Communique_____ _______
Project Visibility plan fades from view
Project Visibility. It
was a good idea, but it’s
not working.
The project was pro­
posed to let people know
what the College has to of­
fer, as well as its needs.
The problem lies in the fact
that not enough people are
involved in the project, or in
fact, know that it exists.
It seems the brunt of
how successful the project
will be has been dropped in
the lap of the Public Infor­
mation Office (PIO). It is
not something that PIO can
handle all on its own.
PIO can put out as
many press releases as is
possible. Even if the staff
size were doubled, then the
office would be able to get
out twice as much informa­
tion as is now being done.
But that would have
about as much effect as
cutting the PIO staff in half.
There still wouldn’t be any
more information pertain­
ing to the College publish­
ed in any of the profes­
sional newspapers.
You’ve got to realize
that
professional
newspapers have got quite
a few stories coming
across the copy editor’s
desk, hoping to be publish­
ed. The fact of the matter
What is federal bankruptcy?
The government of the
United States of America just
went belly-up. Not for good, of
course. They didn’t close the
By J. Dana Haynes
doors or sell the Pentagon to
the highest bidder. In fact, last
minute dickering resulted in a
compromise budget, and kept
the greatest power in the free
world from closing shop.
What does it mean when
one’s government runs out of
money? We asked several
students and faculty members
what, in their opinions, this
situation meant:
“I dunno...”
“It means that ‘Joe
Working-Guy’ gets screwed.
You see, the government is the
people, and the people pay the
bills, and that pays for the
government, and on and on.
The vicious circle thing.”
“Wow, that’s a toughie...I
guess it means we’re going to
be in debt, huh?”
“It means they screwed
up, doesn’t it?”
“Who cares! Deficit spen­
ding is in, right? So why not?”
“Well, I suppose it means
cutting everything back, except
the CIA and military and things
like that.”
“I think it means we’re on
our own now ”
“Who is bankrupt?”
“I_ don’t know. I never
thought about it.”
So there you have an idea
of how most people view the
world of economics. One last
note: a concerned student
Monday called the College and
asked, “Since the government
is broke / does that mean I don’t
have to come to school?”
is, only about 20 percent c
the stories that a cop
editor sees, end up bein
published with mos
newspapers.
So who dobs the
leave the success or failur
of Project Visibility up t(
You guessed it. It’s th
students and faculty, an
anyone who cares aboi
the College.
When something in
teresting
happen
resulting from College a<
tivities, let people knov
and spread the word. If yo
don’t let people knot
what’s going on at the Co
lege, they may never know
It
has
to
b
remembered, even when
story dealing with the Col
lege does get published i
a professional newspapei
it will end up being sma
and buried, therefore, ran
ly read.
Readers write
New ‘Sister’
bad move
tion ignorant of world affairs.”
(Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Natl.
Geographic Atlas of the World,
1981)
Unneeded
word used
To the Editor:
A sister college, unfor­
tunately, is not going to pro­
vide enough exposure to as
many CCC students as possi­
ble, in order to help them be
educated globally.
To the Editor:
Acknowledging a new
member’ of the family—the
family of man—is a positive
gesture, and yet....
‘“Human history becomes
more and more a race between
education and catastrophe,’
H.G. Wells «warned years ago
(sic.). Sometimes it seems that
chaos is overtaking us.
Americans are headed ‘toward
virtual
scientific
and
technological illiteracy,’ accor­
ding to a recent government
report, which also points out
that the United States trails the
Soviet Union, Japan, and West
Germany in rigorously pro­
moting mathematics and
science programs in elemen­
tary and secondary schools.”
“And George Gallups
speaks of the ‘tremendous
political illiteracy’ that he
discovered as he tested U.S.
high-school students. He found
that a quarter didn’t know that
New Jersey is on the East
Coast, or that Oregon is on the
West. More than half didn’t
realize that California is the
most populous state. A majori­
ty didn’t know the size of
Canada, or that Mexico has
more people than Canada.
Some thought that Angola is in
Siberia, and many couldn’t
name the major language of
Latin America. Another
survey, testing global
understanding among college
students, found a large propor­
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What we need at CCC,
above all, is a commitment in
substance, beyond words, to
an honest, serious, quality cur­
riculum in International Educa­
tion, and we must even let it
cost us some money. Interna­
tional Education, to be interna­
tional of course, includes
foreign languages. Without it,
knowledge of global dynamics
resides strictly in digital solid­
state test kits!
So is the sister to be an or­
phan from the start at CCC?
Magdalena Ladd
Foreign Language Department
In your last issue of The
Print yoq said no one had an
opinion (“Does anyone have
an opinion”, by J. Dana
Haynes). Well, I have one.
Your article was very
humorous, but one word
caught my eye that was uncall­
ed for. There is no need for the
use of foul language in any cir­
cumstance. Most people use
this sort of language when they
get upset, but you were using
humor, which really surprised
me.
Some people will not read
anything that has this kind of
language in it. So maybe you
could get a few more readers
without using these kinds of
words.
You should not use this
language in papers, or any kind
of public reading, as you are
teaching young kids the wrong
things to do. After all, kids
learn from adults. Would you
want your children to grow up
talking this way?
.Well, I know that if yo
didn’t use these words yo
would have at least one mo
reader, me.
God Bless You,
Shirley Obritschkewitsch
staff
THE PRINT, a member, of the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers Association, aims to be a fair and impar­
tial journalistic medium covering the campus com­
munity as thoroughly as possible. Opinions express­
ed in THE PRINT do not necessarily reflect those of
the College administration, faculty, Associated Stu­
dent Government or other staff members of THE
PRINT.
office: Trailer B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310
editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch
news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Tina Riggs
feature editor: Amy DeVour
sports editor: Wanda Percival k
photo editor: Duane Hiersche; copy editor: Mike Rose
staff writers: Kristi Blackman, Alison Hull
Thomas A. Rhodes, Tracy Teigland, Darla Weinberger
staff photographers: Duffy Coffman, Jay Graham
cartoonists: Jim Adams, J. Dana Haynes
business manager: Joan Seely
typesetter: Pennie Keefer; graphics: Lynn Griffith
advisor: Dana Spielmann
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