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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 3, 1981)
communique’ S dú ERTON < Editor’s notes 9 Justice system causes overcrowded prisons The prisons are crowded, and there’s no rodm for more prisoners, therefore we must give convicts light sentences so * they’re not taking up space for as long a time. That sounds reasonable enough, but when criminals are getting lighter sentences, are the prisons really -doing their job of deterring; Crime; or are . they simply a justice symbol? The prisons themselves are answering that question for us, by being' crowded. If prisons were deterring crime, as they should be, the prisons would, be less crowded because less crimes would be committed. Also, ' if our prisons • are places of punishment for acts against society, where do prisoners get the guts to ask for such things as a new television set, and go on a hunger strike until they get it? sets, when there are peot who haven’t broken a law] their lives who don’t have a access to such luxuries, the doesn’t seem to be too mu justice there. What we need to do is | more responsibility on judges presiding at the trials, leave less on the parole boai who see more and mt prisoners coming in, and] Although they are calling it a alleviate thé overcrowdir hunger strike, it’s not a true one .parole. prisoners aproba) since the morning that the before they should. strike began, the prisoners pur- Therefore, judges should chased 93 candy bars, 33 packets of instant coffee, and required to determine 14 packets of cocoa from the minimum and maxim] sentence for each case, witl jail commissary. But when prisoners feel that the bounds that have been they have rights such as TV for that crime. That way, if our jusl system was more strict withe rying sentences out, and the, mosphere inside the prison« also a stricter one, maybe I thought of going to pris and now-quivering mustache might be more of a deterrent came stalking over and we had crimes being committed. to leave quite quickly. —Rick Obritschkewitsch This very situation began in the Clackamas County Jail last Wednesday, when nine prisoners decided to go on a hunger strike until their list of demands are met, including a new television set, or having the old one repaired. Journalist knows trials, triumphs By R.W. Greene Of The Print My friend Eddie strolled into “The Print” office last week, and began whacking aimlessly at my Underwood, with something that could have been dried oppossum skin, though I didn’t ask. He im plored me to leave off my anemic pecking and join him at a local beer palace. that the fortitude of a jour nalism adviser and a typesetter can reach stratospheric heights. Some of us can curse in fluent Italian. Some of us wish we could curse in fluent Gaelic. All of us know to Scotch tape a page after it’s pasted up, so the copy doesn’t fall into the prin ting press. fed animals! It’s journalism!” I tried to „calm him, but by that time a man with a large Why blood, not food? By J. Dana Haynes than the-80-unit goal. All told, it was a singular sanguinary As most of the student body success. “Perhaps some things we’ll and faculty may be aware, last So what happened? Why did never know hojw to do. Will week the ASG hosted a double endeavor A elicit so much sup any of us ever know what ‘ap- helping of social concern in the port, while endeavor B bomb probrium’ is? Will we learn to form of a blood drive and food ed? Well, let’s look at it as one “Oh, come on,” he said, write a story two hours before drive. The blood-letting went would a good detective novel. “you’re wasting your time with deadline? Have we learned over well, all things considered. As any Agatha Christophite that paper of yours.” I reached that being a writer does exactly The food drive did con will tell you, there are three for a nightstick kept handy by zilch for your sex life? Will we siderably less to stir our good things necessary to catch any one of our more violent writers, ever believe that Scientology Samaritan souls. Which beggars cagey culprit: opportunity, and it hardly hurt at all when serves any real function other the obvious question: Why? ability and motive. Eddie took it away from me. I than to perpetuate its own Now opportunity isn’t of Well, first one must realize stared at the wall. How could I myths? Will we ever unders what the writer means by “con müch help here. It would have tell him about the last nine tand Scientific Creationism? siderably less” in regard to the been a snap to carry, a couple months on “The Print,” the And how does one “railbird?” food drive. The student of cans of Campbell’s Chicken work we’ve done, the people government, in conjunction, ‘n’ Stars to school and surrep- we’ve made apoplectic, the Eddie poured more beer. hopes, the dreams, the pain Some of it got in the glass. “But with the Tri-County Communi tiously slip them into any of the and heartache and the inserts what dp your readers think?” ty Food Council, launched a convenient barrels. Piece of cake. On the other hand, giv and the stuffed animals we he asked. “You’re not walking fairly good ad campaign for the event, complete with posters ing blood takes time. What with mutilate? around in a vacuum over and “Today” bulletin an filling out questionnaires, stan “Eddie,” I said, “how can I there.” ding in lines, and the actual nouncements. For its part, tell you about the last nine “True. I think we’ve done as “The Print” ran two stories on vampiric process. Not to men months on ‘The Print,’ the well as anyone with what we’ve it. And barrels were set up in tion nausea (and who wants to hopes, the dreams, the pain, got. I think most of it can be every building on campus for mention nausea?). the heartache, and the stuffed laid to sheer apathy. You get donors to drop off their non So clearly opportunity, or animals we mutilate?” two cans Of food in the food perishables. All well and good. lack thereof, wasn’t what kept Two cans of food were the food donators away in “Come and drink Heineken drive, you get 20 or less letters with tne,” he said. “And wipe all year from students. You delivered. One of them was droves. Which leads us to abili your nose.” don’t cover somebody’s area rusted. ty- Meanwhile, back at the Be there a man with soul so After a couple of hours the way they like, but you only listening to Eddie discourse on find out a week before the end ranch, the blood drive was also dead, who never to himself in swing. It, too, garnered hath said: “I’m hungry, it’s time his favorite topics, fraud and of school. You get out what posters and bulletins, and again to puruse Fred Meyer’s.” Sure you put in. ” lust, I finally got a word in. your friendly neighborhood ly, none of those who didn’t Eddie stood up abruptly, newspaper covered the event. “Not to sound too trite, but contribute can claim to be it’s been educational. Some of knocking the table over. “Yes!” The ASG delivered 97 units without the ability to pick up a us can now paste a photo to a he yelled. “I can see it of bipod to the Red Cross, only few non-perishables. There is page without getting wax all now—the heartache, the pain, four units short of the school no one who doesn’t have to over the floor. We’ve learned the hope, the mutilation of stuf- record and decidedly higher , submit to the rigors of grocery Of The Print shopping. On the other hand, foro reason or another, the bo human distills just enou¡ blood to keep us going, and! more. It’s not as if you have give blood every third week, it’ll start pouring out your eai Thbre is no internal suppl and-demand problem Í blood. So again, “ability” m ted nothing. Which, I believe, leav motive. Ah, ha! cried the] spector, now we’re gets somewhere... Or perhaps not. Certainly] takes money to purchase a a of food, and who has bucks toss about today? But the pii of a few nón-perishables negligable. So it can’t be said that 0 lege students are a cheap I Not that they aren’t, but tli doesn’t appear to be the reas for the unprecedented lack’ interest. So why? Well, it appears be nothing more tiran simp bad timing. Charity is'all go] and well,, and the peop around here seem to bell than average at caring. B finals are just around the cd ner, and the other afóreme tioned drive seemed to sate I School’s desire for civic duty. 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