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THE OTHER PRESS 2 the Other Press May 10, 2006 Published Since 1976 THE OTHER PRESS 2 The Other Press May 10, 2006 Published since 1976 Room 1020 – 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 Telephone: 604.525.3542 Fax: 604.525.3505 Managing Editor Colin “Mexican Hooknose Snake” Miley [email protected] News Editor Nicole “Speckled Racer Snake” Burton [email protected] Opinions Editor Brandon “Prairie Kingsnake” Ferguson [email protected] Arts & Entertainment Editor Iain “Missippi Green Water Snake” Reeve [email protected] Features Editor Kevin “Big Bend Patchnose Snake” Welsh [email protected] Sports Editor Brian “Flathead” McLennon [email protected] Proofreader Vince “One eyed Alabama Snake” Yim Graphics “Queen Snake Blattmann [email protected] THE OP MUSIC CHARTS — Otherwise known as... Layout What we listened to during the creation of this issue: “Trouser” Hargreaves [email protected] CBC Radio 3—Podcast #50 CBC Radio 3—Podcast #49 Photography Ricky Gervais Podcast Season 1—Episodes 9, 10, 11 Jen “The Snake Charmer” Aird Swervedriver—Mescal Head Okervil River—Don’t Fall In Love With Everyone You See Web/I.T. Heavy Trash—Self Titled. Ed “The snake handling Western Stranger” Keech [email protected] Distribution Manager Derek “The Cobra” Ungless SUBMISSION Office Manager J.J. “Anaconda” McCullough [email protected] GUIDELINES Accountant Alyona “The Python” Luganskaya The weekly deadline for submissions is [email protected] Wednesday for publication the following Columnists Wednesday. Letters to the Editor, vacant sec- JJ McCullough Iain Reeve tions, and “time-sensitive” articles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will be Illustrator accepted until Saturday noon and can be sub- J.J. McCullough [email protected] mitted to the editor at: [email protected] All other submissions should be forward- External Relations Jake “The Snake” Roberts ed to the appropriate section editor. Please include your name, phone number/email Contributors Liam Chancey, Brady Ehler, Teddy Johnson, address, and word count, and submit via J.J. McCullough, Dave Pearcey, Luke email as an MS Word.doc attachment to the Simcoe, Vince Yim attention of the appropriate editor. The Other Press is Douglas College’s The Other Press is run by a collective, autonomous student newspaper. which means all decisions are reached via a The Other Press is run by a collective and is democratic voting process. Membership in published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, and monthly (as a magazine) dur- the voting collective is open to any person ing the summer. who has contributed to at least two of three We receive our funding from a student levy consecutive issues. Those interested in join- collected every semester at registration, and ing the Other Press collective should contact from local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the Canadian the editor at [email protected] University Press (CUP), a cooperative of stu- dent newspapers from across Canada. We News adhere to CUP’s Statement of Common [email protected] Principles and Code of Ethics—except when it suits us not to. The Other Press reserves Opinions the right to choose what to publish, and will [email protected] not publish material that is racist, sexist, or homophobic. Submissions may be edited for A & E clarity and brevity if necessary. [email protected] All images are copyright to their Features respective owners. Congratulations to J.J. McCullough, the deserving [email protected] recipient of the prestegious OP Bowling Pulitzer. Nice Sports one. [email protected] LETTITOR (on a plane!) 3 Dear Other Press Readers, Do you see the look on my face? Of course you And that is what it was like to be on that plane ride don’t because I am on a plane right now, but the look is that day, snakes or no snakes. I’m not going to lie a combination of shame, humiliation, and anger. Kittlings, it wasn’t pretty. This postcard was only the I’m ashamed to be human right now, although I’m beginning of what was to devolve into a swirling vortex feeling more sub-human. I’m ashamed to be part of a of bad dreams, booze, and earaches. It took me two race that can do so much—launch things into space, months to even begin to remember that grizzly flight, split atoms, map the genome—and yet cannot build a and it’ll likely take me two more to recover from the comfortable F’ing plane. We should all be ashamed. giant fissures seared into my consciousness by the sever- I’m humiliated because I’m in a seat at the very back al tons psychic debris that landed upon my fragile mind of the plane, and the only thing between my head and that day. Such is the adventurer’s peril when the call of the people pooing in the bathroom is a thin wall. I’m the road gets too loud to ignore. humiliated that the lady in front of me (all of 5’2) can For, as Special Agent Dale Cooper so elegantly put recline her seat and I cannot. I’m humiliated because it, “it just goes to prove the point that once a traveler people are lining up for the loo, and when the person leaves his home, he loses almost 100% of his ability to coming out needs to get by the line to get back to their control his environment.” seat, I inevitably get an ass in my face. Oh joy. Maybe I’ll just give up flying altogether and take a I hate the guy next to me (we are into the anger part Russian Nuclear Icebreaker to find the Arctic Hole that now) and I hope he can read this. He is big, rude, quite leads to the middle of the “Hollow Earth,” (if you think possibly stupid, and he needs to move his farm-boy ass I’m making this up, go to Steve Curry’s Expedition over to in front of his own seat. Are my four-foot-long Company at www.expeditioncompany.net, and click on legs invisible? No, they are not. He is rude and invasive the drop down menu to choose “Voyage to Our Hollow and he sounds like a hick when he talks. I hate him. Earth Tour.”) Mexico was nice. I hate that word—nice. What the I’m especially fond of the itinerary for the trip, with fuck does it really mean anyway? I guess I may have to a gleeful “Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!” saved for days 15 and 16: hand deliver this to you tomorrow, but know this Other “Monorail trip to City of Eden to visit Palace of the Pressersons: You are missed, and I hate the Yankee King of the Inner World.” Doodle Pig Dog beside me. His knee is where my knee Who’d have thunk they’d have monorails inside the has to go. There is no other spot for my knee. I hate hollow earth? You also get to meet the “Lost Tribes of him with the special hate I usually reserve for the diabol- Israel” and pass by such exciting places as Franz Josef ical and wicked. My body is seizing. Giant asses are in Land. Sounds delightful. my personal space. We’re two hours from Seattle. I am Enjoy your May issue of the Other Press. It’s better bereft. The only positive I can take from this grotesque than air travel. It’s the Russian Nuclear Icebreaker of experience is that I have yet to see a snake on this plane. college newspapers. Next stop: the middle of reading Yet. enjoyment! Please Save Me, Colin (smiley face drawn here) SNAKES ON A TABLE OF CONTENTS News 4 Opinions 7 A&E 10 WTF 23 Features 16 Sports 20 NEWS [email protected] 4 Pickton Trial Develops Public now allowed to view court records Nicole Burton, News Editor The ongoing trial of Robert Pickton for the murders of 27 Downtown Eastside women continues at the British Columbia Supreme Court in New Westminster. But, in what is considered one of the most high-profile cases in the history of Canada, few developments have been revealed to the public since the trial began on January 30, 2006. In April, the court determined that members of the general public are now able to view court rulings at the court registry. Such rulings are still not available to be reproduced in the media. “There is no principled basis upon which to deny access to the substance of the rulings,” said Justice James Williams of the BC Supreme Court to media last month. He still maintains that the ban on media during the trial is to ensure Pickton receives a fair trial. A jury is expected to be selected for the case in the next few months. Students’ Union a Hotbed of Fraud, Dysfunction, and Cronyism Ex-insiders Claim JJ McCullough, OP Contributor unsurprised by the audit’s findings and are quick to charac- what they’re being told. I don’t know what they’re being terize the DSU as being fundamentally “dysfunctional,” given. I don’t know how they’re being controlled. I don’t both organizationally and financially. “We have no understand. But it’s clear, it’s blatant that they [the other accounting system per se, we have no filing system, we members of the DSU] are protecting someone.” have deficiencies and inefficiencies all over the place,” says She admits it may be too early to ascribe purely malev- Gojevic. Their longstanding concern with the organiza- olent motivations, however. “I don’t know if it’s just com- tion’s internal management eventually led the two to plete ignorance or if it’s vindictive in some way,” she says.
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