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Money, money, money.
With the shape that today’s economy
is in, that is about all that anyone is think*
ing about. As college students it can be
even tougher, if you are lucky enough to
have a job. Going to college and working
at the same time, is like having two jobs,
but only getting paid for one.
Every department and organization at
this College has been hit some way or
another by the economic crunch. Even if a
group does not have a reduction in funds,
it does have a reduction in the numbers of
staff or faculty members.
All the time we hear about cuts in the
budget, and less things being offered
because of financial difficulties. Just last
week The Print ran a story about the
possibility of the spring term play being
canceled. And at the beginning of winter
term, community colleges joined together
to show legislatures that the two-year in
stitutions cannot afford cuts.
Some of the College’s groups may go
under if they are not supported. That just
should not happen. As students, part of
education is being involved in clubs or
organizations. Our membership to some
group activity is a learning experience. It
is an important part of our education to
get involved in a College organization, and
not just hitting the books and forgetting
about the College the rest of the time.
There are many different clubs and
organizations sponsored by the College
that anyone can get involved in. So, as we
take away time from our working hours to
get an education in the hopes of some day
getting a better job or a better paying job,
part of that education should include
membership in a College club or organiza
tion.
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A look at the weird side of ASG elections
The ASG elections were
held last week. It was not a
pretty picture.
This is an article on the
losers.
By J. Dana Haynes
Actually, what with the
constitutional revisions, there
were only two offices to vote
for, and thus only two winners.
Meanwhile, there were 17
other candidates. We thought
you’d want to know something
about them, too.
Paul Nastari has been
elected President (with 78
votes: not exactly a landslide).
The other contestants were:
Mike Winner with three votes,
Terry Kelly, Mickey Mouse,
and Sam Crosby with two
votes apiece, and Mike Martin,
Jerry Hale, John Schaffer,
Debbie Haugh, Les Taylor,
Greg Betts, Susy Ryan and Ed
Coyne with one vote apiece.
The race for Vice-
President was a bit more ex
citing. Jay Schaller was elected
with 51 votes, followed by
John Schaffer with 50. The
runners-up, with one vote
apiece, were John Pyatt, Rick
Obritschkewitsch, Mark
Spooner, and Jeff.
We’re not sure which Jeff.
Anyway, we couldn’t very
well interview 17 people, so we
talked to as many as we could.
The first obvious, choices
were Sam Crosby, Susy Ryan,
and anyone else who is in the
ASG. But since none of them
were all that crazy about a voter
turn-out of 107 people, in a
school with upwards of 2,000
students, none of them were
available for comment.
(Note: except Susy Ryan.
This year’s erstwhile Vice-
President is indeed free for
comment. In fact, as of
presstime, she’s not-so-
patiently waiting to become a
mother. When we asked her
what she thought about her
vote, she said “Huh?” Susy’s
been kind of preoccupied late
ly.)
The next person we
thought to talk to was Ed
Coyne, a member of the
speech team and a man with
absolutely no political ambi
tions. We asked Ed what he
thought of his one vote. “Well,
look. I got more votes than
THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers
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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 members of THE PRINT.
office: Trailor B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310
editor: Rick Obritschkewltsch
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
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typesetter: Pennle Keefer;
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Ford got in 1972, and he was
President in ’74.”
The next name which
caught our attention was Rick
Obritschkewitsch, who just
happens to be our editor in
chief..
We
asked
Obritschkewitsch what he
thought about his one vote of
confidence.
Rick glowered across his
cancerous in-basket and sug
gested we do something a tad
more noteworthy or we could
find ourselves assigned to fin
ding out what happened to the
little pigs who have shuffled off
this mortal coil and into the
Biology III labs.
. “I’m sorry. Mr. Mouse is
unavailable for comment.”
We asked her if Mouse
had actively run for the office.
“Well, he didn’t tell me. I think
it must have been a write-in
vote.”
We
asked " her,
hypothetically of course, if
Mouse would accept the job,
should something untowards
happen to Nastari, Winner,
Kelly, and Crosby (heaven for
bid).
“I couldn’t speak for Mr.
Mouse, of course, but he does
have a rather good contract
with Disney.”
Moving on, the next ob
vious candidate with high
We took that to mean the
name recognition was Mickey
College couldn’t afford him.
Mouse, who was tied for third
Finally, the nominee for
with this year’s Prexy, Sam
the office of VP who got our
Crosby (Sam was also
journalistic curiosity piqued the
unavailable for comment oh
most was Jeff. The question
that little fact).
was not so much what Jeff
thought,
or would he be a good
We called Disneyland
(1-714-999-4407) and asked second-in-comand. The ques
to speak to Mr. Mouse. After tion was: Jeff who?
several stints on ‘hold’, we
A trivia column that
were connected to his
floated around our office once
secretary.
said that Jeff was amongst the
ten most popular names in
America today. And if we
agree that there are something
like 2,000 students at the Col
lege, then it seemed somehow
safe to say that there could be
as many as 50 Jeffs running
around.-Maybe as few as ten.
Maybe as many as 90.
This was beyond our
capacity as fighting young jour
nalists, of course, so we picked
one Jeff, hoping against hope
that he would be a closet
ASGer.
The one we tried was Jeff
Coffman, also known as Duffy
Coffman, photographer for the
Print.
“I’m extremely proud and
honored that my constituency
came through so well for me,”
he said.
Of course, if you’ve
known any photographers,
you know they’re one of God’s
more unusual creations. It was
entirely possible that Duffy had
ingested some illicite herb and
imagined the whole thing. We
didn’t have the heart to tell him
that, of course.
So we congratulated him.
Now he thinks he’s won.
Readers write
McTeague
right man
To the Editor:
With the Reagan Ad
ministration setting its sites on
the higher education budgets,
we need our Willamette Valley
Congressman to be someone
who will really defend out
school budgets and all forms of
continuing education.
I was there for the debate
over Senate Bill 5563 (during
the special session) when Ruth
McFarland stood up and at
tacked the Governor and the
Legislature as being “enemies
erf the people.”
So I was shocked when,
time to vote, McFarland turned
coat and voted to destroy our
community college budgets,
just like all the other “profes
sional politicians” she had just
castigated.
Mid-valley voters need a
candidate who can beat Denny
Smith, and one who’ll stand up
for higher education when it’s
time to vote--not just when it’s
to make speeches.
We
need
Dave
McTeague, who’ll represent
Oregon in the proud pro
gressive tradition of Senators
Wayne Morse and Mark Hat
field and actively work the
nuclear freeze and peace in El
Salvador.
Sincerely,
Thomas W. Goldkuhle
Marion County Democratic
Precinctperson, precinct No. 1
Salem, OR
Clackamas Community College