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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.
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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
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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.