2 editors November 2, 2011 - Over the Edge Volume 18, Issue 5 November 2, 201 | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Shelby Petersen MANAGING EDITOR Kali FLick PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Travis Holmes COPY EDITOR Jessica N. Shapiro NEWS EDITOR Hanna Petersen ARTS EDITOR Darcie Smith FEATURES EDITOR Laura Bevacqua LIFESTYLE EDITOR Jarrod Weisner SPORTS EDITOR Puneet Hayer PHOTO EDITOR John Hall CONTRIBUTORS Paul Strickland Stephanie Brodowski Pamela A.Wright, Ph.D. Andrew Soltis . 4 * = in Shelby Petersen, Editor i Chief The deadline for the next issue is Monday, November 6 Over the edge is the official independent publishing media of students at the University of Northern British Columbia. As such, it is our mandate to report on issues of interest to students in the Northern Region. We encourage all students, both on the main and regional campuses to submit to Over the Edge. Over the Edge is part of the Canadian University Press network of papers, otherwise known as CUP. Cup is an organization that is entirely owned by member papers, and provides such services as a news wire and advertisements to Over the Edge. Over the Edge is published every second week during the fall and winter semesters Office Location: 16-350 MAILING ADDRESS 3333 University Way Prince George, BCV2N 4Z9 PHONE (250) 960-5633 FAX (250) 960-5407 EMAIL over-the-edge@unbc.ca After this issue Over the Edge will only publish two more papers for this semester. Can you believe that it is already November? Time has gone by so quickly. November means a lot of things — term papers, midterms, (hopefully not) snow, and increasingly darker days. This year however, November also means that Prince George will be having a municipal election. Because of this, you will be seeing some ads throughout this addition of the paper for local city counselors. Each candidate has paid for his or her ads and all candidates have had the opportunity to do so. In addition, Over the Edge does not support any one candidate over the other — we just think it’s great that they are recognizing that UNBC students are a big part of this city and should be recognized! The general Election Day is on November 19th and runs from 8am to 8pm, giving everyone ample time to come out and vote. There are also several ad- vanced voting dates leading up to the election so those who definitely cannot make it out on the 19th will have a chance to participate in the future of our little city. Every election — whether it is municipal or federal — has a certain group Letter to the Editor Dear Hanna Petersen, 6 Hditor’s Edict: the end is near of people who refuse to vote because they “just don’t know anything about politics”. While this excuse is rather weak, it seems to persist each year. Lucky for these people, there are a myriad of all candidate forums happening in and around the city to allow each citizen get a better grasp of each candidate and what their platforms are. The first will be on November 2nd at Cafe Voltaire at 7pm. The second is hosted by the Prince George citizen and will be held at the Ramada Inn on November 3rd at 6pm. In addition, the UNBC Political Science Department will be hosting a Mayoral candidates forum on November 19th at 5:30pm. With all of these possible forums to attend there really isn’t a reason you cannot become more informed. For more information you can also check out the City of Prince George’s Civic Election page where they have a list of all candidates and their websites: http://princegeorge.ca/cityhall/elections/Pages/ Default.aspx. So there you have it. November is a month jam packed with stuff to keep us all busy. Now, lets just hope the snow will hold off until its a little closer to Christmas! As auniversity perched on the edge of a capitalist empire in a community that cuts down the forests in order to make paper from full size trees, please position the content of your articles from where you stand. I found the cover story on the last issue “The Left has Occupied Wall Street” vague and misinformed without speak- ing to our place in this amazing movement. The whole point of the Occupy movement is that it is not simply ‘the left’. People reporting from occupations across the continent are espousing the unifying nature of dissat- isfaction across the political spectrum and the diversity present in these gatherings. If you had reported on the diverse group of us collected Saturday morning in Prince George you would have noticed infants through seniors, radical and conservative, industry, professional, student, un/under employed. This is not ‘the left’ and you missed the point. We are not on Wall Street, but you could have drawn the connections about how capital is invested in our community and the centralized decision making that determines our lives, whether it be shift work, air quality, environmental stewardship planning or the proposed pipelines that are planned to cut through our watershed here in Prince George. An article in solidarity and appreciation of the actions of those in the socio-political centres, especially Wall Street, Toronto, Vancouver, and how standing up to power in those places challenges the social, environmental and economic realities in our community, would have been appreciated. An article situated from this place that we live could have introduced the readership to the Third Avenue Col- lective in downtown Prince George and the relevancy of people converging in our own community down the street from a farmer’s market that is an ongoing ‘occupation’ in the face of a capitalist society every week, year round! I appreciate your work and hope that this publication can step up to be the quality news source that Prince George and Northern BC needs. In Solidarity, Ben Laurie