Lettitor Wooooooah, we’re halfway there Photo of a Lizard on a chair by @peachesanscream o, here we are. Fourteen issues for us, as half the staff will be attending improved—and significantly, at that. Our and slowed wits, but I have faith in this Sdown, 16(ish) more to go. A a conference in Toronto, but that’s an layout team has created some stunning merry band of misfits bringing you nice, long winter break ahead. entirely different Lettitor), though we visuals, editorial is putting out articles the Other Press you’ve come to expect The Other Press will be going into haven’t nailed down a theme quite yet. with perspectives from right here at once Issue 15 hits those happy little something of a voluntary hibernation The past 14 issues have been Douglas College, and have you SEEN stands—or something even better. until January rolls around. Not that there something of a sprint. The first few some of these covers? Everyone is getting I’ll end this one off wishing you all the will be many students walking the halls of were chaotic, getting people into their more comfortable in their position, best in your finals, a great rest of December, Douglas College wondering “Hey, why isn’t designated positions, training, and and I can see that creating opportunity and by encouraging you to seriously quit there a new OP out yet? Where will I get making sure all the timing was just right. to try new things, experiment with procrastinating by reading the Other Press my information on timely events, hilarious While I would like to say that different ideas, and improve overall. and just get to studying already, sheesh. satire, or album reviews?” because you all, things have fallen into a groove, I can’t. But, of course, we still have some That exam is right around the corner. like us, will be taking a few weeks away Newspapers are tricky like that, and ways to go. We’ll be losing our Sports from these hallowed halls of learning. timely. Each week there’s a new fire to put Editor over the winter break, and we Cheers, Our next issue back will be freshly out (though thankfully not literally, yet), still need to figure out what will be done printed on Tuesday, January 8, 2018 so a new challenge to overcome, or a new with the space that he once filled. please, do hold tight until then. It will contributor joining their voice to ours. The winter break may also leave us be a themed issue (to make things easier Over these past 14 issues we’ve also a little out of practice with rusty fingers Chandler Walter O The Other Press has been Douglas College’s student newspaper since 1976. Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the student Angela Ho union. 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Photos by Jerrison Oracion and Analyn Cuarto. news // no. 4 theotherpress.ca Photo by Colten Kamlade Colten by Photo Photo by Analyn Cuarto Analyn by Photo Indigenous garden unveiled at New Westminster campus ööMedicines to be planted in spring us, were gifted to us,” she said. thought towards you, they just have to included in the Indigenous garden is Colten Kamlade McComber described the importance think it about you and sometimes if sweetgrass. McComber described the Staff Reporter of tobacco—which will be planted in the you’re weak and if you aren’t centered, symbolism surrounding the plant. new garden—to indigenous cultures. sometimes that negative energy will “It has an aroma and a fragrance that new garden bed was officially revealed “Tobacco is the first [medicine,] attach to you and will somehow affect is very unique, when it burns it smells A to students and staff at the New and tobacco is the first according to you,” she said. “Sage is used primarily sweet, and when you hold it, it smells very Westminster campus on November 30. our people because after our creation to help detach those things.” sweet as well,” she said. “The teaching Nothing is currently growing in story […] the creator blessed the whole The third medicine McComber around sweetgrass is that it is to remind us the garden, but in the spring it will be creation story by allowing tobacco to discussed was cedar. that life is good; life is sweet and we are to seeded with plants that have special come first. So, in our culture, and other “The next is cedar, and of course accept that that sweetness is a part of us.” significance to Indigenous cultures. cultures, tobacco is given first before you cedar comes from this territory,” she The garden bed was built by Architek Amelia McComber, an Indigenous ask any spiritual elder or anyone to do said. “The cedar would travel down at cost, and the funds were provided by elder, shared her knowledge during a any customary spiritual work,” she said. to New Mexico, Albuquerque New the Ministry of Advanced Education. In presentation and tour of the new garden. According to the creation story, Mexico. That was the hub trading place the spring there may be opportunities for “My talk today is about the sage is the second medicine given where everything was traded. Then it students and staff to participate in the relationship between us, the people, by the creator. McComber described would be distributed and again come planting of the garden, so keep an eye on and the medicines. So we have four its use in traditional medicine. up the five trails of North America.” the Douglas College calendar of events. sacred medicines that were given to “If someone has a negative The fourth medicine that will be Study examines social isolation in Metro Vancouver öö30 per cent of young adults said they are ‘almost always’ alone Jake Wray feel loneliness more than others, the report also found that people are willing News Editor to engage with their communities. “Our new findings show that while oung adults and people from everyone experiences the same barriers low-income households are more Y to forging strong connections—work, susceptible to loneliness than other school, financial constraints, and time demographics in Metro Vancouver, pressure all play a role—some experience according to a new study. this more acutely,” McCort said in the The Vancouver Foundation, press release. “But what’s encouraging an organization that promotes to see is how open residents are to community engagement, recently coming together as a community—even released its 2017 Connect and Engage more so among those who have lived report—an online survey of 3,785 here for a shorter period of time.” adults in Metro Vancouver that asked Approximately 75 per cent of questions about loneliness, community respondents attempt to better their participation, and digital socializing. community with activities such as According to the report, 30 per cent of shovelling snow and picking up litter. survey respondents age 18 to 24 said they Conversely, the study found a significant are “almost always” or “often” alone, as decrease in participation with “traditional” did 38 per cent of adults from households community activities, compared to a with incomes under $20,000 per year, similar study conducted by the Vancouver compared to an average of 14 per cent of Foundation in 2012.