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by Dean Grey
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Editor
It was really more than anyone
could take, just being a student
and never really having seen any
death or destruction. I knew that
as a reporter it was my obligation
to follow this thing out. But I
never thought that I would be in-
stramental in the destruction of
it. As a matter of fact I never
thought that it could be
destroyed. However, I cannot
take all the credit. If Bret
Hodgert hadn’t timed the jump
accurately it would have never
been destroyed.
I suppose I should start at the
beginning. That would have been
about 5 o’clock in the morning
on friday the 28 of March, that’s
when I first heard the noise.
I remember I was sitting in my
office when I heard it. What it
was is the biggest’explosion I have
ever heard, only
only it wasn’t an ex-
plosion as I found out later. I
jumped out of my chair spilling
warm tea in my lap, ran out the
door, and into Stan Johnson,
who also had a wet spot on his
¡lap. “Scared the piss out of me
too,” said Johnson.
At first I didn’t understand
what he meant but as I recall I
now know. Together we raced
toward the noise, stopped short
of what used to be the Communi-
ty Center. What was left would
take decades to explain what- I
can tell you is that there was
nothing left. At this point
Johnson left to do what it is that
police do in an emergency. I
don’t know what that is but I’m
sure that it helped.
As the dust settled and the
smoke cleared I noticed a large
shape moving off in the direction
of town. I walked over to where
Paul Kyllo’s office was and saw
left him only this time he was or fear I couldn’t tell. About
him standing with two
alone. From him I learned that
mid-jump I dropped the bomb
“gentlemen” in black three piece
the Skate had received a large
and blew the Hell out of the
suits and dark glasses, each
dose of radiation from some
creature.
smoking a cigarette. As I neared,
plutonium that the botany
After we landed I went to in­
Kyllo looked at me with a semi­ students were experimenting
pleased expression and said “I with. Of course I didn’t quite put vestigate the remains and noticed
that there was a bunch of little
was just curious.”
this all together until he mention-1
I walked past him and hurried ed that some of the kids were '■embryos inside the
into town to see what it was that really C.I.A. implants.
caused all this havoc. The going
Realizing the seriousness of
was easy because the thing had this situation, I called Hodgert to
cleared a path for me to follow. I ask some advice. He drove down
caught up with the thing at with some explosives and we rigg­
Burger King just in time to see it ed up an impact bomb. Obvious­
go through the drive through and ly, we didn’t have the knowlege
into the main dining room. I got to do this right off so we con­
a good look at it and was shocked sulted the library.
to realize that it was that
We came upon the radioactive
“harmless” Skate that I had writ­ skate near the end of the Oregon
ten about earlier.
Qty limits. Off to the left of the
With nothing to fight the Skate monster there was a ramp so Bret
with I went back to the college to raced his car toward it. As we left
question Kyllo and the men with the ground I remember him
him. I found him standing as I screaming, whether in pleasure.
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housing and housekeeper for singles/
f>y Heleen Veenstra
News Editor
by Mary Prath
they leave their children with
the sitter will no longer be felt.
Monday at the opening The maid/housekeeper will be
ceremony at Clackamas Com­ provided with a car (by the
munity College, it was announc­ state) to enable them to drop off
ed that free housing will be pro­ children at school and do the
vided for single parents beginning grocery shopping. “Single­
parents no longer have an ex­
fall term 1989.
“If these mothers have the cuse not to better themselves
determination to juggle work, with an education. We (the col­
motherhood, and college, the lege) have taken care of all the
least we (the college) can do is to excuses we have heard for the
provide free housing for two past 20 years:
years,” stated Bernie Nolan, I don’t have transportation.
coordinator of the PROJECT.
I can’t afford the tuition.
Clackamas is the first communi­ . I can’t afford child-care.
ty college to provide such a ser­ I live too far away.
vice. “The housing project will I don’t have a high school
eliminate the most frequently diploma.
used excuse many welfare reci­ I «wouldn’t have the time to
pients, “I don’t have a way to study.
I school.” The college Will be in
John Keyser, President of
their backyard. The location of Clackamas Community College
the project will be on the hill stated “Why wasn’t this thought
next to the parking lot by the of before?”
child-care facility on campus.
The participants for this pro-
The parents will be able to walk
their small children to the sit­
ters, then walk to school as well.
An education is a way out of
the poverty that many single
parents experience. A single
I parent is forced to work twice as
I hard as a nuclear family. The
¡The house payment is still the
same whether two parents live
there or not.
The PROJECT will consist
i of 40 apartments, each with
two bedrooms, dishwasher,
washer and dryer, and a live-in
maid/housekeeper. “We want
to make life as simple as we can
I for these people so they can
concentrate
on
their
homework,” says Bernie
i Nolan, coordinator of the PRO-
| JECT. The maid/housekeeper
will be required to be a
registered nurse. The guilt that
many single parents feel when
Staff Writer
gram will be required to sign a
contract consisting of ten pages
of rules in order to be eligible. A
few of the requirements are as
follows, the student will need to
.maintain a 3.00 GPA, only miss 6
classes a term, spend 3.5 hours of
quality time with their children
each night, (big sister) a camera
will be placed in each home and
monitored from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
each night. If the contract is
broken the recipient will be ask­
ed to leave the state of Oregon
and never return. “The rules may
seem strict, but this is a privilege
that we do not want abused”
I stated Nolan.
Clackamas wants to make life
as easy as we can for the single­
parent. For more information
contact Bernie Nolan at ex. 666.
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Wel vreemd om zo een artikel
te schrijven, niet wetende hoeveel
mensen dit kunnen lezen. Alle
Nederlanders, maar ook Duitsers
moeten dit kunnen begrijpen, en
echt, ik heb geen idee hoeveel dat
er zijn.
Ik zou het dus erg leuk vinden
om reacties hierop te krijgen
zodat ik enig idee heb wie dit
allemaal begrijpt.
Als nieuwsredactrice zou ik
eigenlijk nieuws moeten schr­
ijven, maar dan van de andere
kant, wie wil er nou nieuws lezen
in een 1 april editie.
Voor dit artikel is een
grenseloze fantasie nodig. Hoe
krijg ik anders een inch of 10 (of
meer) vol?
Omdat m’n plicht het nieuws
verzorgen is doe ik dat dan toch
maar.
Het nieuwe telefoon systeem
hier op campus werkt niet zoals
het moet. De College krijgt tele-
foontjes uit Arabie. Er is een plan
om high school verlaters hier wat
bijscholing te geven.
Het colleg
wordt
misschien van tijden veranderd.
De reden daarvoor is dat er een
betere beschikking komt op de
klas lokalen. Iets anders is dat
Studenten willen meer ‘liv ’ pop-
muziek en dat wordt niet
dooriedereen gewaardeerd.
Dat was het dan wel zo’n beet-
je. Er is nog wel veel meer, maar
als ik alles nu opschrijf blijft er
voor de andere edities net veel
over.
Het idee voor dit ko* rgrioof
ik bij Inge vandaan, rr ir zeker
weet ik het niet. In iedej »eval zal
ik eerst even de groetjer joenaan
K.P. en Sybren. Bij leze dan
jongens! Ik heb onwijs veel lol
met jullie gehad. Voor de rest doe
ik ook de groeten a i al m’n
vrienden in Ned. land en
Amerika.
Nu geen slap geschrijf meer.
Het is nu dus het nieuwe termijn,
en de tijd van klassen uitproberen
en schema’s veränderen. Het is
ook het laatste tenr'jn voor de
zomer vakantie en v- d zon.
Ik eindig deze oi in nu maar
eens. Ik wens iederet veel succes
en plezier het laats; i termijn en
hang in there until summer vaca- •
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