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Student Opinions How do you feel about Robert Bork being nominated to the Supreme Court? Photo* by Julio Church Boo on Bork Many rights which we now take for granted are in danger if Robert H. Bork gets appointed to the Supreme Court bench. This country may experience a backward slide into oppressive conservatism. Robert Bork, considered a brilliant scholar and jurist by many, is much more than just a judge. He is a “right wing zealot” who could “diminish the Supreme Court itself and trivialize the Bill of Rights,” according to the ACLU. Bork feels that states have the right to allow discrimination against women and minorities if the majority of the people in the state ap prove of the discrimination. He also feels that states can outlaw con traception and abortion if the majority approves. If Bork gets appointed to the Supreme Court, it will shift the balance of the court to conservative for the first time since the 193O’s. We can thank President Reagan for the conservative stronghold in the Supreme Court. However, the change is not really appreciated. We enjoy living in a unique country with many freedoms. Let’s use this freedom to “Just say no to Bork!” -MKT- Paul Soles: “I think he’s a jerk, and I don’t want him in the supreme court. I think he would throw the court back a hundred years.” Crane Clark: “I don’t like him, He’s a bigot.” On the lighter side by Stephani Veit Opinion/Copy Editor Travis returns... Never enough time Ä5 TMc curriculum 6£TS ROLLING Getting used to American slang Today we are going back in words are one of the first things time. That is, July 1985, my first you learn. You first learn to say month in the States. This first your name, then how to greet one month I got introduced and used another and, last but not least, how to swear. to, guess what, slang! The American language also Let me give you an image of how I felf when I "^me here. I has some strange slang words. I was this girl who had just com remember a conversation in one pleted high school, and spoke 5 of the first weeks I was here. There were two guys talking to years of proper, British English. Even with a British accent! Then each other, and I picked up the I came here and this is what I following sentence. “I can’t heard, “Yeah, well, you know, believe you can’t do it, try it and it’s like, it’s really boring.” That don’t be a chicken,” (to clarify just blew me away. Consider this, this sentence it was about what did this person really say, skateboarding). I understood the “it is boring.” So what I actually first part of the sentence very learned my first few days in the well, but that part about the U.S. was to throw unnecessary chicken threw me off. words into my sentences. I thought I knew what a Another thing I learned very chicken was, but now I was really fast was the swear words. I confused, and unsure about my already knew a lot before I came command of the English over here, but I wasn’t even close language. I went inside, picked to knowing them all. I picked up up my English-Dutch dictionary those words incredibly fast. Now and looked up the word you might think, “what kind of a “chicken.” It said the word bad person is this?” But admit it, “kip,” which means chicken, if you are one of those lucky peo (the bird so to speak). I also took ple who has had the opportunity my Webster’s dictionary to make to learn another language, you sure and found, “chicken, a com have to agree with me that swear mon farm bird raised for its edi Scott Steinhäuser: “Who?” ble eggs and flesh.” That defini tion of chicken made me ex tremely happy because now I knew I was right about the mean ing of the word. I figured that I had misunderstood that certain per son, so I went back outside and asked him, “did you say chicken a minute ago?” He said “yeah!,” (notice the way of saying “yes I did”) which made me run back home, to my dictionary. There just had to be an explanation of that word. I checked Webster’s again and what did I read?, “slang- oowardly.” With that definition I was much closer to the answer, but since I didn’t know what cowardly meant, I had to check my English-Dutch dictionary again. After I read the translation I finally understood this whole deal about the chicken. Took me a while huh? I have many more examples to illustrate what slang for foreign people is all about, but I’ll save that for the following weeks. I wrote enough for today. So long, ’till next week. Well, here we are into our third week of classes already. It’s hard to believe that just four short weeks ago we were still “vaca tioning.” Time just seems to go by faster and faster with each new year. I remember when I was a little girl how long an hour seemed. My mom would call to my sister and I playing outside and say that we’d have to come inside in an hour and it would seem like a whole day had gone by before she’d call us in. Now as I’ve gotten older I’ve noticed that there are never enough hours in a day. When I don’t have enough time to get everything done during the day, the first thing I cut back on is sleep. This is the worst possible thing I or anyone could do, even though it seems like the logical solution at the time. The reason this isn’t a very good solution is because a lack of sleep affects the health. Your body knows it needs sleep and if it has to get sick in order to get a sufficient amount of sleep then it will do everything in its power to do so. I’ve learned (and still am learn ing) that it is just not possible to do everything 1 want and/or need to do. There are only 24 hours in a day and no matter how much we may want to add a few more hours to it, it’s just not possible. So what do we have to do? We have to stop spreading ourselves so thin and give up one or two of the things that we don’t have to be doing and do j&st those that are necessary to keep us happy and healthy. I’ve found that by eliminating even one little activity from my day and/or week that I feel much less pressured and things that 1 have left to do don’t seem quite so time consuming. Spreading yourself too thin makes it difficult to keep up with everything in your life and by the end of the day you’re bound to feel frazzled. Remember Super man was just a comic hero - let’s not try to be Superpeople ourselves! Until next week... The Print The Print aims to be a fair and impartial newspaper covering the college community. 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