The students’ newspaper at Langara College is again under threat by the students union. I have written that sentence so many times in my life it may go upon my family crest.
The idea of students’ newspaper (apostrophe drilled into me by those more knowing) seems twee in 2008. Facebook is far more effective at organising people. The Gleaner doesn’t even have a website.
But it is worth saving. As I told a writer from Langara’s journalism programme earlier this evening, unlike most student newspapers, the writers have always been aesthetes. They don’t join to become professional journalists. Drawn from the hotch potch of programmes offered, they are nursing, theatre, art, science, photography, business, philosophy, or whatever students who write, take pictures, and briefly try to remake the world. People I met there in 1985 are some of my closest friends in 2008.
If you want the gory details, I wrote about it on Only but, if you are a Langara student., vote to keep it. Then join it.