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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1978)
opinion FRANKLY SPEAKING • • » • Shop talk Shopping for Christmas. A time most people fear, yel £ the fear is not in the idea itself, but in the actual time, £ effort and expense put into it. I find Christmas shopping a heartening experience :£ but find its time an inconvenience. Generally, Christ- £ mas shopping officially begins after the Thanksgiving £ holiday which leaves about four weeks left to shop £ before the eventful day. The finals crunch starts taking £ its toll on students these last four weeks which sur- £ prisingly coincide with shopping season. If employed, £ as I am, the employer usually demands a little more at- £ tention during this time since it is a busy season. With these priorities demanding considerable atten- tion, shopping becomes a luxury commodity to the college student. Living in the metropolitan area makes . it a little easier on shopping in that ex- pressways to Washington Square, Lloyd Center and downtown are readily accessible. But to myself, a ruralite, which is the case of many College students, driving to any of these places, whether by bus or by car, takes a great deal of time. Since time is so valuable in these waning weeks to the rural students as well as the metro students, I, after shopping all three of these locations, find that shopping downtown rather than W Square or Lloyd’s Center is the ticket. Since many of the shops in W Square and LloydCen- £ ter are composed of branches of many of thedown- £ town main shops, the selections are quite better being £ that they are the main stores. Many of these main £ stores are compacted together in the vicinity of about £ five square blocks which makes them easy to find.Sure, £ the new shopping malls contain miniature replicas of £ these shops but they don’t have the little specialty £ shops intermixed with the other shops. You spend less £ time walking downtown than you would at Washington £ Square or Lloyd Center. The benefits from shopping downtown are a variety of £ clothing shops to smoke shops, music shops to record £ shops, art galleries to import stores, a vast assortment £ of eateries ranging from the fast fooders to the intimate £ dinings, all at your disposal. After-six parking spots are generally easy to find and £ many downtown shops offer free parking spaces to £ their customers. AW ilfTM MORE, PLEASE... i - m telling the truth .. r HAVEN'T &EEN NAUGHTY: I S wear it ., rve NICE- AU YEAR h £ £ £ ,£ £ £ £ :£ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ Downtown shopping is exciting. The atmosphere is more festive during this season than any other place which makes Christmas shopping more of a pleasure than a drudgery. And to the student who is pressed for time, downtown shopping eliminates the time and ef- forts factors but not the expense factor. But then, who finds spending money during the Christmas season a problem. The joy is in the giving. s.s. gprint f 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B; telephone: 656-2631, ext. 309 or 310 editor Cyndi Bacon ’ news editor Scott Starnes arts editor Leanne Lally‘sports editor Mark McNeary photo editor Kelly Laughlin‘staff writers Happie Thacker, *)£■' Gene Lawehn, Mike Koller, felena Vancil, Brenda Nolan, . Don Ives, Joy Felgnin, Steve McPherson staff photographers John Bosserman, Greg Kienxle, Charlie Wagg Chuck Quimby ‘cartoonist Mary Cuddy‘Graphic designer Bev Boston copy editor James Rhoades ’ production manager Janet Vockrodt professional adviser Susie Boss * business manager Mark'Barnhill The Print, • a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, aims to be fair and impartial Journalistic medium covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opinions expressed In The Print do not necessarity reflect those the CCC ad ministration, faculty or the Associated Student Government. Page 2 guest shot A fable A Once there was a fair land with a beautiful name, where it rained a lot. This land was filled with bright, hard-working people who, by long custom and prac tice, had learned to manage many of their own affairs in their own localities. There came a time when the rulers of the land saw that the people’s educational system was flawed. The people cried that they had few places to learn how to meet the world of work. They said much of their education was not of practical value. Costs were heavy, and the places of education distant. Great numbers of the people were not able to read and write well. Only a, few could be taught new skills in place of old skills no longer needed. Many women in the fair land needed more education, but it was not here for them. . Helped by the seers among thefrj, one day the rulers said, ; let 'us bring forth upbn the land a new kind of schooling. And they went oh to tell of their vision, saying: Let the direction of the new schooling rest with the people in their localities. Let the doors to the new schooling be open to all who might benefit. Let the new schooling be and profit from it greatly. built according to the needs and wants of the people. If a lives, and ours, have improi man seeks the new schooling mightily from the presence and he cannot, read, do not this new schooling. It is doi things we have sait turn him away. Instead, teach those ought to do. Let us go on J him to read. And if he cannot The people will be wit figure, teach him to figure. it. and the burden of the | Teach him that which he needs schooling will become lighter, and wants to learn. Those who found fault» And the rulers said also, we will carry half the burden of this the new schooling said, t this new schooling. Let the know better than the peo people in their localities carry those things that are good; them and those things that a the other half.' not good for them. Let us ok And so it came to pass. rules and create bureaus in' Divers places began to prac der that the new schooling c tice the new schooling. Many be controlled and directed. people of many kinds were put But those who were plea to work at it. A great activity filled the land. And the new with the new schooling q schooling multiplied and that rules and bureaus were) became fruitful, even beyond unto the adder and the aspi the farthest visions of the seers. other serpents. The wii The people profited and were among them saw that the i pleased. And the rulers were schooling would soon beco much like the old school also pleased. But the burden of the And they told the people of new schooling became heavy. dangers. And the people beta And- some among the rulers began to find fault. Others them and rose up in a gr declared that the old schooling outcry against those » was being ruined, forgetting would destroy the n why the ne w schooling began in schooling. And so the new school the first place. Others said, our burdens are heavier than we was allowed to go on meet the needs of the people. can carry. But still others said, let us Dr. John Hakan« continue with the new College Presidi schooling. Our people value it Clackamas Community Colli