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for science, mankind
By J. Dana Haynes
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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.
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Joe Schweizer:
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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