooth, but is instead for primarily horizontal as opposed to dislocations and the ever-popular groin Oh, and check the thickness of the roughed a little to add traction to the vertical movement. Cross-country skiing sprain. ice. Thiels et al noted in their 2016 study rock. The sliding apparatus is limited to is a fast way to move through the snowy of American ice fishing injuries that “Ice one foot and you also have a broom to landscape and get some great exercise Snowshoeing fishing is associated with more severe balance yourself. It is no wonder that like and spectacular views in as well. Though All of the fun outdoor exercise of cross- injury patterns and more thermal injuries other low-risk sports—like bowling and wipeouts are still common—especially for country skiing without the risk of and immersion injuries than traditional baseball—beer leagues are common. novice skiers—the low speed does mean running into a tree. Snowshoeing has fishing.” It is recommended that you also However, there are still risks to that traumatic injuries are less common. gone from a necessity for fur trappers know the area and not set up near inlets curling. Though there is little chance However, according to Sophia on the Canadian Shield to a sport that is or running water. for acute or life-threatening trauma Sauter’s article in Active Life basically jogging in clown shoes. Modern So if you do decide to go out and with regards to curling, Lea Bree of the Physiotherapy, about 75 per cent of snowshoes are small, light and designed enjoy yourself this winter, play smart and Capilano Rehab Centre points out that injuries sustained by cross-country to both grip as well as keep you above stay safe. As for me, I will be engaging curling does pose a risk of lower back skiers are a result of overuse due to the the snow. If you are an avid hiker in the in some professional level wine mulling, strain, elbow pain, knee strain, and pelvic repetitive nature of skiing. This includes warmer months this might be the sport and that’s about it. torsion, especial at the competitive level. Sport: Forever ööA humble writer’s goodbye I know. sports, but little did I know that was pursued new ways to write about sports. Davie Wong Teenage depression hit me like a the best thing I could have done. I was I was lucky enough to have the support Sports Editor truck, so I used sports to get through it. already quite knowledgeable about of Douglas College, who gave me Although high school sucked, I knew if I sports, and spectating gave me another opportunities to be a part of something just got through the day, I could go play angle to comprehend. When I got so much bigger than myself. s you can tell from the title, this sports and be good at something. Sport the opportunity to become a Sports Through the ups and the downs, Aisn’t going to be a cheery piece. In was always there for me when I needed Reporter at the Other Press, my heart sport has always been there, and always fact, it’s my last article as the Sports it to be, but don’t be fooled! Sport is a leapt. will be. It’s give and take, a fight all the Editor for the Other Press. For two cruel mistress. It’s been a long two years since way, but it’s so rewarding. No matter if and a half years, I’ve had the privilege Towards the end of high school, then, and I’ve never felt more connected you’re an athlete, a coach, a writer, or of calling this paper my primary I tore my rotator cuff in training. to sports than I do now, despite not even an outsider looking in, sport will occupation. But all things come to It was a devastating injury which I having played a pickup game in years. always be there. As I move forward with an end, and as my time at the Other never fully recovered from. As I found But as sports are, you have to be active my life, I know that sport will always be Press closes, I want to reflect on the myself on the outside looking in, and about it. Sport doesn’t just happen, you with me. importance of sports, to myself, and even cut from my high school team, I make it happen, and you have to get a Thank you to all of the readers. No likely so many others out there. thought my life with sport was done. little lucky. I was lucky enough to have matter how much we at the Other Press Growing up, I moved around a lot, I resigned myself to only watching the backing of the Other Press as I joke about no one reading us, we know so the only real constant in my life was you’re out there. Thank you to everyone my family—and sports. Whether it was It’s been a long two years since, and I’ve never felt who has ever mentored, taught, or soccer, hockey, or basketball, I knew coached. It’s you that passes the torch that I always had sport, and that was more connected to sports that I do now, despite that allows sport to shine. Thank you to comforting. As my life grew more stable, my colleagues, who have always pushed sports shifted from being a constant, to not having played a pickup game in years” me to better myself. And thank you to an outlet. I used sports to meet people, sport, for always being there. Sport, make friends, and when I started forever. playing rugby, to hit people. Gruesome, 2017’s Greatest Hits By Carlos Bilan

Not Even Happiness by Julie Byrne

Patiently passionate and calm, the folk songbird’s Not Even Happiness is the perfect album to listen to when you just need time to be immersed in soft tunes and some silence to drown out the stresses of the world. In the peaceful “Follow My Voice,” Byrne comforts listeners who might be feeling worried and serves as a perfect intro to a meditative listening experience. In the majestic standout track “Natural Blue,” Byrne relates an important experience meeting someone with the colour of the sky and in this way, Byrne can remind listeners of the power of nature’s beauty—even if simple—can calm one’s soul.

Process by Sampha

Sampha has been well-known for his amazing collaborations with many big artists in the R&B and Hip-Hop industry like Drake, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, Solange, and oth- ers. Process is a solid debut that successfully showcases his beautiful voice, ar- tistic vulnerability, and expertise as a producer. The album starts with the potent “Plastic 100°C” and it samples Neil Armstrong’s lines from when he first steps on the moon, which acts as a metaphor for Sampha venturing into an uncertain future. The album seems to be a narrative on how the gentle soul processes grief, death of loved ones, anxiety, and loneliness. Despite these themes, the album is not entirely a downer due to tracks like the urgent “Blood on Me” and upbeat “Kora Sings.” Nev- ertheless, in quiet and sincere moments like “(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano” and “Timmy’s Prayer,” Sampha’s soulfulness shines.

I See You by The xx

It has been almost five years since the English band’s last album and I See You proves itself to be worth the wait and a refreshing take on dream pop and indie electronic genres. In fact, I See You is perhaps the album that contains most of their upbeat work. The opening track “Dangerous” opens with trumpets and has a cho- rus you can dance to, which signals a departure from the softer aesthetic of their previous albums. “On Hold” is another example of a vocal sample being used with- in a chorus to great effect. With I See You, the band manages to still evoke their trademark dreamy style without falling into the trap of “sameness,” as these subtle changes make a big difference to their overall sound.

Take Me Apart by Kelela

“Don’t say you’re in love until you learn to take me apart,” the enchanting Kele- la commands in the title track. Certainly, this would be the case since this album requires repeated listening in order to fully digest and appreciate every layer of each track’s production. However, the album offers some catchy accessible bops like “LMK” which could have the potential to be a hit if it wasn’t for its experimental wonky production. Listening to the album is like being invited into Kelela’s bedroom where we get to indulge in the sensual atmosphere and witness the artist’s vision. Lyrically, the album can be considered an artistic attempt at expressing empowered sexuality and sincerity. Truthfully, Take Me Apart feels like a spacey futuristic R&B.

Utopia by Björk

The Icelandic songstress’ tenth album is an engaging sensory experience, trans- porting the listeners to an auditory Shangri-La where we might hear birds chirping, angels having picnics, nature spirits playing in the forest, and other ethereal images you can imagine as you listen through the pieces. In the airy and reflective “Blissing Me,” Björk sings about lovers falling in love through swapping music—in fact, the idea of “fall- ing in love” is a recurring theme in this album. Björk said in an interview with Pitchfork that this new release is her “Tinder record.” Considering that Björk’s previous effort, the de- pressingly dark but absolutely clever Vulnicura, had a dystopian feeling due to its central theme of heartbreak, Utopia is a polar opposite with its optimism. The positive vibe could easily symbolise Björk rediscov- ering happiness and reaching a hopeful conclusion in the end. 2017 has been blessed musically by outstanding newcomers as well as highly-antici- pated musical comebacks. Without further ado, let’s have a look at the Top 10 Al- bums of 2017.

Masseduction by St. Vincent

While the pop-tinged Masseduction might be Anne Clark’s most accessible album as St. Vincent, it still offers a lot of adventure and contains dark themes reminiscent of her last albums, despite its bright-neon album cover. As Clark said in an interview with i-D, she describes the album as a “domina- trix at the mental institution.” In the title track, Clark repeats robotically the portmanteau, “masseduc- tion” then says, “I can’t turn off what turns me on” in a sexual tone, which conveys this overall concept of seduction in multiple facets. While the album ventures across the pop field, it still has a lot of rock elements which recalls her previous albums. Except this time, there’s a colourful twist. However, the album has some mellow moments like the piano-accompanied “New York” where Clark sings softly about losing a hero and friends but would “do it all again” for the lover she misses.

Run the Jewels 3 (RTJ 3) by Run the Jewels

“Legend Has It” that the excellent hip-hop duo who are as musically compatible as PB & J “dropped a clas- sic” with this album—yes, pun intended. While RTJ 3’s cover depicts the iconic RTJ hand sign made of gold with a blue background which might represent royalty, elitism, and prestige, ironically, the album’s themes are anti-elite; or rather, an artistic revolution against ruthless capitalism. In the album highlight “Pan- ther like a Panther (Miracle Mix)” with Trina, they talk about taking all the money from the wealthy and redistributing it to those in need in society as they tell everybody to “throw the pistol and fist” which refers to the RTJ hand sign. In “Thieves! (Screamed the Ghost)”, they drop a harder truth-bomb by rapping about police brutality and systematic racism, ending the song with a sample from a speech made by Martin Luther King, stating that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

CTRL by Sza

As indicated in the title itself, SZA takes co­ntrol of her life as a woman addressing themes that may be considered dirty and taboo. The Kendrick Lamar-assisted smooth track, “Doves in the Wind,” celebrates the power of vaginas. The gorgeous opening “Supermodel” has SZA singing about her insecurities and taking re- venge against an ex-boyfriend who wronged her by sleeping with his friend. Another example is the standout “The Weekend,” which recounts the experience of three women sharing one man. Many have interpreted from this track that SZA is the “side chick” but as SZA confirmed on Twitter, there’s no side chick because all the women described in the song are aware of the polyamorous nature of the arrangement. Despite SZA throw- ing out all the dirty laundry for everyone to see, the album has a lot of heart and soul, such as the deep cut “Normal Girl” where SZA becomes wishes that “she was a normal girl” or the type of person you can set- tle with and be proud of.

Melodrama by Lorde

Melodrama is perhaps one of the biggest surprises this year. Because the album was marketed as pop rath- er than indie, many speculated she must have sold out; however, when the full album dropped, Lorde gave us high-quality pop that is completely out of the norm. The artist in her late teen years managed to accurate- ly convey the feelings of happiness in love through tracks such as “The Louvre,” the pain of getting your heart ripped out with the quiet and cathartic “Hard Feelings/Loveless,” and the sadness of looking back at a love that could have been great but crumbled away with the ironically energetic “Supercut,” finishing with the anthem-like “Perfect Places.” Lorde mentioned in an interview with Teen Vogue that she has synaes- thesia, which is her ability to “see specific colours when certain music notes are played,” and this per- haps contributed to Lorde’s ability to perfectly convey the idea of melodrama with this brilliant album.

DAMN. by Kendrick Lamar

While DAMN. is Lamar’s shortest studio album in length and his most “commercial” sounding, it’s still packed with a lot of heat and brilliant storytelling for its seamless track transitions, poetic lyrics, politics, and symbolisms. For example, Lamar used a snippet of a Fox News reporter who criticises hip-hop at the end of the first track, “BLOOD,” then proceeds to the fiery “DNA” where he gives a nod to his black heritage. Moreover, the album seems to have religious undertones which can be conveyed through the album’s track titles and order like the rather tranquil “PRIDE” preceding the bombastic “HUMBLE,” which juxta- pose one another in both music and lyrics. The Rihanna-assisted track “LOYALTY” talks about the importance of loyalty in relationships and friendships; so, in a way, Lamar is able to convey his own ideals in this album. Finally, the album seems to be Lamar’s most personal to date; for example, in the revelatory “DUCK- WORTH,” Lamar talks about a twist of fate in his life that occurred because of his father’s kindness. After the universally-lauded To Pimp a Butterfly, expectations for Lamar became even higher; however, the Comp- ton-raised hip-hop paragon surpasses expectations with this damn marvellous album.

Honourable mentions

Lust for Life by Lana Del Rey Something to Tell You by HAIM Arca by Arca No Shape by Perfume Genius Crack-Up by Fleet Foxes After Laughter by Paramore Rainbow by Kesha Number 1 Angel by Charli XCX More Life by Drake This Old Dog by Mac DeMarco sports // no. 14 theotherpress.ca Rampin’ Royals ööRoyals women’s basketball building towards repeat Davie Wong last. A gold medal rematch against the it. Nanaya Miki leads the team in rebounds Perhaps finding a go-to playmaker is Capilano Blues went the way of the Royals with 8.3 per game, which is second best something the team will be working on Sports Editor rather comfortably, 71-53 to be exact. in the PACWEST. Rachel Beauchamp has during the winter break. Or maybe it’s When called upon, the women’s team 7.2 rebound per game, sixth best in the working for head coach Steve Beauchamp, t has been an absolutely tight-knit start to has shown themselves more than capable of PACWEST. Beauchamp also has 12.7 points and that sort of transition passing is the PACWEST season. With four teams I returning to fine fighting form. One major per game, seventh best in the PACWEST. what he wants. Either way, the team will vying for the first place spot headed into the difference changes the dynamic of the team What the Royals are really missing this have to clean it up if they want to repeat. winter break, it has been one of the closest from last year; the return of former first- year is a playmaker. Naturally, with Adelia Interestingly enough, Rachel Beauchamp starts to a season that I’ve ever seen. For the team All-Star Nanaya Miki has completely Paul finishing her PACWEST playing career and Nanaya Miki have the first and second Royals, it’s been par for the course so far. shifted the Royals, for better or worse. last year, the transition to a new shot caller best shooting percentages in the league. Sitting in that dog-pile for first with a record Offensively, Miki’s 12 points per has taken time. Nanaya Miki has filled the Perhaps the answer isn’t defence, but just of 4-2, the Royals have looked good for a game have helped the Royals a tonne, role well, tossing up three assists per game to get the ball up more often than the other team early in the season. yet it comes in place of Sarah Jorgenson’s (fourth best in the PACWEST). However, team? Their highlight came with a huge 68-37 lack of offensive presence this year. Likely other than Miki, it’s a tossup for the Royals. I’m not the head coach, so I can’t win over the Langara Falcons to start the because Miki has really stepped into her Remarkably, in a six way tie for 10th most answer that one. But I can say, while not year. To be fair, the Falcons now sit at the role as an all-around forward, Jorgenson assists per game are four Royals. Jessica perfect, the Royals looked strong. If they bottom of the table with a record of 1-5, but has instead been a key defensive leader Castillo, Karen Li, Amber Beasley, and Ellen find a playmaker, the Royals have the at the start of the season, it was fair game. for the Royals. Her 7.5 rebounds per game Fallis each average two assist per game. Now potential to repeat. If they can’t? Well, that Their low-light was the 69-52 loss they has her fourth best in the PACWEST, and this could mean that the Royals are finding means the team will play a very interesting suffered at the hands of the VIU Mariners. her 1.5 blocks per game is second best. their playmakers from around the court. style that will be fun to watch for. A surprise for many as the Mariners weren’t Speaking of rebounding, that is again But Beasley and Li have some of the higher the best team last year, but have seemed to something the Royals do very well thanks turnover ratios in the PACWEST, scoring 3.5 found a good vein of form of late. However, to head coach Steve Beauchamp’s focus on and 3.0 turnovers per game, respectively. their game would have to have been their

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

INSTITUTION CONF PTS INSTITUTION CONF PTS DOUGLAS 10-2 20 VIU 10-2 20 VIU 10-2 20 CAPILANO 10-2 20

UFV 7-5 14 UFV 6-6 12

CAPILANO 6-6 12 DOUGLAS 5-7 10

CBC 5-7 10 CAMOSUN 5-7 10

COTR 4-8 8 COTR 4-8 8

CAMOSUN 0-12 0 CBC 2-10 4

In it to win it ööRoyals men’s basketball poised to go the distance Davie Wong to love the style of basketball that the So far, the team’s biggest game Johnson makes the play, Campbell Sports Editor Royals are playing. has been against CBC, where they won finishes. At the moment, Johnson Tied for second in the PACWEST 84-62. However, as a bottom team, it’s averages 4.5 assists per game, third best fter some massive offseason with a record of 4-2 headed into the not the team’s most impressive win. in the PACWEST. But where the Royals Aoverhauls, the Royals men’s winter break, the Royals have really That would be their 97-89 win over the have really found their success this basketball team have made quite the established themselves a powerhouse Langara Falcons in their home opener. year is off the glass. Noah DeRappard- name for themselves. Ranked seventh team. In particular, a defensive Their hardest loss came to the VIU Yuswack averages 12.5 rebounds per nationally by the CCAA, the Royals have powerhouse. Coach Joe Enevoldson has Mariners, 89-77. As the Mariners are game, the PACWEST’s highest. That gone from a fringe team to one of the his team playing a defence-first kind of the go-to team to beat, it stung that the means that he averages a double-double best in the west. While it is still early game with a power transition offence Royals weren’t able to do so. However, it every game. Reese Morris has also been to be praising the team, it’s hard not that sees his team succeed on both sides was a humbling loss that the team can a defensive monster for the Royals. of the court. learn from. Averaging 9.6 rebounds per game (third Overall, the Royals have a best in the PACWEST), and 1.8 blocks fantastic all-around team on the court. per game (PACWEST best), Morris is a Offensively, the Royals are up there with keystone in the Royals defensive game. some of the best in the league. Grant With Kameron Johnson averaging Campbell’s 17.3 points per game has him 6.8 rebounds per game, and Grant ranked fourth in that category. Noah Campbell averaging 6.2, the Royals are DeRappard-Yuswack has 16.2 points the only team with nearly their entire per game, sixth best in the PACWEST. starting lineup in the top 15 rebounders. American international Kameron That says a lot about the style of Johnson has 15.8 points per game which basketball the Royals play. is 8th best in the PACWEST. The Royals Looking at the numbers, the Royals are the only team to have three players have the best all-around team in the in the top 10 of points per game. Though PACWEST. It’s just about transitioning the offensive mantle still belongs to that to beat VIU. Look for the men to Usama Zaid of the VIU Mariners, the put work in over the break to come back Royals do other things just a little better. even harder. With this lineup, it’s hard The arrival of Kameron Johnson to imagine anyone but the Royals in the has seen Grant Campbell step into the finals against VIU right now. Knock on role of a scorer rather than a playmaker. wood. Photo via Douglas College Flickr Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO The Other Playlist OO Magic: The Gathering community choos- es to believe the victims OO Don’t stress over finals Life & Style And more! Holiday stress got you down? ööHow to make the most of your time

Katie Czenczek is to not blow off everyone and crawl into your quilt cave in order to watch Staff Writer Netflix all break. Your retinas do not need to have that bold, red-lettered logo inter break is supposed to be burned into them. All I’m suggesting is a joyous—or at the very least, W that you give yourself some ample time relaxing—period between semesters. In to take a break and unwind a little. If theory, it should be a time to let your brain you aren’t feeling up for the seventh recover from all of the stress it endured staff party your coworkers are hosting, throughout the fall semester. However, don’t go. If your family and significant stresses from gift shopping, having to other’s family keep inviting you out to see family members that seem to enjoy Christmas celebrations that you aren’t commenting on everything you’re doing really up for, just be honest and say no. wrong in your life, and making the most Granted, this is easier written out of your winter break before getting than done, but sometimes just setting back into classes can almost make you up boundaries with your friends crave the sweet release of the lecture hall. and loved ones is exactly how to It might do you, and your loved get the calming break you need. ones, some good if you just pull a Ferris Another tip I have for how to reduce Bueller and take a day or two off—and stress is similar to my advice for when if you don’t understand that reference, travelling abroad: Do not spend your I suggest incorporating some feel-good entire time in a shopping mall. I enjoy ’80s comedies into your winter holiday. shopping for gifts but I know that I made Once your expectations for how a mistake by having to run back to the haartfelt.com via Image exactly your time during winter should mall multiple times because I forgot to go have been wiped from your mind, to be spoiled even more with yet another Hope these tips help those who buy my secret Santa a gift, changed my you may just actually meet them. present. Write a list down of the gifts you are secretly dreading the holiday mind about the gift I bought my friend, or Now, of course my advice to you need to get and where to find them, and season. Best of luck and hope decided that my niece and nephew need stick to it. It will save you a lot of time. you make it to the next year. The morning-after pill ööWhat to expect when you don’t want to be expecting

Brittney MacDonald University, that it is physically impossible that the pill did its job. The amount of Because it is still considered a bit taboo, for the morning-after pill to terminate an spotting will be determined by where you due mostly in part with its confusion Life & Style Editor existing pregnancy. The easiest way for the were in your fertility cycle before taking with Mifegymiso, it is not something average consumer to tell the difference is the pill. Those closer to their menses that you learn about in all those sexual he morning-after pill is an emergency that Mifegymiso requires a prescription, will have spotting more similar to a full- education courses you had to sit through contraceptive available at most T and will run you about $300-$400, blown period, while those further from in high school. Most people I have pharmacies and drugstores. Though while the morning-after pill is available their ovulation date will have spotting talked to weren’t even aware that the you do not need a prescription, in over-the-counter and costs $30-$40. that will be minor by comparison. morning-after pill had side effects. It is some retailers you do need to speak Before taking the morning-after Perhaps my biggest personal gripe up to you to educate yourself, and know to a pharmacist before they will sell pill you should know that it is not in regards to the morning-after pill is your options—as well as what to expect it to you. Variants include Option 2, recommended that you rely on it as a the lack of education surrounding it. when you don’t want to be expecting! Plan B, Backup Plan, as well as a few consistent birth control method. It does other generic brands. In general, they affect your hormone levels as well as all tend to do the same thing, and they your overall body chemistry, which, in all have the same side effects. Despite general, is not something you want to the fact that the morning-after pill has mess with. The side effects can also be a been around since the early ’70s, many bit debilitating, and tend to worsen the people are still vastly uninformed when more often you take it. The morning-after it comes to what the pill actually does, pill is meant to be a last resort in case of and what they can expect after taking it. an accident with the condom/diaphragm First and foremost, the morning or a heat-of-the-moment situation. after pill is not the abortion pill. This If you do find yourself in need of confusion has led many people to reject the morning-after pill, be sure to clear the pill unnecessarily. The morning- your schedule. Call in sick, cancel plans, after pill is meant to prevent pregnancy go somewhere quiet—because you will by inducing an early menstrual cycle, not want to be doing much afterwards. and voiding the uterus to prevent an Though severity of side effects tends to egg from attaching itself to the uterine fluctuate depending on the individual, wall. It must be taken within 72 hours you can expect to feel like you would on of unprotected sex—though they do cite the worst day of your period. Nausea and that taking it within 12 hours is ideal. cramps are the most common side effects, The abortion pill, known clinically as as well as fatigue and fever. Thankfully Mifegymiso, is meant to be a non-surgical these symptoms are quick to pass and alternative to an abortion, and can be should be gone within a day or two. Stock taken within the first nine weeks after it up on the chocolate and Midol, and you has been determined that a pregnancy should be fine. Don’t get freaked out if has occurred. It is a known fact by many you have spotting for the next few days. researchers, including those as the Office This is very common, and just means of Population Sciences at Princeton life & style // no. 16 theotherpress.ca

Magic: The Gathering community chooses to believe the victims ööMtG rocked by harassment accusations from cosplayer Christine Sprankle against well-known YouTube personality Photo of Christine Sprankle cosplaying as Elspeth

Lauren Kelly has also created multiple videos critical female cosplayers in general, with tweets critical of him by Lewis and Wong, of Wedge from The Mana Source, Brian comments calling out Sprankle for among others, have led to harassment Graphics Manager “the Professor” Lewis from Tolarian begging for Patreon supporters: “If she and threatening messages being sent Community College, and other content wasn’t a good-looking girl, the support to him. He also stated that these videos n November 24, Christine Sprankle, creators, it was the accusations by would be about five per cent of what provide no proof that he committed one of the most well-known O Sprankle this past weekend that was the it is. […] If she wasn’t crying, same targeted harassment of Sprankle, nor cosplayers in the Magic: The Gathering final straw for much of the community. thing holds true.” He also made many proof that any harassment on his part (MtG) community, announced on Twitter Since Sprankle’s tweets, discussion demeaning comments on Twitter about led his fans to harass her. In his video that she would be no longer cosplaying exploded in the MtG community female cosplayers such as: “If you’re on the UnsleevedMedia channel “This due to harassment. Specifically, she on Reddit and YouTube, and WotC trading $$ for it it’s just porn,” “Cosplay Is What Real ‘Harassment’ Looks Like,” called out one YouTube personality: themselves made two statements. The is dumb. Playing dress up is not ‘work’,” he requested that, if these content Jeremy Hambly, known on YouTube as MtG subreddit, /r/magicTCG, saw posts and “When I start looking at some of creators are critical of harassment, it MTGHeadQuarters (no longer active), discussing Sprankle’s exit reach Reddit’s this cosplay […] I feel a little movement would be appropriate for them to remove UnsleevedMedia, and TheQuartering. main page, and Reddit’s MtG community down in my pantaloons, and I’m like ‘I see their videos and tweets and make an Hambly is well known in the was largely supportive of Sprankle. The why people could like cosplay.’” He also apology to him. He specifically requests community, and is one of the most explosion of coverage led WotC to make discussed the other forms of toxicity that a sincere apology from Sprankle herself, popular MtG Youtubers, currently a statement discussing their sadness over Hambly has brought to the community. who he refers to as “a well-known sitting at over 144,000 subscribers the recent “bullying and harassment”: Jimmy Wong, from the channels grifter and cosplayer,” as he claims it on UnsleevedMedia and 25,000 on “No one should be subjected to threats The Command Zone, Feast of Fiction, was her who started what he describes TheQuartering. He rose in popularity and intimidation. No one should be and formerly an actor on the cult-hit as a “witch hunt” against him. by doing booster pack-opening videos made to feel unsafe or unwelcome webseries, Video Game High School, As the television, movie, and music on his main channel, but uses his side while enjoying something they love […] responded to the allegations with multiple industries continue their purge of known channel The Quartering to upload more We’re listening to your feedback and tweets from his handle @jfwong, stating harassers, the strong and supportive controversial content. A self-described working to ensure everyone who plays “Beyond crushed to hear that constant reaction to Sprankle’s accusations, as critic of MtG products as well as content Magic feels welcomed and accepted.” abuse, harassment, & toxicity has driven well as to the subsequent ones of others put forth by other MtG personalities, On YouTube, Lewis uploaded a away one of Magic’s most talented & who claim Hambly has harassed them, Hambly has upset many members of 20-minute video that showed support for dedicated members,” and “I’ve spent many is keeping with the trend of believing the community over the years. Much Sprankle and discussed his own struggles useless hours trying to bring this man the victims. As WotC cannot take more of his content has been critical of what with receiving prolonged harassment to reason, to see if there’s any semblance action against Hambly as his content Hambly believes is Wizards of the and attacks by Hambly and his followers. of dignity or honesty in his veins. I’ve is housed on independently published Coast (WotC), the creators of MtG, “My phone suddenly rings, as you all given him the chance to own up to prior media such as YouTube, Twitter, and pandering to women and the LGBTQ+ know how scary that is. I say, ‘Oh, death mistakes, but instead he’s hid, lied, Patreon, it is hard to know how this case community. These arguments were most threat! I guess Jeremy made another obfuscated, & deleted old posts to save will proceed. One thing is known— recently addressed by him in the videos video or series of tweets about me.’” his image. Disgraceful.” These tweets this has created a further divide in “The Women ‘Problem’ in Magic The In this video, Lewis displayed video led him to be a target for harassment as the community, with Hambly and his Gathering” and “I Am Pissed! WOTC, clips and tweets by Hambly speaking well, but he has stood by his words. many supporters pushing back against Identity Politics in Gaming & Man negatively about Sprankle and about Hambly asserts that the videos and WotC and the rest of the community. Hating Enough is Enough.” While he issue 14 // volume 44 life & style // no. 17

otherplaylistthe Brittney MacDonald Life and Style Editor

As we roll our way into December, we have much to look forward to: bad weather, crowded malls, loud family get-togethers, and questionable vegetarian turkey substitutes. However, one thing we can count on to cheer us all up are the seasonal songs that are bound to be flooding the radio. Whether they be in celebration of this holiday season, or just winter in general, here’s a list of our picks for favourite timely tunes. You can listen in on Spotify at https://open.spotify. com/user/lullabyedespise/playlist/0e68zO6A2l7aZWPenpr0X7

“My Favourite Things” by Kelly Clarkson (Mercedes)

“Stamp” by the Rural Alberta Advantage (Chandler)

“A Christmas Duel” by the Hives and Cyndi Lauper (Jacey)

Let it Snow by Sarah McLachlan (Jerrison)

“The Little Drummer Boy” by Christopher Lee (Caroline)

“I Wish It Could be Christmas Every Day” by Wizzard (Ed)

“Cool Yule” by Louis Armstrong and the Commanders (Brittney) iImage via badgerherald.com via iImage Don’t stress over finals #DOUGLIFE ö öHow I became a confident exam taker Share your photos with us on Instagram using the hashtag #DougLife, Jillian McMullen require a different approach. Sociology, for a chance to be featured in the paper! Staff Writer anthropology, biology and other subjects that similarly test memorization all benefit from flash card studying; math y first year of post-secondary demands that students know how and involved a lot of school-related M when to use different operations, and anxiety. I, like most new students, English requires students to link course was struggling to get my bearings in themes to each text covered, so anticipate university. It felt as though everything possible essay questions and prepare high school had supposedly prepared me outlines for them, or at least be aware of for was irrelevant to my new educational correlative themes. This last rule is what environment and its conventions—I had really contributed to my confident test- never even encountered a citation format taking: I don’t study material on the day of until my first semester. While a visit to the exam. This will sound negative, but, by the library quickly helped me learn my exam day, there’s no amount of studying MLA basics, it did not help me to deal you can do to change the outcome of your with the stress of taking exams that were exam—it’s too late; you either know the sometimes worth a third of my grade. I material or you don’t. Use the time you remember spending the first hour of my would have otherwise wasted trying to first major exam frozen in fear and the cram as much information into your brain next furiously writing in an attempt to as possible to, instead, focus on getting finish on time; I cried on my roommate’s yourself in the right head space. If you shoulder when I got home, terrified that go into an exam with a calm mind, you’ll I had jeopardized my grade-dependent be able to focus on your work rather than funding. Five years into my now-ending the clock ticking away on the wall. I like undergrad, I’ve developed a way to to find a quiet place outside to focus on approach similar breakdowns, so, in the some controlled breathing (I find the spirit of the upcoming exam season, here’s cool air really clears my head). When it how I became a non-nervous test-taker. comes to setting your intentions, don’t First, you have to be willing to expect too much of yourself. Expect that do the leg work. You’re given an exam you’ll complete the test to the best of your schedule at the beginning of the ability, because that’s all you can ever do. semester—set yourself up for success Going from a nervous test-taker and give yourself enough time to do to a confident one only requires a a good job studying. There’s just no change in perspective. You’ve put in way to confidently take a test if you the work, now prove it. Remember: don’t know the material—period. Your degree will be a series of different Second, know how to effectively tests, both academic and personal, and study. Different subjects each require will ultimately not be determined by This week’s post is by @priscillaomulo a different sets of skills, so they all any one exam for any one course. Have an idea for a story?  [email protected]

OO Why you should care about Net Neutrality OO Tim Hortons shouldn’t be “quintessentially Canadian” Opinions And more! Why does Canada have Black Friday? ööLet America keep its terrible tradition to itself

Duncan Fingarson sales makes sense. In Canada, however, Thanksgiving is over and done with. We Senior Columnist finished that back in October, and the holiday decorations came out of the bloody he day after American Thanksgiving, woodwork on November 1. Why not have commonly referred to as Black Friday, T the sales then? is marketed as the busiest shopping Canada does not need to do day of the year. It’s the unofficial start everything the US does. I’d be perfectly of the Christmas shopping season, and happy not subscribing to the mindless the cause of more than a few injuries. consumerism that Black Friday represents. Blackfridaydeathcount.com catalogues I certainly don’t do my Christmas shopping the various incidents going back to 2006, at Walmart, no matter how good their sales reporting 111 injuries and 10 deaths directly are. Not everyone, though, is like me. related to Black Friday. Recently, Canada As much as I’d like to see Black has adopted the tradition of offering huge Friday go away, it’s probably not going to sales on this day as well. disappear any time soon. The lure of sales My question is: Why? Why would is a siren song too sweet for many to resist. we want to adopt a tradition responsible I like saving money (we all do) but I don’t for traffic jams, trampling deaths, and think that the day of the biggest sales of the gunfights over parking spaces? The obvious year needs to happen on a specific Friday answer is money, of course. Retailers in determined by another country’s holiday Canada started offering Black Friday deals schedule. I would be distressed to see the within the last few years, in an effort to sort of violence that happens on the day in keep Canadian shoppers on this side of the America migrating north, though I don’t border. It’s an understandable motivation. think this is overly likely. The day, though, doesn’t have Still, I’d much rather stay home on any special significance for Canada. Black Friday. I would be more encouraged In the United States, it’s the day after to shop on the day if it didn’t have stupidly Thanksgiving. That’s when the mall Santas huge crowds of bargain hunters thronging come out in force, and everyone starts the stores in mindless hordes. I say, send thinking about Christmas. If you want to the so-called biggest shopping day of the do your shopping early (which you should) year back where it belongs: The hell from then going out on the day with all the

whence it came. Cuarto Analyn by Photo Give the change you wish to see in the world ööHave a little compassion and just give people your change Jillian McMullen not to help one another. It has also perpetuated the belief that Vancouver Staff Writer has a “homelessness problem,” which in my opinion is a pretty problematic way think most people who grew up in to address the actual issue. Vancouver the Lower Mainland remember being I has a homeless population, but it advised that it was more prudent to is not a “problem.” Vancouver has a give homeless people food instead of housing crisis of which homelessness money, because, the argument went, is a symptom and to think otherwise money would only ever go towards comes from a position of superiority. the purchase of drugs. My response to Yes, providing food to our homeless that is… so? If someone approaches population is important. There is no you and asks you for the coins hiding reason for anyone to go hungry in a at the bottom of your pocket, what’s country as privileged as ours. At a certain the big deal about handing it over? point, people just need some money. Food I think that attitude is born out isn’t going to buy homeless women pads or of ignorance and fear. People don’t tampons, and it isn’t going to buy someone understand the underlying causes of access to a community recreation centre homelessness and addiction, so they think where they can have a hot shower. People that two dollars in a mixture of quarters treat homeless people like they aren’t and dimes somehow promotes drug their own autonomous human beings— use in our city. The reality is that there like they can’t, or even shouldn’t make have always been drugs in Vancouver, their own decisions—so advancing this and there will continue to be regardless “food only” mentality is just an example of your contribution. The current War of you assuming A) you know anything on Drugs in Canada and the US is proof about the person asking you for change, of that. After years of attempting to and B) you know what’s best for them. eradicate illegal drug use through strict Ultimately, who cares if the two legislation and severe punishment, dollars in quarters and dimes you gave the only thing it has accomplished is to someone ends up going towards to multiply the number of overdose drugs? Get off your high horse and deaths. This “war” has demonized the have a little compassion for some of homeless and addicted individuals to the our city’s most marginalized citizens. point where fellow citizens are taught Photo by Andy Griffin via Flickr issue 14 // volume 44 opinions // no. 19

Headphones rock ööSuperior to earphones and earbuds in every sense

Caroline Ho also a point in favour of headphones. They’re obviously bulkier and harder Arts Editor to stuff hastily into your pocket—but that also means they’re less likely to udially, stylistically, and fall out of your pocket without you convenience-wise— A noticing. In addition, headphone headphones beat earphones or wearers don’t have to suffer the constant earbuds any day of the week. frustration of shedding earphone tips I’m not going to get into the audio left and right, and being left with quality aspect here, because obviously mismatching ones that don’t fit properly. there’s a lot of differentiation between Also, let’s face it, if you’re ever in brands of headphones or earphones and a situation where you have to borrow the amount of money you’re willing to someone else’s earphones or earbuds, spend. However, whether it’s a $400 sticking someone else’s earwax-covered Audio-Technica pair or $20 Sony’s, on- tips in your ear canals is pretty gross. ear or over-ear, headphones are more But wait, you might be saying, if you versatile and effective in a lot of ways don’t have a good pocket or case to store than anything you stick inside your ear. your headphones, you’re stuck wearing First of all, headphones are less them when you’re on the go! I’d call this

potentially damaging to your hearing. Cuarto Analyn by Photo another mark in their favour because Earbuds and especially earphones headphones also serve as fashion deliver sound right into your ear canal, more powerful statement of “Please don’t walk straight past that person trying accessories and ear-warmers. If you’re so when you listen to something at the talk to me.” For those times when you’re to hand you a Scientology pamphlet at the type to constantly have freezing ears same volume through headphone and not feeling particularly communicative the SkyTrain tation and pretend I don’t in winter, even with a layer of toque or earphones, the latter causes the sound and want to avoid having someone see their mouth moving. An onlooker hood, headphones are great for keeping to reach the delicate parts of your ears strike up a conversation with you, could conceivably fail to notice that you both physically cozy and emotionally a lot more directly and damagingly. If headphones give off the impression of you have earphones in; it’s considerably comforted with music. I’ve also had you blast music at max volume you’re drowning out the noises of the outside harder to miss the headphones. instances on supremely windy days going to cause damage no matter what world more than earphones, regardless Lastly, there’s the symbolism and where headphones have been the only equipment you’re using (please don’t, of how much you can actually overhear. pride that comes with being seen and thing preventing my hat from flying off. folks!), but you’re probably more likely You’d think that earphones or earbuds known as a person with headphones. The aesthetic of wearing to turn the volume up if you’re using a would get the message across clearly If you have earbuds in, to a casual headphones also leads to perhaps lower-quality pair of earphones with enough, but people can be oblivious passerby you’re probably listening the best reason for their superiority: poor noise cancellation or isolation. to your desire to be left alone. With to some catchy songs; if you have Headphones unequivocally convey a Storage and ease of carrying is headphones, I find it a lot easier to headphones, you’re listening to music. The death of the internet ööWhy you should care about Net Neutrality

Ida Salmany could charge you an extra fee to get faster Google services. This is terrible news for Contributor startup companies working hard on being the next Facebook or Netflix. Ultimately et neutrality is the policy that all it can lead to your internet experience internet activity should be treated N looking more like cable TV, where your equally. Whether you’re watching cat videos provider will curate all the content. on YouTube, stalking your ex on Facebook, Last week, Justin Trudeau was asked or buying something you absolutely do not about his thoughts on the FCC’s proposal need from Amazon (it’s okay, we’ve all been and responded by saying that he will there) with the net neutrality proposition defend net neutrality, which is essential passed, you will have to pay to use these to small businesses and consumers. services and know that companies such On December 14 the FCC is scheduled as Comcast and AT&T are favouring to vote on the proposition, and it has their content over their rival’s content. become certain to some that it will pass. Recently, the current Federal Internet access is and should always Communications Commission (FCC) be a place for freedom of speech. It chairman of Trump’s office, Ajit Pai, should be a platform where everyone issued a proposition to eliminate the can access freely and express equally. present net neutrality policies. This ISP’s should not be able to discriminate means that broadband providers will be against information or specific websites by able to charge the web companies for a blocking them and making them slower “fast lane” option, whereas smaller online and harder to access, which will ultimately video or video game providers could be discourage us from using slower sites. pushed aside to the “slow lane.” The While the internet might not be physically most prominent service providers such as needed to survive, for most of us it has Netflix, Google, and Amazon will have to become an absolute necessity. We rely pay more money, benefitting the Internet on the internet for work, for school, for Service Provider (ISP), but resulting in communicating with friends and families, a disadvantage for us as consumers. and it helps us organize our lives. Putting The prices of our internet providers such a valuable tool into the hands of will increase, and companies such as companies that only care about profiting AT&T and Comcast could give their own is a terrible idea. If we don’t let the free service priority on their network, reducing market decide the price we pay for water competitors and limiting what you can and electricity without any regulations, access. For example, Bing could pay Bell why should we give it the opportunity to increase their speed and then Bell to determine the fate of the internet? Photo of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai via The Hill opinions // no. 20 theotherpress.ca

Corporate capitalism creates crappy Christmas ööWhy I dread the holiday season Cazzy Lewchuk most likely have to work many days people in other industries have off. Columnist It’s not just the workers who suffer during the holiday season. The rampant t’s well-known that retailers are consumerism gets all the shoppers, quite busy during November and I too. How much money is spent on December. It is by far their busiest decorations each year for seasonal and most profitable time of year, merchandise that will be thrown out at and many long-term strategies rely the end of the month? How much extra on the winter windfall. Any sort of do we spend on food and candy because service business is incredibly busy of all the special holiday options? during the holiday season, and it is the Perhaps most significantly, how much do workers who suffer the most from it. we hand over for gifts every year, because The holidays are universally dreaded we’re expected to? The financial impact amongst service workers. It’s not just of the holidays affects almost everyone, that they will be working more, the and it’s specifically due to how much work that they’re doing is significantly the season is capitalized on. Consumers more stressful and busier. This time of are targeted to spend as much as year means a lot more stock, customers, possible by corporations through hours, and pressure. Service work by strategies organized months in advance nature is exhausting and stressful, it is every year. They know the pressure even more tense and detrimental for to spend money is on, and they’re these months. It is an extremely difficult here to get as much of it as possible. and upsetting time for millions of people. Christmas and other winter holidays Retail workers receive almost no have a lot of significant meaning. compensation or extra thanks for the For many, that meaning is spiritual, hard work of the season. They may and it is universally regarded as a get a gift card and/or holiday party joyous celebration. What is meant to from the company… they will almost be a positive and wonderful time for certainly not receive any extra pay. many is turned into a season of dread Retail wages are incredibly low, and and misery for so many people. most workers of that level do not Worrying about a budget in receive benefits to begin with. It’s December is not in the spirit of giving. frustrating when your work becomes Paying off Christmas debt months even harder without any incentive. They later is not a way to celebrate the also lose out on doing many holiday holidays. The holidays are big business, things because of work. They will be and it’s wrong that consumerism has working as much as possible, and will

completely dominated this time of year. Cuarto Analyn by Photo Tim Hortons shouldn’t be ‘quintessentially Canadian’ ööFor such low-quality food, Timmies gets too much free marketing Greg Waldock kind of thing that needs or deserves the free marketing we give it, and it Staff Writer shouldn’t get away with the creepily nationalistic campaigns it runs endlessly. hen you stop and think about A lot of Canadians like to make fun it, it’s creepy how much Tim W of the US for its uber-patriotism. Reciting Hortons is associated with Canadian the pledge of allegiance in elementary identity. It’s a billion-dollar company school, putting stars and stripes on that is well-known for crappy donuts and everything, being extremely touchy coffee. It’s not even an entirely Canadian over depictions of the flag and national company, being part of a Frankenstein’s anthem abroad—it’s all unnecessary to Monster-like fusion of itself, Burger King, the point of being humourous. However, and Popeyes, all owned by a Brazilian Tim Hortons can cover their coffee cups investment firm since 2014. That fact in maple leaves and make inspiring that a company like this can tap into commercials about “what it means to Canadian patriotism and exploit it for be Canadian,” usually with footage of marketing is unsettling, especially when people jumping into lakes at sunset, and it’s not even their advertising doing it. almost nobody bats an eye. It’s the exact Ordinary Canadians and people abroad kind of jingoism that America practices still see Timmies as being as Canadian so unhealthily, and it’s bad when we as maple leaves, nationalized healthcare, do it, too. If you want an example for and disgruntled Francophones. why nationalism is bad even for little I can see how Timmies got to be old Canada, just look at when the War where it is in our national identity. It was of 1812 centennial celebrations were founded by a hockey player, it supports going on in 2012. The misinformation hockey leagues and Scouts Canada, spread in that campaign (no, Canadians it existed only within our borders for didn’t burn down the White House or most of its history, and there’s always win the war) is going to stick around a restaurant somewhere nearby, no Cuarto Analyn by Photo for ages. Us being quaint and relatively matter where you go. It’s no surprise, nice on the international stage doesn’t quotations because everything was culture is a huge thing to give control then, that Tim Hortons is both popular mean we should believe our own hype. frozen and microwaved. I just don’t see up to something like that. Ultimately, and a Canadian stereotype—but it’s This could all just be the disgruntled how it could be healthy to hand over such though, I think our standards just need still just another food corporation ramblings of someone who worked as a a large chunk of our national identity to be higher. There are better things to with low-quality products and strictly “baker” at Tim Hortons for a year—in to a corporation, which in the end will celebrate in Canada than Timmies. minimum-wage employees. It isn’t the only ever care about the bottom line. A Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO Social epidemic solved OO 40 per cent of research is done out of spite OO Comics! Humour And more! Inspirational story: My commute is still terrible ööMy authentic Surrey experience with TransLink’s new budget

Greg Waldock Staff Writer

e’ve all heard the rumours of WTransLink’s new budgets, buses, and schedules. I’ll admit it: I was afraid. What would happen to the grungy old bus seats from the 1980s? How could I sleep at night knowing my train would not suddenly stop 37 times just outside of Scott Road station for endless maintenance? I didn’t know what to expect. TransLink is entering a brave new world, and we’re just coming along for the overcrowded ride. But I have good news, dear reader: My bus was ten minutes late this morning. So was the bus after that. Three active buses and one Not in Service suddenly appeared like a comforting cup of morning coffee. Everything was the same as before, and it was all I ever wanted. The homeless man blocking the exit with a bag of smelly recycling, the two crying babies at the front, the jackass blaring loud music without headphones… mornings on the Cuarto Analyn by Photo Surrey buses are still as magical as ever. that “we promise Surrey Central isn’t station, I carefully avoided the yelling the pedestrian light was on, of course. I’d heard the trains were going to run still Whalley” charm. Well, this is the people and Red Cross petitioners. This This was an emotional day for me, my more often from King George Station, second bit of good news: It’s just as gross station held my greatest fear regarding friends. I was scared that my commute to and that old trains would be replaced as ever. That morning, I discovered the the change; that the huge buses going school would suddenly be punctual and with new ones. This was terrifying to me. new SkyTrains already have comforting vertical up the big hill would suddenly be clean, that I could reliably make it home I’d never feel comfortable going over the piles of old newspapers underneath the safer, slower, and actually have functional at night without wondering if the trains Fraser River unless I could also step over corner seats, maintenance at Scott Road breaks. I’m glad I was wrong, yet again. stopped early for cleaning. I even got a river of either old soda or old pee—hard every single night is set to continue for the All the most dangerous buses were myself thinking that the 502 from Surrey to tell sometimes—on my way to my next year, and people are still blocking the replaced with new double-deckers! When Central might actually show up at the seat. The sleek new trains just don’t have doors with huge bikes! What a relief. they hit the sharp corner down, they station on time. Thank God I was wrong. Arriving at New Westminster majestically tipped and rolled; all while TransLink is back and better than ever. Depression meals: Tis the season for fighting your family ööReindeer sugar cookie recipe Mercedes Deutscher • Try to give yourself some festive cheer while uncle. Instead of standing up and saying the cookies bake. Pour eggnog and rum into something, walk to the booze counter and Social Media Coordinator your everyday mugs. They’re Christmas mugs, make yourself another rum and eggnog. but you use them all year because that was Ingredients: • Sit on the couch while dinner is being made what was given to you when you moved out and and avoid socializing. Everyone but you One package of Pillsbury you don’t have the motivation to go buy new brought homemade treats. Since nobody Shaped Reindeer Sugar Cookies ones. Make sure your eggnog-to-rum ratio is at else is eating your cookies, eat six more. least one part eggnog to four parts rum. Chug Eggnog • Keep drinking in silence. Sit down for that whole thing as fast as you can. Repeat. dinner and shove turkey into your face. Rum • Prep the only large Tupperware container • When your mother asks how school is going, you have. Line the bottom with paper nod politely and say “Fine.” Make sure not to Directions: towel. Or don’t. I don’t care. tell her that you dropped out weeks ago. • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. • Take cookies out of the oven when timer • Keep dodging pushy questions from your father. goes off. Let cool for five minutes. • Feel a wave of accomplishment come over • Start crying when he accuses you of you as you open the box of cookies and only • Eat two cookies. They’re so good fresh out of being a good-for-nothing liar. Go into eat two of them raw. Sure, you meant to the oven. Eat another one for good measure. fetal position under the table. make homemade cookies for your family’s • Place cookies in Tupperware container. • Congrats, you’ve just made this holiday gathering, but at least this isn’t Leave for your family dinner. like last year where you made nothing. dinner awkward for everyone. • Walk in the door of your mother’s place to • Go home and cry yourself to • Place remaining cookies on a cookie sheet and find your sister fighting with your racist place in oven. Set your timer for 10–12 minutes. sleep. Repeat next year. humour // no. 22 theotherpress.ca New study reveals that 40 per cent of research is done out of spite ööTake that, everyone

Klara Woldenga Social Psychology scientist at Langara College, Chris Jarden. “We are scientists; Humour Editor there’s zero room for ego-based interactions here. The fact that Jack newly published study has keeps on parking his Hummer in my A revealed that 40 per cent of space and eating part of my lunches all scientific research is driven despite my protests has no bearing on by a surprising force: Spite. my recent decision to shift my PhD “After we compiled all the focus from the psychology of Vancouver data, it was clear; research bus passengers to how large doesn’t lie,” said Jane Alden, personal vehicles increases our head of the scientific group false sense of entitlement.” that spearheaded the study. “It The only sample seems the prime goal groups unable to of a lot of scientists be reached for the isn’t to seek further study were scientists knowledge or the discovering the bettering the planet, psychological effects but to prove someone of not answering calls, else wrong due to emails, or texts, along with their own personal a small group of scientists emotional baggage.” studying the global effects of According to the research, this being extremely unhelpful. baggage can be triggered by many “We were really hoping things, such as getting cut off in traffic, to get data from those two being wrongly called out on Facebook, demographics,” stated Alden. or having a co-worker use the last “But, you have to admire of the milk without replacing it or their dedication to the saying anything, even though there research.” Alden is hoping is only one other person in the work that this research will help space, so it was obviously them. scientists take a step back The study interviewed over and think about their 400 Canadian scientists in varied motivations, as “keeping disciplines and levels of education a clear, revenge-free over the course of three years. Data mind lowers the risk of was collected through one-on-one becoming an evil genius.” interviews consisting of questions When asked what that allowed participants to inspired her to do this answer them on a scale study, Alden of one to ten. The refused to reveal survey also recorded her own reasons how many times stating only that the participants “It’s really none clenched their fists, ironically, of your business. slammed the table, or If I answered members of the soft belonging shouted at the ceiling “I’LL SHOW that question it sciences (Psychology, Sociology, to the hard sciences THEM! I’LL SHOW THEM ALL!!!” would take away from the The study also found that, Political Science) had more zealous, (Physics, Biology, Mathematics). spiteful motivations compared to people scientific importance of this research.” “This study is ridiculous,” stated Illustration by Max Foss Comic by Nuclear Jackal issue 14 // volume 44 humour // no. 23

Report: Social epidemic solved after related hashtag trends for seven weeks ööCitizens are relieved, excited that they never have to think about issue again

Jacey Gibb blessed; this is a day for celebrations.” educated white men, also includes social epidemic. In early November, Like #Kony2012, #JeSuisCharlie, several recommendations for the Simpson boldly commented on Distribution Manager and #StopGamergate before it, the next time society is faced with a someone else’s “#MeToo” status, The place? Your town or city. hashtag was slow to build, originating social epidemic that requires our best saying that he “knows several women,” The mood? Soaring high. That’s back to 2007 by a woman-of-colour and brightest tweeters’ attention. which placed him in the unique because earlier this week a new activist. But—as is usually the case “For the hashtag to achieve full position of being able to empathize report by the Bureau of Science (B.S.) with politics, lifestyle trends, and social potency, ensure that you don’t discuss with how marginalized voices felt. declared that all those hashtags change—without a prominent celebrity in-person any aspect of the problematic “I’m still in shock that this social and Facebook posts you’ve been lending their voice to the movement, culture our society is currently living,” crisis apparently exists, but I’m thankful witnessing have successfully cured there was no hope of actual change ever advises the report. “If you bring up the that people are bringing it up. I also the latest underlying social epidemic being made, concludes the report. epidemic in a face-to-face situation think it’s important that we hear both after a record-long seven weeks. “Mere normal citizens have no it will divert attention away from the sides to this issue so we get a clearer “I’ll be honest and admit that it was power compared to the supernova hashtag you posted, and will dilute any picture. Maybe this epidemic that affects touch-and-go for a while there,” says capabilities of celebrities who, effectiveness it has. Plus, it can be like, one in three women and one in six men Oliver Wilkens, one of the report’s lead career-wise, peaked in the early super awkward if you bring up the need is just an isolated incident? Or maybe researchers. “At first, we were unsure 2000s by starring in a show about for large-scale systemic change, but it’s just this big misunderstanding?” if the alarming social issue could be modern witches with secret human your pals just wanna have a chill time. One thing is for certain: As long dealt with using ‘hashtag activism,’ identities,” the B.S. Report concludes. So don’t mention the issue at hand, as we have comments like Simpson’s but as of December 4, we’re happy to “Without these champions of the okay? Just keep calm and hashtag on.” and hashtag activism, there’s no crisis conclude that it is no longer a threat. people, any cause is simply lost.” Vancouverite Bruce Simpson is our society can’t tweet its way out of. Everyone should feel very hashtag The report, which was authored one of the brave souls who posted by a panel of prestigious, diversely- a Facebook status during the latest cartoon by Ed Appleby Comic by Rella Wishing you a

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