Driving the him up the wall page7 Referendum results • page 3 Sumo stuff ·page 3 .. ' Vlarch 4 1998 Climbing walls and kicking butt since 1976 Volume 22 • lssue'20 ~ . ~ " ouglas Men bring home rovinc~al gold ... again ....11111111 ears for one team and cheers for suffered from an initial lack of cohesion. Fortu­ were down were left on the .::;.:;mn.rnt•r. Saturday marked a BCAA nately, the spiking ability of Ken Kleindienst and two games to floor for the entire match championship for the Douglas College the all around playing ability of Ken Kilpatrick one and trailing were visibly fatigued from the end of the men's volleyball team and a silver effort carried Douglas back to overtake and then beat the by 3 points. The second game onwards. It is likely that the for the women's team. The tournament Sun Devils. women were attempting to team could have taken the match to five hosted by Okanagan University College With the breathing room that being one game come back when the men games and possibly even won, had the in Kelowna, who brought a strong home ahead of their opponents afforded them, it seemed began to tape up their joints players been properly rotated to afford to cheer their teams and heckle ours. When clear the Royals didn't want the fourth game and warm up for their game in them a rest. Sharp's dependence upon a dust had finally cleared the men had a hotly enough. Plays by Douglas were relaxed in compari­ full view of the women. This was few key players was a self defeating one championship and the wo~en were out­ son to their previous games and they were deserv­ demoralizing to the women's team and and hopefully she will not repeat this to silver. edly trounced by the Sun Devils 7 to 15. demonstrated a complete lack of support mistake in the future. men had a very strong stan to the tourna­ The championship was riding on the fifth game from the men for their fellow Doug!~ athletes. The best game of the match was the third, when taking first placement in the round robin. and both teams wanted it. Douglas snapped out of Douglas carne on strongly to win 15 to 2. Douglas quickly overcame the Carnosun Chargers their former slumber to arrack the Sun Devils with he women's silver effort just before the men's was finally playing as a team, communicating well games to one. Combined with their excellent remarkable tenacity. Not to be outdone, UCC match was against OUC and in front of a and fighting with heart. OUC was almost left •c:en~erot in the round robin, the Royals appeared counteranacked, managing a 12 to 8 lead early on. T very rambunctious home team crowd. The standing still during the game, definitively be set for an easy walk to the gold, but the The Royals' moral seemed close to breaking, but women fought OUC with all the energy they could outplayed by Douglas. Sharp qedited their • uvc•·•" v College of the Cariboo (UCC) Sun didn't, largely due to the encouragement of Ken muster, but unfortunately as individuals not as a comeback to laying the situation down for the had other plans. Kilpatrick as he pushed his team onward. The team. A continual image was that of an OUC spike team, saying "I told them this was it, stop playing first game of the gold medal match was a Royals tied up the game with a score of 15 to 15. It hining an undefended corner for a point, particu­ like individuals and play like a team." for the Sun Devils. Douglas failed to was do or die and both teams met the pressure very larly in the first two games of the match. As Becki Whatever Douglas had brought into the third the excellent blocking of UCC. Consist- well, fighting with unnatural vigour. The game Kosinski pointed out, "It wasn't anyone, we just game, they lost it in the fourth. OUC wanted the in the Royals' play was another problem stretched on, with neither side managing to gain· played as individuals and not as a team." championship and came on hard. Notable was the to the 12 to 15 loss. the 2 point lead required to take the match. Lack of communication between players resolve ofVesna Rukavina, who seemed to be a . ~,v••!;'••• initially floundered in the second Douglas finally took it with a score of 26 to 24. exacerbated the situation and gave OUC easy wins tremendous source of moral for the Royals when • ••c---'-''-'''--held a 4 point lead, but our team There are few criticisms to be made of the men's in the first two games of the match. OUC held a four point lead. Resolve doesn't win it together to win 15 to 9. The game was play during the match. There is a large criticism to What appeared to be a fatal flaw in the Douglas championships unfortunately, it only gives you a with fierce rallies and contained some of be made of their behaviour before their match plan was coach Susan Sharp's lack of substituti'ons. chance. Douglas didn't make that chance a gold best playing in the entire match. began, though. The men's championship was Only two players were subbed into the match and one in what turned into an emotional ending for lll.JotJgl:lS took the third game as well, but again played immediately after the women's. The women only for a single brief period each. The players who the women. The women's movement is celebrating close to one hundred years of fighting oppression. With women rising against their oppressors in the Volume 22 • Issue 20 •Mar ch 4 1998 late eighteen hundreds, and "feminism~ becoming a household word by Room 1020-700 Royal Avenue the late nineteen sixties, the advancements have been remarkable for New Westmiatster, BC V3L 5B2 ~ HMM ... J: SE€ f~ THfS To~c.t4 · women's equality. Staning with women being able to vote in Manitoba [email protected] in 1905 (the first in Canada) and ending the millennium with GMC Phone 525.3542 • .:CNb PAMP"' \..E.\ ~Q£ tS A Canada, Ford Canada, Xerox Canada and a few others having women as Fax 527.5095 or 525.3505 t2f.ft~~NOUM J\J£.x 'T W{E..f< . David Lam Office their CEOs, it would appear as though what women say could be true: RoomA3107 B'V :l'o' 'l\f\l(c, C.f'~ ... Do"'-~'-~~ there is nothing a man can do that I cannot do. Phone 527.5805 STo_b~ "\ S \N \ \...\.. \-(A \IE. A But, why bother? Like every other cause that had a good moral 1 staning, feminism has gone horribly astray. Like the African American IN Oth.r Pms is Douglas G~E:ATt~ VO\c.E. '~ UfSHOLO t N people staning a peaceful freedom movement with Martin Luther King CoUc:gc:'s autonomous srudc:m ~'T\AOENT R.l<e,!-ITi. T newspaper. Jr. and ending with Malcolm X stating how evil the white man is, We've b<en publishing since 1976. The feminism too has become a diluted cause that no longer puts women's Other Press is run as an anarcho-syndicalist rights up but has the radical l-ean-do-anything-better-than-a-man commune. We take rums acting as sort of an stench. executive officer for the Wttk, bur all the Case in point: The military. Thus far, women in both the United decisions of this officer must be rarified ar a States and Canada cannot serve in an active combat position. Yet, special bi-~y mccring, by a simple majority feminist groups whine and complain that this is sexist, and that women in the case of purdy internal aflilirs, bur by a rwo should be allowed. Allowed to what? Get killed the same as men? Kill or riUrds majority in the case of.... maim another human being the same as men? Come home from war The OP is published W<ddy during the fall and winter semesters and monthly [as a with one leg and never get another job because of it like men? This magazine] during the sununer. incredibly diluted thinking makes one wonder why anyone would TIN Otkr Pms is made by Douglas College actively try to do this. Men try to dodge the draft on a regular basis, but srudenrs. All DC srudenrs are wdrome ro join. 1.-1111.!·----.. ----------~------.. -~---· women feel they.should be allowed to go. So much for the "faireao:' sex. (Bored, Lonely, creatively repressed, need ~O\o.J fo~ A uSC. ~ ol.. \ T\ L~ \. Sc.\tt-X£ I, personally, would love the oppottunity to stay behind the front line something on your resume, or??? Come down ~o '-~ S '1"'-l C E::N T """'\ S 1~ (o ~ T ~ as a doctor or administrator, but never would I volunteer to be shot. room 1020. We're usually friendly and we have \.:;II r _ Nor would I tty to get into a military academy merely to prove that I lots of roys. No experience required.) ~Q... \'""€; DDCA~LA~ '-QLu:JC:,E could,l!ke a woman did down in the States. She went into a military We receive our funding from a srudenr levy ~~~ ~ S I l'i 0~ Hote ~Y "\0 academy just to prove that a woman could do what a man can. Also coll= ed every semester ar registration, and from local and national advertising revenue.