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News. 1 WHO WE ARE NEWS The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student from local and national advertising revenue. The Other newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an Press is a member of the Canadian University Press autonomous publication, independent of the student (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers that includes union. We are a registered society under the Society Act papers from all across Canada. of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board The Other Press reserves the right to choose what we of directors appointed by and from our staff. Our head will publish, and we will not publish material that College career fair: a dose of reality and a pinch office is located in the New Westminster campus. is hateful, obscene, or condones or promotes illegal The Other Press is published weekly during the fall activities. Submissions may be edited for clarity and of optimism and winter semesters, and monthly during the summer. brevity if necessary. All images used are copyright to Eric Wilkins, pg. 05 We receive our funding from a student levy collected their respective owners. through tutition fees every semester at registration, and ARTS Student Newspaper of Douglas College PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 Room 1020 – 700 New Westminster, BC Douglas College V3L 5B2 Royal Avenue TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) EDITOR IN CHIEF SPORTS EDITOR is a triumph Cody Klyne Josh Martin Angela Espinoza, pg. 06 [email protected] [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR HUMOUR EDITOR LIFE&STYLE Sharon Miki Liam Britten [email protected] [email protected] BUSINESS MANAGER STAFF WRITERS Angela Szczur Allie Davison [email protected] David Hollinshead A healthy relationship and a good night’s sleep vs. Eric Wilkins the unexpected Snorlax PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER Allie Davison, pg. 12 Stephanie Trembath LAYOUT MANAGER [email protected] Brian Yoo DISTRIBUTION MANAGER [email protected] FEATURE Chris Paik GRAPHICS [email protected] Timothy Arndt NEWS EDITOR [email protected] Dylan Hackett ILLUSTRATOR One year later: reflections on the quakes that shook [email protected] Oliver McTavish Wisden Japan to its foundation ARTS EDITOR [email protected] Bryce Tarling pg. 13 Angela Espinoza [email protected] CONTRIBUTORS Bryce Tarling LIFE & STYLE EDITOR OPINIONS Joel MacKenzie Laurel Borrowman [email protected] Keating Smith Livia Turnbull OPINIONS EDITOR Naomi Ambrose Jacey Gibb Stephanie Wereley The highs and lows of Okonomi Sushi at Columbia [email protected] SkyTrain station Jacey Gibb, pg. 14 Anyone can get published in The Other Press! Just email your story to the appropriate section editor from the list on the right. Please send SPORTS your file as an MS Word .doc file. The weekly deadline for submissions to section editors is Thursday by 12:00 a.m. for publication the following Monday. Time- sensitive articles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted until Saturday Colts bid adieu to Peyton Manning at noon and can be submitted to the editor at NEWS SUBMISSIONS David Hollinshead, pg. 19 [email protected]. All submissions will be [email protected] edited for clarity and style. ARTS SUBMISSIONS The Other Press will pay $50.00 to any [email protected] contributor who writes, and successfully has LIFE&STYLE HUMOUR published, a feature article of at least 1,200 [email protected] words. Also, The Other Press will pay $50.00 OPINIONS SUBMISSIONS for every five issues a contributor is published in on a per semester basis. [email protected] The Other Press holds weekly staff SPORTS SUBMISSIONS meetings at 6:00pm on Mondays in room [email protected] 1020 at Douglas College’s New Westminster FEATURE ARTICLES Sleeping disorder the key to MP Rob Anders’ success campus. All interested students are welcome! [email protected] Liam Britten, pg. 20 2 LETTITOR. The complete picture “Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.” - Woody Allen Sitting at my desk last week, procrastinating doing work as I do, I stumbled across a video—and subsequent campaign—that I’m sure everyone has at least read about, heard of, or seen over the last week: KONY 2012. A 30-minute “documentary” produced by the non- profit Invisible Children, KONY 2012 seeks to bring a warlord, Joseph Kony, to justice by making him “famous.” At 74 million views at the time of this writing, I’d say that, at least on the account of being YouTube famous, the campaign has already proven a success. I’m being painfully honest when I say that I wasn’t aware of the depth of the atrocities Kony is associated with: rape, murder, looting, and abduction; all brutal, all more than likely true and worse. Over the course of the video I found myself getting sentimental and taken away by the scenes described, depicted, and shown. From the emaciated children, to the narrator’s son calling out the bad guy: a pathos powder keg. As a flesh-and-blood human with a heart in my chest, sitting in my leather desk chair, sipping on a cheap drip coffee brewed from the comfort of my own home, I think I experienced the same guttural response many of you out there felt (and were expected to feel): guilt, accompanied by the desire to take action. Given time to decompress and wipe the would-be tear from my eye, I—along with millions of others—took to questioning the facts; to questioning the presentation; to questioning the motive of both Kony and Invisible Children. In the days that followed the video’s release, Invisible Children was quickly under fire for misrepresenting the situation and manipulating the facts. People who’d once shared the video on Facebook proclaiming “Omg, please share this. Help the Ugandans!” began sheepishly back-peddling as though the politics surrounding Invisible Children utterly undermined the positive message of the video (suspect or not). As time goes on and more information becomes available, as more skeletons are dug out of the closet and brought into the light, it will be interesting to see the ultimate impact that the campaign and video will have. With so much information available to us at the touch of a button (or two) it’s important to remain curious and open to discussion. Long since past are the days of accepting something at face value as fact—ignorance is not an excuse (words I hope to keep in mind myself). Form your own opinions, guard your objectivity, and piece together the complete picture before—for example—donating to a cause or raising your voice in support. Speaking of the “complete picture” this week sees, for the first time in a long while, a handful of unique illustrations thanks to The Other Press’ new illustrator, Oliver McTavish-Wisden. Along with this exciting addition, this week saw contributions that run the gamut. From campus happenings—coverage of last week’s career fair and “DO” celebration events—to the return of Vancouver’s soccer club that could (The Whitecaps), there’s a little something for everyone. That’s it for me though! So, from my circular plot of page three real-estate: happy trails and have a great week. Later days, Cody Klyne Editor in chief The Other Press 3 News. Douglas College Belize Field Douglas celebrates new logo School 2012: May 7 to June 25 Administration encourages students to ‘DO’ e are still looking for people America, Mayan archaeology and who want to do 9 credits sustainable development. These of university transfer themes are the focus of the courses Wcourses in 8 weeks (May 1 to June offered: 24). Four of these weeks will be in the beautiful Caribbean country of Belize. Geography 1190 Geography of Latin This program is open to all British America (human, environmental) Columbian post-secondary students. Sociology 1155 Social Issues This is a study and adventure (sustainable development, social opportunity of a lifetime. Every issues) student who has done this trip in Anthropology 150 Mayan the past two years has raved about Prehistory (offered by Galen it. Belize is a beautiful country, rich University, Belize) in culture, history and geography. We have great accommodations, *All courses are university transferable. food and excursions. You will not be disappointed. The Cost: Unbelizeable value! Belize offers so much for students Here’s a breakdown of total costs academically, adventure-wise and (excluding airfare, tuition, textbooks, By Dylan Hackett, News Editor This information, filtered and personally. You won’t belize it! weekday lunches, weekend meals condensed, went into a survey Firstly, it’s an academic and your own personal spending ouglas College students completed by more than 1,000 adventure of that will engage your amount). and administration current students. That led to mind, body and spirit. Our first welcomed the college’s preliminary creative work, which two weeks in Belize will be spent Program Fee: $3000.00 Dnew logo with a post-it tagging was tested in another survey exploring the geographic landscapes of the large “DO” letters with current and prospective of the country. Adventures include This covers: Belize accommodations framing the concourse of New post-secondary students across pyramid climbing, jungle camping, for 5 weeks, weekday breakfasts Westminster campus last Tuesday the Lower Mainland.” cave exploration, and four days on a and dinners, Galen University and at David Lam campus on last Douglas also recently tropical Caribbean island surrounded course tuition, all entrance fees Thursday. expanded its advertising by coral reefs. for excursions, all course related Students lining up around campaign in the Lower Mainland Secondly, students will come transportation in Belize, Belize the New West concourse’s onto primetime television with face to face with people and places, student visa permit, travel medical fishbowl were enticed to post a 30-second commercial which past and present, associated with insurance a message pertaining to the explores the idea of “what’s in a Maya civilization.

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