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E dgerton ______ ' TYLER ¿PáfRTON HERÍ. "X ' fne house connrrfff on sophomoric LEGISLATION' H LARO TESTIMONY ÎRÛMW6CT todas communique J Space Shuttle Columbia A necessary venture for science, mankind By J. Dana Haynes Of The Print COURSE... WOULD THE WITNESS FWM THE 'GREY PANTHERS* ¡CARE TO COtttliNT?. Editor’s notes This policy was made for you and me Sam Crosby: This policy’s your policy This policy’s my policy, From fiscal conservatism to involving students, from tiny-pin-tithisis to tiding with Board members, This policy was made for you and me. Walt McAllister: This stance is your stance This stance is my stance, from tightly knit budgets to involving students, from short alterations to informing Board members, this stance Is made for you and me. . Page 2 Joe Schweizer: ■'. I? ■' This platform’s your platform This platform’s my platform, from zero capital expansion to involving students from stunted metamorphosis to conversing with Board members, this platform was made for you and me. _____________ Thomas A. Rhodes ’ Hollywood couldn’t' have done it better. Two and a half years behind schedule, several billion dollars over budget, and touted by a public relations department that couldn’t sell tickets to the Second Coming. Is it “Heaven’s Gate”? The next Francis Ford Coppola epic? No, it’s NASA’s space shuttle. And in these times of economic turmoil (query: can any of us remember any other kind of economic time?), many people are asking if the USS Columbia is worth all the money, bother and hoopla. The answer: a resounding yes. As a matter of fact, of the million-plus sightseers who in vaded Titusville, Fla., and the countless-millions more who awoke early Friday and Sun day morning to turn on their TV sets, few truly understand the importance of the Colum bia. Recently, Senator William Proxmire (R-Wisc.), watchdog of the budget, scoffed at the shuttle and referred to it as a “space track”; just another very expensive piece ; of metal to send up, orbif and land. Big Deal. Now, Proxmire seems to be an honest man, and no one doubts his intelligence. But the fact is, he simply does not ^understand the issue. minutes. He is the best there i There have .been three Bob Crippen is a rookie, b highly important, stepping- with vast experience as a te stone space flights in history. pilot. Between the two i John Glenn’s Mercury proved them, Young and Crippen ai that man could orbit, and thus perhaps the most experience survive in space for short inter crew ever shot into orbit. vals. In 1965, Grissom and But it is not the men wh Young took control of their make this flight special, it’s the Gemini, the first space vehicle role in history. The much not piloted by ground control. heralded space age is not at And Schirra, Eisele and Cunn tually here yet. Indeed, it won ingham took Apollo 7 for a spin be until space travel is possibl in ’68, about 20 months after for more than a handful c the tragic Apollo 6 fire, thus specialists. The shuttle w proving that Apollo was not an make that possible. inherently flawed ship, <and Bob Crippen said, “We’re i assuring money for future going concern, an eventua flights. money-maker. All sorts of par These three flights were ticipants want to work with us milestones. Technically, lan European nations, China ding on the moon as a nice Arabsat, Indonesia. Scores o stunt, but not that much harder universities want to send ex to build and fly than an orbiter. periments aloft. And many o The next step? the big industries. This isn’t an Columbia. The shuttle craft experiment. It’s the real thing,” is to the Apollo line what a But, you may well ask, wha Ferarri is to a Model T. One about the common man? Ac hundred fifty-four feet long cording to author/historian (when on end, as high.asa «James Michener,. you, and I 15-story building), as masisive may sdon havé ' à hànd in as a Boeing 707, and complete astronautics. In an aride for with 49 different engines and “Omni” magaizine, Michener boosters, it is a megalith. estimated that, by flight 17 oi Pilot John Young looks at the shuttle, paying passengers the shuttle like this: “Apollo re may be aboard. quired us to know a massive amount.' The shuttle is a whole “Three men I know havi magnitude more difficult. But already signed up for the first because we’ve worked so long, businessman’s special,” said I do believe we’re better Michener, “Lowell Thomas, prepared than we ever were for Walter Cronkite, and I. If the Gemini and Apollo.” flight takes place, as I think it And moreover, no one is might, as early as 1984, better suited for the job of Thomas will be in his nineties,! handling this behemoth than will be in my late seventies, and Young.' An Air Force man, he Cronkite in his late sixties^ To The Editor: has spent more time in space When we three, elder statemen This note' is to express my than any man in history. He blast off on a routine flight, the thanks to all those who helped flew aboard Gemini 2 and 10, world will awaken to the fact pass the tax proposal to cover and Apollo 10 and 16, for a that it has truly entered the college-operation costs. total5 of 533 hours and 33 Space Age.” Without community support, Clackamas Community Col lege has little purpose or direc tion. - In the near future, I hope to announce a- comprehensive community outreach program THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers designed to help the college Association, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic medium and community open new and covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opi better lines of communication. nions expressed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of the College administration, faculty, Associated Student Govern This program will be broad in ment or other staff members of THE PRINT. scope, touching many com munities, and seeking the ad office: Trailer B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310 vice and counsel from all cor editor: Thomas A. Rhodes news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Amy DeVour; ners of the college district. sports editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch The college district voters photo editor: Duffy Coffman have placed their trust in the political affairs: David Hayden college and in its staff and staff writers: Linda Cabrera, R. W. Greene, Board. We appreciate their Tom Jeffries, Mike Rose, Susy Ryan, Wanda Percival, Tracy Teigland trust and will do' our best to en staff photographers: Ramona Isackson, Sue Hanneman, Karen sure continued trust in the Marshall future. typesetter: Kathy Walmsley; graphics: Lynn Griffith feedback Thanks to phonetics stali Dr. John Hakanson President Clackamas Community College cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes advertising and business: Dan Champie and Jeff Jessel adviser: Suzie Boss Clackamas Community College