Page 2 Volume 16, Issue 14 April 7 - September 2010 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Andrew Bailey MANAGING EDITOR Stephanie McCullough (Vacant) PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Tyler Clarke (Vacant) GENERAL OFFICE ASSISTANT Kali Flick COPY EDITOR Helen Hogeterp NEWS EDITOR Shelby Peterson ARTS EDITOR Vacant SPORTS EDITOR Andrew Bailey (Vacant) PHOTO EDITOR Aria Hannolyn Cheng AD MANAGER Vacant CLUBS EDITOR Vacant CONTRIBUTORS Haakon Sullivan Thomas Cheney CUP Deadline for submissions for the next issue is... Early September 2010 Over the Edge is the, official inde- pendent 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 re- gional campuses to submit to Over the Edge. Over the Edge is part of the Canadian University Press network of newspa- pers, otherwise known as CUP. CUP is an organization that is en- tirely owned by member papers, and provides such services as a news wire and advertising to Over the Edge. Over the Edge is published every second week during the fall and win- ter semesters. OFFICE LOCATION 6-350 MAILING ADDRESS - 3333 University Way Prince George, BC, V2N 429 Phone (250) 960-5633 FAX (250) 960-5407 7ee ere Editor’s Message Hello, and welcome to the last Over the Edge issue of the who is this person and why isn't she Andrew Bailey?” Unfortunately, Andrew is finally graduating and moving away to a far off land. An- drew’s impending absence meant that Over the Edge had to hire a new Editor and Chief and well, that's me! In case you do not know, | have been the News Editor with OTE for just over a year and have been very privileged to cover many UNBC events like two NUGSS elections, one Bi-Election, and countless other events. | am super ex- cited to fill my position as Editor in Chief with Over the Edge and | can- not wait for the new school year to start (even though this one has yet to end). There-are less than two weeks left of the semester and | can just imagine how stressed out and excited everyone is for the semester to be over. Well, my hope for you is that this issue of the paper can pro- vide you with some sort of respite and act as a little distraction from all your exam worries. Good luck, and here is to your GPA! But before you go for the summer, keep in mind that Over the Edge 2009/2010 school year! As you read this you may be thinking, “Hey, Andrew Bailey Sports and Clubs Editor “Above the Rim” is on TV right now so I’m paying less at- tention to this article while writ- ing it than you are reading it; but | can’t exactly leave without dishing out.some sort of elabo- rate goodbye. So let's kick this off with an “it all started when” theme, run through some sort of self reflective masturbational autobiography, take a left turn over a modestious “owe it all to my homies” free —way, and round it all out with a completely rehearsed and entirely fake “thank-you for the opportunity” conversational cal-de-sac. . It all started several thousand years ago. Back in the 00’s when a young Andrew Bailey was constantly doing it in the old school dark room that existed in the old Over the Edge of- fice next to what used to be the greatest pub in existence “The Wintergarden.” What you have to understand is that these great walls of our fine institution once housed an enormously rowdy, free.loving, crowd of students who had been denied access to every other schoo! they applied to. The loose academic requirements were matched with the loose lifestyles of those of us who came here; therefore sex on campus was a regular occurrence. Since then the ad- mission requirements have been raised high enough to cause most students who would have thrived in UNBC’s original ideals, to be cast off due to the deadly mistress of academic probation. But back in the heyday | was fortu- nate enough to know a few of the newspaper kids and therefore had access to the illustrious dark room which housed more acts of blissful sin than Mark Frauenfelder could ever dream of elitistly judging. Spending that much time in a newspaper office meant that eventually | had to write a few articles for Over the Edge to justify my constant presence to the people who actually worked there. Who knew students would like my writ- ing more than gays love Cher? With the pirates | used to pal with having either graduated or succumb to scuba-deep G.P.A. levels | found myself with a social life perfectly suited for spending !ong hours writing; so an editorial po- sition just made sense. A few resignations based on scandal, mixed in with some conve- niently timed graduations added to the animal magnetism that made me famous back in the 00’s and bam, I'm OTE’s Editor in Chief. Not ex- actly a Dewey Cox summation of a lifetime but I've always preferred the work of Maya Kulen- ovic to that of Salvador Dali. So | get put into a position, I’m vastly un- qualified for, based on good looks, charm, and a few gloriously written articles about such top- ics as Ringette, composting, smoke bans, and ‘people'Wio eat fish véet'claim to be vedetarians. Under such a situation, Over the Edge would no doubt crum- ble, or so the critics thought. Somehow the Universe realized Big Dogg Bailey was probably going to need some pretty major help with this thing and set forces in motion that ulti- mately caused the most amaz- ing team to ever assemble under the Over the Edge ban- ner ever, ever. Somehow | managed to steer the glorious S.S. OTE through amazing waters. We hosted a freakin Canadian University Press conference last year, representatives from pa- - pers all over western Canada came to UNBC and were able to meet Prince George's biggest media stars like Hartley Miller, Bill Phillips, and Hugh Nichoison among many others. al! be- cause | somehow managed to convince a few bigwigs oversome beers at the National Cana- dian University Press Conference in Saskatchewan that Prince George was awe- some. Thanks to my charmingly boozy hyber- lozing there was high anticipation for the CUP conference we hosted here and my amazing OTE team managed to meet every expectation the delegates had. Prince George had never hosted a University Press conference before, but with the amazing experience we gave to the delegates who came here, UNBC is now firmly entrenched in the campus newspaper water- cooler talk. ' Of course, this conference took a ton of fi- nancial planning and anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes in a conversation with me knows that | cannot count higher than 7, strictly because I’ve never seen a reason to learn any- thing past Mickey Mantle. Therefore the fact that Over the Edge’s numbers have always added up is entirely based on the fact that OTE’s Managing Editor Stephanie McCullough is awesome. Without McCullough the Over the Edge landscape would be nothing like its cur- rent Kincadian scenery (see Bambi), and | would have been more lost in numbers than |, am in the numbers in Lost. Despite taking a firm stance, when she was first hired here, that she would never write a single article for Over the Edge, McCullough has since produced the super popular re-occurring column “5 Things I'm in Love With This Week.” Newspapers eh, you join for one reason and just can’t help but get involved with the writing. McCullough will be moving on after this year and will do fantasti- cally well at whatever she decides to pwn dur- ing her fife. Of course a huge thank-you goes out to all the students who have been reading the paper while | steered the ship. There has been a ton of positive feedback and | have enjoyed the ego stroking to the max over the past couple years. _. Much loye to everyone who wrote, contributed,. will be hiring for the September semester. We still need a Production Coordinator, a News Editor, a Sports Editor, a Clubs Editor, a General Office Manager, and of course staff writers are always welcome. All editorial board members will receive a $200 honorarium which is sure to supplement you meager student earnings. So, if you are interested send us your resume and a few samples of your writing to over-the-, edge@unbc.ca. | look forward to meeting and working with you! Shelby Peterson I Should Have Called it Captain’s Log or got involved with the paper in any way. A par- ticular message of gratitude goes to my good friend Haakon Sullivan who stepped up at a desperate time to save OTE’s ass. Not every newsy is a hero and when a lesser- dedicated staff member quit their job right before an issue's deadline with no notice to speak of, we seemed sunk. Your heroics to keep our ship afloat will never be forgotten Haakon, and | con- sider myself truly blessed to have you as a friend, much love. Naturally a captain is nothing without their crew and therefore an awesomely monumental thank-you goes out to:the OTE staff: you guys are obviously amazing. Kali, no one keeps an office organized as. well as you and your writ- ing has:improved to a ridiculous leyel this year, | loved reading your.column. and actually took some pretty good advice from it (or at least | would have if! was a dater but { will use your re- lationship advice just as soon as TMZ stops covering every minute detail in my life.) Steph, my gratitude for the commitment you gave to Over the Edge is why print media is dying, be- cause | would need some sort of radtastic emoticon with YouTubed videos of fireworks and super loud Mozart itunes blasting to come close to representing the huge deal you were to Over the Edge. | don’t know if they've in- vented the power suit yet that will be able to contain the inevitable Wendy Williams level of success you will undoubtedly achieve during your grown up years. Haakon, you’re the best production coordinator to work with of all time. Seriously dude, forget about physics and get yourself a future in the newspaper business, it needs people like you! Sam, before you moved away you brought the most unique voice | have ever read in an Arts section and your company in the office was always awesome. Shelby, you were more rock solid than the all- cops lacrosse team named Rock Solid. You had huge shoes to fill when you took over the news editor posi- tion from Simran Lehal, which you slipped into with ease. Now you have even huger shoes to fill as you take over the EIC position_from the infamous and beloved Andrew Bailey, but there is no one whose ability | am more confident in than yours. Just try to make your massive im- provements to the paper slowly otherwise you'll make my EIC’ing look less magical. You are going to do awesomely outstanding and noth- ing will be able to prevent.your greatness from blossoming. Helen, Aria and Darcie | didn’t re- ally get a chance to know y’all during our short time together but you guys are super awesome additions to the team and I’m sure Shelby con- siders herself very lucky to have such an awe- some group of newsies to start what will be a fantastic tenure with. Good-bye friends, 8 years for an undergrad is enough for me. It was my pleasure to provide y'all with the best campus paper in the country these past few years. Be excellent to eac other eh. -