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opinion A big welcome Americans are lucky to have the oppor tunity to pursue an education in any field of study they choose at any institution of higher learning they wish to enroll in. Clackamas Community College is an institution of the aforementioned. It has many opportunities. . . vocational and transfer courses are offered as well as sports and social activities. We would like to welcome you—both new and returning students—to the College with an invitation to enjoy and grow from its offerings. You can expect to see The Print every Wednesday of the academic year. You can also expect to see articles covering cam pus news and events, student gover nment, the administration and faculty, sports, arts, features and indepth articles. But, we can’t do it without your help. Letters to the editor, guest editorials and articles, and news tips of interest to the College community are more than welcomed. We also have classes in journalism and photography as well as staff positions for writers, photographers, salespersons, graphic artists and office workers. The Print is a student newspaper paid for by students with student body funds. So please, feel free to submit your ideas. Again, welcome, and enjoy the fruits of the land of higher education. feedback Debate encouraged To The Editor: What should we do with our Court House? Clackamas County faces that question since our Com missioners decided to move the courts and administrative of fices to the Red Soils Center on Warner-Milne Road, Oregon City. We applaud their decision, taken on advice of a group formed to study the problem. As members of that group we learned the worst, that our Court House is outgrown and located in the wrong place. Parking is . impossible. Remaining there costs huge sums of tax money. It already is hopelessly over crowded and conditions will only worsen as we add more courts to meet the undeniable needs of justice. Clearly, economy alone justifies the decision to move. Offices scattered between Gladstone, Marylhurst and Oregon City total more than $200,000 a year in leases. Needs of a growing population forced expansion; Clackamas had barely 50,000 people when they built the Court Page 2 House in 1936. Now we ap proach 220,000. The knotty space problem has developed a million-dollar lawsuit against the County over an ill-starred lease of a Glad stone building. Defense of that case alone will be quite expen sive. Thus, the space crisis generates waste. In addition, it costs far too much in wasted time and travel of employes among these offices-between jail and courts, between assessor and building division, etc. Nobody knows how to curb this expense which is largely hidden, but too obvious to citizens who fritter away their own time when doing business with the sprawled-out set of County offices. Clackamas has room and facilities at Red Soils. It owns land adequate for decades to come. Our study found no reasonably economical alter native to the Red Soils move. When the County vacates the old Court House we believe it could serve the community in other ways. We think our citizens have the intelligence and good sense to find worthy answers to that question. This letter is an effort to initiate public discussion and debate. At least, it will produce a better public understanding of the Court, House issue. We look for a solution that will benefit the taxpayers, citizens throughout this large County, and the communities clustered by the old Court House at historic Willamette Falls. Eldon Evans 22289 S. Molalla Av. Oregon City, OR 97045 632-4408 Edward D. Latourette 702 Main St. Oregon City, OR 97045 656-1621 Joseph A. Stein Star Route Zig Zag, OR 97049 622-3425 Pathetic excuse One year ago, as a biology student at CCC, I submitted a term paper dealing with several ecological aspects of the “En vironmental Learning Center,” alias the Exterior Decorators’ Showroom. Through it was a pathetic excuse for environ mental technology at the time, it nonetheless had, as Lpointed out in my paper, a great deal of potential. Last weekend, I revisited the ELC to see what, if any, changes had been made. The visit proved most enlightening; obviously, the people in charge of the ELC still have a great deal to learn about 'environmental management, so the name of the facility couldn’t be more appropriate. Currently, the ELC comes off as a sort of cross between Alice- in Wonderland and a prime-time situation comedy— grossly overplanted, the gar den comes complete with Alice’s favorite friend, the domestic white rabbit. And as far as' learning about environ mental management goes, 1 believe that one could obtain equally constructive infor mation by watching a couple of reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” and noting their set design techniques. For those who are interested in environmental learning (the real thing), I would recom mend the Field Ecology taught by Dr. Rosenw Portland State Univers an intense, observatil proach, emphasizirl reciprocal interactive p| occurring between o| and environment in ecological situation. Fl who are presently in I the ELC, I would reca a trip to Disneyland (bl work history and refl note: your parents dol as references). By the way of col criticism, I would like that the ELC still hoi potential, despite the 1 the current supervisor! There is absolutely! not wrong with the Center, in opinion, that a little dyna and a small bulldozer] cou take care of.... Sincerely, Jay Haight Oregon City iprint 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B; Telephone: 656-2631, ext. 309 or 310 ■ Editor Cyndi Bacon‘staff writers Shara Hurdle, Mike Kolle Leam Lally, Kelly Laughlin, Mark McNeary, Elena Vancll’s'd photographer’s Greg Kienzle, Charlie Wagg‘cartoonist Mary W dy‘graphic designer Bev Boston‘professional adviser Suzie Boss; Clackamas Community Coll 1 P