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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1977)
opinion ° Since Why bother? MIGHT Student Government elections will be held Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 17 and 18, or will they? Itisveryhard to call them elections when each person running only needs one vote to be elected. Students at Clackamas Community College seem terribly unconcerned about one of the major things the Revolutionary War was fought over, taxation without representation. This year student government has control of $25,750 to be spent on student and community activities alone. This includes things like last week's dance, to which only about 60 people came, coffee houses, art exhibits, concerts, plays, movies, and clubs and their activities. They have also been budgeted $9,655 for student government activities alone. Approximately 30 per cent of that money comes from student tuition and will apparently be spent with very little input from students. Not because ASG wants it that way but because students refuse to come out of their insulated little holes and take part in what is going on. If, out of 9,000 persons enrolled at CCC, there are only 14 willing to take part in how their money is spent, then there can be no complaints about what is done with it. Last week we were concerned about the lack of interest for students on the part of the faculty. Maybe we should be more worried about the lack of interest for students on the part of the students. Maimed trees For a campus with as extensive a horticulture depart ment and as large a maintenance staff as Clackamas Com munity College the landscaping is atrocious. Especially the trees between the Community Center and McLough lin. The trees were planted in the mall as part of the scenery around the "Poet's Chair." However, the trees look awful as a result of the improper pruning job. Many of the trees are covered with deadwood, some are half-dead, many have been doctored improperly, but most irritating is the fact that some are 1 to 2 feet taller on one side than on the other side of the tree. Why doesn't Clackamas Community College pay a professional to do the job or at least train someone else on campus how to do it properly? Too expensive may be the answer, but what about the expense of having to replace the trees every couple of years, thanks to some butchers. staff editor Happie Thacker * news editor Cyndi Bacon * arts editor Marlene Clark * copy editor Lynda Roberson * assistant copy editor Joy Williams * photo editor Brian Snook * staff writers Hallie Brown, Dian Coleman, Randy Frank, Scott Starnes, Joe Woods, Jean Rich ards, Ann Breyne * production manager Sharon Flavell, business nanager Paul Byers * photographers Joan Springer, Lorraine Strat- m, John Schrader * classified ad manager Jeanean Hunger * printer ’.k Tucker * professional adviser Randy Clark 4 W obody SHOWED AS WlrU. UP Go today ' s talk A fath Y feedback The VA blues To the Editor: Clackamas -- a little dab will do ya. When i came back the levy hadn't passed. What the hell .. . i took that chance. And now a wage dispute. my opinion in the matter doesn't count, right or wrong, they're gonna cut off my v.a. funds. maybe mount hood ain't so bad. (too late to switch this term though), what the hell . . . it's only education, what the hell .. . who cares anyway? Joe McFeron 4616 SE Roethe Rd. Milwaukie, OR 97222 The Print welcomes all letters to the editor in its new Feed back column.In fact, we encourage them. Consider this a place not only for feedback on the newspaper, but also to airviewl^ on school policy, instructors, classes, the administrationc other topic pertaining to Clackamas Community College. We ask only that letters be typewritten, double-spaced oi carefully printed in ink, and signed by the person submitting the letter. The editorial Doard requires that at the bottom« the letter the person or persons writing the letter attach his or her full name, address and phone number where that person can be reached for verification. Names will be witheld on re quest. Thursday, October 13,