WHO WE ARE NEWS The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student from local and national advertising revenue. The Other newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an Press is a member of the Canadian University Press autonomous publication, independent of the student (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers that includes union. We are a registered society under the Society Act papers from all across Canada. of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board The Other Press reserves the right to choose what we of directors appointed by and from our staff. Our head will publish, and we will not publish material that Open for the summer: Douglas College Learning office is located in the New Westminster campus. is hateful, obscene, or condones or promotes illegal The Other Press is published weekly during the fall activities. Submissions may be edited for clarity and Centre is here to help and winter semesters, and monthly during the summer. brevity if necessary. All images used are copyright to Dylan Hackett, pg. 04 We receive our funding from a student levy collected their respective owners. through tutition fees every semester at registration, and THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSPAPER SINCE 1978 ARTS e Student Newspaper of Douglas College OtherPress. PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 Room 1020 – 700 New Westminster, BC Douglas College V3L 5B2 Royal Avenue TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 Vancouver Fan Expo succeeds in exceeding EDITOR IN CHIEF ASSISTANT EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER expectations Angela Espinoza, pg. 06 LIFE&STYLE Cody Klyne Sharon Miki Angela Szczur [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER DISTRIBUTION MANAGER NEWS EDITOR Grapefruit cleansing your way to a healthier life Stephanie Trembath, pg. 12 FEATURE Stephanie Trembath Chris Paik Dylan Hackett publicrelations@ [email protected] [email protected] theotherpress.ca ARTS EDITOR LIFE & STYLE EDITOR OPINIONS EDITOR Canada’s electoral system has the deck stacked against aboriginal Canadians Liam Britten, pg. 15 OPINIONS Angela Espinoza Laurel Borrowman Jacey Gibb [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SPORTS EDITOR HUMOUR EDITOR STAFF WRITER Subliminal messages and life lessons brought to you by Parker Brothers Jacey Gibb, pg. 16 Josh Martin Liam Britten Allie Davison SPORTS [email protected] [email protected] STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER LAYOUT MANAGER An uncertain future for Bobby Lu in blue. Is this the end of an era? Josh Martin, pg. 22 David Hollinshead Eric Wilkins Brian Yoo [email protected] GRAPHICS ILLUSTRATOR HUMOUR CONTRIBUTORS Joel MacKenzie Larissa Huang Livia Turnbull Naomi Ambrose Natalie Serafini Siobhan Fleury (CUP) Q: What do you get for the royal who has it all? Timothy Arndt Oliver McTavish Wisden Zach Roubos [email protected] [email protected] A: Absolute power. Liam Britten, pg. 25 2 LETTITOR. The new kid on the block “The seven marvels that best represent man’s achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern’s Private Parts to come in No. 1.” - Jon Stewart I come from the Net. Through systems, peoples, and cities, to this place: www.theotherpress.ca. *sigh* Regardless of whether or not my shameless rip on Reboot’s introduction carries any weight with you, allow me to clarify the significance of my nerdy, cryptic hinting: The Other Press is back online. It’s been a long time coming for us over the course of the last two years. From a site that looked about as fresh as last week’s pasta leftovers, to a site that threatened to destroy your computer and overthrow the establishment (due to being compromised by what I can only assume was a Megabyte-esque villain—last Reboot reference, I promise). Rest assured, our new site—which from its easy to navigate frontend, to its complex and deeply customizable backend, has been completely overhauled—is squeaky clean and better than ever. So, now that we have one… what do we have planned for the site? Good question! For starters, over the coming months we’ll begin the process of uploading hundreds of articles from over the course of the past year for your online viewing pleasure. While that in itself might sound like a pretty grand undertaking, and while we do have a number of exciting multimedia ideas in the works, we don’t want it to stop there… which is where you come in: what would you like to see from The Other Press online? Between your ritualistic stints of Facebook stalking and forum trolling (I kid!), take a moment to pop by the aforementioned URL and case the joint. What’s working? What isn’t working? What are we missing? Yell at us via email or the contact form available online (which jettisons directly to my inbox) and let us know. Also, this is the official call for “online friends.” Whether it’s through Facebook, Twitter, or linking to the site directly, every bit of e-propaganda helps to spread the word. While we’re at it, if you’re a student with a fledgling website, blog, online business, or ground-breaking web 3.0 project, and are interested in doing some online cross-promotion—link for a link sorta thing—send me an email with the specifics and we’ll begin our wild and heart-warming journey as online friends. Anyway, as far as this month in print is concerned, our motley crew of exam-liberated student journos let fly the shackles of the winter semester to tackle the likes of: the student tuition protests in Montreal, a collection of reviews and festival previews, the ineffable “logic” behind NHL suspensions, and much more! Not to mention a bevy of online exclusive content covering this past month’s first ever Vancouver Fan Expo which, having been one among hundreds of gleeful attendees, I can attest to as having been an absolute blast. Well dear reader, that about does it for me. From my desk to your eyes, I wish you a happy, healthy, and revitalizing month. May the fourth be with you. Later days, Cody Klyne The Other Press Editor in Chief WRITE FOR US! Anyone can get published in The Other Press! Just email your story to the appropriate section editor from the list on the right. Please send your file as an MS Word .doc file. The weekly deadline for submissions to section editors is Thursday by 12:00 a.m. for publication the following Monday. Time-sensitive articles (weekend news, sports, and cultural reviews) will be accepted until Saturday at noon and can be submitted to the editor at [email protected]. All submissions will be edited for clarity and style. The Other Press will pay $50.00 to any contributor who writes, and successfully has published, a feature article of at least 1,200 words. Also, The Other Press will pay $50.00 for every five issues a contributor is published in on a per semester basis. The Other Press holds weekly staff meetings at 6:00pm on Mondays in room 1020 at Douglas College’s New Westminster campus. All interested students are welcome! 3 News. Learning Centre open for summer semester the bulk of the Learning Centre’s will be among the highest trained service, tutors also help students or certified tutors in the country or who come by with quick questions. even in North America. You get to “If you want to come in and meet a lot of great people. If you’re ask a quick question, like how to tutoring someone in your own cite something, we have a ton of academic aspirations you get to handouts for all kinds of grammar relearn a lot of stuff. issues and for science and math but “The best thing for a peer especially for citations,” explained tutor to have coming in is good Britten. “[Citations] are probably marks in the courses you plan on the biggest thing people have. tutoring and you have to have Professors, especially for first a lot of patience in most cases. year courses, could do a lot better Flexibility is really key because of a job of helping students with when you’re tutoring people they citations of various styles and I find learn in different ways and you we pick up the slack a lot of the have to adapt to that and a positive time in those situations.” attitude is the other thing. Some The Learning Centre is always people don’t learn at the same rates looking for new tutors to add to as others but you have to treat By Dylan Hackett, News Editor “We have three kinds of its rosters. “There’s a real need everyone as if they are going to tutoring. There’s drop-in tutoring for more science students to get succeed. You have to give everyone ouglas College’s premier where you can come in for a half involved, more math students a fair chance to succeed in their tutoring service, the hour and we’ll just work with to get involved and, especially courses.” Learning Centre, is active you on a project, there’s ongoing in Coquitlam, more nursing The Learning Centre is open Dfor the Summer Semester but with tutoring which is a regular meeting students,” said Britten. “There five days a week during Summer limited hours of availability at of an hour per week. It not only is are no volunteers at the Learning Semester at New Westminster David Lam campus. The Learning project work but is also for skills for Centre. Peer tutoring is the entry- Campus and Monday, Wednesday, Centre is available free to all success in your course.