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Jamal Al-Bayaa available clubs. Outside of pure more student satisfaction, and Staff Writer college-functionality, students the ability to run more impactful have been using the app to campaigns and events. he DSU’s newest app is connect with extracurricular Those numbers are also Tgaining a strong user base activities at school, and perhaps causing heads to turn elsewhere locally, and turning heads most of all, each other. in the province, as other BC elsewhere in the province. “What’s especially great schools are looking to Douglas Engagement on the platform is about the app,” Ho said, “is that as a model on how to move at an all time high for Douglas. we’re facilitating these kinds of forward with their own app’s Of 14,000 registered students, campus-to-campus and student- improvement. Camosun College, 2,400 are currently using the to-student interactions.” On the Emily Carr University of Art app—a 17 per cent adoption DSU’s messaging board—which and Design, the College of New rate that staff and students is akin to a Facebook news Caledonia, and Vancouver Island in the DSU are proud of. feed—students can be seen University have all reached out “One of the things we reaching out to each other for to Douglas with at least one wanted was to make the app things such as textbooks and or two questions about how to functional for students,” said course questions on one of the improve their app. Specifically, Tracy Ho, College Relations platform’s six topic boards, which representatives from Victoria’s and Membership Outreach include news, housing, and ride Camosun College are coming Coordinator. One way they sharing. When Ou discovered to New West to discuss with did that was by adding a way the app’s social experience, she student representatives how for students to upload their quickly used the feature and they can better improve U-Passes directly from the app. messaged friends with it. their app and make it more “We guessed that students would In a survey conducted functional and relevant to like that,” she said, and since with 475 students who use the students. The meeting is slated then it has become one of the app, 91 per cent say they would to take place mid-August. most universally used features. recommend it to a friend, 78 In the future, the app will Elim Ou, a student who per cent agreed that the app likely have a feature enabling tried the app, said that what helped them learn about campus students to share textbooks, she found most useful was the services such as counseling and achieving similar results to what study timer located in the course peer tutoring, and 79 per cent an Open Textbooks program schedule, and that it’s something of students said that they felt would do for the school. While she sees herself using regularly. that the app gave them a louder Open Textbooks may take a while, Further, the app assists voice within their institution. as that involves a significant This is part of the DSU’s larger amount of contract renegotiation, students in accessing a itunes.apple.com campus map, connecting with plan of increasing student a textbook sharing feature may representatives, and looking engagement in the school as be a faster and more organic— engagement levels on average although shorter-term—solution. at a full list of the school’s 56 Image via mean more student feedback, Frustrations continue despite new vacancy tax  MLAs, realtors, and prospective owners upset at government and loophole

Mercedes Deutscher there was new data to support order to avoid the tax. Stewart News Editor the theory that foreign ownership has since come under scrutiny has contributed to the housing from both Clark and the Real oreign buyers will now crisis, according to CTV. Estate Council of BC. Clark Fhave to pay an additional “I’ve been calling for years responded with a warning that 15 per cent tax on Metro now for the province to take there will be increased auditing Vancouver property, according bold action to deal with housing activity around pre-sale condo to new legislation passed by affordability, and the impact units sold around and after the the provincial government on of global capital on our market implementation of the new tax. July 25. The legislation came here,” said Robertson to CBC. Meanwhile, realtors have into effect on August 2. An Angus Reid Institute expressed disapproval of how In contrast, those living poll showed that 90 per cent of fast the tax was implemented in BC only pay a one per cent respondents were in favour and and questioned how much input tax on their property. approved of the tax. However, was put into its development. The fast track of the new several parties have voiced Dan Morrison, President of tax comes as a surprise to concern since the tax was the Real Estate Board of Greater some. While Vancouver Mayor announced, including 71 per Vancouver, said in a statement Gregor Robertson has been cent of the poll’s respondents. that the government “…has had advocating for a tax since May Many believe that the tax a long time to take action on

2015, the BC Liberal government will not be effective long term. the affordability issue, yet they Image via thinkstock An email sent by Mike Stewart decide to bring this new tax in … has previously maintained an housing experts were consulted. Those who are not Canadian of Century 21 advised potential with no notice, and no time to opposition to enforcing one due Some, such as Stewart citizens or permanent residents clients to invest in pre-sale prepare.” Morrison expressed to a perceived lack of evidence. and NDP MLA David Eby are can be taxed as foreign buyers— condo units under the names of disappointment at the fact That is, up until mid-July, when calling the tax unfair to those including refugees, stateless resident family and friends in that seemingly few realtors or Premier Christy Clark claimed still settling into the region. people, and new immigrants. news // no. 4 theotherpress.ca Prime Minister’s Youth Council seeking members  Council to advise PM on youth issues

Mercedes Deutscher Ideally, while the opportunity News Editor is open to all Canadian youth, there has been some concern n July 19, Prime Minister shared by youth living in OJustin Trudeau, within his Northern Canada—especially position as Minister of Youth, from those living in Nunavut, announced the details of the where bandwidth is too limited to Prime Minister’s Youth Council, host online meetings, and offline via an open discussion on Twitter. meetings require travelling. The council is to be made “There are so many Inuit up of 30 individuals, aged 16–24, youth across Canada who have selected from areas all over lived experiences, who contribute the country and coming from to their respective communities varying social communities. in a very meaningful way, and Their goal will be to advise who deserve a place at that the Prime Minister and other table,” said Maatalii Okalik, members of Parliament on issues President of the National Inuit regarding young Canadians, Youth Council, to CBC. such as employment and The concept of the council education. The input received was first introduced during the from the council can affect 2015 federal election. It later future policy and budgets. received a formal announcement Applications have been during the release of the Federal open since July 22.There will be Budget back in April. This council two waves of selections: the first will be unprecedented, as no closing applications on August Image via thinkstock previous prime minister has ever 12, and the second closing on based on highest community diverse, and representative of all The councillors can serve a created a youth council. Ideally, October 7. There will be two engagement, applicants with youths in Canada. All 300 will be single term of up to two years. it will lead to more influence stages in the application process diverse backgrounds, and interviewed and be asked to send They are expected to meet with from younger Canadians, some for each wave. Of all who apply, a random selection. These in additional material on why each other both offline and online of whom aren’t even old enough 300 youth will advance to the categories are designed to create they should be selected. The final throughout the year. Additionally, to vote. It may also lead to better next stage. Those 300 youth will a set of finalists who are well- committee will then be selected they will meet with the Prime employment opportunities, be divided into 3 groups of 100, versed in their communities, from the two waves combined. Minister four times per year. especially in politics, to those who serve on the council. Admissions office adds options for gender identity and preferred name  UFV makes progressive move towards gender inclusion

Vanessa Broadbent “I think it’s really important, The Cascade (University because it signals to anybody who is applying to UFV that of the Fraser Valley) inclusion is an important value BBOTSFORD (CUP)— to us,” Baillie said. “It’s about AStudents applying to UFV honouring and respecting our will now be able to identify their students and our staff. It’s an preferred name and gender. important step for us to take.” “We’ve added another Students wanting to change option, which is ‘another gender their preferred name or gender identity,’ so someone doesn’t identity can do so by completing have to use the gender binary the personal information change of male or female,” said Kyle form on the UFV website and Baillie, the Director of Student bringing it to the Office of the Life and Development. Registrar, a process that Baillie Students will also be able to described as “fully confidential.” provide a preferred name, which “A student doesn’t have to will be used in their student explain why they’re changing email accounts, on myUFV and their name or their indicative Blackboard, and on class rosters. gender identity,” he said. The changes are a clear move “They can just fill out the to promote inclusivity within form, submit it, and we’ll take the institution, and Baillie notes care of everything else.” The changes will be that there’s a variety of students Image via www.stantec.com who will benefit from them. fully effective when classes well … it’s open to all students.” something that we wanted to the changes came out of begin for the fall semester. “It’s not just students who Although these changes are look at,” Baillie said. “We’ve conversations between Baillie, are transitioning their gender,” “We’re working through only now ready to go into effect, been working on it for a little the Student Union Society, and all the bugs and the business he said. “We have international planning began almost a year ago. while, but it’s one of those things the UFV Pride club—all three students who have their given processes right now, but “Last fall was when it where we want to get it right.” parties agreed that this was a by September, it will be name, and what they go by here really came on to the radar as Originally, the idea for necessary step for the institution. in Canada—[they] can use this as in place,” Baillie said. issue 31 // volume 42 news // no. 5 Image via http://omicronaec.com via Image To full-serve or to self-serve… that is the question  Gas controversy divides community

Aaron Guillen “Most stations do not have for me during my time when small number of drivers needing scratched my father’s truck while Staff Reporter adequate staff on duty to provide I was looking for a part-time gas after 10 p.m. would save the serving him gas. Though he was this service during the busy job, since not a lot of places company extra employee hours. If able to get it fixed, I’ve never n early July, Chevron Canada times of day, which can result in were hiring. And I wasn’t fond this passes, the next thing will be had great customer service with Ibegan the conversation around long lineups for gas. As a result, of working in a food service self-service all day every day. I also gas pumpers. You won’t believe discontinuing full service in I usually make sure to fill up environment. [Additionally], think that it would be a waste to how many times my gas was Coquitlam. In a recent committee outside of Coquitlam to avoid having someone work at a gas take an employment opportunity pumped over what I’ve asked. Of meeting, Adrian Byrne, a Chevron this needless inconvenience. station late at night would make away from those who need it.” course [full service] is a good job representative, shared the gas As far as I’m aware, other cities me feel a bit safer too. Since I gas While many individuals option to save money if you’re a company’s opinion on the matter, provide the option of full-serve up at night most of the time, it’s repeated common points in the student, but most people trust offering a modernization of an gas for those who need it. As far pretty scary to be out there by pursuit of keeping full-service, themselves with their own refill.” old bylaw that enforces that as any jobs created by full-serve myself in the dark. Having an others were eager for change. While residents around the fuel must be pumped by a gas gas, I would suspect that they employee there would give me Francis Grelly, a Port Coquitlam area have their own station employee. It should are low-paying, which is typical a bit more sense of security.” Coquitlam resident, eagerly opinions, it boils down to the be noted that only Coquitlam for services that most people Sid Nyskott, a Coquitlam shared his thoughts around the cooperation of city council with and Richmond have held the simply don’t require. At the end resident, was disappointed to proposed change to the bylaw. Chevron Canada. Coquitlam bylaw since the early 1980s. of the day, why not provide both hear that Chevron had asked to “We’re behind the times Mayor Richard Stewart briefly Locals have been vocal, options and let the consumer allow self-serve gas stations. with our bylaws here. It’s time spoke with Tri-City News, sharing concerns, opinions, decide which they prefer?” “I’m sensitive to the smell to get on board with the rest of commenting on the matter. and strong convictions around Residents on the streets of of gasoline and there’s no the Lower Mainland and have Stewart offered the idea of what decision should be made. Coquitlam nearby gas stations extra cost for the customer to self-service. I could potentially a split-island model, in which “I agree wholeheartedly that confirmed that this issue wasn’t receive full service and so I’m see full service during late cities have both full-serve and the city of Coquitlam should a one-sided conversation. thankful,” Nyskott explained. nights, but during the day? It’s self-serve options depending on provide its residents with the Marleh Mangahas, a “It’s inconvenient for locals a position that doesn’t have any the gas station. He additionally choice of whether to pump their Coquitlam student, thought to find other gas stations to buy use. I think the real question is: voiced his concerns for the elderly own gas,” offered Murdoch Coe, that full service was a gas 24/7, but it was obviously why not [change the bylaw]?” and disabled community and how a Coquitlam resident, to Tri-City fantastic opportunity for Chevron doing its best to cut Rae, a Coquitlam senior, the bylaw would affect them. He News. youth employment all the costs. The whole point of full- offered her own experiences closed off by sharing his comfort while ensuring her safety. service is to ensure safety for with full service. with the potential for self-serve “I know it was a bit tough employees and customers. For the “Years ago, someone between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO An improv blockbuster OO You are the Horseman OO Netflix original brings nostalgia and scares Arts And more!

Keeping an eye on August 19: Kubo and the Two cannot withstand Earth’s Strings, The Space Between gravity. With time running Us, War Dogs, Ben-Hur out, he breaks out of medical the big picture containment and teams up Fans of 3-D stop-motion with Tulsa to find his father.  A look at what’s in theatres this August animation can find a great From the director of fantasy adventure in Kubo the Hangover trilogy comes Lauren Paulsen and the Two Strings. Set War Dogs, a crime comedy Senior Columnist in Japan, Kubo’s (Game of based on the true story of Thrones’ Art Parkinson) life two arms dealers, David ith the last month of summer upon us, there are still many worthwhile film releases to check is thrown into chaos when Packouz (Miles Teller) and Wout. With plenty of different genres to choose from, including a sci-fi romance, an epic Japanese his small seaside town is Efraim Diveroli (Jonah fantasy-adventure, and an animated comedy about food, there should be a movie for everyone. burned to the ground after Hill), who are granted a he accidently summons a $300-million contract from vengeful spirit from the past. the Pentagon to supply Now Kubo must set off on weapons for American August 5: Suicide Squad, an epic quest with Monkey troops in Afghanistan. The Founder (Academy Award winner Based on the bestselling Charlize Theron), Beetle novel by Lew Wallace, Ben- What happens when the worst (Academy Award winner Hur is an action-drama supervillains humanity has to Matthew McConaughey) and set in Ancient Rome. This offer are our last hope?Suicide his enchanted shamisen to reimagining of the novel Squad is an action comedy save his family and solve the stars Jack Huston as Judah where a team of supervillains is mystery of his fallen father, Ben-Hur, a nobleman assembled and given one last shot the greatest samurai warrior betrayed by his closest at redemption. Unfortunately the world has ever known. friend and adopted brother for them, they probably won’t The Space Between Us Messala (Toby Kebbell) survive their mission. This movie is a sci-fi adventure romance and wrongfully accused of stars Will Smith as Deadshot, about two star-crossed assassinating his family. After Jared Leto as The Joker, Margot lovers, Gardner Elliot (Asa surviving years of slavery, Robbie as Harley Quinn, and Butterfield) and Tulsa (Britt Judah manages to escape Ben Affleck as Batman. Robertson). Gardner was and returns to get revenge Have you ever wondered raised by scientists on Mars by challenging Messala to how McDonald’s became such after one of the astronauts a deadly chariot race. an enormous franchise? Director sent to colonize the red John Lee Hancock (The Blind planet gave birth to him and August 26: Hands of Stone Side) aims to answer that question died due to complications. in The Founder. Ray Kroc, a Gardner tries to discover If you are a sports drama normal salesman, meets Mac and who his father is online and fan, you might enjoy seeing Dick McDonald, the inventors ends up falling in love with Hands of Stone, based on of “Fast Food,” and takes over a girl named Tulsa that he the career of the legendary their small burger joint, turning meets through the web. Now boxer Roberto Duran (Édgar it into a billion-dollar empire. Gardner wants to travel to Ramirez) and his trainer Ray Photo via Warner Brothers Entertainment Earth to meet them both, Arcel (Robert De Niro). only to find that his organs

August 12: Sausage Party, Florence Foster Jenkins

Looking for something unique, raunchy, and hilarious? Take a look at Sausage Party, an animated movie about how an actual sausage discovers what really happens to food after it’s brought home from the grocery store. This film stars the voices of Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, James Franco, and Bill Hader. Based on an astonishing true story, Florence Foster Jenkins is an inspiring comedy-drama about a New York heiress, Florence (Meryl Streep), and her dream of becoming an opera singer, despite her horrible singing voice. Also starring in this tale that celebrates the human spirit are Hugh

Grant and Simon Helberg. Pictures Columbia via Photo Photo via La Piedra Films issue 31 // volume 42 arts // no. 7 Flawed by Design: Non-Toxic  Analyzing ‘Toxic Masculinity’ in games

Adam Tatelman eyes. The animation and the faceless, stoic protagonist, ideal is a joke in itself precisely masculinity” be put up for Arts Editor voice talent behind the scene struggles to deal with the loss because he is someone nobody review. Nothing good can have been widely praised for of his lifelong friend Cortana in should emulate. The humour come from pathologizing n video games media, capturing the drama of the the fourth game’s aftermath. in that should be obvious. violence as an innately male Imoralizing busybodies like moment—that of a father in These games are merely a In the early 2000s, anti- trait. Such generalities are just Jonathan McIntosh have said tears, cradling the child he few examples of many. Indeed, games activist Jack Thompson as nonsensical as saying that that video games promote couldn’t save. Joel is the typical they are only the most popular. used Fox News as his personal greed is a Jewish trait, or that “toxic masculinity.” To the grizzly white male character seen Considering the aforementioned soapbox to claim that video fanaticism is an Arabian trait. If uninitiated, this might seem in many action games, but he games’ widespread success, games cause real-world violent critics can’t take an honest view like a nebulous buzzword with is allowed to react with sorrow, well-rounded characters clearly acts. In fact, U.S. federal crime of the characters they criticize, no clear definition. In this not with the immediate anger sell better than ubermasculine statistics show that violent crime then they have no leg to stand on case, the uninitiated would be or violence that is sometimes caricatures. Let’s not forget that has decreased as video games as critics, so don’t let them paint correct; “messages in media assumed of the genre. most modern video games give have become more popular. a benign form of entertainment and society that teach men to A single example neither players the freedom to choose Although the two trends are as something it’s not. be violent, unemotional, and establishes nor bucks a trend. how their character behaves, quite likely not related, this still chauvinistic” does seem a bit Fortunately, Joel is not alone. rather than locking them into clearly debunks Thompson’s Sources for crime statistics vague. Do such messages exist? It is not hard to find games a stereotypical man-box. argument, so why do we relative to video game popularity; Probably. But the idea that they featuring men whose positive Are there examples of reconsider it now that it’s been https://nargaque.files. are the default for an entire masculine traits are central toxic masculinity in gaming? redressed as a gender issue? wordpress.com/2014/06/ medium should be scrutinized, to their characters and the Yes—but many are in jest. Using Even if games were teeming gallup-violent-crime-rate- lest people mistake this gross stories they inhabit. Lee Everett characters like Duke Nukem and with bad male role models—and graph.gif?w=474&h=258 overgeneralization for fact. becomes a surrogate father the Doom Marine as examples clearly the best-selling modern Consider Joel Miller, to the orphaned Clementine of toxic masculinity isn’t helpful games aren’t—people can still http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie. protagonist of The Last of Us. in The Walking Dead. Booker because these characters were distinguish between fantasy and net/vgsales/images/d/d6/ In the opening scene of the DeWitt does the same for only ever meant to be parodies reality, and so have the choice to Us_revenues_1995-2007. game, his daughter is killed Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite. of one-note action heroes. imitate bad behaviors or not. png/revision/ in a shooting, right before his Even Master Chief, Halo’s That Duke is presented as an I suggest the term “toxic latest?cb=20080624061913 Memories in mixed media  Douglas College alumni exhibit in Amelia Douglas Gallery

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he Amelia Douglas Gallery Tpresents its latest exhibit, Louise A. DeGagné and Gregg Steffensen’s this part remains with me as part of the 13th Annual New West Cultural Crawl. The opening reception for the mixed media works exhibit will feature the artists and take place at 11 a.m.–2 p.m. on August 13. For an early preview, gallery visitors can check out the works on display beginning August 4. DeGagné and Steffensen have each created new mixed media works specifically for the exhibit. The theme of this part remains with me comes from “pronounced memories and feelings from a young age that remain with clarity,” according to the artists, who are alumni of the Douglas College Stagecraft Program. “We chose to use lowercase letters because these thoughts and feelings we’ve drawn from exist in the background of our lives,” they explained. Both artists work with an acrylic-base medium, as Image of A love of nowhereby Gregg Steffensen well as their own preferred mediums. Steffensen’s work interested in decommissioned, “I work with depth and LouiseADeGagne.com gallery. The talk is open to all is primarily photo transfers abandoned, and forgotten isolation with multi-layers and The artists have previously members of the community. and mark-making. objects, sites, and structures,” multi-textures of materials. participated in the Eastside This part remains with me “My work is a dialogue Steffensen wrote on his website, Drawing on my experience as Culture Crawl, opening their will be on display in the Amelia between humanity and the GreggSteffensen.net. a scenic artist, I make use of a shared studio space to the public. Douglas Gallery on the fourth mechanical environments DeGagné’s work consists range of mediums/materials in DeGagné and Steffensen will floor of the Douglas College we have realized to enable of a combination of plaster, achieving depth in my paintings,” present a talk about the exhibit New Westminster campus from our existence. I am especially pastel, ink, conté, and paper. DeGagné wrote on her website, at 10 a.m. on September 9 in the August 4 to September 9. arts // no. 8 theotherpress.ca Illustration by Ed Appleby

Photo via PartiallyWindow via Imgur Chairman of the Board: Crowded Bookshelf: Eldritch Horrors 101  ‘The Big Book of Madness’ Cyberpunk Central game review  A ‘Sprawl’ trilogy retrospective Ed Appleby games, this one is brutally Illustrator hard but extremely fun. Strategy and teamwork factor Duncan Fingarson the slums of Chiba to Istanbul to books return, alongside a couple in big time, forcing players to Senior Columnist high Earth orbit, trying to get the of new faces. The ultimate ome things were just job done and find some answers ending leaves a lot of questions Snot meant to be toyed decide whether to assist one t’s not often that a single series before time runs out. Count Zero unanswered, but ties up just with by insignificant another by adding elements Ican be called genre-defining, is more complex. The book is enough to feel complete. mortals. But what’s the to the spells their teammates but that’s William Gibson’s Sprawl s about Turner, a professional To me, these are harm in a little peek...? are casting, running the trilogy for you. Though not the mercenary hired to help a unquestionably good books. The The Big Book of Madness risk that they won’t have first to use the name, these books scientist escape from his current style is short and conversational; is a cooperative deck building any during their own turn best gave a face to cyberpunk, a company to go work for a different the action is rapid fire. There game for 2–5 players designed to deal with whatever fresh brand of science fiction focused one. No wait, it’s about Marly, are a lot of things left unsaid, by Maxime Rambourg and hell the book spews next. on the very dystopian near-future. a disgraced Paris gallery owner though, and a lot of questions published by IELLO in The gameplay is Here, technology blazes ahead, hired by one of the world’s richest that never get answered. If you 2015. Players take the role of moderately paced, with access to data is endless, and men to track down the artist like everything to end tied up in a curious first-year students strategizing taking up the cybernetic modification pushes responsible for a curious set of neat little bow, you won’t find that at a magical academy who bulk of the time. The artwork the limits of human capability. boxes. Actually, it’s about Bobby, a here. If you like happy endings, have accidentally unleashed and creature designs are very The three Sprawl novels wannabe hacker from New Jersey well, that’s debatable too. eldritch horrors onto the polished and creative. The are a trilogy in the loosest sort who gets pulled in over his head Of course, most of the world by opening an ancient game isn’t too hard to grasp, of sense; the plots are vaguely after he’s caught with a stolen important stuff gets dealt with, tome. Players harness the with some of the nuances related to each other, and the computer program. In reality, it’s and problems tend to get solved, four elements and take turns of various spells becoming same characters sometimes about all three, and the way that but you’re likely to end with a casting spells in an attempt to clear as the game progresses. reappear, but for the most part their seemingly unrelated plot head full of questions. If you’re defeat the horrors unleashed I love co-op games, and each is self-contained. The first threads start weaving together. okay with that, give these a shot. from the book before they this one does not disappoint. is Neuromancer. ’This is the most Mona Lisa Overdrive follows a If you like speculative science can escape the school or Fans of J.K. Rowling and straightforward of the three similar structure to Count Zero. fiction, that’s a good sign: give drive the players mad. The H.P. Lovecraft will identify novels, a pure heist story with Characters who don’t appear to these a shot. If you’ve ever seen game is won by getting to the well with the theme. I would only one protagonist. Case is have anything to do with each Blade Runner, or played Deus Ex, sixth page of the book and recommend this game a hacker, hired for one last job other end up interacting, and and thought to yourself “That defeating the final monster. to any group populated by a man called Armitage. The unrelated events turn out to was great, I want more stories like Like many cooperative by Cthulhu cultists or Straylight run takes him from be related after all. Characters that,” well, you know what to do. students of Hogwarts. from both the first and second An improv blockbuster  ’The Big Picture’ review

Jerrison Oracion performance is a different film, War II propaganda film about a to make the situation worse or Aliens from Earth. In the film, Senior Columnist and if you enjoyed the show, you war with Jamaica, a 1940s musical better. In the science fiction a family’s son was captured by could see it again for a completely called I Ate the Cheese, product show, an audience member did an alien, and two NASA agents different performance. placement for Bertie Botts sound effects for the actors. disguised as meteorologists The first half of the show Every Flavoured Beans, and an During the intermission, went to find him. In one scene, involves the current players of independent film about dusting. the audience gets to decide the agents find another NASA ith all the summer films the league and special guests Next, they riffed on the which of those five types of agent that they thought was Wbeing shown in theaters exploring the world of film. five common types of summer film the actors should focus on dead; he tells a story about right now, there are lots of Throughout the show, the films: sci-fi, action, western, in the second half of the show. aliens roaming the wild and options to choose from. Still, if audience gives suggestions to romantic comedy, and horror. After the intermission at the people trying to catch them there are no films that you want the players and they use those The improvised romantic show I attended, the actors with their cellphones—a to see, how about a film that suggestions to demonstrate comedy involved a date in a incorporated things from the topical Pokémon Go joke. changes with every performance? something in a film. For museum where the actors had first half of the show, including If you like summer The Vancouver TheatreSports example, an audience member to say lines from text messages the museum from the romantic blockbusters and improv League’s The Big Picture recreates suggested knitting and they in an audience member’s comedy film and a tumbleweed comedy, go see The Big Picture, the experience of a summer used that idea to demonstrate cellphone. For the horror from the western film. now playing in The Improv blockbuster through a totally a silent film. Other off-the-wall theme, whenever one actor said The final performance was Centre on Granville Island. improvised film experience. Every suggestions included a World something, the response had a science fiction film called The issue 31 // volume 42 arts // no. 9 Photo via www.stantec.com via Photo Netflix original brings nostalgia and scares  ‘Stranger Things’ TV series review

Cazzy Lewchuk I found their segments tedious Staff Writer and almost unwatchable. Other arcs include those of teenagers with their own Photo via Via Netflix drama who get caught up in paranormal happenings, the ver expanding its content, show-stealing Winona Ryder as You are the Horseman ENetflix’s newest original Will’s frazzled single mother, series is Stranger Things, a and the mysterious young girls.  BoJack Horseman season 3 review supernatural drama set in Some of the arcs seem to 1983. The series follows the be there purely for drama and disappearance of 12-year- don’t go anywhere interesting; Adam Tatelman the past, this time it is the fear cutaway humor in favor of long old Will Beyers from a small nevertheless, they are acted Arts Editor of success. BoJack’s friends all comedic arcs that arise from the want him to succeed, but there’s characters’ relationships and town in Indiana. Add in the well and all drive the story hat creator Raphael Bob- an unspoken certainty that he’ll their immediacy to the plot. boys’ relatives and their own one way or the other. TWaksberg was able to always be his own worst enemy. The show is bleak, but never personal demons, a mysterious Special, exceptional sell a series whose comedic The question isn’t whether BoJack nihilistic; it merely refuses to government conspiracy, and praise must be given to the through-line is the vapidity of will sabotage himself, but how wrap things up all neat and tidy a little girl with some very show’s soundtrack. It’s a show biz and celebrity culture badly. His own awareness of this like a good little sitcom. BoJack mysterious abilities, and you mixture of ’80s hits (“Should is gleeful madness in itself, habit just makes the waiting game himself may or may not actually have a recipe for chaos. I Stay or Should I Go” even disregarding his choice to that much more excruciating. change for the better, but the The show takes features heavily) and original pitch it as an animated comedy If anyone ever doubted that possibility alone is enough to inspirations from many ’80s ’80s-style electronic music that about a drunken, has-been TV BoJack Horseman is the blackest keep us watching. Ironically, pop culture icons, and contains complements the show’s tone/ star searching for acceptance, of comedies, season three takes this is best expressed in the references to films like Stand story very well. The music is who also happens to be a horse. that misconception behind the fourth episode, “Under the Sea,” by Me, E.T., and The Goonies. one of the best parts of the Show me anyone who foretold shed and puts both barrels into which riffs on BoJack’s inability There’s also the “small town series, and it’s very noteworthy that particular hard sell would its skull. This show takes on to communicate honestly by with very odd happenings” plot for a non-network program be not only a critical success but everything from abortion and telling the story without spoken that’s grown ever popular in with a fairly low budget. one of the most life-affirming messed-up child stars to hardcore dialogue. It’s a tour-de-force recent years, with shows like The actual supernatural shows on the air and I’ll show drugs and atrocious animal by the show’s animators, and the early ’90s Twin Peaks or content—the less you you one boldfaced liar, provided sight gags. The show knows it makes the season’s too- Hemlock Grove, another Netflix know about it going in, the you have a mirror handy. that self-reflection can bring no ambiguous ending seem out original. Big fans of the era better—makes up only about Having finally escaped change without action, and that of place by comparison. and/or those who remember a third of the actual events. obscurity by starring in a in a world desperately trying to BoJack Horseman holds it will greatly appreciate The rest is driven by the as- biopic about famous race horse imitate the saccharine image up a mirror to a generation the attention to detail. If it mentioned character drama Secretariat, BoJack (Will Arnett) of life offered by mainstream that’s fallen on its face. We of wasn’t for the sharpness and and establishing plot. It unfolds is thrust into the arena of TV, horrendous outcomes can the new millennium have tried clarity of the footage, you’d nicely, especially towards the Hollywood’s award show media arise from good intent. But desperately to find meaning swear it really was filmed end, leading one to wonder circus. Gunning for an Oscar rather than wallow like its in our existence by criticizing in 1983. Even the fonts used what’s in store for season two. with the help of Ana (Angela protagonist does, it chooses to ourselves into oblivion, indulging are the same ones used in At only eight episodes, Bassett), his ruthless publicist- laugh in the face of futility. every excess while taking joy Stephen King’s ’80s work. Stranger Things is a quick cum-kingmaker, BoJack seems The absurdity of BoJack in nothing, gorging ourselves Stranger Things contains watch and easy to get to finally have the adoration Horseman is its greatest charm. on high-calorie pop-culture several character plot arcs, and into. Anyone who enjoys he so desires. Yet his old, self- After all, this is a world where to try and fill a nameless void some of them work better than supernatural mysteries will destructive habits lurk outside male seahorses can give birth on that no amount of sex, booze, others. Much of the plot follows have fun with it. A solid the spotlight, ready to part him the seabus right before clocking and validation will ever be a group of kids, all friends of soundtrack, performance, from his fleeting success. in at the freshwater taffy factory. enough to make full. Like it or the boy who went missing. and frights help prop up If the first season’s main But all the rapid-fire sight gags not, we are BoJack Horseman. Although the child actors were this show, even when it theme was validation and the in the world would be nothing Whether or not we can change spot-on in their roles (they even fails in other areas. second’s was the desire to fix if the show weren’t willing to comes down to what we do. swear an appropriate amount), eschew typical Family Guy-esque Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO Being a Royals coach OO Russia left looking dopey OO Contract holdouts ports And more! SA little green  What does it take to be an athlete for the Royals?

Davie Wong leave behind something that will Sports Editor outlive your presence on campus and continue to echo throughout or most students, August is your sport.” However long one’s Fusually the time for laying stay at Douglas may be, it’s nearly around on sunny beaches and always said that it wasn’t long sipping cold beers under the enough. Marni’s words echo that setting sun. Students from all statement, but also brings about around the Lower Mainland the point of making the most of are trying to get that last bit of one’s time at Douglas. sweet Vancouver sunshine before Men’s volleyball player Jus- the clouds of September roll in tin Faester knows all about that. and we are plagued with eternal Faester was a rookie on last year’s overcast. Unless, of course, you’re national ranking squad, and he is a Royal, in which case August moving into a leadership role as means one of two things: presea- he enters his second season with son, or going back to the gym to the Royals. He echoes McMillan’s get rid of that festival flub. Either pride about being part of the Roy- way, every day that passes in Au- als’ athletic program. “‘I’m very gust is one step closer to the new fortunate to be a part of the Roy- season. als family. It is a very supportive For the rookies, it’ll take atmosphere and a great group of some time to get adapted to the hardworking people.” Although craziness of the pre-season train- he is one of the younger Royals ing schedule. However, they’ll in the program, Faester has taken have plenty of help from return- to the program with a fiery pas- ing members of the Royals, who sion. His involvement with the know all about just how crazy community off the court has only the preseason can be. But the been enriched and he believes most important thing for these that helping to build a better new athletes to learn during the community is what the Royals are preseason, and even during the all about. “The best part of being year, is what it truly means to be a member of the Royals is the

a Royal. Image via Douglas College Student Services via Flickr relationships I’ve made through Marni McMillan played for “Being a Royal meant that I was feeling that defined McMillan’s your time spent at Douglas Col- the Douglas College community the women’s soccer team for four a part of an athletic family—a four years with the Royals and lege was only temporary and that and my sport.” His efforts on and years, her last being the historic Pride—that supported one an- made it so special. it would one day come to an end. off the court to improve himself, 2015–16 campaign that went to other in sport, in school, and out- Her advice to new players is You recognize that eventually you his teammates, and the sport he Nationals and finished fourth in side of Douglas College.” It’s not to enjoy their time, as it is always will no longer be a student ath- loves is a great demonstration of the country. For her, being part often that you can find or build fleeting. “The hardest part about lete, so every season you aspire to what it really takes to be a Royal. of the Royals was truly special. bonds that powerful. It was that being a Royal was knowing that The value of athletes  Are athletes just contracts and dollar values?

Davie Wong The concept of another This style of valuing ath- In different leagues around However, there is something Sports Editor human having a dollar value at- letes puts much more emphasis the world, especially the world to be said about the buying and tached to them is so foreign to on morals and loyalty. While it of soccer, players are literally an selling of people. It can make the n the world of professional us in North America because we may be difficult to find a player extension of money. Player for sport seem very inhumane on a Isport, it is incredibly rare to see have a different way of breaking who spends his entire career in player trading is very uncommon business level, but I believe that it a player play out their career with the money cycle. Many North one place, it is not impossible. and there is no such thing as a lifts the veil on the entirety of the a single team. Some people be- American leagues, such as the For countries like Canada and draft. Players are purchased and topic. North American leagues lieve that it boils down to loyalty, NHL, NFL, and MLS, deal with the United States, where player sold, as if they were items. Now, also buy and sell players, albeit in or players’ morals, but I believe this issue by putting emphasis unions play a huge role in shaping although it sounds inhuman, I’d a different way. It all boils down the picture is a little simpler than on the future through drafting the future of a sport, it is not at all have to argue that it’s a lot more to the fact that people often for- it’s made out to be. Behind the young talent. Often, in order for a surprising to see this style where open. There is so much trans- get that sport is a business, and scenes, what runs every profes- team in a North American league players have a lot of power and parency that way. And by trans- the goal of any business is to sional team’s decision is money. to find immediate success, they say in where they end up and how parency I mean clarity. When a make as big a profit as possible. It’s all about money. Players give up the idea of finding long- they are perceived. For teams and player is sold to another team, it It’s often said that the business win games and championships term success, trading away the team owners, it means the busi- was because the team received an side of sport is ugly, and I won’t bring fans, who buy merchandise future in the form of rookie draft ness environment is a lot more amount of currency that they be- even try to contest that. When and tickets. That brings sponsors picks, for short-term success. An risky. Players are not worth an lieve to be the value of the player. players are stripped to numbers and corporate deals. What if example of this can be found in exact value, and making a move Sure, there may be other motives and dollar values, it’s a whole new players were the currency, or rep- hockey, where teams may trade to obtain a stronger team now by to the selling of the player, but in field. But unfortunately, in the resented by a dollar value? The away a chance to draft a future trading draft picks could risk a the end, the team that sells the world of sports, that’s what they reality is, that is exactly how the star for their franchise to have a weaker team in the future, which player receives what is believed to really are. A number value. Some system works. better team to win the Stanley results in less money. In short, it’s be fair. There is no luck involved, sports just show it better than Cup that year. more often a gamble than not. just strategy. others. issue 31 // volume 42 sports // no. 11 Being a Royals coach  Do you have what it takes? Davie Wong presence in the local sporting success of our student-athletes. about the time commitment it Sports Editor community, as Douglas College is Leadership traits are also a key. A takes. “This isn’t a full-time posi- a small but tight-knit community. coach who has strong leadership tion for any of us [coaches], but his year has been quite the Perhaps the most complicat- qualities inspires, motivates, de- it is a passion. Balancing time Tyear of change for the Douglas ed qualification that McLennon is velops, and values the college ex- between coaching, family, and College Royals. As is normal with searching for is how well-versed perience for the student athletes our regular job is the most chal- collegiate programs, the athlete a candidate’s knowledge of sport while preparing them for life after lenging part of the position.” But turnover rate was fairly standard. is. Specifically, Brian believes that athletics.” In McLennon’s mind, for Laxton, the challenge is more However, what was odd was the “a coach with knowledge of the all of that together creates the than worth the reward of the job. amount of coaching turnover sport at various stages of the Ca- ideal coach for the Royals. “Seeing players progress and suc- the program saw this year. Wom- nadian Sport for Life Long Term However, when it comes to ceed is so rewarding. Last year, we en’s basketball coach Courtney Athlete Development model, picking a coach, while McLennon had players who gave 3–5 years Gerwing, men’s basketball coach along with the NCCP certification may make the final call, it’s the to the program, so to see their Denis Beausoleil, women’s vol- is critical.” This specific qualifica- players that do the real judging. reaction was amazing. Beyond the leyball coach Kyra Iannone, and tion ensures that the Royals find “A student-athlete will spend field, seeing them grow as young long-time men’s volleyball coach the highest quality coaches for the about 20 hours per week with adults is also rewarding.” Brad Hudson all left the Royals to www.pacwestbc.ca via Photo job. Anything extra, such as pro- their coaches. Having their input As with every job, there will pursue other career opportunities. qualifications that are must-haves fessional development experience on potential candidates through always be something that catches It was certainly a busy sum- or heavily preferred. Without a or national team experience, is a focus group discussions, and the recipient of the job off guard. mer for Brian McLennon, the seed of doubt, a post-secondary huge bonus. question and answer sessions is However, Laxton has yet to find head of the college’s athletics education is a must have for Mc- However, the real job starts imperative and a key to the hiring that surprise yet. If anything, he program. In charge of hiring re- Lennon, which makes a lot of after the credentials check out. process.” All of this makes a great believes his time with the Royals placements for the now vacant sense given that Douglas College Evaluating a coaching candidate coaching candidate, but what is it has reminded him of the human positions, McLennon was faced is a post-secondary institution. can easily be the hardest part of like to be a Royals coach? nature of sport through dealing with the pressure of finding peo- Another obvious must-have for Brian’s job, but it helps that he Given the required creden- with all sorts of people, all differ- ple that could not only fit in with McLennon is experience. How- has a good idea of what he’s look- tials and traits to be a Royals’ ent in personality, strengths, and an established Royals culture, ever, the type of experience may ing for. “I look for competency, coach, it would seem that the job responsibilities, yet all striving to but could also establish a strong vary from person to person. For personality, and leadership skills. is quite difficult. However, wom- succeed. It’s his belief that sports foundation for years to come. To the Royals, he is searching for A high performance coach at the en’s soccer coach Chris Laxton has are about people, and coaching do that, he needed to know ex- coaches with “experience not only post-secondary level is not just a different opinion: “Coaching the is about developing relationships actly what he was looking for in at the secondary level but also about the barebones credentials. Royals is not very difficult at all. with and between people. “The the candidates for the coaching at the club level with provincial There are serious competencies We have a great group of amazing student-athletes we have at Doug- positions. sport organizations and within such as organization, administra- student-athletes who give up a lot las are unique, and I’m constantly Although experienced in the the high school sport system. tive, and strategic planning skills of their time to make the program challenging myself to be the best field of sport and management, They bring a broad perspective required to develop a champion- what it is. We also have a very coach I can be for each of them.” McLennon admits that “there is of coaching and working with ship program.” Along with com- supportive and forward-thinking It’s clear to see that Laxton re- no exact science to hiring a new athletes at different stages of de- petency skills, McLennon looks athletic department who are there flects all that McLennon looks for coach” due to the massive number velopment.” And while experience for a strong personality. “I look for to support the student-athletes in a coach, and so much more. of factors to consider. However, is a major factor, another key asset individuals who are professional, and coaches from every turn.” That is what it takes to coach for Brian highlighted a few certain for a candidate to have is a strong authentic, and driven to create Incidentally, the hardest part the Royals. an environment to support the about coaching the Royals is more Russia left looking dopey  String of doping scandals hurt more than just athletes

Davie Wong be true, and Russia is running a like a hefty fine for every athlete Sports Editor massive doping operation, it could found to be doping under the gov- change the face of sport as we ernment program, charged to the know it. A Russian-less world of government. Refusal to pay could t seems that every Olympic sport could prove to be a reality. results in that athlete receiving an rotation there are always a few I It’s my hope that it doesn’t indefinite ban from international doping scandals that break out. come to that. Alienating an en- competitions. That way it allows However, none of them have been tire country seems extreme, but athletes who have remained clean the size of the supposed Russian it’s honestly something the IOC to continue competing while forc- doping operation that was re- and other organizations could be ing out athletes who have been us- cently suggested by a prominent looking at. If the Russian doping ing performance enhancing drugs. Russian Olympian as well as scandal has merit, and nothing Another alternative is to other prominent individuals in can be done to ensure that Rus- restrict the number of Russian the scene. Yuliya Stepanova, the sian athletes come to international athletes in international competi- whistleblower and a former Rus- competitions clean, a ban seems tion, and lower that number every sian Olympic runner, suggested like a likely decision. However, in time an athlete connected to the that Russian government funds a my opinion, it would be a poor government funded doping ring is doping program for their Olympic decision. As history has proven, discovered. This would heavily in- athletes and forces the athletes to alienating the citizens of one centivize Russia to more carefully be a part of it. country because of their country’s monitor their international athlet- Since the accusation, the IOC actions has always been a regret- ic programs to ensure the integrity has been doing rigorous testing table one. of their athletes. on Russian Olympic athletes, both Do I believe they should be No matter what happens, the current and former. The results unpunished? No. Should it be damage has already been done. are mixed, which is more than proven that there really is a Rus- Russian athletes will never be enough to validate Stepanova’s sian government funded doping looked at the same, because there claims. The IOC continues to issue plan, I believe that penalties will always be some doubt due to penalties, and will likely continue should be created and enforced this ugly report. In the coming to investigate before, during, and that don’t involve banning every years, the tarnished image of Rus- after the Olympics. Whether or single athlete that represents Rus- sian athletes could be restored. not all of Stepanova’s claims prove sia. There are better ways to punish It’ll likely take years of hard work to be true, the fact is that the seed unfair play such as this. Alterna- and clean competition, but hope- of doubt has now forever been tives could prove to be something fully, that will not be an issue. planted. If all her claims prove to Image via thinkstock

sports // no. 14 theotherpress.ca Contract holdouts  Should NFL players be allowed to holdout?

Davie Wong be able perform a holdout, we new year, inflation gets pretty cra- their ass until they get paid. They Likewise, NFL players that hold- Sports Editor need to look at why holdouts zy. Within three years of signing abandon their responsibilities out generally end up with what happen. Contracts, while nor- “the biggest contract” for a player to their team, refusing to show they want, which is a larger con- t’s that time of year again! mally filled with technical jargon in that position, that same player up to training camp, and make a tract. This is because teams often IThe NFL has yet to start, but and so much fine print that the could be making the tenth most big stink about it in the media. cannot replace the hole left by the training camps are already in full magnifying glass needs to be of players in his position. Still The best analogy of a holdout player holding out. Just because motion. And like any other year, magnified, can be simplified to thinking he is the best, the player, I’ve ever heard compared it to a they aren’t paid the best, doesn’t training camps bring two things: three parts: how much a player only halfway through his original temper tantrum thrown by a child mean they aren’t still good play- injuries, and drama. But mostly gets paid, how long the contract contract, will demand a new con- when their parent refuses to buy ers. Teams cave, especially if play- drama. Every single year, there’s is, and the player’s obligations. tract so he is once again paid the them that toy they want at the ers hold out until the regular sea- at least one player who thinks he The responsibilities are generally most amongst other players in his store. They sit on the floor and son, and their absence causes the deserves more money than he’s the same, show up for training position. If he does not get the cry and scream until their parent team to lose games. Nothing is getting paid, so he threatens to sit camp, don’t skip practice, and do contract that he request, he has finally gives in. When it’s put like more important in the NFL than on the sideline until he gets paid what’s expected of you as a player. two options. He can be offended, that, the question really becomes winning games. If teams have to what he feels is right. Although Simple enough. The money gets a play out the rest of his contract, why is this childish behaviour put up with child-like players to holdouts are not NFL exclusive, little more complicated as we talk and find a team that will pay him allowed? do so, they often will. the National Football League is about guaranteed money and in- the amount of dollars he wants, Well, to be fair, it isn’t. Play- So what is the solution to all where it is seemingly the most centive rewards, so we’ll skip that. or he can pull a holdout and force ers that skip training camps are of this? I wish I could say it was common. The number of years the contract his team’s hand by ditching his often fined for their insubordi- easy, but it isn’t. Teams have to While there have been a few persists is the important part. responsibilities. nation. Players that go as far as to stop giving holdout players what scenarios throughout the years Having a long contract en- Most players will honour skip the actual season are fined they want. This is similar to how a where a holdout player was actu- sures that you have job security. their contracts and wait until a percentage of their contract parent might correctly deal with a ally underpaid by a large number, If a player can get the sort of they are offered an extension to for every game they miss, and if child who makes a big deal about most modern holdouts have been money they think they’re worth, demand more money. The fear they miss the whole season, then not getting what they want. Don’t about sending a message or es- along with a large number of there is that by the end of the it doesn’t count against the total give them what they want, and tablishing value. For example, X years, that is generally the deal contract, the player will not be number of years left on the con- show them who is really in charge. player wants to be known as the they want. It ensures the player good enough to warrant that sort tract. But if that’s the case, why Unfortunately, due to the way the best player, and thinks he’s the that they will be paid a large of money. are holdouts so common? NFL works, it’s unlikely that this best in a certain position so he amount of money by the time So they pull a holdout. What I go back to the child analo- will ever become common place. wants to get paid the most in the their contract runs out. It also exactly that mean? Well, to be gy. It is often said that if you re- With so much emphasis put on NFL to play that position. Or, the ensure job security, even if they frank, it means ward a child’s negative behaviour, winning, players will continue to other scenario has been that X lose their job, because the they sit on they will continue to behave be able to strong-arm teams into player feels that he is better than payout if they get cut will that way, because it giving them what they want. Un- Y player but is making less money be more than worth it. gets them what less the next time they sign a CBA than the Y player. Therefore, the However, the problem they want. it prohibits holdouts, which will X player demands a new contract with long contracts is never happen, holdouts will likely to ensure that he is paid more they don’t deal well continue to be a common occur- than the Y player. I assure you, it with inflation. With rence. Even if it makes both sides sounds no dumber than it looks. a new player always look bad. Before we tackle the question thinking that they on whether or not players should are the best each Image via thinkstock Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO Geeked out DIY OO Social summer cocktails OO The Other Playlist Life & Style And more! Image www.theverge.com via Getting friendly with ‘Pokémon Go’  The social aspect of everyone’s new Image via thinkstock favourite game

Brittney MacDonald from a different perspective. Life & Style Editor As someone who plays the Exercise and game, I have come to notice that n July 12, GQ released it is extremely rare to see anyone Oan article likening the playing it alone. How the game overwhelmingly popular game is played even encourages you Pokémon Go with a dating app. to either partner up, or be mental illness Reader response was mixed, playing with a small group. It as many players found the does this in several ways; taking  Why incentives matter article and its intent somewhat over key locations known as insulting and against what they “gyms” is easier when you have another person fighting with Rebecca Peterson safely call BS on that line of self- require thinking rather than let would consider the Pokémon you, and the various creatures Staff Writer blame. While exercise may be the it take the back seat to physical brand. I mean, come on, we are key for some, for a lot of us, our pursuits. talking about a game meant to you can capture are universal— meaning that the location ne of the first things they biological chemical imbalances This is why it’s important to be family friendly; using it as a that they pop up will be the tell you if you’re diagnosed can’t be completely cured by a find incentives to exercise. way to pick up women or men O same on everyone’s phone, and with a mental illness, especially a daily hot yoga session. I still expe- Portable technology is revo- doesn’t really fit in with that. everyone can try to capture mood disorder, is that you have to rience many of the same mental lutionizing the way people exer- However, there are those that them. It’s not just limited to exercise. health problems I did when scal- cise, from listening to music on found this new and innovative one person getting lucky. Not only do you have to ex- ing a flight of stairs left me sweat- an iPod while jogging, to being way of using the game to meet a Because the game is set up ercise, but maybe you only have a drenched and gasping for air. able to count steps and measure potential mate fascinating—so in such a way, it has created a mental illness because you don’t However, while it might not progress in an easy, quantifiable much so that it has sparked an new social code. “Poké-hunting,” exercise! If you’re sad, you should be a cure, exercise does help. way. The Zombies, Run! app be- influx of similar articles as well where people will group up and try walking for an hour and a half Taking care of your body does im- came incredibly popular for pro- as the creation of PokéDates, try and catch as many pokémon every day! Can’t tell the difference prove your mind. It’s just not the viding the listener a virtual reality a website specifically devoted as they can, is now a common between reality and what’s in your end-all, be-all answer, and should experience while exercising. Jog- to connecting Pokémon Go activity. And it isn’t unusual to head? Hop on the elliptical for a never be used as a way to blame ging is far less boring if you’ve got players on a romantic level. see strangers conversing over while! It’ll solve literally every sin- mentally ill people for their prob- a horde of zombies on your heels Though, personally, I found what they caught and where. gle one of your problems! lems. chasing after you. the original GQ article a little Taking all this into This is not too far off what I The problem I had with ex- Recently in media, Pokémon far reaching and insensitive to consideration, I think that it was told during some of my worst ercise when my mind was at its Go has been lauded for getting the nostalgic connection that is more fitting to call Pokémon struggles with my mental illness. lowest, and one I still have, is that people out of their houses and many people have towards the Go a social media revelation, At my deepest low, when all I exercise can be incredibly boring. active. There have been accounts Pokémon franchise, even I can’t rather than an evolution of had the energy to do was sleep 18 I wish I could be one of those from people with major depres- deny that there is a definite something like Tinder. I say this hours a day and drag myself from people who experience a thrill sive disorders who’ve claimed that social aspect to the game itself. because not only does it meet my bed to the couch and back after a 30-minute session doing Pokémon Go has vastly improved The release of Pokémon Go has the majority of the expectations again, being told that I “just had squats and crunches with Jillian their physical health by providing created a strange phenomenon of a social media app, but it to exercise” was not only infuri- Michaels, but I’m not. One of the a fun incentive to walk and run. worldwide, and though many actually actively encourages you ating, but deeply disheartening. worst things in the world for my So no, if you have a mental people criticize the game for to interact with other people It felt like I was to blame for my mental health is letting my brain illness and you’re not exercising, creating an even greater rift in a non-digital environment. own brain malfunctions. Maybe idle for too long without a way it doesn’t mean you’re lazy, and it between users and the world In the most basic sense, it if I was an avid jogger I wouldn’t to keep it engaged, and exercise doesn’t mean that you’re to blame around them, claiming that brings people together—at feel this way. Maybe I was only provides a lot of time for aimless for your illness. However, if you people are so absorbed in the 2 a.m., to look longingly at a sick because I was too lazy to take thinking. I can only imagine that do want to start exercising and game that they’re completely fenced-off park because you care of myself. many mentally ill people might can’t seem to take that first step, isolating themselves from know there’s a Pikachu in there Now that I do exercise nearly feel the same way, and prefer to there are options to make it fun even the most nonchalant that you just can’t get to. every day thanks to my job, I can keep the mind occupied with and rewarding. human interaction, I see it books, games, and tasks that life & style // no. 16 theotherpress.ca

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Photo via www.craftsandfun.com via Photo Warm on a Cold Night — HONNE Aaron WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Nomu — Good Kid • 4 sheets of corkboard • Thin, black • Box cutter Mercedes • Square-edged paint brush permanent marker • Matte clear-coat spray paint Sax — Fleur East • Ruler • Scissors • Image of pixelated heart • Acrylic paint (black & red) Rebecca Minecraft is for Everyone — Starbomb Ed to follow. Trace out the heart, them to dry overnight. Brittney MacDonald #1 — Moon Hooch Life & Style Editor marking the points on the The next day, spray your grid before cutting it out. hearts down with a matte clear- Eric egin by taking one sheet of Repeat this three more coat to prevent the paint from Bcorkboard and creating a grid times so that you have four chipping. The clear-coat should of 2.5 centimetre squares all over corkboard heart shapes. dry very quickly, but leave it it using the permanent marker To paint them, paint every alone for an hour just to be safe. and the ruler. If you have excess square that is on the edge black, Once you’re sure that corkboard, just cut it off with the and all the rest red. If you want the clear-coat is dry, hang box cutter. The important thing to get creative, you can create the hearts on your wall with is that they all have to be even. a less than full or an empty puncture-less hooks, tape, or Next, reference the pixelated health bar by replacing half of nails. Connecting them in a heart to determine the shape, or all of the red area with gray. line at their widest points to and which lines on the grid When you’ve finished create the health bar effect.  #DOUGLIFE painting all four hearts, leave Share your photos with us on Instagram using the hashtag Social summer cocktails! #DougLife, for a chance to be featured in the paper! The Facebook Stir thoroughly and then sip Brittney MacDonald 2 oz. blue curacao to your heart’s content. Life & Style Editor 1 oz. vodka 1 oz. white cranberry juice The Instagram re you a social butterfly Ice 3 oz. cola (Pepsi or Coke) looking for the perfect A Apple slice 1 oz. red wine cocktail? Well, here are a 1 tsp. cinnamon couple recipes to keep you Combine the vodka, Ice going this summer! blue curacao, and the white cranberry juice in a shaker. Add three ice cubes into a The Tumblr Shake, then pour over ice and glass. Pour in the red wine and 8 frozen blueberries garnish with an apple slice. the cola. Be careful not to overfill, 2 tbsp. lime juice as the red wine will activate the 2 tsp. sugar The Twitter carbon dioxide so it will foam 8 fresh mint leaves 2 oz. lemonade a lot if you pour too fast. Wait 2 oz. white rum 1 oz. tequila for it to settle before adding in Ice 8 raspberries the cinnamon. Stir gently with a 1 oz. club soda ½ cup sugar spoon or a straw before enjoying. 1 lemon wedge Muddle the blueberries, Ice sugar, and mint in the bottom of a glass before filling the Rim a glass with the lemon glass halfway with ice. Pour in wedge, then dip it in the sugar. the white rum, club soda, and Add the raspberries and then lime juice. Stir, then enjoy! muddle them before filling the

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Elliot Chan she wanted to keep me. you have to make the decision to Opinions Editor The same goes with say goodbye to all the comfortable workplaces. A quality worker relationships you’ve created. is hard to find and quality Those moments weren’t wasted. ’m reaching a transitional point employers know this and will do Those moments lead you to in my life where my time with I what they can to retain them. where you are now. But you, friends and family is diminishing However, many workforces don’t like me, will one day reach this and therefore, growing ever more offer good employees room to transition point, where you precious. Yet, the times that I do grow. Look at the diligent server need to be realistic with the have with them are spent idle, or the hardworking barista; it time you spend and ask: “Do I spawning zero growth. We’re doesn’t matter how many hours want to sacrifice my personal old friends—we’re family—we they put in, eventually, they will growth and potential success know what our personalities are hit the ceiling. There are no more just so I can make this person, like, we know what our opinions rungs on the ladder to climb. organization, or team happy?” are, and we’ve reach a comfort With friends, it can get a It’s not abandonment. It’s zone where we no longer feel the little more complicated. There are merely a departure. They can need to push each other. My old no resignation letters, although join you if they want, but they’ll friends and family have become you can write a Facebook message have to understand the journey content with the way I am, and explaining why you don’t have you are going on will be long and therefore, I must say goodbye. time for their birthday parties arduous. It can be an academic My mother did not want or why you can’t go see that pursuit or it can be a business me to move out. Her plan was concert with them. Life is full of opportunity; either way, they to have me live with her and resistances and some come in the need to buy in 100 per cent. If take care of her. Additionally, form of comfort. Friends are like they don’t follow, no worries. she wanted me to progress, get a comfy bed; they don’t care if There are many more people married, get employed, and you get anything done during the along the way, heading in your succeed. There was no way I day or if you lie there dreaming. direction, waiting to say, “Hello.” could have done those things Friends want you with them, but So, think about all the without first finding my own in doing so you revert to idleness, friends within your circle and ask independence. She wanted me and that would be a great shame. yourself: “Are they joining me? to stay the same caring little There will be a time when Or is it time to say farewell?”

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Rebecca Peterson can be taken out of context, first multicultural casts and the Staff Writer after all, and I’d rather not first interracial kiss on television. cast a negative light over what Even more important, read the article three times, is phenomenal news for the however, is how they did this. I my jaw somewhere in the LGBTQ+ community. Instead of creating a character vicinity of the floor. An iconic Instead, I’d like to take a to join the cast specifically for sci-fi character was getting moment to acknowledge why the purpose of being gay, they an LGBTQ+ makeover in the this matters. took a character that already new Star Trek movie, Star Trek For one thing, of all the big existed and gave him a story Beyond. Sulu, a non-white, blockbusters hitting the theatres that many who are largely established character in the Star this year, Star Trek Beyond is underrepresented in media can Trek universe, was going to have the only one I can think of to relate to. Showing that you can a husband. It felt like I was being have an explicitly established be an established character, given a gift. LGBTQ+ character as part of the well-known and loved by many, Unfortunately, the next main cast. Ghostbusters almost and a member of the LGBTQ+ article to crop up was one went there with the character community is such a gift. It regarding the original actor for Holtzman, portrayed by Kate breaks down many barriers and Sulu, George Takei, a sci-fi icon McKinnon, but the studio expectations of what a badass and outspoken member of the decided against explicitly stating character can be. LGBTQ+ community. In the her sexuality. Instead, it was I haven’t seen the film yet, article, Takei heavily criticized heavily implied in winks and but I’m far more excited for it the move, saying it was “twisting one-liners, which is what many now than I was before. In a world Gene Roddenberry’s creation,” queer characters are reduced where LGBTQ+ people are still though he did say he was glad to once the script reaches the actively discriminated against there was an LGBTQ+ character screen. A big movie like Star and left out of big stories, it’s at all. I was honestly confused Trek Beyond sets a precedent for incredibly gratifying to see and heartbroken to hear this, as other big movies when making someone like me on the deck of I’ve always admired George Takei a decision like this. In fact, the Enterprise. It’s important, and deeply valued his opinions. breaking ground like this is and a good sign of things to This is not an article criticizing entirely in the tradition of Star come. Trek, which featured one of the

his response, however. Words http://trekcore.comImage via issue 31 // volume 42 opinions // no. 19 Flavour feud: Burgers  Elliot vs. Eric

Elliot Chan after all. A bad supporting Burger King’s Whopper with fast food restaurant. The onion, it—the same feeling I get when Opinions Editor line-up of ingredients let Cheese: The Whopper with however, was a bit overwhelming. buying food at a movie theatre. the Teen Burger down. Cheese comes wrapped like a Overall, the Whopper is So what qualities harmed 4/5 gift. And, like most gifts, there is filled with missed opportunities the Dave’s Single with Cheese hen it comes to food, I sweetness to it. Warm and soft, to highlight the key tastes you the most? First, let’s talk about find the burger to be the W McDonald’s Big Mac: Long the Whopper is so much more would expect from a burger. the bun. It’s uninspiring and consistent favourite, one that have I been a fan of the Big Mac. with the cheese. It’s definitely 3.5/5 almost insulting. Without any seldom disappoints. Pick the When I talk about consistency, worth it to have the premium. sesame, the bun feels fake in burger on the menu and you I’m thinking of the Big Mac. Where the Whopper falters Wendy’s Dave’s Single with my hand, as if I’m holding a know what you are going to get. On this occasion, it was ready is with the construction of the Cheese: Held tightly within the prop. Secondly, the sauce is It might never blow you away, to impress. There is always a burger. Take a bite and you’ll trashy looking wrapper is the boring. What is it? Ketchup. but it’s also hard to mess up. wild card when ordering fast notice the big crunch of the not-so-famous Dave’s Single Lastly, the square burger patty is In this Flavour Feud, we’ll food. One thing that can spoil veggies, but the patty and the with Cheese. Yes, even the name gimmicky and tasted as though look at four players in the fast food the burger is the freshness. sauce are lost. The Whopper does is less than impressive. I’ve it might have past its prime. game, and see which burger stacks Feeling the warmth of the not melt, it requires you to chew, driven 30 minutes to order a Good thing Wendy’s is not up best against the competitors. burger bun assured me that this chew, and chew. With the sauce Baconator from Wendy’s, but I relying on the Dave’s Single with experience would not be affected at the top and the thick layer of would not go out of my way for Cheese as its sole attraction. A&W’s Teen Burger: The initial by the timeliness of the bite. ingredients in the way, you never the Dave’s Single with Cheese. It’s a lazy burger, one that I can bite had a generous serving of The Big Mac is a truly taste the soul of the burger. While the Baconator is in make at home with a frying bread, crisp in my mouth, soft marshmallow of a burger. It is Try eating it upside down. another league, the Dave’s Single pan—and I’m not a good cook. between my hands. As I made never “big,” but as you eat it, The burger patty itself with Cheese is barely even playing 1.5/5 my way through the flavour it slowly compresses within doesn’t get a lot of love, which is the same sport when compared landscape of the Teen Burger, your grip. Smaller and smaller, ironic considering it is the Burger with the other burgers on this list. Elliot’s rankings: I was filled with fluctuating it gets. That’s not the only “King.” Where it redeems itself It is cafeteria food at worst and a 1. Big Mac emotions. Like a song that had pattern that the Big Mac has: is with the vegetables. They taste McDonald’s hamburger at best. 2. Teen Burger a good beat but awful lyrics, the the flavour crescendos one bite fresh, like actual vegetables in a While eating this burger, I can’t 3. Whopper with cheese Teen Burger was great one bite after the next, until you reach market, which is high praise for a help feel that we have overpaid for 4. Dave’s Single with Cheese and mediocre the next. This is the creamy middle. There is a lot because of the ingredients. of bun in the beginning, but as Nobody takes centre stage you reach the core, you cannot on the Teen Burger, all the ignore the savoury goodness. ingredients share a unique The sauce is what separates spot and that is its downfall. the Big Mac from any other One bite I’ll get the bacon, one burger in the world. It relies so bite I’ll get the lettuce, and heavily on it that I wonder what one bite I’ll get the mustard. a Big Mac without the sauce While there is no spotlight would taste like. Probably very on any individual ingredient, bland. The thing is, the sauce it’s not surprising that the can elevate every burger on the bacon is the saviour, the hero. menu, but it is reserved solely Sometimes I find that bacon can for the Big Mac. And that is why overwhelm a burger, but here the Big Mac is still one of the it is perfect. It’s subtle, doing most popular options on the its thing in the background. menu. One criticism: Get rid However, the lettuce is of the middle slice of bread. lackluster and the mustard— 4.5/5 whenever put into a burger—is a lame attempt. It’s not a hotdog,

Eric Wilkins had it all. Tomato, lettuce, bacon, bite; the Big Mac solves this. one, there’s no need to unless shiny foil wrap with metallic red Editor-in-Chief onion, pickles, cheese, ketchup, Whether partially as a placebo you really want to. It’s like the print—food attire so offensive mustard, and teen sauce. or actually backed up by heavily Gatorade of burgers: hunger to the eye it even looks like it’d &W’s Teen Burger: This was Scrumptious goodness. funded and biased fast-food quencher. Get it on Whopper get kicked out of even the most Athe burger of my childhood. 4/5 science, the middle serves to soak Wednesday for $3 ($3.50 with desperate of nightclubs. The bun I’m not sure I even set foot in up all the flavours and present cheese) and it’s the best value out was tasteless and thick, the patty a Burger King or Wendy’s until McDonald’s Big Mac: The Big them in one delicious mouthful there. had a weird taste to it, and the high school, and my mother Mac is the definition of a flagship after another. I’d probably be 4/5 rest of the ingredients—while had a bad experience with burger and it’s so wonderfully more than happy to just eat a mediocre enough to pass in any McDonald’s meat growing up… iconic that most everyone bunch of middles with nothing Wendy’s Dave’s Single with other burger—sure weren’t even amusingly meaning the rest of us immediately knows what it is. else. Probably. Cheese: When I first picked remotely good enough to salvage were restricted to their chicken You can hold up any other burger 4.5/5 up the burger I assumed the the barely edible performance. and fish offerings as well. Clearly and have some confusion, but not apostrophe following “Dave” The meat at Wendy’s, and thus, a bullet dodged. the Big Mac. You know it’s the Burger King’s Whopper with was to show ownership. Whose in a Dave’s Single with Cheese, This was probably my first Big Mac. Two buns, two patties, Cheese: My first experience with single with cheese is that? may be fresh, never frozen, but if Teen Burger since I was actually lettuce, pickles, onion, special the Whopper came last year when Dave’s. However, halfway this were a prizefight, that burger a teen, and it’s still fantastic. sauce, and the all-important I was working at a Starbucks right through my first bite I realized would be out cold. “Good” fast food is a bit of a bread in the middle. Thing of beside a Burger King. It was love my mistake. The apostrophe is 1/5 crapshoot—it takes a bit of luck. beauty. at first bite then and it hasn’t for a contraction. This offering If you get stuck with a smaller The day I had a Big Mac for changed since. Easily one of the is so bad that it’s resulted in the Eric’s rankings: tomato slice or onion, the cheese the first time was the moment I heftiest burgers around; it sits bachelorhood of poor Dave. Dave 1. Big Mac isn’t centred to melt properly realized there was more to life so solidly in your hand that you is single with cheese. What an 2. Whopper with cheese on the patty, or the employee than five value picks for under could swear there’s some invisible absolutely garbage excuse for 3. Teen Burger was generally a little sloppy in $10. It didn’t disappoint then and ingredient in there weighing it a burger. One of the precious 4. Dave’s Single with Cheese creating your solidified grease, it’s it never has. The key here is, of down. But there isn’t. It’s just few times I’ve been unwilling to quite possible to go from a good course, the bread in the middle. a real burger. Giant juicy patty, finish. burger to a disappointing one. I Part of the problem with burgers adequate support ingredients, Starting with the got lucky in this case. First bite is that it’s very difficult to get and quality thick wrapping. And presentation, things were already every part of the burger in every while you can eat more than going downhill: an overbearingly opinions // no. 20 theotherpress.ca What drives humans to go on killing sprees?  Multiple mysteries of mass murders

Cazzy Lewchuk violence and oppression. No two perpetrators will have Staff Writer the exact same ideology, and in t seems like almost every most instances, they die during Iday there’s a horrifying news or shortly after the incident via story about a group of people suicide or law enforcement, dead, killed by a fellow human making one difficult to ascertain. being. While mass shootings A motive can be withdrawn from in the US dominate headlines, those who survive, emerging these tragedies occur globally during the evidence found in with many weapons. Eighty- their trials. Nevertheless, the four people were murdered in exact “tick” that causes someone Nice, France, using a truck. to do the act remains a mystery. Nineteen people were stabbed Those who commit these acts to death in Tokyo, Japan. Ten of evil were not necessarily always people were shot to death horrible people beyond any in Munich, Germany. That Image www.aljazeera.com via means of redemption. Many of them grew up sensitive, bullied, was just in the last month. happens. Guns are designed mental health problems are not are planned and carried out. and repressed. Poor mental While violent thoughts and to kill, and many models homicidal or violent, most spree Poor support from family health and environmental factors, fantasies are quite common, are able to kill people much killers nonetheless have serious and society can contribute combined with a particular it’s of course much rarer that faster than any other type of untreated issues. These include to aggression, violence, and person’s brain chemistry, they are acted upon. What weapon. Mass shootings (four general aggressive, violent, worsening mental health. can ultimately result in them drives people to commit these or more injured) occur in the and homicidal tendencies. It While blaming entire cultures committing a horrible act. horrible acts, to take away the US almost daily. While the vast likely also includes untreated is not the answer, it is true that We can’t detect and lives of so many people? What majority of Americans support mood disorders that trigger many cultural values can enable prevent every horrible act of can we do to prevent this sort restricting gun access to high- these tendencies, which certain behaviours. Discussing evil that exists in the world. of thing from happening? Is it risk individuals, numerous often involve disassociation. one’s mental health issues often But by recognizing the factors simply impossible to avoid? organizations and politicians Unfortunately, societal stigma carries a huge stigma, and is and showing compassion, Although group killings prevent this from becoming law. towards those with mental discouraged and/or suppressed. empathy, and love for at-risk occur everywhere and have many Undoubtedly, 0ne of the health problems cause many to Hyper-masculine values give men individuals, we can hopefully contributing factors, access biggest contributions is poor avoid getting treatment. Steps (almost always the perpetrators) help lower the number of people to guns is absolutely a major mental health. While the can be taken to recognize and unhealthy ideas on their identity, who resort to these actions. reason why this sort of thing vast majority of those with intervene before violent acts associating masculinity with Mandatory nudity  Would enforced nudity wreck Wreck Beach?

Jamal Al-Bayaa Wreck Beach is one of the ways Staff Writer that the very architecture of our city reflects those modern n July 21, the Vancouver ideals. But forced nudity is not OSun published an article what all-inclusive is all about. that stated nudists (naturists) People advocating for total at Wreck Beach have been nudity at Wreck Beach should trying to enforce nudity at the remind themselves that clothing- clothing-optional beach. They optional was a major step were even reported to have put towards an all-inclusive ideology, up signs saying that all visitors and that trying to change that must be nude in order to use the now is running counter to that premises. In order to enforce model. America and Britain are the made-up regulation, naked two recent examples of what beach-goers (often men) have happens when you try and been approaching clothed segregate. People get divided visitors (often women) and and turn against one another. requesting that they take their As tempting as it is to clothes off, because Wreck Beach jump into the us-versus-them “is for nude visitors only.” The mentality of living in big cities, RCMP has received numerous progress is only made when people step back and accept complaints from people stating Illustration by Ed Appleby that they have been told to take everybody and every body. harassment, and they’re going Beach. “It’s our beach” is what is Body shaming in Wreck as a their clothes off at the beach. Wreck Beach is about more than unnoticed because of the tricky said in one way or another, often result of nudity is as taboo as Should Wreck Beach ever whether or not a beach should political landscape that makes by heads of naturist clubs in shaming one of the minority truly become nude-only, it’ll be be nude or clothing-optional. It’s Wreck Beach a simultaneously BC. I do not mean to say that all groups that finds a home in enforced the same way it already a debate about whether or not tense and worthwhile place naturists think this way, just that Vancouver’s all-inclusive society. is, with somebody walking up to everybody should be accepted to have in Vancouver. it is the common belief among Vancouver is all-inclusive, someone else and making them everywhere. We should all choose After reading interviews those who are pushing for Wreck whether you prefer the textile feel uncomfortable enough that respect. When naturists ask and hearing the opinion of Beach to be nude-only. or natural look. Maybe we’re they strip down. I’d like to remind people not to come simply to naturists, I think that the idea Naturists advocate for not all-inclusive everywhere, people that this is—at the time gawk at them and take pictures that Wreck Beach should be increased nudity due to as nudity is illegal in public, of writing—illegal. Approaching (which they’ll throw your camera nude-only mainly comes from beliefs that it improves self- but major strides have been someone and saying they’re not in the water for, supposedly,) a sense of entitlement shared confidence and is a healthy made on the whole. Being welcome in an area unless they that should be respected. But for among naturists. Throughout endeavour. There’s something topless is legal, male or female, take off their clothes is sexual anybody who wants to use the various articles available online, to be appreciated in a space because if a man is allowed to harassment. So these aren’t just beach, they should be welcomed the group maintains a consistent where everybody can be be topless and a woman isn’t, complaints, these are reports of too, whether they wish to do theme in their opinion on Wreck accepted exactly as they are. that’s sexual discrimination. so clothed or in the nude. Have an idea for a story?   [email protected] OO Canada prepares to accept American refugees OO Melania Trump’s speechwriter found to be graduate of Trump University OO Pokémon Go: The end of an era? Humour And more! Childhoods ruined upon release of new ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot  Many claim that the first decade of their life has been distorted

Chandler Walter goer, Andrew Hopkins. “Distant 14, he had been looking through Humour Editor memories of my life, falling into some of his old photo albums. shadow. Only darkness remains, “I wanted to make sure it was all n what many claim to be the only anger and fear.” Hopkins’ still there, because the memories Isingle most damning thing to eyes were red, and his voice were gone… I couldn’t believe it.” have happened to their childhood seemed hollow. Cheeny found that in every photo selves since discovering the truth Not even those who avoided he had of himself as a child, his about Santa Claus, fully grown watching the new release were eyes had been blacked out, as if adults are filing lawsuits against free from its evil spell, as reports burned from the photographs. the makers of the Ghostbusters are spilling in of childhoods “I called my mom and she reboot for stealing away their being distorted in the minds of said the same had happened to childhoods. thousands across America. the pictures she had as well,” The controversial remake “We were warned, and we Cheeny explained. “I was also that released mid-July had been did nothing,” said Justin Cheeny, fading away, as if the life I once plagued with ill favour from its a 35-year-old car salesman who lived was being erased.” initial conception. Many fans loved the original Ghostbusters While it is clear that only of the original 1984 film touted movie as a child. “The men who fragile male adult fans of the their disapproval of the female- whined on the Internet, they were original Ghostbusters movie are driven remake by stating that right about all of this. They tried being affected by this strong the new movie would “ruin to warn us about what would force of evil, only time will tell if their childhoods” in the months happen when a movie dared to their childhoods will ever recover, leading up to the film’s release. Image www.ghostbusters.com by feature funny female leads in an or if they have been destroyed already established franchise, and completely by fictional ghosts Most saw this as merely organs of those who would be would have on those who we didn’t listen… we didn’t listen!” being busted by a group of an exaggeration made by a busting ghosts. Little did the watched the summer thriller. Cheeny states that on the day empowered women. small group of men being overly public know of the very real “I could feel it as I sat in of the Ghostbusters release, July concerned about the sexual repercussions that the remake the theater,” said one movie- New 15 per cent tax on all goods and services for foreigners  Government says new tax will strengthen the economy, and all that

Jake Wray isolationist cesspool,” she added. Senior Columnist Rudolph Zinc, assistant professor at UBC’s School controversial 15 per cent of Economics, said in a A property transfer tax for phone interview that the foreign nationals will now new tax is absurd. apply to all goods and services “It is certainly fair to say that within BC, the provincial large sums of foreign money government has announced. are having an adverse effect on The initial property transfer the local economy, but this tax tax was introduced last month doesn’t really address that issue. in an attempt to correct Metro The problem here is not the Vancouver’s piping-hot housing nationality of the buyers, it’s the market. In a press conference origin of the money, so taxing Friday, Premier Christy Clark buyers based on their nationality said her administration makes no sense,” Zinc said. quickly realized the tax could “Myself and my colleagues be expanded to help other have drafted a variety of markets within the economy. alternative taxes aimed “If the foreigners can specifically at people who come over here with their www.huffingtonpost.ca by Image don’t earn income in BC. We money and drive up housing fat chunk of money. In fact, we’re old teacher from Belgium who pay. Not every foreigner in this would have gladly shared these prices, they must be making already making vague election has just arrived in Vancouver province is rich, so we can’t all strategies with the Liberals if food, liquor, and gas prices promises about what we’re going for a summer vacation. Her afford this massive price hike. It’s they had bothered to consult go up as well,” Clark said. to do with that imaginary fund! flight home isn’t until 12 days almost as though discrimination literally anyone at all during “We’ve decided that All of this will allow us to put after the tax will take effect, against people based on their the policy-making process.” foreigners should pay an extra 15 hard-working British Columbians and she voiced concerns that country of origin is wrong, At press time, reports are per cent on everything they buy and their families first.” she will run out of money or something,” said Varga. showing that actually identifying in this great province. We haven’t The Other Press went before her trip is over. “The provincial government foreigners in the checkout received any of that tax revenue to the streets to see how “When you add up the hotel, should have implemented the line is problematic, so the BC yet, but we’re claiming that those British Columbians feel about the meals, the bus tickets, and all tax gradually, so people like government has extended the tax revenues will end up being a nice the new tax measure. the other little things you realize me would have time to avoid to “anyone who looks foreign.” Andrea Varga is a 32-year- that 15 per cent is a lot extra to this backwards, fear-driven, humour // no. 22 theotherpress.ca Canada prepares to accept Unintentionally American refugees inappropriate  Come November, streets likely to be flooded with exotic southerners threat of a Dorito-faced Mussolini occurrence in the United States, vintage ads Rebecca Peterson Staff Writer as a presidential nominee, their their politicians seem reluctant biggest worry is which washroom to put any kind of restrictions on s the political climate in the a transgender person uses? I just access to weaponry. Protestors this AUnited States of America don’t know how they’ll adjust.” side of the border cite lax security becomes fraught with uncertainty Meanwhile, there have been measures on the part of the and danger, communities across protests and large pushbacks Canadian government as a danger Canada are preparing to welcome against the welcoming of American to all Canadians. an influx of American refugees this refugees. One refugee from America, fall. “They’re just here to steal however, sees their people very Currently, these our jobs, at the very least,” said differently. disenfranchised peoples from the protestor Caribou Jack, “but you “We’re not all like that, you south face the very real possibility gotta look at the values they’re know,” said John Smith, eyeing of a complete democratic collapse, bringing over the border, too. I’m the lines of protestors at the and are looking for shelter amidst sure there are peaceful Americans border nervously. “In fact, most of the open and welcome arms of the out there, but at its core, America is us aren’t. A lot of us want better First World. a violent country. You know, they’re gun control, and don’t want “Well, I’ve just got to wonder killing each other down there. Donald ‘Good people don’t go how they’ll fit in here,” said What’s to say they won’t do the into government’ Drumpf as our community worker Frances same up here?” president. You can’t boil an entire Delaware as she prepared a It’s true that Canadian values society down to our worst and most recreation centre with sleeping differ largely from those in the violent members.” bags and food rations to welcome south. Written into America’s very Whatever the feelings of the Nothing says fun like the fleeing Americans. “The world constitution is an amendment Canadian people on the matter, they come from is so unimaginably encouraging Americans to take up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has primitive—no universal health arms against each other, something promised to receive at least 10,000 potential brain damage care, everyone’s got a weapon, many Americans seem incredibly American refugees in just a few and apparently even with the keen to protect. Even while mass months. Hopefully our country will shootings become a near-daily be ready. Instant Reviews Melania Trump’s  When you don’t have the time for full reviews speechwriter found to be Jerrison Oracion no idea what is going on. Senior Columnist Café Society: Woody Allen remembering stuff. graduate of Trump University here were a lot of summer Tfilms released this year. Independence Day: Resurgence:  Reports state that plagiarism was ‘touched on’ in speech writing class Some of them were surprise If you liked the first film, hits and some of them were… you will be disappointed. sentences that they are familiar “Listen, okay, it’s not like we not. With so many to choose Chandler Walter with, rather than new—and just copy and pasted Michelle’s from, and so much written Humour Editor The Purge: Election Year: It therefore scary—ideas.” speech word for word or about them, you may not made The Purge look good, He also said that he anything, alright? There were a have enough time to find out ight has finally been shed and it was not good. graduated with a masters lot of different words in there. A about them. Here are quick- Lon the mechanics that led to Melania Trump’s Republican in speechwriting after only few ‘and’s here and there, a few hitter reviews of some of Me Before You: Depends if National Convention speech two years and a few hundred ‘um’s. It’s a completely different those summer blockbusters. you like this type of film. mimicking that of Michelle thousand dollars, and was speech.” Obama’s in 2008. After weeks of instantly recruited onto the News outlets have recently Captain America: Civil War: Central Intelligence: deny, deny, deny, a reporter has Trump campaign team. been having a field day with Mixed opinions about it. Dwayne Johnson and Kevin uncovered how exactly such an “It was kind of weird the story, though no word has Hart at their finest. actually,” the speechwriter said. yet been heard from Donald Finding Dory: It is shiner obviously plagiarised speech was formed. “It was like my entire time in Trump’s campaign on the than the first film. Lights Out: The next In a hidden microphone school was grooming me to work matter. Many Republican Paranormal Activity. for Trump. I wanted to be an senators are scrambling, denying The BFG: It has Roald interview, an unidentified speechwriter on the Trump engineer, but all that the school the very idea that anything was Dahl dialogue. Magical. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: campaign admitted to an offered was speechwriting and copied, and coming up with Out of the Shadows: You have business classes. We touched on more and more outrageous The Secret Life of Pets: undercover reporter (who must to see the first film first. plagiarism a little bit in class—I explanations for the definition Great jokes, OK story. remain nameless) exactly why the aspiring first lady’s speech remember something about how of plagiarism. Money Monster: Watch if was so obviously copied. it’s okay as long as you don’t get NEWS UPDATE: We have Ghostbusters: Reinvented. you want to learn about “That was simply how I caught? And then even that’s confirmation that Donald Looked like Spy. the US economy. learned speeches were written,” okay as long as you don’t admit Trump has come out with a the speechwriter said. “Back in that you got caught. It was all statement on Twitter regarding Star Trek Beyond: Star Trek Train to Busan: The South my time at Trump University very weird.” his wife’s speech earlier today: meets Fast and Furious. Korean version of World War Z. we were told that it was simply While he admits that the “Melania’s beautiful speech may, speeches were similar in overall or may not, have been a copy Jason Bourne: If you did not easier to use things that were structure, sentences, and words, of Michelle’s, but who cares lol, see the first four films (even already written. We also were he was adamant that what was I’m still gonna be president. the fourth film), you will have told that people are dumb, and they like to hear words and written was not at all copied LOSERS.” from Michelle Obama’s speech. issue 31 // volume 42 humour // no. 23 Pokémon Go: The end of an era?  Game release has profound effect on our world

Davie Wong dren. The effects were immediate. Within hours of release, reports of Sports Editor massive swarms of unsupervised children took over the airwaves of t’s been nearly a month since Asia. the release of Pokémon Go took I Motor vehicle accidents have North America by storm. The rest skyrocketed, as drivers struggle to of the western world has subse- remain on the road while avoiding quently fallen deeply in love with collisions with children. The idea the mobile game, in a movement of brining all motor vehicle trans- that scientists are calling the portation to a halt was briefly con- “Poké-craze.” Each day, thou- sidered by a number of countries sands of people are leaving their before coming to the conclusion positions in the working world to that the loss of money was not pursue their dreams of becoming worth the potential loss of life. As a Pokémon master. the sun began to set in the eastern While some call the trend world, reports of children walking crazy, there are those who fully straight off cliffs began to steadily believe in their right to follow climb. “It’s as if they can’t see any- their dreams. In an interview with thing but their phones,” reported a various media outlets, Lance En, disgruntled individual who looked a former accountant and current to be playing the game as well. self-proclaimed Pokémon master, As the sun rose the next spoke up to defend the decisions morning, many parents were re- of his fellow trainers. “Our dream

Illustration by Ed Appleby lieved to see their children arriving is perfectly reasonable. We simply home. However, reports of miss- want to be the very best, like no “unfit to exist.” As tensions rose, unconscious due to the shock ters of the intrepid game design- ing children continue to climb, one ever was.” When asked if he more men in both blue and red of actually losing, and had their ers. Parents all across Asia have and search-and-rescue efforts are and his fellow trainers had an end jumpsuits began to take their precious Poké-coins stolen from united to sue Nintendo for the dwindling, as more and more mo- goal to their dream, he shrugged respective sides, filling the park them. It was complete and utter loss of their children. They claim bile phones become dedicated to his shoulders and replied, “To where the interview was set up mayhem. that Nintendo is the mastermind the craze that is Pokémon Go. catch them all is our real test; to to near max capacity. The media What happened there was behind a plot to lower the world’s On the brighter side, scien- train them is our cause.” teams, not wanting a part of the just a small example of what has population by reducing the tists report that the tiger popu- Lance’s original journey start- imminent conflict, donned their been breaking out across the number of children in Asia, and lation in the areas of Asia have ed in New York City, but since standard-issue yellow raincoats western world. Representatives of demand compensation for their surged back from the extinction then, he has traveled across the and were allowed to leave before the United States Department of lost children. The facts behind the zone. The unknown phenomenon lands, searching far and wide for conflict broke out between the Justice have gone on record saying claim paint a different picture. has caused scientists to rethink the strongest Pokémon, and re- two “real” teams. We watched that the new craze has caused Staggering their release dates the way tiger breeding works, cruiting others to his cause. from the outskirts as thousands of more forms of gang-like activities to generate maximum amounts of with some theories saying that Unfortunately, that was all individuals stood across from one since the prohibition era. And hype, Niantic made Asia the last the population experiences a the time the media had to inter- another, staring intensely at their while governments around the area on Earth to receive support surge once every thousand years. view Lance, as mid-way through, mobile phones. world struggle to deal with this for Pokémon Go. The plan resulted Some fringe scientist have begun we were interrupted by men in You would know when some- pandemic, Nintendo, the owners in a massive number of downloads correlating the missing children blue jumpsuits claiming to be the one had lost and someone had of the Pokémon franchise, and on the day of release. As adults with the surge in tiger population, real masters of Pokémon. They won when there were cries of ju- Niantic, the creators of Pokémon are forced to work in many Asian but most have been dismissed as mocked the crimson red colour of bilation, followed by the sound of Go, have other issues to deal with. countries, the majority of the merely coincidence. Lance’s outfit, calling the colour a body falling to the ground. The A massive class-action law players on the first day were chil- loser of the match was rendered suit is on the way to the headquar-

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