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of federal appointmen
Congratulations, Dr. Hakanson.
In last week’s issue of The Print it was
reported that College President Dr. John
Hakanson had been appointed to a White
House Committee on Aging, thus con-?
gratuiations are in order.
Dr. Hakanson gave welcoming
remarks at the “Global 2000 Report to the
President” discussion meeting (story
pages 1 and 5) last Friday evening.
As he Began his remarks, Dr. Hakan
son stated, “Your applause has blown my
contribution way out of proportion. Some
days if you’ll come out here (to the Col
lege) you’ll see on the meeting agenda 1
“Dr. Hakanson-Welcome”. If you come
back at noon, you’ll see a luncheon
meeting agenda that will say, “Dr.
Hakanson-Remarks”. Sometimes in the i
evening, maybe on the same day another
agenda schedule will say, “Dr. Hakan$
Comments”. I get to do all of those he
duty obligations.”
Dr. Hakanson was giving his ope
remarks.in a lighthearted manner, to
fills a far more important role than sir
an introductory speaker at various Col,
functions.
The White House has recognized
by making Dr. Hakanson part of a con
tee on aging. Hakanson is the i
delegate from Clackamas County on
committee pf 250.
It is not surprising that Hakans
qualifications did not go unnoticed
has chaired various senior oil
organizations, and has submitted rq
on older citizens and employment to
officials.
Once again, congratulations,
Hakanson.
Election results: senators get no-vot
Last Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, the students of
the College were asked to dust
By J. Dana
, Haynes
off their civic pride and vote for
members of the Associated
Student Government. We
were asked to take about five
minutes of our time and look
over the ballots. But, with few
exceptions, we did not.
Some interesting statistics
pop to mind when one thinks
about the voting turn-out at the
school. There are approx
imately 10,000 day-time
students, both part- and full-
time on campus. When yoq
count in the night school and
off-campus students, we’ve got
a total population more than
20,000.
tional turn-out. In feet, it’s
awful. It works.outto about 1.3
percent of the day-tiiqe student
body giving a damn.
ASG President Sam
Crosby was- disappointed by
the lack of interest. “Fm awfully
concerned about students’
desires and responsibilities
toward student-oriented ac
During the three days of tivities. We were expecting a
voting, 128 brave souls cast much better turn-out.”
their two-cents worth.
So what happened? Mass
As most people would apathy seems to have taken
agree, this is hardly a sensa- over and this writer was hardly
Readers write
Professionalism sadly lacking
To the Editor:
I’m an* engineer at
Tektronix; I graduated from
college in June. Tonight I had
my first class at CCC.
I wasn’t an English major,
so I’m not an expert in gram
mar or sentence structure... it
really hurt me, though, to read
The Print tonight. The feeling
was as much embarrassment
for the community image of
CCC as it was hurt at the sad
lack of professionalism that I
saw in The Print. It made me
want to sit down right away
and write a letter... and Fm not
the letter-writing type.
This letter isn’t meant to
criticize you personally, Rick
(Obritschkewitsch, editor). Fm
writing this because I wonder if
you might scale your paper
down, in size and scope, and
do some intensive editing and
proof reading before you print
The Print.
page 2
Take Thomas A Rhodes*
opinion
piece
on
Reaganomics, for example: I
never did figure out exactly
what he was trying to say. An
opinion piece needs to be con
cise, readable, and straight for
ward if its writer hopes to in
fluence anyone’s opinion;
Rhode’s piece was, none of
those. His pseudo-intellectual
style especially the first two
paragraphs, didn’t add to his
effectiveness... it destroyed it.
Any writer who hopes to take
on. the problems feeing the na
tional government needs to
convince readers of his or her
knowledge and intelligence...
Fm afraid that Rhodes’.run-on
sentences made him look like a
high-schooler, not someone
who should be on the staff of a
college newspaper.
J. Dana Haynes’ MX
missile cartoon was great! Im
probably, biting, a good
representation of the combina
tion feud/friendship the
speaker (Thomas “Tip”
O’Neill) has with the president
(Ronald Reagan) these days...
but he misspelled O’Neill’s
name. What a letdown...
Enough (more than
enough) said... Pm really not
eloquent enough to be making
these high-and-mighty com
ments about your paper. But
please do yourself—and the
CCC image--a favor... work
harder on your paper.
Sincerely,
Jerry Peek
EDITOR’S RESPONSE:
We (The Print) pro
bably did take on more
than we should have in our
first issue, going twelve
pages instead of eight.
We appreciate any
comments and/or sugges
tions on improving The
Print.
OK. Your turn. Wl
immune. I was standing by the
ASG office, killing time, and we do?
waiting for someone to say was thronged with peop
something quotable, when Joe something out of a N
Rockwell. The voting booths
Schweizer, assistant to
resembled a ghost town.
president asked me if Fdi
‘People are always com
yet. There, not two-feet
plaining, griping and moping,”
me, were the voting h
said Crosby, “but they won’t
They stood obtrusively!
take time to vote.” He also
middle of the floor and I
pointed out that Red Cross was \
to admit I hadn’t seen-
on campus last week and left
before. So I voted,
with 89 pints of blood, well
because Fd scrawled “Vi
short of their'goal.
day,” on my calendar, b
What’s the problem? of a combination of
There was a time when you taneous citizenship and ei
could always count on college rassment.
The apathy was no
students to get involved, even
if no one else would. This is not evident on Friday. There
an editorial designed to right free ice cream feed, held
some age-old wrong, but only the intention of getting pi
to shed some light on a very within the vicinity of the
booths. The ice cream?
serious problem. “
staff
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Association, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic med
covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible.!
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the College administration, faculty, Associated Student Go*
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news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Una Riggs
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staff writers: Kristi Blackman, Alison Hull
Thomas A. Rhodes, Tracy Teigland, Daria Weinberger
staff photographers: Duffy Coffman, Jay Graham
cartoonists: Jim Adams, J. Dana Haynes
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typesetter: Pennie Keefer; graphics: Lynn Griffith
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