September 21, 1999 Newspaper recieves praise | was looking though your webpage on Over The Edge...And | noticed that you have a fabulous history page, including Myron’s well- deserved praise for spending every waking hour starting it. | was one of the first six mem- bers to work on the paper. | swear that the the obsession with zuchinnis was_ purely Myron’s doing, and had nothing to do with me. Anyway | though I’d just write you a little note to clarify that piece of Over The Edge history and LETTERS Where do you butt out? tell you that I’m sooo impressed with where our paper has done over the last few years. Cora Lee Clark UNBC Student We are few. We ‘smoke. We have, reluc- tantly, accepted the ‘back of the bus mental- ity’ embedded in the guidelines for smoking on UNBG grounds. We gather at the entrance leading to the First Nations Centre. Over The Edge Page 5 Some of us cannot seem to put a simple cigarette butt in one of the three ashtrays which are no more than five feet away. To those of you who can’t tell an ashtray from the walkway, _ please invite me to your home for coffee and cig- arettes. I'd like to drop my~ garbage on your floor and crush my ciga- rette out on your carpet. I'd really like that. Norm Skelton Anthropology Two UNBC Students Make Prehistoric History Nicole Larson Matt Stewart and Blair Tarling spent a summer doing something neither one of them imagined they would have the chance to do. These two UNBC students worked on the paleonto- logical dig that recov- ered a fossil of the largest marine reptile ever discovered. The 220 million year old, articulated (complete) fossil was that of Cannibalism Dzaray Bisanz Strong. Potent. Images that fall within comprehension and then out again. Eric Karjaluoto has dawned his masterpieces. Karjaluto paints for himself. He has opened a fresh new meaning to the word modern and yet has stepped outside the boundaries of mod- eration and still is very modest about his work. Karjaluto finished school as a Prince Georgian and then took the advice of a highly regarded art teacher and pushed his artistic ability further at Emily Carr. Asked about his work, his reply was that it was a “$%*# mess,” but that his goal is to make art that “SUCKS, BUT ROCKS!” “| see this as a body of work that kicks-$%*. Ichthyosaur, a new species of marine rep- tile that is more than 30 percent larger than any marine reptile discov- ered before. This giant ichthyosaur would have inhabited an ocean that covered all of present day British Columbia during the Triassic peri- od. Working in two week shifts Stewart and Tarling helped an inter- As clumsy and crude as many of these paintings may be, | see them as vital and infused with strength. There was no cookie cutter used here - every painting is its own.” Also embodied within Karjaluoto’s works are the ‘visual equivalent to a foundation of beats.’ He plays his music loud and paints loud in order to capture the music’s vibe in his work. “| also listened to the Beastie Boys a fair amount, and wondered if | could collage with form, as they have with sound.” Has he accomplished this? Check out his col- lection of “Cannibals” for yourself. He wants you look; doesn’t expect you to buy and does like feedback. The new, Word for the Week: mythomania (n): A compulsion to embroider the truth, engage in exaggeration, or tell lies. national team of paleon- tologists exhume the 5.5 metre long skull. Dr. Betsy Nicholls from the Royal Tyrell Museum and Dr. Makato Manabe of the National Science Museum in Tokyo were members of the interna- tional team working at the site near Pink Mountain. Paleontologists from the George Fraser-Fort local artist is in town. (Eric Karjaluoto’s “CANNIBALS” runs from September 10 to October 8 at the Art Space Gallery. A little lost about where the gallery is located? Just upstairs from Books & Company on ___ third avenue.) Regional Museum were also on the site of this amazing discovery. Stewart and Tarling worked long hours shovelling dirt, creating trenches around the skull, loading _ heli- copters and working with hammers and chis- els but neither would trade the experience. “Seeing the skull,” said Stewart, “was the most exciting. It had already been trenched out when | got there and it was incredible.” The 4.5 tonne block of plaster and skull was transported to the Royal Tyrell Museum _ by Northern Mountain Helicopters, who gener- ously donated the heli- copters used free of charge. The ichthyosaur skull is now in the process of having all of the rock and dust cleaned away from the — fossilized bone. This process could take as long as three years. Once it has been com- pletely cleaned a cast of the skull will be made and will be on perma- nent display at the Fraser-Fort George Regional Museum. - This is a drawing of the Ichthyosaur uncovered by Matt Stewart, Blair Tarling and team. Drawing by Matt Stewart. Looking for an interesting job? Think you'd like to speak to people about new things? Join Over The Edge! We’re looking for part-time student reporters or photographers! Drop by the Over The Edge Office in the Wintergarden!