Image provided by: Clackamas Community College; Oregon City, OR
About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1988)
• • •• :: •' ■S&F« * - <1 Editorials Student Opinions Levy requests a bargain A recent article in the “Oregonian” discussed the upcoming levy election for Clackamas Community College. The basic message in the article was that the raise in the tax rate was really a bargain and that “even a bargain costs something.” The tax rate truly is a bargain and if the levy does not pass a lot of people are going to be missing out on this bargain. The college pro vides many services to the community and it cannot afford to operate on its cuitent rate. If the levy does not pass this will mean cutting into the program of ferings here at Clackamas as well as special programs such as lun cheons, sports, and other activities. These programs provide many people with a chance at a new and better life. Many of the students who attend CCC are here for vocational pro grams - meaning that they hope to be able to earn a degree and enter the work force at the end of their time here. Without this new levy, spme of these vocational programs may suffer and, as a result, so will the community. The community could use these new graduates to work in the area and improve the economy. Therefore it would be worth a few extra cents to pass the levy, keep the present programs and possibly even start a few new ones. In the ending paragraph of the “Oregonian’s” editorial they recom- mend(ed) that voters in the Clackamas Community College District spot the bargain and approve the college’s moderate levy request.” It seems that they have an excellent point. -SLV- Reagan’s list helps who? Should the state pay for organ transplants? I think the state should pay because a lot of people are in need of transplants and the cost is very expen sive. And without the state help, a lot of helpless people could die. —Mike Lane— ■I I Yes, because the person who needs one may end up being you. You wouldn’t think it was right if your life was taken because no one cared to help out your parents with an expensive operation. I think they need a seperate fund for people who are in need. Or they could make it an interest free loan. So the fund can be rebuilt for the next person. —Linda McNeal— Ronald Reagan has planned yet another facist scheme to wipe social deviation in the United States. This time it could bring great harm to CCC and many other institutions of its kind. The facist idea is a “Federal Blacklist.” The federal blacklist would prevent any person who has been involved with a strike in any union such as a teachers’ union where there is a no strike clause, people who have not completely paid of a student grant, or a draft resister from receiving any federal grant money. This would also affect any school or program receiving federal grants. If such a group had a person who was blacklisted working for them the government could stop providing funds to the group. This could be very harmful to CCC if there are any instructors who were draft resisters during the 1960’s or have been in a teacher’s strike because it could cause the school to lose grant money from the federal government. The federal blacklist is not in the interests of Americans, and it would damage our constitutional rights. -MKT- Yes, the state pays thousands of dollars a month to keep death row prisioners alive, so why can’t they contribute money to innocent people who really need the help. It is pretty pathetic to see a person like Tom Peterson on Portland Wrestling asking for con tributions to save a womans life. —Mike Nelson— Letters to the Editor Reagan speaks Joke’s on Greetings to everyone joining Alpha Mu Gamma in observing Frothingham National Foreign Language Week. It is rather ironic, in fact it is a \ Secretary of Education Bennett joke, that CCC ASG President *“ «n™**«* Frothingham wants to spend Chene>; has made dear in her money - someone else’s -to go to | “American Memory” report for Washington D.C. to lobby for . the National Endowment for the more money for better child care i Humanities and the National En- schedule. They would have learn ed that CCC has a Japanese Language Section within its and financial aid, but for less education! Yet neither he nor the student council had the resourcefulness to avail, themselves of the college Foreign Language Dept., an in structor very able to translate their letter from Japan. I think the joke is on you: you do need all the education you can get, not less, including foreign Submitted by Magdalena M. Rag* 2 dowment for the Arts, that the study of foreign languages offers vital benefits and is sorely need ed. As individuals and as a Na tion, we literally can no longer af ford to lag behind the rest of the world in foreign language instruc tion. Such study has deep intellec tual, cultural, and commercial rewards. It provides a fuller awareness of greater facility for competing in the world marketplace. In turn, these ad vantages help foster international understanding. They also help us to appreciate the diversity of human experience and to become more sensitive to the nuances and special features of English and other languages. America’s interest in foreign language study is increasing, but much remains to be done. I com mend those who speak, read, and study other languages, and I en courage all to follow their exam ple. You have my best wishes. Ronald Reagan ASG President clears the air The article which appeared in the Feb. 17, 1988 issue of The Print paraphrasing my comments titled “Campus, textbook com mittee formed” said, “a ‘small minority’ of instructors and departments are not being responsible towards the students in choosing textbooks. He said the committee plans to go after those instructors and depart ments.” I would like to point out that the vast majority of instructors and departments do an excellent job of serving student consumers in instructional textbook selec tions. The committee has no plans to “go after” the very small minority of instructors and departments that could improve the uniformity and duration of their textbook adoptions. ASG, not the committee, is beginning to pursue an open dialogue with these few instructors and depart ments to try and address the con cerns of textbook consumers. ASG lacks the authority to “go One vote makes difference j/oting for the college’s levy is important, throughout history , one vote has made a difference. In 1645—ONE VOTE gave Oliver Cromwell control of England. In 1649—ONE VOTE caused Charles I of England to be ex ecuted. In 1776—ONE VOTE gave America the English language instead of German. In 1839—ONE VOTE elected Marcus Morton as Governor of Massachusetts. In 1845—ONE VOTE brought after” them and such an ap Texas into the Union. proach would be unwarranted In 1868—ONE VOTE saved and therefore inappropriate. ( President Andrew Johnson from I hope that my miscommunica impeachment. tion with “The Print” staff In 1876—ONE VOTE gave which resulted in my being Rutherford B. Hayes the paraphrased incorrectly has not presidency of the United States. conveyed the wrong impression In 1876—ONE VOTE chang to the readership. If that is the ed France from a Monarchy to a case, I hope this letter clarifies the Republic. issue. In 1923—ONE VOTE gave Submitted by Neale Adolph Hitler leadership of the •Frothingham, ASG President Nazi-Party. Clackamas Community College