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communique’ EDGWû/d/ Summer fun aside: Keep an eye on Salem Well, it looks like school is finally over for another year. One more week, and we can all relax and “get into” the summer-mode. One word of warning, however. While you and I are working on our tans and hurl ing frisbees, the Oregon Congress will pro bably be in another special session. As you may remember, in early January, the Congress began a special session, to figure out what should be done about the state's deficit spending. In Oregon, it’s illegal for the state govern ment to spend more than it makes. So the solons returned from their Christmas vacations, and tried to come up with a viable solution. The session became a marathon, and soon broke every record In Oregon’s history for longevity. Fortunately for us, the 13 community colleges, speaking through the collective voice of the Com munity Colleges of Oregon Student Associations and Commissions (CCOSAC), escaped with only a 9.1 per cent reduction in funds. Unfortunately, that special session was using facts and figures which were hopelessly optimistic. If everything was for the best in this best of all possible worlds, then the state would now be on a zero-based spending pattern. In fact, we’re still deep in a deficit, and the smart money in Salem is saying that there will be a summer special ses sion; one that will make January’s look like a picnic. So the moral of the story? Go ahead and have fun this summer. Ljsten to Beach Boys tunes and watch Coppertone ads, but also keep a wary eye on the nightly news. There will be no horde of students gathering on the steps of the capital to protest cuts. When the cuts come, and come they will, the impact will be awesome and visi ble. Unless the community colleges get in credibly lucky, and CCOSAC is an even better lobbying team than we think they are, this College and its 12 brethren will be markedly different when school resumes in the fail. If school resumes in the fall. Nuclear threat not new Readers write Children get bad rap To The Editor RE: May 1982 Issue - Terrence Shumaker Letter Twice in his polemic con demning the inappropriate behavior of some students in Barlow Hall, Mr. Shumaker made the analogy that the en vironment and behavior of these “children” were similar to that of a Day Care Center. I’d like to invite Mr. Shumaker to leave Barlow Hall and travel across campus to Orchard Center to visit the Campus Child Care Center. He will find, much to his er roneous assumptions, a clean, well kept environment, free of debris, litter, and dessicated plants and upwards of forty children (ages 6 months to 6 years), who know how to han- dle food, use pleasant language with each other and into whose heads have not even entered the notion of throwing water (readily available) at each other. I sympathize with Mr. Shumaker’s dismay at the state of affairs in Barlow Hall; but I resent his ascribing to “children” the negative and destructive bahavior he observes in Barlow. THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association, alms 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 members of THE PRINT. office: Trallor B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309 or 310 editor: j. Dana Haynes; news editor: Rick Obrltschkewltsch 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 advertising/sales: Angie Rogantine typesetter: Pennle Keefer; advisor: Dana Spielmann u__________ i_____________ page 2 Obritschkewitsch By Rick A quick review of any text book in human/ljfespan development would indicate that the behavior he witnesses is characteristic of adolescents, rather than preschoolers. Mr. Shumaker is welcome to both work and learn at the Child Development Center anytime Barlow becomes too much for him. Myra Lunn Child Development Center Supervisor “The Print” is in need of writers, photographers and good-deed doers for 1982-83. If you fit the bill, contact us in Trailer B or at ext. 309.^ It seems people have sud denly come to an awareness of how dangerous nuclear weapons can be. The atomic bomb has been around for about 40 years, but people have only really feared its destructive powers for the past few. It has been stated that the generation now graduating from high school is the first generation who has had to live with the fear of unwarned an nihilation. That is just not true. That threat has been around for nearly half a century. The difference now, is that people have become aware of this threat. A very simple way of fin ding out how naive people have been about nuclear weapons, is to watch the humorous, but frightening movie “Atomic Cafe.” What this film does is take you back to the beginnings of the atomic age. You go back to when there were films that told peo ple all that was necessary to do, if an atomic bomb were drop ped, would be to “duck and cover.” The film, is extremely f Finals schedule Exam/Day Time Monday 10-12 10 M 8 m .12 M 2-4 2 M 4-6 Conflicts humorous until you realize that none of the things in the film are made up. And that type of training was taking place right up to the 1960’s. So it has really only been in the last 20 years that the threat of nuclear weaponry has been realized. That is, if there really is a threat. It may be that die only threat that exists, is that, “If you drop the bomb on us, we’ll drop one on you.” But in looking back at history, there will always be someone who will drop a bomb without really thinking about the conse quences. To show just how much Americans are thinking about nuclear war, it is estimated that 40 books will be published on that subject in the coming year. Plus, just think about how much this topic was discussed during speeches on the past Memorial Day. It is not that we now have die first generation who has had to worry about nuclear destruction, but it is the , first generation who has realized there is something to worry about. Tuesday 7:30 T 9 T 10:30- T •IT 2:30 T Wednesday 9 M '11 M 1 M 3 M Conflicts Clackamas Community College