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.
So it wouldn’t do to thit
that the students of CCCjn
don’t care. They do; it «
simply bad luck.
Clackamas Community Colleÿ
Page 2
I
I
1
u
• 1
°
L*
a*
b*
3S
U
«
-r—i 1
hr
1 1 1 |a• JLjJ
1 ¿ 1
$ S3 |¿3 I SS
1 ** 1 »“ I*0’1 ,as1.
............................................
10
97.06
-0.40
1.13
11 (A)
92.02
-0.60
0.23
12
87.34
-0.75
0.21
I 1
I 82
I .1
I i
0.04
0.09
0.15
(