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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
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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...
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