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In case you haven’t noticed, there is a new smoking policy on the
Clackamas Community College campus this Fall Term. This new
policy is a direct result of concerns expressed by staff and students as
well as a staff/student smoking survey conducted last Spring Term.
This smoking survey was a topic of much debate last year and
much thought was taken to make the policy fair for both sides of
the issue. This meant that an elimination of smoking in all
buildings and elimination of smoking sales on campus could not
Today I’m going to stray a lit­
become a new policy due to the fact that some students believed
that this would be taking away their freedom of choice. On the tle from my normal light-hearted
other hand, fairness was also an issue on the non-smoking side of topics to something more serious.
the coin. Non-smokers needed their right to breathe clean air if they The other day I received a letter
from a good friend of mine who I
so chose.
Although the original conflict, was solved, with smoking being went to school with in California.
allowed in three areas: the Skylight Room in the Community She talked about how much she is
Center building, the lower hallway lobby in Barlow Hall by the enjoying the university she is at­
mural, and in the gym lobby of Randall Hall, everyone is not total­ tending this year with another
ly happy with the new policy. Smokers are unhappy with being friend of mine, but she ended thé
unable to smoke where they wish; while non-smokers dislike the letter by telling me something
idea of being unable to use areas, such as the Skylight Room, rather surprising and definitely
frightening. It seems that a
because these areas are now too smoke-filled to enjoy them.
dassmate
of mine, whom I
What can be done? Obviously the President’s Council at CCC
cannot please everyone, but if you have a complaint it may be a haven’t seen for about three
good idea to voice it. If enough voices got together maybe they years, recently committed
suicide.
could change the policy. Is your voice brave enough?
The first thought that came to
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my mind was “why?” Teen
suicide has been on the rise over
the past few years and already
“The Print” welcomes readers
they top the charts for having the
to express their views by writing
most suicides for their age group.
letters to the editor. All letters
These facts are not new to me
should be typewritten and sub­
and although I have seen various
mitted to Student Publications
television movies and documen­
in Trailer B by 5p.m. Friday
taries on this topic, I haven’t
before publication.
thought too much about teen
suicide....until now.
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by Stephani Veff
Opinion/Copy Editor
Teen suicide: a question of ‘why?’
Nineteen is such a young age ing to get better for them and
to wish that you were dead and that if they could see what they
then, to actually do something missed out on maybe they
about it. It is so hard to unders­ wouldn’t have been so quick to
tand why someone who has so leave life behind them.
much living ahead of him would
I don’t know what the cir­
want to give it all up because he cumstances were behind my
is feeling so badly now. Why classmate’s decision to take h:s
can’t he look into the future and own life, but I do know tha
see that life can only get better, when I knew him, he was so­
that there is so much to live for? meone who was well-liked and
Maybe I just haven’t ex­ had a lot going for him. I’m
perienced something so terrible sure that if he had just
that I would wish that I were remembered this, he would have
dead. Whenever I’m feeling my seen that he could have that all
very lowest and I begin to think back again, and that all he had
that things will never get better, to do was wait the bad times
I always find a way to look out.
toward changing things in the
I hope that if any of you out
future and the mere thought there have contemplated
that things can only get better suicide, that you wait things out
brings me back from my depres­ and talk to someone about how
sion.
you are feeling. No one likes to
When I here about teens who lose a friend, even one that they
have committed suicide, I lopk haven’t seen for three years.
to see if I can find a reason Consider what you would be
behind this bizarre act. All too leaving behind, is it really worth
often I see that these teens just giving up?
gave up too soon. Life was go­
Wrong translations create embarrassment
HI
Well, where shall I start? I
don’t quite know how to in­
troduce today’s topic, so I guess
I’ll just jump in.
I am gonna talk about embar­
rassing moments created ’ by
wrong translations. I usually
don’t do,this, but I have a cou­
ple of friends who got
themselves into weird situations
like that. One of these friends is
Charles. He likes to talk,
basically translates everything
he thinks in Dutch word by
word into English, and isn’t
ashamed of anything. But
before I go on with this story, I
need to get this point across, it
wasn’t me who made these huge
translating mistakes.
First of all, I’ll talk about the
fish story. It so happens that
Charles was with his wife on the
beach of Santa Maria some time
ago. There was a fisherman who
had bait on his fishing pole that
did not have such a pleasant
fragrance. Charles wanted to
know what caused that bad
smell, so he went up to the
fisherman and noticed the bait
was a rotten fish. Charles, being
as curious as he is, wanted to
know why the fisherman used
rotten fish as bait. But oh oh,
trouble! Charles didn’t know
the word “bait.”
Oh well, he just figured that
if he used the Dutch word, the
fisherman would probably
understand him. But there is a
little complication with the
Dutch word for bait. It is
“aas,” which happens to be
pronounced almost the same as
a familiar American word spell­
ed almost the same way, except
for one letter.
Anyway, Charles, without
any fear, shame, and most of all
tact, went up to the fisherman
and noted, “Oh sir, your ‘aas’
smells terrible!” A bad mistake
or what? .
Another friend had quite an
embarrassing moment too. He
and his friend had been working
in Canada and came to Oregon
to visit some family. Since my
friend was his family I got the
chance to meet them. We all
decided that they should go to
college with me for a day.
So, on Monday morning we
left for an exciting Monday.
After one class it was time for a
break, so we all agreed to go to
a restaurant and get some
lunch. After we ordered we all
got our meals. While we were
eating he was telling me about
all the fun he has had in the past
few weeks in Canada and
America.
Being pretty curious I wanted
to know what he had all done so I
asked him if he had been going
out yet. He said he had and he
tried to explain to me what kind
of dance he went to. It was a kind
of formal dance, so he called it a
“ball.” Since-he got to talk to
many persons, he had the chance
of “meeting” some people.
Guess what he made out of
those facts of meeting people at a
ball. “Yeah, I’ve had so much
fun that evening I went to that
‘meatbail.’” Oops, kind of em­
barrassing if you ask me. Pro­
bably the worst part for him was
that his friend and I were
laughing so hard that everybody
in the restaurant knew what we
were talking about. He felt like
disappearing of the face of the
earth, but we sure had a lot of
firn.
As you might understand now,
it’s possible to say things from
which you think are really logical,
but instead of that make a com­
plete fool out of yourself.
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