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THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSPAPER SINCE 1978 OtherPress.e Room 1020 – 700 Royal Ave. Douglas College New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 WEBSITE: www.theotherpress.ca EMAIL: [email protected] Darling, would you like Jacey Gibb Editor-in-chief to grow a beard? [email protected] Natalie Serafini -Ernest Hemingway Assistant Editor [email protected] Angela Ho Business Manager [email protected] Chris Paik ’ll always remember my first. We were a year out of high We rocked the costumes and I successfully avoided anyone Distribution Manager Ischool and a friend of mine was leaving to volunteer for 10 confusing me for a fat Italian, but I’ve once again been left [email protected] months, so I hosted a Mexican fiesta kegger as a send-off. I moustache-less. wanted to make the night a memorable one, and so I did it. It Oddly enough, the day after I shaved my moustache Cody Klyne felt weird at first—I could barely recognize myself in the mirror marked the start of Movember—a pastime I’ve never felt afterwards—but it was amazing. I looked like a new man. I attached to and continue to not partake in. I’ve covered the topic Layout Manager think there might even be a couple photos of it on Facebook, not in the past so I won’t go into my viewpoints too excessively, but [email protected] that I encourage you all to look for the photographic evidence I’ll say that I love the message behind Movember and encourage of my first. No matter the circumstances that surrounded it, I’ll every guy reading this to go get checked for prostate cancer. Joel McCarthy never forget my first moustache. It’s the second leading cause of death in men, and according to Graphics Manager Who knows when I first started to grow notable facial Cancer.org, one in every six men will develop it in his lifetime; [email protected] hair. Legend might say I was born with bristly cheeks, but your butthole can also rest easy knowing the doctor only needs historians place it more accurately in Grade 10. What began as a blood test for the exam. Ed Appleby an awkward neckbeard flourished into an object of envy to my On a related/more silly note, I spent a significant amount Ilustrator colleagues who grew nothing more than pre-pubescent patches. of time procrastinating while writing this Lettitor, doing When I arrived to have my graduation picture taken, the moustache-related research. Like, did you know that the oldest Patrick Vailancourt photographer suggested I go home, shave, and come back the portrait of a man with a moustache dates back to 300 BC? If you News Editor next day; I overheard someone talking in the hallway at school did, then you’re either well-informed or kind of weird. There’s [email protected] about how they wanted a “Jacey Gibb beard”; I purchased a also a moustache on record that’s a staggering 14-ft long. Dream plaid jacket last winter and received more lumberjack comments big, fellas. Cheryl Minns than we had rainy days. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to being a And there you have it. My first-ever Lettitor dedicated celebrity. to the facial hair that lives above your lips. I still miss my Arts Editor To say I dabbled with moustaches after the Mexican fiesta moustache quite dearly and find myself periodically going [email protected] would be generous. Maybe for the occasional Pompous Asshole to stroke it, only to find disappointment. Not that I could Sophie Isbister Night I would trim my beard and leave my upper lip robust, compare me shaving to someone losing an appendage, but my but it wasn’t until a hipster party two summers ago that my moustache has become a phantom limb of sorts—though one of Life & Style Editor fondness for lip sweaters took hold. The moustache, originally the advantages to being a Wolfman is the ability to grow facial [email protected] part of my costume, lingered for days before I succumbed to hair at an unprecedented rate. I know that it’s only a matter of public opinion and shaved. However, this summer I found the time before I’m reunited with my moustachioed companion and Elliot Chan heat too excessive and brought the mo’ back for mo’. Despite the I can go back to being mistaken for someone’s dad. 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Columnists Brittney MacDonald, Clive Ramroop Contributors www.theotherpress.ca NEWS. Rob Ford crack allegations resurface Toronto police chief video I haven’t seen or does not exist.” announces investigators Ford’s brother, Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, has have elusive crack video called for the Toronto Police Patrick Service to release the video to Vailancourt the public to allow residents to News Editor make their own conclusions. [email protected] Toronto Police spokesperson Mark Pugash has asserted that he Toronto Police Service the police must turn evidence Thas confirmed that it is now over to the courts, and the in possession of a “digital video courts “have the authority to file,” which is said to show decide whether that should Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at be released…” He continued, an Etobicoke house, showing stating that, “I know that media images that are allegedly lawyers are already working consistent with previous reports on that process to get the video on Ford’s activities—a reference released.” to the allegations that Ford was Dennis Morris, Ford’s filmed smoking crack cocaine. lawyer, has been particularly Toronto Police Chief Bill Toronto Mayor Rob Ford | Photo courtesy of www.shedoesthecity.com critical of police Chief Bill Blair Blair said at a press conference for comments he made at the that he was “disappointed,” also procured drugs for the the money had been raised, to step aside. “I have no reason press conference, specifically after announcing that his officers Toronto mayor. the video and its owner had to resign,” said Ford. the comment about him being were now investigating the Earlier this year, a source mysteriously disappeared. Ford added that he is personally “disappointed.” contents of the video. tipped off the Toronto Star and Chief Blair’s press unable to comment on the video “[Chief Blair] has a duty to Reports of the video being Gawker.com about having conference has revived the because ”it’s before the courts report news in a dispassionate in police possession came as a a damning video of Mayor nationwide debate about right now.” The video, however, fashion,” said Morris, adding shock to residents of Canada’s Ford smoking crack cocaine. the mayor’s capacity to lead is currently in police custody, that Blair should immediately largest city, and occurred on the The reporters met with the Toronto’s 2.8-million people. and there is no provision make the video public. same day of the arrest of Ford’s video’s owner in Toronto All four of Toronto’s major preventing the mayor from Toronto police have occasional driver and friend and were shown the video. newspapers have called on the commenting publicly on the confirmed that they are trying Alexander Lisi, who is charged Reporters were convinced of its mayor to resign—including the video. to interview Ford in relation with attempting to retrieve a authenticity, but were met with Toronto Sun, formerly one of It is a change of tune in the to their criminal investigation video of Ford through extortion. the demand for a hefty payment Ford’s supporters. embattled mayor’s version of of Alexander Lisi, but thus far Several persistent reports to purchase the video. Gawker In response to media events: in May, he repeatedly the police have not received suggest that Lisi, in addition to successfully raised the $200,000 questions about the video, the told residents and reporters that a response from the mayor’s being Ford’s occasional driver, to purchase the video, but when mayor said that he has no plans he could not comment on “a office.