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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1978)
r opinion FRANKLY SPEAKING Why wait ? u ¡n niw L 11 Although it took three years to get it started we are glad the jogging trail is finally becoming a reality. The population of the United States is now more sedentary than any population in history due to the substitution of machines for man power to do most of its labor. According to the proposal for the jogging trail that was submitted to the College's Board of Edu cation, recent physiological evidence indicates that for the average American, middle age begins at 26. However, continued the report, persons who have exercised habitually over the years are func tionally equivalent to a much younger group. Nearly all medical men now agree that a regular program of exercise continued throughout life, is an important factor in retarding the development of cardiovascular disease. It is laudable that the College has seen fit to provide the community with a safe, interesting and versatile place in which to carry on much needed exercise programs. Our one concern is that it took so long to do it. Even after everyone agreed, it was nearly two years before plans became a reality and even now construction hasn't begun. How long will it take for the trail to be completed? If it takes another three years for the exercise stations to be funded and more time for them to be built then many of those students who could have benefited will have left this institution. If the college is going to provide leadership in promoting physical fitness then it should not be so slow to do it. Although $13,500 seems like a lot of money to those of us who don't make that in a year it isn't too great a price to pay for physical fitness. ® COLLEGE MEDIA SERVICES box4244 ■ Berkeley. CA 94 Other viewpoints sprint 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B - Telephone: 656-2631, ext. 259 or 278 editor Happie Thacker * news editor Cyndi Bacon * arts editor Marlene Clark * sports editor Ann Breyne * copy editor Scott Starnes * photo editor Brian Snook * assistant photo editor * Lorraine Stratton * staff reporters Joy Williams, Lisa Chitty, Randy Frank * photographers Sam Baer, Ted McKenna * pro duction staff Mary Cuddy, Jack Tucker, Judy Hahn, Gladys Epp * business manager Paul Byers * advertising sales Ted Moulton * professional adviser Randy Clark * office personnel Tommi Davidson, Crystal Tompkins Opinions expressed in The Print do not necessarily reflect those of the CCC administration, faculty or the Associated Student Government. Editorials, columns and signed letters reflect only the opinions of the editors and the persons signing them. Correspondence should be addressed to the above address. Page 4 SICM to eliminate energy pigs Editor's note: This article was an editorial in the Feb. 7 issue of the Daily Barometer, the stu dent newspaper at Oregon State University in Corvallis. You may know an energy pig. In fact, you may know several or several hundred energy pigs because they're everywhere, gob bling up the world's energy supplies. Energy pigs are easy to spot. It may be your roommate who always "forgets" to turn off the lights, or maybe it's the next door-neighbor who gets a charge out of driving up and down steep hills in his heavy-duty, souped-up four-wheel-drive pickup. If you know this breed of human, then you might be re- lieved to find out there is a group of people interested in eliminating energy pigs. The group is formally entitled the Self-Initiated Conservation Move ment, but members prefer to use the acronym SICM (pronounced "sick 'em"). Through a campaign of per sonal contact and mailings to producers, directors, writers, composers, performers and ag ents, SICM hopes to persuade opinion leaders in the entertain ment industry that energy is a real problem. Members of the group also hope that awareness of energy conservation will be incorporated into soap opei movies, radio programs andJp ular songs. Americans, in genera si find talk of an energy cr hard to believe because gasol still costs less than a buck land appliances still work | wh they're plugged in. This is why a campaign id’ entertainment industry« work. Television, radio and the cl ema have tremendous ability! influencing the masses. IfenT conservatism is portrayed as bi ing fashionable, then we migh see some real self-initiated Al ¡can conservatism. R.S. I Clackamas Community!
