Dome would bring in badly-needed revenue
Guest Editorial By
J. Jason
Let’s stop turning our backs. Did
you all enjoy the Springsteen concert?
The Jacksons? Are you looking for
ward to seeing Prince?
How ’bout those NFL playoffs?
They sure were exciting. You did get to
attend all of these events, didn’t you?
Of course you didn’t, unless you were
one of the ones that helped out the
pocketbooks of Seattle and Tacoma
residents. Essentially, we sat around
while Washington drained our pockets
by holding these events in something
known as a “domed stadium.”
Lately, talk of Portland’s own dom
ed stadium has been raised. With the
arrival of the USFL’s Breakers, there,
are some who seem to feel we have the
potential to support this club.
True, we do have the potential, but
at this time we don’t have the facilities.
If you think for a moment that a major
league football franchise can survive
within the Civic’s less-than-mediocre,
32,500-person-capacity stadium, then
you better put the brpwn paper sack on
right now. If, in fact, the Breakers
receive half of the support it looks like
I
they’re going to get, it will be awfully
sad.
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After one season, when the
Breakers’ owners look back at the at
tendance totals and figure all of the
profits they could’ve made, they will
either demand a larger stadium or
move.
And boy, it’s going to be fun sitting
on the Civic’s bleachers in the rain,
isn’t it?
Oh, I almost forgot...The Blazers
too. How many straight sellouts have
we had? Only the computer knows. If
we had a facility comparable to
Seattle’s Kingdome we’d all get to see
Bowie, Paxson and the rest of the boys
Of The Print
A recent legal battle in
Nevada involving- the rights of
high school newspapers to ac
cept advertising from Planned
Parenthood Services has left
me wondering what has hap
pened to the concept of free
speech.
In what is being reported as
the first court case involving
family planning providers’
free-speech right to advertise
in high school publications
that accept advertising, 10
high school principals from
In the course of a standard news story the
writer does not have the opportunity to give
a long, complicated analysis of his subject,
but the luxury of a column like this one
almost demands it. So now I seize the chance
to point out a couple perspectives to think
about regarding our page one story last week
about former ASG President Metzker’s
resignation.
First, the College community here can be
grateful for the monitoring of academic pro
gress that is done by either the Financial Aid
Office or some advisor. In the Metzker case
it was Debbie Baker.
No one will deny that there is a big adjust
ment to be made from any lifestyle to the
collegiate world. If you are a high schooler
experiencing college for the first time or an
older person who is changing your career,
you probably need the occasional push and
guidance that many at this College give.
The only sad thing about Metzker’s
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Clackamas Community College
What a challenge selling 40,000 seats
would be. That’s how many Sonic fans
can see an NBA game.
The time for action on this issue is
now. And even for those who couldn’t
care less about those “jocks” and
“rock-n-rollers,” having a domed
stadium will also bring otherevents to
the Portland area, as well as raking in
the dough for our community. And
we’d be wise to approve it soon here in
Portland. You never know which
neighboring community will decide to
construct a domed stadium next.
Teen pregnancies not helped by
birth control ad censorship
By Shelley Ball
Community Corner
- and maybe (just maybe) they might
start playing better.
By Fritz Wenzel
resignation, which came as a result of not
meeting GPA standards, is that she could
not regroup and make up the work. My im
pression from all whom I have talked with in
the ASG office is that Jenny Metzker is well-
liked and was deeply committed tô the work
of student government. Our ASG is sorry to
lose someone who serves well.
It also should be noted that while Baker
was quoted in this paper last week as taking
much responsibility for not catching the
grade problem that Metzker had, her liabili
ty is certainly limited. The tremendous net
that the College here has constructed to help
any student get back on track is really effec
tive only if the student will ask for help.
With that in mind, maybe the biggest
mistake Metzker made was in assuming that
she was beyond reach.
In this case, silence was anything but
golden.
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Nevada’s Clark County
School District are infringing
upon this right by rejecting
Planned Parenthood ads for
school publications
The reason given for these
actions, as everyone’s no
doubt heard many times
before, is that family planning
ads give the impression that
it’s OK for teenagers to have,
well, you know, that three-
letter-word. These misguided
moralists think keeping the
knowledge of birth control
practices away from their sons
and daughters will make them
less inclined to have - SEX.
What these people fail to
realize, time after time, is that
no knowledge of birth control
many times leads to more
pregnancies amoung teenage
girls. How many statistics do
they need to see to support this
fact?
Whether some parents like it
or not, teenagers who want to
have sex will have sex,
knowledge or no knowledge.
The only reasonable thing to
do is to inform these teens who
engage in sex about birth con
trol methods so that there
aren’t any unwanted pregnan
cies.
Allowing high school
newspapers to accept Planned
Parenthood advertisements
would help to inform
teenagers. It is ridiculous to
think that some teens may
have to go to college first to
learn the honest facts about
birth control, when it’s ob
vious they need to know about
such information long before
they graduate from high
school.
While I can understand
parents’ wishes to protect their
children from harm, censoring
high school newspapers isn’t
the way to do it.
THE PRINT, a member of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion, aims to be a fair and impartial journalistic medium covering the
campus community as thoroughly as possible. Opinions expressed in
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tion, faculty, Associated Student Government or other members of THE
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except for finals week. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla
Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045.
Office: Trailer B; telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309, 310
Editor In Chief: Shelley Ball
News Editor: Fritz Wenzel
Arts Editor: D. Dietrich
Sports Editor: Rodney Fobert
Copy Editor: Fritz Wenzel
Photo Editor: Joel Miller
Advertising Manager: Jack Griffith
Cartoonist: Richard Byington
Advertising Representative: Richard Byington
Staff Writers: Shelley Davis,. J. Jason,
Amy LaBare, Julie Miller, Heather Wright
Staff Photographers: Rodney Fobert, Jeff Meek,
Mike Templeton, Daniel Wheeler
Typesetter: Diana Blakley
Advisor: Dana Spielmann
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