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Communique /AND I FOR ONE AH I PROUD TO BE AT THE I HELM OF VOUR BOLD kcONOHtC PROGRAM. T Deja vu Runners excel again cond year as head coach, has not wasted either season. Usually in pre-season inter views, coaches will praise their teams, saying they’re the best team they’ve ever had. You can’t blame them for being op timistic, ‘t’s a necessity to have a suc cessful season. But Sullivan has proved in the past two years that what he says in If you are one of those persons, as pre-season interviews can be counted on you read the sports section of the issue to occur. you’ve got in your hands right now, you might think we published the same event Next time you see any of the follow that took place last year. Or maybe it’s ing people cruising across campus, walk on up to them, and let them know what a “deja vu.” Well, you’re wrong on both counts. good job they’ve done: Kelly Sullivan, The men runners once again earned the ti Vance Blow, Dave Walsh, Tony Macey, tle of Region 18 Champs, but this year Ken Valequez, Jay Marugg, Lynn Purdue, there was a difference, when they went to and Kevin McDermott. the natibnal competition. Instead of taking seventh they sped their way to fourth. By the way, CONGRATULATIONS It’s a remarkable feat that shouldn’t Kelly, Vance, Dave, Tony, Jay, Lynn, and go unnoticed. Kelly Sullivan, now In his se- Kevin. At about this same time last year, if you had the opportunity to read The Print spoils section, you might remember the Cougar men’s cross country team taking first in regionals, and then going on to become the seventh fastest team in the nation. DŸOU W OF THE SUCKER5U) J&UV IT? __ / ONE NUK£.,THATM ALL TM ASKING.'JU5T TO SHOD THE PINK 5TAIN THAT DE PW 1 College Orientation: unnecessary classi Last year I took Psy. Ill Anyone enrolling here at the College should be able to and wrote a news story for The Print about the course. After do the following: -understand and follow talking with other students who have taken the course, I heard simple directions -work and play well with reviews such as “It’s a waste of time and a farce.” others College Orientation -manage their own zip- pers, buttons, shoes, and classes parade around campus led by instructors with incurable boots. cases of bright and sunny cheerfulness. The classes visit obscure places, like the library and say “hello” to any College staff member unfortunate enough to cross their path. For the class members it’s Most college students can do these things. There is no a semester of stuff like-“This is reason to treat them like infan Joe; he works in the library. tile idiots. Here at the College Say hello to Joe. Joe is going there is a course that insults the to show us where the reference intellect of new students and in books are. This is Joe; he troduces them to bureacratic works in the placement parody. The course is called center....” Psychology 111 or College Orientation. Psyc. Ill is not a required course, but as one counselor Dateline: Tuesday, Nov. explained, “We greatly en 17, 2:30 p.m... and Trailer B courage students to take the course, but if a students grabs is a madhouse. You see, it’s a case of the us by the neck we’ll back off. , Part of the problem is that Dreaded Deadline Doom. some instructors do an ex That’s the syndrome in which cellent job and some....” Informing new students of the programs and services available to them at the College is a practical idea. Transfer pro grams, transferable credits, and the like, are confusing and everything runs as smooth as need some explanation. But silk from Wednesday to Mon expanding this subject matter day, and on Tuesday mass into a course that lasts an entire hysteria rears its all-too-familiar head. semester is ridiculous. Sometimes, the problem is Psychology 111 is New Student Orientation Day witfi the headlines, as in not bloated into a semester class having any. Sometimes there combined with the nebulous are no photos for a photo goal of “stressing personal in page. Both of these are what volvement of students and we refer to around here as a faculty with their institution” ac White Hole; a cosmic force that cording to a counselor I inter gobbles whole page plans and viewed last year. leaves nothing but blank By Mike Rose You can almost hear Mister Rogers lilting voice, in the background-“Oh, it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood...” Finding out the location and function of the various places of importance around campus is the purpose of New Student Orientation Day. If a student commits the heinous crime of skipping Orientation Day, most people around cam pus will happily give general in formation and directions. I am sure that Joe in the library will show students where the reference books are even though they haven’t said “helio” to him before hand. There has been no change in the attitudes of students since Psy. Ill classes were ad ded last year. Apathy con- tinues to increase. Student useful information. In the class I took, the m organizations continue to have jor assignment was to learn II fewer and fewer members. Evidently “stressing personal names of .everyone in class, involvement with students and didn’t and I managed to pa faculty in their institution” the course. Somehow I doi means saying “hello” to think I would have become anything that moves. hermit or dropped out if I h< Having a counselor not taken Psy. .111,. Studei available to answer the ques are supposed to -read a t) tions of new students is the on book titled “How to Stud ly value in taking the class. which is similar to “My Di Most questions are on technical Spot” ; matters like transferable credits. Psy. Ill is a waste) These questions can be taken students’ time. It insults theiri care of in a short amount of telligence and maturity. Ini time. As busy as the counseling small way it promotes the ii department claims to be, I think age of Clackamas being a I they could find a more efficient cond rate college. Colle] way to make counselors Orientation needs to I available to new students.. A eliminated or vastly renovall new student has to tie up one or at least have the coul hour a week for a semester to name changed to “Instil obtain about- 20 minutes of tionalized Silliness 101” Does anyone have an opinion? By J. Dana Haynes THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic medium covering the campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opi nions expressed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of the College administration, faculty.Associated Student Govem- ment or ot her staff members of THE PRINT.- ---------------------------- newsprint. And sometimes, like this time, we find the White Hole hath struck on the opinion page. With a crew of about fif teen hard working, earnst- while young journalists, you’d think one of us would have an opinion. On something...on anything. Nope. I usually arrive on campus about noon, and Tuesday was no exception. The trailer, our spmewhat-less-than-sumptious headquarters, was a model of quiet efficiency. People were typing, the Mr. Coffee was heating, the editors (you’ll note I catagorize them differently from ‘people’) were editing, and the advisor was smiling confidently. No late-nighter for us? not this week. So, being the intrepid News Editor, I thought I’d make a token appearance at the weekly ASG Council meeting. That took an hour, more or less, and I was in the vicinity of the ASG offices, so I ly, was this: On the previc dropped-in to talk to Student day, Monday, our Editor R Government President Sam Obritschkewitsch (and n Crosby, a good friend whose none of us know how it’s pi door is always open and who nounced either) said, “Dari can always be found hard at we’re gonna need an editori work behind his desk; a trait Thomas Rhodes’^ write or not shared by many people Mike Rose (our copy edill . who actually have their own will write one, and I’ll wi one. Hell, between the three desks. After a leisurely chat about us, we’re sure to have a ft student government, local good ideas.” Best laid plans, as it we government, federal govern ment and the Dodgers, I Between the three of us, m moseyed over to the cafeteria an inch of public dissent-h for a snickerdoodle and then been written. . So, in his best Perry Wh strolled leisurely back to Trailer B, that haven of profes voice, Rick said, “OK, Hayfl Get in there and compli sionalism and organization. It looked like something about something! I’ve got fa out of a Japanese monster in you! We’ve all got faith you! You’ve got to go out the movie. Copy hadn’t come in, or and whip up an editorial thi worse had come in and was enflame the hearts of millio shorter than expected. And an opinion so controversial ill sure enough, the redoubtable you’ll virtually save this iss White Hole had appeared and single-handedly! Dana, one . for u reduced the opinion page plan write to so much protoplasmic Obritschkewitsch-er!” I still haven’t thought tapioca. The problem, quite simp- one.
