14, Lettitor Out with a bang, a whimper, and a few choice words Photo by Bex Peterson usually pride myself on the ability to working at the local pizza shop. I wasn’t newsroom was all about, and I loved it. scrappy (though no-less endearing) school I write articles quickly and cleanly, yet looking to become part of a school group, The decision to write some silly publication. putting this Lettitor together in any sort of and I didn’t really have any allegiance to articles for the Other Press led to It has been a tiring, educational, and timely manner has me stumped. Douglas as a whole — I was only even an application for Langara College’s thrilling year to say the least, but my time How should I end off my time at the taking three evening classes a semester. journalism program (I was sad to find that with the OP is finally at an end. Other Press? How can I cram the memory How I even ended up at an Other Douglas offers absolutely zero classes on Come September there will be a new of so many articles, production nights, and Press meeting likely came down to some the profession), which became two of the EIC in town, by the name of Bex Peterson. pitch meetings into just one article? savvy recruitment work on the part of hardest and most-fulfilling years of my life. I have full trust in them to carry on the Well, I suppose we should start at the Serafini and her then-Assistant Editor I learnt how to clean up my copy, write a good work, steer this ship through the start. Eric Wilkins, but probably more because compelling lede, and charge my way head- turbulent water that is student journalism, I first began working for the Other I wanted to pick up my first-ever writing first into an industry that was laying off and add to the cardboard box full of Press back in October 2014 on a drunk cheque. professional adults left and right. empties that I kept under my desk. night when I realized that the college There were a lot of people I didn’t Through my time at Langara I still had To Natalie, Sharon, Eric, Lauren, and newspaper would actually pay me to write know, the couches didn’t match, and the one foot firmly in the Other Press office. I anyone else who put some faith in that kid satire articles. Instead of pitching anything basement office had no cell reception to was promoted to Assistant Editor by the who wrote those dumb humour articles, through the proper channels, I just wrote speak of, but when I walked in the door I wonderful Lauren Kelly in 2016, and then thank you. I wouldn’t have figured out three articles, sent them to the then- was welcomed warmly by Humour Editor took the reins as EIC last summer. who I wanted to be without the occasional Editor-in-Chief Natalie Serafini, and, to my Sharon Miki, whom I had been sending In the same summer I managed to nudge in the right direction from the lot surprise and delight, two were published in my dumb satire articles to for the past few land a solid, full-time job with Daily Hive of you. the following issue. weeks. after a few months of interning, free- I saw my name in print for the first Those meetings eventually became lancing, and part-timing, which left me Cheers, time ever a week later… and that was a weekly occurrence, and when Sharon with an exhausting schedule that often felt basically it. stepped down from the Editor position, I like a bite that was far too big to chew. At that point in my life I was just was lucky enough to secure the spot. Yet here we are, on the other side of taking general studies courses at Douglas Even without writing a single word a year spent balancing being a staff writer College to get my parents off my back of actual news (yet, at least), I still with a large-scale, digital-only publication about living at home rent-free while managed to get a feel for what working in a and heading a group of students at a 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. We are a registered society under Rm 1020 – 700 Royal Ave. theotherpress.ca Business Manager the Society Act of British Columbia, governed by an eight-person board Douglas College [email protected] Jacey Gibb of directors appointed by our staff. New Westminster, BC V3L 5B2 /theotherpress Distribution Manager Our head office is located in the New 604.525.3542 /DouglasOtherPress Elizabeth Jacob Westminster campus. Production Assistant O The Other Press is published weekly Cara Seccafien during the fall and winter semesters, and Chandler Walter Bex Peterson Illustrator monthly during the summer. We receive Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editor our funding from a student levy collected Colten Kamlade [email protected] [email protected] through tutition fees every semester at Staff Reporter registration, and from local and national Kwiigay iiwans Lauren Kelly Greg Waldock, Jillian advertising revenue. The Other Press is a Layout Manager Graphics Manager McMullen, and Katie member of the Canadian University Press [email protected] [email protected] Czenczek (CUP), a syndicate of student newspapers Staff Writers that includes papers from all across Canada. 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Photo by Analyn Cuarto Analyn by Photo Vancouver Mural Festival, August 6 - 11 SFU hosts talk by Barua ööHousing refugees at home and abroad Colten Kamlade the crisis from escalating. many changes to US immigration issue of refugees. According to a new “This presentation warns that the in recent years. According to a poll by Global News Ipsos, many Staff Reporter delay in resolving the present Rohingya CNN article, Trump’s policies have Canadians are concerned with refugees crisis may trigger another refugee- resulted in the lowest admission of crossing the Canadian border. ccording to SFU’s website, generating crisis by victimizing the non- refugees to the US since the 1980s. “Sixty-two percent of respondents nearly one million Rohingyas A Bengali and Buddhist minority living “Those restrictions, along don’t think the Trudeau government has from Myanmar have sought shelter in Chittagong. This observation, made with enhanced security screenings a ‘solid plan’ to respond to the influx of in Chittagong, Bangladesh. after a month-long visit to Rohingya enacted in January for refugees from refugees. And 56 percent of respondents D. Mitra Barua will be giving a talk refugee hosting Chittagong, highlights 11 countries deemed high-risk by the say the fact that Ottawa had to call in on housing refugees on September 27 the urgent need for international administration, have led this year to the army shows that the issue is ‘out of at the SFU Vancouver Harbour Centre. intervention so that the Rohingya a slowdown in refugee arrivals and control,’” stated the website, referencing Barua is the Annette and Hugh Gragg refugees are repatriated in timely contributed to the historic lull in a poll concerning immigration concerns Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational fashion to stop another humanitarian admissions,” their website stated. in Quebec, where an army camp was Asian Studies, Rice University’s crisis in the region,” the website stated. Some have celebrated this, set up in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle to Chao Center for Asian Studies. Barua’s talk comes at a time when others have decried Trump’s policies receive large numbers of asylum seekers According to SFU’s website, the dialogue surrounding refugees as xenophobic. Though much of the coming over the border from the US. Barua’s presentation calls for has reached a feverish—and often media has been focused on the US, international intervention to prevent hostile—peak. There have been Canada is similarly divided on the news // no. 4 theotherpress.ca Photo by Zack Embree Zack by Photo Analysis: Trudeau faces pipeline opposition during BC tour ööKinder Morgan pipeline continues to stir discontent Greg Waldock In Delta, anti-pipeline protestors “We know we have to put in of other colossal oil spills, accountability beat drums and chanted during place a strong plan to fight climate for Kinder-Morgan to properly maintain Staff Writer Trudeau’s speech at a Liberal Party change,” said Trudeau. “There are the pipeline, unresolved First Nations barbeque. The disruption was brief, people on the other side of the political treaties as traditional land is involved in busy weekend for the Prime but enough to garner outside attention. spectrum who don’t like that.” the construction process, and economic Minister, involving a province- A Members of the Tsleil-Waututh First Trudeau’s support of the concerns about splitting the wealth wide tour and attending the Vancouver Nation, including William George, pipeline being rooted in a desire to between British Columbia and Alberta.