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AI interested students are sports. and Wbnl R!W!ws)wl be welrome. iiCD!plsf 1.1111 Satuday at noon and --= can bestbnbed1Dtheedilorat [email protected] • THE OTHER PRESS Student Newspaper of Douglas College PUBLISHED SINCE 1976 NEWS Room 1020 - 700 Douglas College One Douglas student is making a difference with children in Uganda. Royal Avenue, - Garth Mclennan, Pg. 4 New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 OPINIONS TELEPHONE: 604.525.3542 Michael Moore: stupid white man EDITOR IN CHIEF Liam Britten - Garth Mclennan, Pg. 7 [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Chloe Bach FEATURE [email protected] A trip down the Fraser River shows sustainability in action-and a lack thereof. BUSINESS MANAGER & ADVERTISING -Trevor Dore, Pg. 10, 11 Mark Fisher [email protected] ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS EDITOR Dancing zombies take to the stage. Kristina Mameli (acting) - Angela Espinoza, Pg. 13 [email protected] STAFF REPORTER Garth Mclennan (acting) SPORTS [email protected] Luongo and the Sedins lead the Cauncks' Olym­ SPORTS EDITOR pic delegation. Garth McLennan - Garth Mclennan, Pg. 19 [email protected] ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Jay Schreiber [email protected] OPINIONS EDITOR Shoshana Berman [email protected] HUMOUR EDITOR Liam Britten [email protected] GRAPHICS Timothy Arndt [email protected] LAYOUT Brian Yoo [email protected] ILLUSTRATOR Ellen Lee [email protected] PHOTOGRAPHER Rosa Hong WHO A [email protected] The Other Press has been Douglas College's student newspaper since 1976. levy collected through tutition fees every semester at registration, and from Since 1978 we have been an autonomous publication, independent of the local and national advertising revenue. The Other Press is a member of the WEBSITE EDITOR/I.T. student union. Today we are registered society under the Society Act of Canadian University Press (CUP}, a syndicate of student newspapers that Angela Szczur British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board of directors appointed includes papers from all across Canada. [email protected] by and from our staff. Our head office is located in the New Westminster The Other Press reserves the right to choose what we will publish, and we campus. will not publish material that is hateful, obscene, or condones or promotes DISTRIBUTION MANAGER The Other Press is published weekly during the fall and winter semesters, illegal activities. Submissions may be edited for clarity and brevity if Garth McLennan and monthly during the summer. We receive our funding from a student necessary. AU images used are copyright to their resl?ective owners. 2 Praise for the Conservatives? From this guy? have to admit, I was certainly looking And this situation he's in isn't the doing forward to a fall election this year. Mter of a House of Commons gone wild hell-bent I all, it's becoming a tradition, and not a on seeing his government fall. This situation meaningless fall tradition like pre-season is the doing of the Canadian public, who have hockey; this means something. And as a now twice given him only minority parliaments. newspaperman, it's a godsend to me. Nothing The-public has never trusted Harper fully, and fills our news section quite as well as election so the public has given him what is basically coverage. Between candidate interviews, a "potential" government. Yes, he's the prime speculation and poll results, the damn thing minister, but he can only "potentially" pass his pretty much writes itself. agenda with the support of other elected parties. So when I heard that the NDP and the I doubt that Harper would agree, but Bloc Quebecois had each agreed to support the with an antagonistic Liberal Party sitting as Conservatives on two separate non-confidence the official opposition and Parliament has motions about to be tabled in the next few become far more functional. Now that they've months I was a little disappointed. What shown that they are unwilling to support the happened to Gilles Duceppe's comments about Conservatives blindly, the Conservatives need the chances of a fall election being "more than to work to get legislation passed.lt means they great?" What happened to my boy Jack Layton, will be more inclined to compromise in the who's never voted with the Conservatives on future unless they want to go to an unpopular just about anything? Why have they replaced election which could (could being the key word) the Liberals as the go-to parties for propping up see them lose power. the government? This is the way minority parliaments But I think it's the Conservatives who should work. The government should be have pulled off the most surprising move in this obligated to listen to other parties and not have drama. They did something I didn't think the free rein to throw their weight around. Reaching Conservatives would ever be capable of, not in out and coming to agreements is what makes a million years. minority governments representative, and Mr. They came to a compromise. Harper, you did the right thing by doing just Who'da thunk it? Stephen Harper, the that. disagreeable leader of the Conservatives, made Now please, would one of you say a compromise. He decided the best move was to something inflammatory that the media can run come to an agreement, to back down for once in with? his life and strike up a deal. Despite fighting a months-long war of words with the opposition Your friend in high fidelity, parties over El reform, Harper backed down Liam Britten from his position and made some changes. This Editor in chief was all it took to get the NDP to support his The Other Press government. So while it's disappointing to see that the Conservatives will be in power for at least the short term, Harper's compromise is a promising sign.lt's a sign that he's finally learning his place as prime minister of a minority government. He must realize that he needs to make deals and that he can't force his agenda on an unwilling opposition. He needs the opposition now. News Editor: The news editor JX)Sition will soon be available. If you are interested please submit an application! We're looking for someone with an engaging writing style, varied interests and a desire to oontribute. Please apply! Pay: $400 per month Submit your application to [email protected] Making a difference Douglas College Wrap-Up Former Douglas student has a special connection to Uganda By Kristina Marnell By Garth Mclennan, Acting Staff Reporter of their own. Two are H1 N1 advisory biologically theirs while A second wave of the now notorious swine Juliana, Benjamin, here are approximately 15 million starving people flu is expected to hit schools during the 2009- Martin, Vanessa, Christie, currently living in East Africa. While it is almost 10 school year. As such, students are being Godance, Marjorie, Timpossible for anyone to significantly lower that advised to take certain precautions and keep number on their own, Carli Travers and her husband Robert Douglas and Sandra have themselves well informed of the situation. are doing their part to help, one child at a time. all been adopted from some If you have any kind of flu , please stay It was just four years ago that Carli was a student here of the most horrendous home until you are completely symptom free at Douglas College, enrolled in the Social Service Worker of circumstances. All of and only go to your doctor if you remain ill Diploma Program. Urged into it by her mother, Carli soon their adopted children have after a few of days of home recovery. decided to take part in a trip to Uganda through the program, been quite literally. rescued Getting a doctor's note may not always and it changed her life forever. from the slums of Uganda be possible but let your teachers know if you and the war ravaged "I always wanted to help people but I didn't quite know are staying home with flu-like symptoms. how. I ran for school board and in provincial and federal regions of the Congo and Douglas will be compiling absentee data to Rwanda. Some have even elections, but I wasn't really sure of what I wanted to do," report to the Fraser Health Authority. said Carli. "My mom told me that I should take the Social been sexually abused, Please note that illness does not excuse Worker Program at Douglas but I wasn't sure about it. I kind abandoned, beaten and half you from class work'. of said 'no, I don't really need to do that' but I ended up in it starved. To view Douglas' plan for dealing with Despite their troubled backgrounds, Carli and Robert's anyways." an H1N1 outbreak, visit: http://www.douglas. children have adapted and are on their way to a future that would Carli applied to the pilot project her program was offering bc.ca/h 1n1-flu-virus.html#protect_myself. certainly have eluded them witli.out the kind of love and help to Uganda, and travelled there with three other students.