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That’s right, your blood will be broken
down into three parts, to be used for peo
ple with various needs.
And just think, it’s the one time you
can make a donation without feeling it in
your wallet. Plus, the blood you give will
eventually be replaced by new blood pro
duced by your body.
Since your blood will replace itself,
why would anyone not want to give? If
you’re able to pass all the tests the Red
Cross representatives have prepared for
you, there’s only one thing left for you to
do, GIVE BLOOD!
Sure there are people who feel a little
sick after donating blood; but what’s a
short period of illness compared to those
three people you’d be helping?
With the blood drive scheduled for
next Monday you’ve got plenty of time to
get yourself mentally and physically
prepared for the feat. So be in the Com
What’s 45 minutes and one pint of munity Center next Monday sometime bet
blood, when you think about the three peo ween 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and give just one
pint of your blood.
ple’s lives you could be sustaining.
I finally get to do it. Coming next Mon
day I’ll have my first chance to donate
blood.
It may seem like no big deal, but when
you go through your whole life not being
able to do something, then you finally can,
it’s such a major accomplishment.
As I wrote in an editorial last term, I
had been on medication for most of my
life, and have just recently been taken off
of it. Well, for some strange reason the
Red Cross, or anyone else for that matter,
didn’t want my polluted blood.
So being off the stuff, I’m naturally
going to jump at the first moment anyone
asks me to donate blood.
But why wouldn’t anybody want to
donate blood? The actual extraction only
takes about ten minutes--45 minutes for
the whole thing-from medical history to
the post-extraction feast.
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Performing Center; necessity, not luxury
Every department is trying
to figure out new ways to com
promise with the financial situa
tion.
The main concern is
holding on until the crunch is
over. But it is hard to keep
enrollment up when some
departments are lacking the
proper resources to provide the
services that attract community
interest.
By Tina Riggs
Since the community pro
vides much of the required fun
ding, we must figure out new
ways to keep enrollment and
interest up, while keeping costs
to a minimum.
I believe I have a partial
solution to the problem. The
fine arts program is suffering
badly because of declining
enrollment, lack of proper
facilities, and community con
cern.
staff
We can’t blame the com large meetings as well. This
munity for their “take-it-or- would also allow the theater to
leave-it” attitude toward the be used for outside produc
fine arts program. After all, tions.
who would pay to see a play in
a small, hot theater which is
Moving the theater depart
constantly having equipment
failures, and a set that looks as ment from McLoughlin Hall
if it was pasted together with would then leave the present
playdough because they have theater to be used by the video
technology department. The
no workshop to build it in?
dressing rooms and classroom
And who wants to attend space would then be a great
a musical concert in a room asset to the quality of their pro
with terrible acoustics? And ductions, making the entire
who will watch a video pro program more professional.
gram when the faces are white
The music department
with glare because it had to be
could also be housed in the
filmed in just a few minutes?
new building. They have no
acoustically sound room for
With so many problems, it
rehearsal or performing. To ex
seems as if the cost of fixing
pand their classroom space
any one of them would be too
much. But what if we could kill
five birds with one stone? My
solution for all the departments
is to build a Fine Arts Center.
The new building could
house a larger, more effective
I am shocked and appall-
theater which could accom ed by remarks made by
modate not only theatrical pro students about some of the art
ductions, but concerts and pieces around campus.
Although I personally know
nothing about
art, I suspect
that criticism of these art pieces
stems from ignorance.
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 Govern
ment or other staff members of THE PRINT.
office: Trailor B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310
editor: Rick Obritschkewitsch
news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Tina Riggs
feature editor: David J. Hayden
sports editor: Wanda Percival
photo editor: Duane Hlersche; copy editor: Mike Rose
staff writers: Melanie Bigham, Kristi Blackman, Amy De Vour,
Laura Henkes, Thomas A. Rhodes, Tracy Sumner,
Darla Weinberger
staff photographers: Reid Carscadden, Duffy Coffman
cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes
business manager: Joan Seely
sales: Angle Rogantlne
typesetter: Pennie Keefer; graphics: Lynn Griffith
advisor: Dana Spielmann
would provide the department
with the atmosphere it needs tb
produce great musicians.
Student Publications could
then move into the second
floor of Randall Hall. With a
small amount of remodeling to
construct a darkroom, the area
would be ideal for the
newspaper staff. The location,
and rooms available would be
much more efficient than
Trailer B.
The dance classes of the
Physical Education department
would also benefit from the
new building. The only
available room now is too small
and hinders the amount of
classes available per week.
A fine arts center would
not only benefit the College
and its students by increasing
the quality of the education
here, but would also benefit the
community . Students would be
better equipped to go to a four-
year college or to work in the
community. The events taking
place in the new theater would
be for the whole community
good entertainment in the local
area instead of Portland, and a
plate for aspiring entertainers
to start a career. The fnonej
coming in from the shows there
would also benefit the College;
Most of all, it would be a place
for students to learn the art!
and be exposed to the kind ol
culture this community ha!
always had to offer, but. neve
had the chance to before.
Culture buffs unite!
Art is not a pretty picture
By Mike Rose
Take for example the
newest art addition, the eagle
painting, hanging above the
Fireside Lounge in the Com
munity Center. Now that’s
good art. Yet, a friend of mine
said, in regard to the eagle’s
bountiful bosom, “It looks like it
should be wearing a bra.”
To most of us the painting
does appear to be ugly, cheap,
and preposterous. But this is
because most of us are simple
peons.
We have not learned to
appreciate art. Sometimes art
appreciation is a lot like pickled
beets. When I was grade school
age, at the dinner table, I can
remember Mom screaming at
me “It’s just not going to disap
better
pear so you . had
leam to like it.”
the painting was done on a
4X8 foot sheet of plywood ii
gold, black and silver paint.
The artist said he only charged
ASG for the material costs ol
$350.
The artist’s business agen
said the paint would be worth
$10,000. This was definitely a
once in a lifetime offer, not soli
I still hate pickled beets,
in stores.
but that’s beside the point.
Another painting was
needed in the Community
Center so it would continue to
be the cultural nucleus of the
county. The Community
Center lounge is one of the few
places where one can hang
around, drink coffee, smoke,
make stone tools, propagate
the species, and enjoy good
art.
Besides being a real sight,
the painting was a bargain.
From ground level, it looks like
Some ASG members
were old stick-in-the-muds
They didn’t- see any need for
anymore art work in the Com
munity Center. Fortunately
the majority of the ASG was
not gullible enough to be in
fluenced by a few wet blankets
Finally, the painting was!
tremendous investment. Jus
think, if ASG ever runs short a
money they can hock it ant
make a quick $10,000.