opinion ■ ■ Clackamas Community College This editorial policy has been unanimously approv ed by the Editorial Board of The Print, Effective im mediately. Editor announces editorial policy When I first received the job as editor of The Print, many questions had to be answered. Most of the questions came from myself. Questions like: What" are your goals of the paper going to be? What will you cover? What will be your editorial policy? How will you cover events? If someone gives you $15 worth of banquet tickets, are you obligated to give them $15 worth of adver tising space regardless of other events that need to be covered? Should you require the editorials pertain to the Col lege or can they be bn any sub ject the writer wishes? Questions like those needed to be answered. The biggest question that" has to be answered at the end of the fall term is Is The Print a college newspaper? Or is it a public in-: formation sheet whose only purpose is to say that everything is terrific here at the college? This question has been haunting me for the past few weeks. Exactly what is our pur pose? According to the Canons of Junior College Journalism, ‘A good newspaper reports, interprets, and comments upon those events and the ideas which it deems significant or of interest to its readers. The stu dent newspaper serves the stu dent body, the administration, the faculty, and at least in- directly, the community in be ignored. They are activities which it operates.” of the College, and are of in Naturally, special interest terest to the readers. However, groups slip into the trailer and an election mistake which may would like a story on a certain have cost someone za vote or subject. That is the right of . two or three or one hundred course, of college organiza must be given a higher priority. tions. However, special interest It is not the obligation of this groups outside of the College paper to write only about the come in and almost demand positive or negative events of that articles be written concem- the College but to write about ing their organizations. the newsworthy events pertain Because it interests them, ing to the College. naturally it will interest the Immediate events take readers of this paper. precedence over past events. If Our reason for existence is to someone is at the College right report the news of the campus. now, it takes precedence over If the U.S. invades a foreign a week-old event. We cannot, country, it is not our obligation as a paper, bow down to a to cover it as a news agent. The special interest group by writing coverage of that event is left to the Oregonian and The Jour nal. The only way this paper could cover an event like that would be on the opinion page. On the news pages, thé Col lege comes first. But what events in the Col lege should be covered? Should the tax base being defeated be covered while the pumpkin carving contest goes uncovered? Whatever interests the readers the most, in our judgment. If the student body of this paper is tom on every little thing they can do purpose 1 the news pertaining toH no matter how insignificant. It cover 1 all comes down to,, of course, the College and its readers.■ The only space that ’ is nofm priorities. The goal of the paper is to restricted to College-oriented ■ cover as much as possible the events can be located on them ■ events of the College. That is editorial page. The 'Print, a member of theB the reason for the “This Week” calendar. But it is more than Oregon Newspaper Publishers ■ covering coffeehouses, film Association, aims to be a fair« series, dances, and extra and impartial journalistic« curricular events at the Col medium covering the campus ■ community as thoroughly as I lege. That distinguishes The Print possible. Opinions expressed ini from a public information The Print do not necessarily! sheet. If we focused only on reflect those of the College ad-1 faculty,! dances and such, we would ministration, have to ignore the people at Associated Student Govern-' the Timber Lake Job Corps, , ment, or other The Print staff and many others. The prime members. Tb LOVE TO ' BUT.. .OEIL,TVE GOT TO DASH TN UMR. . . J R0NMÆ DER«, VOU FOUWi AM HEttVWiVOR FOUR CAVAMI “Shot down in flames” Amway critic misinformed together by Amway Corpora- The Amway distributor has« the option of attending many« tion to jpelp Amway distributors present their business and sales rallies and training« recruit others to join them in a meetings. As with any direct« legitimate business opportuni sales organization, they are in-« ty. It has been tested legally tended to build enthusiasm and« are a lot like a high school pep I and been proven to be an 1 know personally that« honest and workable plan. It is rally. Tupperware Sales meetings are I riot used to “sucker” anyone as By R.W. Greene the same. inferred by Ms. Prouty. There are many Amwayl In Amway there are two ma distributors in this area who jor ways of earning income*, by your .own retail sales, and by make a full time living selling earning a percentage bonus on AmWay products and helping the combined retail sales of others in their line of ■sponsor The smell of success in the compete with each other to see preciative audience. They have your business and the business ship sell Amway products rock and roll world can be as which of a small coterie of recently been subjected to a of those you recruit into the There are many who sell oni seductive as a whiff of cocaine. Portland bands they can hype barrage of hype about their business. Ms. Prouty failed to part-time basis. They have bui potential, and it is a tribute to Things like tact, honesty and into stardom. point out the former entirely. their businesses with a good a The trouble with this them that none of it seems to restraint head out the window Of course you need people ( titude, hard work, and an e when the stuff comes around, overblown sense of vision is have gone to their collective under you to make a sizeable cellent line of products. and the eyes remain glazed that it can get in the way of a heads. Don’t boycott tc bonus. What you do helps the Johnny and the Distractions long after any hope of getting good band. Case in point is person above you just the same line, high-quality, tested p the stuff is gone. The symp Johnny and the ‘Distractions, played a satisfying two and a as in any job. ducts and make a judgm toms are apparent in the rock which played recently at the half hours of rock and roll, suc When one joins Amway they against Amway based on < magazines of Portland, which College to a more than ap cumbing neither to pretensions ' do. hot sign a contract or enter person’s opinion. nor self-importance, but in I into any obligation to anyone -ERLENE WITHAM stead laying out a solid and Letters may be writtei except to purchase their pro tight show. Their strength is ducts through the person who The Print by anyone pro their originality. Johnny’s sponsored them. They agree to ed the writer includes tl guitarist estimated that 95 per adhere to a code of ethics name, address, and t cept of their program is com drawn up by a national board student number (If a posed of Johnny’s own tunes, of Amway distributors. They dent). Letters must THE PRINT, member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers which steam with passion and are not obligated to sell any typed, double-spaced, Association, aims to be a fair and impartial joumalistc medium wit. covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opi amount of products. Some turned into The Print < If nothing else he is en nions expressed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of distributors never sell retail and in Trailer B before 3 thusiastic onstage. Looking like the College administration, faculty, Associated Student Govern only purchase products Monday. ment, or other THE PRINT staff members. a somewhat overgrown Van Any letters longer wholesale for their own per office: Trailer B telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309, 310 Morrison, his dancing, pranc 400 words are subjc editor: Thomas A. Rhodes sonal use. ing; and occasional grovels assignment editor: Matt Johnson; news editor: David Hayden editing. Short letter The initial investment Ms, amaze you in their sheer arts editor: Michael L. Rose; feature editor: Steve Lee be given preference Prouty refers to does not pur energy. With 2200 watts* of sports editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch; chase “a lousy chalkboard, a Print reserves the ri photo editor: Duffy Coffman clean sound out front, excellent staff writers: Linda Cabrera, Edward M. Coyne, Amy DeVour, couple pieces of fancy chalk edit for spelling, musicians behind him, and the R.W. Greene, J. Dana Haynes, Tamara E. Isackson, Tom Jeffries and an empty notebook.” That matical errors, ai exuberant imagination he has. staff photographers: Ramona Isackson, Sue Hanneman, is totally false. It purchases a kit reduce the length of 1 Lisa Anderson for rock and roll, Johnny ought ■of training materials, a but without changi typesetter: Kathy Walmsley; graphics: Lynn Griffith to be going far. meaning intended cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes Pretentious? No. Just one of notebook full of full color advertising & business: Dan Champie, Mgr.; Scott Ronck letter-writer will b descriptive pages of Amway the best bands the College has adviser: J. Faraca suited prior to pub products telling what they do recently heard. If the edited versioi and how to present and greatly from the ori demonstrate them. Page 2 elections were not handled as well as everyone thought they were, shouldn’t that take precedence over an ice cream feed to help lure voters to the booths? ' Not that these events should , * To the e Editor- Editor— ( As a CCC student, and an Amway distributor, I feel com pelled to respond to the opi nion expressed in “Shot Down in Flames” in the Print (Nov. 19,1980). She (Karen Prouty) briefly sketches the Amway Sales and Marketing Plan, an approach- that has been carefully tested and put Johnny’s good despite hype