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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
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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
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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.
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