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I opinion Editor gives last thoughts By Leanne Lally Of The Print Well, we made it through another year, my last to be exact, and it has been quite in teresting. I find myself not regally looking forward to leaving the halls of this ol’ college; it has been my security for the last two years, but alas, time moves on and so must I. I will miss the things I have come to take for granted; at tending classes, putting out an issue of The Print every week, battling with ASG. All of these were my whole lite and now that life will end. I just hope we of The Print have done a satisfactory job on reporting the events this year, that maybe we have helped people form opinions on current, important issues and that we have been able to meet your needs. This year has been an in teresting one. We started out with the faculty’s near-strike, the cafeteria disputes, and then the battle with this year’s ASG. I think that most people in volved in the “war” will agree it was stimulating and a good learning process tor all in volved. Whenever you have a governmental body and the media, you will always hear the media criticizing the gover nment. That’s a fact of life. It was a learning experience for us on The Print because it showed us how to be both critical and tasteful when criticizing (even though some did not call us tasteful). We did not libel anyone. We just did what newspapers do.. .report. It was a learning experience for those in ASG, too. The members of ASG who may be interested in going into politics as a career have gotten the bit ter taste of criticism from the media...us. If anyone in ASG can’t take that critcism, they’d better not go into politics in the future. I’m not going to spend a lot of time reminiscing about the bad “vibes” between us and the ASG. Honestly, guys, no hard feelings, and I’m not trying to clear my guilty conscience by apologizing. I think everyone will agree that this year was an interesting year and not one we will soon forget. page 2 by Tod Bassham Volcanic ash may be edible I can’t stand it anymore. The world is ending; volcanoes are exploding flames and fire and communist propaganda all over the place. The only way to escape Armageddon, is to be drafted into the Army and go get killed in Afghanistan. Everybody’s wearing masks to keep from choking to death on start running out of food. I had already eaten all the candy bars and ice cream and popcorn I commonly keep in supply, so I would either have to brave the terrors of the ash to go shop ping, or..... ..I would have to eat my roommate’s health foods. Yuck. the ash, so it’s impossible for store managers to tell the rob bers from the customers anymore. We float disem bodied in a grey world, mocked by the voices of empty prophets. When I get in moods like this, all I want to do is sit on a mountain top and roll rocks down upon all mankind. Un fortunately, all the mountain tops have become active volcanoes. I can’t understand this American craze for health. Everywhere, people are jogging and bicycling and slur ping down yogurt like demen ted beings. Everyone’s talking carbohydrates and proteins and calories; people who don’t know right from left can tell you to the milligram how much glop which she calls “food.”| Everything “healthy”— vege tables, leaves, dirt, potato peelings, etc.—are put into the glop, to be boiled until they have stopped crawling. I just can’t understand that attitude. Me, I want dead meat for dinner, not soybean. If ar tificial flavor tastes better than natural flavor, then by golly, I want my artificial flavor. And just what am I going to do when I have the munchies? Eat asparagus? I need my chemicals. What has Euell Gibbons done to America? My very own roommate has changed from a normal, pimplyfaced college student into a health food junkie before my very eyes energy is in an apple, even as But this weekend was they ripple their biceps before the end. As I wandered about your faces. It’s disgusting, the house with a half-starved really, how healthy these look on my face, she came up This weekend was terrible. creatures are, and the only to me and said, “Hey, yot First, it rains, so that my tan is thing more disgusting is the want a high-mineral san ruined. Then, the silly volcano taste of their health food. I dwich?” Desperate, I accepted. As freaks out and suddenly there’s don’t care how healthy it is. I ash all over everything, and it’s will never be able to see how chomped into it, I had to ask practically impossible to go anyone in their right mind can “What’s in it?” “Volcanic ash.” anywhere. So there I was, enjoy dried kelp for breakfast. cooped up in the house with My roommate spends her If she says, “Some parts of only my roommate for com weekends in the kitchen volcano are edible,” I swear 11 pany. Pretty soon, naturally I making huge pots of a thick kill her. Guest shot Carter regime still totally ineffective By Eric Etzel For The Print Like the average American, Jimmy Carter sometimes feels exasperated over the Iranian crisis. Sources close to the president tell us he is frustrated over his inability to free the American hostages. He spends hours alone brooding about the problem • Since the hostages were seized, he has become more moody, more irritable and more brusque with hissurbordinates. Many feel his frustrations caused his decision for the rescue attempt in Iran. Carter doesn’t have temper tantrums, he just turns grim. He becomes silent and secluded. He tends to shut himself off—even from the professional crisis managers. He reads their reports, studies their recommendations and he stays up late at night memorizing details, often trivial details, much like Adolf Hitler in his final days of power. The president could draw on a professional foreign service with hundreds of skilled diplomats. Instead, he sent his top aide, Hamilton Jordan, to Europe and Panama to negotiate a secret solution and rescue attempt. Jordan repor tedly made several trips Page 2 disguised in a gray wig, false mustache and tinted glasses. Carter could also call on the CIA, which has trusted contac ts around the world. In fact, the CIA has good contacts inside Iran itself. But the president used a shady Argentine fixer and leftist French lawyer who were friends of Jordan. But he seldom consults with the professionals. He instead relies upon the Lord, his wife, Rosalynn, and Hamilton Jor dan. It is so bad already, one senior consular officer has resigned from the foreign ser vice because, as he put it, “The Carter Administration doesn’t have a clue how to conduct foreign policy.” In Europe and Japan, U.S. allies were dismayed by the surprise raid that came just two days after they agreed to American pleas to invoke trade and diplomatic sanctions against Iran in order to avoid a military confrontation. In ad dition, our allies have called their ambassadors home from Tehran and brought other diplomatic pressures on Iran behind the scenes. Carter sees the allied moves as evidence that he has finally persuaded them to cooperate. The president is well meaning but naive. Here is what is going on behind his back. Our allies have lost con fidence in Carter’s leadership and have been holding secret, urgent meetings to anxiously discuss how to save Jimmy Carter from himself. Our allies’ biggest fear is that Carter may do something reckless under great mental and political pressure. They are worried he may take drastic action to save his own political skin in a desperate attempt to recoup U.S. prestige after the Iranian misadventure and that under his guidance, the U.S. could stumble into war, a war that would certainly drag our allies into the conflict. Even before the attempt, there was disdain for Carter’s leadership, judgement and policies. Now officials in Lon don, Paris, Bonn, Rome and Tokyo view the events in the Iranian desert as yet another example of the American president’s incompetence. One of Europe’s foremost strategic analysts commented, “What can we make of an American president struggling toward disaster who waits six months to mount a rescue operation and then makes a mess of it?” President Carter’s rescue at tempt and foreign policy can be compared to getting two elephants to mate: It’s definitely high level. It is ac complished with a lot of roaring and screaming, and usually takes two years to see the results. The next question we must be concerned with is the ability of the American armed forces to react quickly to troubled spots around the globe. A French newspaper reported: “What can be thought of the effectiveness of a military ap paratus on which a good half of the planet depends and which is not capable of putting down two airplanes in a deserted desert airfield, even before enemy intervention?” What is the result? The failej rescue attempt has definite! put the U.S. relations aroun the world in a grave state, am provided a clear example of th president’s incompetence i| foreign policy. It has also hurt the president’s chances for reeled tion. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, a backer of til president, has said, “Unless the hostages are rescued, it’s a no- win situation for Carter.” As I see it, that’s good, foil agree with Rep. Henry Reef of Wisconsin who urged Carter to withdraw his bid for reele tion and quietly serve out the rest of his term without any more impulsive action. I say to Jimmy, shape up or ship out. ¿print The Print, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers! Association, 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 Associated Student Gover-1 nment. 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045 Office: Trailer B; telephone, 656-2631, ext. 309 Clackamas Community College
