Opinion
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To the Editor
In your 4/29/87 issue of The
Print the question was asked
“Does anyone know what ASG
' is?” You also mentioned how,
of all the students here at CCC,
that only a very small percen
tage voted and only 15-20 peo
ple were at the debate, and out
of this number five were ASG
members.
As a concerned student, I
would like to comment on the
matter. I was at the debate! The
questioning floor was held and
every moment, whether she likes
not released by some of these
it or not.
ASG members, asking ques
And what do we do for Mom
tions on non-relevant issues, ac
after she does all these favors
tually they were trying to run
for us? We keep our rooms as
down one certain candidate (in
messy as possible, leave our dir
my opinion).
ty laundry on the bathroom
The main reason that hardly
floor, and complain whenever
any of the students were present
we’re asked to do the dishes or
was that they either weren’t
take out the garbage. This, of
given substantial notice or they
course, makes Mom mad and
didn’t even know there was go
she yells that we don’t ap
ing to be a debate. Next time, 1
preciate all the things she does
would suggest that you front
for us and we yell back that she
page the debate in the prioi
never lets us do “anything.”
week issue of The Print. This
Who’s right in this situation?
way students are informed;
I can guarantee that it’s pro
more than just a few hours
bably not us. Mom is always
before the debate notice in the
right, whether we like it or not.
Today. As a NEWS publica
They have this uncanny, almost
tion, it is your duty to the stu
frightening way of always
dent to let them be aware of the
knowing everything. They tell
“happenings” on campus, not
us not to do something because
just sports, but all things that
such and such will happen, and
concern them as a whole.
it does....everytime. How do
It is ASG’s duty to let
they know??? Are they psychic?
students know “What’s Hap
Probably not, they’ve just been pening” on campus. If a poll
there before and they remember
was to be taken you would pro
how it happened to them. Ish’t bably find that most students
it nice of them to tell us what to
don’t “know who or what”
do to keep the same thing from ASG is.
happening to us? Too bad we
ASG should have a spot in
don’t listen more often.
The Print to let us know what
So this Sunday when that one their agenda is every week, such
day a year comes around for us as coming events, issues we need
to fully appreciate Mom for all to know about, and any adver
she does for us be sure to do so. tising they need.
It will make her feel loved and it
If we students are better in
will make you feel good and formed, I really feel you will have
that’s all anyone ever needs out more student participation.
of life is love. Happy Mother’s
Day, Mom. You’re appreciated
and loved even if it’s not shown
Charles F. Cunningham
all the time.
Graduating Student
Thanks Mom!
Bb‘1
Moms, what would we do
without them? We certainly
couldn’t have made it here
without them. All those stories
we hear year after year about
how much trouble they had to go
through in order for us to be
bom. From morning sickness to
the actual delivery, each story has
a purpose and that purpose is to
make us thankful to have such
wonderful Moms.
So now that we know how
wonderful our Moms are, how
do we show it? We cry and whine
for more attention and love as
babies. Then we go off to school
when we’re about five or six and
make them sit through class plays
and PTA meetings, have them
chaperone us and 30 of our
classmates on field trips, and
have them make dozens of
cookies and cupcakes for the
class Christmas party. Most
Moms don’t mind doing these
kinds of activities and many of
them even enjoy it, but they often
don’t get thanked for it.
Then we become teenagers and
enter junior high and high school.
No longer do we need Mom to
chaperone us or make cookies,
we’re too old for that now. We
want to be independent. And just
how do we become independent?
We rely on good old Mom to help
us out. Mom gets to be the one to
drive us to our new job at the
local fast food restaurant, as well
as to football games, dances, and
our best friend’s house. We ask
her to be at our beck and call at
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Highways and byways
The other day I was driving in
Portland and realized that there is
no direct route to wherever
I
needed to be. This of course is
not an uncommon problem, as a
matter of fact every time I go to
Portland I have to take a scenic
drive through God knows where,
never to be repeated twice, to get
where I want.
After I got home from this real
life nightmare I went directly to
bed where I proceeded to have
this ghastly dream about some
Road commission that has set out
to change the streets of Portland.
In the dream I was sitting wat
ching the news at about eleven or
twelve at night when the follow
ing news report came on...
...In recent weeks the Road
and Highway commission has
received literally hundreds of let
ters complaining about the layout
and design of Portland roads. In
one such letter the patron writes,
“Where is the Morrison bridge
exit?”
The lack of signs for major ex
its was just a part of the overall
voice written in those letters.
“I was driving down Bumside,
crossed the river hoping to get
on Front Street,” a letter com
plained. “When I crossed the
bridge I wanted to go left on
Front, but there was no Front to
be found. So I drove up past se
cond, third, fourth, fifth and so
on. Every time I wanted to go left
it said “NO TURNS” the rest
were “ONE WAY” toward the
right. What I am wondering is
why you (as a driver) have to go
the opposite direction you want
to get where you have to be. It’s
like a remake of “Through thè
Looking Glass” only in real life.
In a recent interview with
Harold Percival Hanson, chief
director of Routes and Byways, a
subcommittee in the Roads and
Highway commission, and
author of the book “Road to
Nowhere Special,” he stated that
“Although the roads may be a
tad bit confusing, they are the
best route possible under the cir
cumstances.”
Hanson, a user of Mass Tran
sit, brings up the idea of a direc
tory, of the easiest road or com
bination thereof to get to a cer
tain destination. He further ex
plains that “there is no real logic
involved in the planning of the
streets of Portland.”
He listed several “dont’s” in
driving such as don’t expect a
road to continue all the way to
where you want it to because it
will end, for no apparent
reason, just short of where you
need to be. He also suggests that
you should take any old bridge
just as long as it gets you over
the river. “That’s enough isn’t
it?”
In conclusion of his book he
says that “There should be signs
posted stating ‘Road ends in the
middle of nowhere, but starts
up again on the other side’.”
The signs may be a little wor
dy but there may be no other
solution. These ideas are well
and good but won’t be im
plemented (if ever) until the dis
tant future. So in the mean time
stick to small towns where left is
left and right is right and if you
can’t go the way you want to get
a Four-by.
Now I know this was just a
dream but it brought out a very
important point about the
roads. That point is that it’s
probably too late to do anything
about them, however I’m not
sure. With all the continual
‘Road Construction’ going on
they may be able to at least con
tinue Yamhill all the way to
82nd Av. or put the Seiwood
bridge and Morrison bridge
signs up so people will know
when to exit. I do know for sure
that unless we write letters to
our state and federal legislature,
nothing will change and we will
just have to get used to it. But
what about the people after us,
will they?
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