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Aprì! 18-24
‘Ground Zero Week’
not to go unnoticed
The week of April 18 has been
designated “Ground Zero Week,” by a
group who also call themselves Ground
Zero.
This week is planned to make people
aware of the dangers of nuclear weapon
usage. This will include displays on cam
pus. One of which will be sponsored by
will scare many people, but that is good, it
should. About all it would take from the
Soviet Union, is the push of a button, and
within 20 minutes the majority of the
United States would be wiped out.
A lot of good shelters will be. It would
only take U.S. officials a matter of
seconds to find out that a nuclear attack
has been launched, but the general public
“Friends of the Clackamas Community
College Library.” They hope to have books
and other literature on the subject of
nuclear weapons especially exhibited in
the College library. In an effort to remain a
would not find out until the fatal attack
has struck. Perhaps, even if you made it to
a shelter, you would never know when it
was safe to came out.
non-political group, “Friends” will have
literature on both the pros and cons of
nuclear weapons displayed (if there is
such a thing as pro nuclear weapons).
So the time to act on the nuclear
situation is now, before we are ail too
dead to do anything about it. The United
States and Soviet Union already have
It’s time that everyone looked
literature; especially when it is
made so easily accessible this
Knowing the dangers of a nuclear
enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the
world over and over. So once it is
destroyed, why destroy it again? Besides,
who will be here to destroy it again?
at this
being
week.
attack
Candidates Fair challenges us to put up or shut up
The Associated Student the country, and so the winner
Government will hold a can of the race will have some hand
didates fair for everyone who is in the future , of our state and
running for congress from our country, but somehow I don’t
district on April 19. Chances expect it to be a standing
are, the turn-out of students room-only crowd - watching
will be lousy.
them.
Sure these are tough
times. Sure people are hurting.
But will anyone attend this
By J. Dana Haynes meeting and find out about
their future leaders? Or will
apathy reign supreme?
Someone once said that
That’s a crying shame. It politics is like the weather:
seems that the litany one hears everyone talks about it but no
everyday on the bus or in the one ever does anything. Why is
cafeteria is “Geez, these are that? The Print could now say
tough times,” and in fact they “Go out there and be good
are. People are hurting finan citizens! Go get involved!” But,
cially, small businesses are tur of course, we’ve all heard that
ning to bankruptcy at an alarm before, a million times.
ing rate, and, as one of the
What we will say is that
candidates put it, “the light at this is a chance to size up the
the end of the tunnel is an on future shakers and movers.
coming train.”
Those people who attend the
However, I personally fair and ask questions may
doubt if any students will at learn something about the can
tend this candidates fair. These didates, and about the state
will be the people competing to and country. Those who don’t,
become one of the ten or so won’t. And that’s probably
most important Oregonians in Okay.
Oregon has always had a
sort of laid-back aDDroach to
tilings, it seems. “If it’s gonna
happen, it’s gonna happen. If
we get a Republican, or a
Democrat, or an aardvark in
congress, then that’s the way it
is--and pass me a beer.”
However, if you’re
unemployed, or tired of not
making ends meet, or .if you
don’t trust the fairness or ac
curacy of the media in presen
ting the' candidates (and who
could blame you for that?),
then attend the Candidates
Fair. Listen to the runners,
decide* which one best
represents you, and then'vote.
Or else stop complaining about
politics and the economy. Put
up or shut up, folks, that’s all
there is to it.
More people would help
With the weekly distribu
tion of The Print, it seems with
each issue comes more de
mand. In distributing last
week’s issue of The Print time
was not even given to get the
papers to the stands. People
were coming up and grabbing
papers out of the deliverers’
hands.
That is a great feeling, to
know, that The Print is in that
much of a demand. But
without more help, it is getting
more and more difficult to keep
the weekly issues coming with
a decreasing staff size.
At last count the number
of staff" writers was at 10. That
means that each writer has to
dig up the information for, and
write about 1100 words of
copy per week. In terms of
written out pages that.is about
eight.
The point isThe Print
needs help. Anyone who has
the slightest interest in any
phase of journalism is en
thusiastically welcomed to help
out with The Print. Even if
you cannot contribute on a
regular basis, as long as you are
willing to keep tabs with The
Print on the progress ofstories
and can meet deadlines, The
Print can usé your help.
Ya say yer tired of yer government?
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
'he College administration, faculty, Associated Student Govern
ment or other members of THE PRINT.
office: Traitor B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310
editor: Rick Obrltschkewitsch
news editor: J. Dana Haynes; arts editor: Kristi Blackman
sports editor: Tracy Sumner
photo editor: Duane Hlersche; copy editor: Mike Rose
staff writers: Laura Henkes, Alison Hull,
Thomas A. Rhodes, Darla J. Weinberger
staff photographers: Mike Cato, Duffy Coffman
cartoonist: J. Dana Haynes
business manager: Joan Seely
typesetter: Rennie Keefer;
advisor: Dana Spielmann
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Ya say yer quality of life is the pits?
Tell ya what we’re gonna do!
Send us a letter care of The Print, Trailer B.
We will print any letter that is signed and not obscene or libelous.
Deadlines are Monday at noon. Limit of topics non-existent.
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