opinion Z Place your election bets Step up, step up. Place your bets on the Associated Student Government election wheel of fortune. We have an important issue at hand. ASG elections are just around the corner, and that means that students will choose the officers of their choice for the 1979-80 school year at the College. We feel that there are some exceptionally good candidates up for the offices of president, vice president, business manager and secretary. But the election wheel off fortune is not just a game of luck and chance. You have a chance to find out about the candidates before you i cast your votes. Question and answer periods were held both Monday and Tuesday in the cafeteria. This left the candidates wide-open for com ments and questions from anyone who wan ted to voice them. Election and candidate information can be sought through the ASG office in the Com munity Center, or by dialing 656-2631, ext. 245. There is one concern about the election that we feel should be clarified. There are two groups running together on tickets. Don Por ter, Marilyn Bushway and Darren MacFarlane are running on one ticket and Cindy Bennett, Richard WeisS,Ron Allen and Beth Thompson are running on another ticket. Bill Judd and Denise Kline are separately running. Accor ding to an ASG spokesman, the tickets are solely used for campaign purposes. Students are not being asked to vote on a slate. We feel that this clarification is very impor tant for students to understand when voting. You do not vote for a group of officers, but vote for an individual officer. Last year there was a 300 percent increase in students voting for ASG officers over the last year’s election. We think that’s commen dable. We also believe in Dave Rigg’s, present ASG vice president, theory that there is really no such thing as student apathy and that’ students don’t get involved because people keep telling them that they won’t. So, involved students, we’ll see you at the polls April 24 through 27. MIMI in.......... . z iprint 19600 S. Mollali« Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Offices: Trailer B; telephone: 656-2631, ext. 309 or 310 editor Cyndi Bacon * news editor Mike Koller arts editor Leanne Lally * sports editor Mark McNeary photo editor Kelly Laughlin * staff writers Happie Thacker, Elena Vancil, James Rhoades, Brian Rood, Ramona Isackson staff photographers Greg Kienzle, Charlie Wagg, Pat Calson, Eric Holstrom, Doug Fick cartoonist Mary Cuddy * production manager Janet Vockrodt business manager Mark Barnhill * advertising salesman Jack Tucker professional adviser Suzie Boss The Print, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association and the Associated Collegiate Press, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic medium covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opinions expressed in The Print do not necessarily reflect those of the CCC administration^ faculty or the Associated Student Government. guest shot Editors note: This editorial is reprintd from the Commuter, the weekly student newspaper from Linn-Benton comm unity College. By Kathy Buschauer Managing Editor Like money, love does not grow on trees. If it did, its value could’ be reduced to about that of a walnut. However, 'in today’s divorce-riddled society, such reductions have become the fate of many an ill-spawned marriage. Some connubial cynics have tried alternative kinds of cohabitation. Although these alternatives have become more embedded in our accepted values, they too are flawed. As estranged, unmarried couples have discovered, the lack of a .marriage license does not eliminate the problems of property settlement. To rectify the situation, California courts have . ruled that “unmarried cohabitants” have the right to file property suits upon dissolution of their relationships. Since approval of this type of leagal action was granted, the state reports from! 1,000 suits have been filed in an attempt to acquire a legal division of property amassed during the relationship... Perhaps the most publicized of these suits is the case of Marvin vs. Marvin. In a trial that is expected to last until the end of this month, Michelle Triola Marvin is suing actor Lee Marvin for about half the earnings he made during their six-year cohabitation. If she wins, Michelle could gain up to one-and-a-half million dollars. She would also, no doubt, gain the notoriety of set ting a legal precedent. Should she win her case, the resulting mandate would - not do much to aid the evolution of marital roles. Instead, it would [ merely compound the con fusion about settlements. Page 2 D50 Illuminant, 2 degree observer Actually, married wq and cohabitatirig wq should be treated because they’re in the W basic type of reiationsh® married women are den alimony payments as the« with increasing frequeifl divorce cases, then why s| an ex-cohabitant receive payment? In the same vein,J an ex’-cohabitant is dl alimony, why should it ba” ted to a married woman! support exempt)? Consistency should be tablished C in settl® agreements. Either settlF claims should be viewed■ law as totally ground!® ALL cases or honor® thusiastically in ALL cas® Maybe the solution« women in any ki® marriage-like relationship is I them to seek indeper thereby avoiding the co sation issue altogether. | Wednesday, April 18,9 JjSggity