opinion
FRANKLY SPEAKING
Legal beagle
The Associated Student Government of Clackamas
Community College and Mike McCarty are to be con­
gratulated for spending the money and taking the time
to attend the Legal Aid Conference in Kansas City last
week.
Out of all the colleges and universities in Oregon, CCC
was the only one to send a representative to a conference
dealing with what could possibly be the biggest student
issue of the seventies — the legal rights and responsibili­
ties of students.
It has been suggested that if students would have had
the legal knowledge and outlets that they now have we
could all have avoided the riots and bloodshed of the
sixties. However, if students don't know how to use
these rights and have no way of implementing the ones
they do know about, then these rights are useless.
A student legal-aid program on campus would bring
the right of legal recourse and advice to even the poorest
student.
The conference also gave McCarty a chance to meet
students from other schools and find out how they are
dealing with problems common to all college communi­
ties and also learn aboaut situations that are purely
regional in nature.
Perhaps one of the greater benefits of attending a
national conference over one where only the Western
states are represented is this opportunity to become
familiar with regional differences on a personal level.
This could only result in a better educated student
government president-one who seems to have good ideas
for helping students.
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This letter is in regard to the Oct. 6 edition of The Print,!
cally on the Athletic Commission's decision to consult the 1
staff, students, and community at-large for their feelings onwl
or not Clackamas Community College should participate in g
collegiate athletics.
The athletic commission stated they had decided to pas
questionnaire concerning the "community's" opinion on in
collegiate athletics at the Oct. 8 football game. Now I ask the rea
is this a fair place to pass a questionnaire concerning the import
of intercollegiate athletics? Not to me. This action is similar]
taking a poll in favor of crime a,t a penitentiary and I believe
commission's innovativeness should be questioned in referenffl
this decision.
A question the athletic commission and board of directorsshq
consider is what is the function and goal of a community college. 1
answer, of course, is to prepare the student for continuing on tfl
four-year college or train the student in a vocational trade, f
short, the community college's goal is to provide an education
skill. I feel that his goal has been inhibited by CCC's involvement;
intercollegiate athletics.
I would like to add, in conclusion, that I am not against sjj
but I feel that the priority of an institution for learning should be|
education. Athletics is a very important part of our society; hj
ever, an education is primary. A brief comparison of the pref
science building (Orchard Center) and the impressive, well equi
ped, and costly gym (Randall Hall) will demonstrate without a
doubt that athletics has the priority over an education at ClackT
Community College
Steve Bolkan
325 W. Gloucester St.
Gladstone, Oregon 97027
Thursday, October 20,1971
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