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Calendar of events
Wednesday, Oct. 19......................Soccer: Portland Community
College, there, 3 p.m.
Understanding the Soviets
series: “Ethnicity, Federalism
and Soviet Politics.”
McLoughlin Theatre, 7:30
p.m., Free.
Thursday, Oct. 20........................“Singles to Couples” Com
munity Center Dining Room,
7-10 p.m. $3.
Saturday, Oct. 22 ........................ “Take Charge Day” Randall
Gymnasium. 8 a.m. registra
tion, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.
Men’s and Women’s cross
country at Pier Park Invita
tional (University of
Portland).
Tuesday, Oct. 25..,................... .Movie: “The Thin Man,”
Part of series, “World of
Crime,” McLoughlin
Theatre, 2:30 and 6:30 p.m.
Free. Co-hit “In Cold
Blood.”
Tri-Met inadequacy
frustrating to student
By Rob Conner
Sports Editor
Who rides the bus? Well,
not me anymore.
Upon returning home
from Olympia Sunday, the
Greyhound bus deposited me
at the bottom of Oregon City. ’
Last time I got off the
Greyhound, I just walked up1
the hill (three miles) to my
apartment. I figured it was a
savings of 50 cents.
This time, suffering from
a cold, I decided to forfeit the
50 cents and ride Tri-Met up
the hill. The Tri-Met bus sign
said that both busses 32 and 33
wind up at Clackamas Com
munity College.
After standing at that cor
ner for 45 minutes the bus
finally showed. I boarded,
forked over 49 cents (the bus
driver didn’t notice I gypped
him a penney, uninten
tionally), and was on my way
up the hill, I thought.
The bus traveled along
the bottom of the hill and then
stopped about a half a mile
from the spot I caught it.
“That’s it, that’s as far as
I go,” the bus driver said.
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“How do I get to the top of
the hill,” I asked politely,
figuring I would have to
transfer busses. “Well, I guess
you’re gonna have to hitch
hike,” the driver said with a
grin. I figure he was just trying
to get even because I acciden
tally ripped him off by a cent.
I would like to know why
the Tri-Met sign neglected to
inform me that the bus doesn’t
go to the top of the hill on
Sundays.
And why don’t the busses
go to the College on Sun
days? I found out the obvious
reason when I made a phone
call down to the Tri-Met of
fice. “Apparently because
there isn’t enough ridership up
there on Sundays,” a Tri-Met
spokesperson said. Of course.
One is enough as far as I
am concerned. I think I will
write them a letter and at least
demand my 49 cents back.
After all it is their fault, right?
I learned my lesson, I’m
just not going to ride the bus
anymore. It’s too complicated
with all of the different zones
and everything. If everybody
stops riding the bus then there
won’t be enough ridership
anywhere.
“School With Ashtrays
syndrome mars college
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By Doug Vaughan
_______ Editor in Chief_____________
Once a reputation always a reputation, or
is it? When I considered Clackamas Communi
ty College as a start to my furthered education,
the phrase “ a high school with ashtrays”
always popped up.
Is this an accurate estimate? Sometimes I
wonder.
My first impressions with the College were
nothing of the sort, but the longer I was
associated with it the more the title fit.
The atmosphere of the College is definitely
different than high school, and, I have to ad
mit, better. But that is not the reason why the
label “high school with ashtrays” is put on
Clackamas.
If it is not the foolish activities such as lip
sync competitions, etc., then I do not have the
faintest idea. Sure lip sync seemed kind of in
teresting the first term of my college education,
but then realize my high school tendencies were
still a part of me.
Let’s be reasonable adults (like we assume
we are), lyp sync is not a behavior that college
students should be partaking in three times a
year. Especially considering the raw talent that
some students possess. Why use simulated
talent?
^Lnother reason that possibly could be a
factor in the name tagging is the staff. Cheap
shot, right? Well, sometimes I wonder.
It would seem to me that the staff would
try to promote the ‘higher’ in higher education.
The majority of the staff does, but my inspira
tion of some staff members is that they think
they are still involved with high school.
Are you ex
cited? mad?
happy? over
whelmed?
underwhelm
ed? intrigued?
insane? fran
tic? Or just
want to be
heard? Write
us, Trailer B.
A prime example was a telephone call by a
student report to a department chairperson. No
problem, just a potential professional jour
nalist trying to get some information, from a
higher official.
As the chairperson put the phone down to
verify information, he uncautiously referred to
the student as a “kid” for The Print, “the
school’s ragsheet.” Nothing like a good shot in
the arm for your ego.
First of all, “kids” are still in high school;
I refer to college students as men or women. We
are adults, aren’t we?
Secondly, when discussing professional
business ’“ragsheet” seems to be hardly the
word to use. Yes, I use the word profes
sional—we are the journalists of tomorrow and
act on a professional basis. “Ragsheet” sounds
like the high school lingo—does this chairper
son think that this is high school?
If the hierarchy of the College looks at this
as a type of high school, then no wonder it got
its reputation as a “high school with ashtrays.”
As a second year student, I try to look at
Clackamas as a college, like I believe it was in
tended to be looked at. To me, the programs
that the College offers and most everyone in
volved with it are far above my humdrum years
of high school.
But it does not take a whole lot to ruin a
school’s reputation, and I think that Clackamas
should realize that. For the most part the school
is what it should be, but in its shadow lie faults
which are giving it a bad name.
Remember, this is a college and we are all
adults. As students, we expect to be treated that
way. Syncronizing our lips to words in a song
might be a talent, but making fools out of
ourselves is not.
One other problem, how can we be a
fulfilled institution without left-handed desks?
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. Opinions expressed in THE PRINT do not
necessarily reflect those of the College administration, facul
ty, Associated Student Government or other members of
THE PRINT. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S.
Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045.
Office: Trailer B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309, 310
Editor In Chief: Doug Vaughan
News Editor: Shelley Ball
Arts Editor: J. Dana Haynes
Sports Editor: Rob Conner
Photo Editor: Joel Miller
Cartoonist: Ward Moore
Staff Writers: DeAnn Dietrich, Charlene Jensen, Kathy Johnson, Renee
Rickard, Kristen Tonole, Heather Wright
Staff Photographers: Kim McAbee, Russ McMillen, Jim Skates,
Jason Webb, Dan Youngquist
Business Manager: Shelley Stone
Typesetter: Terri Hannaford
Advisor: Sara Wichman
Clackamas Community College