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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 5, 1980)
Former students nowcreate commercials from there.” All production is done in the basement of John stone’s home in Oregon City. The two work primarily with special effects, which includes the animation clay figures. Making the figures appear to It all started about seven move on film is a time years ago. When they both consuming process. The were students at the College, figures’ positions have to be ad they produced an astronomy justed between each and every film together. From then on frame. With this process it can they just kept in touch. Their take hours to shoot a single 30- first commercial was produced second commercial. in the summer of 1978. As they make more ana the more commercials, Griffith and Griffith described preliminaries for a commercial: Johnstone are getting into “Jeff and I get together with the more complicated processes. public relations department For example, they are now and decide on a theme for the making the figures out of la*ex commercial and then we take it and foam rubber because those wasn’t just one imagination, it was two. The imaginations of Scott Griffith and Jeff John stone. Griffith and Johnstone create commercials advertising the College. I SEE YOU —Cameraman adjusts equipment for filming College commercials. By Lee Jeffries Of The Print A space ship shoots through space. A one-eyed monster at; tempts to read an intergalactic map while his computer lec tures him about Clackamas Community College. A pum- pkin, enveloped in mist, begins to hatch, only to reveal not a horrifying creature but a message reminding, us it’s about time to register for fall classes at the College. What fertile imagination came up with these ideas? It New courses for spring Spring term at the College is producing its usual crop of new classes. Among this term’s of ferings are an English class called “Classics in Crime Fic tion,” also a family life offering called “Family Com munications,” and from the music department, “Recording Techniques.” “Classics in Crime Fiction,” according to the instructor, Marcia Myers, is designed to be a “serious College transfer course,” but she expects that it will be “a great deal of fun.” The course will include a lot of reading, she said, but that will be alleviated by deduction games and occasional films. Myers herself is a self described “voracious” reader of crime fiction. She stressed, however, that novices are welcome in the class, as well as crime fictions buffs, like herself. “It is designed as an in troductory class,” she said. “Family Communications” involves a broader scope than the course title indicates, ac cording to the instructor, Dottie Hajek. Hajek says that this course is open to “anyone who has a group that they live with or relate to.” | | i BEAVERCREEK TAVERN & CAFE 1 Daily Luncheon Specials | LARGE SCREEN ! DOWNTOWN i BEAVERCREEK Page 4 According to Hajek, “Family Communications” will “basically look at different communication patterns, and assess them.” This course’s requirements will include a weekly “reaction paper.” Regarding to midterm or final exam, “That is still very open,” she said. “Recording Techniques“ is still available in the Music Department. This class’ of ferings could benefit two types of people. Those interested in recording engineering and those involved with the per forming end. “Recording Techniques” will serve to familiarize the student with the various pieces of equipment associated with the recording field. This class is not listed in the spring class schedule. The course number is MUS 109; three credits; offered Mondays, 4-7 p.m. in R 208. Students interested in taking “Introduction to Mass Com munication” should be remin ded that the day the course will be offered is not Monday, as erroneously stated in the schedule. It is offered, instead, on Wednesday evenings, from 7-10p.m. Room for Studying i | i Happy Hour j 4—6 i Every Day ! materials don’t lose their shape I as clay tends to do. Also, they| are in the process of building al motorized control system fori their 16mm camera, sirniliar | to the ones that were used ini “Star Wars.” The Portland area isn’t exac-l tly a hotbed of film production,] so in order to generate some] public interest in their work, I Griffith and Johnstone have] entered some of their commer-j cials in national contests, and] have received three third-place] awards. They are currently] looking for some original music] for their documentaries and] commercials, they said,] because using copyrighted] music can lead to law suits. ELC introduces new toilet By Sandy Carter Of The Print Because Pete Smith and Jerry Herrmann had a good idea last year, visitors to the restrooms of the John Inskeep Environmental Learning Cen ter Pavilion next summer will christen a technological first: the brand > new building will house the state’s first public composting toilet. Smith, former head of water sanitation technology at the College, and Herrmann, E.L.C. project director, agreed to pursue the compost toilet iaea over a year ago. Today, after winding its way through the bureaucratic maze, as must all new good ideas, it’s on the drawing board and partially completed. By the time lazy summer on ce more puts the campus into low gear, their idea will be a reality: Oregon’s first working indoor compost toilet in a public building. Manufactured by Earth Cycle Warehouse Ltd? and Green Earth Manufacturing Company, of Cottage Grove, and slated to be installed in the new informational pavilion, the toilet will probably be seen by many as a sort of indoor outhouse, since it makes no noise, has no handle, and uses no water. But therein lies its beauty. According to Herrmann, the average flushing toilet uses ap proximately 10,000 gallons of water a year. Although that water isn’t really lost, the time, money, and environmental costs of reclaiming and per petuating the “flush” cycle are enormous. The composting toilet, on the other hand, is a living, en closed ecosystem which con verts human and other organic wastes to harmless, fertile compost by means of nature’s greatest leveler, bacterial ac tion. Invented 40 years ago by a Swedish engineer named Rikard Lindstrom, the compost toilet reduces accumulating sewage and other organic material such as gardern clip pings and kitchen garbage to a dry, earthy humus, rich in phosphates and nitrogen. A September, 1977, issue of Mechanics Illustrated points out the amazing efficiency of the system, stating that, “up to 95 percent of sewage and organic matter go up the vent pipe as carbon dioxide or water vapor.” That’s right, 95 per cent! In terms of current waste disposal problems, that statistic alone turns the thinking person’s head. Combine that fact with the unit’s water-saving virtues in an age in which water is fast becoming a scarce com modity, and it becomes ob vious why Smith and Herr mann felt they had a good idea. Implementing the idea tur ned out to be a challenge. The obstacle course of legal impediments to the project began with the necessity of legislative approval. A law had to be created where there had been none. After much lobbying by Ron Davis, chief Oregon proponent of waterless toilet systems, private installation of the systems was deemed ap propriate anywhere drainfields and septic tanks were accep table. By okaying the use of such systems, Oregon joined several other state?, including Maine—first to approve them in 1974—New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Massachussetts, and at least two Canadian provinces. The next stop along the of ficial road to approval of the idea was Clackamas County, which passed the ball to the State Plumbing Board. That board, after hearing an exten sive presentation explaining and justifying the project, gave it the nod of approval necessary to forward it to Cor nelius Bateson, • of the State Commerce Commission, for final judgment. With Bateson’s stamp of ap proval, the project was at last okayed bv the county, as an experimental unit which must be monitered by water sanitation technologists. Today, the pavilion’s precedent-setting toilet, although legalized and planned for, remains to be seen. Its concrete wall is there. The two back-to-back restrooms above! where it will rest are framed in I and wired. But Herrmann says I the toilet itself probably will be I the last detail of the building to I be completed. The unit’s $1,250 price tag is] the delaying factor, according] to Herrmann, who says he’s] not sure where the funds will] come from. Plant sales, a time-] honored money-raising activity] at the E.L.C., is certainly one] option. Donation may be] another possiblity. However it] comes about, he’s sure it will be] a functioning part of the] pavilion before fall. Aside from fresh water con-] servation, Herrmann sees as a] principal value of the system! “its potential for demonstrating] to the state, the county, and] the public at large an optional method of human waste] disposal,” which could allow! for much greater development] of lands with marginal or] do.wn-right poor soil perl eolation. Drawbacks? The Compos! Toilet Owner’s Manual devote! its last two pages to what it calls] “troubleshooting.” It is here] that one encounters the] question uppermost in skep] tical minds. Does it stink?Sometimes| says the manual. But only if the] miniature ecosystem is not] being fed a balanced diet or has] not been vented, sealed or ini sulated properly. Instructipns for remedying] the odor situation, if it occurs! are clear and simple, but the] last three items on the] troubleshooting list may be a] turn-off for some would-ba users. They address the] problem of insect population! in the tank, and create some] vivid images for the reader with] an aversion to small things with] many legs that fly or crawl where they shouldn’t. But, what’s a bug or two in' the system, weighed against all of the ecological advantages ofl the Earth Cycle Warehouse] Ltd. and Green Earth] Manufacturing Company’s! Compost Toilet? Smith and Herrmann’s good idea has made it this far. They’ll be sure to have the “bugs” out] by next fall. Clackamas Community College