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?
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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
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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
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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
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about the vicious murders of
News Editor: Sherri Michaels and E.A. Berg
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their daughters. One girl was
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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
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Roger Hancock, Heidi Klein, Tim Zivney
was killed in her off-campus
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apartment, It’s not known who
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the killer was.
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