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Stay on good terms The proposed 1990 conversion to a semester system by the State System of Higher Education has turned into Oregon’s Community College’s hottest political issue. Now is as good as anytime for Clackamas Community College to take a stand. Our Board of Education has voted to ask the Oregon State Board of Higher Education to reconsider its decision to convert while voting to plan to go to the semester system if necessary. We urge the college board to vote to remain on the current three term system even if the State System of Higher Education doesn’t. Longer, in-depth study and easier transferrability to other educa tional institutions are the two most common reasons given in favor of the conversion. However, only 26.2 percent of Clackamas students enroll in transfer courses. Many of those enroll in a full year course of study, so the credits and hours are the same under both systems. Clackamas Community College is a college for, and supported by, the community. The “typical” CCC student takes one to five credits, works 31 hours or more a week, and plans to earn a degree here. Students most likely enroll here to gain a new skill or sharpen a skill for a job they already have. Clackamas Community College offers choices for over 21,000 people a year. The semester system will take many of those choices away from them. It is not fair to alter the entire institution for a minority of transfer students. Like the College Board, we too urge the State Board of Higher Education to reconsider its decision to convert to the semester system. We also urge the College Board to join Chemeketa and Rogue Community Colleges and remain on the term system regardless. -EAB- Ignorance beats around the bush In the beginning the American people were told that President Reagan did not remember anything about the selling of arms to Iran for hostages. Now the American people are being told by Vice Presi dent George Bush that he did not understand what he was hearing when an Israeli man visited him at his hotel room in Israel to talk about arms for hostages. Both Reagan and Bush have to be lying; there is no way that these men could be so ignorant to the entire scandal of selling arms for hostages. George Bush is the former head. of the CIA. He had to have understood some of what this man was telling him. After all, this was his career for many years. The American people have been lied to by their government for the past three or four years now and tolerating it. This has to stop! We cannot have a group of men in the white house endangering our country by illegally dealing with other countries without letting the American people know about it. Now is the time for the United States Senate to reopen the hearings for the Iran-Contra scandal and put the top man and second in com mand on the witness stand and get the truth out of them, in any way possible. -MKT- Letter to the Editor A skinny person expresses opinion I would like to express my opmion about Mrs. Swartzen- druber’s Domestic Issue article on Skinny People, Being twenty pounds under my doctors recommended body weight, I am one of those Skin ny People. I was born skinny, raised. skinny, and continue to be skinny. Please don’t feel sorry for me, as I am quite con tent. My clothes fit. I can eat anything. I don’t need to discuss diets with my friends, nor do I want to. I feel excellent mental ly and physically. After all, fitness is a real issue of life, isn’t it? As far as our upcoming depression—who or what is go- mg to feed you Heavies in your hour of need? Why don’t you lose some weight and feel good like the rest of us Skinny People. Sincerely, Happy Being Skinny P. S. I don’t care if you print this. My point is why advocate being overweight in a society that is suffering from eating disorders and health problems right and left? Why not pro mote fitness and healthful liv ing? Isn’t this an acceptable alternative? “The Print” welcomes readers to express their views by writing letters to the editor. All letters should be typewritten and sub mitted to Student Publications in Trailer B by 5p.m. Friday before publication. Should CCC have homecoming ? Homecoming is an ex ploitation of woman based purely on looks and social acceptability, with no con sideration for the person and other qualities they may possess. It is reverting back to the 1600’s and the caste system, which is demoraliz ing and insulting to todays society. Who cares if she can talk, just so she looks good. Having a homecoming could bring more spirit into CCC, which the school needs. 1 would hope that it would be planned at a time and publicized well so that a lot of people could attend. In examining our track record concerning dances an social events, I think it would be a waste of money, time and paper just for making posters. —Craig Inglesby— —Tani Wenzel— Student Opinions —Bob Day— Safety in dorms becomes issue Three other victims were on memories of those who have liv On college campuses across this nation a great tragedy is the show and gave their stories. ed through these awful crimes. becoming more and more In one incident a girl was raped A serious look needs to be taken prevalent—the murder, rape, repeatedly in a friend’s dorm at the safety of the students on and assault of students in their room by aman who had follow campuses around the country, ed her back from the bathroom but until something can be done dorms and around campus. For many students going to a while her male friend sat nearby in the form of a law, it is up to community college is just a step tied to a chair with a pillow case the students themselves to take ping stone to get to a four-year over his head. The other girl’s action. It is suggested that prospective university or college; at story detailed how she was Clackamas Community College walking to a friend’s apartment students of four-year universities alone 26.2 percent of the and was raped in the parking lot and colleges look for schools that are not in a major metropolitan students will be transferring at knife point. after one or two years here. These crimes are not unusual area, that are not near a run Many of these students will be by any stroke of the imagina down area or ghetto, and that required to spend their first year tion, but they often go they check to see that their school at the school in on-campus unreported because the colleges’ has an adequate safety depart dorms. These dorms usually administration are worried ment—including safety patrol, have a designated time at night about enrollment numbers door locks, and good, bright for the outside doors to be lock diminishing. The administra lighting outside of buildings. Going away to college is sup ed as protection to the students, tion does nothing about these but students have found ways to crimes and even less about tak posed to be the experience of a prop these doors open in order ing better safety measures, and lifetime. Protect yourself so that to come in later at night or for all because of a little thing call the experience is filled with happy friends from other dorms to ed money. Money cannot bring memories not nightmarish ones. come visit. The doors to the back the lives of those who are You have a choice, make it a safe students individual rooms have dead, nor can it destroy the one. —SLV— locks and the occupants of those rooms have keys to let themselves in and out, but this safety precaution is often abus ed also. . . As a result of these abuses of The Print aims to be a fair and impartial newspaper covering the college communi ty. Opinions expressed in The Print do not necessarily reflect those of the College safety some students have administration, faculty, Associated Student Government or other members of The found themselves the unfor Print staff. Articles and information published in The Print can be reprinted only tunate victims of crime. A re with permission from the Student Publications Office. The Print is a weekly publication distributed each Wednesday except for Finals Week. Clackamas Com cent “Donahue” show dealt munity College, 19600 S. Molalla Ave., Oregon City, Oregon 97045. Office : with the victims of such crimes Trailer B. Telephone: 657-8400, ext. 309. and their stories. The parents of one girl and the father of Editor-In-Chief: Heleen Veenstra another spoke on the program Design/Sports Editor: Christopher Curran Opinion/Copy Editor: Stephani Veff about the vicious murders of News Editor: Sherri Michaels and E.A. Berg Feature Editor: Caree Hussey their daughters. One girl was Photo Editor: Beth Coffey killed as she awakened in her Reporters: Mark Borrelli, Tom Golden, Jodie Martini, Michelle Taylor, Jerry Ulmer, dorm room by a man who Michelle Walch, Lisa Graham, John Willman, Michael Walker worked for the college (in Columnists: Jim Evans, Joseph Patrick Lee, maintenance) and was trying to Tammy Swartzendruber Cartoonist: Jim Adams steal from her. The other girl Photographers: Julie Church, Ken Warren Roger Hancock, Heidi Klein, Tim Zivney was killed in her off-campus Business Manager: Jim Brown - apartment, It’s not known who Typesetter: Crystal Penner Rhapsody Editor: Judy Singer the killer was. Advisor: Linda Vogt ' The Print