Volume 14, Issue 1 September 12-26, 2007 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cody Willett MANAGING EDITOR Stephen Milter PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Tyler Clarke NEWS EDITOR Open ARTS EDITOR Tabatha Lundholm PHOTO EDITOR Mitchell Grant COPY EDITOR: : Rebecca Carmichael - Cover photo by Mitchell Grant, photo editor. This is the UNBC Timberwolves logo on the floor of the new Sport Centre. Cody Willett Editor in Chief Hello students of our fair cam pus, I’m Cody Willett. You ma know me from such feature length opinion columns as The Rumbling| Echo, and... well that’s really al I’ve previously written for Ove he Edge, but they made me Edito n Chief anyways. Idiots. My reign of terror has now officially begun, acobins, eat your lily hearts out. If you wish to know a few of my likes land dislikes, so as to lessen yo hance of being brutally guillotined by our paper, read on. Actually, I can only talk about ID&D, Star Wars and the Hoff fo so long. I don’t like to discuss m dislikes (puppy dogs, sunshine and gumdrops) because I break out i dimples. Therefore, here’s my M.O. graduated in May with a Politica Science degree, and have come back for a Victory Lap, disguised a a stint in the Over the Edge editor’ adre. I’m also taking some grad level classes and tutoring at the Learning Skills Centre. I’ve been i Prince George for almost 15 yea now, but I’m generally mentall sound. Actually, PG is good as soo as you lose several dimensions of your sense of smell. This year, Over the Edge has a great new and returning editoria staff, which has embraced a vision agenda for the coming year. We are looking to recruit new write on a scale that has never been seen, Ever. Creative writing, arts reviews poetry, news coverage, sports and ompletely random collections of ords will make it into the paper, It’s not because we’re desperate. it’s because we like you and want © widen our contributing perspec ives while decreasing our reliance on stories taken from the Canadia niversity Press. Furthermore, we live in interesting times. A couple more international incidents could plunge the world into World Wa III. That is, unless, climate change does us in first. We at Over the Edge eel that more than preserving and refining our campus-specific cover: age, we must engage in critica reporting and discussion of trans ormative events happening on the international, national, and provin ial stages. So without further adieu, I give you our first attempt at immortali this year). Please forgive the has accretion of randomness... we didn’t have our usual two weeks to obble together perfection. What’ eft is plain old magnificence. Sta lassy UNBC. Mitchell Grant Photo Editor Wow, one year down and an other started. If you haven’t met ime or read my articles in the past am Mitchell Grant and I am the returning Photo Editor for Over the} Edge. I took the position last Feb ruary and after a couple stumbles ]] in the office. I look forward to see ing you all from the other side of my lens as I try to capture life and more permanent part of our history. Il hope you enjoy my covers eac issue! Cheers. \\ |Andrew Kurjata Features and Opinions Editor Serial Number: Unknown Andrew Kurjata has discovered a previously unexplored depth of ynicism within his soul. He ha: now returned to UNBC in order to omplete a degree in Political Sci nce/International Studies. After ir. reparably damaging Over the Edge by holding the positions of news editor in 2005-2006 and editor-in hief in 2006-2007, he has now re treated to the more sedate positio of features and opinions editor. He is doing this mainly so that he can spend more time trying to get hi at to come of the heating ducts in his house. Currently, he is listening to “I Ain’t Got No Shorty” by Sea ingston. Tabatha ‘Lundholm Arts Editor ell, this is sort of rushed, because tephen Adrian | Miller Managing Editor The 2007- 2008 school year, wil mark my first full year as managing! ship may be aware, last year, as we} crambled to fulfill positions, mee deadlines and deliver a substan hip; we clearly fell short of that goal. As writers, we ought to do better; as our faithful readers, yo deserve better. So, from the desk off e@ managing editor and all Ove he Edge Newspaper staff, past and present, we apologize. Apologies Ihowever, should never be made ithout: 1) accountability and 2) a does not occur. We assure you, bot! are forthright within this organiza ions objectives; and I wish to take a brief moment to share the goals of he upcoming year with you. With new leadership in place and ome of the more talented writ ers Over the Edge has been privil eged to work with, this years pape ill be more in-depth, covering he voices of not only students but professors. It will be more mature, book reviews, music reviews, con ert reviews, even product reviews avenues not previously explored in Over the Edge’s history - will grace he pages of our revived newspape bi-weekly. Special reports and in estigative/photo journalism wil be the new face of your trusted newspaper. Additionally, expect us to get more personal; with columns dedi ated to issues which affect UNBC books, sports clubs and activities, ‘o the more personal, somewhat ig inored taboo subjects: from student alcoholism to peer pressure, se and drugs. For brevity purposes, I will end my column with my one advanced promise to you; Over the Edge i back and we are quite serious. have our glorious ordinator glaring and me and telling me to go faster because this has to go to press and we’ve only got ten minutes. This is pretty much how it is. I’m the Arts Editor, and since I am so rushed, just imagine all the lovely witty, clever things that I might say if I had the time to say them all. Believe me, they would be here... Rebecca bs Carmichael Copy Editor After two months of confused flailing as Andrew did China, I’ and Saturdays mornings hunched over a dysfunctional old Mac unde: a lecture theatre, correcting minute spelling and grammar mistakes that most people wouldn’t notice any way. Good times. As for myself, I’m mostly neur otic and nerdy, and according to top tatisticians a sap-sucking tree-hug: ing hippie, among other things, I’m currently in my fourth yea of environmental science, but I’l probably end up staying for a fifth. is means I have plenty of time to memorize the Canadian Press Style book, write articles few people wil read, and make an ass out myself at UP conferences. Tyler Clarke Production Coordinator Hello. Looks like the newspape is back, and like last year I’m back as production coordinator. As production coordinator I puf ogether the newspaper on the com puter, staying up very late/early o: e weekends, so if you’re around he university very late/early, stop by the office and say hello. I might even be coherent. Bring coffee. I also write things and such.