Get pumped
We would like to commend the student body
for their exceptional turnout during last week's j:
ASG elections. The fact that 386 out of a total
of 6,773 registered students voted, may not seem
like a lot, until one remembers that last year Mike
McCarty was elected by 75 votes and he was the
only candidate for president.
This upsurge in interest could'not be attributed
to several things, but we like Dave Riggs'sugges
tion.
During our recent interviews with him, Riggs,
ASG vice president-elect, said that he felt there
was really no such thing as student apathy and that
students didn't get involved because people kept
telling them that they wouldn't,
As those of you who have taken Speech 111 may
remember, that is what is called a self-fullfilling
prophecy. By telling students that they are not
going to be involved often enough, pretty soon
they come to believe that non-involvment is the
accepted student behavior.
Well, we' re ready to try anything and if we can
have a 300 percent increase in student participa
tion each year, student apathy will be à thing of
past.
In order to do this, starting now, we will no
longer tell students they're apathetic. Students,
you are involved.
feedback
Rumors fly
To the Editor:
It might come to one's atten
tion that rumors have been fly
ing every-which-way concerning
the campaign for the student
body president. At least, the
’wisest way to end such rumors
is to take the rumors to the
source(s).
Such rumors one might hear
are that one candidate, Richard
Weiss, has made such promises
as ASG sponsoring three keggers
a year if he is elected president,
and that if he is not elected
president the CCC game room
will be shut down! When the
first two or three recollections
of such "rumors" were reported
to me I paid no heed. But, after
having a dozen more, I became
alarmed.
Such things, under
the present standards, could not
come true!
As for ASG sponsoring three
keggers a year, ASG cannot
sponsor any keggers, be they on
or off the campus. ASG funds
cannot be used to buy or sell
alcohol.
So, if such promises
have been made, they literally
cannot come true under the
present standards!
The game room is in no dan
ger of being shut down if Mr.
Weiss is not elected president.
This is because:
1) the game room is ASG's
only constant "money maker".
Throwing out the game room
would be throwing out one of
ASG's few sources of income.
2) The other candidate for
president,
Mike McCarty, is
quoted as saying, "I have never
had any plans to 'do-away' with
the game room, it makes money
for ASG and provides recreation
for the students."
So, what I'm saying is, if one
has heard any such rumors, that
one might check them out. If
they're coming from the "horses
mouth" it might be wise to
think twice about
gambling
one's vote on such a horse!
Julia Chitty,
Assistant to the ASG president
Thank you
To the Editor:
I would like to extend my
sincere appreciation and thanks
to all of you who made it possi
ble for me to succeed in attain
ing the position of ASG Business
Manager. There were so many
of you, whom made it possible
that I cannot name you individ
ually. But you know who you
are, and to YOU, a very warm
THANK-YOU!
Sherrie Montgomery
Your new business manager
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opinion
weatherstation
By Jim McCaffrey
Of The Print
Dear teacher.
This is a note to let you
know why I haven't been to any
classes in about three weeks.
You see, teach, the thing is that
I'm just too tired-too tired and
too mad.
This is not my first exper
ience with the so-called higher
educational system. I have drop
ped out of some of the best
schools in the state. My reasons
were aboùt the same always, so
please, teacher, don't think that
I'm talking about you, specifi
cally because my
experience
proves to me that it is the sys
tem that is making me mad and
not your methods.
My experience is that this
school is no better than any
others in many ways and better
than some in others. The situa
tions causing my discontent I
have found to be true at all
levels of education. The system
is infested with bugs and these
bugs are destroying the founda
tions of the house of academia.
Let me be specific.
Teacher, I am tired of the
lack of respect shown for aca
demic capabilities.
Not that 1,
myself, am Albert Einstein, Jr.,
but I know that I am not stupid.
Why, then, am I forced to sit
iri tension-filled class rooms, you
angry at the lazy kids who refuse
to read assignments and us hos
tile because we realize that it
doesn't matter because even
when we do read the material
you insist on spoon feeding it
back to us word for Word from
the book any way.
How can this situation be
good for learning? Why do many
of us students feel that if, given
the text three weeks before the
course starts, that we, too, could
spend the term spoon feeding
this mush to a room full of ugly
kids.
Often as not, you will come
into the classroom having not
even reviewed the material your
self, so when somehow, a kid
manages to pull a plum from
this intellectual pudding and
asks a question, you give some
vague answer dimly recalled from
some much earlier reading or
have to refer to some hopelessly
lost paragraph for an answer
that is really hardly Worth the
effort of looking for it.
Ideally, the classroom should
be used to go beyond outlines
given in a text. Yet how often
is it used to truly challenge
students and expand on mater
ials that can help a student in
crease his ability to learn and go
beyond the limits of a mere text?
Sorry teacher, but there's
much more. I am tired of the
meaningless B.S. busy work that
is assigned so that you can justi
fy giving a grade to some stu
dent who you do not really
know and in whom you have
failed in your role as teacher.
Some times I am sure that
there is a universal system of
term paper grading where papers
are rarely judged for content or
relevancy, but rather are judged
on length and appearance.
It's pretty standard that 15 to
25 pages is an A, 10 to 15 pages
is a B, 7 to 10 pages is C work
and all others fail. Nevermind
if the A student got his paper
from his older brother, pever
mind that the B student plager-
rised 60 percent of his paper;
just feel sorry for the C student
who may have really learned
something but cannot receive
the rewards that the others get
for theirs.
Grades are no measure of
what a person may have learned
in a class.
They are, rather,
merely a reflection of how well
that student plays the game.
I am not trying to imply that
you have creative and challeng
ingstudents to work with either.
Many could care less.
The
point is that many more of them
could be creative if only they
were gently prodded into doing
so. Why should a student feel
that he should put more than
minimal effort into a term paper
that will be as quickly forgotten
by himself as it will be by the
teacher.
With the poor results the
educational system in the rich
est country in the world is get
ting from its educational system.
one has to wonder whyH
the performances I've seel
some classrooms I'm begin
to think that teaching is bl
ing merely a euphemism!
respectable form of welfare.;
It seems intolerable™
that teachers will put up'I
snotty students who will s|
in the front row of a clasfl
trying hard to play the gain
asking meaningless questions
making irrelevant and repg
remarks in a shallow atteml
attract attention to them!
in order to raise then gr
point average without having
raise their I.Q.
It would seem that a prol
sional attitude should not all
this, yet one cannot attel
single day of classes withS
having to see it repeated!
and again.
It seems that
many classes, teacher, youI
when it's not needed, lea
arbitrary and meaninglesltas
such as absolute attendance
criteria for a grade.
I have yet to see the teach
who is consistently so infol
tive to make it vital import!
that a student attend every]
So, teacher, if I'm not]
class much in the next«
weeks, don't worry about me.]
know that I've got to play th
game, too. You shall have!
long and boring, but origin
papers on tiresome mater«
has been worn down to arch]
dust through overuse. Andi
will be there to take your fil
exam even though, two 0
after passing it, I doubt tha
could pass it again. You]
choose any grade you like n
me; I am beyond caring.I
You see, you might flunk!
but then there's that other pan
I wrote for that other persoil
the class (the one you gavel]
to) and you may flunk my el
on that test, but how are yj
going to explain passing the!
who used my notes?
Sorry, teacher, but for n
kid anyway, the system is <a
ing up smelling like garbage!
I don't like it one bit. I
Sincerely yours,
John Q. Student
Clackamas Community Coll