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communique E dgerton _________ ^ chairman , rw CUEAll A AWÙ I CONTEND THESE 5O-CAU£6‘AÛ5<W1' TAPE5 NOTHING. ' By J. Dana Haynes Celebrity slaying: a new social concern Okay, folks! It’s social- concern-of-the-month time again. Can anyone tell us which sociological reform is sweeping the nation like the lastest Travolta dance step or Whammo toy? That’s right, True Believers, it’s gun control! Yes, that grand exciting old favorite has once again reared its righteous head. Why? Well, the assassination at tempts on President Reagan and Vernon Jordan, and the untimely (whatever the hell that means) death of singer/songwriter John Len non have raised the collective ire of the nation. People are beginning to realize: that ad infinitum, ad nauseum . . . someone in the good old US of A is accosted by a hand-gun carrying antagonist. Sometimes the “bad guy’s” a stranger, sometimes a sibling. The reasons range from loves lost to being broke to good old fashioned lunacy (remember the lady'in San Diego last year who began sniping from ‘her house’ at passersby? Her reason: “I hate Mondays”). All good and well. The ques tion is, of course, why does it The - point is, handgun take the endangering of a well murders are as commonplace known personality to galvanize today as minor auto accidents. the populous? It has become an all-pervasive Every minute of every hour slice of Americana. Sad but of every day of every week . . . true. violence is the rule, rather than the exception, in the US. To back this up, a recent Washington Post/ABC News survey claimed that most Euro peans picture America as a land of skulking, delinquent street gags and quick-draw cowboys wearing side-irons. Ours is a country beset by a veritable love for handguns. Ballistic-eroticism, if you will. Well, all right. If it takes the slaying of a famous person to ignite a polite fire beneath the tail of the world press, and get the public up-in-arms (pun in tended) , then so be it. Should anyone try to ice Robert Red ford or Harry Reasoner, the populous would probably rise up in a wave of gun control mania, like torch-bearing villagers maching on Dr. Frankenstein’s castle. Maybe that’s what it takes to get the legislations. Moral of the story? Don’t get in the way of a bullet unless you’re newsworthy. Otherwise, you’ll probably not merit more than an obligatory obituary. On various virtues of coughing... StHAwRA SHOULD UKE VCR* MUCH TO buv you, Hwy___ , Niti SOUL, r__________ „ C reati voc 5 ♦50 6RAWÙ . V S0UHP FAIR?. I A loud, raspy “cougher” in a crowded theater is a nuisance to those about him, but con sider that the common cough is a part of the body’s vital defense or immune system. The Oregon Lung Associa tion reminds that, physiologically speaking, the cough is “an extremely com mon, physically remarkable and potentially life-saving reflex action.” Moreover, during a cough, a powerful rush of air is expelled from the respiratory tract, sometimes at a velocity of up to 500 miles per hour. The usual purpose of the cough is to clear the airways of some irritating or obstructing substance that potentially could damage the lungs, or interfere with the smooth exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body. Pulmonary specialists ex plain, “People who are unable to cough, such as those under general anesthesia, are in danger of serious disease (and even death) because they can not protect their lower respiratory tracts from foreign substances.” The Oregon Lung Associa- tion offers these two important reminders about all coughs: A cough is not a disease, but rather a symptom that something is wrong in the body. Anyone who has a cough that lasts more than a couple of weeks should be seen by a doctor, who may in turn suggest an examination by a respiratory disease specialist. Most coughs are self-limiting; that is, they go away in a few weeks, even if you do nothing at all. If you are a cigarette smoker, a cough is in your future. However, if you? quit smoking, that cough will most likely disappear within four weeks. Marcel Marceau worthy of sellout There are very few “legen dary” artists still around these days. Earl Hines is probably one, as are Martha Graham and Andres Segovia. Yet another is the great French mime, Marcel Marceau, who will be performing April 15 at 8:15 p.m. in Portland’s Civic Auditorium. Born in Strasbourg in 1923, the son of middle-class parents, Marceau’s first exposure to mime was in the form of the 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. Opi nions expressed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of the College administration, faculty. Associated Student Govern ment or other staff members of THE PRINT. office: Trailer B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310 editor: Thomas A. Rhodes news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Amy DeVour sports editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch photo editor: Duffy Coffman political affairs: David Hayden staff writers: Linda Cabrera, R. W. Greene, Tom Jeffries. Mike Rose, Susy Ryan, Wanda Percival, Tracy Teigland staff photographers: Ramona Isackson, Sue Hanneman, Karen Marshall typesetter: Kathy Walmsley; graphics: Lynn Griffith cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes advertising and business: Dan Champie adviser: Suzie Boss Page 2 silent comedies of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. After the interruption of World War II (in which his parents were murdered and he served in the Resistance), Marceau first started as an actor at the Theare de Poche in Paris in 1946. He organized his own mime company in 1947. One of his first mimodramas, “Mort avant L’aube,” won the Deburau Prize in 1948, and Marceau was on his way. Truly international fame and success did not come until 1955, when I as performances were a smash in New York Citv. Eric Bentlv said of his performance, “an evening of great, of quintessen tial theatre.” His reputation as a master of the genre has been acknowledged ever since. Marceau has said of his art: "Pantomine is the art of ex pressing feelings by attitudes and not a means of expressing words through gestures.” Tickets for the performance are $13.50, $11.50, and $9.50, and are available from Celebrity Attractions, 1010 SW Morrison in Portland. Phone 226-4371 for more informa tion. Clackamas Community College