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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1982)
EVENTS CALENDAR Wednesday, Dec, 1 Private Pilot’s Seminar I I I BR A & B I I 7-10:00 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2 Traffic Appeals Board CC 101 ||5;00 p.m. 1 I I •I I I I I I I I I I Friday, Dec. 3 “Appointment With Death” llheater 8-10:00 p.m. I t I I 1 I 1 I I I I I 1 Saturday, Dec. 4 I Sunday, Dec. 5 Explorer Scouts ' Olympics i Old Time Fiddlers Jam I CC Mall Gym 8:00 a.m. * 5 p.m. ! 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. * Vol. XVI, No. 8 Viet Nam vet Ricketson represents Oregon Ballot Measure, press relations top conference The Community College’s taxes. The community colleges of Oregon Student Associa receive a large proportion of tions and Commissions their budgets from taxes. (CCOSAC) held its Fall Brenda Babcock of the Workshop on Nov. 19-21. The Oregon Committee (a lobbying conference was, in the opinion organization) and Bob of the Executive Chairperson Scanlon, a banker and former Brian Gardner, “the most pro manager of the Multnomah ductive CCOSAC workshop County tax collection agency, that I’ve been involved with. spoke to the gathered students The Community College’s of on what changes, if any, the this state are really coming of tax systems of the state will age.” undergo. By T. Jeffries Of The Print It was called the “National Salute to Viet nam Veterans” and it was five days of events and celebrations culminating in the dedication in Washington D.C., Saturday Nov. 13, of a V-shaped slab of black granite inscribed with the names of all 57,692 Americans killed or listed as “missing, presumed dead” during the Vietnam War. Attending that dedication were 65 Orego nian veterans, including Clackamas Community College Video Technology Instructor Carlos Ricketson. “I went back to a conference in New York City and then went down to Washington D.C. and joined the Oregon group,” Ricketson said. Ricketson, 35, was in Navy boot camp in 1964 when the Tonkin Gulf incident launched America into the war. He was stationed in various posts throughout Viet Nam, finally being discharged three and a half years later. He arriv ed home in time to watch the massive “Tet Of fensive” on T.V. “I was glad to be at home wat ching that one. My unit was hit pretty hard in that, some of my buddies were killed,” he said. The memorial and dedication, though con troversial, pleased Ricketson. “It was a good way to memorialize those who made the supreme sacrifice. It (the memorial) is black and set into a hillside like a tomb, a tomb of recognition.” The memorial was planned, built and fund ed through a private venture by a Viet Nam veteran. It cost $7 million to construct and took three years to get the funding from individuals, businesses and corporations. Permission was granted to put the memorial in the D.C. mall where Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson memorials are located, and each state was asked to send a delegation of veterans. Each group had to raise their own funding. Events the week before the dedication in cluded senate hearings on benefits for the families of men killed in Viet Nam and a ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetary. The dedication was preceded by a big parade from the Capitol building to the memorial. “It was real inspiring,” Ricketson said. “Peo ple were applauding and saying ‘Welcome home.’ D.C. people were bending over backwards to be nice. They were always buying us drinks and some cab drivers weren’t accepting money from us. It was a national coming-home party and it was needed. There was no coming home process at the time. By the time the war was over everyone was tired of Viet Nam, they didn’t want to deal with, it. Everyone was too burnt out,” he said. Several Clackamas Corn- Babcock felt that a Ballot- rhunity College students at Measure-3-type bill will un tended the three-day affair, in doubtedly come up for vote in cluding Associated Student two years if the state legislature Government members, the does not change the current tax Editor in Chief of The Print, system. “It (Measure 3) cannot and Gardner, who is a student be defeated again,” Babcock at the College. said. “The measure that was The conference was held written on Ray Phillips’ kitchen at Portland Community Col table almost caused chaos in lege’s Sylvania (Beaverton) this state.” Phillips was the campus, and drew represen originator of Measure 3. Other sessions at the con tatives from all 13 Oregon community colleges. The pur ference included a cadre of stu poses of the workshop were dent editors from throughout varied, and included sessions the state, who fielded questions on effective student govern- from the various ASG ment/student newspaper rela members. The Editors In Chief tions, the management respon included Bob Malchow of Cen sibilities of an ASG and “The tral Oregon Community, Implications of Measure 3; Wayne Allen of Chemeketa, How Oregon Taxes Will Be Reid Idleford of PCC, Kevin Violette of Clatsop County Restructured.” Ballot Measure 3 was an Community, Steve Ouellette of initiative that would have Rogue Community and J. severely cut back property Dana Haynes of Clackamas.