THE PRINT
November 9,1988
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The '88 vote...
Democrat? Republican?
Everywhere I turn these days some­
one is muttering incoherently about an
election. The other day I watched as one
fellow paced up and down scratching his
head and muttering under his breath.
Finally he stopped and as he rolled his
eyes toward the heavens I caught two
words: Death and Republican.
“Excúseme,” I said, furtively touch­
ing his shoulder. “I was just wonder­
ing...”
“Are you a Republican?” he snapped,
as he whirled around to face me. His eyes
were flashing, ami 1 stood there trem­
bling as he glared at me.
Now, I don’t know the difference
between a Republican and a Democrat,
but hadn’t I just heard him mutter the
words Death and Republican in the same
sentence? “Uh, no,” I stammered. “I’m a
Democrat.”
His features relaxed and he actually
grinned. Feeling braver I said, “Can you
tell me? When is election day?”
“Well,” he said, “If you’re voting for
Dukakis, it’s November 8. If you’re vot­
ured that was a pretty patriotic thing to
do. One time 1 even wore a pin that said
something about voting for Kopetski for
something or other. I quit wearing the
pin when I started getting questions from
people wondering why I thought Ko­
petski was a good choice. Needless to
say, that was the end of my campaigning.
However, I read about all the differ­
ent ballot measures that The Print chose
to concern themselves with and I actu­
ally thought they were quite interesting,
even though they were irrelevant. People
sure worry about funny things. I didn’t
see any measures trying to legalize a
Mother’s-day-off, or a measure trying to
tax something so we could cut out coin
operated wash machines in the laundro­
mats, thereby allowing us to have clean
clothes even when we’re out of money.
I guess I never will understand how
this country works or what goes on in the
minds of those who run it. I think I’ll quit
worrying about it. There are more im­
portant things to do. Right now I must
go grocery shopping.
(Just thought I’d let you all know.
While I was at Fred Meyer getting my
groceries a man approached me wonder­
ing if I was registered to vote. I told him
no and he said it was too late to register
for this election but that I really should
get registered. I decided to use some of
my newly acquired knowledge so I said,
ing for Bush, it’s November 10.”
“Hmmm, that’s funny,” I thought.
Somehow I had in mind that there was
just one election day. Oh well, what do I
know about the election. I’m not even a
registered voter. Maybe someday I will
be, but 1 have enough to worry about now
without troubling my mind about some­
thing happening in Washington D.C.
It’s all 1 can do to keep the laundry
done and the house clean. I did enroll my
daughter in Girl Scouts this year. I fig­
“And just exactly what day are you voting
on?” He looked at me rather strangely
and said, “Well November 8, of course.”
“Ah,” I said. “Then you must be a
Democrat.”
“Yessss”, he said slowly, “ But ex­
actly how did you know that?” I thought
that was rather a corny question. I mean,
anybody knows that only Democrats vote
on November 8. I didn’t even answer
him. I just turned and marched out while
he stood there scratching his head.
Domestic
Issues
Tammy
Swartzendruber
Where is the laughter?
The world needs more laughter. The
pall of gloom is everywhere. What is
needed is an exercise to replace the nega­
tive feelings pervading many countries
nowadays.
The Laugh
Clinic ®
Joseph Patrick Lee
Imagine the positive effect if all the
people on earth laughed in unison for 15
seconds out of every waking hour around
the world. When the minute hand is on
12, everyone stops what they are doing,
stands up and places their hands on their
stomach. Then, each person leans back
and laughs boisterously HAW, HAW,
HAW, three times. As loud as possible.
No hee, hee, hee, or ho, ho, ho.- Just good
old knee-slapping, almost rolling-on-the-
floor HAW, HAW, HAW kind of laugh­
ing. Raucously.
Nine guffawsious HAWS and back
to work, spine-tingling, refreshed, stimu­
lated and at one with the rest of the
world. It would be a glorious release of
human energy. No one would be hating,
resenting, recriminating, killing, in those
15 second segments of each hour during
each day.
>
It boggles the mind to consider this
idea. Now. that we know how to do it,
let’s do it.
The idea for Globallaugh came to
me when I participated in the services of
Seicho-No-Ie Truth of Life Movement,
founded by Dr. Masaharu Tanaguchi, a
Japanese philosopher, about fifty years
ago. A lovely young girl led the exercise
for about 15 of us. The laughter lasted
only about 15 seconds. I felt an exhilara­
tion, a rush, a galvanic skin reaction,
which held for quite a while. It was a very
enriching experience.
' The world needs more of this activ­
ity, don’t you agree?
Student Opinions
THE PRINT
Do you think there is a parking
problem at CCC?
"There arc a lot of parking places
but not cnougn close ones. It
seems the later you get here the
farther out you have to park."
- Doug Comoyer
"There are a lot of parking
spaces, but most arc far away.
What we need arc ones doser to
the college."
- James Williams
" There’s not enough parking
places that’s for sure. When I
come for might courses I detest
having to park up on the hill. It’s
a little scary having to walk by
yourself at night. For one thing
there arc supposed to be patrols
around here but I never see
them."
- Jeanne Dickson
"I think it’s OK. We never have
any problems."
- Margaret Bigford
"I definitely think there is a
problem. They give us tickets for
parking on the grass but the
grass is dead anyway. Right now
it’s muddy and I think it should
be our business whether we get
our feet muddy or not so they
should let us park on the grass if
we want to . I can understand
them not wanting us to park on
the softball field or the or the
lawn but the grass up there (by
the orchard) is already dead."
- MeLissa Cartales
"Yes, I do feel that there is a
parking problem. There arc
always cars parked where they
shouldn’t be, which occasionally
causes an obstruction. In order
to take care of the problem they
should charge $10 or $15 for
parking tickets .*
- Brian Kaloust
" I really don’t think there is a
parking problem I always find a
place to park."
- Linda Holmes
"I don’t really think it’s that
much of problem but it could be
in the future if enrollment
continues to increase. They will
have to increase the parking
areas at some point or think of
an alternative solution."
- Gail Borchard
"I usually come in early and there
are plenty of parking spaces
then, but when I come in about
10 or so it’s a lot harder to find a
place to park. If there were a
board with people who wanted
to carpool separated by district,
areasand times it would be great.
It would be better than taking
the bus."
- Gwyn Dickson
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